http://ia802308.us.archive.org/32/items/gov.uscourts.mowd.117531/gov.uscourts.mowd.117531.103.0.pdf

EHL OH EHL

 I have no idea what these are worth. Ideally, would like to sell them as a bundle.

 6 ASICMiner Cubes. All hashing to spec. Very good condition.

 I'll accept any reasonable offers.

 I imagine shipping costs are worth more than the units :|

CPU mined my first block of 50 BTC on August 11th, 2010.

Very VERY sage advice.

This is not up for debate: Using marijuana during your developmental years or abusing alcohol during those same years WILL CAUSE PERMANENT HARM.

Mac-using audio nerd reporting in.

Here's the thing I've learned through dealing with Butterfly Labs: when you try to smear someone that hasn't done anything wrong and has a good name, it's going to backfire spectacularly on you.

... Again, what is it with people named Josh involved with Bitcoin mining companies, that could use a good therapist to unfuck their diseased minds ?

Banned for bullying nerds.

Banned for not understanding this thread.

"Eats Away a Brain (Skober Remix)" - Puncher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meU-0fWhTwI

Butterfly Labs 2011: "I would suggest all of you who don't have a pre-existing relationship with the company refrain from making any pre-orders.  We appreciate the interest in our product, but the hostility isn't worth it. Please just wait for off the shelf units to be available."



Butterfly Labs 2014: http://ia802308.us.archive.org/32/items/gov.uscourts.mowd.117531/

http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/an-in-depth-look-at-how-butterfly-labs-is-going-to-lose-in-court-to-the-ftc

Sad and sympathetic bump

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Lets hope they've learned lessons from the S3 and S4 launches and improve moving forward.

The S1's were a thing of beauty. Every subsequent release after that has been more problematic to the point that I have not purchased their latest S4 out of caution and learning from experience (The S3 launch completely destroyed whatever trust I had in Bitmain)

The U3's leave me scratching my head. For that matter, pricing on every single piece of Bitcoin mining hardware right now leaves me scratching my head due to lack of profitability.

If I were to buy a miner today, I'd buy it with fiat through Coinbase. Can't rationalize reinvesting my mined coins to buy new miners any more.

Given existing large scale mining operations, the thought of purchasing U3's to "help secure the network" is disingenuous IMO. The network is plenty secure without U3's. Better off buying an S3 instead if you're going to buy anything at all.

What really makes me even more sad, related to all this, is I've had to remove dogie off my Trust list
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BitFury and Bitmain

Waitaminit... Dude is looking to never return to US soil over this scam ? Is that correct ?

Feels like I dodged a bullet not dealing with these guys. Actually placed an order, but their customer service was so fucked up, they didn't get back to me when I was trying to resolve a payment amount issue.

Me: "Hey, sorry about that order snafu a couple days ago. With the current price of Bitcoin, what should I send you to finalize order #xxxx"
BA Support: "..."
Me: "Hullo ? Trying to pay for this order ? What is the updated amount I should pay ?"
BA Support: "Pay invoice amount"
Me: "... but price of Bitcoin has shifted enough in the last few days that it would be in both our best interests to recalculate the payment due"
BA Support: "..."
Me: "Please cancel my order on the count of not being able to resolve this payment issue"
BA Support: "Order #xxxx cancelled."

What's the deal with people named Josh being bad actors in Bitcoin space :| ?

This Zipkin dude is certainly court-bound if what I'm reading has any basis in fact (and I have to think it does)

Not sure how he can continue to posture like this without realizing he's going to need to face the music sooner or later.

Sad.

Anecdote: I noticed overnight that all my S3's failed to honor the failover settings when the primary pool went "Dead". (Running latest-and-greatest Bitmain S3+ firmware)

Woke up to all my S3's sitting cool and idle this morning. S2's were hashing away like champs running Kano's K2 firmware, honoring the failover settings.

Hitting "Save and Apply" on the miner configuration page got things working well again on the S3's switching to the next available server.

TBH, given the S3 and S4 launch, I'm not touching this.

It's a crazy time in Bitcoin mining right now, and given the BTC/USD price currently, it makes more sense to purchase BTC outright than miners if you are looking for ROI.

Full Disclosure: 11TH farm + Full node contribution to Bitcoin network

Having a heavy hand in writing CGMiner, and being actively involved in the community tends to garner a lot of respect.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jmj7s/genesis_of_hodl/

heh