What is weird about 20 engineers being on a plane? Whats weird about there being patents in their name? It would be a whole lot weirder if 20 engineers did not hold any patents. Now  I dont know a thing about those other than what I read in this thread, but just from that alone it appears to me they are worthless. Even if they arent, they belong to the company, Freescale, not its employees.

Im fine with people questioning official stories, and I sure wish journalists would do that a whole lot more often, but please, also question the stories that question the official stories.

It all depends on the theory they are pushing. On one hand you have the conspiracy theorist arguing Area51 ufo's, fake moonlandings, contrails/chemtrails, etc,  OTOH you have people who dont buy the official story about the  MV Arctic Sea "hijacking". You know, some theories are more plausible than others. Its clear to me the Arctic Sea hijack was a cover up of something (though I really dont know what). Flight 370 was a tragedy, there is no shred of evidence it was anything else.

Doesnt guarantee a thing. Dont you remember the 'why I trust Patrick Harnett" threads,  Pirate had the top rating on OTC, and have you seen JohnK lately? If a contract isnt enforceable by legal means, you can bet on getting scammed sooner or later.  AM may be the proverbial exception that proves the rule. So far.

Neither premise makes any sense. There is no economy of scale unless you manage to negotiate a significant volume discount. That aside, if 100 machines are profitable, then so is one machine. Scaling up just scales up your costs and revenue linearly.

As for continually adding and replacing hardware, again that makes no sense. "Adding hardware" is just like above, either your miners are profitable or they arent, but adding more isnt going to change a thing. Likewise, replacing your miners isnt going to help, its just a different purchase decision that by itself may or may not make sense, but has no impact on your previous purchase decisions.

Some people watch too many bad movies. Go ahead, and expand on your movie script theory, and explain why the Chinese government would transport nuclear or biological weapons on a Malaysian civilian airliner. And if not the chinese government, then who? And where did it come from? For the record, Malaysia doesnt even have a nuclear power plant. And who brought it down and why?

Then explain what could possibly make US, British, Australian, Malaysian, Chinese over a dozen other countries' governments conspire, along with crash investigation teams, the plane manufacturer, satellite operators and what not, all to cover up whatever you think happened?

They used to be, many years ago the military had their own frequency with an encrypted higer precision  signal whereas the civilian band had a deliberate error in the signal, giving an accuracy of tens of meters at best.  They stopped that a long time ago, and nowadays it depends on what satellites you have in view (newer sats send out on different bands that allow higher precission), and what kind of hardware you have, but civilian dual frequency receivers are just as accurate as the military units, with only some (legal) restrictions on speed and height.

Either way, no GPS receiver ever, military or civilian,  was anything other than a passive receiver, and thus impossible to "track".

Nonsense. You clearly have no idea how GPS works. It is 100% passive. There are way to improve GPS accuracy and the time it takes to acquire the signal that rely on cell tower triangulation, A-GPS (which just grabs up to date GPS satellite location data from the network),  differential GPS etc, but none of those involve talking to the satellites.  GPS satellites simply do not have any capability to receive data beyond control data from the operator, and none of the systems mentioned will work when there is no cell coverage.

And what do you think "weather" is ? Let me help by quoting wiki: "Weather is the state of the atmosphere".


GPS is a receiver. There is no communication in the other direction whatsoever, its a passive device, just like an FM radio.

Its only a slight exaggeration, while you will never be able to read the newspaper, it is possible to recognize a newpaper but that also requires perfect atmospheric conditions, something you almost never have over an ocean.

People also fail to grasp just how big the search area is. Something like 8 million square kilometers. Enough to fit 8,000,000,000,000 newspapers and you are looking for partially submerged debris (possibly not much bigger than a newspaper) hidden in waves. To say thats monumental is an understatement.


Cell phones dont connect to satellites, nor does wifi. The antenna's and frequency simply dont work at that range and crossing the ionosphere, even if there is something that tries to register it. If the plane had some satellite data connection for onboard internet or telephone, then Im assuming it was shut down along with acars, transponder and all other comms.

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They claim not to use bitmine.ch boards, nor do they resell them. Instead they brag about contracting 3 or 4 PCB assembly houses:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304605.msg5211012#msg5211012

They have no one but themselves to blame for this.

Really? First of all, let me remind you that technobit (and more recently, several Chinese vendors) has/have been selling A1 based boards for quite some time.  Secondly, in AMT's latest post they claim they hired an engineering buro to design the shelves only 4 weeks ago. Thats after he already claimed to be shipping boatloads. I also fail to see how AMT's utter incompetence in getting a case made is in anyway Bitmine's fault.


Where do you read that AMT has problems getting chips?  And didnt they have like "4 suppliers" for the PCB's ? Bitmine is responsible for the stunts they are pulling with their customers, no doubt, but I see no evidence AMT was significantly impacted.

ROFL. A "typo" that was pointed out time and again and sparked endless discussions since December.  Strangely every Coincraft based product had similar "typo's".  Oh and bitfury based products too, also consuming ~2x what you claimed on the website. Then at some point around February or so, you replaced that typo with another "typo" (600-900W IIRC), and even today its still showing less than what you are claiming today.

Typo my ass.

How about the 300-600W power consumption you initially promised?

Its happened before. Phin was once on a "google crusade" against BFL. Mind you, not one warranted by their deceit/fraud, but pretty much exactly like happened with AMT. In both cases you have real companies working on real products, that are really shitty, really late, really overpromised and quite deliberately so. Instead of focusing on the actual and demonstrable lies, Phin starts gunning at anything that moves with far fetched or plain silly hypothesis based on google search results. Once in a while he does uncover something mildly interesting, but mostly its just BS.

Then Phinn gets the meet the people, like he did with BFL, and makes a 180. At some point he even seemed like an apologist for BFL. Its hard to say if in either case, that 180 is the result of some deal/bribe, or if its just human nature to act very differently vis a vis people you actually met compared to just a forum handle, but Im not surprised one tiny bit by none of whats happened here. Not the AMT delays, not the missing of deadlines, not the missing of specs,  not the overreaction of Phin, not his 180.

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They dont have any dies or wafers to test yet. A probe card was delivered to their package house, all that means is that the package house can prepare for receiving the first wafer.

Over a thousand watt, a brain dead airflow design and just one fan that does anything useful. Good luck with that. Biomech's little 80GH miner lasted what, 2 months? Im giving this 2 weeks tops before something fries.

Actually its quite relevant. If you read the NTSB report, or just the summary on wikipedia, I dont think any sane person can maintain it was anything other than a suicide (and mass murder lets not forget), but at the same time, family of the pilot can maintain the illusion it was a tragic accident. If flight 370 was also a suicide, its just one thats better executed (assuming one of the goals was to hide the suicide).

That said, crew incapacitation from smoke/oxygen deprivation does seem more likely to me at this point.

As for hijacking; nothing should be ruled out, but it seems very unlikely for many reasons. Being able to hijack a plane without the crew being able to send a distress signal in this day and age, or passengers revolting, would be difficult already. Then disabling acars, and flying the plane to the middle of nowhere makes no sense. At least I cant come up with a plausible scenerio that fits the facts.

Not much elaborate about it if you are a pilot and you fly every day. Also, wouldnt be the first time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990

More shame than what? You think it makes a difference in what ocean he decides to commit suicide, taking 100s with him?

As for foolproof, time will tell if we can actually locate the plane and discover what happened, but it sure is a better way then nosing over and flying straight down in much more shallow waters on a known location.  Im sure if the pilot intended to kill himself, he would have been aware of EgyptAir 990.