I can confirm this as my sources say the same thing. Everyone was sent home and the only people still working there will be without pay from what I was told. They're still trying to salvage the Capital One deal, but I personally doubt that will happen.

That's funny. BFL tried to frame me as a simple customer service employee in the FTC case and Josh/Inaba even declared on this forum that I wasn't part of management, but yet now I am again. Huzzah! 

I have the exact same problem with mine too. Any help would also be appreciated. It acts like it wants to start, all the lights light up and then it goes into that mode and keeps losing and regaining contact with the board, but never does start hashing and just goes into an endless loop. Used it on a Win7 computer and a Ubuntu PC, same results.

I can understand that and I respect that. I only ask because I like to look at all sides of an issue and possible positive/negative audience opinion to better formulate action. It's what I do with most business decision I make, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask you as to what your objections were so I could improve/strengthen that part of the argument or realize that it is a lost cause as a whole undertaking. I understand that something like this wouldn't appeal to everyone. Thank you for your input.

Where are you getting this cult idea from? What do you think the outcome of something like this would be? You don't have to be a part of the group if you don't want to, but I think it would benefit the community at large and am interested in your opposition to such an idea.

I don't think you do get the idea and I don't understand what harm you think could come of this. It wouldn't be run by those organizations, in my ideal situation anyway, but just be a separate, non-biased, unaffiliated organization that vets the scammers out there and gives people an idea of who is legit and who isn't without digging through loads of Bitcointalk pages and Reddit. It isn't going to be the OPEC of the Bitcoin mining industry.

But you would rather solo mine with 1 GH? What does that have to do with anything written here? Or are you happy that some people are getting scammed and scammers are upping the ante because that makes your mining more profitable? I'm really struggling to see why something like this isn't necessary and wouldn't be embraced by the community since the days of bASIC, the lost Avalon chips, BFL, BFL, BFL, Cointerra underdelivering, VMC/AMC/SCAM being investigated by the MO Attorney General and going through supposedly 4 chip redesigns while people who invested have NOTHING to show for it. This is an idea that is highly overdue in this marketplace if we are ever to be considered legitimate as we already have enough recent problems with the legal issues of key players in the Bitcoin ecosystem already. Miners have been going with the idea of individual responsibility and buyer beware, etc, which is great and all, but we have seen the fruits of that approach already and they have been bittersweet or downright rottern for the majority of miners.

Thank you for the response. That might have came off a little harsher than I intended it to, but as a Bitcoin consultant I have lost my patience for these snake-oil salesman coming through town. I understand that you can only speak from your own experience and can't buy everything out there, but as you are well-known in the community your voice carries more weight than say, cedividad, (no offense intended cedividad). I respect that you didn't use your moderator powers as you could have and instead started a separate thread, which I think is commendable, but as I said your voice carries weight and it made the rounds of the internet I frequent VERY quickly.

As an aside, maybe we should have a sort of Bitcoin Miner Foundation, or something of the sort in order to give more of a voice and power to miners in some way. They can be funded by miners to buy miners and then do a whole consumer report of the whole situation. This would at least provide more transparency and accountability for our side of things. It might be a dumb idea or brought up before, but it's one I've kicked around for a bit.

Thank you for calling out Hashfast and relaying your personal experience.

So I'm just wondering, is gmaxwell going to start calling out all of the overpromising/underdelivering, cough BFL cough, hardware companies or just the one's he has money invested in and ignore the one's who have invested money in advertising here. Because there are/have been a lot of them out there and I haven't seen this kind of response until now.

Regardless, this isn't all that surprising after my initial meetings with their team before they went public. Something was just off and then I found out they claimed that someone who is actually financially backing another company financed their operations. The dog and pony show was awesome, but when it came down to it, Lil Sebastian was/is late to the party still.

These aren't based off the Monarch line of 28nm, if their website is to be believed. These are listed under the 65nm section which means someone in Florida probably bought all or most of the leftover 65nm line of chips off of BFL. Now, the question you should be asking is: Who is based in Florida who has a cozy relationship with BFL, so much so that BFL is selling their product for them? I know the answer, but I'll let someone else figure that one out. I think Syke will connect the dots. Or maybe PG...

Off to a resounding start I see...

So many things I want to say, but only one reason I can't say them. At some point I will have to decide whether to continue to stay silent for the sake of a certain person I know well who works there or write the novel that I've been planning for the better of the community... Only time will tell I guess, because it's obvious neither they nor their customers can stop themselves due to their greed.

Thanks, I was wondering if that was the case and I reseated each individual board, but it wasn't until I switched one around that it started working again. Sounds like that was my issue in some way, though. Thanks again.

Got my 100GH kit last week and everything was working great. Then comes yesterday and all of a sudden it doesn't recognize any of the hashing cards. I restart it a few times and then it shows ghost cards in slots I don't even have, going from fully populated but not hashing to random numbers of ghost cards and still not hashing. I reflashed the SD card and it didn't fix it. I went to sleep overnight and then reflashed again and it didn't show anything. I rebooted something like 4-5 times and now all of a sudden it shows the correct cards and they are hashing. Anybody know what's up with that or experience that? I've gone through about as many Bitfury threads as I can find but haven't seen something like this. I was sweating it but now it seems to be hashing at least.

EDIT: I did switch a hashing board around because I was trying everything I could to figure out what the deal was and make sure they were all seated properly. Could that have been it?

Can I be added as well too please? #432 in the queue. I think it was the same name as here too. Thanks!

Oh c'mon! 3 90's in a row and 4 out of the last 5? WTF!

I'm using CGMiner and it didn't switch over to the backup either, but thankfully I was at my computer when everything went down so I changed it manually.

True, although my backup pool didn't switch over when everything went down today. Not sure if that was my fault or CGMiner's. However, I'm staying for now.

I think I'm moving on from BitMinter to Eclipse or BTCGuild now. It's a great pool when it's working, though.

Bitminter is down right now so that's part of it. Maybe try uninstalling the device and then plugging it back in to start fresh again?

Glad I could help!

BTW, if you need to go back to the original driver I don't think you can do it from Zadig. I go to the Devices and Printers section in Windows and just rollback the driver.