Black Arrow 28nm 100Ghash Bitcoin ASIC from $0.49/GH/s

[TinkerTom]

In other words you want a report when and any time anyone touches any equipment, goes to lunch, takes a screwdriver in their hand at BA?
You think they should also provide you with weather and traffic report? G-d forbid their engineer is not there for 5min.
Just think of the delays that might cause.

Better not to post at all than to post this drivel. As if they don't know where things stand -- add one line to their update, done.

[Vcore]

Hi, I am building a phase change cooling for my prosperos and knowing the size of the chip package would help me quite a bit.

If the placement and distances on the board/case are known too it would be even better as I could have everything ready for when they arrive.

Thanks.

[coolmusic]

if they have everything ready by next Friday and works hard 24h including the weekend maybe they can make it

[RoadStress]

Get your refunds and join here: https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=575499.0

[K1773R]

Thanks to zurg, i recieved a refund (he was pushing them/relaying messages) minus 50$ fee.

Why do you guy harass someone which tries to help? Some pages before he explained why he wants to help. After all hes no BA official, so dont blame him for BA's faults.

[sorehammer]

If zurg didn't act like a douce bag no one would have picked on him. He maybe a great guy but giving sarcastic replys to people when he doesn't even work for ba doesn't help people who are frustrated and worried about money they are now owed.

[david105396]

As I have said before, I am confident that the deadline will be made and shipping will start on time.

[shogunmark]

As I have said before, I am confident that the deadline will be made and shipping will start on time.

and yet the majority of us are not confident... Which is why we would appreciate a 2 second reply from BA as to whether or not they believe they will hit the mark. I am afraid they are avoiding this because they know they wont make it and they know the mass refund requests will begin.

[heslo]

Well..... I'm done.

Just messaged Matt then who has been corresponding with me via email over the past week or two. I've waited and waited, lost money, waited some more and now, I'm done. Sad it's come to this. Was my first foray into buying bitcoin mining hardware, definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.

Poor form BA, poor form

[sorehammer]

Well all we can do is but wait 1st of May is around the corner and then we'll know for sure. Hopefully they come through. This is most definitely the last time I ever pre order anything again unless Sony make it

[Dallas5]

Well..... I'm done.

Just messaged Matt then who has been corresponding with me via email over the past week or two. I've waited and waited, lost money, waited some more and now, I'm done. Sad it's come to this. Was my first foray into buying bitcoin mining hardware, definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.

Poor form BA, poor form

Same here, I've got no problem waiting 2 or 3 months for a pre-order but 5+ months? And everything is looking like the products won't be delivered in May and another delay is imminent. So who knows how long customers have to wait?

The main problems where:

- The communicated shipping date was too optimistic.
- Lack of communication to paying customers, from BA and resellers.
- Initial offered compensation package to low.

Now, I've asked for my money back more then a week ago hopefully I will receive it in the upcoming week or the equivalent in btc.

[david105396]

Goozman sorry for not answering this question before.

I base this on the information given to me.

[sorehammer]

Goozman sorry for not answering this question before.

I base this on the information given to me.

And what is this information given to you that we, the unwashed masses, aren't privy to?

Hey i had a wash last week

[sorehammer]

Apparently there is some information that david knows but isn't allowed to share.. which makes no sense to me because if there is information that will stop people from thinking there will be a second delay, shouldn't it be shared? But whatever.

Also, BOBSAG3, my email still isn't showing up in your database. And for God's sake, implement https for the login page

I do agree if you have information then share it if your not allowed to then for christ sake don't hint at information you are privy too but are not allowed to share that is just not cricket as we say in the UK.

[tempestb]

Nobody knows if they are going to hit their deadline, even they don't know.  They are relying on a lot of third parties here.  They can hope for the best and that everyone comes through on time, but you can't be sure.  So far I've heard nothing that indicates they can't do it, but it's also possible they'll hit a snag at any moment.

Also, there is that whole 5 days of free hosting or whatever, my guess is this is burn-in time before shipping?  So if that starts on May 1st the actual shipping wouldn't be until May 5th or 6th.  Right? 

[david105396]

To clear things up. The development of the LTC chip has not been funded by the money of the pre-orders of the prospero miners. It is a project by the engineers which earn a salary.

[descarte]

this is a good time to gather all required docs about them and their director. Know their contacts, where they are staying...etc, just in case they run away like N & B

[raskul]

To clear things up. The development of the LTC chip has not been funded by the money of the pre-orders of the prospero miners. It is a project by the engineers which earn a salary.

nicely bundled in with the SHA package though eh? you sir, are telling porky pies.

[sorehammer]

Very quiet in here hopefully not a sign of things to come lol.

[smithytzu]

I really feel for the BA customers...

I was looking at getting an x3 back in December, I heard BA had delivered in the past using other ASIC chips, I felt confident they would actually deliver something but I wasn't confident on BA delivering on time, the delivery date seemed too good to be true, I held off getting in on the early batches until it got to about January, then after hearing the updates and the fact that chip hadn't been finalized and looking into the whole wafer manufacturing process(and comparing where they were at in the process compared to Cointerra and Hashfast at the time), I knew there would be no way they would make the Feb Deadline realistically, so I held off on the BA purchase and got a whole bunch of Ant's instead. i.e. something I knew I could actually get my hands on.

Glad I did in the end, having 6k tied up with a company for 6 months would have driven me insane.

Best wishes all those still believing that you get your ASICs sometime in the next few weeks, my guess is people will start receiving them late/end of may.

Hope you break even.


Smithy