2013-04-26 Wired - Wired Fires Up New Bitcoin Miner, World Drools.

[kiko]

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/butterfly/

Coverage of BFL shipping (and not shipping) hardware.

Bitcoin miners, we understand your envy.

Wired has taken possession of a 5-Gigahash per second Bitcoin Miner, built by Butterfly Labs — a.k.a. our very own digital money printing press. Or something like that.

[Mahn]

Wouldn't it be funny if BFL sent units to the press just to make people think they are legit, only to never actually ship to the masses?

[nebulus]

Hmm... I thought wired hated bitcoin.

[BCB]

Did BFL buy a few Avalons and stick those chips in their machines to send to the press?

[cedivad]

Did BFL buy a few Avalons and stick those chips in their machines to send to the press?

They are more power efficient than avalon, so that can't be.

[thoughtfan]

Hmm... I thought wired hated bitcoin.

I guess they still do otherwise they might actually have given some useful information in the article such as whether it works, at what hash rate, at what power, whether it overheats, how noisy or quiet it is and whether it is still working as they go to print.  But they couldn't be bothered to give it to a proper tech reviewer because they don't care.  And maybe BFL don't care either as long as a picture of their pretty machine was published in on a prestigious website.  They're all playing the same game!

[aigeezer]

Hmm... I thought wired hated bitcoin.

I guess they still do otherwise they might actually have given some useful information in the article such as whether it works, at what hash rate, at what power, whether it overheats, how noisy or quiet it is and whether it is still working as they go to print.  But they couldn't be bothered to give it to a proper tech reviewer because they don't care.  And maybe BFL don't care either as long as a picture of their pretty machine was published in on a prestigious website.  They're all playing the same game!

Lest we underestimate their irrelevance - from their archives four short months ago : "EXPIRED Bitcoin

At the height of its popularity, Bitcoin was trumpeted as a viable alternative currency for the internet age, a monetary system engineered to prevent theft, gaming, and criminalization. Then came the malware, the black market, the legal ambiguities and The Man. Today, you can't even use it to buy Facebook stock." http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/wired-tired-expired/?pid=4186

[kiba]

Lest we underestimate their irrelevance - from their archives four short months ago : "EXPIRED Bitcoin

At the height of its popularity, Bitcoin was trumpeted as a viable alternative currency for the internet age, a monetary system engineered to prevent theft, gaming, and criminalization. Then came the malware, the black market, the legal ambiguities and The Man. Today, you can't even use it to buy Facebook stock." http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/wired-tired-expired/?pid=4186

It's called different writers having different opinion.

[aigeezer]

Lest we underestimate their irrelevance - from their archives four short months ago : "EXPIRED Bitcoin

At the height of its popularity, Bitcoin was trumpeted as a viable alternative currency for the internet age, a monetary system engineered to prevent theft, gaming, and criminalization. Then came the malware, the black market, the legal ambiguities and The Man. Today, you can't even use it to buy Facebook stock." http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/wired-tired-expired/?pid=4186

It's called different writers having different opinion.

Of course, but Wired - the publishing entity - tries to have it both ways by offering two conflicting opinions as truth. "BTC is dead, BTC is thriving, we told you so and we are the tech experts".

To paraphrase poster thoughtfan, Wired could have offered helpful information on the actual performance of their gift ASIC, but they just squandered their opportunity and made more noise - noise which appears to be opposite to the noise they made in December. Who needs that kind of empty content?

The "amateur" jalapeno unboxing video posted at bitcointalk several days ago was far more useful than the new "professional" version from Wired. http://codinginmysleep.com/bfl-jalapeno-unboxing-and-demo/

[smoothie]

So preorder customers dont get their units but people who didnt pay get free units?

lol

wow BFL is really making their investors their bitches.

[kiko]

wow BFL is really making their investors their bitches.

They're not investors, they're Bfleibers!

[The-Real-Link]

What happened to you know, the actual review?  Looks like it was more of a piece to slam BFL yet thank them for the unit at the same time.  Unless they rushed it out fast as soon as they received the unit and will write up a thorough review later.

[Raize]

Looks like it was more of a piece to slam BFL

The difference between BFL and Wired is that Wired knows who their customers are.