Butterfly Labs finally ship their first batch of Jalapenos

[Phinnaeus Gage]

The following is the list of people contacted by BFL instructing them to unplug their FPGAs, box them up, and ship to the newly created space in their warehouse, so that they can receive a lesser GH/s apparatus that may, or may not, use less energy.

THE LIST:

[smoothie]

The swarm of locusts is more like a trickle of water from a leaking faucet:

"Monday 4/22 shipped 4 Jalapenos. 1 Customer and 3 developer units.

Tuesday 4/23 3 more to ship today to customers."

-BFL_Jody

  So when did 400 units per day become 4 units per day

  will I never get my order... at least not before quantum mining devices come out 

LOL wow a whole 4 units per day. Okay preorder investors....you will get your devices by 2020.

[segfault88]

Tuesday 4/23 3 more to ship today to customers."

Only 397 left to ship for Tuesday. I know they have to ramp up, but 3 shipped in a day, seriously!?

Well at least they are giving us updates...

[BR0KK]

The swarm of locusts is more like a trickle of water from a leaking faucet:

"Monday 4/22 shipped 4 Jalapenos. 1 Customer and 3 developer units.

Tuesday 4/23 3 more to ship today to customers."

-BFL_Jody

  So when did 400 units per day become 4 units per day

  will I never get my order... at least not before quantum mining devices come out 

LOL wow a whole 4 units per day. Okay preorder investors....you will get your devices by 2020.

BFL_Jody to Bitcointalk - TRANSLATE: "Yep, we shipped 4 and no more...."

[Rampion]

My order number is: 100027556 3/27/13 - I'm screwed  

You should have done your own research before sending "preorder" money to an obvious scam which did not deliver for many months.

[crazyquark]

Hello guys,

Honestly, I wish I had ordered one a year ago. Now it makes little sense to order one.
Sure, this drip distribution methods make sure the the hash-rate of the network does not sky rocket... so it's good... in a sense.

What I wonder is: how revolutionary is their design? Once one is shipped to a developer, it could be reverse engineered...maybe?
Did they design their own custom chips? Or are they using chips build some other company? In that case, couldn't we reproduce their work?
All I heard is that they optimized power consumption, allegedly by tuning the chips (how? transistor count, die size?)

LE: I studied a bit more ASICs. They probably have custom chips. If with all the people interested in bitcoin mining, couldn't an open source solution be build? As far as I can tell the challenge with ASICs are the building costs - that's why they needed to get the preorders, otherwise they wouldn't have built anything. The price is another strange thing - 274$ a unit(150$ originally) is a rather low price for a custom build chip...

I would normally call bullshit on such a product(it's why I never ordered one - sounded like a fantasy) but it seems that at least a few units shipped and that they are indeed performing 5GH/s at 30W. At least according to the youtube videos.

Does anyone have some technical details on these little Jalapenos?

[greyhawk]

The swarm of locusts is more like a trickle of water from a leaking faucet:

"Monday 4/22 shipped 4 Jalapenos. 1 Customer and 3 developer units.

Tuesday 4/23 3 more to ship today to customers."

-BFL_Jody

  So when did 400 units per day become 4 units per day

  will I never get my order... at least not before quantum mining devices come out 

Yeah, well the Jalapeno is a hundred times as big now, so....

[Bitcoin Oz]

They only ship them after they have mined with them for months

[erk]

They only ship them after they have mined with them for months

Why ship at all then? Same goes for their FPGA boxes. Nice conspiracy theory.

[Cluster2k]

It's early days so far in the manufacturing process and I trust BFL will be able to scale production up.  They had better too, as right now no one should be ordering a Jalapeno if it takes the whole company a few hours to manufacture one.  Imagine ordering today and receiving your order sometime in 2014.

[tonto]

Fuck them and their Jalapenos.              I want my hardware.

Don't worry. You'll be fine.

As long as you didn't order a Mini Rig.
Or a Single SC.
Or a Little Single SC.
Or a Jalapeno after July 2012.

Fudge, I ordered my first Jalapeño in October, order number in the 13k range
 

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Speaking of scaling up, I sure would love to see what BFL has on the drawing board in this respect. Hell, now that they're officially "shipping", maybe they're about to send out a press release of their next generation miners like they did shortly after their FPGA line starting trickling to the post office like a bale of jolly tortugas.

[JimiQ84]

Speaking of scaling up, I sure would love to see what BFL has on the drawing board in this respect. Hell, now that they're officially "shipping", maybe they're about to send out a press release of their next generation miners like they did shortly after their FPGA line starting trickling to the post office like a bale of jolly tortugas.

Something like 1TH/s USB miner and 100TH/s "mini" rig? :-)

[erk]

Fuck them and their Jalapenos.              I want my hardware.

Don't worry. You'll be fine.

As long as you didn't order a Mini Rig.
Or a Single SC.
Or a Little Single SC.
Or a Jalapeno after July 2012.

Fudge, I ordered my first Jalapeño in October, order number in the 13k range
 

Do you know if the order numbers started at #1 also what were they at for the FPGA orders?

[coinnewb]

I feel sorry for those people who have to deal with BFL, but this whole BFL fiasco is as good as it gets in terms of free entertainment.

[Wesly]

They only ship them after they have mined with them for months

Why ship at all then? Same goes for their FPGA boxes. Nice conspiracy theory.

They ship a few ASIC system to prevent their angry customers from descend upon their office like a horde of angry locust

But seriously, they need to show some "progress" so people won't ask for a refund.  They also need to attract new capitals to continue their development.

[erk]

They only ship them after they have mined with them for months

Why ship at all then? Same goes for their FPGA boxes. Nice conspiracy theory.

They ship a few ASIC system to prevent their angry customers from descend upon their office like a horde of angry locust

But seriously, they need to show some "progress" so people won't ask for a refund.  They also need to attract new capitals to continue their development.

The only capital they needed was the money to buy the ASIC wafer, which was obviously huge,  and the manufacturing machines, once that's done the business can pay for itself either from sales, or if sales drop off from mining themselves. Either way they have the potential to be successful.

[seleme]

 The price is another strange thing - 274$ a unit(150$ originally) is a rather low price for a custom build chip...

3$ is too expensive with their delivery records

[ebildude123]

Were any shipped today!?
BFL needs to make more faster 

[SgtSpike]

They wanted to ship some out to provide proof that they do have product.  They're still waiting on the new boards to arrive to begin mass assembly, including assembly of the singles.