100% right. And don't forget that you could get a radiator of the same size and looks of the picture advertised. Then explain to paypal that this is not "mining bitcoins" as you expected.

I believe you were too anxious. As stated, I'm going to be in Bud next week. We have two or three hungarian bitcoiners who already went to the different addresses advertised with no success, and who are ready to go again to check the units in person. I would have waited to have a confirmation from them before placing an order.

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  thnx

To all gentlemen,

Issue fixed immediately after I upload latest firmware to avalon.   

Thanks avalon team for their prompt supporting.

You're under the influence of the money illusion.

This is false, as modern fiat currencies have no intrinsic value and their real value is derived from their ability to be exchanged for goods (purchasing power) and used for payment of taxes.

I want one for educational pruporses. I know that FPGA will be not profitable in few months

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Avalon have not shipped any thing by end of March, and most of ASICMINER's chips burned after initial weeks of test

It sounds like they do know which bumping facility is involved, though, as they made the choice to switch from one in North Carolina to one in California.  While it sounds like there's a hell of a communication breakdown, it also sounds like BFL "didn't know what they didn't know".

There's not really any reason for the packaging facility to assume their client has never heard of a blank alignment wafer and won't be supplying one.  It's possible that the first either the packaging facility or the bumping facility learned about that was when the wafers arrived at the bumping facility.  It's like trying to hurry up the printers when you failed to supply them with the artwork for your job.  Now is the time to make sure that they know exactly what is needed for the remaining steps so they're not delayed by something BFL didn't take into account.

The Unknown

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing Donald Rumsfeld

http://polimedia.us/trilema/2013/bitcoin-prices-bitcoin-inflexibility/


Now let’s remodel : what happens when a 300% increase on the supply side meets a 5% increase in the demand side ? There’s pretty much literally nothing those extra dollars nobody wants can do to increase the Bitcoin supply. It’s very, very inelastic, and consequently the only stability point is when equilibrium is reached. Two billion dollars divided by 600`000 Bitcoins comes to three thousand dollars and change per Bitcoin.