So a it says am looking for some help to maybe bring out a FPGA miner unit. I know theirs lots of talk going on with making them and wanted to start looking to develop my own.
I have seen a few sites to get hands on dev kits but where d you you get the chips from to put in and then configure?
I would like to get in contact with some good developers on here that know what their talking about and put a project together and setup a business.
Stop right there. The days of people buying FPGA miners are rapidly coming to an end. ASICs are available and cranking up the network difficulty. By the time you develop a new FPGA miner, they won't be profitable. If you want to build an FPGA miner as a hobby, that's cool. But forget about making a business out of it. |
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Well I have order 15X and I ordered and paid on September 23, 2012. DHL still has nothing for me. I did everything correctly, quickly and took the risk. Why don't I have mine?
It appears that it's more of a lottery when it comes to Avalon shipping. No official response from the "Avalon Team". Still waiting...
The most you'll get from them is "don't worry, it's on its way". Check with DHL every day. Eventually it'll show up there. |
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DHL finally received my package today, more than 2 months after "we shipped". Order #1xx. Seems the units were not shipped in order.
If you paid via bank wire, maybe they where shipped in order. I know that for example solarsilver paid via BTC and was one of the firsts to receive the units. BTC sent on 9/26 and order marked "Payment Completed" on 9/27. |
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DHL finally received my package today, more than 2 months after "we shipped". Order #1xx. Seems the units were not shipped in order.
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Why can't they have the assembly house put a few chips onto boards and test them that way? Make up a Jalapeno board to test a single chip at a time.
Because "the pcbs are completely finished" was another lie. |
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Every time it goes up another $10 I panic and sell about 1% of my holdings. It's been a very panicy month!
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Why do you think that? I mean ddos works with thousands and thousands of transactions. So if you have to pay 1 satoshi for sending one satoshi then you would have to pay 1BTC to make an attack of 50000000 transactions. Thats a bit costly attack.
Costly? Each block can hold about 2500 transactions. If you split a single bitcoin into 1 satoshi transactions, it would fill up every block for the next 4.6 months. So no, 1 satoshi as a minimum fee wouldn't work. |
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There is no proof BFL ran away or will run away with the customers money. Until there is such proof, one can go mad, rage, whatever, but can't really call them scammers. They are late, they gave false promises, they might actualy deliver no product at all - still not enough for scammer tag. Tom was slow in processing refunds, and he was given the Scammer tag. BFL is no better. |
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Butterfly Labs manufactures a line of high speed encryption processors for use in bitcoin mining, research, telecommunication and security applications. Labs Novo manufactures high speed encryption processors for use in bitcoin mining ONLY They are both scams. Bitcoin doesn't do "encryption". |
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Just as an unrelated side note, it would take approximately 24 hours to get new PCB's made if we had to redesign them for some reason. Depending on whatever would need to be done to the PCBs, the actual design work would take two or three days typically, unless it was a complete redesign and there would be basically no reason in the world to do that at this point. I don't know why anyone would think 4 - 6 weeks for a PCB redesign, that's just crazy. We have gone through many, many board redesigns since this process started, I've only pictured two or three of the 6 or 7 revisions we've had throughout the process. Basically, we could have a redesigned board ready to go by the time the chips arrived at the facility, that has never been a sticking point.
I just love how he criticizes other people's estimates, when every single estimate he's ever given has been missed by 1000% or more. |
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Cash for ASIC, bump
$30,000 It'll take an Avalon about 2 months to break even at that price at the current difficulty. Sounds like a fair price. |
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so... Why so much hate towards BFL from those who bought Avalon? I mean seriously. You should be happy and grateful for BFL not delivering in time. The longer they don't deliver, the more money for you.
I'd like to think I'm not the only miner who is concerned about the security of the blockchain. BFL has tied up millions of dollars for many months that could have been better spent securing the network. Their fake ship dates were also anti-competitive and more than one other project didn't move forward due to BFL's lies. Fortunately Avalon ignored BFL's lies and went ahead with their project. |
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No. I think you are trolling. My offer is still open, and I will evaluate a counter for reasonableness.
No trolling. Bitsyncom is welcome to come prove me wrong. I can look over the dozens of ignored PMs, emails, and support tickets. All he has to do is provide a tracking number. I give him full permission to post the tracking number so everyone can see if it is shipped and/or delivered. |
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Sure, send the 32 BTC to 1JK3Kz6MpuTZ7NKRtVejJhcHCtPtuJAJ1G, then as soon as I receive my Avalons I will tell you I shipped 1 to you. Then for the next 2 months I will ignore all emails and messages from you and you'll never receive a tracking number. At some point in the future you may or may not receive the unit. Since that's clearly not a scam by your own definition, do we have a deal?
That leaves me with 2 more Batch-1 Avalons. Anyone else want one under those same conditions?
I spent 20 years being angry. You can too, if you choose. I am offering a realistic way out. You might provide "excellent customer service" and find that others will outbid me. The address 1JK3Kz6MpuTZ7NKRtVejJhcHCtPtuJAJ1G shows as an unused address. This does not go toward proof of payment to Avalon. That is the address you can send your payment to me. If I provide proof of payment (the address I sent my payment to Avalon) do you then accept my terms? |
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My counter is $1,500, or BTC 32, for 1.
Offer valid for ~ 22 hours, noon CDT, Sun 2013-03-17, possibility of renewal.
Proof of payment to Avalon, sending and receiving addresses required.
Upon sale of all three units, you will cease all scammer claims regarding Batch #1.
I also believe they are worth more than $1,500. Since you think you have been scammed, I am offering you the possibility to receive your original money back, and I will bear the responsibility of my own judgement that Avalon is competent.
Sure, send the 32 BTC to 1JK3Kz6MpuTZ7NKRtVejJhcHCtPtuJAJ1G, then as soon as I receive my Avalons I will tell you I shipped 1 to you. Then for the next 2 months I will ignore all emails and messages from you and you'll never receive a tracking number. At some point in the future you may or may not receive the unit. Since that's clearly not a scam by your own definition, do we have a deal? That leaves me with 2 more Batch-1 Avalons. Anyone else want one under those same conditions? |
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Bitsyncom,
Where is my package? Order #200000112.
I think it's time to start tagging Bitsyncom with the scammer tag if he can't produce tracking numbers. It's been 2 months since they "shipped".
Many, many posts in this thread claim to have miners. BTCGuild reports many Avalons in pool, and their hashrate stats are consistent with that. It is important to be able to tag scammers. You are corrupting the meaning of the tag, and spreading FUD. The scammer tag will not be useful when it is needed if you misuse it. Tom paid out some refunds, and still received a scammer tag. Failing to deliver a paid-for product to a single person is worthy of the scammer tag. Look at my order number. Look at all the others received. Avalon is squarely in the scam category for me since there is no proof of my order being shipped. I couldn't care less how many others have been received. I have not received mine. If you cannot wait, send me a quote, and I will buy your order.
Sure, it's 2 months late, at $1000 per day. The price for my 3 Avalons is $60,000, or 1280 BTC if you prefer. |
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Bitsyncom,
Where is my package? Order #200000112.
I think it's time to start tagging Bitsyncom with the scammer tag if he can't produce tracking numbers. It's been 2 months since they "shipped".
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2 units delivered and running
Location: US
Order: 168
I was called by DHL a day in advance. Today, DHL reported the delivery as attempted/failed, which scared me as I would have to wait until Monday. When I went to the apartment office to ask them what happened, THE BOXES WERE THERE!
Bitsyncom, This is why you need to get to work and send out tracking numbers. People with later order numbers are receiving their units before earlier orders. Send out the tracking numbers to everyone, like you promised. |
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BFL is apparently about to ship. This sucks for batch 2 customers.
BFL has been "about to ship" for 5 months. |
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