Sp0tter:

I am not showing photo/video of my prototype for the same reason BFL has not announced they have a prototype. If it is any consolation to you, such video could be easily faked. When I have a finalized production model I will display photos on this forum and on my web site just like I did with the MMQ.

AmDD:

we will continue to support the ModMiner quad as long as people still use them. We are ready to bring the TLM bitstream to the MMQ but are waiting on a response from eldentyrel to move forward with it.

wow, the response for this is bigger than I thought it would be, plus I have been dropping hints around the forum for months and talking to a lot of people about this so I did not realize it would be that big of a surprise

lets just drop the thing with giga - but believe me if you have been through what I have been through with him - you would react the exact same way.

I will get to Pm's and email inquiries as soon as I can, getting a lot of questions.

the TRUTH is this.

Gigavps and I have been arguing since spring of last year, he has gone out of his way to make me look bad time and time again - he can say whatever he wants but he knows the truth. He does not like me and he knows it.

The other truth is there are several people on this forum that have known I have been working on an ASIC Bitcoin mining device as far back as May or June...

I have to go get dinner for the kids, the situation is pretty straight forward.

I manufacture and sell Bitcoin Mining devices, we believe we have a prototype that will compete with BFL, we are taking pre-orders on what will become our new production model and flag ship product, if for whatever reason you think I am making this up please just don't buy it.

Thank you,

bbl
-Tom

I am sorry for the controversy.

anyways here are some more specific details for those who are interested on how BTCFPGA produced our first 4th gen prototype

Like the ModMiner quad I leased the design from someone else. Also like the ModMiner quad this project is being partially funded by lenders in the Bitcointalk lending syndicate. We contracted a well known overseas company to provide us with a SHA256 hashing core that could be applied to Bitcoin mining, this company is one of the top design firms in the world when it comes to SHA256 IP cores. We leased what is called an RTL design which allows us to use any target ASIC process technology of our choice, once we had the core design we spent some money to have some made (this took some time) and turned those over to the hardware development team. We have two guys which I have no problem admitting are much smarter than I am who have come up with a working development board using multiple instances of the hashing core I indicated above. They have a very very (did I mention very?) primitive hacked together mining program that is being used to test, testing has been going on for about 2 weeks now with positive enough results that encouraged me to go public with our next generation of Bitcoin mining product. The hardware guys are still working on finalizing the pcb board design and there is a lot of firmware and software work that needs to be completed.

A lot of people are asking about specific details about the chips and also about power usage, and the only reason I am at all reluctant to answer these questions is because I dont want to say something now and be wrong about or have it change.

I will ask my hardware guys to make a detailed spec sheet of the chip and of estimated power draw from the production board and I will post it as soon as possible.

Again please note I am taking pre-orders on a prototype that is slated to become the production model for the bASIC mining device. At this time it is only a prototype, I will not be showing any video/photo proof until we have a finalized production model if this makes you feel uncomfortable at all please do not make a pre-order purchase until the production model is complete and posted as so on our web site.

Thank you for your interest in the ModMiner Quad / bASIC High Efficiency Bitcoin Mining Units.

we can have the pcb boards silk screened to be any color pretty much have not gotten that far yet to pick out a color
i just hate that standard green pcb look

The white was actually my idea, lol is it really that ugly?

C'mon James

enough with the show already man

you know damn well you are only doing this because of the past we have

He hates me and I hate him, we have never gotten along


If this were someone else you would not be doing this.

You have my official statement on the matter, and its not going to change. You posted your question and I gave you a response, if you continue to harass me I will report this to the staff

thank you.

yes this is the final price, sorry

James:

Why not tell them the real reason your doing this? You hate me and I hate you. Be honest about it man,

You and I have never gotten along and this is the reason you are trying to cause a problem for me.

Please Read:

We are selling pre-orders on a production unit that only exists in prototype form, if you do not feel comfortable with this in any way please do not order from us until the production units are ready.

its a ridiculous request to ask someone to reveal a prototype. I will not do it. If you have a problem with it do not buy from me.

it is absolutely ridiculous and asinine to try and bully someone into revealing photos and video of a prototype in a market such as this. I am sure BFL does have a prototype, if they do not have a prototype there is no way in hell they will be shipping anything in November.

I do not know for what reason I would make this up, I have never scammed or done wrong to anyone on this forum ever, I delivered on the ModMiner quad and I will deliver on this, if for whatever reason you think I am making this up please by all means do not buy it. I will not be bullied into doing something I do not feel comfortable doing.

Sorry I was not more clear on this, if you have ordered up until 09/01 your modminer quad will be shipped on the next production run which I will have by the end of this week.
If you have not received the unit yet - you can swap your MMQ order for a bASIC order directly.

If you already have a MMQ and wish to trade it in closer to the ship date we can do that as well, I am thinking of issuing a rebate - but I still have not nailed down how much I can afford to give on a trade-in just yet. I am looking into ways to sell refurbished fpga chips at the moment and will get back to you on that.

yes it does, obviously you have been watching my 24 hour countdown and need to refresh your cache

the redirect has been working since about 2pm EST

for help refreshing your cache I would check youtube for an instructional video

btw: your welcome for my technical help

I will when BFL does the same.

wow that must of been hard to find considering I am only running 5 dedicated Bitcointalk forum advertising slots which links to that same page!

How on earth did you find it?

The truth is it just takes time to have these kind of chips made, and then you still have to have the boards assembled. its a lengthy process. I am just happy we finally have a prototype that works that we can move forward with this is something that has been in the works for awhile.

lol not obsessed at all

if you grew up in the 70's or 80's you would know what I was talking about

stupid joke anyways - I just like to troll silk road threads as a habit

they really don't belong here anyways, Bitcointalk has tried very hard to distance itself from SR and for good reason
The less associated Bitcoin is with SR the better.

27Gh/s is not an estimate its based on real testing of a real prototype

and again we are using very basic software at this point, the speed is likely to increase once my software guys get to work on the firmware and mining software

there are certain details that I am not going to release just yet, at least until we are done prototyping. All the specific details you could want (and more) will be available in the near future, and don't worry this is going to be an open source project just like the ModMiner Quad, I just need a little more time before we really commit everything to public record.

its from cheech and chong

sorry you must be too young for that