BFL ready to ship?

[Clearfly]

Is this true or is this bull?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX75tiViEjA

Did bitcoin ever experience a crash?

Bullshit fearmongering. Sounds like he's trying to drive the price down. The hack video is a fake.

Sure anything that goes up must come down and vice versa.

Don't forget the last crash was after a big hack on MtGox, and right after a huge pump and dump by speculators. A double wammy scared a lot of people out.
BTC is a volatile market, doesn't take a lot to move the price up or down.

[Tamerz]

Forgot to mention the time it takes to place on the following labels:

My BFL FPGA doesn't have anything like that. As far as I know, it won't need that if it is using a pre-made power supply.

[greyhawk]

Did bitcoin ever experience a crash?

You mean besides right now?

[ralree]

The chips are being packaged as we speak. I don't know if I'll have an update on whether or not that's completed tonight, but I should have an update sometime in the morning/early afternoon tomorrow at the latest. If I get an update today, I will, of course, post it. But the packaging house did confirm they have the chips and are packaging them today.

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/1219-march-4th-update-discussion-9.html#post17301

[crazyates]

Is this true or is this bull?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX75tiViEjA
Did bitcoin ever experience a crash?

No, that was when a hacker broke into Mt Gox and brought the market down to $0.01. Those fake trades were rolled back. The market did crash from it's bubble high to a couple dollars but nothing like that.

and your question is ridiculously off-topic.

ROFL The first 20 seconds clued me in for what kind of video I was in for, and it didn't disappoint.

The chips are being packaged as we speak. I don't know if I'll have an update on whether or not that's completed tonight, but I should have an update sometime in the morning/early afternoon tomorrow at the latest. If I get an update today, I will, of course, post it. But the packaging house did confirm they have the chips and are packaging them today.

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/1219-march-4th-update-discussion-9.html#post17301

Thanks for the update.

[DrG]

it seems bfl could need a month or more if all goes well, why do they keep guessing wrong on their time table?

To piss me off.

[HorseRider]

Every other ASIC developer needs more than 1.5 month after they tested the chips before the shipping/deploying meaningful amount of equipment, just check the history of Avalon and ASICMINER.

[-ck]

it seems bfl could need a month or more if all goes well, why do they keep guessing wrong on their time table?

I wouldn't say "guessing". It's great marketing getting people to pay for something in advance where getting it first counts so much, even if it's not likely to be available for another 6 months after you claim.

[Nemesis]

it seems bfl could need a month or more if all goes well, why do they keep guessing wrong on their time table?

To piss me off.

i keep winning bets.. first one i won was with p4man back in 2011 lol...

i wonder where that kid ended up...

That kid is alot richer than you now Goat . Too bad your scamming didnt work out for you.

P4man=puppet

[creativex]

it seems bfl could need a month or more if all goes well, why do they keep guessing wrong on their time table?

I wouldn't say "guessing". It's great marketing getting people to pay for something in advance where getting it first counts so much, even if it's not likely to be available for another 6 months after you claim.

pretty dishonest:(

It's also illegal in the US where BFL is located.

[Dalkore]

it seems bfl could need a month or more if all goes well, why do they keep guessing wrong on their time table?

I wouldn't say "guessing". It's great marketing getting people to pay for something in advance where getting it first counts so much, even if it's not likely to be available for another 6 months after you claim.

Yes, we know who did that move.   Such BS.

[PuertoLibre]

Update:

Josh stated in the shoutbox that if the chips overclocked well and consistently that they would use less chips per board.

That'd be awful .  The least we deserve as pre-order customers who've waited the better part of a year is a possible overclock.  Also, this would put Jalepeno customers at an advantage, as it is just one chip.  I wonder if BFL would actually use chip-sized spacers and short the pre-order customers of Singles, Mingles, and Mini-Rigs?   I could understand doing this on later non pre-order sales when HSFs and specs can be redesigned and finalized, but for pre-order customers that paid last June for an order that should have shipped in October?  I really hope this isn't the case.

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/1221-there-problems-asic-chips-3.html#post17536

Possible short changing of customers in the near future.

Let BFL know ( office@butterflylabs.com ) how you feel about such "a drastic" option. As this would reduce your overclocking potential in the long run and reduce the long term value...it is bad news bears.

[Cablez]

That would be bogus if they went that route.  Wait and see I guess.

[tcp_rst]

Update:

Josh stated in the shoutbox that if the chips overclocked well and consistently that they would use less chips per board.

That'd be awful .  The least we deserve as pre-order customers who've waited the better part of a year is a possible overclock.  Also, this would put Jalepeno customers at an advantage, as it is just one chip.  I wonder if BFL would actually use chip-sized spacers and short the pre-order customers of Singles, Mingles, and Mini-Rigs?   I could understand doing this on later non pre-order sales when HSFs and specs can be redesigned and finalized, but for pre-order customers that paid last June for an order that should have shipped in October?  I really hope this isn't the case.

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/1221-there-problems-asic-chips-3.html#post17536

Possible short changing of customers in the near future.

Let BFL know ( office@butterflylabs.com ) how you feel about such "a drastic" option. As this would reduce your overclocking potential in the long run and reduce the long term value...it is bad news bears.

Nice.  Quoting third-hand information without any context to goad people into spamming a company for which you've shown complete disdain.  You're a real class act, PL.

[PuertoLibre]

TCP RST, you can look it up.

It is at about 3/7/2013 at 11 o'clock.

Look through the shouts archive. You'll see the statements refereed to there.

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As for your comments, I don't really care what you think. Truth hurts I guess.

[Miner99er]

We better get what we ordered... I don't give two flying fucks if the jalapeno Can overclock to 10 TH/s... there's should be 4 chips in a Mini SC, 8 in a Single SC, and 25 Single SC's filling the Box-o-Fans they have.

[smoothie]

This is where BFL's promises start to get diluted as they keep delaying on and on and on.

For those of you who ordered in the summer, I honestly think you're being taken for a retarded ride. If you dont cancel your preorder, you are asking to get taken advantaged of.

Bitcoin price and difficulty are creeping up.

Your initial investment is now costing you about 8 times more than you would have had to pay if you just held your bitcoins or used fiat to buy and hold BTC.

I guess this isnt bitcoin with retards and drama. 

[Cablez]

TCP RST, you can look it up.

It is at about 3/7/2013 at 11 o'clock.

Look through the shouts archive. You'll see the statements refereed to there.

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As for your comments, I don't really care what you think. Truth hurts I guess.

How do you go about seeing the shouts archive?

[PuertoLibre]

It actually took me a while to figure it out when PG mentioned it one time.

You can find it by going through this link:

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/vbshout.php?do=archive&instanceid=1

Or you can click the link at the top of the chatbox that says "BFL Chat", you will see a little menu that shows "archive".

[Cablez]

k thanks.