Umm your point being?

I use PG rants as a gauge, sure he is tedious but if there is something amiss he'll find it, and this last post is kind of mild/irrelevant... It seems he's running low on ammo.  

Joe qué buena noticia, voy a ir a pillarme uno fijo, aunque sólo sea por el gusto de pagar en bitcoins. 

You can check under "my account" if you're in the 1-500 group, if you don't see it there then unfortunately you aren't.

I made a mistake while ordering and I was worried that if I cancelled my order and placed a new one I will lose some sort of place in the queue (even though I had a 2xx preorder so among the 1-500 group) I emailed Sam asking this, and he confirmed that preorder queue will be respected, also it took them more than 24h to send the bank info for my wire transfer:

As for your queue position that is based on your preregistration number so its safe and won't change
 
Thanks
 
Sam

Qué grande el gato 

Enhorabuena, esperando unboxing.

The VAT number cheks out in Sweeden:

https://snr4.bolagsverket.se/snrgate

Try searching this on the left chosing "Foretang" from the dropdown: 5569319725 (the number minus the ISO code and the last two digits, as shown in my invoice under "organization number")

I'm guessing they are waiting for their government to include their EU VAT number in the databases. Here in Spain I have requested a EU VAT number for my company and although I know what the number will be it isn't active still.

Yes, and they said that bank wires are OK, but I placed an order yesterday with bank wire as they payment option and I haven't received the bank account details yet.

Has someone received the bank account details? if so, can you share it here please?

Damn, the fact that they are encouraging people to pay just BEFORE the open day with their lottery thingy sounds strange to say the least.

Also all this changes at the last minute...

So order books are supposed to open after we have a chance to see the MARS, will that be after the 5th or after monday 10th so that people that go to the open session the 10th will still have 7 days to pay?

Also the 7 day window are natural days or business days? a SEPA transfer can take up to 4 days if a weekend is in between so that means only 48h to pay when order books open to ensure my money arrives in time.

Thanks

A ver un análisis de porqué no tiene sentido eso del cambio del Proof of Work.

Digamos que se plantea y se saca una nueva versión del software de minería y del bitcoin-qt que usa scrypt en vez de SHA256, obviamente todos los mineros potentes que tienen o han invertido en ASIC, los accionistas de ASICMiner, los accionistas del 100TH project, todos los que han comprado chips avalon, todos los que tienen preorders de BFL etc etc lo van a ignorar y no lo instalarán, lo cuál crearía un fork, una rama de bitcoin para "pobres" con el nuevo sistema y poca potencia de hasheo (más insegura) y la rama clásica con muchísima potencia de hasheo basada en ASICs, por otro lado cualquiera que tenga una inversión en bitcoins obviamente se iba a quedar en la rama clásica donde sus transacciones están más seguras por la potencia de hasheo. En definitiva, no tiene sentido.

Any info on the power requirements of the MARS device??

The estimated power requirements for the Saturn and Jupiter are on the website, but they failed to include the info for the MARS.

Each order allows the customer to buy up to 3 machines, this means only up to order #167 are guaranteed to get into the first batch, even if many people don't order more than 1 machine (or at all), how are you supposed to get into the first 500 batch of machines with a #530 order?

Si minas en un pool que sólo tiene un 10% de potencia de la red, dicho pool sólo tiene un 10% de posibilidades de resolver un bloque. Por tanto no veo qué justificación habría en abandonar un pool con el 40% por uno con el 10%

Respecto a lo del cambio del proof of work, es sencillamente una estupidez. Para cambiar el protocolo todos tendríamos que pasar por el aro, no veo la razón por la cual los grandes mineros que todos tienen o han invertido en ASIC aceptarían el cambio. Además la mayoría de la comunidad se negaría a aceptar la nueva versión del protocolo y no actualizarían sus clientes/mineros y punto. El bitcoin tal como lo conocemos no lo pueden cambiar a menos que dicho cambio tenga sentido para la gran mayoría de los mineros/usuarios, como mucho podrían hacer un fork.

I think he asks because he should have enough time to implement it before the chips are shipped (if they are shipped in time by AVALON that is)...

I'd love to have the possibility to overclock my modules.

Pues eso.

Hasta ahora lo poco que mino lo he vendido en localbitcoins a amigos y en mt gox pero siempre son pequeñas cantidades. He invertido en hardware ASIC diversificado y es probable que para septiembre tenga ganancias más llamativas.

Aparte de que me quede parte en BTC y pague hardware y servicios con ellos, quiero declarar otra parte por lo legal, tengo una pequeña empresa de informática y también podría hacerlo como particular y mi pregunta es ¿cómo podría hacerlo de manera que Montoro me muerda lo menos posible?. Si lo declarase como particular cómo tributaría a efectos del IRPF, cómo justifico las transferencias desde mt gox, lo mismo si lo hago como empresa, lo cuál entiendo me serviría para ahorrarme los impuestos (iva/vat) de los ASIC que compre, pero luego al no poder facturar mis ventas de BTC en mt gox como se justificaría?

No sé si alguno lo tenéis esto más claro, tengo cita con mi asesor, pero cuando le explique el tema de minería de bitcoins me imagino que estará más perdido que un pulpo en un garaje.

I also don't get this.

I thought buying a MARS device was needed to keep your place in the queue to buy the Jupiter, but if people con buy the Jupiter directly then how will they manage the queue? what will then be the best way to keep my preorder place to buy a Jupiter? buying a Mars first or going straight for the Jupiter?

Also I was planning on paying my 3 mars devices now and then 3 Jupiters when they showed working prototypes, does this mean that I'll have to pay for all 6 devices at once if I want to keep my preorder for the Jupiter?

This is confusing, I hope they clarify their preorder policy before opening the order books.

Por si alguno tiene curiosidad esta es la pinta que tiene un generador de nitrógeno real:

http://i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/v2/112862346_1/Liquid_nitrogen_generator.jpg

AM doesn't need to grow more, they just need to scale to keep their 40% of the hashing power constant, who cares if they are not able to make more profit from block rewards, as long as it stays constant it's a very very good profit. Also they don't need to divert money from their profits to pay for new hardware and R&D since they can sell blades to pay for those.

Exactly, the hash rate will obviously keep increasing at a very fast rate as more players join the game, a project that is not designed to scale will be an always shrinking venture, losing % of the total hashing power everyday.