I already offered: I'm going to go ahead and extend this offer now: Josh, if you feel like BFL is is trouble and you're not able to make the chips/boards/miners work, please, let me come and help you guys. I can contribute quite a variety of technical and nontechnical skills. My price is only one Single per week worked. (Obviously if the project fails I lose too and get nothing.) I will sign NDAs.
I made this same offer to Tom, but he did not accept. Don't go out like that.
I have not yet received a response. I do not doubt you would be a great asset. But...do you really think you can turn this company around? We would need to clone you and replace every position available for it to work... |
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With the exchange rate and increasing difficulty, you could have a shot at getting Slush to lower the minimum threshold. How much do you have in there anyway and how long would it take you to mine to 0.05?
ive been mining at 120mhash/s for 3 days and am at unconfirmed .03 so not that long to get to .05 if you leave it crunching, still a little shocked at some of these quick rounds im guessing asic is coming into play  I am an ASIC and I've seen my rewards shrink by quite a bit. The current Pool GH/s is being shared among many more users than normal. At the current rate I am only seeing about .25 BTC per hour. Edit: Currently using a difficulty setting of 512. is it not more profitable to solo at this point with an asic? There is a way, but I don't have the technical knowledge to implement it at the moment. I am busy writing automation scripts that will garner more Bitcoins via trading than by using my ASIC miner. I just finished the first few rounds of testing and the results are promising. I expect that I should be able to supplement the BTC gain/loss due to increasing difficulty. |
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With the exchange rate and increasing difficulty, you could have a shot at getting Slush to lower the minimum threshold. How much do you have in there anyway and how long would it take you to mine to 0.05?
ive been mining at 120mhash/s for 3 days and am at unconfirmed .03 so not that long to get to .05 if you leave it crunching, still a little shocked at some of these quick rounds im guessing asic is coming into play I am an ASIC and I've seen my rewards shrink by quite a bit. The current Pool GH/s is being shared among many more users than normal. At the current rate I am only seeing about .25 BTC per hour. Edit: Currently using a difficulty setting of 512. Pool hashrate doesn't matter. Network difficulty does. Difficulty increased about a week ago by ~ 14% - was your percentage drop in earnings about the same? It is hard to say without using a calculator. I would say before today it was generally .47 to .41 per block. Each block took about 1.5 to 1 hour to solve on Slush Pool. Some blocks take longer than others so it's pretty hard to say. The graphs say I was earning about 7BTC on March the 22nd (or thereabouts) and right now it is between 4.3~to~6 BTC per day. It seems to largely depend on pool luck if I understood correctly. The Avalon ASIC is my first entry into BTC mining. I am a newbie. I just noticed the stats on one page say that the miner has solved 4 blocks since I started. |
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With the exchange rate and increasing difficulty, you could have a shot at getting Slush to lower the minimum threshold. How much do you have in there anyway and how long would it take you to mine to 0.05?
ive been mining at 120mhash/s for 3 days and am at unconfirmed .03 so not that long to get to .05 if you leave it crunching, still a little shocked at some of these quick rounds im guessing asic is coming into play I am an ASIC and I've seen my rewards shrink by quite a bit. The current Pool GH/s is being shared among many more users than normal. At the current rate I am only seeing about .25 BTC per hour. Edit: Currently using a difficulty setting of 512. |
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Aseras, Please let us know when this issue is fixed. |
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April 9th and no one else has "received" a BFL ASIC???
Luke, what are we to think? As far as I'm aware, BFL is waiting until a hardware revision is done to improve power usage before delivering any more. I want the rest of my order just as much as anyone else  Why are you having it shipped to you? Don't you want it with BFL or hosted by Josh? |
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you do not see a problem with 6 month from now? Did I say that? Jesus christ, stop assuming I believe everything BFL ever said just because I think their power hungry shitty ASICs are real. You think or do you know? Slip of the tongue. |
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BFL has been doing business in Leawood, Kansas for many months now. ...Not that I believe they aren't scamming everyone. This is a fact. They are in a new remodeled location of which as of to this day a permit was NEVER filed to do all the extensive changes that has been documented on both forums. I guess we could thank them for fucking their beloved local economy by not paying the fee, but with the money saved they'll be able to honor the $140,000 USD, and climbing since it's pegged to BTC, to charity much easier. |
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Donating 1000 BTC from preorder BTC is somewhat of a charity  Now valued at 168,000USD |
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the default is 282, and hashrate is 60G.
Does anyone tried to set it to 300?
I tried mine at 300 for about 20 minutes. The hash rate and the shares submitted didn't change. So I put it back to 282. My unit was in a cold room, 0 C. The thing is running so well that I am loath to mess with it. I have a better spot to put it but I don't want to turn it off. lol I'm in the same situation. I think a good investment would be to put it on a UPS. I got my eyes on a 1500VA unit - should be more than enough juice to keep it mining during brief power outages. I looked into this last week. Though the 1500VA (by APC) are only rated for 6 minutes operation with a standalone Avalon unit. To be honest, you'd need more juice than that just to keep it going while the power goes out. Average power outage is about 2 hours over here. 1500VA is definitely not a lot. |
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Someone else mentioned on a different thread (can't remember which one) that if you set the clock to 300 the hashrate bounces all over the place from 60 to 80 GH/s. Can anyone else confirm this wild fluctuation in hashing rate and what would be the average hashrate for an Avalon clocked at 300?
I can confirm this is the case. The Hashrate bounces all over the place, from 54GH/s to 80+. Average is about 72~74. Consider though that the average is usually also all over the place. |
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Says one low post count account user to the other low count account....
Funny how all the low count posters are fine with everything done by BFL. How does that work? Are they employees trying to change the way things appear at Bitcointalk?
Nah....couldn't be....
Puerto, I have about 40 posts and none of them are even remotely pro-BFL. You are letting your paranoia get the better of you. I realize that you despise Josh Zerlan, and I don't blame you. It's quite clear that he is a piece of garbage and has made it personal with you. Try not to go off the deep end though. The reason I said that the other poster is being treated too harshly in the thread is that I believe he is entitled to his opinion. BFL has many paying customers. To assume that a random poster is a paid shill because he believes BFL will deliver is just silly. You don't have to agree with his opinion (as I don't), but attacking him as a liar is a little much. There's no reason to believe he is anything but the typical BFL customer. They really do exist, as I am sure you must know. Alright. Sorry about the attitude I have given you. You should see the back slapping and congratulations they have over at the BFL forums. I think the entire board is now taken over by socks with barely a post. Frankly I don't know how someone can order via the BFL website and not gather the impression that something is massively wrong. If I were them, just hearing about the backlog 9 months long....would take me to the refund window in a jiffy. |
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No need to support BFL when they reduce the hash rate on their rigs and jacked up the price on them. Never trust them anyway since only Avalon delivered. Everybody else who is selling ASICs like BFL are liars and trolls.
I think if you plug in their units you will increase your hashrate. The only problem is that you house may become ashes. |
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It's almost looking like Tom should have just stayed the course with bASIC. Well, unless he was incapable of pulling it off altogether.
At least he was right that BFL probably wouldn't ship in March. And maybe right to question the power efficiency BFL was claiming.
With the higher pricing and reduced performance, any asic that comes along will easier to consider. Well, other than concern for it being a fiasco like bASIC, or a possibly scam.
Someone ought to open a bet (at some place other than BetsOfBitcoin) on whether Avalon will ship Gen2 before BFL ships....anything. |
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 Somebody explain to me how an item not yet built can be out of stock. It was [probably] uneconomical and impossible to build for the quoted price. 10kilowatts...guess how many power supplies that will take....yikes. |
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And I think this is exactly what BFL intended. Why ask for a refund when you can sell your "more valuable" pre-order to the greater fool? Indeed. It is almost like their perpetual promise to ship is now multiplying. Making new promises through that of customers. Promising a device that they themselves don't believe may ever come (therefore selling it). Someone has got to get squeezed HARD so that BFL customers can get their cash.... one way or the other. In this case, find the dumbest newbie and retell them the same falsehoods that BFL told you. It will work, I promise*. *(Potency may wane after 9 months of waiting) --------------------------- Someone should contact eBay to have them close down a shitload of accounts. |
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Wow man. Their customer service manager wrote a blog about it on their forums and they have been answering questions there.
I would say they are communicating with their customers. Your incorrect statements are astounding.
I would say you don't know the history and appear to be pretty gullible. Those of us who've been watching this shit storm since June 2012 know better, which, you do not. +1 Sadly, BFL loves preying on the new guys. Weird. Back in September, it was ONLY the newbies that was complaining and calling them scammers. Now those newbies all have 1000+ post counts (usually bashing BFL), and suddenly their word is God. @ Crazy It's not that our word is god. It's that "We" have been here a long time and seen all the antics at BFL. As a vendor they never came through. It is nice to know that after 170+ days of failure, your still saying you have confidence in them. I understand. ------------------------- If I ask any of the new (low post accounts) guys/gals up above about any manner of hijinks and history at BFL....do you think they will know what I am even talking about? If I ask them to recount how things went over the last few months from any casual observers point of view....what do you think their response will be? If they do indeed know this....and they still have hope....then I have a bridge on sale that will be a great investment for them. It runs right between where two buildings are right now. It hasn't been built yet, nor have the plans been drawn up as a draft. But I assure you, it will someday be built. Eventually... Therefore I am opening up an opportunity to own a part of this money making bridge. Please, pre-order now. |
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!) Customers will seemingly be sent several units to comprise a high GH/s purchase. I am sure this will take a large notch out of BFL's profit margin.
Then again, who cares, they have new suckers...I mean customers to take up the slack at double the price.
!) The funniest punchline of the year....BFL downgrades their hardware offering through failed and over extended promises.
Avalon, continues to ship 66Gh/s through 80Gh/s systems to it's customers.
Will BFL ever catch up? Should you invest in their learning curve? I guess it's up to you!
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Wheres Josh and his rebuttals? I miss Josh the troller.
Do not invoke his name. And if you are unwise enough to do so, quickly invoke the Lord and he will flee. ----------------------- So an update for those that are like me and stopped following BFL for a while as a prospective vendor. !) BFL has raised the price of their product from $1,399 to $2,495 (or thereabouts). !) They haven't delivered any [finished] units yet. !) They are wildly "way over" their power specification. Gladfully you don't see Josh trolling the forums about how power saving going "poof" means that they will be as "unprofitable" as Avalon per month. I am sure he will hide that face from his customers....or just not bring it up anymore as a selling point. Of course "electrical efficiency", that was just a joke and no longer applies. !) Their devices are hotter than a potato it appears. Though I am not totally sure since Josh/BFL and physics are an estranged couple. !) The new products are less than 60GH/s (now at 50 or less) but cost way more....did I mention they haven't yet shipped? (New capitol injection?) !) Some more customers are bailing from way back in the day. New customers, are figuring out there are issues with the product...hopefully they are staying away. !) Oh, the voucher program. BFL fucks it's users once again (I think?). They gave early orders (from way back in June 2012) 25% off in a future voucher program that is only valid for 60 days after shipping products. (yet to be realized) But...now that BFL has doubled their price...the voucher is seemingly useless. Hah. Very funny BFL. |
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