@ MPOE-PR, sense BFL's CEO's parole/probation officer knows about his activities from multiple sources, how come his parole officer hasn't violated his parole and sent him back to jail? Could it be because there is no violation of parole? MPOE-PR simple logic doesn't seam to be your strong suit, right? Maybe he's not in the picture of what they are dooing .....Not everybody is a finance or computer expert ... Words can do magic some times :/ Don't let the fact get in the way of your guessing. http://codinginmysleep.com/interview-with-sonny-vleisides/Sonny is an upper-level executive within the company
An "upper-level executive" would definitely be involved directly. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110868.0With regards to BFL, I'm proud to have played a role in it's start up and focus on the current products, but I am not a majority owner.
Clearly he is directly involved. He's even an owner, just not a "majority" owner. No one has more control over the company than it's owners. |
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ROFL. Another quality BFL update. Well, it's later this week and no engineer has told me anything. So that's my excuse for not having an update.
See Tom, this is how you string people along for month after month after month after month... |
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It's a pity that Tom didn't learn from the experts in announcing delays. You don't go and announce 2 months delays and vague ownership changes, it scares everyone off. You announce, relax, don't worry, it'll be soon, more info coming, free tablet with purchase, check out these flashy lights, yadda yadda yadda. That way 4+ months delays are more easily swallowed.
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I understand that BFL did not go this route, and went straight to full wafer production, first for the batch that had a "refraction issue", and then again with the "bullet run" that turned out to need "clock buffer adjustments". I understand that the third batch, now in production, comes to 100k chips or more.
If they really did have chips produced, where are they? Someone should go dumpster-diving. |
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This means they never had a working prototype. Never. Not even today. Their power estimates, hashrate, etc. are in no way verified. They don't even know for sure if their chips are working at all. It's all based on simulation.
They claimed to have sent something to the FCC for certification, so that must have been their only working prototype. Or else they lied about the FCC. Who knows? |
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Please ask someone them a simple question: do the BFL devices mine or not?
Just YES or NO. If yes - demo please.
BFL is demoing their old FGPA miners. They have no working ASICs. |
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And no, there was no pre-mining and it can be demonstrated with genesis block. I'm not sure what we ended up putting for that, maybe several things. maaku generated it so he must know. I was happy putting my little sentence there.
I'm curious. How is the 80% tax any different than a pre-mine? In the end, the "foundation" get a butt-load of coins. |
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What evidence do we see? We see a couple of missed deadlines, which would be consistent with both possibilities (hence the probabilities don't change; lying is still "low", messing up is still "high"). What, then, has "taken place" which dramatically increased the probability of them lying all along?
They either lied, or are incompetent. Take your pick. They claimed, in Oct, that they could still meet the Oct date. Not only did they miss Oct, they missed Nov, and Dec, and they're still not done missing dates. There was no way they could have met the claimed Oct date. |
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It's not Bitcoin itself which is unsafe. It's the fact that there are scammers everywhere preying on people because no one has really done anything to stop them. I talked to a guy last night who said he has more scammers trying to buy from him than legitimate customers. That is, to say the least, quite troubling...
Fraud is rampant across all payment methods, particularly internet-related ones like credit cards. Bitcoin is the only safe one. You can accept Bitcoins from any customer from anywhere in the world, and never have to worry about fraud. |
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Anyone want to add in trying to build the original Icarus bitstream to the discussion?  Was that ever resolved? I don't know. Sure, as soon as BFL releases the Single bitstream. |
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I think his point is that the GPL has held up well in some courts (such as in the US and Europe) but some quick Googling shows that this may not be the case in China.
Which is nothing more than a red herring meant to denigrate his competitors. The Avalon team has not violated GPL licenses in the past, and there is no evidence that they are going to start doing so. |
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The whole point is that even if Avalon decided to release a binary only version of CGMiner, what are the developers going to do about it? Nothing.. zip. Nada. There's nothing they can do realistically. That is the point, besides the one on the top of your and PuertoIdiot's head.
What are people going to do when BFL declares bankrupcy after having spent all the pre-order funds? Nada. There's nothing they can do realistically. |
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How is that "flailing against an adversary" exactly? Either it applies to the Avalon team and there's jack all anyone can/will do about it or it does not apply to the Avalon team so it doesn't matter. Or are you seriously trying to deny the fact that China has a piss poor record of honoring IP protection laws? Or... are you just being an apologist for the poor adherence to IP laws?
What "China" does is irrelevent. The Avalon team has a known history of releasing Open Source stuff. That's what matters. |
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Congrats to BFL for missing a 3rd month and delivering nothing.
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My biggest complaint about p2pool is the maintenance required to keep a p2pool node up and running. That said, the advantages to p2pool are enough to keep me on it.
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BFL shills mystify me. I don't understand the psychology.
Some of the "haters" mystify me. If they don't like the company or the product, then the usual course of action is to...not buy it. Why do they keep posting here? They seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel to find more reasons to hate the company and the customers. It's just weird. It's just so fun to watch Inaba fly off the handle. It is so fascinating that BFL keeps him employed. |
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BFL states that warranty for even end-of-life products is to be no less than 1 year from date of sale (this can be found in the FAQs). I believe that BFL has stated that a new product line is only when a re-design of the chip is done on a lower die size, so that is obviously a long time away from now. 65nm is still pretty new for a small company to make a custom chip on, and recouping the development costs will most likely take some time.
Once we stop manufacturing that particular product, we will not be able to warranty the product any longer, since we no longer have replacement stock.
I see nothing referring to changing die size. It's pretty clear. Once they stop manufacturing that model, all warranties revert to a 1 year warranty. It really is just a 1 year warranty. |
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Every other ASIC manufacturer has also had delays.
Avalon's initial ship date was "we will have all of the 300 units shipped before the end of February, 2013." By my calendar, that hasn't passed yet, so they have yet to have a shipping delay. |
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Poor CreativeX, all butt hurt because we are 2.5 months late in shipping and his pet bASIC all but run off with his pre-order money.
Interesting. Where did you find any evidence of bASIC running off with money? Or was that another flat out Inaba lie? He said "all but", implying that everything short of running off with the pre order money has happened. I refuse to buy into the unfathomable stupidity where "all but" means "all and especially including". So how has bASIC "all but run off" with the money? Is there any refund that hasn't been given? Is there any evidence whatsoever to claim "all but run off"? Or was it a flat out lie? |
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Poor CreativeX, all butt hurt because we are 2.5 months late in shipping and his pet bASIC all but run off with his pre-order money.
Interesting. Where did you find any evidence of bASIC running off with money? Or was that another flat out Inaba lie? |
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