As I understand it a Jupiter is just 2 Saturns stuck together. If upgrading from Saturn to Jupiter  is permitted, then what about upgrading from 1 to 2 Jupiters? I think this might be unfair to those who paid the full amount before the deadline, unless the upgraded order goes to the end of the queue. Thoughts?

ps-for full disclosure I have orders in for both types.

Ha, by all means take a breather and rest. I was just wondering if I can look forward to more KnC OpenDay pr0n coming up in the next few days week..which based on your statements means "yes".

I have not received any order payment confirmation email, only status paid showed on their website. Did anyone receive some kind of payment confirmation?

same here, they just changed status to "paid" on my account, nothing else..

ref: http://www.bitcoinx.com/charts/

I'm trying to do some forecasting and risk analysis using the "bitcoin network vs. market linear, 30 days" charts and noticed that the "Mining Factor 100" (the USD per 24 hours at 100MHash/s) has dropped from 0.55 on May 21st to around 0.26 as of Jun 17th.  That's a drop of around 50% in 1 month ... and, that drop happened with existing ASICs (I'm guessing mostly due to ASICminer, a few avalons, and the BFL jalapenos).  At this rate, the "Mining Factor 100" could drop down to at least 0.13 by October.  Using those estimates, if KnC, BFL and others deliver by October, each 350GHash (Jupiter) miner, for example, will take, at minimum, well over 5 months to breakeven ... and, that's assuming a lot (i.e., the BTC/USD rates stay about where they are today, no new competitors, no new game-changing technology, no new ASICs added to the market, the difficulty level continues as it has over the last several months, etc.).  ... and, in order to earn the same in November 2013 as a Jupiter would earn today, I estimate that you will need to be mining with approximately 20 Jupiters by November.  Worse, if KnC can't deliver until November, the breakeven might not happen until well over 2 years later.  By March 2014, the Jupiter might be earning around 1 USD per day ... hhhmm.

In order to stay viable and profitable, it's really in our best interest to get everyone using Bitcoins: restaurants, websites, bit-tipping via cell phones, etc.  Just like paypal is everywhere, "Pay-with-Bitcoin" needs to be everywhere.  Over the past 5 months, when I've asked about 40 of my friends (in their 20s through 30s) if they had heard of bitcoins, only 2 said they had, but didn't understand it.  So, I'm guessing there's still plenty of opportunity for Bitcoin's growth.

@Bitcoinorama: Did KnC say they plan to release all 2000 ASICs to the market at relatively the same time or spread out over several weeks?

1 USD/day ?

Assuming a constant exchange rate of 100$ per BTC, you're talking about  0.01 BTC per day hence a bitcoin difficulty equals to 17.6 billion by March 2014. Am I missing something obvious ?

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just to make it a little bit more clear: to achieve 17.2 billion btc difficulty by the end of March you need a 29.7% constant growth rate every 11 days starting from now. I'm not saying it's impossible I am just trying to understand what OP is thinking.

A street preacher with 18 posts ... how much credibility can he gets and out of the blue he comes here preaching, he probably would do the same last year before avalon launched their asic miner.

If used Cyclone IV to Mars they told me. By saving costs.
Why Stratix now want to pass? I just hope that the order of the chips this and paid as of today.
Minimum is 12 weeks, this is second to third week in August

They said they could feasibly ramp up production to the levels needed to cope with demand.

They said they could only sell products that gave their customers a return on investment and that; "We have a few things that we can do to make sure our customers get a return on investment."

Not sure if that answers your question, but that's alls i's got currently...