You can, but he's talking about using other exit nodes. Chances are whatever exit node he hits is going to be someone either trying to track what he's doing or steal his bitcoins.

Cleverhash is probably real based on what I saw on their site. At least, their technical jargon was in order and their hashrate to power usage is about what is on par with what I expect out of a highly optimized 28nm cell based asic. HOWEVER -- their estimates are extremely generous. I would expect the device to perform at about 1/2 of the hashrate to power usage they say it will. FYI, if they were to publish the conservative figures of around 200Mh/s per 1KW no one would buy because it's not going to be profitable.

Open-Silicon has a pretty impressive first run success record. But, they are a huge and slow company. I expect the timeline to be longer than what they're suggesting. The RTL for x11 is ridiculous and x15 is even worse.

We started our RTL about a month before they (cleverhash) did and we're now done and moving on to the design phase (without pre-order money).

To the other's that are suggesting there are x11 or x15 asics in the wild -- I doubt there are any X11 or X15 ASICs in the wild. Reason being, the cheap method to produce quick chips (structured asic ala KNC, Avalon, etc) isn't cost effective for these designs as they're too big. The only way to do these designs is cell based asic which is going to be a large lump sum NRE. Unfortunately the lump sum is about 10-20% the market cap of Darkcoin. Just to give you an idea of what we're talking in terms of speed, an FPGA I was achieving 1Gh/s at 20W with on bitcoin mining will do about 50Kh/s on X11. As far as I'm aware -- publicly -- I had the fastest single FPGA mining bitcoin for a year or more until the last gen (28nm) Xilinx chips came out.

Other than that, it takes forever to put the RTL together. Imagine designing 11 or 15 different bitcoin designs and putting them all on one chip. If you thought making a bitcoin chip was tough, you haven't seen nothing yet. There are 15 different cores in their RTL. Each core is equivalent to making an entire double sha2 bitcoin mining RTL. I doubt you're going to see any of those cheap and quick chinese manuf pick up x11. They like to skip steps and cut corners to get their designs done faster. I made around $30K from my B1 avalon, I'm not complaining. But at the same time, X11/X15 is a wholly different devil.

Pro Tip: Don't pre-order anything, ever. You have better odds taking all your money to the casino and putting it on black at the roulette table. Or my personal favorite, playing hard ways at the craps table.

I'm amazed they're trying to go the pre-order route on an X15 ASIC. It's pure insanity on their part. Though they do have a good pump with that whole clevercoin thing or whatever they call it. A sucker is born every minute. 

To get a hashrate of 4Mh/s you'd need a 10,000$ device, that's just the cost of the FPGA. You still need to design and place it on a board.

 

No mining hardware at this stage is going to recoup it's investment. We're looking at a semi-flat growth period until 16nm is released and once 16nm is out there will be another difficulty climb. Once the 16nm difficulty climb starts your existing hardware will be worthless.

and, Unless you're paying less than like 0.08 or 0.09 per KWH USD it's cheaper to pay someone else to host them. I expect hosting prices to drop further to an average of around 0.05-0.06 per KWH. That is, companies offering hosting for those rates.

Your money is better invested elsewhere. If you're looking for ideas, feel free to send me a PM.

Insanity. Does the commissary accept bitcoin?

As an american who left and never really went back it's not surprising. America reminds me of the philippines except people know how to stand in line and it's not quite as dirty.

What I like most is that now that america isn't #1 it's "oh it's not so bad, they're just numbers anyway -- right??"

If you handle the cashing out of bitcoins yourself instead of paying someone else to do it you can get above market rates on localbitcoins.

Because the US government runs all the TOR endpoints?

It depends on how many units you'd like to host. We're looking to fill out 168kW of capacity relatively quick.

Contact me if you'd like to make an offer.

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Looking to raise funds to expand our mining facility. Our current location has 1MW installed (power receptacles, racking, etc) with 6MW of max capacity installed (transformers and lines) available at site. Instead of expanding our current location further we're looking to expand operations into cheaper power locations. We currently have deals with mining manufacturers to host machines for them in profit sharing agreements and will begin operations after our management software is completed to offer hosting for public consumption. Power utilization is roughly 50% of our installed capacity. We have numerous competitive advantages. Please contact me via PM or via Skype to discuss further.

PG, all you're doing is taking the smallest amount of fact and stringing them into a fake / implied story. Anyone can do that -- I can imply that aliens were behind apollo 13 based on supposition. I think you're either schizophrenic or just delusional. A lot of what you post I know to be false. I'm sure you'll start stringing me into your theories eventually. You don't really know what's happened or what's going on. It's all just guesses and supposition based on the modicum of public information.

What's even more amazing is people actually believe the drivel. But then again, it is the internet.

reminds me of that line from V for Vendetta.

I'm sorry, but a man in my position survives by taking every precaution.
You have information for us? - No, you already have the information.
All the names and dates are inside your head.
What you want, what you really need, is a story.
A story can be true or false.

It would be interesting to add data from LocalBitcoin -- Since there's no real exchange involved the price can't be manipulated as much. But there could be fake trades between multiple accounts to give the impression that the value is higher than it is. How would you handle that?

AU and NZ have some pretty silly importation rules. AU made me pay 500$ in taxes for a 2000$ item that wasn't even taxable. They don't produce anything internally so they screw all their citizens by making them pay huge taxes and duties for importation under strict rules. If you don't like it, I'd suggest moving. You would've ended up paying at least 90$ in tax no matter what.

In the words of Roger Ver

Accepting bitcoin via gocoin would make them about as involved with bitcoin as the taco stand that sells tacos for bitcoin. Everyone is trying to make them out to be some huge bitcoin / virtual currency exchange on the level of gox. They're not and they never were. They never traded bitcoin.

As far as office spaces being shared -- I don't see how that's odd? There are incubators with 100s of companies registered to their addresses -- Gocoin's new london office is at an incubator (aka shared). I guess they're some how complicit in this as well?

Autumn Radtke had nothing to do with gox. You don't by chance work for MSM (or maybe Alex Jones)?

Autumn was CEO of first meta which doesn't do any bitcoin transactions..  https://firstmetaexchange.com/exchange/quotes

That's not to say I think she committed suicide. But either way it's a stretch to make any association between Autumn and anything bitcoin related.

If your "server room" is 99F it's not a server room. It's a room that you put servers in. Get yourself a CRAC and lower your temps to around 50F and you can call it a server room.

Looking for qualified individuals interested in an opportunity to invest in an ASIC manufacturer and own certificate of stock in a real entity (as opposed to virtual stock on crypto stock exchanges). We've raised what we need but we're short of our goal by a small margin (roughly 20%). Depending on interest, We may decide to extend our goals in order to fund a unique side project.

The reason this company formed was due to the constant trust issues associated with ASIC manufacturers. We're a highly respected, motivated and talented team of individuals with more than enough experience to see this through and change the market environment. The reason for this public opportunity is; We would rather have bitcoin users who care about the space as investors than venture capitalists.

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In my opinion it's just going to be a waste of my time and energy for me to spend any more thinking/concerning myself about it. I would rather move on and pursue my own projects. You will understand when I'm able to release more details in the future.


I don't want to be seen as a vendor who attacks other vendors.

The reason I deleted my posts was due to a lack of professionalism. I should have thought first before making such statements, but did not at the time due to a lapse in judgement. In the coming weeks and months you may hear about project(s) I am involved in. I did not want my previous posts to reflect on said project(s) when inevitably and invariably my post history is analyzed. With regards to HashFast, I have decided to wait for the arrival of my device as opposed to seeking a refund or any other action.