Quote from: Elxiliath on December 08, 2012, 01:08:55 AM

Quote from: deathcode on December 07, 2012, 04:18:38 PM

Ok, it's a scheme and a scam...
it's a scheme if they used the pre-order's money to profit from it while investing in the required machinery to produce something they are yet to have working. It's a scam because they have failed to deliver in the times they specified making the product less valuable every day (difficulty increasing, halving, etc)
Yes, by the time they release a single jalapeño, the $150 jalapeño's ROI will be 6 months or more like I read somewhere here...
that is IF they ever deliver one...
lots of dreamers our there...
And I'm amazed of the imagination that some people have. Thinking some big rich guy is behind all this to secure the network releasing ASICS or crazy theories like that...
This is not the humane society, this is a business, like the stock market, I know there are anarchists out there, but I doubt there's one with the amount of money required to support such theory.

I'm a dreamer and I do not believe ASICs are a scam. But the releasing of them to secure the network doesn't make a great lot of sense. It's been brought up, why would they sell these processors so cheap given the current MH/$ of FPGAs. Given what we pay for an FPGA if it was a direct conversion we'd be paying $3,500 per Jalapeño. It's hard to say how or why.

Because they will be cheaper and easier to make. No one is going to pay 3500 for a jalepeno when there are 100,000 jalepeno chips on the market.