BFL 2.0? Seriously? I didn't know BFL is dead already? Didn't they just receive $1 million downpayment for a big commerical order? I guess that's not good enough in your eyes. BFL 1.0 screwed at least 10x as many customers and 10x the delay as HF aka BFL 2.0 But yet I don't see people stop buying from BFL despite their undeniable worst ASIC company reputation. Point is, it doesn't matter if HashFast "take" care of their Batch 1 MPP customers because if they have got a real product to sell at a competitive price, new customers (and even some old ones) will continue to buy from them.
Well, call me old-fashioned and naive, but my impression is that the folks at Hashfast have more moral fiber, more mature personal goals, and most importantly, more self-respect than Josh, and I think that matters.
People were essentially blindsided by BFL's perfidy - no experience with dishonesty on the BFL scale before. They didn't know what to do, especially the arrested development libertardian geek types who can't reason well enough to wipe their own behinds.
Check the other thread for people, already burned once, rushing to man the barricades to sue HF. If HF fails on the MPP, some of that won't be just idle threat. People have learned, the community has learned, through experience.
Hell, I haven't mentioned this before, because it's totally not my frame of mind. But for one thing, if Hashfast screws its MPP buyers, they'd have me to deal with. I f@ck with companies and large institutions for a living... done it professionally for 20 years. Companies a lot bigger than Hashfast, and projects with a dollar value mucho más grande que US $3m worth of ASIC hardware. You win some and you lose some, but I can f'n guarantee you that I'd cause them public relations and legal pain. Not cheap show-grousing on an internet forum.
Anyway, I don't think I'm going to need to do that. BFL kind of assholery won't go on. To survive, if the whole model of the citizen-miner survives, these companies are going to have to do things differently and develop non-hateful relationships with their customers. KnC seems to be leading the way. HF is working to follow. At least that's my bet.