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1  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Butterfly Labs Forced "On Hold For Refund" for all my Single SC orders on: June 05, 2013, 01:58:01 AM
Because my council has informed me Butterfly Labs has broken the law.
I doubt that.
After you file, please feel free to tell us what law was broken.
2  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL Forced "On Hold For Refund" for all my Single SC orders on: May 16, 2013, 11:28:23 PM
While am I definitely no lawyer, I did manage a chain of retail stores for many years, and while BFL refunding the money may seem a crappy thing to do, it is legal.
There is no contract involved, just an offer and consideration. The transaction is not complete until the offer is accepted *and* consideration received. Although the price was accepted (the offer), no consideration was delivered, and the transaction is not complete.
In fact, BFL may be legally required to refund the money, regardless of their stated terms, if they can not deliver within a prescribed time period.

Also, one has to remember that no business is REQUIRED to conduct transactions with a particular individual, so long as their reasons for doing so are not discriminatory against a legally protected group (ie: not selling to someone because they are female is illegal. Not selling because they don't like your posts is not.)

I remember one incident where a guy was urinating on the front of the store next to the main entrance. After he finished, he attempted to enter the store, the manager refused to let him enter, telling them if he had no respect for the store, he was not welcome in it. He yelled, hollered, threatened, called the corporate offices and wrote letters, but despite all that, he was never allowed in the store again.

Now, it is certainly open for discussion as to whether or not BFL made a wise choice, but regardless, it is likely a legal choice.

edit: spelling
3  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Feel like defending BFL now? on: May 13, 2013, 11:21:06 PM
For those of you who don't understand.
Butterfly labs is located at that location.
The giant red bar signifies that they're pulling some
serious hashrate via their ASCIs. They're driving difficulty up
while profiting and while creating the demand for their machines.

Isn't that reaching and assuming just a teeny tiny bit?
4  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL 6 May 2013 ASIC Update on: May 12, 2013, 11:30:32 AM
Why do you look here for news rather than on BFL's forums or the BFL twitter?  Any news is posted there first.
bitcointalk.org would also be my first stop for credible information about BFL.  Compared to the to other outlets you enumerated at least.  So it's hard to hold it against ~poobah for dropping by Smiley

We're just trying to lend a brother a hand here Poob.  Some have been at it for almost a year now and have probably saved many thankful souls who've been happily and profitably hashing away rather than sitting around with their thumbs up their asses waiting for vaporware as the rest of the economy moves forward.
Yes. despite the SNR, this is the place for a complete analysis of the situation. There have been many informative posts where people have used facts and math (as opposed to photoshop), to debunk or analyze BFL claims. It's much like residents of the US going to foreign news outlets for the complete story.

Also, these forums were around long before BFL's were. (let us not forget I've been lurking here since before BFL existed).
I still have a CM1 and few GPUs chugging away (tho I only run the GPUs on cold days now)
5  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL 6 May 2013 ASIC Update on: May 10, 2013, 11:06:57 PM

Sorry, bud, you're wrong.

For every single person tired of seeing a BFL rant, maybe 5 others become informed of BFL's reputation by way of these constant shitstorms.

This is the purpose of a forum and a collective response resulting in the formation of the entity in question's reputation.

Just because you are bored reading this stuff doesn't make it any less important.  Rather than wishing to control content in these threads why not pick up a hobby or something that interests you?  Because your premise is entirely self centered.
When I see a person on any forum, thread crap on multiple threads with the same saw, I instantly classify them as someone with an axe to grind. In any BFL thread there are 4 or 5 posters who are guaranteed to show up and spout off about BFL. Such behavior only makes rational people discount your opinion.

Interesting that you choose to call me names and tell me to get a hobby, rather than address this issue, which is the god awful signal-to-noise ratio in any BFL thread.


6  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL 6 May 2013 ASIC Update on: May 10, 2013, 11:23:11 AM
For the love of god...
Does every single BFL thread have to degenerate into a troll mud slinging free for all?

I have an early July order with BFL, and look in to see if there is any new news here, and by and large I have to wade through pages and pages of utter nonsense to find 1 or 2 meaningful messages. It is ridiculous.

And yes, it may say newbie by my name, but I have been lurking here for years... I remember when Inaba was a 'respected member of the community' and how everyone was so happy that he was going to represent us and visit BFL to verify that their FPGA product wasn't a scam...

And, quite frankly, anyone considering a BFL ASIC pre-order should have known or researched the BFL FPGA debacle. Heck, i was pretty convinced that their FPGA thing was scam back then. When I made the ASIC order, I was confident it would be late, use more power (or have some other metric missing spec), but eventually be shipped. It's a calculated risk, and it has been fairly accurate.

Yes, they have made statements that weren't accurate, yes their ASIC product missed their power estimate, yes, they still are not shipping in quantity, yes, Josh seems to be missing the customer service gene, yes they are a ridiculously horrible company.....  We know. We get it, you do NOT need to pollute every last BFL thread with Josh clown pictures.

They've had my money for 10 months, I'm not exactly excited about it, but trolling on about in the forums won't make my ASIC get here any faster.

/rant
7  Economy / Marketplace / Re: WTS: Cranky Cairnsmore 1 on: May 10, 2013, 10:47:33 AM
Located in the US, no riser stuff, i will include the USB cable.
Thanks
8  Economy / Marketplace / WTS: Cranky Cairnsmore 1 [SOLD] on: May 10, 2013, 12:21:46 AM
Cairnsmore Issue 1.1

Seems to have gotten 'cranky' over the past few months, I need to restart bfgminer once a day or more, and every few days cycle power on the board itself. Most of the crankiness seems to be Windows losing the serial port (popping out the USB cable and re-inserting seems to cure it).

Currently running the hashvoodoo dynamically clocked bitstream, other bitstreams loaded at your request.

$250+ ship BTC or paypal.

Will be shipped in original box

thanks!




9  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner: Where can I get Quartus? on: May 09, 2013, 11:07:16 PM
Have you tried going to Altera's website?
10  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Offering PayPal for Bitcoin? You're likely to be labeled a scammer - Read why on: May 02, 2013, 10:47:20 PM
Paypal will do whats best for paypal.
11  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What do you think about ftc? on: May 02, 2013, 10:43:32 PM
no
12  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Subjects You're Having A Hard Time Researching on: May 02, 2013, 10:43:06 PM
isn't there an equation for RGB colors to B&W?
13  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How long until I can post outside the newbie area? on: May 02, 2013, 10:42:11 PM
ugh
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