I love this... It's like talking a poll at the Republican Caucus asking which party is the worst and then pointing at it and saying "Scoreboard Bro!".  Don't mean shit cause the results are skewed.  Too bad you fail so much at understanding life "BRO".  Maybe once you figure out how to take a truly UNBIASED poll it might means something.

I also notice you have clammed up on your tapeout whine... is that because you realize you've been had?  Your constant rant about 17 weeks from 'today' was funny and kept the BFL name at the top of this forum, but now you've dropped it and I notice it happened after the post Josh made on the BFL forums and quoted here about the Feb delivery dates.  I'm just curious if you actually did a backwards calculation and figure out that the tapeout had to have already occurred ~2 months ago to meet with your "17 weeks from tapeout" rant in order to be delivered in Feb?  Regardless, keep up the good work.  I know I can count on you to keep BFL's name at the top of the forums.

Amazing... the low road KING is posting about taking the high road!  And here I thought Bickski couldn't stoop any lower.

How's that FRC investment doing Bick old boy?  Looks like it's lost over 1/2 it's value in the last 24 hours.  My Monarch order is still worth $2800 and still only cost me 2.03BTC, so looks like I still win.  Course, I happened to sell at $1000 and bought back at $550, so now I even have the BTC I spent back.  Win/Win for me .

Love how you fail to see the point.  Even if I had said 3 months back then, the response would have been nearly the same.  It's like the guy I offered a bet to that they'd be caught up by Dec 15th after he predicted Mar 2014 and he refused the bet.  Nothing but piss and vinegar.

What I find funny is that I made a poll ~2 months ago asking "If I were to purchase a BFL product today whould I have it in hand in 2 months".  90% of people said Definitely NOT! 

Typical of you to butt in without fully reading what was said.  Why don't you dropt back into your hole?

In looking at my LS and Jalapeno, I don't you can swap the heat sinks... The Jala only has 2 screws holding the sink on while the LS has 4.

What was your order?  A Jalapeno or something bigger?  I just posted a pic of my 6/6 Jalapeno order hashing away yesterday, so you should get yours soon if it was a Jalapeno order.  No new blog last night... wonder if they took the weekend off for Thanksgiving. 

I'd say to first test the input and see if you have 0 ohms.  If that is the case, there is likely a bad solder joint somewhere that is touching the 12V to ground.  I'd inspect near the input plugs and see if there is anything obvious.  If you know anything about soldering, all you'd need is a good hot soldering iron and a soldersucker to remove the excess causing the short.  If you are uncomfortable with soldering, then you'd probably have to RMA it.

I never said I MINED 50 BTC, I said I used the coins I mined on exchanges as my play money.  I'm pretty sure I do have more than 50BTC now, but the amount I actually mined is probably about 1/10 or less of that amount.

Got my Jalapeno!  Since I already had the Little from before, I needed no driver installation so I just plugged it in and watched it go.  This is after it had been running with Bitminter's app for about an hour:



Knowing Bick, that is probably a fail somehow...

I've been using the coins I mined with my GPUs since May as play money on the exchanges.  With the recent spike in pricing on the alt coins as well as the rise in BTC price, I think I'm sitting a bit better than that.  I'd say that's not bad considering my first investment was made using .28BTC I had mined to buy ASICMiner shares.

Wow, neither of you can read.... let me quote it for you:


I did answer your question even though you were too dense too see it.  Since, as per the blog, they are caught up on everything but Jalapenos, if you place an order now it will ship "immediately" as in minimal wait time... like the next business day.  I don't know why you seem to think someone will ne sitting by the computer 24/7 waiting for an order so they can box it and let it sit until USPS or UPS or FedEx shows up to get it.  You seem to think arguing semantics means something, but it just makes you look pathetic.

I know that the 50GH units are caught up as per the blog, but there was no update Wednesday, so I have no idea where the littles and Jala's are at.  I am guessing that the littles would be done or nearly done since I doubt more littles would have been sold than regular singles and I would think that the Jala's would be soon to finish if they have everything else done, as I remember something about a single person being able to build like 12 an hour.  If all of the assemblers concentrate on them, I'd think they could crank out a lot.  I'm just trying to patiently wait for the mailman to come tomorrow, my tracking number shows it left KC and already arrived in DSM.  Since it's only a 30 min drive from DSM, I'm expecting it by noon tomorrow.

Jackrabbit... I don't think it is so much that I defend them, but that I raise the BS flag on those that spout ridiculous nonsense.  None of us know the true story as to exactly what happened, but there are several who made outlandish claims that are so far in left field that I can't understand why the more intelligent trolls aren't shaking their heads over the blatant lies told my the rabid trolls.  The guy who rose a stink over getting his single with a build date that was 3 weeks old, claiming it was full of dust and had been mined for weeks before being shipped is a great example. Since both PG and I visited the facility, I think he'd agree with me when I say that there just isn't enough room for them to have 3 weeks worth of product sitting and mining as this person claimed and the rooms I remember had their own internal cooling systems, so there should be no dust from external sources getting in as well..

Now, I've never had anything to say about their advertising.  I really don't care one way or another.  Every company out their makes claims, like KnC claiming to have supplied 70% of the network.  This is so blatantly false that I'm truly amazed how blinded the trolls are to reality.  The point is this... ever since I came to this forum, I've been repeatedly told that BFL would NEVER ship their products, that it was all a scam and that they would just take the money and run.  Month after month went by and they continued shipping products. Now the tune is changed, since they have nearly completed their 65NM order book, the people go on and on about the lies and such. If you stop and think about it, all of the people who said they were a scam and were just fleecing people and would never ship anything are the liars now.  Only they cannot admit that they were wrong, they need to shift their focus and find other things to point their fingers at.

The truly sad thing here is that you have a company that was hampered by it's overwhelming success.  From recent statements, they had over 40,000 units sold.  Josh once said they expected to hit 400 units a day, which would equate to ~100 days *if* there were no problems encountered.  100 days would be 20 weeks at 5 days a week and 16 weeks at 6 days a week.  4-5 months if there were no additional problems.  Late June was when they started shipping other than Jalapenos, it's now late Nov and they are almost done... falls in line with the estimates.  But, back to the 40,000 a sec... that's a huge number when you stop and consider that when they released their FPGA they only had to build something like 1500-2000.  Coming from a background in electronics, I have a better understanding than most about the process of testing needed for items like this.  My last posting was at the research and development station for Naval aircraft.  I personally would want to do a 24 hour burn-in on any new equipment to guard against failure, but that would be impossible from the facilities I saw there.  They'd need 3-5x the space to perform a proper testing based on my guidelines.

One of the other things nobody seems to stop and consider... unlike most of the other companies that are selling product, they are not just shipping out naked boards.  Their units can be used by ANYONE with just a little instruction.  You don't need to have an engineering degree to understand how to hook them up to your computer and get them running.  In addition, unlike the other early ASIC sellers, when they saw the volume of requests, they didn't raise their prices to gouge their customers.  The only price increase came when they realized their original specs were not going to pan out and they needed to redesign.  So many people praise ASICMiner for selling asics that anyone could use, but no one seemed to care that they were being bent over in the process.  If BFL had the same Morals as ASICMiner, then they'd have quadrupled their prices after the first days orders when they saw the demand.

Bick and other harp on the minutia without understanding the process.  I've taken my little apart and I know from looking at it that it isn't as simple as ordering a board and slapping a chip on it as Bick expects people to do with his boards.  The build process has many steps to it and because of this there is the added element of human error in each step of the process.  If someone is tired, and if they are working 6 day weeks, I bet people are tired by now, mistakes are easy to make, but Bick and his cronies would have you believe that this is intentional so as to screw the customers.  

I just noticed from the BFL blog that they are caught up on all but jalapenos and expect to be caught up on those in a few days.  Obviously a pyrrhic victory at this point, but they did what they set out to do... at least now they won't have to deal with all the repeated "Where is my unit?!?!?" emails and hopefully be able to deal with support issues in a more timely manner.

13 months?  What have you been smoking?  Are you using the same math that brought you to the March 2014 date for BFL to finish shipping? 

I just got the email, my Jalapeno has shipped.  With T-day I expect it to be here Friday.  At $900/BTC I should be making ~$4.10 a day.

Best ratio?  Did you read that this is just a board and you have to buy the chips seperately?  Don't be fooled by Bick's smooth advertising, he's already failed at one project where all he had to do was add chips to a board and sell them.  He's just drooling over your $800k and nothing else(well... unless you believe Inaba...)

Nice to see you're still doing the daily advertising.  Keep up the good work!

How is someone not liking how something is set up a failure?  Was the unit overheating before he made his 'changes'?  Sometimes Bick, you truly fail hard.

What are you using to power your Jalankenstein?

I'd believe it considering the blog now states this:

Single 50 gh/s and 60 Upgrades: Backlog is finished and we are shipping from stock!


Guess Bick knew what he was doing when he refused to take my bet they'd be caught up by Dec 15th.  Looks like I may have been off by 2 weeks^TM, but on the early side .