I did not decline the bet. We'll see if Tom has enough confidence in his hardware to make the bet. My guess is he'll chicken out and take the excuse of "You won't stay out of my thread" to back out of the bet. But maybe he'll surprise me.
After all, 1000 BTC is a lot of money and I'm willing to put it up against BFL hardware so long as Tom is willing to define "competitive." Seems easy enough for him to do, but we'll see.
I'm tired of arguing the power issue with people who have zero understanding of the economics of mining. Anyone with even a modicum of sense would wonder what the heck Tom is hiding by not releasing any estimated power usages or defining "competitive." Transparency my lily white butt hah.
You
did decline the bet by not accepting the listed terms, and changing the terms to give yourself more leverage. It's very simple, if someone offers you
a, and you say, "I don't want
a, I want
b", then you declined
a.
Meanwhile, you broke your own pool again.
Also, you're still acting like a douche-nozzle. You still seem to not understand that based on previous records alone, most people are far more trusting of Tom than BFL. And you are certainly not improving the overall view of BFL's reputation by continuing to post the same damn question over and over, and insulting those who have a divergent opinion than your own.
Tom, please refund Inaba any and all monies paid for the pre-order of bASIC devices. This way he will not longer be a "concerned customer" and will simply be a paid by BFL troll.