I asked the people in his signature whom he had successful transactions with.  Luckily one had kept the box from him and that was the return address.  The box was postmarked from Lightning Ridge so even if the name and box number is fake he is in that area.  I am following up on whatever lead I can.

(I filed a police report but doubt they are going to do anything.)

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Offgrid mining pictures (where he lives?)

I have a 1.7Kw offgrid solar power setup, where I am its a remote mining town in lightning ridge Australia.

I run 4x icarus and a 5850 from my array.

Its not a cheap option, but it works, the array cost about 6-7K but I needed it for power in the first place, so now I just 'sell' my excess power through bitcoin mining.

You couldnt run a GPU farm economically but fpgas work fine.  I get 1.5GH/sec @ 100w from the fpgas and 350MH/sec @ 100w from the GPU.

I also have wireless internet, so im not connected to any form of power or land line internet.

kind regards

was supposed to send me a hd 7950.  i sent him 150 in btc and was going to send more during a pay off period. he sent me a fake shipping number. I was able to create my own shipping number  that says international shipping, but it does not have any events just like the one he sent me. it has been over 2 weeks since he has responded to one of my pm's.

cheers for the lack of public information concerning the validity that Butterfly labs is a legitimate business, and for the waffle to avoid sounding like your just insulting..

so back to the main question.. public records??
trademarks
incorporation details
state registry details

you know the public stuff.. I am not asking for the intellectual property stuff that should remain a secret..
you can keep the KFC colonels secret recipe a secret..
just where's the public record stuff..

you know the stuff that should be in your employment contract so you can show the IRS when you pay taxes on the income BFL give you.

its not that hard to muster up...

best bet is to just own up that BFL in simple terms is a 'living room' industry. you do not design the microchips, you use ready made technology(FPGA) designed by third parties and slap your brand name on it.
but i dont require the intricate details of your manufacturing secrets.

so lets just stick with the public record stuff

trademarks
incorporation details
state registry details - tax - permits etc etc etc

<wait for more waffle with no public information provided>

....unless you could use the card for other GPU projects, gaming, or business.

While I think it is really shady to be taking pre-orders this early and tie up peoples money (at 1% a week from the regular lenders, that's an extra bit of change) for all that time with no release date...  but I bet a lot of people will order anyway if you just provide this basic proof requested..

the left top fan is a Noiseblocker BlackSilentPro PE-P 92mm. the right one is a Noctua NF-B9 PWM.
I would say the noctua is quiter, but it is hard to say cause there is not that much difference at all.
I'd guess both fans are running at full speed as they are connected to the BFL Single.