It's not the first time he has been accused being in bed with fraudsters...

Excellent summarizing...
This is typical behavior of fraudsters. They spend peoples money to keep the appearance up that they are for real with prototypes or other parts etc. and at the point everything is starting to fall apart (i.e. too many refunds or not enough preorders) they disappear.



I doubt that they'll ever start mass shipping.
Even if they are genuinely trying, they will most likely go under being so unexperienced running a business and having missed the race completely, hit by massive refund requests or wasting the money they still have on yet a bunch of other screw-ups.

What did you expect from a bunch (ex) conmen with no, or little real-life work experience?

FTC?
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov

Geez PG...

Then you must be BFL as well then, since you (and billion others) use SP when writing. I do that as well... unless I'm writing something more official papers (legal/business etc). Although the formal way is DS, few if any would probably notice or care if you use SP.

i will most likely go, if possible, as i live in stockholm.

Then you haven't made your homework.

They won't.

Yea, feels kind of silly, taking delivery times into account, to buy mars only to send it back after 2-3 months (unless someone plans to stick with it).

Mars

This device will be the first mass produced product and is available for purchase in the next few days. The key details around this device are as follows:

    Over 6GH/s
    48x IC CYCLONE IV FPGA 115K on board chips  See the sites below for more details on the chips we will be using in our Mars product.
    30% Improvement in hashing rate over standard Implementation
    Fan cooled with 48 heat sync’s and fans plus two case fans producing a cooling tunnel across the chips
    Modular design (we will carry this design throughout all of our products)
    USB attachment (software will be provided)
    Shipment begins on mass in just over 2 months.
    Earn coins while you are waiting in the queue for Jupiter
    External ATX power will be required (we will provide a recommended list)
    Upgrade protection built in to any Mars purchase with vouchers for up to $2000 off of any Jupiter purchase.
    Last but not least, any purchase of the Mars product automatically reserves you the same place in the order queue for the Jupiter product. The queue reservation will last 30 days.
    For more information about the chips used you can use the following links
        http://www.buyaltera.com/scripts/partsearch.dll?Detail&name=544-1468-ND
        http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?x=18&y=12&lang=en&site=us&KeyWords=EP4CE115F23C8N


Jupiter

This device is being designed in parallel by the OrSoC engineers. It will offer industry leading performance and power consumption per GH. The final specifications for this device are being ironed out now but we can confirm the following:

    Minimum 250GH/s per device
    7000-8000 USD predicted price
    48 Chips (which are being designed exclusively for KnCMiner by ORSoC).
    An additional gain of 30% more hashing when the advanced algorithms provided by ORSoC are applied.
    Water cooled setup.
    Modular Design allowing for expansion at a later date.
    Embedded Linux device to allow for standalone mining.
    Shipment begins in early autumn.

Kano didn't talk about KNC, he talked about the meet with ORSoC.

one chip instead of two... priceless!
No wonder that they tried to keep it a secret.

lmao!

You think Apple CEO would show you any hardware designs or their offices if you ask (my company doesn't let any external person to enter the office, we have external meeting rooms)?
But if you google the company name and his name I'm sure you'll find pictures of both himself as well as previous products the last 5-10 years.

Being realistic I'd say: not going to happen.

Someone explain to me, why Paypal would even care. They get payed for the shipping service (the more units shipping the better?) and any chargeback period of money sent through paypal have already expired?

In due time.

People can say what they want about them, but they are one of the best at coming up with excuses. 

Not sure if already discussed (too lazy to read through the whole thread right now, sorry).
How about GPU miners that might move away when profit is close to 0 for them?

edit:
Nice work, an interesting read!

Based on the fact that it's a FPGA costing $90,000 for 110 Ghash/s, takes a magnum truck to ship and a nuclear power plant to run, I'd say it's a high probability that it's legit.

Damn, we were 2 short of the prediction!
A bit slow... just like Josh.

nhaaa... will stop trolling now.