As many of you already know there was a 'hiccup' in the bitcoin network this week. It caused a flurry of articles, some good, some panicked and others that were outright alarmist.
To be honest, while I was aware of the issue as it transpired it did not register with …
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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 …
more ...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 …
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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 …
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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 …
more ...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 …
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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 …
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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 …