Quote from: OgNasty on March 21, 2013, 04:32:38 PM

Quote from: kuzetsa on March 21, 2013, 03:58:54 PM

@OgNasty

Which method are we using?

...Have you received any similar email or communication from BFL?

We'll be using the regular trade-in method. I'll ship our FPGAs out to BFL as soon as I get the word. As of yet, I have received no communication from them.

Ah, really? They haven't sent you a notice? I wonder what the source was for that post by the "BFL Update" blogger

... and like, when BFL is sending out the trade-in announcements, etc...

Quote from: OgNasty on March 14, 2013, 06:28:56 AM

We spent a total of BTC177.86 which at the time was worth $2,198.00. We received a BTC38 refund which is currently worth $1,818.30.

I suppose I'll share some good news.... bitcoin prices have increased since last week when our 38 BTC bASIC refund seemed to be "not very good"...
(just checked the volume-weighted average price a few minutes ago, and the following timestamps are Local NY time / Friday March 22, 2013)

Quote from: gribble, the friendly bitcoin utility-bot on freenode IRC / channel

[11:08:42] ticker
[11:08:43] BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 72.40936, Best ask: 72.80000, Bid-ask spread: 0.39064, Last trade: 72.87000, 24 hour volume: 87271.17967281, 24 hour low: 68.11000, 24 hour high: 74.90000, 24 hour vwap: 71.57408
[11:11:08] calc 38 * [ticker --avg]
[11:11:09] 2720.59442

I think... like... isn't $2,720.59 USD something like 20% higher than the USD value of the 177.86 bitcoins which we originally paid for the bASIC orders?

...I just love what the bitcoin exchange rates have done since BFL announced their ASICs are working:

15 March 2013 Update (The following info was on BFL's forum last week)

Quote from: BFL_Josh

((...snip...))

In some other positive news, we've not found a single bad chip yet, which could mean our yield rate will be exceptionally high... maybe we just got lucky out of the 50 chips we have available on boards so far, but it seems unlikely. So that may mean the vast majority of our chips will be usable.

So the good news is the boards work, the chips work, the bumping works, the substrate works. We just need to nail down a bit more with the firmware and we should be able to conduct a full test and start shipping.

((...snip...))