Quote from: jimmothy on June 10, 2014, 06:42:54 AM

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I don't have stock hardware. All the stock hardware was bought.

I mean why not sell sp30 in stock or even BTO?

Why put the additional unnecessary risks involved with preordering on your customers?

Quote from: xstr8guy on June 10, 2014, 06:55:58 AM

C'mon now, let's not be silly here. There is risk in every preorder. You see a low chance for failure because Spoondoolies has proven to be an upstanding company. But don't mistake that for zero risk.

And with a pre-order with a no-refund policy, the buyers have assumed all risk if a catastrophic failure occurs.

Already explained multiple times in the thread before. Will explain once again.
Put execution risk aside - the RockerBox / SP30 is a simple project. Die Shrink, same miner concept as the SP10. The execution risk is virtually non existent.
The two other risks - BTC price and hash-rate are not under our control.

Why we can't finance in stock SP30:

Assume the following (not exact figure, just to get the idea):

- 3 months lead time on the ASICs and other long lead time components
- SP30 BOM (without NRE) is $3,000
- Each month we want to produce 3,000 miners

We don't have $27M. Each customer can do his/her own calculation regarding the BTC and has-rate risks and decide whether they want to take it or not.