I've been debating this for the past couple of months and decided to throw out a feeler listing since BFL is finally shipping some ASIC devices.  My order is #1799 which was ordered about 1 hour into the day 1 release. More important than order number is my payment - I sent BTC from my own wallet within 1 minute of completing checkout on Bitpay so I'm probably queued ahead of some other people (since BFL orders queue by payment receive time rather than order time - and I don't have the 1-2 day delay of wire transfer).  I think the lowest order number for ASIC was #1650.

Asking price is currently 190BTC - 20BTC cheaper than the price I paid.  I can either ship it Express to you by next morning (assuming US delivery), you can do local pickup, or I set it up to mine for you and ship it at a later time when minutes of mining are not so critical.  If you want me to host it I can do so at no charge as I have "free" power at my wife's office.  I could just leave a spare machine on which you could remote into to control the miner whatever way you wish.  If I host it there is no security issue - my wife's office has equipment worth over 5x the value of the ASIC at current valuation.  That's not to say somebody won't try to steal it, but it will be insured.

Obviously it will not make 190BTC in the first month, 3 months, or probably even first 4 months.  It will probably pay off between 6-9 months.  I can host it for free as long as my wife has her office and her current lease is good until 2016.

The biggest risks are:
-BFL goes belly up before they ship - in which case escrow will return coins to you and you're out opportunity cost.
-BFL ships late and it takes a long time (2-3 years) to make ROI.
-BFL goes belly up after they ship, the unit breaks and you lose your income source.

Benefits - it depends on you and what your plans are for BTC

If you have a reasonable offer then please post it here or PM me.  I won't even bother quoting or answering troll posts, so if you find it entertaining... well go eat some cat liter.

Trust? - well I've only had about 20 transactions on BCT but all without problem.  I tried to help noobies/small players last month by setting up a Group Buy for Avalon Batch 3 which failed at the last minute due to OOS, returned all 73 coins to users.  And of course you can easily find me and my wife's pics and info on the internet since we're both incorporated and have professional degrees.  And JohnK has my info.  We can use him or another reliable person if escrow is requested.

I've stared at OOCs graphs and done lots of calculations.  The biggest if seems to be what happens to those Avalon group buy chips.  If those custom solutions actually get mining within days then ROI will take a lot longer.  If there are problems and logistical/customs issue then ROI should come earlier.

I do have other BFL orders later on in queue (as well as Avalon orders), but for now this order seems as close to the front of the starting gates as I see available other than order 1776 which went on eBay.

So today at 5:30PM over 1/2 my rigs went offline.  I have them mining at my wife's work and most of them have been going on almost 2 years now without problem. Only recently (2 weeks ago) did I start noticing one of the breakers tripper a couple times when an employee of hers used a microwave I'm guessing.

Some event happened in the evening and 1/2 my rigs powered off.  I got to the office 2 hours later.  I figured maybe the power went out quickly (brownout) and some of the rigs managed to stay online without reseting.  The I notice some of the box fans I use on my 4 card rigs aren't spinning fast and then I knew I had a power problem.  I go to her server closet and the power backups is just on it's very last leg of juice (the server had already powered down and only the switch and router were drawing power).  I found it odd that the powerbackups remained on though.  I cycled through the little LCD menu on the APC 1500 (older model) and it showed the input voltage as 71v, output 125v.  So I unplugged it and moved it to a different socket.  Same thing, 71v.

I shut off all the breakers (there's no main breaker that controls everything so I did each one).  Then turned them all on slowly.  Still voltage input showed 71v.  Some miners were still mining when I first got there so I moved the UPS around and found that roughly 1/2 the circuits showed 125V input to the UPS, the other 1/2 showed 71 or 72v.

So I'm guessing something went bad in the panel or the breakers. It has been getting hotter here in SoCal and I had been placing a higher load with the last set of 7950s I got last month. Perhaps the heat and load were too much.  My dad is an EE, but hasn't done any real electrical work in 20 years (he went to defense contractor programming).  I'll ask him later tonight about this.

The panel appears to be a 3 phase commericial panel.  It has a couple dedicated circuits for 240V like an X-Ray machine, a vacuum pump and air compressor.  The rest are standard 110 or 120V lines.

Any ideas on what went bad?  My friend who knows more than me (that's not saying much) said either several breakers went bad, or the bars in the panel might have been burned or even the lines leading to the bars.

The office is in a 20k sq commercial 2 story building.  My wife renovated the office in 2005 for 150k, but the first contractor was a scammer.  Don't know the quality of the second but he did get the job done.

Any ideas? Suggestions? Repair estimates?

PCI cards not really.

You can buy a PCI to PCIe adapter and mine (I think a few others confirmed this to work) but the adapter costs $60 or so, might as well buy a new board.

Yeah I went to 0 and the scumbag took my 1+ BTC 

Well it did go from $129.x to $127.01in 2 min.  I figured it would go back to $120 but again low volume of only 200 didn't move it far.

And here it comes, the sell off

but it's low volume so far

I keep getting optimistic that it will get near $135 again but every time it nears that ($132 on the last major run) somebody dumps 1-4k of coins (probably bought in at $56 and cashing out).

I assume the LTC mining on OzCoin is unaffected as you specifically mentioned BTC, or is it both OzCoin pools (BTC and LTC)?

If you wanted to buy more at $120 you'll have your chance in about 30 minutes

It went up, now it's going to go down somewhere between $110 and $120.  Won't go anywhere until Monday most likely.

Significant buying last 5 min

Sorry Kano it was late and night and I couldn't type up a storm without waking up the wife/kids.

What I meant to say or ask was 2 things:
-could an address be added to a central repository (yes, centralization) that could track illegal activity?  You might be able to answer this since - can we track the IP of where the coins are received assuming they're downloaded into a wallet?  I know the coins don't literally exist in the wallet, the wallet is just a bunch of keys that unlock the transactions in the blockchain (or at least as I understand it).  But since the blockchain shows a lot of information such a coin origination and propagation, does it also show if a wallet was being used to receive the coins?
-I know one of the key features of BTC is it's lack of centralization.  No overt governing authority making rules.  But that does not preclude people with a will and conviction to enforce ethical behavior.  Just because there is no law preventing one from doing something bad doesn't mean it should be done.  Just because there is no central Bitcoin police does not mean a group of moral people with skills can't come together to go after thieves and crooks.  Nobody will defend this thief's actions unless it was reveled that OzCoin funded Osama Bin Laden or something insane like that.  Every small squabble shouldn't have to be chased down for lack of due diligence on one's part, but blatant theft in the can't be condoned by saying "oh well, I guess it's our fault for not securing it enough".  Might as blame me for not putting land mines outside my windows when the thief breaks into my house.

Well my residency program was small (about 30) and the hancky pancky we had was one of the recently married female interns was having conjugal visits from her hubby - that ended quickly.  Yes there is stuff going on between docs/nurses/PA/RNs/RT/PT/etc but not so much the residents.  Hard to have energy for that during a 36 hour shift.

Nimda if you still have those 3 free spots, I'll take a spot.  I tried doing it once following the youtube video tutorial and kept running into an error at one step.

Eh, if you're going to watch TV and learn medicine and least watch ER instead of Grey's Anatomy.  The first 5 years of ER weren't too bad... after that it turned into a weekly soap opera with all the hottie docs.  I think I saw 30 min of Grey's before and it was about as superficial as 6.0 vicryl (that's a suture used for skin repair meaning the show is fluff).

You're funny.  I've popped into your silver threads several times and never accused you of selling impure silver (although others have).

Trauma surgeon huh?  That should be easy to test - would you give FFP to a person in active DIC that has blunt chest wall trauma with no active bleeding but a INR of 8?  If a nurse, PA, student or anybody memorizing Grey's Anatomy can answer that question I'll eat the shirt I'm wearing in a youtube video.  BTW in the US we predominantly use Netters, Grey's, but you knew that right? Jeebus man I've posted enough on these boards anybody looking for me can find my medical license number and see pics of me.

If you're looking for a doc that has no malpractice suits you're an fooling yourself.  My IM attending where I did my clinic taught me if you don't get sued in 10 years you either quit medicine or not seeing enough patients.  I've been subpoenaed over 5 times but fortunately haven't been named in a single suit.  It's pretty clear to me and other physicians here you don't know what you're looking for when judging a physician.  If you really want to know if an IM doc is good you ask the nurses where he/she is on staff.

Most questions asked of me are sent through PMs.  I only answered those questions posted out in the open here in this thread.

Fadisaaida- where you doing your residency (I'm assuming US)? I matched for anesthesia actually in 2003 but ended up sticking with FP/IM (probably not the best move on my part).  I still know a lot of anesthesia program directors on the US west coast.

Rupy come on, you've been here since 2011 and you don't know about PPS or how stolen coins can't be tracked? All the thief has to do is collect the coins, use a mixing service or even an exchange and they'll never be tracked again.

I wonder if the developers are making any headway into blacklisting addresses or would that defeat the anonymity of BTC?

2 things

you have almost a 10% stale rate.  Drop intensity by 1, get better internet connection, or back off on the overclocks a little.

the biggest thing is you're mining on DGM - a luck based payment.  Some days you'll make 3LTC, some days 0.5 depending on how lucky the pool is.  Switch to PPS if you want a steady amount, but PPS is very risky for the pools so they charge higher fees.

Wow, just wow.  I think this is a new first.  It's one thing to keep money that a pool mistakenly sent you.  It's another to steal 1kBTC from miners!   

And now the 8AM buyback is kicking in (US East coast time)