I understand this concern and agree that there is a certain risk that has to be bourne by all parties involved. I would be able to offer multi-signature ownership of the funds if my trust is a concern here, although everyone will have to agree that I do not offer any personal warranty on the reliability of the multisig system.

Yes, I kind of forgot that I will be holding his fee as collateral (and probably identity). I will be bound to the end then, but please note that my obligation of most of the funds is over once I pass this over to Avalon.(so if Avalon fails to ship or anything I'm not in fault although this is very unlikely)

Please proceed with the payment after ragingazn628 gives to go-ahead. Please post the amount you'll be sending before sending the coins or sign your tx with your btc address to prevent others claiming your payment
Thanks!

1) It would be binding with all parties involved up to when I submit the order (and the funds) to Avalon. Afterwards, it would be between the buyers and ragingazn628.

2) I would provide all information that I have in hand for this transaction to the public, and probably assist in any litigation/legal enforcement efforts.

3) Yes. I will forward the funds to Avalon when the preorder opens, and keep ragingazn628's fee in escrow.

4) No, so far. I would be willing to hold his identity in escrow if he allows this.


As for the contract, please use the paste bin link, and CTRL-A CTRL-V it to notepad to verify it. The forum has spacing bugs which will invalidate the signature.

Escrow contract: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Xtx4M6nN


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

The escrow address for ragingazn628's group buy transaction for Avalon ASICs chips would be:

1At75rKd6e8b7S7AAPzZ5V3kAzhkGYhnpU

Please state and agree to the conditions (if item is received damaged, item lost with tracking, customs fee etc) beforehand.

If possible, GPG sign your agreement to prevent any discrepancies later on and please ship with tracking to prevent problems during delivery. GPG signing is not a requirement, and any verbal exchange in the form of private messages or posts on bitcointalk.org, or email is effective as a ‘statement of condition’.

The fine print:
This Contract is solely generated for the purpose of facilitating the transaction between the seller and the buyer, which refers to the pseudonyms used on bitcointalk.org.
The escrow holder, John, assumes and gives no liability or guarantees on the satisfaction of all parties involved, although he agrees to mediate and facilitate the deal to the fullest extent he is capable of.  On the event that any problems arises, he will release the escrow to whichever party that presents him with the most convincing proof and/or after an open discussion with others or theymos. 
The verbal acceptance by both parties (or the failure to reject) and the sending of Bitcoins to the escrow address above constitutes the acceptance of the terms and conditions stated, and the activation of this Contract.

Thank you.

John (the escrow holder)
20 April 2013
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Thanks everyone for supporting this auction! Your names will go down in the Bitcoin-history. 

Winners have been forwarded to friedcat. 

On the case issue:

THE WINNERS:

alexuk	BTC76
eb3full	BTC76
waterpowered	BTC75
LainZ	BTC75
Batteryfire	BTC75
Pinwheel	BTC75
Pinwheel	BTC75
pixel75	BTC75
MacDschie	BTC75
MacDschie	BTC75

Please check if I got something wrong guys. Friedcat will be contacting the winners directly (via PM or thread post) with your payment addresses.

Congratulations again!

We're done! I'll do the summary in a minute.

Just in via PM:

Do your homework before buying shady deals like this, guys.

I confirm that I have been asked to escrow this, and will generate an escrow contract (with the address) when I get my escrow laptop out from the safe in approx. 7 hours.

I'm sleeping shortly and will wake earlier to see the auction end. Keep the bids coming guys!

Courtesy recap of potential winners:

JHenderson	BTC71.5
delaria	BTC71
alexuk	BTC70
jgarzik	BTC66
LainZ	BTC65
lan787	BTC65
otter	BTC64
Pinwheel	BTC64
Pinwheel	BTC64
BlackLilac	BTC63.5

Time left:

Timer removed. End time: 2013-04-19+16:02:08

How do we know if you're the 'right one'? For all we know, you could be him.

I prefer FC. It's 4 times moar - so it's LTC 2.0. 

Added that for OCD.  Thanks again!

Less than 7 hours left - bid guys!

Changed that, thanks for pointing that out.  

Courtesy recap of potential winners:

delaria	BTC71
alexuk	BTC70
jgarzik	BTC66
LainZ	BTC65
lan787	BTC65
otter	BTC64
Pinwheel	BTC64
Pinwheel	BTC64
BlackLilac	BTC63.5
pixel75	BTC63.5

Time left:

Timer removed. End time: 2013-04-19+16:02:08

Settings -> encrypt wallet.

You'll have to deal with the 30+- 5830 for a single small board of 10GH/s. Trust me, you don't want to deal with the heat and maintenance when they start to pile up.  

You can get it work with multiple pools. I'm not sure about this, but solo mining should be possible you run the daemon yourself.
No screenshots were made available to me yet, but I'll ask friedcat for this.

*spoils the fun by locking the thread*
Move along, gents. 

I've forwarded the tagging request to theymos.