How many legitimate companies that you know of, allow their COO to make one broken promise after another, while earning the scorn of an entire community due to his outrageous behavior and taunting ?

 How many legitimate companies that you know of make bets of 1,000 BTC to charity and then don't honor it in a timely manner ?

 How many legitimate tech companies that you know of are run by a former convicted felon, who's past behavior with mail fraud raises questions about certain aspects of Butterfly Labs' business and customer service practices ?

 How many legitimate "leading edge" tech companies that you know of farm out the design of their chips to third parties, rather than creating the design themselves in-house ?

 How many legitimate "leading edge" tech companies blow their power estimates by almost a factor of 5. At least.

 How many legitimate tech companies that you know of have ever displayed such outright contempt and disrespect for their customers ?

 To be clear, it's not accurate to call them a scam, but they sure have acted like a bunch of bumbling amateurs over the last year.