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Re: 1GH/s, 20w, $500 — Butterflylabs, is it a scam?
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Inaba
on 26/11/2011, 03:59:18 UTC
I just got home after meeting with Sonny in person from BFL and their engineer via Skype.  We had a fairly long conversation and I live over 30 miles away, so that's why it's taken me this long.

We did some simulated testing, but no live testing tonight.  We elected to put that off until tomorrow or possibly Sunday to allow for proper testing instead of just throwing some tests together.  I have, however, seen several units (and I will post pictures of them) and seen them power up.  Beyond that, I have nothing definitive to say, other than so far, so good.  I will be meeting with them again this weekend to conclude the testing on the live pool on an isolated network with no net access.

While I was not able to inspect the chips under the two main heat sinks, the other chips are plainly visible and inspectable.  There is nothing on that board to indicate any sort of cellular connection, for those of you suspecting that sort of nefarious scheme.  It was hard to take pictures at the location we were in and I will have better pictures once they let me take a unit over night - I will put it in my light box and get some properly lighted pictures.

Pictures incoming shortly. I need to post process them and I'll put up a few.