7 @ 2.75

I can't seem to get the new version of Armory to work.  I just downloaded .88-1 and it sits at Synchronizing with Network 99% 0 blocks forever.  Occasionally bitcoind will crash.

Armory was working fine prior to upgrading. 

Lots of the rigs have cards go inactive fairly often.  I reset them when I notice them, but it's fairly difficult to manage so many damned cards.  9% seems a little high, I will have to take a look at the most problem units and see how often and how many cards go down.  Normally I would pull the unit and replace it, but I kept thinking "We are replacing it with ASICs next week, it would be silly to pull it down and have it not mining for a day or two."

We all know how that worked out so far... /sigh 

The good news is, the ASICs are rock @#$@ solid so far and very heat tolerant, so once the units are replaced with ASICs that problem should go away.  I will look further into it to be sure something else isn't amiss though. 

If anyone wants to cash in shares for a physical unit, please do!

Overall, I would say the average for a Minirig is closer to 23 - 23.5 GH/s not 25, on average.  Some overperform, but most are underperforming on average due to cards going flakey.

In this case, it's not overbroad... just look at all the rambling, frothing complaining that goes on here against BFL.  No amount of apologizing will silence the people who just like to complain and stir up trouble.  They aren't interested in apologies, just drama.  CreativeX, PuertoLibre, Smoothie, et al.  They are irrational and motivated purely by drama.  Common sense, logic and rationality was lost on them long, long ago. 

I don't know if this really addresses your problem directly, but when dealing with a lot of singles on one machine, I've found that occasionally one single will be *really* noisy on the USB bus for some reason.  Removing that unit from the USB chain solves issues with all the other units.  You can sometimes connect it to it's own USB chain on another port and things are fine or split your units into two rigs, putting the noisy unit on a chain with less units.  I had a devil of a time keeping over 40 singles running until I split them up and put the noisy units on a chain of 20 instead of all 40 on one chain, then the units were rock stable.

What about them?  Customers who are reasonable and polite get the same in return.  What's your point?  I have even gone beyond what's required on numerous occasions for people who approach in a polite and respectful manner.  Frothing idiots like Pizza get something very different.


Then stop demanding hard and fast timeframes for things that we can't give hard and fast timeframes for.  Simple as that.  I say multiple times "We aren't sure when <fill in the blank>" and a chorus of people respond back "BUT GIVE US AN ESTIMATE!!!!"  Repeat that about 20x and that describes the past 6+ months.  Like I said earlier in this thread (or maybe it was another one) - the timelines were doled out long before I came on board with BFL.  I have worked with what I was handed for this product cycle.  Future product cycles, assuming I have the final authoritative say in the matter, will not contain shipping dates or definitive timelines.  The one and only answer to "When?" is "When it's done." If you get something other than that from me on future product cycles, you'll either get it by that date or I have been overridden in my stance of not providing dates.  I fully realize this statement will probably sneak up and bite me in the ass at some unspecified future date due to reasons I can't possibly imagine at the moment.


Sorry, but we haven't lied.  Have we been wrong?  Yes, absolutely, and I have apologized many times over for that.  I am, however, tired of apologizing.  It does not mollify anyone and I can't fix it; it is what it is at this point and I will manage the situation as it is, not as I (and everyone else) wish it were.

Block 232352 should be fixed now.  Not sure why it got suck... high transaction volume I think.

Anyway, with regards to SD, I disabled it awhile ago to fix some issues with block propagation and then never re-enabled it.  I don't have anything in particular against SD and I'll get it re-enabled again when I get some time.

Now multiply that by 1000 and that's what we have to deal with regularly.  Whiny people who want a free handout.  See next reply for more on this:


Perhaps oddly (for you) I agree with your statement 100%.  You have been raised to believe that the customer is always right and you think that a company should treat you like royalty, no matter how poorly you behave or how unreasonable your demands are.  It's ok, it's part of your culture and a horrible, horrible business modality that is held over from the 80's.  Modern businesses are just now starting to realize that treating customers like royalty and bending over backwards to pacify them is detrimental not only to current business but also future business.  Not only does it cost more money to retain poor customers, but it encourages other customers to whine and pitch a fit to get their way, perpetuating a horrible cycle.  It also forces an ongoing cost to maintain that customer that is often in excess, usually many times over, in what revenue that customer brings in.  

As much as I hate using Paypal as an example, they have got it right, from a profit driven perspective.  If you are a troublesome user, they will send you an email saying "We no longer want to do business with you.  We won't discuss why. blah blah blah"  Then they will close your account and that's the end of it.  They simply don't care.  Try to call them and ask, they'll tell you they won't discuss it.  The reason is: You are unprofitable.  They don't want you.  Ever.  Hate them as much as you want (I do), but they absolutely dominate the industry with regards to profits.  This business modality is a large part as to why.

At the end of the day, when you tally the balance sheet, it's far better to jettison those customers than it is to keep them.  Now, if your goal is to be altruistic and a philanthropic or non-profit company, then perhaps that's the way to go.  If your goal is to be a profitable company:  See ya!

It is if the balls touch.

So I hope this thread is explanation enough as to why Pizza's thread on the BFL forums was removed... basically more of the same as seen here.

While I actually support a project like this and I hope it (or something very much like it) succeeds, I find it somewhat funny that you claim to be "ASIC HOSTILE - Decentralized mining is the only workable solution" in your signature while also proposing building a mining ASIC along the same lines of Avalon and BFL.  Cognitive Dissonance much?

Nope, I did not commit to that, either.  When I commit to something, you'll know it. 

PS - I'm not a project manager and never have been (paid or otherwise).  Battin' 0 here partner.

I'm asking you to back up your statements with evidence.  You are lacking said evidence while you're making statements that are not factual.  I am attempting to force you into providing said evidence to prove that you aren't making shit up.

_I_ know you're making shit up, but not everyone else does.  It's better if you make this clear to everyone than me just saying you're making shit up.  I notice that you still haven't provided any posts for any type of wager I have allegedly made, according to you.

There's little point in responding specifically to these paragraphs, as I think you may be finally getting a glimmer of understanding when it comes to the difference between what you believe (or want to believe) and reality.  You may believe these things, and that's fine.  You're welcome to believe whatever you want.  That just makes you wrong and gullible.  Making statements that things are facts, when that are not facts, however, is the problem.  As long as you preface your goofy statements with "I believe," then we don't have a problem, the problem starts when you state "You are doing X" and you have no proof or evidence for this.  Be like CreativeX all you want, you can believe things without evidence or proof, that just makes you stupid and/or ignorant.

Really?  Please point it out?  Or are you lying about that?

Yes, Conman and Kano should be getting their units next week as well as Bitminter, among a number of others.

Sure, why don't you quote some posts of mine on the subject.

You do realize that real businesses that do a large amount of transactions with Paypal have account reps assigned to them specifically... sort of like a concierge service, right?  Oh, no, that's right.. you live in a shack in San Antonio and have a failed Computer Repair business and you buy women's handbags on the side... I guess you wouldn't know anything about doing business on a scale beyond a few dollars here and there, would you?  

Do you honestly think Paypal is unaware that our business involves hardware that is related to Bitcoin?  Seriously?

A) It's not a wager
B) The probability turned out to be zero, so even if it were a wager, it didn't happen.

So you perpetuated a lie.  Thanks for confirming proving my point.

See, Yajaira D Guevara, this is why you're so pathetic.  You make statements like this.  Who says we issue refunds of thousands of dollars?  Your warped little mind?  We get very little refund requests in the grand scheme of things.  I know you desperately want it to be true that people are asking for refunds in droves, but it's simply not the case.  This is why I know a large majority of the whiny brats that cry about BFL still maintain their pre-orders.  Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if you had a stealth order yourself, just like Frizz, but until there's evidence of that, I'll give you props for being one of the few trolls who actually doesn't have a pre-order.

You just go on advocating fraud there, Yajaira.  You are a real stand up guy!  Not only a liar, but a thief and fraudster as well, GG!

There's a reason "should" is the first word of your quote.  lrn2grmr