Bitcoin will be at CES2013 (Official Thread)

[smoothie]

1)  Aren't you supposed to at least pretend to be a principal of a legitimate company?  How could anyone have faith in such an arrogant company director that resorts to personal insults almost every post?

2)  You resort to personal attacks like it's your job, because clearly producing working ASIC chips isn't.  (Or even spending time on the task.  Who is working on that ATM?  nothing better to do than fight with a "troll" ?)

3)  your 5-point false-ing, to anyone reading these boards with any intelligence, sounds like the rest of your posts (and IRL confrontations) - childish and transparent.  Deflect much?  Price of your android being $259 @ Amazon (yup, u made me google it!) instead of $100 still deflects from the main points of:

3a)  every search I do for bitcoin comes up with a BFL pre-order ad.   BFL has taken in over $25M by my estimations. (I would love to hear other estimations of total pre-order monies shipped to BFL)  You have shipped nothing.  You started promising shipments in September 2012. 

3b)  Your company did not bring anything worthwhile to show at CES.

3b)  here is an updated drawing if what BFL brought to CES using my Samsung Galaxy Note II [rated super high on CNET:  http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-note-2/4852-6452_7-35426722.html ]

Honestly how did you come up with number? Math please. Thanks!

BTW loved the video! 

[smoothie]

I guess Micon's video brings a new meaning to BFL Fan Boys.

LOL

[Inaba]

1)  Aren't you supposed to at least pretend to be a principal of a legitimate company?  How could anyone have faith in such an arrogant company director that resorts to personal insults almost every post?

2)  You resort to personal attacks like it's your job, because clearly producing working ASIC chips isn't.  (Or even spending time on the task.  Who is working on that ATM?  nothing better to do than fight with a "troll" ?)

3)  your 5-point false-ing, to anyone reading these boards with any intelligence, sounds like the rest of your posts (and IRL confrontations) - childish and transparent.  Deflect much?  Price of your android being $259 @ Amazon (yup, u made me google it!) instead of $100 still deflects from the main points of:

3a)  every search I do for bitcoin comes up with a BFL pre-order ad.   BFL has taken in over $25M by my estimations. (I would love to hear other estimations of total pre-order monies shipped to BFL)  You have shipped nothing.  You started promising shipments in September 2012. 

3b)  Your company did not bring anything worthwhile to show at CES.

3b)  here is an updated drawing if what BFL brought to CES using my Samsung Galaxy Note II [rated super high on CNET:  http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-note-2/4852-6452_7-35426722.html ]

Haha... excellent.  I refute every point of yours with facts and this is your response.  If your claims are true, you could come up with something concrete to back your claims.  Thanks for telling me, yet again, how great your phone is. I quite thoroughly understand that you love your little phone and think it's the neatest thing in the world.  Your estimations are garbage, just like your poker "system".  You brought up the $100 and asked me to respond to it, now you bitch because I do?  Instead you post a bunch of strawman arguments to try and distract people from realizing you're a complete dolt.  Unfortunately for you, they've already realized it and I suspect it happened a long time ago.  I feel incredibly sorry for your newborn daughter with you a role model.  She will, inevitably, Google you one day and likely find this thread and wonder why her dad was such a pathetic role model.

[smoothie]

1)  Aren't you supposed to at least pretend to be a principal of a legitimate company?  How could anyone have faith in such an arrogant company director that resorts to personal insults almost every post?

2)  You resort to personal attacks like it's your job, because clearly producing working ASIC chips isn't.  (Or even spending time on the task.  Who is working on that ATM?  nothing better to do than fight with a "troll" ?)

3)  your 5-point false-ing, to anyone reading these boards with any intelligence, sounds like the rest of your posts (and IRL confrontations) - childish and transparent.  Deflect much?  Price of your android being $259 @ Amazon (yup, u made me google it!) instead of $100 still deflects from the main points of:

3a)  every search I do for bitcoin comes up with a BFL pre-order ad.   BFL has taken in over $25M by my estimations. (I would love to hear other estimations of total pre-order monies shipped to BFL)  You have shipped nothing.  You started promising shipments in September 2012. 

3b)  Your company did not bring anything worthwhile to show at CES.

3b)  here is an updated drawing if what BFL brought to CES using my Samsung Galaxy Note II [rated super high on CNET:  http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-note-2/4852-6452_7-35426722.html ]

Haha... excellent.  I refute every point of yours with facts and this is your response.  If your claims are true, you could come up with something concrete to back your claims.  Thanks for telling me, yet again, how great your phone is. I quite thoroughly understand that you love your little phone and think it's the neatest thing in the world.  Your estimations are garbage, just like your poker "system".  You brought up the $100 and asked me to respond to it, now you bitch because I do?  Instead you post a bunch of strawman arguments to try and distract people from realizing you're a complete dolt.  Unfortunately for you, they've already realized it and I suspect it happened a long time ago.  I feel incredibly sorry for your newborn daughter with you a role model.  She will, inevitably, Google you one day and likely find this thread and wonder why her dad was such a pathetic role model.

Wow Josh is a fucking douchebag. Bringing Micon's daughter into this with insults?

Josh are you like in kindergarten? Why you mad? Why you cry so hard? ASIC chips being delayed yet again? (watch me call this delay...and be right)

 

[MPOE-PR]

1)  The general hubris you display both IRL and on these forums will be your downfall.

This coming from a failed poker player with a broken "system" who can't even manage to bathe himself properly means very little to anyone.

Truly a clash of titans. So the difference between the failed poker player who can't manage to bathe and you would be that you manage to bathe? Or that you play pretty good poker?

[John (John K.)]

Please keep the BFL bashing and BFL supporting replies out of here. It's derailing this thread.

[MPOE-PR]

The Android mining application is pretty cool - I can definitely see its usefulness in conjunction with a repurposed older phone or tablet in a dock. 60 GH/s on your bookshelf is convenient and perhaps even a talking point for visitors, haha.

60 GH/s off an repurposed older phone? What exactly do they smoke in Vegas?

[BCB]

Mods.

When a thead is so heavily populated with users who have dark orange ignore buttons maybe it's time to lock the thread.

[Dansker]

How about re-labeling this thread "BFL at CES - Scammer or saviour?"

And then moving the 3-4 non-BFL bash/love posts to a new thread about the CES?

Would make MOD work a lot easier...

[Micon]

1)  Aren't you supposed to at least pretend to be a principal of a legitimate company?  How could anyone have faith in such an arrogant company director that resorts to personal insults almost every post?

2)  You resort to personal attacks like it's your job, because clearly producing working ASIC chips isn't.  (Or even spending time on the task.  Who is working on that ATM?  nothing better to do than fight with a "troll" ?)

3)  your 5-point false-ing, to anyone reading these boards with any intelligence, sounds like the rest of your posts (and IRL confrontations) - childish and transparent.  Deflect much?  Price of your android being $259 @ Amazon (yup, u made me google it!) instead of $100 still deflects from the main points of:

3a)  every search I do for bitcoin comes up with a BFL pre-order ad.   BFL has taken in over $25M by my estimations. (I would love to hear other estimations of total pre-order monies shipped to BFL)  You have shipped nothing.  You started promising shipments in September 2012.  

3b)  Your company did not bring anything worthwhile to show at CES.

3b)  here is an updated drawing if what BFL brought to CES using my Samsung Galaxy Note II [rated super high on CNET:  http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-note-2/4852-6452_7-35426722.html ]

Haha... excellent.  I refute every point of yours with facts and this is your response.  If your claims are true, you could come up with something concrete to back your claims.  Thanks for telling me, yet again, how great your phone is. I quite thoroughly understand that you love your little phone and think it's the neatest thing in the world.  Your estimations are garbage, just like your poker "system".  You brought up the $100 and asked me to respond to it, now you bitch because I do?  Instead you post a bunch of strawman arguments to try and distract people from realizing you're a complete dolt.  Unfortunately for you, they've already realized it and I suspect it happened a long time ago.  I feel incredibly sorry for your newborn daughter with you a role model.  She will, inevitably, Google you one day and likely find this thread and wonder why her dad was such a pathetic role model.

1)  When do you plan to ship the ASIC devices?

2)  How many pre-orders did you take so far?

3)  How much money collected in pre-orders?  Why would this be a big secret?  

IMO, the boys should start adding it up anonymously.  

[Mosrite]

Chairman Byron Micon has unveiled another scam.

1) when will the chips be shipped?

2) how much have you taken in preorders?

answer, or you will anger the annamicon.

[World]

I stopped by the booth Wednesday afternoon and took some pictures after speaking with the Bitpay guys and Josh from BFL. Josh and I talked briefly about the technology behind the ASIC mining units and showed them to me. While I like many would have liked to see a working unit, I was impressed with the brushed aluminum case and impressive heatsink. It's regular to see non-working prototypes or samples on the floor. Josh stressed the importance of getting it right and delivering a product that meets the much discussed expectations. The Android mining application is pretty cool - I can definitely see its usefulness in conjunction with a repurposed older phone or tablet in a dock. 60 GH/s on your bookshelf is convenient and perhaps even a talking point for visitors, haha.

Here are some pictures I took. I had a video crew with me, but this wasn't really relevant to our site's market so we didn't film here.

http://imgur.com/a/h8gOb

I would have liked to spend more time there talking with the Bitpay guys and other folks, but my time was unfortunately limited! It's good to see Bitcoin represented.

Edit: I should also note that I came to Vegas with several hundred USD in BTC and sold out twice over via LocalBitcoins. AFAICT, all of the transactions were to new(er) buyers.

Thx for the measured post.

Very informative post and photos thank you

[Raoul Duke]

Did BFL paid taxes from $25.000.000?

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[Kupsi]

Did BFL paid taxes from $25.000.000?

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Yes, why should they pay taxes of the preorders? lucif? I believe you should go back and work on your TA with the $5 target  

[nathanrees19]

I guess Micon's video brings a new meaning to BFL Fan Boys.

LOL

You misspelled "irrational BFL haters".

[lucif]

Yes, why should they pay taxes of the preorders? lucif? I believe you should go back and work on your TA with the $5 target  

$6.90 actually.

Wait, wait We have a shitstorm preparing.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Did BFL paid taxes from $25.000.000?

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I think it's about time to put one rumor to rest: http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/atlantech/2013/01/bitcoin-payments-processor-bitpay.html?page=2

The total dollar value of all orders processed by BitPay in 2012 is over $3 million, and all orders were paid using bitcoin.

We could just about safely assume that a decimal is off by one space.

[BCB]

Good call Phinn and if that number is accurate that includes revenue from 1000+ other clients.

[the_thing]

It surprises me how much money can be handled by such incompetent managers and/or scammers.
I think I'll start a business in the US.

[BCB]

It surprises me how much money can be handled by such incompetent managers and/or scammers.
I think I'll start a business in the US.

Bitconica
Intersango
Bitmarket.eu

They are not US companies. I'm sure you could start you own fraudulent/mismanaged company in your country too.

Good Luck