Not only does the author show very little understanding of Bitcoin he also shows very little understanding of the operations of central banks and also of communism. Suffice to say to say that the current manipulation of the money supply presumably for the public good by central banks with the blessing of the state has way much in common with communism than a currency who value is solely set by the market.

Central planning is at the core of communism and so is at the core of the operations of central banks.

So for now I could use any pool I want?

Do you recommend a certain pool? What's your opinion about eligius? Easy setup and no fees, sounds good to me.

I tried to think of other options, but, if this dosent work out, Ill just have to pawn them (sell to a dealer or something) I wanted to avoid that first by trying to sell on here. I can only talk to the buyer, show who I am.... So, if theres a buyer, great, if not, I tried.

cointerra's chip - at 500 Gh was never going to be for the low end miner.  for that, they are best served buying hashes from the aftermarket (cloud hashing etc) who buy big systems and break off the gh's into smaller chunks and sell to the entry level market.

it makes sense to put multiple chips in a box (two in a 1TH and even better.. 4 chips in the 2TH box) - and it seems to get better economies of scale by increasing the amount of chips in a box - i.e.: to be able to spread out the required component costs of the box (non asic)... e.g. the box itself, power supplies, dc/dc converters, the controller, fans, cooling systems etc... thus the cost difference between a 1 TH box and a 2TH box isn't so drastic..   so the way to bring the cost down $/GH is to cram as much hashing power in each box as possible and realise economies of scale to bring the price down for the customers.

asic companies selling less powerful chips can offer smaller systems and will operate in a different part of the market... but cointerras chips are probably best used in bigger systems to gain their max efficiency benefits.   Also, when space is at a premium (e.g. rented space in a data centre), packing more GH's per U makes a difference.   Cointerra's 2 TH in 4U is quite dense and efficient from a packaging point of view and will probably be lower running cost as well as lower GH cost... by comparison KnC is 0.55 GH in 4U, and Hashfast is 1.2 TH in 4U.

And anyway - assuming you ARE going to be mining and not sit it out...  with the network hash rate where its heading you may need terahashes not gigahashes to make a dent.

-- Jez

I live in Austria (Europe) and ordered my Jalapeno in March 2013. The BFL Jody blog tells that devices from May 2013 are already being shipped, I however am still waiting. My tracking information ends up in an Australian post office (1). I read also, that China shipments end up in Canada (2) and people get wrong devices or missing parts (3) too.

Butterflylabs did not - since 5 days - respond to my emails. And Paypal stopped buyer protection for BFL orders - opening a dispute for BFL orders is not allowed, it results only in an email to BFL.

I am really pissed, BFL doesn't seem to be a scam, but it looks like BFL orders have a serious risc attached.

Yes I know, Unfortunately it is the way it has to be. It's going to be hard to trust anyone here I suppose. Does not matter who it is, Im just doing what I can to stay afloat.
 So, if someone is interested, and to my terms then great... if not, then it's ok, wasn't meant to be.

~ Thanks

you've got essentially no trade history.

if you change your mind and want the bitcoin let me know.

looking for gold/silver but not when i have to trust someone with 1/100th the trade history as myself

Do you already have your own pool up and running?