That's a very unfair comparison.  Cointerra has been far more responsive than Hashfast in my experience.

And to stay on topic, I would expect they are going to announce an updated board design that gets closer to their performance targets.

Fixed that for you.  The only success has been Asicminer.  You can cherry pick buy and sell dates to claim others were good bets, but ultimately every issue except for Asicminer has left somebody holding 10 Kilos of shit in a 5 Kg bag.

I keep hoping one will appear.  There are a few candidates, but it still remains to be seen if any of them act completely legit.

Eventually the gold rush will end, and greed will not be a dominant factor in people's actions.  At that stage most ASIC companies will go bankrupt.  The survivors will be the ones who acted the most ethically.  The bar is pretty low at this point though.

I would like to offer $100 per name for the information of people who place pre-orders for this.

A mailing list of the dumbest people in bitcoin could come in handy.

Is there any evidence Black Arrow is using Global?  I had the impression they were working with SMIC.

Idealist!  Sales taxes have to be paid.

Don't worry though.  There is no way DeadTerra actually paid $2M for the machines he bought so there isn't $300k in sales taxes owing to Quebec right now.

'Going' may involve a fire.  You really should do it right.  If there is a tin whiskers problem in that power supply you could easily burn your house down.

Each wire could draw 70 A which would overheat the wire, melt the insulation and possibly start a fire.

The proper way to do what you want is to run properly sized wires from the 70A breaker (6 ga, I think but look it up) and put in a sub panel with individual breakers for the plugs you want to connect.

IANAE (I am not an electrician), but I did work for one during college.

Hopefully you have updated your node so it won't relay the corrupted Tx's. I don't have keys on hand so I cannot update my hosted node until tomorrow.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=460876.msg5091537#msg5091537

There are in customer hands at this point.  It looks like there is some work needed on stability at least.

Let me know if you need access to multiple systems for testing.

Con / Kano:

What is the situation with Cointerra?  Did they provide test hardware / arrange for driver development in cgminer? 

I'm eager to get these machines consolidated on one instance of cgminer running on decent hardware rather than a bunch of beaglebone controllers.

Pissing in the punch bowl isn't an acceptable method of pointing out that someone could piss in the punch bowl.  Malicious griefing of the network for no purpose other than to disguise your own incompetence is unacceptable.

If Mt.Gox is behind this action they should be taken out and shot like a rabid dog.

I hope some of the developers are tracking down the nodes spawning the altered transactions so proof will be available to the community soon.

You are wrong.  To do 65 nm device from design to masks to boards will cost at least $1M.  28 nm is probably closer to $5M.

It's simply too much money to crowdsource.

No one except for Mt.Gox is being scammed out of coins.  And they were scammed due to their own negligence.

Spamming the network with modified transactions is the equivalent of a child throwing a temper tantrum.

It obviously matters very much.  If MtGox is actively attacking the network they cannot be trusted.

Good summary.

Does Con have a cgminer build that could be run on a PC over USB?  Maybe the beaglebone controller is underpowered for the hash rate.

I find the timing of this transaction spamming bot very suspicious.

There is no financial gain from running the bot, just aggro for uninformed users.  Their transactions do go through, all funds end up in the addresses where they belong, but they end up with a invalid transaction in their wallet that has to time out.  And of course there can be secondary effects if they have software that relies on outcomes that change because of the vandalism.

It's easy enough to argue that it's just some child exploiting a flaw for amusement. But to be having the far reaching impact that is being reported today, the script that is modifying transactions has to be running on well connected, high bandwidth nodes, and probably quite a few of them.  It also has to be nodes that promiscuously transmit zero fee transactions, which eliminate the mining pools as core suspects.

So who benefits from this behavior and has access to multiple highly connected nodes?

MtGox is the only candidate I see. 

Looking forward to this thread after trading starts and the dust settles.

Since even the most gullible has now seen the light and wants out of this pathetic mess, the remaining cheerleaders will be the most highly concentrated collection of fools and scammers ever seen on the internet.

Oh you aren't a thief, you just post on here to find out if your network traffic would be enough to get caught.

Get caught doing what?  Stealing from your employer!

MtGox incompetently managed their accounts and their method of posting transactions to the network.  People discovered their failures and exploited it to rob MtGox.  That is 100% MtGox's fault.

MtGox blames Bitcoin for their failures in attempt to crash the price which would allow them to recover their losses.  This is the 3rd time they have triggered such a crash by the way.

The crash attempt fails because no one with sense trades with them anymore.  Developers step in and point out that the failure is a result of MtGox being incompetent.

Suddenly a bot appears that exploits the defect to create duplicate transactions.  These duplicates have no effect on who gets paid in transactions, or gives any advantage to hackers.  It just aggravates and confuses people until one of the duplicate transactions drops off the network as intended by the protocol.  The bot doing this is extremely well connected in the bitcoin network suggesting it must be operating on nodes that have been active for years.

Who benefits?  Only MtGox.  They have failed, are probably insolvent, and are now flinging mud at bitcoin hoping to damage the source of all their revenue.  It is EXTREMELY LIKELY that they are the source of the malicious transactions spamming the network right now.

I don't blame MtGox.  I blame any fool who trades with them.