Proper diet and regular exercise are just among the best routine to have a strong immune system. 

Let's be clear. Nobody knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is, or if it is even a single person.  There is one thing that anyone claiming to be Satoshi has to prove however, and that is that he knew and communicated with Hal Finney *BEFORE* Bitcoin. And Craig Wright never met Hal, therefore he is NOT Satoshi. Q.E.D.

Now, why do we know this?  The key is not what is in the initial exchanges between Satoshi and Hal Finney. The key is what is *NOT* in the initial exchanges. Any engineer, even one Aspergers, asks personal questions when they come across another talented engineer. Maybe not the first time if they just answer a question, but in a project as big as Bitcoin it will come up.  Just general background things so they can size up who they are talking to and how seriously they should take this person. E.g. am I talking with a PhD student or a smart 16 year old kid? None of this normal personal banter is ever exchanged between Satoshi and Hal. And they had many chances to do it during the course of their email exchanges. There is only 1 plausible explanation for this, and that is whoever Satoshi was, Hal Finney already knew him.  Read the emails for yourself.

Hal knew Satoshi. And he elected to keep his identity a secret to his death. So unless Craig Wright can prove he had some kind of a relationship with Hal, he is not Satoshi. However, the fact that someone named Satoshi Nakamoto lived only a short distance away from Hal Finney leads me to guess that Hal was actually the individual who suggested the Satoshi Nakamoto pen name. Think about how that could have gone. This is entirely conjecture, but I would bet on it being close to the truth:

Hal is sitting in a group with the other like minded people who are strategizing about how to keep Bitcoin anonymous in case the FBI comes looking. One of them says, "we need a pseudonym, something that sounds really foreign."  "How about "Satoshi Nakamoto?", Hal pipes up.  Where did Hal get that name? It could have been intentional because he knew the guy, or it could have just been subconscious. Maybe he accidentally received Satoshi's mail one day. Or perhaps he stood behind him at the grocery store and caught the name on his credit card. Or maybe he just saw it on a voter registration list. There could be dozens of ways he came across his name.  Of course, it is also possible that Hal was not the guy who suggested the name, but the fact that he lived so close to someone with that name suggests that there might be a connection.

In any case, that is secondary. Hal was involved in the development of Bitcoin. Hal both knew and respected whoever Satoshi was. Craig Wright simply does not fit the profile.

Hi Yobigd20.

I can understand how you might arrive at that conclusion, but in fact we have no relation at all to Algol68. Also, if you take the time to investigate, you will realize:

1. This is not a scam.  The technology is described in technical detail in a way that is generally accessible.
2. This is most definitely not an FPGA. As stated in the beginning of the article, FPGAs are much too expensive and inefficient.
3. My personal history going back to my days at Caltech is fully available online. You can verify all my credentials, and I am completely willing to engage with anyone that has a serious question. I have absolutely zero to hide. You can come meet me in person if you want.

There is no selling going on here at all. I haven't asked for a penny from anyone. I just think everyone deserves a heads up as to what is coming in the future.  You can use the information presented here however you wish, but it is important that people are made aware of it, as there is too much misinformation floating around already.

This technology will affect much more than Ethereum. It is basically a replacement for GPUs in all algorithms, and is going to provide a new fabric for development of mining algorithms and research into blockchain security.

Thank you for your comments Rice Miner.

We are doing our best to get the product out in the second half of 2019, but the delivery date is dependent on many factors, not the least of which is booking an available slot on the fab line. These are scheduled many months in advance, and we can't even begin this process until we complete our funding raise. So there are some unknowns here, but second half of 2019 is an aggressive target we are working hard to meet.

The first board we are shipping is basically what is described in our whitepaper. It is going to be a PCIe card that is essentially a replacement for GPUs in today's rigs. We want to help people reuse as much of their current infrastructure as they can. Since we don't have final silicon and wafer yields, we can not give exact prices, but we recognize there is a pricing barrier for many at around $2000 and are doing everything we can to keep the entry cost below that. That is for HMC-100, which offers performance of around 1 GHash/sec on Ethash, about half that on ProgPOW, around 25KHash on Cryptonight v8 (we keep increasing this slightly with efficiency improvements), and dramatically improved performance on all Equihash variants which we haven't finished characterizing yet. The card will ship with at least those algorithms above ready to go, and other variants will be added as fast as possible.

We understand many of you have existing mining solutions with user interfaces that you like and are comfortable with, so we intend to release an SDK that will allow all the existing software suppliers to support the architecture. This will give people an easy upgrade path and make the transition as painless as possible.  We are aware of the possibility for this tech to allow 51% attacks on some smaller coins, so as we get closer we will try to work closely with the mining community to make sure that strategies are in place to mitigate this possibility until the hardware become ubiquitous and easily available to everyone.

We will also simultaneously release a complete industrial mining chassis including 4 of the cards above for those who just want a plug and play solution. You can expect the performance of that to be 4 times the performance of a single card.

Since we want to support the developer and VAR community, you may find there is more give and take here than is typical with other equipment manufacturers. We want to avoid the situation where we are dictating to you, and would prefer instead to support the industry with what they want and need.  But we can not put the genie back in the bottle. If we don't make this product, someone else will. GPUs are going away except in special circumstances, such as mining for virtual items during game play.

Any other questions or comments, please speak up.

No. We had nothing to do with the 51% attack. We don't have actual silicon yet. One of our goals with the Hyperminer technology is to help prevent 51% attacks by getting the right tools into as many hands as possible so that ASIC manufacturers have fewer attack vectors. In fact how to distribute our equipment without risking 51% attacks on smaller coins is very much one of our concerns. We are very interested in engaging the community on how to manage the transition away from GPUs.

Destroying the industry through 51% attacks serves nobody's interests in the long run.

Hi Everyone.

I am Chris Ziomkowski, the CEO of XTend Online. A couple of issues I wanted to address. First, do not be fooled by the small size of our team. Google was founded by just 2 people, and today has nearly 100,000 employees.  Same with Apple. In fact, all companies begin with a small number of founders. We are no different.

With regard to chip design, nearly every chip ever created is done with a small team of "wizards". This includes complicated processors designed by companies like Intel. The remainder of the staff helps to write test procedures and speed the development by writing some of the more repetitive logic, but creation of an architecture does not require a large team. It just requires a few dedicated and experienced people who understand the problem they are solving. Large teams can make it go slightly faster.

My cofounder and I have been working on this architecture since 2017 when we first realized there was a lot of misinformation floating around. At the time, nobody was interested in hearing our opinion, so we decided the best way was simply to show people. 18 months later, we now have a real architecture to show, and are ready to bring this product to manufacture.

The small size of our team shows in things like our website, which unfortunately hasn't been updated since September, and still has vestiges of things that are no longer relevant. We are looking to add a social media manager and a web programmer to our team for the coming media push.

The technology is very real. We have tried to demonstrate to everyone that GPUs use a shared memory bus which creates an artificial bottleneck. Deep DRAM stacks limit the throughput to a few hundred GB's/sec. The Hyperminer architecture uses a fine grained mesh by contrast, which has a total memory bandwidth on the order of 2 Petabytes/sec. Removing this bottleneck pushes the performance limit out to the total bisection bandwidth of the mesh,  which is more than an order of magnitude greater than what is achievable by a shared memory bus.

You can imagine it like a car manufacturer. A GPU puts all the parts in one pile, and then says we can't go any faster because there are limits on how fast a person can pick a part from the pile and hand it out to a skilled craftsman who will build the whole car at his workshop.   Our architecture is more akin to a factory, where we presort all the parts into small piles, and then use an assembly line where each worker only does the specific task his station is specifically optimized for.  The limit becomes not in grabbing parts, but in moving partially built assemblies between various stations. This is horribly simplified, but it illustrates the point metaphorically.

I invite anyone with questions to engage me. I will also be at MPWR in Vancouver on March 12, so if you will also be there I will be happy to meet anyone and discuss how this will change the industry.  You don't have to believe me, but you do have to accept physics. This is coming and will have the same effect that GPUs had on CPUs. The industry is simply too large, there is too much at stake, and too many skilled people are getting involved.  As a community we need to transition away from GPUs and onto a 3rd generation of programmable hardware optimized for digital mining challenges.