has anyone put a cube on a killawatt meter?    mine has smoked 2 600w PSU's in 2 days....   wtf   

Try like 4.2 now.
Totals (All Active Workers)   4,204.79 GH/s   419,763k (99.80%)

This is what I've been doing, but on a much smaller scale.  I have 21 GH of hardware at home pointed at their pool.  I also invested about .75 BTC in their GH.  In less than a month that has grown to 25 GH and at current CEX prices I've more than doubled my BTC.

If they ever get IxCoin and DevCoin trading going that'll be another bonus.

"pc parts" - would be legal. really?

You provide your personal experience of success as a counter to my "nay-saying" without also noting that your success is unusual. You have to at least agree with me that the typical/average cex.io investor will lose money. Otherwise, you are promoting unrealistic expectations.

The only reason that 1 GH/s sells for 0.07 BTC is ignorance. My goal is to eradicate this ignorance, and these claims of making a profit aren't helping.

Payment sent for 1 cube, check PM

Hi bluesticker,

Thanks and Welcome Aboard! This goes for all of our newcomers, and to our co-op veterans back for more.
Hope you or anyone else doesn't risk putting living expenses into Bitcoin and Bitcoin miners.  

These are all considered high risk investments that your typical, fuddy duddy stocks/bonds conservative investors would run screaming from. For the most part: Bitcoin miners fit the bill of high risk/high reward investors.

As far as the delivery date of February 24: everything still appears to be on track.

Oh, and someone was asking how many Prosperos were sold? I haven't seen the latest numbers but this has been the most successful DZ MC Group Buy Round so far: something like 35-40 TH/s or more. There are more Round 17x funds that haven't been paid for yet, so the co-op's paid hashrate total I have in my sig should be going up this week.

Ok, so this isn't a priority mail box size. We just specify the dimensions will be 9.9.8 in the label. I have never used a label like this, that's why a few questions so that I don't go wrong.

Blackarrow will deliver the goods, on time. I will be selling my X-1's for a grand each when they arrive. They will sell out in 2 hours.

What they need to do is set a fair price so people know they aren't getting f'd too hard on their markup and so there is room for the resale market.  This is the business side of hardware.  Price too high => resellers won't touch 'em, casual users won't touch 'em.  We're past the point of spree buying for the most part, AM was sure to drive the nails into that coffin when they owned the market for shipping hardware.  Now people understand that ROI is mainly a myth, but an achievable one in rare cases.  If BTC mining survives in any sense of the community you need low-priced, plug-n-play devices.  Try explaining to someone on eBay you have to start jacking a regular PSU to do this or that and you'll lose every sale.  BTC mining needs the aftermarket, but there has to be a first market to start things off.

Again - there is a giant, obscenely sized hole in the hardware market right now.  The casual user is sitting on cash but doesn't want to wait until Q2/2014 or even February for that matter.  Or they are looking at KNC with their "WTF" goggles since running a Neptune is out of reach without custom electrical being run.  Trust me, I wish my little group had more hardware manufacturing experience so we could just build our own devices and avoid places like this forum altogether.  But the AM gold rush was very, very good to us and we're looking to continue working with hardware in both mining and sales capacity.  Unfortunately, most vendors are either short-sighted or insanely greedy and this is why we're now sitting on over $10k that may just be converted into BTC today with the current pricing fluctuations.  No reason to hold off to purchase from Bitmain if they can't even respond to their sanctioned reseller for the U1's.

Hope this story ends a little rosier, but lacking faith.