Quote from: 64dimensions on February 13, 2020, 05:49:49 PM

I also have too many Acorns.

The question is what is the best way forward? I think legal action is a dead end dumpster fire.

The best approach is the "this is the hand you've been dealt approach". I will outline some possible +EV possibilities.

1) Some sort of group buy action for services revolving around the most profitable/useful mining bitstream for the acorn. The developer to be paid in acorns from us.

2) Some sort of numerical accelerator application. If you recall, the original IBM PC's were sold with an empty socket for an add on numerical co-processor chip (which was as large as the CPU chip). Would an acorn plus software have any use in scene rendering applications?

3) Could a FPGA dev kit have any use for the acorn guts?

I think legal action is the best way forward. Why keep letting these scammers get away with this shit. The work is on fire because so many get rewarded for bad behaviour. Why let this cat go on to run his bs on the next group. He/she needs to take the hit as well. Here is where you have a leg to stand on. He/she says they will not sell preorders until the board/software is tested. It’s obvious now this was all lies. Let us not be lazy now. I hope I need not do the google searching for you as well. There are plenty lawyers that will handle this case.

“ I won’t post exact per algorithm stats or performance until I can do final testing of the actual boards to be shipped with the release hardware/heatsink/thermal management pieces in place, at which point I’ll accept pre-orders. This device requires quite a bit of testing to cover the list of common GPUs, PCIe configurations, and supported algorithms. I have no desire to sell anyone anything not useful to them, or to push a board at all, let alone one based on 3D renders, prototype parts pictures, or choppy YouTube videos, so I believe this full set of data along with final product pictures and overview must be published before I will take any preorders. I am sorry if that tests your patience.”

Br
Doug