Has anyone ever actually met any of these people? I know exactly one BFL reps full name, the rest are all first names or convicted felons that seemingly have no official capacity with the company. I'll reserve my worry about Jody & her family's well being when I'm convinced there is a BFL_Jody.
Since BFL_Josh is in tight with Neal Fletcher and Neal Fletcher is a known puppetmaster over at bullshido...well color me skeptical.
Lol. But allow me to quote!
Of course I am not going to speak about the financials of BFL, but anyone with even a modicum of common sense would understand that 20k Bitcoins while not quite a trivial amount, is a tiny fraction.
Therefore your arguments are invalid.
I'm only pointing out motives, since motive is what gives your posts credence and you credibility. And given your motives I no longer belief you're worth my time or effort.
First off that reasoning is flawed, for one because you're not in a position to point out motives, merely suggest possible motives which may or may not be real, and for another because motives aren't in fact what gives "credence and credibility". What gives credibility is exactly what you don't have: a history.
Am I the only one here who's gob-smacked by the fact that none of the project leads for any of the BTC ASIC vendors seem to have been flying to Asia on a regular basis to meet with their agents and manufacturers?
As per the Inaba quote above: anyone with a modicum of common sense knows that a plane ticket, while not terribly expensive, is still quite the stumbling block for play-pretend paper corps created through sticking together various bits and pieces found on the Internet: a logo here, a company registration there, mix & match.
You mean you didn't read the new title of your own thread?

... that thread/title was created last week ... much could have changed since then. It's hard to keep up with Inaba/BFLs rate of excuses / new delivery dates / "press releases".
Some things don't ever change.
We always used to count on a two month delay around Chinese New Year. As you said, many places close early because it takes so long for people to travel home. They often re-open late for the same reason. Another issue is that many workers don't return at all so when businesses in the manufacturing sector do re-open they not only have orders backed up but they often have to find new employees as well. Even a business which is not directly affected itself will often have issues because its suppliers are affected.
Of course the fab might not be in China. If it is, though, BLF urgently needs to find out whether it will be closing around the Chinese New Year period or working at reduced capacity.
Quoted mostly because I liked that if. It's very cute.
If that's the case, would The Fab Feb FAB Fib be added to the lexicon? (Fab = fabulous)
Lol.