but in spite of the silly speculative doom and gloom that has swept over this thread, there still might be reason for optimism among those with outstanding Neptune orders.
Silly speculative doom and gloom? I normally respect what you have to offer on these forums but I find this comment slightly insulting. The lack of information from KNC is the root cause of all the "silly speculation" and now that we're finally getting more information the doom and gloom is quite justified IMO.
Consider the November pre-order customer who gave KNC $10k with little information past a "Q1/Q2" ship date and 3TH/s hashrate. Were they silly to speculate that KNC was being honest and had already made decent progress and thus might actually ship in Q1? Should they not be disappointed to learn that KNC included "Q1" in the ship date as a marketing scam and that the 20nm chip just barely now taped out confirming no hope for positive BTC ROI? I was really curious to hear your take on recent KNC developments when you finally popped back up and am now quite disappointed...
I'm trying to understand why anybody would still be holding onto a Neptune pre-order instead of refunding to simply buy more BTC than their Neptune could ever hope to mine.