dude friedcat is the man, every time I see him update us I grow more faith in asicminer, he seems like one of the greatest bitcoin economy ceo's.  I am sure we will see allot of bad ones in other companies that will try and destroy bitcoin because of greed, I think friedcat may be the guy that saves the bitcoin world.  Thanks for all the work you do friedcat!

Where are you located?

How much mhash is the icarus

where are you in the world? Some ballpark figures would be cool too.  

Good call.  Tip sent.

I've been using his build-avalon-image.sh script to build my own firmware images for WR703Ns with support for the various FPGA miners enabled.

I've been using them to mine on Bitforce FPGA Singles, CM1s, and Ztex 1.15y boards.  Unfortunately the Ztex bitstreams can't fit into the 4MB flash memory, so I've been loading them into RAM in /tmp after each reboot.  I plan to try a usb-storage solution for that later.

I can post my builds if anyone's interested.

So are these just the developer orders ahead of the trade-ins? It doesn't look like it.

I think because the price is so much higher and the likelihood of getting ROI is so much lower for the regular Batch #2 orders, they are going back on their promise of doing the trade-ins first. This is not honoring their word, but is probably more "fair".

The whole premise of trading in the Icarus was based on the idea we'd get the Avalons soon after sending in the Icarus, though. Not that I'm too upset, it seems like the guys that paid upwards of 50-60 BTC on February 2nd (Batch #2 part 1) and 16th (part 2) do deserve to have theirs shipped first (hell, even I have some orders in that timeframe as well), but again, at the time I ordered I was under the impression that I was doing a trade-in order whereby the details would be worked out afterward, so now I still have little to no idea what is going on or how "special" I actually am.

I do know that I am missing a few BTC that my Icarus weren't able to mine the last three weeks or so since they were in operation, however. I have to imagine there are some guys who did 0 Batch #2 regular orders but sent in 10-15 Icarus that are going to be quite upset about this. My condolences in advance to those in such a predicament.

Doesn't seem like there's a way they can both honor their word to the trade-ins and remain fair to those early batch #2 orders here, and they sided on the "being fair" end. I don't fault them, I just wish they had communicated this to the community first.

Tried what?

Yes this is correct, we uphold our words. expect a news letter soon with details.

Cara pra mim mesmo com chegada dos ASIC e ASIC dominar a dificuldade vai continuar aumentando e vc terá q comprar mais e mais equipamento.

Asic cada vez subindo MAIS e MAIS valor dos equips.

Se for pra manter a rede funcionando do jeito q ta indo, logo a rede vai morrer, vai ficar só quem tem bala na agulha. Pq ngm vai investir em equipamento pra pagar apenas LUZ???
Não adianta poucos terem mtas BTCs e vc não ter condição de entrar no garimpo, vc acha que eles ditaram os preços delas e alguém vai querer comprar?

Pra BTC entrar no mercado e dar certo ela tem q fluir e espalhar na mão das pessoas.
A moeda tem que expandir e não simplesmente expandir para umas centenas de pessoas.

Mercado não funciona assim ainda mais com moeda nova.

I sent Yifu an email inquiring about this.  He stated orders would ship in order to when payment was received so orders placed on Feb 2nd should ship first and then so on and so forth.  Things seem to be moving so lets just see what happens.  Contact him or open a ticket today asking about this.   Who knows how many tickets they have from before, it could be lost in the shuffle.