BFL starts shipping Jalapeno this week!?

[Signus]

I thought the jalapenos suck and in reallity are the ones that are going to make some money

They don't suck in terms of the hashrate now, but once the difficulty goes up and the more powerful rigs come out, I imagine it will only do so much.

[digicoin]

Any update on this? Does anyone has this machine in hand?

[Hei_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmWa2GyB5-M

[btpowers]

Unfortunately I got in late (last week).  Happy to hear they might be shipping soon, if they do I'll rest easier at night.  The fact that the Jalas are shipping sooner would also make me happy, I have nightmares thinking about what the singles and minirigs will do to the hash rate.  Don't mean to be a jerk, but once those things start coming online, the jalas will pretty much be worthless.

[barneyss]

http://codinginmysleep.com/bfl-jalapeno-unboxing-and-demo/

news from jalapenos

[teriaki]

I still don't believe they'll be shipping at scale any time soon.

[sgrunger]

This is what everyone has been waiting for ! Cheers to BFL and the mining difficulty raising for everyone without ASICs out there :O

[supercoins]

Seriously? Can't wait for them to start shipping... finally it's going to happen?

[needmorecoins]

Anyone else here received one?

[Bytecoiner]

Is there any kind of information on the number of units in total that have been ordered?

[shakezula]

Nice! I think a lot of people thought this wasn't ever going to happen!

[tempestb]

They've only sent out a couple to reviewers according to Jody at BFL.

There is no official count on the number of PAID orders.  That said, many orders likely have multiple units purchased, so it's impossible to say.  If I were to guess, I'd say around 20,000 units.  Which is about as good as anyone else's guess.

One thing to keep in mind, especially with the Jalapeno's is that many owners will quickly resell their units on the used market after a short time when they realize that it's not a money printing machine, and to recoup their investment from people who are eager to join in the ASIC "Gold Rush" and aren't aware that they'll make $1 a day as the difficulty skyrockets.  Before too long, since these items are not multipurpose like a graphic card, you will find these selling for pennies on the dollar because they'll be effectively useless.

[shakezula]

Once 4.5Gh/s is small potatoes (i.e.: about the time these ship enmasse) At least there's plenty of "alt-coins" to go around.

[barneyss]

They've only sent out a couple to reviewers according to Jody at BFL.

There is no official count on the number of PAID orders.  That said, many orders likely have multiple units purchased, so it's impossible to say.  If I were to guess, I'd say around 20,000 units.  Which is about as good as anyone else's guess.

One thing to keep in mind, especially with the Jalapeno's is that many owners will quickly resell their units on the used market after a short time when they realize that it's not a money printing machine, and to recoup their investment from people who are eager to join in the ASIC "Gold Rush" and aren't aware that they'll make $1 a day as the difficulty skyrockets.  Before too long, since these items are not multipurpose like a graphic card, you will find these selling for pennies on the dollar because they'll be effectively useless.

i disagree
atm jalapenos is the only one working with some proof
i would say that jalapenos is going to be sold for at least 2x  his paid price just because without sure about other prodcts, it would be more profitable to use more jalapenos than 1 higher performance butterfly

[TeqnoHaxor]

They've only sent out a couple to reviewers according to Jody at BFL.

Called it!

The impression I get from that post is that they might, possibly, ship out a few (less than 10) units. Probably the only working ones they have, and probably so they can buy more time because they know the recipients will jump on here and sing BFL's praises. Which boosts pre-orders, which gives them more money to play with, and buys them time.

So how long before an actual customer gets the first "production" BFL ASIC...

[AG992379519]

saw a video at codinginmysleep of a demo model.  To me this doesn't really mean they're shipping.  For all we know its the same rig from BFL's video, just in a different casing.

anyways, I still haven't ordered but I spoke to Dave at BFL and he just reiterated the shipping time from the website (50GH/s unit), wouldn't give me the price on the 1500GH/s model.

here's the vid

http://codinginmysleep.com/bfl-jalapeno-unboxing-and-demo/

[Blue_oxen]

I think im going to go ahead and order one. Even if it takes 6 months for it to get here it will make the network a little stronger if I have one so what the hell.

[easyMony]

i got oder number 19k....when i will recive my orden? any aproach?

[anderl]

it could have taken BFL this long just to get 400 produced.  I doubt that they will be able to meet their full backlog by the end of this year.  My guess is that if they don't shutter their doors by the end of the year that they will eventually get everyone's "preorder" by the end of 2015.