Quote from: Ytterbium on August 02, 2013, 12:26:31 AM

Quote from: SebastianJu on August 01, 2013, 11:51:23 AM

Very much this!

Ok, technicians doesnt have to be great business man. But i await a grain of logic. Im not sure how he plans to prosper when he sees the rising anger that mostly is a result of missing communication, that again is a result of "I want to do all alone" and so on. Im not sure what his reason is not to hire someone. Maybe he dont trust others (maybe they steal bitcoins) or he fears the new employee wants the same rights and income like the existing ones. But i cant believe he dont see what damage he does to his company, its reputation and his customers by all the missed working hours that lead to problems in all fields.

Avalon shipped a lot of units, and they have a lot of happy customers. On some orders things didn't work out - but the outrage, calling them BFL like, scammers, etc is way overstated. Most people got their hardware. B2 will probably pay for itself, I'm not sure about B3, but I guess we'll see.

As far as chips go, I'm sure people with downstream customers and investors are upset, but they're only a few weeks late so far.

The real competitive risk is the competition at that feature size and smaller from guys like Labcoin, KnC, HashFast, etc.

I didnt say that Avalon is like BFL, i bought with avalon in the first place because i thought they are different. The only thing i mentioned was that bfl wanted to deliver the chips in 100days while avalon wanted in 9-10 weeks. I claimed that these more weeks are a reason to not buy with bfl. No see what it turns out.

Quote from: jspielberg on August 02, 2013, 03:20:10 AM

I am going to commit a small faux-pas and quote myself...

Quote from: jspielberg on July 31, 2013, 11:02:55 PM

Yeah... a lot of heart ache and ill feelings could easily be handled by some kind of communication with all the groups currently having concerns:
Avalon B3 units without PSUs
Chip orders
FPGA Trade-ins
Refunds

That being said, I can understand refunds being at the bottom from a priority standpoint. I just don't understand from a complexity stand point. There is clearly stuff that we are not privy to as to why refunds are complicated and difficult. We just don't know it, so people assume the worst.

I think we have an explanation for why Yifu has been MIA:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170332.msg2851242#msg2851242

He has been with all the other BTC entrepreneurs in NYC at the Inside Bitcoin Conference.

Hopefully now that is over, we will see some updates.

A pity no one was pressuring and asking him out there. The good thing would have been that he could have been contacted there.