Psychotic nostalgia. Can I get a technical indicator for that?

Great news!

I can't handle this crazy price rise as bitcoin gains adoption all over the world.

Hold me.

Seems reasonable

Was there ever any doubt?

The refund ship has sailed. If you haven't received a refund yet, you most likely won't. The cutoff date was 9/16.

Best thing to do is request your chips to be shipped and sell them at a discount. A recent auction averaged about .015/chip, but with today's huge difficulty spike you'll be lucky to get that.

I have a huge amount of respect for the work Chris put into this project, so naturally his safety and continued contribution to the DIY community is worth more than the 8 btc he owes me. That said, it's a lot of money and I'd like to see at least a partial refund should he ever return.

If you don't pay your parking tickets here in Chicago they simply boot your car if you have two or three or more outstanding after a certain period of time. There is a boot-mobile that constantly roves the city, scanning license plates, looking for cars to boot.

Chicago is a city of rackets. One of my favorites is "street cleaning" where neighborhood streets, full of parked cars, are regularly sectioned off to be cleaned. "Cleaning" is simply one of those little trucks that sweeps curbs with it's noisy spinning brush. Most of the time it's not needed. Naturally, they post bright orange signs telling residents when they cannot be parked there... three days before. Out of town? New to the city? Hung over and forgot to move your car where you pay $100 a year to park in the first place? $50 ticket for you. The schedule is available online if you're brave enough to navigate Chicago's system of terrible websites. Planning your life around this nonsense is crucial to avoid tickets, and the game of parking musical chairs that ensues in most neighborhoods would be hilarious if it wasn't so frustrating.

Naturally, there are always few dozen cars in my neighborhood that forget. And "street cleaning" happens once every 2-3 months. Ridiculous.

op has a gift for melody.

I've been singing verdi with the chicago symphony all season so I know a little about that

John K is around, he answered my pm about an unrelated escrow on Friday.

Apparently the site (healthcare.gov) cost over $500 million to create by a company named CGI Federal. And it still sucks.

Also insurance companies lobbied for and helped write this law. Now why would insurance companies want a law that mandated *everyone* in the US to buy health insurance?? It's a mystery!!! :-/

I agree it's not much of a deal, but annoying nonetheless. I used Dwolla to fund Campbx. Guess I'll be moving to a different exchange.

He's just trying to get off everyone's ignore list, pay no mind.

Yes, agreed, it is frustrating for US customers.

Agreed. He owes me a refund but I'm honestly more worried about his safety.

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind. Don't really want to deal with the hassle of Paypal though.


I submitted the form on 9/17.


I hope not, but it's starting to look that way. It doesn't make any sense to put that much work into a project then suddenly vanish.

I was in contact with Zeke (helping Steamboat verify addresses for shipments) who answers at least one of two email addresses I've received updates from. He forwarded my second refund request to Steamboat, who denied me again. Apparently my first request came in a day late and there's simply not enough refund $$$ to go around. It's disappointing, too, because I had nearly 700 chips from batch one and supplies ordered from Chris (Bkkcoins, developer of the K16), who disappeared with his customers' money and left the USB firmware unfinished, as well as the I2C bus inoperable.

Steamboat said they're quickly trying to finish the firmware (so the damn things work with an acceptable error rate) which probably accounts for the lack of updates. He also said that finishing the I2C bus, which is required to chain multiple K16s together, is not a priority. So those with many K16s will need more USB cables and hubs. Chris left a lot of work to do when he disappeared, apparently.

Today I got a tracking email from a Steve Manos (I'm assuming that's Steamboat) notifying me that my chips have been shipped. If anyone's interested I'll be selling these at a deep discount as I have bills to pay. Thank god this saga is finally coming to a close.... a very bittersweet one at that. Hope you all get your K16s sooner rather than later.

I would kindly ask John K to tell us exactly what he needs from us (if anything at this point) and give us some sort of timeline on when we can expect refunds to be distributed.

Might want to read back a few pages.

Good to hear refunds are still rolling in.

Steamboat was and is a stand-up and honest person.