I just got a reply from BFL - On 5 March 2012 18:27, BFLabs <sonny@butterflylabs.com> wrote:
Hi Matthew,
Please excuse the delay in confirming your order. We have been focusing on production over new customer inquiry and are just now catching up.
Your PayPal payment has been received in full and your BitForce SHA256 Single is secure. Your date of purchase is 02/24/2012. I will keep you informed as to the expected delivery date of your order.
Thanks again for your interest in our product.
Kind regards,
Sonny KSo I tried to tempt them with a 30BTC to ship today and here is there reply -
BFLabs
18:29 (7 minutes ago)
to me
Hi Matthew,
I'm sorry, but we can't skip the purchase order priority of delivery. If we did, other customers who've been waiting longer would get shorted.
Regarding your order, I've just processed it. Please expect a 4-6 week lead time. We're into production now so you may actually receive it sooner.
Kind regards,
Sonny K
BF Labs Inc.Also just received a third email from BFL regarding the order and using a RaspberryPi - I know several customers have plans on using Rasberry to drive the units. There's no reason for it not to work.
Delivery is 4-6 weeks from the date of payment.
Our cash was taken over two weeks ago now so we could have it within two weeks and hopefully sooner than four weeks now. |
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I've got an experienced programmer to help us use a 5v RaspberryPi to run the ASIC/FPGA boards saving us 200W from a x86 PC so now we should reach 2.5GH/s for under 250W meaning our electrical bill should be around £20 a month for over 50BTC generated a month once the IPO has been completed and all three boards purchased. It has know been over two weeks since board one was ordered so it should be shipped within four weeks. What are share holders views on potentially eventually switching to 100% green sourced renewable electricity supplier the electric bill should still cost under £25 although we may have to wait twelve months maybe as currently in the process of changing supplier.
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I like Litecoin and want it to prosper too. I think it's future if it become more profitable may be in very low power ARM CPU farms if it can be kept more efficient on CPU than GPU. Like the £25 RaspberryPi at 5W if it can get >5kH/s? for 5W with good well tuned mining software. Or it's future as being mined as a screensaver or just in the background while a PC is being used but there is nothing to spend them on. If a game that mines LTC in the background is invented that could be its killer app to make it mainstream?
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LTC main grace was that it was CPU based mining you could do while GPU mining. Maybe the main reason of this thread is one of the things that has been devaluing LTC recently as it can't compete against BTC as a GPU miner as it offers nothing new and that the price drop is due to the hoarders getting rid of their stocks now it's turning into a GPU coin  |
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Thanks for the continued investment people your are moving us on towards the second ASIC/FPGA board. Although I can assure you it won't be ordered until we have a shipping number for the first unit. Also if the unit has not been received by the 6th of April a PayPal dispute for full return of the funds will be put in. That date is the sixth week from the date of the purchase and still within the forty-five day PayPal dispute time limit. Their order form promised to dispatch within four to six weeks although stated it could be quicker. It has now been just over two weeks since the order was placed and paid for. Again thank you for your continued investment.
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I bet nothing that it'll be less than 1khash/secs.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparisonModel Mhash/s Mhash/J Mhash/s/$ ACP [W] Clock Version Comment ARM 0.187 ? ? ? 1200 MHz cpuminer Seagate Dockstar ArchLinux And that's on BTC I think which would have a lot lower mining efficiency compared to LTC. |
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You could use Lubuntu and login to the Openbox desktop that is basically just a terminal and probably just as light but gives you the option to open a web browser or GUI programs if you want/need to?
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What I find interesting is how this project was funded by GLBSE. It's a great project that is really needed in the bitcoin community.
I've signed up and I recommend everyone else to.
Cool thanks  |
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If anyone needs info/advice on Red Star Mining: RSM. Then contact me on the company's blog - http://redstarmining.blogspot.com/ or Gmail/Gtalk/G+ me on matthewholt3@gmail.com, Facebook: matthewholt79, Twitter: Matt_H_79 If your just another rival and only want to only bring doubts on this operation then I'm left with no option but to lock this thread! |
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and the license to distribute these comes from? marked Anyway who are you some kind of now-it-all or just very friendly? Either way I couldn't give a f@#k so sling your s@~t I've got enough red-tape to deal with my own businesses never mind someone else's FTW |
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and the license to distribute these comes from? marked ME YOU GOT A PROBLEM if you have we can settle it with a arm wrestling competition  The site/dev offered me no terms of use upon sign up I could find so I used it to share my FLAC/mp3 with my mates. Tho I got the the feeling I've got to delete them all before Holiwood lawyers sue's my boss. Anyway there are other members only FLAC sharing sites on the web and there pretty active as you can't buy FLAC's really so were not competing with any major lable |
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OK, I couldn't hold out any more... just ordered one!
you ordered with paypal? and did you receive a confirmation email for the order yet? Yes, I used Paypal in case I have a chance of getting my money back if it turns out to be a scam, but I really just hope I get a working unit. No confirmation e-mail from Butterfly Labs directly yet. Just the receipt from Paypal. However, I did order at 1:41AM, so I don't mind if I don't see anything until my payment clears next Friday. I wouldn't mind seeing some more show up "in the wild" this weekend. Right now, I'm feeling like 80% chance that I'll get my unit by end of April 2012. In my gut, there is a 15% chance that it'll get delayed further than that. and 5% chance that I'm in the second wave scam round where I buy after the few success stories. I've read a lot about all of the FPGA technology and butterfly labs, etc. I feel like the FPGA technology x6500 boards and Icarus boards are simply too expensive right now (even though this is the best long term solution). Also, I got several people involved to see if we could try to build them ourselves, but I feel like I would waste way too much money doing that given my lack of computer engineering skills. I need to tend to my wife's short term payoff, which this unit gives the possibility of paying itself off within the year depending on price/difficulty. My wife also hates the large electricity bill, so if I can make it more of a "initial investment" with very low operational costs, she may be ok with it. The only thing I'm still curious about is whether I will be able to play a video game and have this thing run in the background. Right now overclocking my 5970 makes the screen glitchy and it's loud, etc. Remember you only have forty-five days from the date of the purchase to file a dispute with PayPal. So I've got to put one in the beginning of April. They still haven't replied to my email last week about my order but their website homepage has been redesigned |
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any links to the above products?
http://www.butterflylabs.com/ - Customer service has gone downhill tho they haven't got back to my email from over a week ago |
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And the hacker can't sell his coins.
How come the cracker can't sell the stolen BTC. Because Mtgox will ban them. What I should have said is how will they know the BTC are stolen? |
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And the hacker can't sell his coins.
How come the cracker can't sell the stolen BTC. |
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I have a good hash rate. Should I be solo or pool mining? Right now I'm giving it all to ejpool. Advice is appreciated -G If you mine 24/7 P2Pool |
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Its looking awesome.
Thanks |
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well you have to gamble whit this unknows
1 the hacker is a idiot ? he hacked stuff so he is not retarded, he understand bitcoin, but he understand economics ? the hacker sell all the btc
2 the hacker dont sell the btc now
3 how many ppl join the short bandwagon, how this will affect any drop in price
4 when Z will buy some btc
5 when other user will try to get cheap btc
I don't think the hacker(s) would sell right away as it'd be easier to catch them maybe? |
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