Re: Announcement - ASIC mining processor by Butterfly Labs
FYI 
I've got my plane tickets to BFL - Kansas City today (email booked digital ticket details from the travel agent) arranged by Josh
So my flight to the USA, leaving Sydney on the 17th Feb (my time) - to be back here in Aus again on the 23rd.
... so I going from Oz (Aus) to Kansas (City) ... isn't that back to front?
I've got my plane tickets to BFL - Kansas City today (email booked digital ticket details from the travel agent) arranged by Josh
So my flight to the USA, leaving Sydney on the 17th Feb (my time) - to be back here in Aus again on the 23rd.
... so I going from Oz (Aus) to Kansas (City) ... isn't that back to front?
That's quite the trip! How many days do they have you touring the facilities? Anything specific on the agenda?
Agenda: To get their stories straight so when he reports back on the forums it is exactly how BFL wants him to report things lol.
You are so far off the mark and you've made a comment based on zero knowledge of the situation ... or is your statement simply to mean that you can easily be bought and just assume others are like you?
Here's most of the opening and closing of the recent PM I sent Josh to find out where they were at and then got the visit finally organised.
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Feb-2
Hey Josh,
you got any update on where your guys are at?
I'm certainly not someone to promote your guys unsubstantiated claims coz
of your crap history (even with the ASIC), and you know full well I've never been
a fan of BFL, but the Avalon people are really pissing me off, Tom's gone down
the drain, and I would certainly be happy to be able to run a BFL ASIC on an rpi
and show it leaving Avalon's shit in the dust.
...
...
So ... when is anything happening at BFL?
P.S. if anything I've said on the forum lately has pissed your guys off - oh well,
damn shame
Hey Josh,
you got any update on where your guys are at?
I'm certainly not someone to promote your guys unsubstantiated claims coz
of your crap history (even with the ASIC), and you know full well I've never been
a fan of BFL, but the Avalon people are really pissing me off, Tom's gone down
the drain, and I would certainly be happy to be able to run a BFL ASIC on an rpi
and show it leaving Avalon's shit in the dust.
...
...
So ... when is anything happening at BFL?
P.S. if anything I've said on the forum lately has pissed your guys off - oh well,
damn shame
You do realize you have been critical of Avalon for a while now. (Beyond simply the source code not being provided.)
You complained (quite openly) that you weren't getting free [development] hardware from them.
The PM you posted on the top just goes to confirm what is kinda plainly obvious. You may not like BFL but you didn't quite bash them nearly as hard as Avalon.
For the matter of record, yes, Kano is getting free devices from BFL when he leaves the trip.
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No, of course this won't color his review! heh.
Anyway, if you really think about it, at this point Kano's visit has pretty much lost it's intended purpose. Which was to prove whether BFL was real or not. At this point they are about to ship....so what is the point in that again? It becomes a rather redundant effort and probably a waste of money.
Doesn't matter anyway, Kano's going to Kansas. He going to get a few BFL devices to Vaseline/lube the review in a positive direction and a few good shots of people working on benches to put together the machines. Perhaps some shots of the staff in a photo OP and finally when he gets back he will write a positive review of whatever it is he saw there.
I believe his review would have been useful in October 2012. Perhaps even November or December 2012.
That would have been interesting to see the state of things way back then. Not now that the party balloons have been put up and a "proper" implementation of the working business had come to life.
Anyway, that is my take on it. Expect the article soon.