BFL_Jody the customer service representative from Butterfly Labs has made a blog post asking people who have pre-orders with trade-ins to please start sending their FPGA bitcoin miners back to Butterfly Labs for processing adding "With Josh's return today with chips in hand, I feel comfortable with talking about trade-ins …

BFL_Josh and the team over at Butterfly Labs seem to be hard at work, and while they have not made a update post yet they have posted photos of ASIC chips on their PCB Boards.

BFL_Josh has a short but positive update for us today, the chips are at the packers.

According to the post they should be done sometime today or tomorrow before they are shipped back to Butterfly Labs for final assembly.

While the actual post is very light on any information this …

UPDATE: Please read this article.

AUTHORS NOTE: Please read the comments at the end, as of yet no one in the bitcoin community has been able to verify PrimeAsic's devices.

AUTHORS WARNING: It has now been in excess of a week since the PrimeAsic announcement and despite repeated attempts to …

While details are still somewhat sketchy it seems that another 3 Avalon ASIC bitcoin miners have been delivered.

BitcoinTalk user libertybuck  posted the picture below in the Avalon Update thread showing his three new units being unpacked.  It finally seems that the disruptions caused to shipping by Chinese New Year …

ASICMiner representative Friedcat announced on BitcoinTalk that the first dividend from their monster ASIC bitcoin mining farm has been paid.

In the post (quoted at the end for posterity) Friedcat says that the total dividend for this, the first week of operation is 3860.41091438 BTC, or approximately \$131,253 …

After yesterdays news that the bumping process is taking longer that expected BFL_Josh from Butterfly Labs has a few photos of what is meant to be the test wafer now at the ASIC testing plant getting ready to be cut.

The plan is to sacrifice one of the wafers that …

BFL_Josh has posted another update about Butterfly Labs progress.  Unfortunately the update is that they are still waiting on the bumping facility to ship their chips.

Josh seems very aware that this update will be a disappointment to most and admits "Since Friday we have been, in a word, agonizing …

I don't often do reviews but recently I have looked around for a few SD cards for the MinePeon project.  In particular some people on the Butterfly Labs forum have been trouble installing MinePeon onto a 4 GB SD card, even though it was built on a 4 GB card …

ASICMiner is continuing to set records on the BTC Guild Hall of Fame as they now reach 4,569.28 GH/s or 4.5 TH/s.

At the current difficulty ASICMiner should now be netting approximately 620 bitcoin a day, or \$18,600 USD.  If you look at it …