Quote from: Holographic on June 29, 2012, 10:13:39 PM

Quote from: MoonShadow on June 29, 2012, 08:20:50 PM

This should be a lesson to all newbies. Bitcoin removes the need for a trusted third party, but it does not remove the need to trust your counterparty. If you don't do your due diliigence, you can exkpect that sooner or later you are going to run into a con game. I'm not saying that BFL is a con game, but I have yet to hear of anyone who has received their paid order. If you get screwed, this is not bitcoin's fault. It woks like cash, and trusting someone on the Interent because he has a slick website is like buying a genuine gold Swiss watch from some guy you met in an ally. Just because it was half off, doesn't mean that you didn't get scammed.

Hi, and thanks for the reply, although I disagree that there is any lesson to be learnt from anything I wrote. If I get screwed, of course it is not bitcoins fault, and I am aware that there is a risk involved. If the investment doesn't pay off, I have only invested money I was prepared to lose (now there is a lesson Tongue

), but there are plenty of BFL products (FPGA) out in the wild right now and lots of people who can confirm this. I honestly do think BFL will deliver though. Maybe not with the exact specs they state, and most likely it will be delayed, but it seems that anyone not mining with ASIC hardware in 6 months time, will be left behind. I feel the potential reward is worth the risk, so after much consideration I placed the order.

I was really just wondering if anyone know for sure if BFL only count business days when they calculate the order queue, because if they include the weekend, it is slightly annoying to receive the wire transfer details on Friday afternoon

I live on a pittance so I'm hedging my bets. I'll wait until BFL starts rolling out the new ASIC's and take a look at the mining environment and make a decision then. My greatest concern is that between the halving of rewards for blocks, and large capital investments in ASIC's by individuals, mining will require large capital investment and be beyond the reach of hobbists like myself. On the other hand, I may get a return on my initial investment of 50% and end up with two decent gaming rigs. I know there are BLF products out there, but a cardinal rule of dealing on the internet has been not trusting dealings by wire order.