Or, holy shit, my demo unit stopped working!

I think those shipments are bound for reviewers. Gotta have lots of hype to sell that lemonade.

Doh!

Fantastic, hope this helps in solving blocks quickly and downsizing net traffic.

I have the same issue as well.

Before the attack I had 3.8 awaiting confirmation with .2 (or thereabout) confirmed.
Looking at the statistics I should have another 6 BTC on top of that. (I am still trying to work out the right amount via Excel)

Let me get a hang of the BitCoin/LTC Trading market and I will give you and Slush 6 BTC each. I prefer to garner new coins by trading rather than mining.

I have been running an Avalon.

I disabled my wallet payments to make sure no money was going out. I am short by about 6+ BTC.

Looks like there are alot of shares missing during the blackout. I left it running for an entire day. I guess those shares are (for now) lost for the time being.

Edit: No, the amounts during the blackout seem to be there. I guess I will just have to wait and see if the server with the wallet payments catches up?

(By the way, what do you guys get per block on average?)

Before the blackout.


Immediately after the blackout.

Your thinking about this backwards.

Think of it as BFL having to "actually ship" the products people pay for (after an unreasonably long delay).

If you think about it that way, there is no problem. If you also think about it...BFL has said they are a week (ish) from shipping en mass. If that is so, there aren't going to be any "mass cancellations", just mass shipping.

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But if you are ok with the current status quo, simply keep thinking negatively. Last I checked, some customers are getting (pre-production) hardware. That is a bonus. BFL just needed a candle to be lit under their proverbial bottom.

By the way,

Since I have my own "ideas" and "conspiracy" theories. I am going to say this prediction. That BFL won't tell anyone who they have to ship to, what order number it may be, or even acknowledge that these folks have gotten their products. (and I am not talking about developers)

Why?

Because then people would want to know what probably "triggered it" and how to skip the queue...pronto~!

People are already thinking this on the BFL forum (in the blogs). So it won't be long before BFL starts avoiding the questions that Jalapeno customers will want to know the most about.

"If you ship some persons Jalapeno before mine...why did that happen exactly? Paypal "forced" you to do this? Then how do I force Paypal to force you to ship mine now? etc."

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Personally, I am waiting for the geniuses at BFL forums to figure out that alot of them paid through another Payment Processor called BitPay. Which means they are probably afforded protections like that of Paypal*. With the folks of BitPay being capable of forcing BFL to do pretty much the same things.

It's kind of common sense. Lets hope the BFL forums figure this out.

*Well one hopes BitPay affords their customers actual protection! (Or even enforces "standards" on their merchants)

<Cough> Jody, jody jody.

I somehow don't think PayPal is going to be comforted (in any way!) by you shipping out a few dozen orders...after almost a year...out of 10,000+ orders.

I "think" what happened is people read my previous postings and started opening disputes. That led to issues with Paypal investigating...or at least I'd think it would. Though Jody says this is not the case....yeah sure.

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I know one merchant account I had required me to post a ton of Shipping numbers as a standard security check. I didn't do anything particularly wrong though, it was just a normal thing. In this case though, the day after Josh and I had a few spaz words...makes me think it is not a coincidence.

Paypal is unlikely to solicit you for orders made 7+ months ago. Paypal knows (just as any merchant account company knows) that after 90+ days, the numbers get reused for different customers. Be it USPS, UPS, or Fedex.

I "speculate" that the more likely scenario is that Paypal got a wiff that something was amiss and they asked for the last 90 days worth of shipping numbers. Not by "types of product" I would think. That is something that seems in-congruent and illogical to me for Paypal to do. They (and their insurance) are on the hook for millions if BFL does anything odd or out of character with their merchant account.

(My speculative hypothesis is the following:)
More than likely a couple of customers complained to Paypal after reading Josh and I going "spastic" about Paypal refunds. Paypal then conducts "an audit" of their merchant account. BFL has to scramble to come up with tons of tracking numbers to comply with the request.

Honestly though, I wouldn't know how they could explain that their tracking numbers are pretty damn new compared to the order date. I highly doubt they will pass the audit for that reason alone. (assuming there is an audit...which there appears to be).

If they fail to produce, things can only get worse as Paypal will likely freeze the account and refund every customer transaction at once. Which will likely cause Bank issues at BFL's end.

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Then again, what do I know? You'd probably be better off listening to Jody's version of events. I am sure her account of events are going to be mighty consistent and logical....right?   (Be less vague Jody!)

By the way, this is a duplicate thread, if anyone wants to see the original announcement:


BFL: Chips have shipped, on their way to US

Hmm,

About .25BTC per day. (@ Current difficulty, which will only last about 5 more days)

It is a good thing we have beta testers that allow folks to wait until these are "stable builds". The Firmware seems to be improving quite a bit.

@ BitSyncom

Any chance the Corsair power supply can be added to the Wiki as a viable solution?

As far as I am aware, no. Some pools might do that, but this one does not seem to do that.

When I got blocks the rewards remained the same.

Hi, is there any [planned] future support for share difficulty that is greater than 32?

I know, it's just that it sucks if it did turn out that way. I'd prefer it he took my portion and put it towards the pool infrastructure to make it robust for the next few months.

Or put it towards buying expensive services that make it very hard for an attacker to succeed. That I wouldn't mind. Though as others have said, it is not necessarily a money problem. It is very hard to combat DDOS without seriously scaling like crazy.

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Either way, I don't think it really needs to be argued that Slush is doing his best to get things going again. Just keep in mind that in deciding to stick with his pool and getting the profits of a GPU miner for 2 days really hits home when the next difficulty change continues to come ever closer.

I hope we don't get paid out without PPS because it would [truly] suck to earn what a GPU card owner earns for the last two days of delivered work. I put out about 1000 times more work than the average person using a medium range [single] GPU card.

Just on the day of the outage I discovered 2 blocks. (Got a screen cap of it too)

I am the last person in a circle to be "the greedy type" but lets hope some metrics or thoughts are put into play when dispersing funds. Like one Mod mentioned in the Custom Hardware Mining board, I pay out more in fees than the average GPU owner earns in a day (possibly even in a month if I am not mistaken). Or at least that is what the Mod hinted at when they ran the numbers against various fee sizes.

Edit: Anyway, it really takes the wind out of my sails just hearing about that.

I know VIP means "Very Important Person", but what/who are considered VIP at Slush's pool?

Do they have a different address than stratum.bitcoin.cz?

Which is why I asked...(I am ASIC miner so I have a "significant-ish" sum)