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Bitcoin => Hardware => Topic started by: Newscastix on March 26, 2013, 07:14:12 PM



Title: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: Newscastix on March 26, 2013, 07:14:12 PM
Engineering the Bitcoin Gold Rush: An Interview with Yifu Guo, Creator of the First ASIC-Based Miner:

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/engineering-the-bitcoin-gold-rush-an-interview-with-yifu-guo-creator-of-the-first-asic-based-miner

Nice long Interview and some good pics...


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: paraipan on March 26, 2013, 07:16:28 PM
Good read, thanks


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: shibaji on March 26, 2013, 07:21:52 PM
Thanks for sharing.


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: seldon on March 26, 2013, 07:31:40 PM
Very interesting!


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: Dalkore on March 26, 2013, 07:34:39 PM
Thank you.   Reading now.


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: Felipeo on March 26, 2013, 08:21:41 PM
Very nice interview :)

Thank you for sharing


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: davecoin on March 26, 2013, 08:26:19 PM
Interesting reading the point that they don't own or mine on Avalon hardware beyond test units.


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: tigerfree on March 26, 2013, 08:27:44 PM
nice interview but batch 3 didn't sold out in 15 min :P still you can buy now .


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: 01BTC10 on March 26, 2013, 08:42:50 PM
Very nice read. Great philosophy!


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: Tyger on March 26, 2013, 09:17:12 PM
very intresting article


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: World on March 26, 2013, 09:46:40 PM
Great article.


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: gill83 on March 26, 2013, 09:51:51 PM
Well I dont think they are not doing ANY mining with Avalon ASICs. May they kept back a couple of units. But still, I agree, they are the good people. No evil intentions. Unlike... you know who :-\


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: jermwerty on March 26, 2013, 11:02:57 PM
nice interview but batch 3 didn't sold out in 15 min :P still you can buy now .

Because some people added 100 to their cart, and then these holds didn't expire for quite some time.


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: chriswen on March 26, 2013, 11:09:07 PM
I enjoyed reading the interview. 


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: Bogart on March 26, 2013, 11:23:59 PM
Not even one mention of ngzhang?  ???


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: libertybuck on March 27, 2013, 12:24:38 AM
Not even one mention of ngzhang?  ???

He is the real hero.


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: dopamine on March 27, 2013, 01:02:32 AM
that was a really good read, now the bitcoin gold rush begins... betting against BFL shipping is easy btc


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: cchan on March 27, 2013, 01:28:05 AM
very good interview.


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: Vicus on March 27, 2013, 05:24:30 PM
He seems to understand the Bitcoin situation pretty well but I hope these guys do not ruin their reputation by not answering the people who didn't receive their orders.  Techies are notoriously poor at customer service and with these small companies many of the techies do the customer support themselves which is generally a bad idea.  Hopefully the missing batch 1 deliveries can be resolved.  While many of the posts on here of people complaining are ridiculous, the people complaining that interviews are being done while their support tickets are not being answered have a very good point.
I feel myself like a hostage. I want to say more, but forced to keep silence in fear that it will get me in some another "problematic list"... I'm trying to not think about all this things all day, but thoughts keep pushing in head:
"... Is Yifu seen my last ticket/PM/e-mail with shipment details?", "... was order shipped?", "Will Avalon give some track info..." "... Will EMS deliver in two weeks (fastest delivery for my country and living place)... " "...Is unit will not be damaged..." and more more more. Its fucking annoying. I hope Yifu will never get in same situation.


Title: Re: Interview with Yifu Guo from Avalon Asic
Post by: dbasql on May 17, 2013, 12:36:42 AM
Thanks for the link  ;D