Yeah, 'chill'.  Seriously, they know what they are doing.  They will deliver on time and on spec.  You can take that uncertainty out of the equation. 

Most criminals don't see it that way.  Justifying their crimes with clever imagination doesn't reduce the burden they dump upon their neighbors one tiny bit.  We all end up paying for your bullshit.  Taking electricity from educational institutions makes it 10 worse.

Stealing from our universities!  Brilliant.  That is an excellent lesson to teach your kids.  

You know those universities and all of society still have to pay for that electricity and that consumption takes away from other areas the university could use the funds?  That electricity does not just come free out of thin air.  It really has to be paid for.  Just because it is hard to account for this consumption doesn't mean it is somehow 'free'.

Is burdening our universities with this extra expense really worth the few pennies in bitcoin you will receive?  The one part of society that can least afford loss of resources is our educational system.

What a dick.

I invite the entire bitcoin hashing community to call out this bad and criminal behavior of using other people's 'free' electricity.  This is mere theft of a profoundly irresponsible nature.  Please stop stealing electricity for hashing.

Look, I already waited to see what they did.  They said: "Seriously, we know what we are doing.  It will be in spec and on time."  Now it is not.  We saw what they did.  There is nothing to wait for.  Its done.

The deal is this, I am 100% sure Spondoolies guys are 100% awesome.  They are good guys I am sure.  But, they spend a lot of time saying: 'for sure on spec, on time'.  You can't say that stuff with so much certainty and then be amazed about the backlash.  The backlash is due.  

No matter what compensation package they give, preparations were made and money was spend.  this is going to cost datacenter operators real money.  Expecially those who believed in Spondoolies big confident talk.  

Spondoolies only has one way to make good on the deal.  They must STFU, go in the lab, make an SP50 and release it early and at cost to their SP30 customers.  SP30 customers don't want refunds, they don't want excuses, they don't want coupons, they want serious fucking hash power.  ST needs to man up, admit their confidence was misplaced, and make good by bringing a perfect monster machine SP50.  All SP30 customers will be 100% pleased if they get early access to next gen at a great price.  

Everyone happy.

 

That's pretty funny.  That's what you said the last time.  Maybe another unexpected problem will come up.

Maybe you can say: "They will definitely be on spec.  Or the won't"

Calling me a troll is raging bullshit. 

Spondoolies brought this on themselves by posting no fewer than thirty times with extreme confidence that it would be on time and on spec.  You can't write: 'trust us, we know what we are doing' and not expect some heat when you fuck it all up. 

Trolling is one thing - getting called out for fucking up the deal is completely different.  Whether I have orders or not, doesn't matter.  What matters is spondoolies was blowing their horn of certainty mighty hard before they showed up with nil. 

Learn what a troll is before you shoot at me.  But first, get your ass in the lab and fix that shit you built under spec.  The people have had enough of sending their money to big mouth who really don't know how to build things.

lol!  

Spondoolies said with supreme confidence - they would deliver on time and on spec.  Well, unless something doesn't go right that is.  joke.

I bought a $100,000 joke. Again.  There is no need to trust these guys.  Words are cheap.  Its the guy who sends the money that gets screwed every time.  Spondoolies will say anything.  

I actually believed it would be a Hamas missile that would ruin this deal.  Up to the very end, I didn't think it would be technical incompetence which would end up spoiling everything.  What a royal pig fuck.  Lies, lies, then more lies.


Seriously, we know what we're doing - we're fucking the customers with even more lies!!!

Please allow me to clarify: I am mad I didn't get in on the fantasy SP30s - you know, the ones that don't exist.  The actual SP30s you know, the ones that don't perform, I am not so upset I missed those.

This is just another way of softly stating bankruptcy.  They will try to distribute their 'limited resources' to 'all the creditors' as 'compensation'.  

Look, when you spend shitloads of money on these things based upon firm promises of delivery (including, delivery of performance promised), you get really pissed.  

I spend a ton of money setting up a data center based upon spondoolies firm promise of certain efficiency, speed, quality.  they advertised with EXTREMELY high level of certainty they'd be different than the other guys.  

Suspending sales and making that announcement about compensation isn't a small thing.  It is a big thing based on a big shortcoming.  Even though they might move mountains to please customers, they can't create money from thin air.  They have surely spent everything getting this running.  They don't have money to give back.  

Spondoolies made the strongest promise of delivery imaginable.  Now, they are in trouble just like all those before them.  Even with their very good intentions, they appear to now have a serious miscalculation which will effect my operational plans.  

That's not 'trolling'.  Is it true that everything said against your beloved spondoolies is trolling?

But it will be way under hash rate, way over power, way later than expected.  We've all seen this story over, and over again.  Spondoolies isn't unique in thinking they could do the job - what is unique is their supreme confidence in bragging about being able to deliver.  Now, we see the exact same problem the others had, 'we are going to spend a few days looking at the data'.  This is precisely the step BFL took upon firing up their new systems.

Even butterfly labs had good intentions.  Then, when trying to 'fix' the problem they spent shitloads of money and went broke. 

Same thing going on here.  Spondoolies will spend all their profits and more trying to get this 'right' - and go broke and not deliver.  'Trust us, we know what we are doing.  We will deliver"  "Wait a minute, the simulations didn't work out"

Are you fucking crazy?  Those Hamas assholes killed 3 teenagers.  I don't care how fucking much you don't like Israel, there is going to be a serious backlash when you decide to take lives like that.  I say, let the Jews open fire on the sons of bitches.  Everyone has a right to defend themselves - even if you don't like Jews, they sure the fuck don't have to stand by and take that shit from Gaza.  Time to bulldoze all of Gaza.  The place is a nothing more than a raging hell hole dump anyway.

sorry to hear about it Meni - but you've got to admit, you're a fucking wierdo trying to hold such an event in a war zone.  TelAviv just isn't suitable for business.  That's a fact.  Won't be for another 50 years.  If you guys don't smash every last one of those Palestinians, they are going to come back at you like cockroaches over and over again.  Maybe move to TelAviv West (Manhattan)?  At least they haven't had a serious attack in 12 years.

This is shocking!  Do they think that because they shipped at least one Neptune by Q1/Q2 that they have met their timeline obligation?  That is totally absurd.  'Ontime and overspec' is their claim with this performance?  What if they take another 12 months to deliver the remaining Neptunes?  They still claim to meet their timeline?  I've got a feeling customers aren't going to stand by forever.  Probably time for serious action.

Thanks Meni, but that is what I am afraid of. 

You could improve your list by including a link to those companies' commerce pages where the bitcoin is used.

Further, the companies who joined the list as the 'largest' at the time bitcoin acceptance began deserve special recognition.  Give them a star or something. 

All the clever explanations in the world wouldn't convince me.  It is a fucking war with bombs going off.  No matter what level of 'hey, everything is OK via Iron Dome', I am happy I cancelled my trip.  Israel is a god-damned war zone surrounded by people who swear they will wipe it from the map.  Not a great place to visit for business if you're asking me.

Could hve fooled me.