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Honest question here: did they promise that they wouldn't?
by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
Honest question here: did they promise that they wouldn't?
- yebyen 12y agoI am having a hard time finding this declaration now, but I am sure that some BFL employees representing the company made these declarations on the company forums. "I'm sure I saw it" -- maybe naïvely inferred from discussions I read that they were actually saying it. I went back through the web.archive.org pages on butterflylabs.com/faq and I can find no such statements, refutations, or denials now.
- yebyen 12y agoThe closest I've found so far is this person[1] Transisto asserting that they specifically said this. I remember hearing it and I have no reason to doubt Transisto; he is clearly a person you can trust (and at least in this forum thread, nobody came and said he was wrong.) [1]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110290.msg1202262#msg1202262 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110290.msg1202262#ms...
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoOk, good to know, thanks!
- yebyen 12y agoHere is at least one statement to this effect, directly from the main BFL employee who represents them in the forums, BFL_Josh: https://forums.butterflylabs.com/archive/index.php/t-52.html https://forums.butterflylabs.com/archive/index.php/t-52.html It is linked in the pre-sales FAQ in the archive, post is only two years old (number 13): https://forums.butterflylabs.com/archive/index.php/f-4.html https://forums.butterflylabs.com/archive/index.php/f-4.html This is not the promise I remember, there was a much stronger statement issued at some point that I remember where they stated that they would _never_ be in the mining business for themselves, but I can't find it. Still, this is pretty clear, he says 24 hours and testnet. Not two weeks and "into our pockets."