Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator

[miner29]

I am surprised there has not been any state or federal investigation into "Squirrls."

-Mail/Wire Fraud
-False advertising
-Crossing state lines in reference to the above

At any rate they need to be brought into a court of law to explain themselves under oath and under cross examination!

Did you even buy anything from Sqrl?

miner29 <<-- Translation == sockpuppet

Veiled ad hominen attempt fail.

I asked a question and jharris answered.  I bought hardware too...and while assist never came to light, mining software was made and all the FPGA's I purchased from SQRL are mining away a year plus now.  Both Acorns and BCU.  Not a sockpuppet just a miner.

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[jharris265]

I never said they did not work but the software they did provide is a far cry from what they advertised. GPU assist is the only reason I bought "Acorn's."
I ran my "Acorn's" for about a year and only received about $5 using bitstreams provided by "Sqrl"s."
Their customer service is a joke!

[Hueristic]

I never said they did not work but the software they did provide is a far cry from what they advertised. GPU assist is the only reason I bought "Acorn's."
I ran my "Acorn's" for about a year and only received about $5 using bitstreams provided by "Sqrl"s."
Their customer service is a joke!

Open a thread here

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

And post your evidence and then start a tag against them and it will get support.

Thats how we root out scammers here and warn the community for future reference.

[jharris265]

That is going to be a ton of copy & paste activity, but I will start soon!

[Hueristic]

That is going to be a ton of copy & paste activity, but I will start soon!

Just bump this thread with a link when you get to it.

[jharris265]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218222.0

everyone who agrees with this please tell your story and present evidence there.

Thanks!

[64dimensions]

I also have too many Acorns.

The question is what is the best way forward? I think legal action is a dead end dumpster fire.

The best approach is the "this is the hand you've been dealt approach". I will outline some possible +EV possibilities.

1) Some sort of group buy action for services revolving around the most profitable/useful mining bitstream for the acorn. The developer to be paid in acorns from us.

2) Some sort of numerical accelerator application. If you recall, the original IBM PC's were sold with an empty socket for an add on numerical co-processor chip (which was as large as the CPU chip). Would an acorn plus software have any use in scene rendering applications?

3) Could a FPGA dev kit have any use for the acorn guts?

[FPGA_Zealot]

Hey, I am an FPGA developer and have bought some used SQRL acorns.
They are a great platform for PCIe FPGA development.

If anyone has some extra hardware, I would be interested in talking.

I would be interested in:
Acorns 215+
Acornnest x4
BCU1525
Forest Kitten 33

Thanks!

[d57heinz]

I also have too many Acorns.

The question is what is the best way forward? I think legal action is a dead end dumpster fire.

The best approach is the "this is the hand you've been dealt approach". I will outline some possible +EV possibilities.

1) Some sort of group buy action for services revolving around the most profitable/useful mining bitstream for the acorn. The developer to be paid in acorns from us.

2) Some sort of numerical accelerator application. If you recall, the original IBM PC's were sold with an empty socket for an add on numerical co-processor chip (which was as large as the CPU chip). Would an acorn plus software have any use in scene rendering applications?

3) Could a FPGA dev kit have any use for the acorn guts?

I think legal action is the best way forward.  Why keep letting these scammers get away with this shit.  The work is on fire because so many get rewarded for bad behaviour. Why let this cat go on to run his bs on the next group.  He/she needs to take the hit as well.  Here is where you have a leg to stand on.  He/she says they will not sell preorders until the board/software is tested.  It’s obvious now this was all lies.  Let us not be lazy now.  I hope I need not do the google searching for you as well.  There are plenty lawyers that will handle this case. 


“ I won’t post exact per algorithm stats or performance until I can do final testing of the actual boards to be shipped with the release hardware/heatsink/thermal management pieces in place, at which point I’ll accept pre-orders. This device requires quite a bit of testing to cover the list of common GPUs, PCIe configurations, and supported algorithms. I have no desire to sell anyone anything not useful to them, or to push a board at all, let alone one based on 3D renders, prototype parts pictures, or choppy YouTube videos, so I believe this full set of data along with final product pictures and overview must be published before I will take any preorders. I am sorry if that tests your patience.”

Br
Doug

[Metroid]

Like many other scams, it happened when people had more money than sense. They came and story told a nice fairy tale, greedy people believed and that was it. Well, we can't say is a total scam because people got the product even though it does not work as promised. I predicted this to be a partial scam back in 2018, there is no gpu acceleration on a third party product, if there was then nvidia and amd would have done already to boost their gpus. So all in all this was all a fairy tale hehe

[Etherion]

I made 10k in to 2k but learned alot along the way. Bought bcu1525s with hosting which went south.... Then paid more to swap to FK33s. Which was just a repeat of the acorn saga. I do think sqrl and David really honestly believe they can do what they hope. And kodus for trying. If they deliberately went in to scam I don't know but regardless lots of people lost big time.

[jqprez]

I made 10k in to 2k but learned alot along the way. Bought bcu1525s with hosting which went south.... Then paid more to swap to FK33s. Which was just a repeat of the acorn saga. I do think sqrl and David really honestly believe they can do what they hope. And kodus for trying. If they deliberately went in to scam I don't know but regardless lots of people lost big time.

at the end ethereum mining with fk33 is reality. let us give to Caesar what is to Caesar.

[Physt]

A looong time ago the support sayed me this :

De : Squirrels Support
Envoyé le :lundi 15 avril 2019 15:47
À : XXXXX
Objet :Re: [#XXXX] SQRL Contact

Hi XXXX,

The GPU assist is still not available, due to a legal IP dispute, we can't provide more information than this at the moment, but we wouldn't offer this if we didn't think we could deliver the promised software. At the moment there are standalone bitstreams for acorns available to provide some use, with more standalone algorithms coming as they're developed.

You can find it here: https://thefpgaforum.com/forums/bitstreams.16/

Thanks
Brian K.
SQRL Customer Support

https://mega.nz/file/SVQCWbhS#K9P2SKN3e5KEEYp3GCojJx6ISauXafOGFYDc3ZRXRxw


Lie ? Truth ? I don't know


I just re-sent them a mail to check things go on.