That looks pretty cool. I'm not sure what this has to do with Bitcoin though. It looks to me like this will only work with debit/credit cards. There seems to be major complications in creating a Bitcoin cred/debit card. There have been a few projects rumored to be in the works for over a year now, but nothing has come to fruition. I think it is probably pretty hard figuring out the regulation, KYC, negotiating with visa/mc/whatever. I really hope a Bitcoin debit/credit card exists one day.. that would be awesome. It doesn't seem like this is it though.

Wow.. he has some nerve to reply to to you like that.

It is sad to me that people don't do their research on companies before buying. As it now stands, this scam has collected over 200 Bitcoins. That is just crazy..

Think before you spend people.. (although I doubt most of the scammed people use these forums, otherwise they'd most likely see this thread before ordering.)

Wow.. most of their customers don't use these forums. However, the only link on the entire world wide web to their website is a link on these forums....

Good find.

I'd hold off on ordering until more proof is provided. This seems kind of sketchy IMO.

Their first miners were supposed to be shipped on November 6th, however no one (apart from AMT themselves) has posted pictures or a review yet. That leads me to believe nothing has shipped yet. They stated most of their customers don't use these forums and they have actually shipped out devices... I'm not sure what I think about that.

This tool will kill Bitcoin as we know it. I wouldn't mind if it was only used to go after thieves, but there is no way to know and/or stop the government for using it however they see fit. The problem in my opinion is when they start using the tool to go after "Silk Road" types of people. I believe as long as someone is doing no one else harm, them and only them should be able to choose what is put into their body. The drug war has failed and the government is starting to realize it, the more the people push for policies such as decriminalization/legalization of marijuana, the more obvious this will become to the government over time. If this tool is used to further the government's agenda on the failing drug war, then I strongly oppose it.

Another problem... who enforces the basic American principal of innocent until proven guilty? How would the due process be like to be able to black list coins? Would there have to be a criminal court case, or can they decide to blacklist coins on a whim whenever they deem that someone is doing something illegal? This could be very dangerous against freedom of speech. If the government doesn't like what you're saying, who's to say they can't just blacklist your life savings? What recourse would there be in that situation? Are you going to call the Bitcoin police?

I'm afraid such a tool would be horribly misused by the government. We cannot trust them with such power, because eventually it will be used against us. Where would it end? Blacklisting coins because of parking/speeding tickets, past due taxes, unpaid Obamacare taxes? Anyone that thinks for a second the government will use this tool only for its intended purpose of going after thieves is slightly naive. This would just be another step in the wrong direction as far as personal liberties go. This is like the patriot act for Bitcoin... sure it's built for a good purpose, but they can also easily misuse it however they see fit.

Rofl if Bitsyncom's tool is used against him to find all the BTC he stole from Avalon customers.

IMO- such a tool will not be very useful. Someone can send tainted coins to an exchange or service and withdraw untainted coins. How are they going to connect the dots there? Obviously they need all the exchanges/services to cooperate. I seriously doubt they will be able to get EVERYONE to cooperate.

not to mention the fact tainted coins can be spent on mining hardware and all mined coins would be untainted an untraceable back to the original bad actor.

RoadStress: Things like this is why ZeroCoin is very important. I don't like the government having the power to create such a database. Let's implement ZeroCoin and laugh in their faces.

Yay, this company looks legit! This would be the most efficient ASIC chip on the market, no?

I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out.

He's probably pretty busy trying to get the 200 Th mine up to speed.

I think he said the next round of deliveries will be delivered in December, so I imagine he'll open up sales here shortly.

I used two rows of electrical tape along the top of the cards to hold them in place. That helped a lot.. the 1x connectors are crap and wiggle with the slightest breeze. Packing peanuts sounds scary to me, especially with how warm some of these h boards seem to be getting.

I'm not sure about him, but I bought my miners through a group buy and only own a small percentage of them.

Dayummm, that's sexy. I can get 520 Gh out of one, but I have a couple bad boards on the other and it can only get up to 422 Gh. 

Thanks, I'll check it out.  

I've never signed up for cex.io cause... well, they're overpriced Ghashes. So, it's nice to know that's the secret for entrance to ghash.io  

Well, BTC Guild is working perfectly. I don't really want to change it right this moment. I got the other rig re-imaged and both are showing over 470 Gh worth of submitted shares. That's the best I've done so far.

I do like to have accounts at different places for use in the future though. I thought ghash.io is a private pool, where can you register an account?

Wow.. I switched over to BTCGuild @ 512 difficulty & it is already showing faster than both Eligius and Slush's pool. It's showing 476, hopefulyl it winds up closer to the 524 Gh the firmware shows.

I'm going to cross my fingers that this was what was wrong all along. I'm so happy I made a backup image of the sdcard before I started troubleshooting, I can restore that image to fix the corrupted chainminer and hopefully be good to go if the pool was really the issue.

protip: backup your sd card using a digital camera/laptop with sdcard reader/sdcard reader and use win32diskmanager to copy the image file from the sdcard to your computer for a back up. You can use the same tool to write the image to the sdcard as well. The images provided in the bitfury support guide thread (in mining support subforum) were too large to fit on my sdcard for some reason.

The only pools I've tried... Eligius and Slush don't have adjustable difficulty I don't think.

Maybe I should try one where I can..

Hmm, wish you could quote it in context.. anyways.. Anyone else having trouble getting bfgminer built? I've tried it how I thought it should be done, and a couple instructions of how others thought it should be done. Nothing's working.

This is so frustrating.. after over 24 hours of troubleshooting, one is now running at full speed on admin page, but half speed on the pool. The other I seem to have corrupted chainminer while troubleshooting it and it isn't hashing at all. Certainly buzzdave is experiencing these same issues since he is using the same hardware to setup the 200 Th mine. I wish he would be a little bit more proactive about supporting us... perhaps release an updated firmware that fixes a lot of the issues everyone's having. Usually when I spend $16,000 on something, I expect it to work.

Not sure where Dave said that, but I have seen it mentioned by many people (dave including) that you want the fastest H card in the first slot of the bank, then order them in descending order with the slowest card in the last slot.

Can you link where he said it didn't matter, because I think it does and I dont think he'd say this. In practice, I can confirm its better to have the faster cards in the first slots of a bank otherwise it can cause the other cards to run slower or not run at all.

on the bottom of the bitfury user guide, it has an irc channel/server listed for support. OI can't think of it off the top of my head though.

Find the user guide under "mining support" sub forum in the OP of the thread: [guide] bitfury support/tuning

When a full bank of cards isn't working, I have found usually the problem is the card in the first bank. Try switching it with the card in the last bank.

Good to know kslaughter. Thanks for being more honorable than some other companies I won't mention.