Dupe of my post on the AMT thread, following BA's denial that they're self-mining:-
Best add that one to the long list of BA "truthful statements" so that it can be taken in context.
"Black Arrow Ltd has already a proven track record in successfully manufacture Bitcoin mining hardware at extremely competitive prices using shorter full lifecycle than their competition without compromising the top quality required the highly-competitive niche market."
Customers who pre-order and pay now have 25% discount. Our promise is that we will ensure that customers who preorder now will always get a better deal than customers who order later.
At the same time we promise that our prices will be below market price at the time we ship.
This means that customers that preorder now will have considerable lower market prices by the time that we ship which puts them in advantage towards anybody else.
Unless Bitcoin mining stops because it becomes unprofitable for everybody else in February, our customers WILL make profit.
Everybody until now sold you hardware that they knew that you're going to loose money because 1 month later they announced something faster at a better price.
We are guaranteeing that this won't happen with us: If we drop the price you'll get even faster hardware, keeping you in front of everybody else.
Yes, you are guaranteed to get a price 25% below the market price ($/ghash) at the time of shipment.
And yes, we will keep our prices below every other company.
Bottom line is, whoever trusts us now, we promise that will help them to mine profitably after February as well. If you keep supporting other companies who have ripped you off until now, you'll barely get your ROI back.
Dear Customers,
We just want to let you know that we have not forgotten our promise and we will match in Ghash any competitor at the time of shipping. There is no point in discussing yet what extra hashing power you will receive as we have not started shipping yet.
ASIC price match announced in
this thread is part of our promise.
Regards!
Prospero X1 miners are not affected by the issue mentioned above and we should start shipping next week once the cases will be delivered.
Our facility is ready, will start Rent-A-Minion as soon as we solve the issue with the backplane.
Dear Customers,
We are happy to let you know that we've just solved the SPI issues.
In the picture below we run only at 1.1Ghz instead of 1.2Ghz because we've hardcoded the voltage at 0.81V and 2 ASICs needed a little bit more.
Our plan is to tape out the new backplane in 1-2 days, start shipping of X3 on 23rd (after we get the PCBs back and we assemble them). We should be able to deliver all X3s by the end of the month.
(note the use of a live mining pool)
And when does hosting at ba starts?
We should be able to start hashing in 10-12 days.
Let me get this clear: We are not mining. It would be impossible to mine as we only have 5kw of power in our office.
You can ask Joshua where is our mining facility and we will be happy to this this address to check.
(impossible to mine, yet they had a facility ready in May)
