Best news I've heard all day

Any idea when you'll have the new pricing?

Cool, sounds good

did they ever work out the credit card issues?

Calculating it out and assuming that Birfury chips get out in a reasonable timeframe, between the European sales, the 200 TH/s mine with Dave, the private Bitfury pool (already >100 TH/s), and all the North American sales, unless another company brings something dramatic to the table (probably KnC) it's likely that by the beginning of November half the blocks on the network will be hashed with a Bitfury device

About to make the plunge into the ASIC market.  Lots of coin to spend.  Been slow to do it, due to all of the scams, preorders, delays, etc.

Without scanning the 75 pages this thread has turned into, can anyone provide a quick answer to the following questions?  (Yes, I'm sure the answer is in this thread somewhere, but it would not only benefit me, but others I'm sure to get these basic questions answered.)

I'm referring to the full 400Gh/s system. 

1) Can bitcoins be used as payment?
2) When will the unit ship, assuming an order date of today? (as closely estimated as possible)
3) Does this unit contain everything I need to immediately start mining?
4) What size PSU do I need to run it?
5) What cooling do I need to run it?
6) Using the ship date from question #2, what would be the estimated (although hard to predict, so just looking for a rough ballpark estimate) time for 100% ROI?

Anything else, that I'm missing would be helpful.

Here's a direct link to the ROI analysis as computed by The Genesis Block... http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/f4a38b80d7

I personally don't think the difficulty increase will continue to be this aggressive after the next few months so ROI might be much better than is shown above.  Once we get into next year, it's going to be very difficult to double and triple the network speed because of the massive amount of ASICs that will be hashing by then.  To double the network speed would mean that for ASIC currently hashing, another will have to be added to the network.  IMO, that is not as likely to happen as The Genesis Block makes it appear.

Of course, it could be worse too.

It is a bit disheartening to see the bitcoin mining taken over by large ventures.  Not much room in the future for the hobbyist miner to make some coin.
This is worrying to have governments subsidizing or backing the bitcoin ventures.  


^ Yeah Right.  That government has a history of taking what they want.

yes, read his comments from today

In the bitcoin world, your translation is pretty spot on! 
Frankly delivering within a couple of days of the promised date is closer to 3 months early (compared to competitors -- AM doesn't count since their miners are for entertainment purposes only).