Quote from: jgarzik on February 03, 2013, 05:25:52 AM

Quote from: flatronw on February 03, 2013, 05:01:42 AM

1:-As it seems to stand at the moment we have only 2 or 3 confirmed Avalons in the wild One of those was shipped express to an individual who has a high profile within the BTC community, assuring widest exposure of its release and performance. Consider what would be the cost to produce 2 or 3 one-off prototypes.
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I am not saying it is, but I am saying that at this point in time. It is difficult to avoid recognising just how closely this situation fits the criteria of a classic scam.

Yes, consider the cost of producing 2-3 one-off ASIC prototypes... because apparently you have not done so.

It's about the same as producing 300, in terms of the chips produced. ASICs have huge setup costs, compared to per-chip costs.

No I have not and you miss the point. Whatever the cost. Undeniably it would be covered by the amount received in the initial ordering. Even if it took 75% of those initial funds to produce the just 2 or 3 prototypes. At the end of the second phase it still leaves Avalon sitting on over US$1,000,000.00 in totally untraceable, unrecoverable funds.

A considerable chunk of change!