That was kind of a crappyass response.  

If I remember correctly from a few days ago, and this is the same thing, I'll check my notes, but I think they claim they found they found a software improvement that kicked ass, and they've been working on it like FIVE years.

I read approximately half of their stuff, and this is speculation, but while doing so I did what I always do, consider remote possibilities.  We don't know what we don't know, but every once in a while someone discovers same.  I did spend a couple years in an engineering program and a computer science program before graduating and I've worked in IT for 30 years.  I do know how computers, code, and IC's work in their CURRENT state. That doesn't mean that can't change.  I need proof of their less understandable claims, which is why I suggested philipma try to get a demo model so that a trusted member of the community can evaluate it.

Additionally, their website worked damn well, and my attention to detail from many years in IT gives me a sharp eye for rushed crappy presentation work.  I always evaluate that as I spent some time in IT for marketing.  I consider it an important measure of professionalism, and I keep tabs on how companies and organizations present themselves..  If it weren't for world events other than the US I'd be the hell out of BTC completely.

The world changes every second.  I'm 'middle age' and I remember doing an activity my daughter hated when she was 12.  We talked about every electric or electronic device in our house that existed when I was her age.  Needless to say, but there wasn't a big list.

I'm not buying one now.  I merely made a suggestion on how their claims could be validated in the real world.  I'm not advocating that anyone try to buy the moon, but some people think we landed here.

Oh, and Google maps can't even place my house correctly, nor many other places.

Just discussing.

Well, if they're in the US you could sue them into next year if it's a scam if they don't end up in prison.  My thought for acquiring a real world tester is philipma.  I think he might have gotten an antminer or some ASIC with no money up front with some clever arguments and his reputation.  And they do take Paypal, and there is at least a chargeback recourse there.  It does seem a bit crazy, that much gain, but I don't think you can completely write off advances in the engineering of a an ASIC that can run two very similar programs.  Even in more general purpose chips.  Probably every general purpose computer in use today is more powerful than the first supercomputers.  As to the algorithms, never count out a brilliant EE or programmer who finds another way.  History shows us this.

I've been testing this miner on 3 of my Ubuntu 16.04 machines mining Monero for a week or so, I like it very much.  I am noting about a 2% hashrate improvement when I use ./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native" as opposed to the Basic *nix build instructions posted on github.  I'm trying to dig into why that might be the case.