More like a race between two lame horses. At least it's a fair race.

You could have gone HashFast and had your horse die before it even left the gates.

The farce is strong with BFL's "Imperial Class" Monarch...

With the rise of scrypt ASICs a vast resource of high-end GPUs has opened up. The market is ripe for the right MMORPG with crypto as the in-game currency.

I see some talk but, no solid virtual worlds yet.

I bet BFL will deliver the Monarch before BA delivers a single X3.

EDIT:

"Black Arrow is no threat to the Monarch" -- Josh

The torch has been passed, Gavin and his cybernetic alien implant are here to lead the charge!

Didn't scientists just spend $17 billion on really big magnet and accidentally prove the existence of god?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/135626-God-Particle-Further-Confirmed-to-Have-Been-Found

This may be a joke but it's also true.

These guys need to deliver product or get the fuck off the stage.

Update: 28th of June 2014

1. Batch 1 hasn't shipped.

2. Batch 2 hasn't shipped.

3. Refunds refused.

4. No shipping date provided.

5. Over 4 months after the stated product shipping date, design plans for the first X3 prototype are said to be almost complete.

Will BA be offering to compensate customers for any waste disposal fees they'll need to pay after receiving their obsolete product?

Do the heat sinks contain any CFCs?

It's looking like we're going to be strung along for another month or two before we get any closure to this long con.

I suspect closure will come in the form of bankruptcy (we get nothing) or shipment of a unit that's goes straight into the dumpster.

Edit:

I hate junk mail.

Update: 27th of June 2014

1. Batch 1 hasn't shipped.

2. Batch 2 hasn't shipped.

3. Refunds refused.

4. No shipping date provided.

5. Black Arrow customer service advises customers that they agreed to be scammed.

That screenshot of cgminer at 1.111Th/s was 5x hash boards from the X2 farm wired into a raspberry pi wasn't it?

So I'm suppose to believe that peta-hashes of ASICs have been sitting around not hashing for two months?

Could it be we're currently waiting on more hash-boards because the originals were all made into X2s that have been hashing since May?

This is just too much money to fuck up like this!

At least the date on the chip is from mid-April of this year (if that pic isn't 'shopped). I was concerned they might have been mining with them since last year.

While I'm sure he means well, the calcites function is piezoelectric in the same way the magnetites is magnetic.

Does the average person have excess calcification? 

Update: 26th of June 2014

1. Batch 1 hasn't shipped.

2. Batch 2 hasn't shipped.

3. Customers requesting refunds are being refused and placed in a "refund queue".

4. No shipping date provided.

5. Wait for it... next week.

I'm guessing the weekly update on the delay is now officially on Fridays. I wonder what problems they have scheduled for Next Week^®?

Update: 25th of June 2014

1. Batch 1 hasn't shipped.

2. Batch 2 hasn't shipped.

3. Customers requesting refunds are being refused and placed in a "refund queue".

4. No shipping date provided.

5. Four months have passed and customers still have nothing.