I too hastily opened a walletbit account and deposited 100 BTC so that I would have it in place to pay for an order should I be able to place one.

Now I see that only 99.11 BTC is reflected in my Dashboard balance.

WTF?  Why should they charge me a fee to receive my funds?  It's not like it costs them anything.  This seems like a very shady thing to do.  Imagine if a bank tried this!  Talk about a bait and switch!

I think that walletbit was a poor choice as a payment processor on Avalon's part for the reason above.   Also because the site fell over under load, and also because it asks one to "blindly" send payment to a bitcoin address, without generating an email, or even providing so much an an order ID, payment ID, or any other kind of token aside from the bitcoin address itself.

Boo.  Walletbit--

I sent only a token "placeholder" amount to 13qVSWZbPNKjjFWDip8QAhV5qZHyz295vr for my order.  I did not want to send the fully requested amount of 75.65502117, because I was not sure the order was recorded properly.

If I send the full amount to the address above now, can I complete the order?

Thanks.

Order screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/tlaB8eM.png

I have also submitted a support ticket.

http://blockchain.info/tx/151d98824b23a3a343777153e01fe44d7936cd0c884aff9b9755d164ab010f35

Ordered 1 unit.  Sent placeholder payment to 13qVSWZbPNKjjFWDip8QAhV5qZHyz295vr.

Requested payment amount was 75.65502117 BTC.  I plan to send the rest if/when the order is confirmed.

Team Avalon, can we call this launch off already?  It's been 2.5 hours now.  I've got things to do out of the house.

Keep what orders came through, and schedule a new relaunch to sell the rest, at least 24h from now.

Thx.

I got far enough to get a payment address and QR and correct total from walletbit (as walletbit guest), but I was scared to to send the payment, as the page still had a "spinner" on it, and no order id or anything.

I didn't get an email either.

I signed up for a walletbit account now to be safer.  Do I need to deposit BTC to that account now to pay with walletbit?

Same.  I entered my shipping info and made it to bitpay once, but it showed a $3 total so I didn't pay.

I'm posting here in hopes of also securing a "place in line" based on this.

Same here, plus I have to reload the product page every time to get it to even show up.

I've tried 2 different browsers, and a browser in a VM.

This is worse than batch #1.

Team Avalon, you need to cancel today's launch now and set a new launch date.

kthx.

He's saying that in batch #2 they will sell 600 units to new customers, and will continue to make units in batch #2 available to trade-in customers even after 600 units have been ordered.

I think.

Clearly they're describing the entire device, not just the hashing modules.

I agree that the specs rightly ought to describe the power consumption of the entire device.

If I were you, I would plug it right into the grid, or into a UPS that outputs true sine wave AC.

An APC Back UPS ES outputs nasty noisy square wave AC that isn't real good for things.  I wouldn't run a computer on one myself, much less a rare and expensive ASIC miner.

I also would not trust the power measurement taken by a kill-a-watt with it plugged in through that UPS.

It's FPGAs, not ASICs.

Dave's involvement is as a hosting provider.  See the megabigpower.com thread.

BitFury was around before anyone heard of bASIC.

Sry you fail so much.

lol

Why would anyone srs buy the steaming pile that's what remains of bASIC?

They say they have their own chips of a different design, so it wasn't for the chips.

There are no customers left, so it wasn't for that.

There are plenty of liabilities left, like a lot of BTC refunds needing to be paid out.

:head scratch:

A lot of the batch 1 units (60-70%) sold quickly, but not all.  I think it may have even been 2 or 3 days until they all sold out.

That's after they fixed the technical issues and had them available to order on a working site.

Of course now that batch 1 is proven, interest may be stronger in #2.

I hope we get at least 24h notice.  Some of us work in the field some days and can't be online 24/7.

jgazrik, can you rip the firmware from the unit?

ssh in and 'cat /dev/mtd1 > mtd1', 'cat /dev/mtd2 > mtd2', etc until you have copies of all the mtds, then scp them down and post them on a file locker or something.

Thanks.

Be 'bout tree-fiddy.

Mm hmm.

I used to work at a tech company for a boss who was famous within the company for his slogan "Ship it!".  He'd say it, and we'd do it.

We shipped some hacked-together shit, and boy it's a good thing we did.  In retrospect, "ship it" was absolutely the right decision to have made every time.  It was far better to get something out the door that halfway worked, and to fix it better later than to delay and have nothing out there while we tried and tried again for perfection.

This went double for the confidence of our customers.  They by far preferred to see us doing something and getting something into their hands, even if it was hacked.

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