This is what could use a damn explanation, Why bring an empty FPGA minirig shell? Why not a running minirig?

so there are still people sticking with them until march?

Me too!  The "believer's" from a couple days back should be embarrassed. 

Why don't you try it and find out? Or are you just here for the trolling?

That doesn't say a video will be posted tomorrow (today now), that says that by today they'll post a date of when a video will be available.

Well in one of those other threads on their forum (announcements) in a post yesterday they said they will post a video TODAY of a working ASIC, not a production sample, but a prototype sample to prove their tech does indeed work. That will be interesting indeed!

Due to the delay with chip fab, the new team believes we *must* provide proof-of-tech.  Tomorrow I will post up a hard date by which we will deliver a video showing a hashing unit.  This will not be a production unit, but it will show that the hard work has been done (the chips work, the PCB design is complete).

Here's the latest -
Tom has been working very hard to find a way to keep project bASIC moving forward.  I believe he has found a way to do this.  He will pull back from the project day-to-day and act as an adviser only.  He still has lots of valuable knowledge and contacts for this project and it would be terrible to lose him completely.

Tom wants to find the best solution for the customers and doesn't want to introduce any further delay, but he needs to step back from this.  He's shouldered a tremendous amount of pressure and stress and its become too much for him to bear alone.  However, he has brought us a very long way toward the ultimate goal.

There are new player(s) that have come to the fore pledging to support this project - this may come as a complete buyout or by taking a cash equity position - the details are being hammered out over the next day or two.  Tom has already put this project in the hands of a new team who will be able to realize his original vision, delivering all customer units by March.

These new people have a few things the project can really use: active involvement with Bitcoin, technical expertise, connections, experience, money.  No its not any of our competitors.  You will learn who the players are only when the deal is done and everything is nailed down.

Due to the delay with chip fab, the new team believes we *must* provide proof-of-tech.  Tomorrow I will post up a hard date by which we will deliver a video showing a hashing unit.  This will not be a production unit, but it will show that the hard work has been done (the chips work, the PCB design is complete).

Thanks to all you who are taking a supporting position on this project - you really prove to me that there is a positive community here who really wants to see bASIC succeed.

Hello all. I am using K1773R's devcoin client for Windows and have been using it without issue for a month or two now but the other day the blockchain download just stopped at block 71999.

I have tried re-launching the program with -rescan which didn't work, then I re-downloaded the Devcoin windows client files again and copied my wallet.dat and addr.dat files into a fresh install which caused the client to begin downloading the blockchain from the beginning again but it got stuck again when it reached block 71999 and now the program occasionally shows the wrong address in the "Your Bitcoin Address" box but corrects itself when I click "Address Book" and select the ONLY available receiving address (the correct address for my client) and click "ok".

Any ideas...?

Try putting the Round 18 reciever file in your directory. There's a link on a post in page 58 of this thread.

Do you want a dead Ipad 4?
Mine with it and you can very quickly!
And other note: it will generate very low Hashrate. Litecoin needs lots of computing power and lots of memory.
An i5 2nd generation with only 2GB RAM avaible generate no more than 11kH/s (I tested this)

...and Bitcoin isn't even illegal in any case, so why would they even bother trying?

Tom had distanced himself from public view to a large extent and had delegated a lot of responsibility to Dave. The post Tom made on New Years was his first in awhile, but Dave has been all over inquiries. I too would prefer to see Tom posting more often, but if he's out moving the ball down the field then I'm fine with things the way they are. I will be a whole lot less fine if there's another delay and this hosting offer is just to cushion the blow. NY isn't far from me and power is pretty cheap here, I'll babysit the hardware thanks.