And now I call bullshit.

Every foundry's roadmap is published 5 years in advance, publicly so that the supply chain can be ready.  There is no NDA on that data.

So go ahead and show us all one foundry with a roadmap to start shipping production wafers this fall at 20nm.

Then explain how you will get any wafer starts when Apple, Qualcomm, Broadcomm, Altera, Xilinx, NVidia, and 50 other $Billion/year fabless companies are all fighting for the same wafer starts.

Get a new nickname, and a better story for your scam next time.

Josh kicks my ass on scamming.  A little birdie told me you can find settlements in his name for click fraud and illegal satellite decoders. No wonder Sonny welcomed him to the BFL club.

As for evil... well, I'm more of a bastard.

Evil is:
Announcing a vapor product last June because professionals were entering the FPGA market and about to clean your clock
Taking millions in pre-orders promising a delivery date that was impossible
Creating the false sense that you'll be shipping next week, when you are months away, and keeping it up for 6 months
Advertising all over the internet to get more investors suckers without documenting how many orders are ahead of you in the queue
Pretending that you can build thousands of units / week when you can't even demonstrate a functioning prototype

I could go on all night, but I need to scrape together a few more coins to buy the only real ASIC in Bitcoin.

They mean: "If we sell out, we will move forward with our hardware development.  If people won't pay our price, we will set up a mine like ASICminer."  So the community gets to vote with bitcoins.

Try to keep up.  Someone from Belarus posted pictures of 4 Avalons running side by side.

Or, you could just use a calculator and the hash rate charts on bitcoincharts to know that most all batch one units are in the wild and hashing.

BFL might have had that too.  But I bet 10 months of the 'equipment idle' alarm going continuously got to be annoying. 

Important features to observe here:

Static dissipative flooring
Ceiling tiles are flow through, typical of a well designed clean room
HVM equipment, not a pile of hobby shop junk
Hair nets and gloves to keep everything clean
Staff wearing static free smocks (tiny conductive fibers in those prevent charges from building up)

From left to right in the image:
Paste printing tool - either flux or solder paste depends on what they are doing
3 High speed pick and place systems with tape and reel for chips and passive devices
A reflow oven capable of running hundreds of boards / hour

Avalon's facility pictures

http://imgur.com/a/KPBTl/noscript

Always use escrow for high value transactions with anyone.  Even your grandmother.

FTFY.

And thanks for being a reliable escrow agent!

This is known as picking up nickels in front of a steamroller.  Fun maybe, but really stupid.

A different problem entirely.

Somewhat before Trendon walked away from his Ponzi, Gavin commented that perhaps many parts of this board should be split off into another site so that there could be a 'good bitcointalk' that focused on developing and growing Bitcoin, and a 'bad bitcointalk' where the free market could reign.

A that time I thought it was a good idea, but wondered why Gavin didn't realize that this is, by choice, the bad bitcointalk already.

Again I agree.

He is bankrupt.  He should have the decency to recognize that fact and dissolve his company.  Those of us bagholders will see nothing but he will be proof that failure isn't rewarded in Bitcoin.

The current situation is that people here are foolish enough to allow him to continue operations even though his company is insolvent to the tune of 50x revenues.

I do disagree about 1 thing.  Allowing held coins to trade would be a good thing.  It would allow me to sell my share of Roman's debt to someone who wants to be a bagholder.  Everyone would win.  Roman would see the last of me, the new bagholder would imagine he just got a great deal on some bitcoin, and I would make a further recovery.  

What is his plan?

Payout less than 2% whenever he feels like it?  I'm not too good at math, but I'm pretty sure I'll be dead before he repays at this rate.

So where is the police report?
Where is the schedule for payments?
Have any customers been given preferential treatment on repayments?
Why can't held coins at least trade on bitfloor?  Isn't he running an exchange?
Why can't he offer incentives for holders of his debt to trade on his site?

I'd love to trade at Bitfloor again.  It was a lovely site and very efficiently run.  But I woke up one morning to find out that Roman had decided to make everyone carrying BTC on his site give him an interest free $250000 $1.2M loan.

He was partying in London at the time, and didn't even bother to come back early

I don't do business with people who unilaterally seize my money.  You shouldn't either.

Let's give Roman a chance to reply to my questions in service discussion.

As for the rest, wait and see if I actually make a Scam post.

I am largely in accordance with MPOE-PR on this.

He has used the promise of repayment to continue operating his business.  He has no intent or ability to actually repay.

That makes him a scammer, and if he does not make a valid response, I am going to make it a hobby to keep him and his company on the front page of the scammer thread.

I actually find the idea of keeping pooled 'deposits' of bitcoin anywhere ridiculous.  If the coins don't stay in your deposit address, so you can see them on the blockchain, how can you know they aren't using your coins as working capital?  If a company say, generated huge business losses, why wouldn't they report being 'hacked' and let their customers eat it.

I won't leave my coins under the control of anyone that doesn't have a verifiable means of proving to me they are not running on a fractional reserve basis for more than the time it takes to make a transaction ever again.

Hi Iso.  Here is 1 group of 18 pulled out for flashing so that I didn't have to stand in the middle of those shelves, which was like standing in front of a pizza oven!  I hand built the molex connectors of PCI-E cables from the Seasonic 1250 gold PSUs, and you can see the up/down ribbon connectors between each pair of boards which I built myself as well.  I pulled off Enterpoint's top down fans and used side and back blowing fans so that the hot air would move away from the boards, and to reduce the stacking height.

I wish I had video of the whole thing running.  It is pretty cool with yellow leds every time a work unit is completed, greens when shares are found (about 15/s I think) and quick flashes for the IO operations.  But I could never get the lighting or perspective right.

Makomk is 100% right.

Seriously Theymos, sometimes I wonder if you like having the forum full of scammers.  Anyone with a basic knowledge of financial history knew Pirate was a scammer.  How much more money would he have succeeded in stealing off participants here if he could delete posts, and use his cadre of believers to keep his threads at the top of the page?

Photograph the Dip switches when you think they are in the right state to flash the controller.

I had a very nasty time when Enterpoint shipped me 12 out of a 22 board shipment with V1.4 controller on them and no documentation of the different controller even existing!  That cost me most of a day trying to understand, and then a couple weeks where I was on the road with the odd ones that didn't program sitting idle before I could get back to look at them again.

I think I actually ended up trying random dip switch settings until I found one that worked.

In discussion I have called Roman out a couple times.  He has not responded.

Look for a thread in scam accusations next weekend.

I am curious about the accounting that went on here.

For the ~days the display was frozen my payout was 0.42... BTC

When you unfreeze you showed ABCPool owing me 0.37

So something like 600 Mh/s for a couple days pays -0.05 BTC?

If he is truly your friend, make him your best offer, and then tell him to auction it on here for a week with your price as a reserve while it mines on your pool.

Ask him for 10% of whatever he gets above your price.

That's what I would do for a friend.

Now, if he's the kind of friend who snakes your girlfriend.  Just take whatever he asks and smile.