I live in hongkong, I know where the company is located the black arrow. if you want me to help, take care of pre-orders, please inbox. we can talk further.  Name: clubminer
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Date Registered: January 12, 2014, 12:13:07 PM
Last Active: February 19, 2014, 11:52:08 PM I'm the first to vet this guy, and he looks...puff, puff...cool to...puff, hold........... exhale, puff...me. We only need 4 more people to concur and we'll have the very fist quintuple-vetted Bitcoiner. miner in his name. CHECK! club in his name, thus an honest poker player. CHECK! Registered in 2014, the Year of the Horse. CHECK! 19 is a prime number. CHECK! January starts on the same day of the week as October, the same month zombies come out to play. CHECK! Not a Newbie. (We'll let this one ride this time, hence only a small check.) No idea who he is. DOUBLE CHECK! PGP Signed. ...BR549... |
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I agree with gweedo and this is the first time, I saw a developer asking database of a live website to develop something, SMF 1.1.19 is available for download all over the internet.
@Wangbus are you not able to make that auction mod with help of demo forum and database? Interesting! Isn't this akin to somebody paying a developer to redo his very large website based on it currently using Wordpress as its CMS? Simply download the latest version that the site is using and build from there. Once built, all the content is migrated to the new site, and probably only then would the developer need assess if/when troubleshooting is warranted. I'm not that versed in such matters, so somebody please call me if I erred in my assessment, expanding upon the quoted text. I've been known to give theymos shit every now and then, but overall I still kinda trust him, notwithstanding the TF episode. Update: This just leaked: theymos' first choice was Smartronix: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/07/18m-being-spent-to-redesign-recoverygov-web-site/  ~Bruno Kucinskas |
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Do we accept resellers?
Yes. In order to save our customers shipping costs, we will accept a company that wishes to become our reseller and proves that they are experienced and trustworthy.
Let's revisit Black Arrow's first trustworthy reseller, shall we? From the desk of Bobsag3, a.k.a. Matt Carson, Black Arrow's first and #1 reseller for their miners.
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I never ended up moving to another warehouse in Rolla, just the one. We went right from small warehouse in rolla > denver warehouse in one move, early Jan.
We paid for every month, and if your in contact with who you should be to verify that kind of info, they will verify it. So yes, your blowing smoke up peoples asses.
And with that im done on the subject. I think people have seen im more than up front compared to most here- but lets stay on topic about BA, or about actual minersource orders.
Timeline of Matt Carson's datacenter locations. Originally posted in Black Arrow's self-moderated thread, but quickly deleted for being...wait for it..off-topic (and that I was trolling, so they claim). Black Arrow has proof that Matt Carson can NOT be trusted, but continue to use him as their official reseller in the US. If I were to use Tom Williams, of mybitcoin.com, as my official reseller for some product, stating that people change, would I be able to sell many product, Alex Sovu, of cardreaderfactory.com? Me, the asshole, no think so, yet... BUILDING #1: Purchased the building, awaiting infrastructure. Building was purchased today!
All the wiring and infrastructure equipment arrives tomorrow-Wednesday. Over 400lb. Poor UPS man
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Thanks- Ill be moving to a custom made facility here in under 3 weeks.
BUILDING #2: Moving to a better facility here (still in Missouri) located 90 miles away. Major Update!
We will be moving to a much large, much better facility here by the end of the month. There may be a short down time (its only a 90mi drive) while being setup at the new facility, but we will not be turning anything off right up to the last minute.
Major Update!
We will be moving to a much large, much better facility here by the end of the month. There may be a short down time (its only a 90mi drive) while being setup at the new facility, but we will not be turning anything off right up to the last minute.
Building acquired  I cant answer on the software but I can on the shipping. Looks like the boards should be done here within 48 hours, and then will be dispatched after a small amount of testing to AUS, and me in the US. At least from me, all boards will then be tested again (Not sure how long... suggestions?) and then immediatly shipped out same day via UPS Next Day/2nd Day air [depending on location]. As soon as we know the boards are done, we can give concrete delivery.
I'd sample test say 1/10th of the boards for a few hours on testnet. That'd be my recommendation Yeah I can do that. *might* be able to live stream, or atleast upload a ton of pictures. I will be shipping from MO. Middle of the country, and if your anywhere close to me Im ok with local pickup . And I just want to say guys - Barn has been working very hard behind the screens to bring this all together... this stuff is immensely complex.
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This is why I went from garage > warehouse > bigger warehouse. Heat is nuts.
Shenzhen, China 11/26/2013 8:05 P.M. Departure Scan
Yea, but do the thumbs have any tracking info? When you get the board delivery after a quick run though where are they coming from for you. I seem to expect California. No idea on the thumbs- thats all Barn. I will be shipping out from Central MO.Does anyone have any details regarding power consumption. The genesis block calculator says expected power usage per unit to be 2100 watts. I am afraid for me that's not going to work. To be honest I was expecting something that would work on a residential 120v circuit. They also do not offer any hosting yet unfortunately.
I got ya covered  But yeah that is kind of silly. Im glad when I put my new facility together I decided to say fuck it and got all 240vNovember 26th, edited on the 28th, Matt Carson is still in Missouri at the second facility: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=347732.msg3723600#msg3723600bobsag3: Vetted Co-op member. World's lowest hosting fees for vetted miner hosting at a professional colocation hosting facility in Missouri! Official Black Arrow US Reseller and US Distributor for Drillbit Systems. New Pres. of our Mining Operations arm of our LLC. Providing R19 and R19B miners to the GB Forum! And still upgrading his second facility:
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No problem. Im having a 400A 240V pannel installed just for the 2kw+ miners that seem to be coming out.
On December 12, 2013, fresh back from China, Matt Carson posted the following... BTW, still located in Missiouri:This makes no sense financially and if it's going to be hosted in a data center it should be using specialized GPU mining racks that can run more GPUs per motherboard/CPU. You really need open racks and to use PCI-E riser ribbons if you want to build a GPU mining rig, using a desktop computer case makes no sense especially because heat is a huge issue with scrypt mining. Also to be honest, scrypt mining is VERY finicky compared to SHA256 mining, you're talking about constant lockups and crashes if heat isn't perfectly controlled. The amount of time that's going to go into keeping everything running is going to be much higher than with bitcoins and given how the Bitfury towers already caused a ton of problems I'm not sure the coop has enough manpower to keep racks of scrypt miners up and running.
The new facility comes with me also having hired 6 more people to help out. I am currently training them right now.
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I am working with them right now for me to help with their tickets, so we can get the response time much faster. I have hired additional staff that start work here in a few weeks, and I know they are working hard to improve their systems.
I cant speak on the refunds unfortunately, I am still discussing the options with them.
Four hours later, Matt mentions for the first the move to Denver, right after somebody ask about local pickup since he lives in KC. Did his new hires move to Denver with him?We will offer local pickups- but we are moving to a massive new facility in CO, so pickups will have to be from there . ALSO: I now have access to the BA ticket system, so if you need a response feel free to PM and I can at least check on the status for you. We are all moved into the new place, lots of updates and pictures to come!
BUILDING #3:Somewhere in Colorado, in some warehouse with 16-18 foot ceilings, ideally well-suited for bitcoin miners that love fiberglass dust sourced from the exposed insulation in the ceilings and walls, blown free from the constantly moving vortex of air due to the industrial-sized air conditioning unit(s). Whatever you do, don't open up that massive overhead door that's probably not well-sealed, otherwise you'll really have the dust a flying. This has been the third time you're on record in stating that you only moved once. Care to try for a forth time? ~TMI BTCITW |
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Meanwhile, over on the BlockChain... https://blockchain.info/tx/fc84edf9b2fb38b9a92bc0d34d2e9da9cc041b5b7cb5b189bc9525e555858fcaPublic Note: 7.5 BTC payment to Black Arrow LTD: Order #2870. Additional payment to bring the total paid to 8.92517 BTC to be sent shortly. Black Arrow promises they will begin operating the equipment for me Feb 24, 2014. Public Note: balance of payment for Black Arrow LTD: Order #2870. With this payment, the total 8.92517 BTC that was due for this order has been paid in full. https://blockchain.info/address/147QDjohYpiSPwdgdogpbHtZRW98E5nwhrTransactions
No. Transactions 2
Total Received 8.92517 BTC
Final Balance 8.92517 BTC http://my-dog-jetta.blogspot.com/2014/01/black-arrow-prospero-x-3-delay.htmlBlack Arrow LTD: Order #2870 Prospero X-1 and Prospero X-3 delivery delays
Dear customer,
We are sorry to hear that you do not wish to continue with your order. As your order has already been put in production it is difficult for us to issue you with a refund. However, we do not want to make anyone unhappy therefore we will do our best to refund your money by moving your order to a new customer.
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Your refund has been added to a refund queue and will be processed as soon as possible, please note refund can take up to a month if we don't currently have funds to fulfill your request.
The refund can be done only in original currency it was paid, if your order was paid by bank transfer, it will be returned in original currency paid.
Please bear with us as the processing will take some time.
You shall receive an email confirmation once the process has been completed. Please take the time to read the rest of Keith's back-and-forth with BA. I just wanted to show that there's at least one example of Black Arrow just sitting on the BTC, though claiming their margins are narrow. The next quote relates to the above, but I desire to point out something else. That's a pretty odd statement to be making about Black Arrow, considering Matt only takes care of the tickets and maintains the FB page, and even at least once stated that he never met, nor been to the offices of Black Arrow. I probably would have been gone long time ago from this Black Arrow shit, but because of Matt being not MENSA status like DZ is, he opted to pen the following. Phinnaeus Gage,
You're not a customer of Black Arrow and you're not a miner in general. You're stuck on the fact you think Bobsag and I are the same person because we've got the same name. I won't be disclosing my last name and I will not be disclosing my address or other personal information. This will be my last interaction with you. I'd encourage everyone else to ignore Phinnaeus Gage as well. Please do not feed the trolls.
Moving on...
Everyone at Black Arrow is working hard to turn this delay into something beneficial for everyone. I've been keeping an eye on a lot of threads both here and at ecointalk and I appreciate some of the suggestions I've read.
So, pretending for a second that I'm a troll, this troll will continue to stick it up Black Arrow's ass each and every time I uncover shit about their operation. Because I'm... TMI BTCITW |
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quiet in here......
 " Shhhh! It almost tape out time." |
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Black Arrow is most likely a scam operation That would be disaster... Investomer: Verisilicon, does Black Arrow have a contract with you all? Verisilicon 1: Hey, Mack, is this email guy asking about their first order or subsequent orders? Verisilicon 2: Just reply with a yes. |
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MENSA status, DZ, really put a lot of thought into forming his co-op, considering he espouses how he's doing all that shit for free. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_cooperative#Why_farmers_form_cooperativesCooperatives as a form of business organization are distinct from the more common investor-owned firms (IOFs).[1][4] Both are organized as corporations, but IOFs pursue profit maximization objectives, whereas cooperatives strive to maximize the benefits they generate for their members (which usually involves zero-profit operation). Ergo, IOFs = I Often Forget shit! Hell, if you drop the hyphen, it's not that big a leap to envision the vetted foxes guarding the chicken coop. |
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I watched the video and he didn't say anything of the sort. He did but he could mean fiat which PayPal already does, I have like 20 currencies Is that you, Vern? |
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You guys wanna see another amazing graph?: https://blockchain.info/charts/balance?address=1HC3dc4DubRat1P39YBBkwVRbph3ijbtPQBesides the wallet in question having received 10,981.801666 BTC to date, DZ's co-op has been paid 1 BTC no less than three times stemming from it. So much for the I've-been-doing-shit-for-free guy. I predict that soon DZ's co-op will be referred to as DZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzMC not-square. |
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So they are mining at around 15TH/s as we speak. What are they using to mine? Bitfurries? And why isn't that mining power being allocated to their customers?
wouldn't surprise me at all. I asked early on in this debacle if they were mining for themselves and got the BA cricket choir response. they manufacture mining equipment, so it seems pretty logical that there's something hashing away. if it is true and this this is going straight into their pockets while their customers are sinking fast I wouldn't be shocked one bit. based on their actions to date I have little little doubt that they do not give a damn about their customers. they're still showing bitfuries as in stock: https://www.blackarrowsoftware.com/store/40ghash-16x-bitfury-hashing-board.htmlsee this topic on their forum, started Jan 17, where a customer is asking why his delivery date has been changed to May: http://ecointalk.net/topic/422-my-order-delivery-date-has-changed-to-may-why/BA didn't actually announce this delay until when, the 29th I think, when they sent out that official e-mail. when did they really know there was going to be a delay, I have to wonder. They were still booking orders right through that Jan 29 date, as far as I know, without letting prospective customers know of any potential issues whatsoever, which, unless that thread above was just some odd coincidence, they absolutely knew about while still feeding their customers and prospective customers the BS song and dance. we're on track, or a little ahead, last I heard. blah, blah, blah. we're still taking orders for batch 2. blah, blah, blah. look, here's a new rendering. blah, blah, blah. we're in this for the long term. blah, blah, blah. we care about our customers. blah, blah, blah. and to this day still no clear statement on refunds. blah, blah, blech. But, give credit where credit is due, for they have recognizing a troll when they see one down to a science, deleting every one of my posts in this thread, albeit they're a tad behind, probably waiting till their last Bucharestica is the Bestica hookah session wears off. (full disclosure: while seeking humor for the latter part of that sentence, I just learnt that Romania also legalized the smoking of a certain plant, whereupon Matt, when he reads this, will go, "Wait, what! Hehehe!") |
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I had a bunch of those too...
They disappear in time... they are fake transactions that eventually get rejected by the network...
I assume, they are either trying to flood the network with crap transactions to slow it down...
That, or they are attempting to exploit another site that had the same issue as silk-road 2 and MtGox just had...
They will never confirm. They look like they're confirmed to me, ISAWHIM. |
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I don't know whether to post this, sorry if it seems rude, but I feel I must say it as a potential customer... Why can't you use your talents to develop something using the ASIC platform? I for one am waiting for the dust to settle and will be looking to buy into ASIC technology once there are units on warehouse shelves. I am not particularly interested in massive profits, just a little profit plus the satisfaction of mining for the resilience of the network. I am under the impression that the Avalon's custom ASIC chips are/will be available in bulk to people such as yourselves, and the developers specifically want this technology to be distributed. The issue of electricity cost vs. mining revenue will be making new investment into FPGAs too risky for me, sorry  Power consumption is not such a big issue for FPGA. They use only a little bit more than ASIC. As many times as I've read similar, Roger Ver should erect a billboard depicting such verbiage. You guys want to see an amazing graph?: https://blockchain.info/charts/received-per-day?address=1JTNXgcVCMXhQrLEE9XW71fQjJN1uQpWf7It stems from one of Black Arrow's wallet address: https://blockchain.info/address/1JTNXgcVCMXhQrLEE9XW71fQjJN1uQpWf7 They better hope that that's not their only wallet, otherwise they're in a heap of trouble. This is how I found it: http://web.archive.org/web/20130428000608/http://www.cardreaderfactory.com/shop/lancelot.htmlFirst deposit was on Oct. 19, 2012, and currently has $78,472.50 USD in it for anybody seeking a refund from Black Arrow. And, if that's not enough, you'll soon learn once you visit the address above that Black Arrow is garnering 5 BTC every two days via mining income while its investomers are in a holding pattern till May. Doing some quick math, that'll be 5 X 30 X 600 = ~$90,000 USD he'll receive during the next 60 days, while his investomers will only be earning (more quick math, so please check my work) 0 X 0 X 600 X (# of rigs ordered) = 0 during the same timeframe. Now, I'm no MENSA dude, but to me the investomer's ROI is not looking too good at this penning, while Black Arrow is swimming in bitcoins, all the while checking his margins to see if he could honor any refunds. Perhaps, it's just some Romanian thing, and I'm simply a fuckin' idiot wasting my life away on this here laptop living in my dead mother's van down by the up-the-creek-sans-a-paddle. ~TMI BTCITW |
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I don't know whether to post this, sorry if it seems rude, but I feel I must say it as a potential customer... Why can't you use your talents to develop something using the ASIC platform? I for one am waiting for the dust to settle and will be looking to buy into ASIC technology once there are units on warehouse shelves. I am not particularly interested in massive profits, just a little profit plus the satisfaction of mining for the resilience of the network. I am under the impression that the Avalon's custom ASIC chips are/will be available in bulk to people such as yourselves, and the developers specifically want this technology to be distributed. The issue of electricity cost vs. mining revenue will be making new investment into FPGAs too risky for me, sorry Power consumption is not such a big issue for FPGA. They use only a little bit more than ASIC. As many times as I've read similar, Roger Ver should erect a billboard depicting such verbiage. You guys want to see an amazing graph?: https://blockchain.info/charts/received-per-day?address=1JTNXgcVCMXhQrLEE9XW71fQjJN1uQpWf7It stems from one of Black Arrow's wallet address: https://blockchain.info/address/1JTNXgcVCMXhQrLEE9XW71fQjJN1uQpWf7 They better hope that that's not their only wallet, otherwise they're in a heap of trouble. This is how I found it: http://web.archive.org/web/20130428000608/http://www.cardreaderfactory.com/shop/lancelot.htmlFirst deposit was on Oct. 19, 2012, and currently has $78,472.50 USD in it for anybody seeking a refund from Black Arrow. And, if that's not enough, you'll soon learn once you visit the address above that Black Arrow is garnering 5 BTC every two days via mining income while its investomers are in a holding pattern till May. Doing some quick math, that'll be 5 X 30 X 600 = ~$90,000 USD he'll receive during the next 60 days, while his investomers will only be earning (more quick math, so please check my work) 0 X 0 X 600 X (# of rigs ordered) = 0 during the same timeframe. Now, I'm no MENSA dude, but to me the investomer's ROI is not looking too good at this penning, while Black Arrow is swimming in bitcoins, all the while checking his margins to see if he could honor any refunds. Perhaps, it's just some Romanian thing, and I'm simply a fuckin' idiot wasting my life away on this here laptop living in my dead mother's van down by the up-the-creek-sans-a-paddle. ~TMI BTCITW |
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This really reminds me of the Kid who is a fry cook at McDonalds and on his Resume puts HEAD CHEF
I have a nephew like that. His last job was dishwasher, but bragged about how the chef asked him for advice. Two weeks later when he got his first check, he smoked it up, then quit, just like he did with every single job he's ever had for the past six years. Once, he held onto a job for almost two months, but I later learnt it was only because one of his fellow co-workers supplied him, along with them both ripping off the joint. The son of a bitch even once ripped off his own mother, taking a hundred dollars outta her purse, then denied it, although he was the only other person in the other room at the time. Does that mean the bitch deserved it?  Just kidding. I'll accept your first post as humor and won't take offense, bud. |
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