OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PG IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FOUND HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What? no reward??

In which case you would also need to know their exact orderbook at that time, along with the total increase in network speed that would occur prior to you receiving your equipment along with your current mining receipts from that time until now to prove you hadn't spent anything (since most will claim the 10x increase in BTC pricing as a loss as well). You'd probably need a lot more as well, like estimates on the drop in BTC price due to the flood of extra coins on the market while the difficulty tries to keep up while more than double the normal amount of coins is mined.

Sure looks like a slam dunk to me... NOT!

Judge: Did you read the contract before you signed it?
Plaintiff: Well, I read part of it
Judge: So you did not read this part here...
Plaintiff: No
Judge: Case Dismissed... NEXT!

Very nice, glad it all worked out, BUT, what if the inventory orders you had made was on a truck that slid off the road and was unable to make your delivery?  Your story ended up with a successful ending due to forethought and you were lucky not to have any disasters, mine was a near disaster due to things beyond our control (which an overturned truck would have been for you).  There was a report a while back about a package they received that had been broken open in shipment and they only got something like 29% of their order (I could be off a bit).  This could be the long term effect of that shipment, you never know.

You have the luxury of dreaming of a picture perfert world where nothing goes wrong and when reality doesn't live up to the dream you place blame in what could end up being the wrong place.  I see missing facts, so while you could be right, you equally could be wrong.

Hmmm.... 20 years Navy... so best I can be is a Sea lawyer... why?

Define Pre-Order.

Not sure what you are reading, but I see a post that basically says "So, you think you'll get rich? Think again and here's why"

They carefully explain what happens as the difficulty increases and what to expect at each level.

I see no delivery dates and no promises.  When was the last time you had your eyes checked?  (It would be impolite to imply you need your head checked after all).

You are only partially correct.  Having worked for McDonalds I can attest they have multiple freezers with the largest one being downstairs.  The freezer holding the  daily hamburgers and 1/4 pounders hold ~4 boxes of each and when low someone runs downstairs to get more.  The french fry freezer hold the bags taken from the boxes brought up from downstairs.

Now, a true story.  The town I worked in had a railroad line that cut through the middle of town.  If anything happened and a train broke down, there were a few underpasses that could be gotten to.  There was also a seldom used branch off the main line that if a train broke down on would cut ~20% of the town off from the rest.  One night this happened and during the normal rush hour for the evening we were only seeing 5-10 people an hour.  The manager, ever cost concious, ended up sending everyone home except the 4 people who would close the store at the end of the night.  I was cooking hamburgers and the Manager and 2 others were running the registers.  When the train finally got fixed and moved, we were packed.  I had upwards of 80 patties on the grills non-stop for 3 hours.  When the little freezer ran out, I had to have the manager run downstairs to get me more as I could not leave or I'd have charcoal on the grill.  I could not even take the time to prepare Filet-o-Fish or Apple and Cherry pies, the manager had to to them as well as wrap everything I sent up to him and try to keep the french fries flowing.  I was balls to the walls on the grills and buns and couldn't thik about ANYTHING else.  If the manager could not get me more product, we would have been dead in the water until I was out of everything I could cook and go get more.  You want a filet? Gotta wait.  Apple pie? Gotta wait.  When things slowed down to where we could breathe, the manager took a reading of sales and compared it to the charts.  The burgers I cooked during that 3 hour period should have taken a minimum of 7 people to do.  No floors got mopped, no bathrooms got cleaned, no trash got taken out.

So, spare me your unknowing diatribes about how the analogies are incorrect.  Until you have been there, you are clueless.

My understand from reading about the VPS' is that one wallet with 10,000+ 'addresses' can be used on multiple systems and thus you only need to check 1 to see all.  Since I have 5 wallets on 5 systems, I have to manually check each system to see if it mined anything or not.  Call me lazy, but I prefer not ro run from computer to computer throughout the house checking balances daily.

Thank you for informing us of the situation.  I know I for one can agree that life can affect how you treat others.  I often wish I could go back and apologize to the people that dealt with me when I was going through my divorce, I even got sent to anger management because of it.  I truly hope that things work out and that you are able to shed your bitterness in the future.  Godspeed.

OMG, did I just see UNDERSTANDING??? Wow, that must have been a typo!

One thing to consider... what if the report just ends up making BTC and BFL more well known?  It could happen.

Good Morning Readers!
    While I'd like to be able to report some news this morning, all has been quiet here of late.  There has been no word from ReCat explaning the discrepancy in his 'facts' as we reported yesterday, though several readers did kindly make posts to show support for both sides in this story.  The ball as they say is in ReCat's court and we await his response.

    Along those same lines, we reached out to mtrlt and asked if he would be ameanable to answering a couple of questions.  Last time I checked he had not been online since that request was made.  We'll keep you updated.

That is all we have for now, thank you again gentle readers for following us.

In time a GPU miner will be created, it's just like trying to juggle 10 balls at once... if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.  The individuals inate abiliy combined with a drive to succeed will determine the length of time this will take.

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

Sorry, gas...

1) Has anyone compiled a guestimate of the amount of pre-orders.
2) I did a breakdown in a previous thread I cannot find ATM.  Worked out to an average .1TH per BFL order and ~70k orders using the ~4900 known orders.
3) Refunds were not taken into account due to lack of information.
4) Monarchs were considered the "and rising"

I am neither a sock-puppet nor a troll.  I cannot help it if you lack the vision to see the future.  In addition, I have the same right to be here as you do.

Counting on a rise in the exchange rate is inevitable.  As more and more systems come online and difficulty climbs ever higher, people are going to start realizing that selling at current prices is going to eventually stop paying for the cost of electricity.  When that happens, more and more people will begin asking higher prices and refusing to sell at the piddly bids people are hoping to get cheap bitcoins with today.  The people I refer to as the 'instant gratification' crowd will be selling their coins as fast as they get them, frantically thinking they must or they will lose out.  The calmer heads out there will simply scoop up these coins and wait.  The panic selling of mining equipment will inevitably follow as people try to get some meager return on their investment selling at lower and lower prices, thinking the game is up.

Why not get a refund and buy BTC?  You're *REALLY* think the people so desperate about declining RoI will have the patience to sit on BTC??  Wow.

One last thing... *I* did not use the term idiot... you did.

I will admit that I don't undertand the fermat test well... my brain locks up at The triple bar, ≡, and the set membership symbol (∈).  :/