The mondohub 28's can't power more than 7-8 Erupter USB's. Personally verified this.

 *Note to self: Buy a multimeter next time he passes a Fry's Electronics*

 In which reality ? This is not traditionally how investments work.

I came across this issue today while restarting one of my blades. Two chips show up marked as "xx" when I had the blade defaulting to high clock mode.

If I have it defaulting to low clock mode, it comes up fine with O's across the board, and then I can toggle it to High clock speed and get it hashing closer to 13GH/s.

Emailed friedcat to report the issue/troubleshooting and we'll see how it gets resolved.

Presently running two blades off a Corsair 1200 (total overkill) on two separate rails, so I definitely know it's not a power problem. Also had the same problem when I had it plugged in to a Corsair 650

Filling out my order now for assembly and testing of 18 units. I was very dismayed to see my password shot back to me in cleartext in the "Welcome to your account" email

I might suggest not doing that as a matter of good security practice.

EDIT: BOING! Your order has been received. Thank you for your purchase! Your order # is: 100000015.

 I'm curious about this myself. Can't seem to find a 10 port USB 2.0 hub capable of powering enough of these guys

The news is it's going to be a while before we hear more news of this in-development project.

That is certainly a reasonable bet to make. However, I think we are in for a bit of a wait before Blades become available again. With the redesign taking place, my gut is telling me we don't see anything available for sale/shipping before mid August.

Nice to start seeing more of these in the wild.

 I have 18 K16's on order through Steamboat's efforts. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make other than more competition entering Bitcoin ASIC-space is a good thing. I would agree with you.

Confirming receipt of test email. Cheers !

 While I completely understand your irritation with the recent pricing adjustment (I share your frustration), I don't believe this is a fair comparison to make, all things considered.

I've got a feeling we're going to see some interesting K16 cooling solutions being created to get more than 4.5GHs out of each unit...

Nothing has been announced yet.

 This is an irritating price-correction in such a short amount of time indeed. As much as I'm tempted to purchase another 50 of these, I just can't rationalize it given the possibility they may be priced at 0.50 BTC each next month  

Holy crap. Very nice work !

 Considering the cost of a single Apache helicopter is in the ballpark of $20M USD, I think it would be reasonable to assume that number is a rounding error for black budget projects, and within the range of costs involved to attempt a 51% attack Bitcoin.

 Bitcoin mining, involving the SHA256 algorithm which was published by the NIST, is not rocket science.

 I would estimate a fraction of a percentage point of USA black-ops funding would be enough to design and pay for enough custom ASIC processing to own Bitcoin if they wanted to.

 I would guess the cost of a single military attack helicopter would be enough to accomplish this task.

 ... and what does it say about those of us that have disposable Bitcoins, and are thinking of "doubling down" by buying another 50 to add to our farms.

Goddamnit.

*Desk. Applies directly to the forehead*