Tried to order directly through BlackArrow because it seemed the logical thing to do at the time. Boy was I wrong. 25 days making zero effort to resolve a payment, and only 8 hours to cancel an order. They did ironically link me a "how would you rate our service ?" survey to fill out, and I gave them 1/5 stars *rolls eyes* Something about this enterprise doesn't seem entirely on the level based on this experience with their customer service. Got a bad feeling about Black Arrow  Well, I'm out trying to acquire one of these. Just wrapped up one of the most frustratingly unproductive email chains I've had in a while, about trying to resolve payment for a December 2nd order, and their support effectively told me to get to the back of the line and made some condescending remark about how I was supposed to request new information from them - Something I've been trying to do all along now for the last 25 some-odd days !!!
*sigh*
Did you try to order from Minersource or from Black Arrow directly?... Black arrow doesn't support orders of individual units - and the US reseller has a better track record than what you indicated - so i'm genuinely curious here. |
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Well, I'm out trying to acquire one of these. Just wrapped up one of the most frustratingly unproductive email chains I've had in a while, about trying to resolve payment for a December 2nd order, and their support effectively told me to get to the back of the line and made some condescending remark about how I was supposed to request new information from them - Something I've been trying to do all along now for the last 25 some-odd days !!!
*sigh*
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primedice.com spam everywhere...
my eyes...
Please change the channel. I find it ironic and hypocritical people can troll and continually post crap here freely, yet anyone who makes legitimate posts and has a signature deal is automatically a 'spammer'. How's the view from your high horse up there while you're getting paid for your .sig space ? When did I ever call you a spammer ? I was commenting on the fact that it's not unreasonable to score a <some dice website> .sig hattrick with 3 consecutive posts from 3 different users is all. Relax. Thanks to your sage advice, I've disabled .sig viewing altogether and am much happier for it. Thanks friend. |
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the question is how do you spot or police these duplicitous accounts?
Theymos should have little issue tracking dupe accounts to IP's, and could perhaps make hashes of user IP address linked to each account and made available to moderators. Beyond that, I would agree that it's a challenging issue to resolve (VPN or Tor can complicate things), and look forward to whatever solutions (if any) are implemented. Perhaps something as simple as removing colors and font size changes over a certain point size may help mitigate the spam in .sigs, but not sure that's a reasonable solution either. |
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If you don't like signatures and argue that they should be banned, go to your profile settings and turn them off and/or ignore users you find annoying
Ok. Did that. No more .sigs visible. The spammers have won, and the community loses IMO. Do you believe it's reasonable to have multiple accounts for any reason?
I believe using multiple accounts is duplicitous. I'm not a fan of them. |
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Absolutely no need for a managed switch. Will be of no benefit to you.
Netgear makes decent products. Can't say anything bad about them.
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can you both speculate somewhere else this thread isn't the place for that. this account has a different offer completely and I didn't do anything wrong nor did I spam. Try and wrap your mind around that before you post here, thanks.  Try and wrap your head around the fact that you are more than likely gaming the forums for your own monetary gain. That's probably why you got banned. Let me spell it out for you. Having one account advertising for Primedice, and another account advertising for coinrollit, is probably what got your account banned. One for the road... U R A MORON  Excuse me ? Are you or are you not complaining about having an account banned that was involved in .sig space advertising ? Do you believe it reasonable to have multiple accounts to use for multiple payouts from various .sig space advertising offers ? |
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Cartels wont work for bitcoin miners.
How can ghash.io / Bitfury's recent turn be described as anything other than approaching behavior similar to a cartel ? |
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This forum has become irrelevant due to the lack of moderation.
Says the guy spending $9,000 a week advertising here! That's half a million dollars a year on an "irrelevant" forum. 4 @ 2.25
It's just sad trying to interact with Josh when trying to have well reasoned, honest, and rational debate. By all accounts, it would appear the man is the equivalent of a Hippopotamus spraying feces with his tail all over these forums, while he's paying off the zookeepers to allow him the pleasure of gleefully dropping trou and making sure he covers as many of it's patrons as possible in his fetid waste. Quite the little scheme going on here. Josh Zerlan pays Michael Marquardt thousands of dollars for the privilege of being allowed to advertise here and behave badly, and they both get rich at our expense. |
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So to them repeating the same lies enough times makes them feel like they are important and that they matter.
Specifics, Josh. What are the specific points that have been lies ? I hope you can appreciate that if you are going to call the people that are critical of you and Butterfly Labs a bunch of liars, you will need to include citations so we can defend ourselves and refute your allegations. |
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If you're having an issue with your order, please submit a ticket (one) and then PM me the ticket number so we can track it.
With respect, Matt, I've given up on trying to get a response out of you folks, with regards to resolving my early December order status. Not cool. |
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This forum has become irrelevant due to the lack of moderation. The only way to get anything accomplished here is to troll, hence that's what you get. If you want honest dialog without the trolling, i suggest the BFL forums. If you will notice, I only respond to trolls for the most part. If people like Entropy, Micon, Bicknell ski, etc would stick to posting facts and being honest instead of lying constantly, I would have no need to post. But they are incapable of being honest, thus the only way to combat a troll around here is to be as bad as they are. If we could get real moderation, then it wouldn't be an issue.
While you are active, Josh, care to respond to my prior query ? the problem arises when you have irrational and totally inappropriate people like Christian "Xian" Antkow, Darin Bicknell, Entropy-UC, et al "participating" with misinformation, outright lies and general trolling.
Honest question Josh. Do you recognize that you yourself are trolling ? Do you acknowledge that I was responding poorly to your trolling of these forums, and myself as a former customer of yours, back during your 65nm production debacle ? I would honestly like to know how I have spread misinformation, or outright lies about you or Butterfly Labs. Please. Let me know with details so I can offer apologies. Spreading lies is not my thing. You attempting to besmirch my good name speaks more to you than it does me. I don't think you see this either Again, I'm not the bad guy here. Stop trying to paint me out to be one because I responded poorly to you over your consistent inability to offer accurate production information for over six months, all the while taunting and trolling us. I've aspired to take a higher road since then, Josh. Maybe that's something you can work towards as well in 2014. Thanks Josh, -Christian "Xian" Antkow |
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Why don't people just get refunds if they don't want to wait?
All sales are final. According to reports I've read, the official response asking for a refund is a suggestion to sell the preorder on EBay or to another interested party. |
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I know people find the signatures annoying but they can always hide them.
... says the person with the 22 point red font paid advertisement in their sig. I suggest the forums just disallow paid signature schemes altogether. It clutters the place up too much IMO and promotes posts with little substance. |
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can you both speculate somewhere else this thread isn't the place for that. this account has a different offer completely and I didn't do anything wrong nor did I spam. Try and wrap your mind around that before you post here, thanks. Try and wrap your head around the fact that you are more than likely gaming the forums for your own monetary gain. That's probably why you got banned. Let me spell it out for you. Having one account advertising for Primedice, and another account advertising for coinrollit, is probably what got your account banned. |
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Got a support email back saying they can run a manual fiat withdrawal process for a 5% bank fee.
Thinking of just paying it and being done with the place...
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Any plans to release a 1.5TH version of the Neptune that could run on a single circuit in North American households ?
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What if I do the calculations by hand? How hard could it be?
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1r3wau/mining_bitcoin_by_hand/I figured I'd calculate how long it would take to mine bitcoin using a pen and paper for fun.
According to some forum posts, it takes 3385 integer operations to calculate one double SHA-256 hash.
These are 32-bit operations, so we'll give a very generous estimate of 10 seconds per operation (we're assuming that you're a numeric genius)
This works out to a rate of .0000295 hashes per second. Not bad, right?
Throwing the current difficulty (609482679.88835) into this[1] calculator gives us an average time of 2,809,786,333,451,380 years to mine one block. Have no fear, this is only 200000 times the age of the universe.
Now, at current rates of 25 BTC/block, and $600/BTC, this gives us an hourly profit of $0.000000000000000609/hr (assuming we're contributing to a pool, since competing with ASIC machines is just unfair), or about 1/300 of a quadrillionth the national (US) average.
What would it cost you to perform this?
One three ounce bottle of Noodler's ink is $12.50, and will write for approximately 33 km. Let's say that you're working in binary, and drawing a 1 and a 0 uses 1cm of ink, and you need to write 2 32 bit numbers per addition operation. That's 2166.4 meters of ink per hash. You can do about 50 operations on each side of a piece of paper. Paper runs for about a cent a page on Amazon, so that's about 34 cents per hash.
At the (approximate) 2,728,647,008,755,700,000 hashes you need to mine one block, adding these two costs together gives you a whopping $3,162,791,285,103,330,000.00 per block, or, if you're keeping track, you earn 0.000000000000474% of the money you spent mining that block (excluding the cost of petayears worth of food and shelter, and assuming the difficulty of mining and the value of bitcoin freezes forver at this moment).
Anyone want to get started with me?
tl;dr - mining by hand is no longer profitable. |
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Not genuine or accurate. HashFast has, by all accounts, only shipped out two developer units, and mass-production is estimated to be several weeks off from what I'm reading in the various HashFast threads. |
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Didn't want to start a new thread, as this one seemed related, but is it safe to assume that if I have my Trust Depth set to 1, and someone has DefaultTrust in their list, I also then get the entire DefaultTrust list even though I removed it for myself ?
If this is indeed the case, could we get it changed so that DefaultTrust is never inherited via another user ?
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