Concur.

Count the errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, typos, use of CAPS, spacing, etc, and compare to his posts from November and earlier.

Sure, the earlier ones aren't 100% clean either, but I see a marked difference.

I believe you can request shipping via EMS instead.  Send Yifu an email.

I wish BoB would use descriptive URLs like that, and also include the bet title in the html <title>.

mm hmm.


With BFL scheduled to ship 10-Feb, those two statements (both from the same post) would seem to contradict each another.

I guess Tom somehow "knows" that BFL will be delayed past the end of March?

I'm surprised he's not cashed in much on his special knowledge: http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=701

DHL Express is special in that for many countries they have Customs agents for the destination country actually on the planes, clearing the cargo as it's en route.

That's one way they're able to be so awesomely fast.

So they took every one out of its shipping container, unwrapped it completely, and set it naked on the shelf jammed up next to its cousins?

At least they put some boards and sheets of foam or something down on those steel Nexel shelves.

Maybe it's business as usual in China on Sundays?  I guess I don't know, myself.

I do know that DHL Express will provide Sunday delivery in the US, by request.

Way to add some value to the discussion.  I've quoted the parts I liked.

Forum still on lockdown.

No explanation for the chip delay.

Many refunds still outstanding (were any BTC refunds at all given since Friday the 11th?)

Oh, but we get plenty of empty hyperbole.  "HURRY HURRY STEP RIGHT UP!  THIS HERE IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY!  THESE BABIES ARE GOING FAST!  GET 'EM QUICK BEFORE THEY'RE GONE GONE GONE!"

Good luck with that.


Here: http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=1116
Also: http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=1128

Wow.  First y'all clamor for pics, demos, and whatnot.  Then as soon as one post is made in response, we get:




Y'all really are superior trolls.

Tell you what.  I'll post some pics of mine next week and show it mining on eligius.

http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/1P69J7PU2w9DhRJnWDVxQVY8kKzt69QdoS

That's my GPU rig right now.  Soon I expect the graph to look very different.

It's to come with it's own on-board miner host.  All you need to do is plug Avalon into a DHCP-enabled LAN, configure using a browser (presumably), and you're mining.

I believe internally it's to run cgminer or bfgminer (I forget which), and is to be all open source and friendly so you can connect your own miner host if you wish instead of using the onboard one.

Countdown at: http://www.avalon-asics.com/

Looks like it's set for Sunday 20-Jan 12:00 PM UTC, which is Sunday 20-Jan 8:00 PM CST (China Standard Time).

I guess I was too subtle.

I was referring to the recent collapse of bASIC.  I believe they also outsourced almost everything, and did not have much in the way of in-house engineering expertise.

Outsourcing can work, but you absolutely have to stay on top of managing it and do your homework so that you can understand the effort you're managing.  It certainly bears more risk than using an in-house team.

I would rather they spend their energy on fulfilling orders than making photo galleries or writing forum posts.

They say everything's on track and they're shipping in less than 3 days.  I don't feel the need to ask for more information.  I think all of the important questions have been answered.

All I need now is just a little more patience.

Were refunds promised to anyone who requested one?

Yes: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79637.msg1163190#msg1163190

If this promise is not honored, I would call that fraud.

OMFG JFC STFU already, six pages of this garbage, in addition to the pages strewn through the other threads.

I swear, if I were a mod, I would delete every new post concerning this topic.  It's been beat to death and back ten times over.

I think I heard that same story not too long ago...

What none of these ASIC vendors seem eager to point out to us is that the process of making an ASIC is not just a linear set of steps, but has conditional branching statements.  Something like:

1: Design
2: Simulate
3: Produce a prototype on MPW, get it wirebound and packaged, then delivered.
4: Test the prototype.  If testing fails, go to step 1.
5: Full wafer production, etc, more steps.

The hard part is getting past step 4.

That one.  (In bold above.)



Um, the batch of chips that was received in December was a full-wafer run.  I believe Josh mentioned 100k chips.

The ones with the major overheating and clock stability issues.

Not just a random felon.

This isn't some guy who copped an felony record because he got caught smoking meth.

Sonny played a key role in an international mail fraud operation that fleeced an enormous number of innocent victims out of quite a few MILLIONs of dollars, over the course of YEARS, and involved many co-conspirators.

As for disclosure, I think BFL has been forthright enough about it.  When asked point blank if their Sonny was the same Sonny named in the court documents, Josh confirmed it.

Now that you know this, you are free to cancel based on this information.

This is bitcoin, it's the wild west.  It's not like your pre-order was a NYSE registered security that came with a giant prospectus filled of every disclosure possible.