Yes it is bullshit, because it's a false statement.

At least he didn't pull a major melt down like Xian... gotta give him props for that at the very least.

As far as exhausting the heat in the case, probably not the best idea, but not a fatal flaw if you have enough air flow in the case itself.  Sometimes you're constrained by the form factor on what you can do.  The best cooling solutions are often the most unwieldy and/or ugly.  Some people don't care about that, but a lot of people do... in fact, there's far more people that care about aesthetics than function, and if you don't believe me, take a look at Apple.  One of the richest companies out there (or the richest?), and it's all built on aesthetics as the primary motivator for their designs.

And... another ~1000 units shipped today.  1/3 of the entirety of KnC's shipment... in one day.

I never said I ignore the prattle on Bitcointalk, where did you hear that?  I rather enjoy watching the abject stupidity that people come up with on here.  It's a recreational activity for me... when I'm busy or my attention is otherwise engaged, I don't bother much with this forum.  That said, again, you post false information.  Your order, if you ordered in June 2012 was scheduled to ship in November of 2012 at best.  Your device was never a year or even "almost a year" late.

You can doubt the failure rate is less than 1% all you want, it doesn't change reality.  "Judging by the forums" are you serious?  Do you think the majority of our orders are from these forums?  Hahaha you are more delusional than I thought.   Why do you think I don't take this forum seriously?  The people on here are a tiny fraction of our order base.  We've shipped more than 20k units and had far less than 200 come back for RMA (I think we are somewhere around ~100 - 125 units at last count).  Contrary to what you'd have other believe with your misinformation, our products are rock solid, unlike some other products out there. 

I sleep just fine at night (when I'm not on an airplane anyway).  BFL has and is delivering a quality product.  Our only fault at this point is the fact that we are delayed.  Yes, we missed our power targets and we offered full refunds because of that.  We also offered a free 50% hashrate bump.  Yes, it's a big fault, missing the shipping date and I have apologized for it numerous times.  There's a lot of things we would have done differently had we known what we know now.  But the simple fact of the matter is, we were the first into this space and because we had the most advanced technology, it cost us a lot of time dealing with the consequences of that.  In retrospect, it was not the way to go, but what's done is done and there you have it.  You can keep harping on the past, if it makes you feel better.  Don't order from us in the future if you don't like us or trust us, that's what I would do in your shoes if I was as bent out of shape as some of the people here.  Other than that, there's not much else to say.

Huh, Avalon, really?  Last I checked, they had imploded.  Bitfury shows out of stock on all products.  ASICminer was order and wait last time I looked, but perhaps that's changed, I don't keep up with them much.  Please provide links otherwise?


There are no orders being shipped that were ordered a year ago, please stop spreading false information.  Our failure rate on hardware is less than 1%, much better than industry average, so again, your argument is invalid.  

Sorry, but if you consider 400 - 1000+ units shipped per day in this industry to be "few devices" you need to have your head examined.

Can you point to a vendor that's doing number 3 now?  Are you seriously complaining that because demand is exceeding supply, it is somehow the vendors fault?

As for 4, I have no idea what you are talking about. BFL doesn't have any 110nm products and again, are you seriously complaining about the fact that people are paying money for a given product and the vendor charges what people will pay... but it's "overpriced" even though people are paying it?  If it was overpriced, people wouldn't buy it - that is simple economics.  If you think it's over priced, don't buy it.  The majority of the market disagrees with you, so that makes you the one that is incorrect. 

So basically points 3 and 4 are invalid and you have proven my point.

Oh really?  As one of the few shipping ASIC vendors, I think that makes me qualified to speak on the subject, unlike you.  What have you done to bring a new product to the market from scratch?  Oh that's right... nothing at all.

What changes have been made for ASICs?  Changelog wasn't updated?

Yeah, the web server has been having some issues and I found the root cause this morning... so it should be more stable now.  All stats should be back processing and catching up.  The DGM score got a bit screwed up, but it is catching up at the moment as well and should be back to normal within another few blocks.

People are finding out it's not as easy to create a brand new product as they would have you believe, that's what's happening.  Even the people using others IP can't bring products to market (Look at Bicknellski's failed ventures) with all of the parts already laid out for them, much less create anything from scratch.

Surprise!  It actually requires skill, commitment and dedication to create a new product and bring it to market.

To take your car analogy further, the dealer offered to refund your purchase price up until the time they actually started to manufacture your car.  So... if you "grin an bear it" you did it of your own volition, since you could easily have walked away at any time. Yes, BFL was late.  I've apologized for that numerous times. But the fact of the matter is, people could have elected to get a refund at any time up until we started to manufacture products in bulk and started to spend the pre-order money on product manufacturing.


You neglected to mention the fact that nothing illegal has transpired, either... but, we all know you can't tell the truth and are a consumate liar and troll, so that's not really surprising that you'd leave a relevant fact like that out.

It's very easy. BFL has delivered more than 20k mining devices and have more to go.  Bitfury has not delivered any significant quantity of devices, nor has Avalon.  ASICminer is the only one that has delivered any sort of significant quantity of devices at this point, and all of those are Block Eruptors, which are basically meaningless.  I wasn't aware KNC was up to 3000 units shipped, is that figure accurate?  Fairly impressive but it's only 3000 units.

As far as hashrate goes, I'd say at least 50% of the the hashrate on the network is currently powered by BFL chips, but I haven't actually added it up lately, so I may be incorrect about that.


  

You know.. that or the fact that BFL is actually delivering product and has delivered more product than everyone else combined several times over.  Yeah... one or the other.  Gosh I wonder which one.

Minimum diff is 10, yes.  Minimum payout hasn't been changed anytime recently I don't think... at least I can't recall changing it?

Crumbs is one of the few intelligent and rational people to post on this forum, it's no wonder some people don't like him.

Hit return... that >>> prompt is your console.


Means nobody is connected to your pool.

Yes!  More promises!  Irrationality and empty threats are the lifeblood of Bitcointalk.  Without them, the forum would wither!

Condo fee is 900 Euro per month?  What the hell do they do for that kind of money?  So this apartment is rented at a loss?  How does that end up working out for the current owner?

I'm kind of perplexed about this ... can you try connecting to US3 as your primary pool and see if you have the same behavior?