Care to cite any scientific reasoning behind the opinion you are asserting?  

Didn't think so.

It's not that you are a shill, its just that you are speaking to a subject you know nothing about.

The new study entitled “On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains” was prepared by the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. It reveals that approximately 90% of the examined 4,565 nodes (there are currently more than 7,000 nodes) would continue normal operation even with 4 MB blocks. This particular block size would allow to increase the speed of transactions from the current 2,5 to 27 transactions per sec.

I'm not.  If they are on there they are running small potatoes. I'm #4 there and running only 8TH. Biggest miner on EMC is 33 TH with #2 @ 20TH.

Ooh, a fat joke. Very original and impactful. I'm crying over that one, I totally promise. No one has ever told me I'm fat before.  


A fair point, though in my defense their post was about 2 weeks after mine, by which point the name-calling had already begun and the damage was done. Wish I'd had the charity idea first, but that's not the way it played out. I've donated more than enough after the fact to offset the earnings from one Jalapeno, even one obtained so early, not that it will matter to anyone here.

Oh, and if I ever actually try to become a shill, I think I'd be a really bad one. Maybe if I'd heaped praise onto BFL instead of just putting out a demo and a teardown I'd have gotten an early Single or Monarch too. Too bad I just shot a couple videos and posted an objective presentation of what I was shown.

Of course this is an argument I'll never truly win since most of my haters aren't actually upset about the Jalapeno anyway, they're upset about the reason I knew the BFL people in the first place: The Sonny Vleisides Interview. Comically, that entire interview only existed because of the complete lack of fair and balanced reporting that existed in the Bitcoin space at the time.

The TL;DR version is that, like many in this space, Sonny Vleisides has a past and some people got their hands on that information and publicized the living daylights out of it, thoroughly demonizing the guy. I decided to see if I could speak to him myself, let him tell his story and present it to the public - everyone deserves at least that much, guilty or not, right?

Apparently not, because that was back in 2012 and I'm still catching shit for it today. You all say you want fair, balanced and ethical journalism but you don't. What you want is people pretending they have a crystal ball alternating between empty assurances and vitriolic fervor. I try not to interpret too much - People tell me things, then I write them down in a public place and let you all make up your own minds. My only crime was assuming that everyone was capable of absorbing that information and making rational decisions based upon it. My bad.

In all honesty what sealed my decision to keep the unit is that a few days later Ars Technica came out with their review and everyone kept saying what idiots they were for destroying their private key in the name of integrity. If I'm to be called a shill for keeping it or an idiot for returning it, then "shill" hurts a bit less... and pays better... and supports the network... and gets me a historical Bitcoin artifact that will sit proudly on a prominently-displayed shelf LONG after it's obsolete. How can you turn that down?

i've used them only once. I agree they are a wierd service. they say two days to your bank account, then it takes a week. they do all this wierd shit to confirm your identity, which includes random ass questions about some address you lived 10 years ago, and about random people from your town. fucking wierd as shit. then, you always fail the identity verification, its so fucking dumb, and an obviously rigged system to prevent you from getting to level 2 or 3 or whatever the hell it is. So in the end, they aren't exactly a scam, they are just a strange bunch of folks with odd ball ways of doing things and a misleading company line.

Hey there, i have some problems

i do also have the 7950 but when i use cgminer it says "no devices detected" can anybody help me

Does anyone know what name Coinbase uses when they place the charge against your checking account?

This is a flat out lie.. You have been ignoring my emails and refused to honor the price..  You offered to whitelist me.. For next time.. Gues what.. There is no'ext time.. Hope your  scam is worth it..

Thanks for your post~ A year sound about right 

I would like to see a modicum of evidence that suggests this has anything to do with KYC/AML restrictions. I have seen none to date.

Coinbase is shady as hell. Don't use them.

Give them a second chance they could feel bad if they had to see you go especially when they already whitelisted your account.

I got a message that they whitelisted me for future transactions, but there was no mention of the transaction I tried to make on 10/31.  That message came yesterday, and I replied saying I'd prefer to have the Bitcoin I ordered, but if they refuse to sell it to me, then they need to refund my purchase.  So far I've had no response from that and they still have my money (now over a week after it was ACH debited from my account).  Today was a Veteran's Day, so it's possible they've initiated a transfer of funds back to my account (which I still think is scammy...don't blame me for the price of Bitcoin rising and you not covering yourselves, Coinbase) but without communication I really have no idea what they're doing.