Quote from: FunnyHat43 on September 25, 2014, 03:52:24 AM

There were probably a good number of local jobs affected by the closure of BFL in Kansas City, so it is probably bad news for that area. For everywhere else (I never like to see people lose their jobs like this) it is great news as BFL is no longer going to be able to scam customers by using their miners to mine while they are "waiting" for R&D to complete.

most manufacturing is not done at the missouri location, 90% of the hardware is done at chip manufacturing elsewhere and butterfly labs missouri once they finally do get product. employ people for just a couple months a year (temp jobs) just to box and ship units. so the impact of unemployment does not really come as a large measure of why people should defend BFL.

the company received multiple millions.. and im talking hundreds of millions of dollars. yet the output of physical product and employment payouts is far far far less