3. There are unconfirmed reports that J. Matonis (forbes.com), D. Perry (codinginmysleep.com)
S. Pair (bitpay.com) and V. Buterin (bitcoinmagazin.com) are co-founders of Coin Publishing LLC and as such are implicated in handling of and benefiting from stolen property. Hi everybody, I'm David Perry, author of Coding in my Sleep and for the record, I've written a few paid pieces for the print magazine and chat with Mihai and Vitalik on occasion, but that's the extent of my relationship with Bitcoin Magazine. I am not a co-founder of Coin Publishing LLC and I actually consider their blog arm to be my chief competitor. That is all. |
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Copy/pasta: UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT - "Tom" or "Dave" is no longer affiliated with this company in anyway. We are a specialized devision of a huge corporate electronics manufacturer in Canada and we want you to get to know us before we take even 1 order. Ordering has been suspended for now and we are sorting out the banking and tax issues with Tom. Hopefully he does the right thing and for his credit he has givin us zero indication that he does not have full intention of doing the right thing. Luckily for everyone Tom seems to be doing the best he can to refund every single customer in a timely fashion. Now I know we lost most of our customers and that is fine. We plan to show full video proof before we take 1 single order and unlike some competitors these shipments willl be coming from the USA and will include USPS tracking numbers (DHL for international customer) Now for the hard truth We have strong reason to believe that BFL has been stringing you along all this time beause it needed your money to cover their R&D / NRE costs, its quite likely they are even using Pre-sale orders to pay their employees saleries which i am not sure of US law but is illegal in Canada. BEWARE OF BFL. ITS ALL LIES. Their terms of service contract is basically setup so they can legally take your money and there is nothing you can do about it. Yes Finally! Avalon comes out with the first ASIC device but how many will we actually see in customers hands by months end. How about the end of Febuary, March? These numbers will be very low. The sheer unprofessionalism of the supossid leaders in this industry is down right appaling talking about Bitcoin in general it's mind boggling - how these companies like BFL and bASIC can just string their customers along for months and no one comes out with anything better. My company has been developing custom ASIC and FPGA based solutions for decades we work in the military and telecommunications sectors and can accomplish this task at ease. We currently have a full functioning and hashing prototype which we plan to bring to production next week. We understand time critical solutions and it is our specialty. Instead of a full Standard CELL ASIC whch takes AGES to complete low success rates and extremey high NRE we are using FPGA hard copies of what is probably the best FPGA Bitcoin mining core in history (no it is not open source sorry ). Our ASIC chips can mine at over 2 gh/s comfortably and at a very low clock, which will ensure excellent heat disapation as well as chip longetivity. The inexpensive nature of the manufacturer of these chips will allow us to build machines that will use a large number of cheap chips and still keep electrical rates down to a reasonable level. These will be fully enclosed devices, not as cleaver as as our friends at Avalon with their stand alone wifi devices but they will include 25 FPGA hard copy ASICS which will use a maximum of 200watts per device. They will however require a host computer. The best part of our device is the speed at which we can develop them. We have a fully functional PCB fab and electronics assembly as well as a fully functional SHIPPING DEPARTMENT in house and we have already begun this process. I know it's a bit late in the game to introduce a product such as this but we wanted our news to get out there in the main stream. Tom is out. We are in. the bASIC is officially DEAD. Get ready for a 50Gh/s ASIC Based device shipping from the US with tracking and no none sense. There will be no deadline back outs and no B.S. We purchased this company from Tom for many reasons but the main reason is his un revealed completed design that can easily be converted to support 25 hard copy ASICS. The hardest work for us is already completed , Believe it or not, this IS happening and like I said before you will see a youtube video of this device hashing along before we ever ask for one red cent from the community. We cannot give an exact date at this time but It would not surprise me in the slightest that our first device ships before BFL. Professionals have taken this over and professionalism which is long over due in this industry will make all the difference. Please watch our you tube channel (coming soon) for a video of the device hashing by next week at the latest. Once the video has been shot we have decided to ship the device to conman who in my opinion develops the best Bitcoin mining software available. Please check back for more updates. Dear God, what I would give for some line breaks in that wall-o-text... |
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Here are a few pictures and a video supplied by me - just an attendee of CES and in no way affiliated with BFL - of the "boxes with fans" we're all so fond of. I'm not even going to try to argue any of the other points, just to point out that the idea that the only time anyone has seen cases, boards, heatsinks etc - the stuff that BFL has released shots of so far - are in BFL-released pictures is patently ridiculous. Julian (TuxAvant) even talked BFL into letting him keep the empty cases for the Jalapeno and Single SC so if you happen to be near Vegas you can come physically lay hands on them if you'd like. |
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"Pre-order cancellations are beginning to outnumber new orders so we've declared bankruptcy. Oh, and our BTC wallet wasn't backed up properly and stuff."
They actually haven't had that many cancellations. Also they don't keep very much of their funds in BTC, just what they need to issue refunds - BitPay converts to USD at the moment of purchase and these funds are sent to your standard-issue corporate bank account. And now I'll duck out before the bile and vitriol gets deep enough to drown me... |
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I have been doing a mix of the following (working on making it more consistent)
1 - Using SecureRandom from the BouncyCastle dependency
2 - Using SecureRandom from .NET's System.Security.Cryptography
3 - Doing both of the above while XORing the bytes with "extra entropy", formed mainly from hashing a buffer that grows when the app receives events (mouse moves, timer ticks, etc. cause the system tick count to be appended to the buffer) and gets chopped down when it gets too big, by being replaced with a hash of itself.
Started to post exactly this myself. You're too fast for me mike! private void Walletgen_Shown(object sender, EventArgs e) {
const int phraselength = 80;
RandomNumberGenerator rng = RandomNumberGenerator.Create();
Byte[] byte8 = new byte[phraselength];
rng.GetBytes(byte8);
string randomphrase = "";
string junk64 = "123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz*#_%+!";
for (int i = 0; i < phraselength; i++) {
randomphrase += junk64.Substring(byte8[i] & 63, 1);
}
txtPassphrase.Text = randomphrase;
} |
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For the love of god why do people never read the wikis, howtos, or at least search the very forums they're posting on?
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Call me old fashioned but shouldn't things be assembled/tested first before being classified as "ready to ship"?
Yeah, something's not right there. By this definition, BFL's ASICs would be "ready to ship" because someone in China is actively assembling parts... |
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This forum needs to adopt a strict policy of closing these threads as duplicates, I'm quite tired of re-reading this same BS every day from a new person (or, more likely, the sockpuppet of one of the previous people).
You're not having an original thought, no one needs to have this discussion again, there is no new information to add to the conversation. Search before you post.
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Came here expecting the title to refer to something entirely obvious that will catch no one off guard and has already been prepared for. Wasn't disappointed.
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I actually get a fair amount of traffic from SA. I get the feeling they're the reason I had to replace my comment system with something that can better handle floods of bullshit.
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After my recent upgrade to 2.9 I started getting a lot of this: [2012-11-05 18:43:46] BFL0: Garbled response probably throttling, clearing buffer
[2012-11-05 18:43:49] BFL0: Comms error It happens quite often, every 10-20 lines or so and I'm watching the BFL unit mine and there are no blinky lights to indicate throttling... Also, every once in a while, I'll come back to my computer to find that cgminer isn't running. I don't see any errors, it starts back up just fine, it just mysteriously stops running... Is there some kind of debug flag I can set to figure out what's causing these two problems and if they're related? Best bet would be a bad USB cable. A USB cable that worked fine for several months then magically broke at the exact moment that I upgraded cgminer? |
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After my recent upgrade to 2.9 I started getting a lot of this: [2012-11-05 18:43:46] BFL0: Garbled response probably throttling, clearing buffer
[2012-11-05 18:43:49] BFL0: Comms error It happens quite often, every 10-20 lines or so and I'm watching the BFL unit mine and there are no blinky lights to indicate throttling... Also, every once in a while, I'll come back to my computer to find that cgminer isn't running. I don't see any errors, it starts back up just fine, it just mysteriously stops running... Is there some kind of debug flag I can set to figure out what's causing these two problems and if they're related? |
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Appears to have been fixed now |
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Ill just agree to disagree how does that sound
It sounds like the last ditch effort of someone who is losing an argument to end it before they're pwned by logic. |
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At the StackExchange site if you pull that crap we delete your content and ban you. It's all about the moderation. FWIW I'm not saying the moderation here is "bad" just that it's preferential to freedom of speech over content quality - nor am I saying that this is a bad thing, the world needs freedom of speech too. What I'm saying is that this forum represents one form of communication and sites like StackExchange represent another. Both are tradeoffs and users are free to choose whichever they choose. |
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Seems like a PM would be more effective than a public post for this...
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Yes, trolling the bASIC thread by asking what his power requirements are going to be and also what "competitive" means. Yes, that's certainly trolling alright! And this only AFTER Tom invited me to comment in his thread by making statements about our power usage that are ... shall we say ... less than factual? I wouldn't have even posted in the thread if Tom hadn't made the request.
I personally don't have a problem with you calling him out on his claims that you were less than truthful with your specs. I prolly would have done the same. However, your flaw is you don't know when to shut up.  Crazy's got a point. I wouldn't necessarily call Inaba a troll, but I'd say he enjoys feeding them WAY too much. Seriously dude, you have way too much fun on these forums for your own good - and that's coming from someone who really likes BFL and their products, not one of the haters. Just... y'know... take it down a notch?  |
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Waiting for Charlie to show up and be all political so I can be his anger translator again. |
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