It seems that Butterfly Labs have come up with an interesting plan to move clients from one pre-order queue to another.

In their most recent news letter they have announced that if you are still waiting for your Butterfly Labs device as they work through their back orders you now …

Lately the amount of inquirers/requests/suggestions that MinePeon is generating via forums/emails/PMs/IMs has grown to such a level that I have absolutely no hope to keep up with them all (and that annoys me, I feel everyone deserves an answer).

To that end, I have decided …

It happened, ever since last month when Josh from Butterfly Labs let slip that a developer unit of their new 5 GH/s ASIC bitcoin miner might be on its way to me I have had trouble sleeping.  I have spent the days watching the courier van come and go, my friends, family and co-workers have even noted to me how down I look.

I had begun to think that Josh and Butterfly labs were running some cruel geek version of the classic Pavlov's dog experiment on me.

Correction: Josh from Butterfly Labs has emailed me, there was no intrusion of any sort.  They were testing some of their systems and adding new features.

While it did appear to be nefarious it seems that I jumped the gun, for that I apologize   Josh assures me "everything is and …

Or at least that is what the mail says and since developers and reviewers have already been receiving 5 GH/s units it looks like we can believe it this time.

Hopeful miners have been reporting that they have been receiving email from Butterfly Labs asking them to telling them …

The day has arrived,  the Butterfly Labs forum Latest Update reads "Jalapeños are making their way to their new homes. http://ow.ly/i/1WUo4".

They have even provided us with a photo of a few of the ASIC bitcoin miners sitting on a trolley presumably waiting to be picked …

Dave at the excellent bitcoin blog codinginmysleep.com has just received a developer version of the Butterfly Labs 5 GH/s miner and has done a very complete boxing video.

Enough from me, Dave's video is here;-

Go check out what Dave has to say on his blog, it sounds …

UPDATED: Response from Butterfly labs at the bottom.

After the bad news last week that Butterfly Labs missed their power estimates for the new range of BitForce SC ASIC bitcoin miners and the under performing glance Luke-Jr showed us of an actual device hashing Butterfly Labs has shocked the bitcoin …

Luke-Jr developer of the popular BFGMiner bitcoin mining software has spent a bit of time at Butterfly Labs headquarters working on driver support for their new ASIC bitcoin mining devices and has released photos today on BitcoinTalk showing us photos of what he says is a prototype Butterfly Labs Little …

After what seems like an eternity of silence the latest update from Butterfly Labs is not good.  BFL_Josh reveals in the update that both the power requirements and hashing rate of the new bitcoin ASIC miners are not what they expected, and not in a good way.

It seems that …