I will gladly sell you a South East based 60GH BFL single for 8 BTC.

Remember, you're not buying the minuscule hashing power, you're buying a piece of Bitcoin history.
Will/wont they deliver, they must be a scam, just 2 more weeks, 2 more weeks, ...

I would suggest dropping this route of investigation.
Considering exponential increase in hashing power and efficiency gains from newer ASIC hardware all your GPU behemoth is going to do is act as one of the worlds least efficient space heaters.

If you do have access to free power and cheap/free graphics cards: I hear litecoin is doing rather well at the moment so you might want to throw GPU horsepower over there.

My sides.
Feel free to buy one as a conversation piece to use over Christmas as it will no doubt help you ingratiate others into the Bitcoin but please search the forums and you will see why this is a terrible investment if you intend to make money.

(That said, I do get tempted by FPGA sales on ebay as a they would make a nice collectors item)

Well, I was emailed earlier telling me about my glorious sub 0.0001 XBT LABCOIN dividend.

They probably are legit but the flood of power on the market likely ruined them.

[edit] said probably twice in one sentence so my eyes almost exploded.

Personally I would love to see them have to deliver all the gen1 asics.
This just reads as another attempt to scrap the gen1 and rush into gen2 (which I assume they will be mining on to increase profit) so the cloud begins to lift over them and new bitcoin entrants can be sucked in.

I sure hope everyone keeps their gen1 asic's hashing.
Mainly for the good of the network but also so we see them begin to fail and bfl attempt to meet their "lifetime warranty".

that slipped a while back.

the slippages aren't really being announced or whined about due to the lack of concrete days people can QQ over.
e.g. we're currently on for the end of the week of the 10th Feb but one more hiccup and it's the week of the 17th and then the end of the week of the 17th...

Personally I'm preferring the frequent updates rather than on the day it should be launching getting an update that it's not happening and we should come back in a month.

You missed out: OH LOOK IT'S ANOTHER AVALON THREAD!!!

I know from the BFL policy that you do not need to be the original owner, I assume that avalon are planning the same.

The trade-in is designed to alleviate fears that your new purchase will become obsolete overnight.
If they hung their FPGA owners up to dry then people would be skeptical about ordering ASICs beyond the first few months for fear of a second generation blowing them out of the water soon after.

You can trade in towards an upgrade or you can sell it on the second hand market where the price *should* be near to the trade in value.

I lol'd.

I think you're confusing custom with homebrew.
I've always inferred that the forums was to discuss custom bitcoin specific hardware rather than general purpose gpus or fpgas.

I agree with Monster Tent's comment.

Tor?

The community as a whole shouldn't be punished because of a negative minority of trolls.

If these machines have gone through a testing phase surely they could have been pictured, videoed and uploaded.

Personally I would have made a massive point of showing off the hardware and the first packaged unit(s) leaving the office when the timer ran out but I guess I'm just more of a showman.

Goodwin's Law rides again.

Brilliant gif.

Then why does everyone care about an empty box?
As i said, they can say "look, here's a box where we house 12 of them to make it more convenient in larger scales" while showing off their mock up single.
I presume their target audience at CES isn't the Bitcoin community so this would probably be adequate.
Actually screwing in and gluing multiple layers of singles just to have a shiny copper cube seems like a waste of time (IMHO).

As i said, the singles were shown in Bitcoin Magazine months ago.
I'm not under the impression they have ASIC chips [that work].
My question is wither or not the single/jally boxes at CES are equally empty.

Does anyone have a picture of an opened single from CES?

I'm interested if these are also empty cases or mock ups like what was printed in Bitcoin magazine.

Regarding the "box of fans": if they have a single with full guts I don't see how them simply stating "This is our Larger model.  It has multiple copies of this little guy [point to single] plugged into a usb hub and this monitoring tablet [point to nexus] all in a neat little box." is a bad thing.

As I understand it BFL are making singles.
The rest of the product line are just variations where: they use less chips to make the mini single, they use even less chips(one?) and no heat sink for the jally and just plug together multiple singles to make the minirig.

UK business.
Priced in dollars.
 

Struggling to see a confirmation in the thread.

I don't think anyone suggested half of the network was sitting next to a switch waiting for 210000.
It will take some time for the affect of the halving to make its way through the network.
I'm sure a lot of gamer/miner chaps out there aren't aware of the halving and probably won't notice the drop in revenue for a while.