Observe: this is the type of product philosophy that is likely to put you in a position to have to fire-sale your company and dilute yourself off of your own cap table.

Lots of this after keeping quiet for so long.

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Guy Corem logged in as random shill: Good job guys! Keep up the good work.
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I have heard that Spondoolies is testing their miners in pools right now.  I have also heard buzzing about the fact that they are not yielding as many solved shares as should be theoretically possible.  Could this be because of a hardware bug in their chips? 

I have requested a refund on my miners for them and have swapped to buying up miners on eBay and buying coins at the current low price.

I plan to unplug the fans entirely.  Call it coarse PWM control.  But, it has worked well for my Terraminers and Baby Jets.

Breakout the pitchforks.

Please don't burn your house down over this shit, people.

If you will get the first, first one.  And you HOPE that will be last week of October.  AND the crypto guy gets his after you.  How are people still expecting to see shipping in 8 days? 

I know you're getting a bit defensive at my insistence; to a fault.  But, the holes are glaringly obvious.  As a pre-orderer, I am starting to get antsy at your defensiveness and lack of concrete facts when it comes to the system build (after the chips, thanks for semi 101).  And I'm hoping everyone else gets the same impression.  That is the only way we will get some concrete information aside from 'hope' 'trust' 'maybe' 'soon'. 

Stop flailing your arms and steamrolling and answer with some facts.  Or, if you insist, pipe down and let someone with HF_ in their name answer.

Thanks a lot on the HF vocabulary and semiconductor lessons. 

Who is doing your board assembly?  Or will you not tell us because you know you're going to be late?  HF may as well eat their shoes and ship the BJ's with two modules already in there.  Will save a good deal on shipping for HF and may save the company's image.

They can tell us that their fab is TSMC but can't tell us who is making/assembling their boards?  Give me a break; that is the easy part.  Also: I don't know better and I'm sure everyone who has a preorder would feel better if they knew that your partners who are following through to the end are as reputable as TSMC.

Not that we don't believe you about having already sourced the boards and cases.  Can you divulge who is providing these services for you?  Who is doing your board manufacturing?  Who is doing your board assembly?  Who is doing your system integration.

Seems to me like you won't hit October, as promised.

I'm trying to get a refund now.  These are barely on the edge of ROI for me.  It isn't worth burning the apartment building down for a few extra bucks.  Will let you all know if I have any luck.

I would like to reserve two blocks of whatever bullshit you're trying to sell.

Please share your schedule with us.  All of us are very skeptical that you will deliver systems in October.  Cutting glass, obtaining first silicon and packaging will take at least 2 months.  Not to mention system assembly and prototype test.  Even in tapeing out August 28th you're looking at LATE November easy or you're simply lying to everyone.  If you disagree please share your exact schedule with us.

-The Skeptical

Making everyone sign an NDA is pretty stupid.  I requested to go to the open house and was told: 'no' we're full.  Not a huge fan of these guys right now.  We know that they had an open house.  However, we have no clue what was discussed.  So, what was the point of it?

For what it is worth... google says this address is a place called Nextspace -- a co-working office.  Seems weird to me that a company that can afford a 28nm chip without preorders can't find their own office.

I don't understand why anyone would want this...

Do you mean breaking down the architecture of the chip or the board?  If the former, what do you expect to achieve?