PCIE x1 would work fine with riser cables.  BTW it appears it is PCIe x1 their photoshop artist just doesn't know what that looks like.


BFL has been pretty consistently wrong about power consumption.  Every estimate of every product has been low and later revised to more realistic power consumption numbers.  Of course this has also resulted in numerous delays, incorrect parts, and redesigns too.

KNC simply says less than 1KW.   

The power of photoshop.

It is bank wire (a specific banking term) not a bank transfer (a consumer term with no specific meaning which covers anything from ACH to SEPA to billpay, p2p banking, and bank wires).  Bank wires are generally irreversible.  I would recommend nobody try that.

The form factor is the same as a high end GPU and it uses roughly the same wattage.  It might not be quiet, a HD7970 at max fan isn't either but is "possible" to remove that level of heat load if designed properly. 

It certainly is "possible".  This shouldn't be taken as a statement that BFL will be successful.  The biggest risk is BFL can't deliver on time.  The potential for thermal complications only increase that risk.  A smaller card, say 4 chips and TDP of <250W would give them some breathing room if the "real deal" ends up hotter and more power hungry than the guesstimate.

Wouldn't that be ironic, especially after all the fudding Inaba did about 28nm chips being unrealistic.

You can upgrade an existing order but
1) you lose your place in line
2) have to pay the difference if product price
3) this is just the punch in the gut, there is a 10% fee for upgrades.  

So people who's gear is now obsolete because they waited a year for delivery, get to lose 10% more for the priveledge of joining the end of the line for "delivery" in December.  It would be hard to make this stuff up.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276692.0;topicseen

Someone should let them know their mockup photo doesn't match that description.  That is clearly a x16 edge connector.

Really?  Why would it be PCIex16.  I get the idea of making it PCIe so using standard motherboards to densely rackmount.  By why PCIex16?  Using a x1 slot would allow more cards per mother board.

So you will lose funds.  You could have bought BTC instead.

If you buy a miner (a device which produces BTC) it doesn't matter what currency you spend it has an equivelent price in BTC.

If the price if 1 BTC and over the life of the miner (becomes becoming obsolete and going dark) it produces 0.99 BTC net (after electrical cost) then you lost.   You could have instead just held or bought 1 BTC and had 1 BTC.  The future exchange rate can't improve your return.

Simple version:
you always have the option of simply buying Bitcoins so for a miner to be more profitable it has to return MORE bitcoins than it purchase price.

Here is your chance.  BFL just announced 28nm pre-orders.  I am sure Avalon will too eventually.

20nm is available today at incredibly high NRE costs and in limited capacities.  14nm will be available in 2014/2015.  Intel is dumping $5B into their new FAB42 plant which will produce nothing but 14nm processors on 300mm wafers. If Intel can do it surely some Bitcoin ASIC company can get enough preorders to build their own fab.  Look at Intel that is where the money is at.

I don't think a 14nm or 20nm SHA-2 ASIC is a realistic idea but we went from 130nm to 28nm in the span of a couple months so I just wonder what will be the next hype to drive in sales.

How long until the first 20nm pre-announcement?  14nm in 2014 has a nice ring.

So is dirt from your backyard.  It doesn't mean it has any value.

That assumes governments are informed, rational, and make logical decisions.   Take a look at online poker.  A nearly useless series of laws simply drove the money, jobs, tax revenue, and innovation overseas.   The key word in your conjecture is "learn" and historically regulators haven't been very interested in learning.  It is entirely possible they won't learn, and will stiffle/cripple innovation in the US and the money, jobs, tax revenue, and innovation will simply flow overseas.  The good news is Bitcoin is global and it will adapt around a broken US regulatory structure.  The bad news for entrepreneurs in the US (myself included) is that Bitcoin surviving doesn't necessarily mean they will survive.

While that would make the life of miners more difficult, solo mining is still possible, as in private pools, and decentralized pools like p2pool.  The nice thing about Bitcoin is that one can put a lot of relay nodes between the pool server and the rest of the bitcoin network.  Instead of pool server broadcasting blocks to any peer it only broadcasts them to a handful of "relay peers" which are essentially disposable VPS in a bunch of US unfriendly countries. 

Decentralized systems will always adapt to centralized threats.  Look at bittorrent and tor, they aren't silver bullets and it is a never ending struggle, but they have proven very difficult to attack effectively.

Yes.

If you want to buy gold then buy gold.  You don't need a multi level marketing scheme to buy gold.   Just buy it.   Is it a scam?  Depends on if you believe multi-level marketing is a scam.  In MLM most people never have a positive ROI%.  The profits flow to the few at the top and the expense of everyone else.

Never heard of it before today but looking through google cache and forum threads it is almost certainly a scam.

If you sent them any funds you will never see it again.

P/E is annualized so you should convert the earnings of the past x months to 12 months before computing the P/E.
Still I wanted to see how the person I was responding to computed a P/E of 100.  I have a feeling it will be "fun".

How do you come up with a P/E of 100?