ships  from US

I'm selling 5x 60GH BFL SCs that I received a few days ago.  They are all happily hashing along at combined around 305GH.

Please PM me offers for either individual units, or for all 5.  I would prefer to sell all 5 units to one person.

I will consider any offer -- there is no minimum.





Each unit is hashing in the 60-63 range -- none have been averaging under 59, see cgminer screen shot.

The combined power usage is 1361W according to my kill a watt.

They are now running on power supplies (PSUs) from BFL.  BFL shipped a single PSU that powers 4 units, and an additional PSU that powers one unit.  I will ship out the PSUs in a way that lets me keep mining until all units are sold.

So for example, the first buyer of one unit will get one PSU.  The next buyers of individual units would not get a PSU, unless they get all 4, and/or if they are the last buyer, in which case they would get the big PSU.  When you PM me we can figure out if you'll get a PSU, and i'll update here as well.  Assume about 0.5 BTC less if you don't get a PSU.

We will use an escrow, johnk or similar.

Please PM with offers.

Hello angry mob,

I've been silently lurking around and watching these discussions for awhile and like many of you I'm waiting for my medium-sized bitcoinica balance to be sent back.  I just want to throw a few ideas out there.

I have to point one thing out.  Bitcoinica got hacked I think twice before this last fatal blow, and despite that I decided to maintain some money in there.  In assessing the risks, the big things that stood out were that it would be hacked again in a much more serious manner (like what happened), or that there would be some sort of government action that would kill bitcoin and/or shut down bitcoinica without being able to get the money out, or that the bitcoinica operator would simply run with the money like so many others have.  Of course I wasn't hoping for those things to happen, but given where bitcoin's at, given I knew bitcoinica was run almost entirely by one guy who got hacked already, they were serious risks to consider.  I was tempted by the interest rates, and the leverage, to put much more money in, but I held back due to those risks.

Now that's no excuse, of course, for the things they've done horribly wrong.  I have my own consumer-facing services out there not related to bitcoin or any financial mechanism, and even though there's nothing remotely as valuable as a bitcoin wallet there, I put in a few days investment to have database backups at multiple sites, multiple companies, etc.  It's one of many disaster recovery techniques bitcoinica failed at horribly.  The cost/benefit of doing that is a no-brainer.  Even with no hacker, rackspace could have burned down or shut down and had the same result as what we've seen.

And obviously PR and customer service are not in the DNA of any of the parties that now seem responsible at bitcoinica at this point.  Over and over customers have asked for detailed email status updates, for example.  There are services that can send such mass emails, and they are very cheap and easy to use, and abide by the anti-spam laws by allowing people to unsubscribe etc.  The amount of cost and work to set such a thing up and push emails out daily is miniscule and would have done wonders to keep some trust in this crew.

But one thing that seems clear as that these guys are at least working hard to sort this out.  I could be putting my bitcoinica-held money to work in all kinds of ways, and I don't know if I'll ever get it back.  But given the daunting task they face, I'm really not sure what they could be doing better, in terms of processing claims.

So I have to ask -- what could they be doing better in terms of sorting out claims? Granted their communications about the process are horrific in their deficiencies, and the database loss was unforgivable...

but going forward, in terms of actually figuring out who gets what, if anything, what could they be doing differently? They are collecting passwords where they can validate em, trying to match up old records, trying to consider identification, and trying to do it for thousands(?) of users when they have a couple of people who can actually be trusted to work on it, also while they are in the middle of an operational transition of some sort that internally has seemed to have caused a big lack of agreement about who is in charge of what.

I've been PMing with this dude.  This service totally makes sense to me -- digging through profiles online and going through the various communication processes is very time consuming, for a long time I've wanted a way to delegate the early stage stuff.

I'm going to try giving em some of the data I already have on my online dating profiles (not including a real name) and see what results he can get.  It's definitely work risking a few bitcoins for me.  I'm not too worried about the privacy angle since I'm only giving out stuff that could be easily mined from the dating sites I'm on.

I'll report back here with results.

I don't mind these rules.  Four hours and five posts is a small price to pay.

Five!

I have some skill in putting out android apps.  Are there any android apps you all are dying to have?

Granted you can't trust anyone, especially when bitcoins are involved..

But what sort of things make you trust someone who you are dealing with anonymously?

Other people you trust vouching for em? A long history?

I am curious what ideas people have. And I want to get out of this noob post status and the other threads look boring.

Dogs are better than cats.  Everybody knows that.

I've been lurking a long time, thought it was time to get myself a shiny new account.