Our banter is better than all the preorder and VAT crap over a product that doesn't even exist yet.

I am pleased they have made at least one working Mars board already.

All being well, I will have the cash for 2 Jupiter's, shortly, and it relieves me to see at least one product manufactured.

I would love to attend a future open day, but will base my final decision on reports from this first one as whether to invest.

I am also happy to have an ASIC Miner manufacturer in the EC, as it saves me a large import cost on both BFL and Avalon items, plus the cost per GH/s is extremely competitive.

Originally they spoke of batches of 500.

That was before Mars, Saturn and Jupiter were announced.

In an email to me they stated FPGA's become affordable due to economies of scale around the 400+ order mark. I believe that's chip volume and obviously there is more than one chip per machine. They aren't profiting from Mars due to FPGA expense apparently, it's more a proof of concept and ability.

So there may or may not be an initial run of 500 units sold w.r.t. the ASIC machines per run and I believe there will be less of the Mars as it's just proof of concept.

So for what it's worth, no one knows, but I would still go with orders being bunched in runs of 500...

Hope that helps?

I too would like to see knc post in 'ere. But they do respond to emails, so they've not disappeared into the etherweb....

They started at 0. I have an early order below 80, and I know that many were quicker than me.

He is concealing them.

I live in Sweden - Göteborg, And I'm willing to travel to Stockholm to take pictures, take notes, ask questions, from people here in this thread. I am a poor student so I wound need some cash for train ticket.
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Report what?That an overpriced fpga miner is actually there and mining?
Is there something else?

Sadly there's no guarantee asics will work until millions are spent.

Yup it's impossible to make only a few asics.