Nah, not an asset. 

What I'm saying is that people shouldn't have made presumptions about the location of components in the absence of a final design.

Actually, I made money with BFL.  Wasn't a lot of equipment, but I mined it a couple weeks and sold on ebay.  About 250% profit.  You call that a "butsec"?

Deep breath, people.  Relax.  

Hashfast never finalized a case design and hasn't missed any dates yet.

There are strong indications are that they will hit their end of the month promise, or come very very close.  

Don't start beating the crap out of them before they've had a chance to deliver, it hurts your credibility if you need to seek compensation later, as you come across as being the kind of person that will bitch and moan no matter what happens.

Save the hysterics and vitriol for when they really deserve it.  But right now, we're still 10 days from the end of their projected shipping window.

And yes, I was a BFL customer, and yes, I am a batch one customer.

I think they already have plenty of incentive to avoid delays, and I will continue to give HashFast the benefit of the doubt until any major promises aren't kept.

If it ever came to a point where ROI + a reasonable return cannot be delivered within the MPP's 400% clause, then I'd say the more workable fix would be to raise the ceiling on the MPP to provide whatever hashing power is necessary to recoup customer investment (especially early customers), including consideration for unavoidable customer costs (i.e. electricity and, for MPP miniboards, cases, power supplies, etc).

In other words, for customers that buy the MPP, and after taking into account reasonable customer expenses, if in order to achieve profitability it ultimately requires five, six, seven, or more additional ASICS, rather than the current MPP pledge of one to four ASICs, then I hope that HashFast is willing to go that extra mile.

After all, HashFast says that "We want our customers to succeed", and that "prosperous customers make for a healthy and prosperous company". A customer that fails to achieve ROI clearly is not succeeding nor engaged in a prosperous business.

But before going down that road, you've got to give HashFast a chance to deliver.  And I am encouraged that they will.

The unsurprising snarky response from DPoS aside, are you sure about this?  Seems to me as if a certain ambiguity is being maintained on this and some other issues.

On the other hand, my post was actually about the upgrade kit, not the MPP. This thingamajig: http://hashfast.com/shop/baby-jet-upgrade-kit/

I'm a batch one customer that has also ordered an upgrade kit, to fill that second slot on the Baby Jet.  Some information I would like to have concerns installation of the upgrade kit.  The news that the ASIC is on a board already is quite good but, more specifically, what's the upgrade procedure going to be like?  As in... what kind of tools or skills required?

I'm comfortable doing basic computer upgrades and maintenance - installing and replacing drives, fans, memory, etc.. - but haven't wielded a soldering iron in twenty years.  And wasn't very good at it when I did.  So I'm wondering if the upgrade will be something that can be accomplished with some screwdrivers and careful dis/reassembly, or something more involved? 

Supreme Leader:

With the rises in difficulty, it will unfortunately not be possible for your human miners to shift from coal and iron and instead profitably perform forced manual hashing. The cost of pencils and scratch paper would likely exceed their hashing output.

Accordingly, I recommend that you order electronic mining equipment from a company named Butterfly Labs, specifically, the Monarch.

Yours in humility,