I actually used to use them as it was very quick withdrawing USD to my Dwolla account and I would have them in my bank the next day always. (as opposed to Mtgox taking forever!) I don't cash out many BTC anyway but on the ocassion I wanted to it was quick and easy.
Just didn't know it was to this point and found it interesting.

Interesting, seems us yanks are pulling out of Interscamgo
Found this in my inbox today


Intersango support@intersango.com via sendgrid.info
3:19 PM


Intersango's USD market will stop trading 2012-10-14 at approximately midnight UTC.

At this time we ask that persons with USD funds either place a withdrawal request or purchase bitcoins.

To facilitate persons wishing to purchase bitcoins Intersango has placed 625 BTC up for sale at 12.1 USD.

Unfortunately the USD market is simply too small to justify it's ongoing operation.

Congrats to the BurtW pool are in order!

Good luck to everyone in November!

 

Congrats Litebit!

In for round two!

Tom said Friday that they were launching a new website and it would include some new specs for the boards and such.
So we should be seeing it pop up soon hopefully!

    

Looks like maybe someone is gone for the weekend offline maybe?

So where are the results posts?

 

So what's up with the Oct 5th  draw?


People losing interest here it seems.

Just wondering if we have reached the cut off point for people receiving their orders in the first batch shipping yet?

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Well back on topic it looks like we have moved out of speculation and on to posting stock photos of the new oven and pick-n-place machines that they have in another thread started so I will just link to it here.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=115521.0


       

Here's the one you want reeses


http://gizmodo.com/346802/acabions-750bhp-gtbo-motorcycle-blazes-at-340mph

@reeses

LMAO I love it

But I have my own fuel sipping version!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71042493/Acabion_Sunset_02_1920%20(2).jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71042493/Acabion_Sunset_05_1920%20(2).jpg


Only 300kph but 37mpg LOL!


       

Very good question!

    

revisiting some old posts

@DILLIGAF

You obviously didn't bother reading past the OP because if you had you would have seen in post #3 that I was looking at "what I would have mined" back during a week in 2010 which I spent in a "crunching contest" for Milkyway@Home so I distinctly remembered how many gpu's I had at that time.

@ rjk

Thanks for the link to that little tool, it's way cool!


To the electricity cost comments...I have everything running in my factory absorbed into the 480v industrial grid= zero costs really.

And wow, I have retired since originally posting this!


 

Yes, I meant all those out there that have yet to be introduced to BTC.

 Hell, I am a firm believer and I have not pre ordered anything and will not until I can see items shipping. I will buy as many as I need to keep things interesting. I don't care about the windfall profits that the first receivers will get( they deserve it for taking the risk)

I do believe that since asics are very "user friendly" (don't require much skill and no big power bills)the adoption rate could possibly skyrocket but then again maybe not, time will tell.

If I wasn't happily retired I would be very tempted to start an asic company and "do it right" i.e.
Hey people 100GH stand alone device/100W/$1499/ next day delivery available!

And that would be the first "announcement"

     

If you can accomplish all that with only a small investment of $8000 why don't you just do it yourself 

OH....wait   

I posted in your other thread so I guess I will post again here that I have the exact XFX fan Assy. you are looking for.

I have just one of these    http://img.techpowerup.org/100430/HPIM0570.jpg

Let me know if you want it.

I am located in CT, USA

@ kano
Yes, I was using the term "highspeed manufacturing" very loosely and agree fully that's Tom's level of communication is refreshing and informative.

As far as this market depth and where it will reach, well I am very curious to see how that plays out.
I am reasonably sure that the vast majority of people will not even consider buying an asic until someone has them as at least very close to "off the shelf" items.

And for the ROI/profitability issue people could compare it to parking money in a CD or savings account and looked at that way you are getting way better returns than what's available in the mainstream banking industry.(or a nice little revenue stream for the small players as supplemental income?)

As for the difficulty question, who knows where we will end up and that might just put many people off that are looking for some pie-in-the-sky unrealistic return based on how things have been up until now.

Thanks everyone for your comments!

     

Also looking back to see forward I wonder just how quickly we will move through the product iterations. Will we see ~18 month cycles like AMD/Nvidia have shown in the graphics cards sector? What will we do with each lesser generation?

 And what about future product integration? Seeing as these units will be basically plug-n-play, where will we imbed them in our lives?

How about having the main unit integrated into oh, say, our refrigerators? including, of course, the fast becoming ubiquitous wirelessly connected touch screen interfaces we(you) are running (y)our lives with these days.

But I am seriously wondering just how quickly these magic little money making(Pandoras) boxes will catch on in the general populace.

 SO WHEN ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO ORDER AN ASIC MINER AND RECEIVE IT LIKE WE ORDERED IT FROM NEWEGG?

     
 

What I was referring to by asic product life cycle was the time to next "upgrade" as we are just getting started with asics and assuming we are here for the long haul(I hope) then we will be seeing a march down the nanometer ladder with ever more powerful asics.