Ok, since you seem genuinly interested I'll give you a quick recap of all the major stuff that happened so far: - ActiveMining currently owns VMC and AMC;
- AMC currently has 6 Avalons (~430GH/s) mining on BTC Guild; more 68 Klondike-16 boards are also coming this month (~307GH) and the 20,000 avalon chips + boards are expected to be fully operational in August (~5,640 GH/s);
- VMC will be able to sell both Avalon clones and 28nm systems;
- Ken has been optimizing the RTL code for ActiveMining's chip for a year now, the current chip specs are the simulation results provided by eAsic, not from him;
- The results from eAsic using his RTL allow for 20 mining cores per chip, at a frequency from 800MHz (16GH/s) to 1GHz (20GH/s), with an estimated power consumption around 15W per chip (800MHz).
Was that so hard to post? I don't think so. This should be in the VMC thread instead of deleted posts to inquiries. Glad to be of service!
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There's no reason you should not get dividends, even if they need to be manually handled after the transfer is complete. Ken, I presume that this will be taken care of for anyone waiting for a transfer to be processed, right?
This should not matter - I'm certain that Ken will make sure that dividends are paid properly, regardless of the status of the transfer.
Yes, I am working on that. Cutoff for tendering the shares and getting dividends on the new AM shares is 1:00 PM CDT today. So, anyone that already sent their shares or sends them in the next 1h15m is still safe.
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Around two hours ago he said in IRC he was about to resume the tenders, so I think he must be at it right now!
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I feel the need to chime in a moment here. I have been to VMC's offices and they are for real. They have some some cases and power supplies received (ironically exactly the case shown on their website which others were giving them grief about using "stock" photos). They have a product flow layout plan which they shared and they were more than happy to give us a tour.
I am a totally uninvolved third party (though we may offer some assistance in product flow through their assembly plant if further requested).
Anyway, whether they can or cannot delivery ASIC chips of their own design is not for me to say. I do, however, fully believe they intend to deliver and are not running a scam.
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Ken: Investing in ASICminer shares as a means to preserve capital is a *really bad* idea for capital savings.
The problem is that they can crash by over 90% for they could be grossly overvalued.
For example: At 400,000 shares x 4 BTC/share their market cap is 1.6 million BTC. It is risky to buy at this valuation. Please read history about South Sea company stock bubble.
-Technologov.
I agree with you Technologov, but ASICMINER shares may be about to jump up above 5.0 again with news trickling out of their 5GHash/s and 10GHash/s miners up for sale in China. (link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg2696280#msg2696280). This kind of news generally gets ASICMINER prices rising. So, in the short-term, we are likely to gain from the strategy (albeit risky). It might be a good idea to liquidate those positions at 5.0—5.25, and channel those funds to the NRE or assembly costs of the Avalon clones. It would undercut dividends in the short term, though. Those lines were just from the original contract of May this year, when there weren't any avalons hashing. I don't think Ken has any asicminer shares right now, since all dividends are coming from the avalons. Check the ActiviMining contract, it's much simple, clearer and updated!
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Cool, so this potentially following in the footsteps of ASICminer, by building and hosting shared hashrate, with sales on the side of new, and old stock as, and when it becomes redundant or available?
Yes, exactly that, same tried and tested model as Asicminer!
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Sorry total disagreement here. I'm on the receiving end of a fair bit of negativity as I flew to Sweden to check out KnC.
That doesn't make me hardcore anything, just diligent. I've been fair to every company, including Terrahash as you well know, but I will call a spade a spade.
Admittedly I wasn't fully aware of AMC's role in bulk Avalon chip orders as they choose to post outside of the custom hardware section, so then there is some sense in VMC suddenly change in product offering, but not post deletion. That is a PR clusterfuck now that is biting KSlaughter, and will continue to until he has something Tangible. KnC have never done that.
Also KnC have a shit-hot design team with multiple NDAs signed over the years with multiple foundries. Not that an NDA means shit these days anyway, and before someone tries to claim the opposite, it really doesn't, not to any decent legal team.
VMC now have a new product offering, but we have yet to see any evidence of talent aside web design, that's a huuuuge difference.
In any case I'm bullish on KnC as they are a cracking bunch of quality engineers who appear to have integrity and the competitive mindset required to succeed, but I'm longing to see some other competition that doesn't contain a bunch of amateurs (this last sentence is in not way directed at KSlaughter, it's a generalised statement of the current companies and how they publicly choose to behave through their own free choice).
Ok, since you seem genuinly interested I'll give you a quick recap of all the major stuff that happened so far: - ActiveMining currently owns VMC and AMC;
- AMC currently has 6 Avalons (~430GH/s) mining on BTC Guild; more 68 Klondike-16 boards are also coming this month (~307GH) and the 20,000 avalon chips + boards are expected to be fully operational in August (~5,640 GH/s);
- VMC will be able to sell both Avalon clones and 28nm systems;
- Ken has been optimizing the RTL code for ActiveMining's chip for a year now, the current chip specs are the simulation results provided by eAsic, not from him;
- The results from eAsic using his RTL allow for 20 mining cores per chip, at a frequency from 800MHz (16GH/s) to 1GHz (20GH/s), with an estimated power consumption around 15W per chip (800MHz).
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Yes, but weren't VMC already accepting pre-order cash for vapourware they now have no intention of delivering, now they've scrapped all original devices and are claiming a total turn on the spot?
Again a company that spends more time on creating a website than producing goods. What are the chances they will change products a third time? Why bother to update the site until you have something solid and at least in production?!
AMC/VMC would have less of a mountain to climb if they just ditched AMC/VMC and started afresh when they had something tangible and concrete instead of hot air and false promises. Instead they now have created distrust, and have pretty sites with products that don't exist replacing products that were promised and will never exist. Why believe these new future products are anything other than speculative concepts? If anything this is the most dire PR of any Bitcoin ASIC company yet, including Butterfly Labs.
Don't promise what you have no intention of delivering...instead under promise and over deliver!
VMC was selling pre-orders of Avalon clones during a specific time-frame. Any that were not sold will be used for mining under ActiveMining, so they will definitely exist, just not to whoever didn't order one. There are 2 orders of 10,000 Avalon chips, one from the last days of May and another from the beginning of June, so those 20,000 chips will need a home. The current systems listed are based on the 28nm chip specs. Sorry, but most of what you said can be applied to KnC too, for example. They are accepting pre-orders for products that are still in the design stage. Same thing.
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Rank #118, very nice. Yes, let's get that NRE and start brewing those chips!
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But at least users are allowed to talk on the threads instead of being deleted like in VMC thread...
I mean this lower than retard Inaba's practices. I don't even care if he has or not a product, but this practice makes me puke.
Yes, but everyone has a different threshold for being called a scammer over and over and over and over again. The community is generally very quick to pull the trigger. There are plenty of scams being thrown around, but there has to be a line in the sand somewhere, as more proof is brought to light. Thinking everything is a scam is as bad as thinking everyone is trustworthy.
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I don't know about others, but it annoys me that AMC/VMC has created so many threads. It's totally unnecessary for a business which to date has exactly zero products. If he stuck to his own little corner then he would be left alone a lot more, but when he creates new threads every week he kind of gets in peoples faces a bit too much...
Yes, I'm sure 99% of the threads on this sub-forum have already existing products ready to be shipped.
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There's already a 147 page AMC thread bashing AMC/VMC in any and every way possible. Not getting into this debate further. Sorry. You've already more than made up your mind. Don't like, don't buy.
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is it in the contract with eAsic that they can't sell their chips to anyone else? NDA's don't mean anything regarding exclusivity. if not than many people can just put in orders with eAsic directly.
They can build other mining chips for other entities that give them different blueprints, but the design and production of each chip is exclusive to each entity, so only ActiveMining is allowed to buy from them the current chip.
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The biggest problem is that there are so many scams nowadays that people just jump into conclusions, especially when the hardware looks very good, and the bashing starts. In this case, yes, VMC is a whole owned subsidiary of ActiveMining and the chip development is not being paid with pre-orders, but with funds from ActiveMining shares sold and mining profits.
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Odd how there has been a few recent posts in the KnC thread this week suggesting they are taking the easic route, with it then explained once a few members wants clarification, now all of a sudden VMC is spontaneously embarrassing this method of manufacture which hadn't previously been mentioned in this forum...
VMC has a signed NDA with eAsic from May 2013. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=252531.0
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I am still planning to visit Springfield this Saturday. I am awaiting a response from SoylentCreek.
We should build a list of important points to address at the meeting.
What information do you guys want to see? Questions, pictures, etc...
Posted in AMC thread as well, not sure which thread is appropriate.
-babefoot
I want to see a pic of you guys making a toast to the future of ActiveMining!
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Verify queue down to zero, as of this time, transferring shares now on bitfunder. BTC-TC will be next.
So what will be the new total amount of shares; On the market (including sale post @ 0.0025) and; Total once ALL shares have been distributed (including the 15 million that are to be emitted at a later time)? Also: What ownership share of the new AMC do the total amount of shares make up? (%) Check the #1 post on the ActiveMining thread. Currently, it is expected for interested ActiveMining's public investors to hold 10,000,000 ActiveMining shares (40% of the profits), while Active Mining Corporation owner(s) shall hold 15,000,000 ActiveMining shares (60% of the profits), for a total of 25,000,000 ActiveMining virtual shares that represent 100% of the global profits of ActiveMining.
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Public investor's protection plan The first 10,000,000 ActiveMining shares have the privilege of getting all profits until BTC0.0025/share is paid, starting from the day when dividends begin to be paid.
This is probably a stupid question, but this means that the first 10 million shares will get all profits until BTC0.0025/share is paid in total? As we have now received a total of BTC0.00000397/share, this leaves 0.00250000 - 0.00000397 = 0.00249603 BTC to be paid per share, right..? Those were AMC dividends, not ActiveMining ones!
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You're right, ASICMINER doesn't have a picture of a Chenbro 4U Open-bay Compact Rackmount Chassis on a website. Primarily because: 1. ASICMINER doesn't have a website 2. ASICMINER doesn't sell Chenbro 4U Open-bay Compact Rackmount Chassis I mean, let's be honest here. ASICMINER doesn't have a 24.576 TH miner, and neither do you. ASICMINER does, however, have a lot of 10 GH miners, which you don't. Do we really need to go the bashing route? More than one business following the Asicminer model is a good thing, not a bad one. That is just a pic of the main chassis that the upcoming miners will use.
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