Thanks for the clarification, and I suppose I should sheepishly apologize for throwing up the red flag.

 Good luck with your venture. Would love to have the opportunity to own one of your 400gH/s monsters once they are realized.

Not sure about the topic, but it seems that AM hardware purchases have an ROI after ~1 year, including difficulty increases. Avalon batch 1 adopters have definitely ROI'd and I imagine early batch 2 owners are breaking even about now.

How is this any different, really, than the debate from "CPU's are dead" to "GPU's are dead" and now "First gen ASIC's are dead" ?

Many GPU's have already paid for themselves several times over and are still turning a profit even after factoring electrical costs.

I don't know about you, but with the relatively negligible electrical costs with running my AM gear, I fully expect to still be running gen 1 hardware in 2014, in addition to whatever gen 2 hardware I've added to my farm.

 So I guess you reserved the right to not handle refunds anymore, huh ?

Is Bob Smith really his name ?! The only thing that would be a bigger red flag is if he signed his name John Doe...

I'd definitely be down for an order of another 20 through the group-buy. Will be looking forward to ordering another 50 additionally through FC @ 0.1 if/when this becomes official.

AFAIK, mining remains unaffected. It's just the web access that has outages.

Would greatly appreciate the Doctor chiming in to give us an official answer.

I'm not saying it's a Ponzi scheme, but it is curious how there are certain characteristics that are similar. Specifically, how Ponzi's fail to honor commitments (in this case, refunds) just prior to their downfall.

From Wikipedia...

Since the scheme requires a continual stream of investments to fund higher returns, once investment slows down, the scheme collapses as the promoter starts having problems paying the promised returns (the higher the returns, the greater the risk of the Ponzi scheme collapsing). Such liquidity crises often trigger panics, as more people start asking for their money, similar to a bank run.



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 The insults add a nice tangy zip and zest to the shit-sandwich customers have been forced to eat since October 2012.

 Having a refund forced on me in the past, when customers desiring refunds now are incapable of receiving one is some delicious irony.

 Again, as all the cool kids on the official BFL forums suggest, you might wish to "Pull a Xian" in an attempt to have your orders refunded.

 My posting history should serve as a roadmap. Don't forget to add "a bag of dicks" for extra flavor somewhere in your request for a refund.

 Should look more like this  



Seems you have a faulty unit

EDIT: Having said that, you really should check the lane voltage with a multimeter before escalating with friedcat.

Does it properly hash @ 10GH/s in low speed ? If so, it means all the lane voltages are tuned too low to support High clock speed, which explains the XX's across the board.

 You are obviously new here...

 It's telling and somewhat amusing, that so many people involved with America's Favorite Bitcoin Company lack any sense of irony or meta-awareness.

I am absolutely turgid at the thought of being able to buy 70 of these guys @ 0.1BTC each... Oh please let it be so.

 I recognize a game of cat-and-mouse develops. Bans/Shadowbans work well on Reddit with it's active moderators, is all I'm trying to say.

 I agree it is not a simple technical issue to resolve, but in the case of these forums, the alt would have to get out of newbie jail (or spam doxx in the newbie sub), and expend some effort to be able to post in other areas.

 Ultimately, this debate falls into the sphere of ethics now, and is probably beyond the scope of this thread.

 Point is, given the choice of being active in a community that supports doxxing vs one that doesn't, I think most would gravitate to one that takes safety of it's users into consideration.

By sending a message that doxxing is not acceptable behavior, will have the offending posts deleted, and the posters' account banned.

 I would humbly suggest that management take a cue from Reddit's "ban for doxxing" policies.

 While I understand that once information has been posted it's near impossible to have it removed from all archives, the larger issue is management allowing such a culture to exist (where doxxing is allowed), and make no effort to be good shepherds of their community by trying to look after their flock.

 "Just because someone posts dox doesn't mean it should stay up" is the argument I'm trying to make.

 Thought Exercise: If all of the moderators personal information were to be posted, would that be acceptable or would that be deleted ?

 Holy semantics, Batman ! That's quite the noodle-baker.

Oof. Very dangerous attitude to have IMO.

I'm not sure that I can be a part of any community that condones doxxing if this is an official management stance

Perhaps it's time I find another hobby/community.

FTFY.

 More directed towards management of this site. As the subject asks, is it acceptable behavior on these forums to allow doxxing of private identities ? Specifically, people who have not made their first and last name or other identifying information available in a public posting.

 I would even go further stating that posting of information on publicly known personas should be verboten, but the more concerning question is one of outing private identities as acceptable behavior.

 Links / References please ?