Friedcat,
What about those who were promised free sample boards?
His response:
As a miner I look forward to the product, BFL needs a serious competitor
The products for sale will not be very early. However,
if approved by all my partners and
motion-passed by our shareholders, we will be giving out a small batch of our first-generation
products to the community for free.
Interpretation: Are you willing to cut profits from dividends so a few folks get some free boards? If so, you better be able to convince his people and 51% of shareholders to do so.
You obviously missed this ...
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The next part is about what will happen:
Sample boards to the community: this is at the 2nd order of our priority list following deploying. Once we have enough time it will be done immediately.
The next batch: Chips are arranged by the fab to arrive next month. With the former efforts on PCB design/service seeking of the first batch, the development time of the second batch of final products should be shorter than this one. With them to expand our farm, or sell them, or do both, are still in consideration.
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