Negative, orders need to be honored.

I wonder if someone started attacking walletbit to try and piss everyone off. Maybe someone that already has an avalon unit and wouldn't want others to get their hands on one? Dun dun dunnnnn

Wow... I'm just hoping they save my place and don't try and refund my money. What a nightmare.

Who wants to buy my chance of a spot? I'll sell it cheap.

Does anyone know how many confirmations are needed? I hate having $4k in limbo and it has a confirmation on the block chain and walletbit is still spinning...

Never used walletbit before, how long before my order is confirmed? 1 confirmation?

It is only letting me buy 3.

wtf I have 20 of them in my cart and it says nothing in my cart.

avalonnnnnn!

Jeff Garzik's Avalon doesn't mine bitcoins?

Theymos I'm getting them too. Before my previous post, the entire website was down, 502 for 20-30 minutes. It has just become available again after another 10-15 minutes of only 502 errors.

You can do all of that on the testnet blockchain. Point some miners at it, and see it work. You said you see a lot of code for back end. Yes, that's right. Are there any stratum open source projects? That's where you need to go with ASIC's appearing in the wild now.

There is no good front end and no open source secure one. You'll need to do the front on by yourself. That's what all the big players have done and most of their back ends are proprietary as well. If you can't build bitcoin from source and don't even know where to start, you should probably move on right now.

The only way you could probably really attract a crowd is offering PPS and you'll need plenty of coin to front until you can build some hash behind you and start getting some blocks.

There were a few minutes of down time. Maybe some people left. Wait until another peek time.

Theymos, do you have any say bandwidth stats that show when the forums are the most heavily used?

I know they all weren't good or usable, but something like the icons the way it explained it seemed like it could be super helpful.

Just like litecoin couldn't be mined with a GPU. Ooops. You mean, no one has made an ASIC yet because there is no market/profit for it. If that ever changes, there will be ASIC's for litecoin. I don't think that Litecoin = bitcoin so probably won't see one.

Now something like TRC, those are ready built for ASIC's and their network isn't very strong to start. Hopefully some firm believers in coins like that will protect their networks.

At this point if you are trying to mine the most coins (not make the most profit) I would say you have to go with Avalon. They have a product and you can have it in your hands in a month or two. BFL is promising April if you order today. You can mine more coins getting your hands on it now. Once everyone has ASIC's, you need the power efficiency that BFL promises. However, BFL could arguably have the worst track record on a product that doesn't yet exist.

I say mine the most coins because look at it this way. If you had plopped down $1300 worth of bitcoins for BFL's product in June when they started taking pre orders, those same coins today are worth almost $5000. If you're trying to make money and believe in what BTC is and will become, you're better taking your cash and buying coins today IMHO.

Site had a bad gateway for a second but it's even faster now.

There were some slow spots but things have picked up. Hope my suggestions URL I posted didn't cause too many problems, doesn't sound like the avatar function helped that much.

You may want to consider some nginx tuning as well if you haven't already tried.

Isn't the chance of some super group of ASIC's coming from behind and eating up the entire block chain non-existent because with each new release we lock in the block chain? They might be able to go back x number of blocks but not swallow the whole thing up.

I've already update my signature to this:

Invest in Silver - https://bitfunder.com/asset/TU.SILVER
TU.Silver Forum Thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137459.0

I'll change it to whatever you like that's legal.

I've already done it and bid 2.5 BTC

It's sad that he won't be clear about what is going on. He may have spent the money on misc. business functions and can't refund it. Think about what the charge backs cost. That's purely speculation of course. Obviously he didn't set out to scam people and he probably doesn't have a dime in his pocket for all the time and effort he has put into this whole thing. He probably got screwed by someone promising him chips.

The whole thing is very sad. But he does deserve a tag for sure. People have paid money and not been delivered to or refunded.

Typically when someone bolds something they are never wrong. I had to read this a couple of times, but obviously you've thought this out.

I think it's awesome that they delivered ANYTHING before their deadline. Sure, they don't have all the units out, but this is sure a hell of a lot more than what BFL had to show by the end of October. 3 months later we still have stories from them. I'll follow along and say I don't think BFL is taking the money and running, they just don't know how to really make one and it's taking them a lot longer than anticipated.

Congrat's to team avalon.

I searched the forums but didn't really find anything like this.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=293441.0

Don't know how much you've tuned what you've already got here but the first couple of suggestions are supposed to help significantly. Some simple and good ones, some that wouldn't work too well here.