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I've done a few small deals here before for extenders, diablo gold with TizzyTazzy, and JGA for a bitcoin hat.

I'm on windows 8 with the latest cgminer.  I find that I have to reset cgminer atleast 1-2 times a day because it hangs on my 7970 running only at 1000/1000.

The last message is usually "Pool 0 stratum share submission failure" but it fails to connect to my alternate pools.  My windows 7 rig with 4 GPUs never has this issue and has been going for weeks on end.  Is there any incompatibility with windows 8?  I have made sure that all firewalls on my computer have full permission for cgminer as well.

I think Litecoin's fast transactions and resistance to centralization (more ASIC proof) could give it a leg up with real merchants in the future.  Since people are now getting familiar with the wallets and cryptocoin transactions, the hurdle for LTC should be less.

With Litecoin's fast transactions and resistance to centralization (more ASIC proof), I could see Litecoin potentially giving BTC a run for its fiat if there is wider adoption.  For merchants to be able to use these cyptocoins, the quicker confirmation could be a huge benefit faciliate volume of sales.  At this point BTC still takes much too long for actual retail use.  Secondly, since people are now getting familiar with the wallets and cryptocoin transactions, the hurdle for LTC to be adopted seems a lot less.

DHL should have a policy like with UPS or Fedex.  They won't redirect or change address until the first attempt is made.

+1

BFL can use this bad publicity to further the bitcoin community.

They will probably donate at the USD rate when the charity claim was announced.

why not wait for them to ship and reassess.  Ordering a single now considering they have million+ worth of preorders would mean you'd receiving it very late.  It'd be like ordering a 7970 now at full price to has in 6 months.

just because you paid for his second order does not make it yours.

It seems like Avalon has a policy of not changing addresses once entered, but I hope the best for you that it's resolved properly.

ThiagoCMC: so when you ordered it, did you put your shipping address or Rodrigo's?

"No Address Change - Unless it is a special case no address change will be allowed, please allocate time correctly to handle the delivery of these units, There has been too many people attempting to sell these units and changing their shipping address. You can choose what to do with them after you receive them, but whilst they are still in our hands they will go to the address the order was originally intended for."

I can't see the Avalon team changing your address to his address suddenly, or has it been confirmed already?

at least they haven't staged anything yet.  It'd be easy for them to film a small box of fans with lights on, and stash an underclocked Avalon running at 60 gh/s and claim to have a working SC single.

I had the same problem with batch 2, but it was changed to processed the next day.

It's still too early to panic.  If batch 2 starts shipping and you still haven't gotten your Avalon, then definitely complain.

I am concerned about ASICMINER and their growth to 200 TH.  If it is indeed true and so far they seem to be on schedule, the Avalons likely will still break even but the ROI time will be much more uncertain.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg1604192#msg1604192

I hope for the end-user sake, the Avalon team can get the machines out faster with the new equipment they're putting in!

I can't believe everyone is just blindly piling on and sending some random guy on the internet their hard earned BTC.  Yes, the way bitcoins are going, it's hard not to get excited.  However, if you only take brief look in the securities and/or scam forums, you only have to see how many shared mining operations went bust. Even the ones that didn't and were run by established members of Bitcointalk (ie. Gigavps, Amazinggrando etc) have resulted in major losses for their investors.

Worse yet, those operations actually had contracts and still folded despite being verified by the GLBSE stock exchange.  However, with Coinhoarder's operation, you are paying first and hoping for the best.  You're buying him four Avalons with nothing in writing.  Examples of problem scenarios - BTC value skyrockets, at this time he could just return your BTC and continue mining on Avalons bought with interest-free loan.  If BTC plummets, he could just buy coins on the cheap and repay you as well and call it even.

I hate to break it to you, but the real world still works in USD so it's ridiculous when you say that it's cheaper than batch 1.

Newest bitcoin difficulty: 6,695,826 which jumped from 4,847,647.

If this trend continues, there's no way 3rd batch Avalon is worth it at the current price since there'll be 600 Batch 2 units out before it plus other asics.  I hope the Avalon team takes this into account when they open the site up officially.

As an ex-bASIC customer refunded via CC, this seems like more of the same but on a bigger scale.

We should cheer for BFL instead of continually attacking them.  BFL's stumble so far is why Avalon has increased their prices for the 3rd batch 4x.  We need more competition in the ASIC space or else it's guaranteed the only winners will be the ASIC manufacturers themselves.