@DR-LENIN, thanks for expressing your opinion, I imagine had you bothered to read the entire post you may have noticed several times we have said we are asking for no money from anyone. not for orders or deposits, until there is a prototype to demo. All we have said is if people want to show us their support before then we will not say no and arguably this is no different to a donation which many people ask for.  The only difference is when we deliver we will repay any good faith in kind.  I Really hope that makes our position clear on this cynics view of pre-orders.  I really hope that you will wait and see what we deliver before making sweeping judgement's.  Otherwise best of luck to you, and thank you for also sharing your thoughts.

Oh also I want to clear up the point you make about 'prototypes'

When I refer to a 'prototype' this is my definitions:

"A Production quality board and casing, with a final version of our software, and the final iteration of our hardware optimisations"

This I confess we do not have.

What we do have however is the following

Cyclone V SX SoC (System-on-Chip)
Stratix V GX Development Board
Full Quartus II License
EAGLE CAD Professional

We Also have:

1. A Working S-Crypt Bitstream -Has undergone some optimisation and is undergoing further optimizations
2. A Working SHA-256 Bitstream - No optimization work yet carried out
3. A Work in Progress XPM Stream
4. A Work In Progress PTS Stream
5. A Work In Progress Web Interface for the System
6. A Working Profitability Algorithm pending integration with incomplete bit streams.

If you have any questions relating to this that I have not answered feel free to forward to info@bitex.co.uk and our team of hardware specialists will happy to liaise with directly.