Re: Black Arrow 28nm 100Ghash Bitcoin ASIC from $1.99/GH/s, miners from $2.97/GH/s

Redesigning a control board when a RasPi and BeagleBone Black are readily available? How will this help you deliver more quickly?

this would be a great delaying tactic if there were never to be any product in the first place.
at THIS point in time. just saying.

could be. I don't know that this is the time limiter on this project however.

From that standpoint, as long as we're waiting for things to get built that should have been built 2 months ago, can I suggest we install a beer tap on these things. The cold beer can be run through the units and used to cool the chips when you're overclocking in order to frantically try to recover your money spent on these.

Of course we know that overclocking, while possible, voids your warranty, so don't do that. And no-one should expect to get their money back, as this is not a financial services company. And don't ask for a refund. Well you can, but you might or might not get it, as we can't figure that out over the course of a month or more.

With this liquor enabled miner at least the end user can get a buzz on while watching their money go down the drain and pondering how a company that names it's currency producing products 'Prospero', can then turn around and tell people they shouldn't expect to prosper from them.

Maybe we should call it Sinkhole at this point. Truth in advertising and all that good stuff.

their whole update just reads like;

'f*ck you - we have your money, what you going to do about it?'
gotta feel for the guys n gals who put their money into this, whether they get their miners in the end or not is actually irrelevant now.

I don't know about the update, but that's pretty much how I see their overall approach at this point. In my opinion that looks like this:

We'll tell you what we want, when we want, and control information to the greatest extent possible.

If we don't like the question, or don't want to answer, we'll simply ignore it, like we're doing with the central question of refunds. Or we'll tell you to submit a ticket to shut you up, and do nothing with that when you do.

We'll throw you a bone and tell you to sit like a good little doggie and wait for your miner which has been rendered a loser due to our fook-ups.

if you don't like it, we don't give a damn. we took your money, so we're done with you anyhow. now please shut up so we can steer focus away from the fact that we are costing our customers thousands of dollars and back to an area more conducive to our profit margin.