Nice to see a little progress, but like everyone else I am not happy to see it will use 5v. I have a lot of ATX PSUs laying around, it would be nice to be able to use them.

I do not think it was a typo... its kind of hard to accidentally type 5 instead of 12..

Would something like this require much redesigning to switch it over to 12v... as in, if everyone requests they use 12v, can they make the switch easily? I know nothing about PCB design.

Wow, it seems he magically reappeared... 

Auction still cancelled anyways.

Stop disappearing bro. As you can see in your other thread, I was ready to call the Bitcoin police on you.

At least stop in and tell us you're alive every once and a while.

Congrats on your prototype.

EDIT: I didn't notice you reappeared after your first disappearance ITT about a week ago. But still, keep us updated, your customers in your other thread were starting to freak out (this thread too.) You are receiving $78,000 worth of Avalon chips + much more in knc mining products. Keep your customers updated, this is big money.

Rumor has it that you cannot overclock the new blades without hardware modifications, like their current USB Block Erupters.

Expect an announcement from Friedcat soon.

RE: My above post

I feel so stupid for not following my gut instinct on this one and ordering chips from him.

All these links are from the first 4-5 pages of his Avalon chip group buy. Everyone seems to have settled down when JohnK came in to do escrow, which in hindsight is silly. All chips and hardware is being shipped directly to Ragingazn628, so JohnK can't really help us there. Unless somehow JohnK can get ahold of Avalon/KNC and change the shipping address...

The first post warning of ragingazn: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177994.msg1874180#msg1874180

More hard evidence came shortly after in that thread:

Ragingazn628's Hardforum (tried to) scam: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1684647
More on hardforums: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1660014

Ragingazn628's previous heatware account: http://heatware.com/eval.php?id=77909
Ragingazn628's SECOND previous heatware account: http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=78739
Ragingazn628's current heatware account: http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=79046
(what kind of an honest person would need 3 heatware accounts??)

Ragingazn628's Ebay (88% feedback, which is quite low): http://myworld.ebay.com/toms.technology
EDIT: Umm... this is not 88% feedback, perhaps the user in the chip thread posted the wrong link?
2nd EDIT: Maybe that is him, if you go through his seller feedback only, there is an unusual amount of negative feedback- not a huge amount, but it is there.

Ragingazn628's overclock.net account: http://www.overclock.net/u/154962/ragingazn628
(Note: I haven't looked into his posts/dealings on here, I am just providing this for more identification. It is possible there are more shady dealings tied to his account there, but I am not sure.)

PS: I really hope that the picture these links and Ragingazn's disappearance paints doesn't mean what I think they do...

JohnK, any possibility you could change the shipping address on chip/knc orders you made for ragingazn628?

Yet another edit: it seems he has magically reappeared right after I posted this... he just bumped the chip thread. Good, I was ready to call the cavalry in. Now I feel bad for posting all this, but it is what it is...

I would like to bring to the attention of any possible bidders that it appears Ragingazn628 has gone missing. There are some worries of a scam was involved.

Because of the above, and also there seems to be 0 interest in the chips anyways, I am cancelling the auction.

IF you would like to arange something privately, PM me. I will budge from my starting auction price a little bit, more so on Ragingazn628's chips.

Thanks

This is a good example of how not to run a group buy. It's time for me to dig up the dirt I have on Ragingazn628. I've been holding off in hopes that he will come back to us.

Warning: you're not going to like it... Now, let me dig through 4 month old posts to find what I'm talking about.

PS: Not spreading FUD, I am a customer of ragingazn628's Avalon chip group buy, so I am in the same boat you guys are if he never appears again.

There's one problem with the GPU -> ASIC comparison.

It's that Bitcoin ASICs are made to do only one thing, and the manufacturers can lower their prices as much as they'd like as long as they're still making a small profit. They HAVE to lower their prices, otherwise they'd be out of business very soon because people will stop ordering from them.

GPUs on the other hand can be used for many things, and are actually a necessity (if you use a computer). ATI/Nvidia do not lower their prices for GPUs when the Bitcoin difficulty goes up. They do not care about Bitcoin miners, because they have millions of people lining up to buy their hardware and Bitcoin miners are a very small percentage of their customers. The prices stay at a pretty constant rate until the next generation of GPUs is released. Even then, -new- last generation GPUs still hold their value quite well and are usually sold for only a slight discount compared to the newer generation of GPUs.

Although I would not be surprised to see a tapering off of hash power eventually (there's only so cheap these ASIC companies can go before they're not turning a profit). I do not expect this to happen as soon as you guys are predicting. I've been wrong before though, and this wouldn't be the last time either!

I think he was using sarcasm when he said "our friend." 

I am the new English expert of the Custom Hardware sub forum.

/sarcasm 

I agree with you, but perhaps I worded my sentence wrong. I think this is better: According to English teachers, there is no right or wrong way to use the word shill (or any other word for that matter) as long as it's in the dictionary.

If you think you can turn in a paper for English class filled with slang and improper usage of words (usage that is not in a dictionary somewhere), then you might be receiving a F.  

Although there are a lot of slang words which many people use every day, it is still considered improper English to use these words- at least in academia.

And yes, I am growing tired of the shill debate as well. Let's just let this thread die peacefully. 

Bitcoinorama,

I'm not trying to harp on you anymore. I actually feel kind of bad for you for all the flack you are getting, I didn't mean for it to be this big of a deal. However, I didn't make this thread either...

But, Merriam-Webster's actual website has different definitions than the one you posted. Perhaps the secondary site you linked to is outdated or just from a different dictionary? I dunno. Anyways, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shill

Again, you can use the word however you'd like as long as it's in a dictionary somewhere. I agree that the definition you posted would also be another use of the word shill.

People don't seem to realize that one word can have many definitions.

There is no right or wrong way to use the word shill (or any other word for that matter) as long as it's in the dictionary.  

Thank you sir. 

I have ordered two Fast-Hash-One base units. Honestly, the way difficulty is going up and the amount of new companies that are offering hardware (that will ship earlier/at the same time as you are planning on), I will not buy any more product from you at the current prices. Are there any plans to become more competitive with your pricing?

I am fine with ordering more hardware elsewhere. I just think that you guys are undervalued by the community, and would love to give you a little more business. However, at the current pricing and with all the other options available, there is no way I am going to do that.

PS you completely ignored my last questions, please answer if you are able (ignoring me is not a good way to earn more business from me either):

Although I was advised against this, I've had all 7 four module Avalons running at 350mhz with Avalon's stock 850w PSU running stable for exactly 2 weeks now. I did have one PSU die the first day, but I have had no problems with the others. I just replaced the PSU and she was back to hashing within minutes. I assume you would have to be incredibly unlucky for a blown PSU to damage the Avalon's components. In all my years (aka. 1 year  ) of GPU mining, never has a blown PSU caused any extra hardware failure (again, in my experience... your mileage may vary.)

As we used to say when I was a snowboard bum in Colorado for a few years after graduating high school, "go big or home." (then proceed to pee your pants while hucking a 50 ft cliff)  

Thanks for the update Dave, even though it is a slight delay update, it still made me feel better.

Believe me... a 3 day delay is much better than the 1 year delay going on at BFL and the months of delays that Avalon has had. If you guys get your product out on time or even a few days late, you will be tremendously more successful than BFL/Avalon. I'd venture to say you will have many more customers for later shipments as well.  

Good luck!

Thank you sir, welcome aboard! 


I am very open about my accounting procedures and every transaction that goes to and from the group account. Therefore, I wanted to mention to the group that Egon had something come up and he needs a refund of this transaction:
Egon; 10 BTC; c0b21ddee90177cf7f319e724beb29a37ba60d421d15b40f09a994d4ff772898

I am processing this for him now... just FYI incase someone was looking at the block chain and wondering what happened. 

Listen, I'm not saying that you are for certain a shill. All I said was that it was likely, or a better term would be that it is a possibility.

I agree with you ordering with a CC provides more consumer protection than ordering with Bitcoins (duh). I just thought it was ironic that you post something like that where knc is determined as the winner, compared to your previous posting history.

After reading all of your posts for months, is it really that hard to see why someone maybe would think you are a shill?

I even included a definition of the word shill in my previous post ITT because I knew someone would bring this up. In case you missed it: Merriam-Webster: "to act as a spokesperson or promoter"

Many words have many different meanings. Just because someone uses another meaning for a word, it does not make it wrong, it just means that perhaps you don't know the English language as well as you thought you did.

You cannot deny that Bitcoinorama is a promoter for KNC...

Notice who gets his A+ rating at the bottom of his OP in the consumer protection thread?

Wait for it....

KNC

(oh and BFL lol- which is safe to add to the list because he knows BFL isn't competition to KNC at this point because everyone hates them.)