It's not so much 'fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me'.

This is more apt : 'fool me once, shame on you, fool me 308 times, I'm a moron for taking anything this company says as remotely possibly accurate.'

Holy crap wow . That was fast.

No I have not, thanks Mark.

I've been away the last couple of days.

I've been away last 4 days. Is XPM on an exchange now?

I don't know if it's the difficulty sky-rocketing already, luck or something wrong with my config.

But in 2 quad core pc's mined about 200 coins in the first 48 hours, and then I have not found a single block in the last 4 days.  A q6600 and a i3. Does this seem possible? Seems to be running okay but seems incredibly unlikely...

Awesome to hear Batch 3 is shipping so soon!

Late "a few weeks" is pretty funny, but whatever

I'm surprised that people would opt for a refund personally. I don't have tons of faith that Metafury and KNC (even though I have shares) will ship when they say. I think Batch 3 won't have a crazy-quick ROI but if you look at running for at least year, it really isn't that bad of a deal.

But also glad that folks to have that option...thanks Avalon.

This is pretty good to see!  Keep the dev work .

Well I thought it was a good story!

Could have used a few more explosions or gratuitous naked chicks but that could just be my pref.

It's so nice to be able to CPU mine a coin again.

Makes me nostalgic!

And a good work out for my i3 which has been pretty idle recently.

Really I think we'll all be fine in the long term. We missed the first ASIC train leaving the station where you could make a ROI in a couple of weeks but we are still in good enough shape. It's yet to be seen how many units BFL will continue to deliver, and whether all the other new companies coming up are going to ship anytime soon.

Still a lot of unknowns but I think we'll break even in about a 100 days of mining or so than just profit after that, when there may be a million ASICS around or still just a limited few thousands.

Anyways shipping should be 'soon' I think 3 weeks perhaps. From what I can gather Batch 2 is nearing compeletion, I'd estimate 90% or more of it has shipped, just from what I read.

Worst thing is though I imagine many, many Avalon clones and Klondikes will be coming online before Batch 3 is done, which really grinds my gears. But overall, things ain't so bad.

I like that. Sending a  PM...

This latest crash has been great for me.

I rather luckily had a big reserve of NVC.

...and price went almost .04 and is still high  (was trading earlier for 0.032-33). 

And grabbed some discounted ASICMINER shares.

Life's good !  Even if I liquated to fiat (which I'm not going to do, I'm in BTC long) I would have about the same amount selling at 75$ now than I did at 100$ before due to my recent gains. (Well just about almost).

Life is good...keep the roller coaster rollin'..

-14 is what I'm waiting for.

Wow even CNC? I thought that one was dead as a doornail.

Well I'm not going anywhere    I'm holding all my BTC assets until 2015 at least.


Any good investments to make?

I woke up to see a cpl 100' of my NVC sold at 0.333 and it's now at 0.39 (!).  Sure wish I didn't have those sell orders in last night.

Hmmm there must be some opportunity in this chaos.

What's a good way to make more BTC when the bottom is dropping like a rock?

Everyone should do their part then: just don't use GOX.

There are more and more alternatives, many of them are good, and a few more will be opening up soon.

So ya , it is pretty simple, use a different exchange.

Glad more guys are getting their machines.

Anyone want to hazard a guess about how much of batch 2 has shipped now? Are we at 80% or so ?

https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130704.html

the 'l' fell off the end of the link

I'm not sure are you sure ?

https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130704.html

GOX regox'ing it up , withdrawals resumed:  

https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130704.html