Ragin... there is talk of some people getting some chips early from these larger orders. If so I would like to get mine shipped to BkkCoins for his board development. Keep us posted if this is possible.

I just sent payment for 30 ASIC from address 165d4CVWKerERHsNxMA6SS357LBJbkkcxU
Thanks!

yes, just set cgminer to use 7970.

What about a lottery system for the early chips based on #bought. The only reason I say that is I'm working on a PCB DIY board and would like a shot to get a head start.

What was the final pre-shipping cost per chip? Want to verify before I send over/pledge BTCs. (Probably in for 36 chips).

Also, what are we going to do with the few sample chips that Yifu sends about a week after the order date? I would like to get those all to myself, if nobody objects.

Been decades since I took math, but isn't 1 the lowest number? Somebody check my work.

I believe Yifu Guo sends the communication protocol and reference design docs only to those who place orders? If so, can each of us in this group buy get a copy of those? Thanks.

Just to clarify, no escrow is taking place on this buy?

Also, shouldn't we do this second buy basing the shipping price on a per-chip basis, rather than a per-order basis? Dividing all fees, including shipping and tarriffs by the 10,000 chips, and rolling it into one easy to calculate per-chip cost should save everybody a lot of headache, and will be more fair for everybody involved.

I'm interested in another 50 chips or so. But I don't want to pay more than my fair share of the freight on these things again, if that can be avoided.

A guy ordering 2000 chips paying the same as a guy ordering 10 chips, is crazy. Assuming 80 buyers like last time, that's .8% shipping per share. Guy one is benefitting from 20% of the order, he should be paying 20% of the shipping, but he's only paying a flat share of .08%.

Guy 2 is benefitting .01% of the order, while paying 8 times his share of the shipping. He should be paying .01% of the shipping costs..  

Just take the 782.1btc for the order, add the 2.1btc for shipping, for a total of 784.2. (823.41 Figure in 5% fees ( Divide that number by 10,000, and you get a result of .082341BTC per chip, shipping and fees included.

The tariffs can be divided by 10k as well, for a per-chip cost.

Individual shipping from OP to buyer will be whatever they are. No need to socialize the shipping and tariff costs though.

Also this makes it really easy to calculate how much to send per chip. If I want 50 chips, I multiply .082341 * number of desired chips (50).

50*.082341= 4.11705BTC

On the OP's end, it's also simple. Divide number of BTC sent by .082341 to verify number of chips paid for. Easy peasy!

Should save the hassle of needing to do refunds for confusing over-payments, or any of that. Seems to me that a great deal of the work that JohnK had to put into the last one was figuring out who overpaid, by how much, and why. I know I had trouble figuring out how much I needed to actually send as well.

Just my $0.02. Take it for what it's worth.

Hi, just registering my contribution, I put in for 128 chips. I can't do SMT, but I know a local guy who does, or may ask one of the PCB developers for a package quote....

Hey guys, other than burnin who else is building asics with these chips and have proven progress?  I'll buy some Chips if I can see some proof of work, and I wondering its possible to receive the built machine before BFL ships all theirs.  If anyone can address my concerns or don't mind assisting me in finding a person to build me a asic I'll be buying some chips :-)

Thanks

Okay guys, we have two potential fabricator for your chips. One in Indonesia. One in Cebu, Philippines. Mr. Carlos Tapang, would it be alright with you for chips to be assembled by your team into working miners? I just send them over (with their permission), and you can forward the finished product to the owner.

Unless he wants to use your chip condo.

Not only that, but this was the deal the WHOLE TIME. Why is everybody suddenly changing their minds after the fact. The deal was that OP would remain Anonymous (which I believe is a good idea, considering the amount of extremely valuable product that is going to be in one place), the deal was that John would hold onto his name and personal info as part of the escrow. Stick with the original deal folks. Trying to reneg halfway into the deal is bad form.

If anybody truly feels that they can't continue with the original agreement, I'm confident that there are plenty of people here who would be willing to buy you out.

'k. Please forgive me for the idiocy of the following question(s). I'm completely new to the entire mining aspect of Bitcoin, so I know, before ordering any of these puppies I need to understand if I actually grasp what I need to learn, and buy in addition, to make use of those chips. That's my job, and I understand that much

That said, here's the question that you maybe can help me with:

I guess I don't get the whole batch 1, batch 2 thing. Are all of them ordered and paid for already, or do you need to collect the funds to place the order. What I try to understand is this: if I transfer the required btc to you, how long will it approximately take before you start shipping them?

Again, sorry if that question was already answered (maybe that's what your point "lead time" meant), but I just want to be sure to understand what to expect.