may i chime in:
thanks for the update friedcat, keep up the good work (looks really promising)
oh...and by the way




edit: time to proudly wear my fc shirt more often 

afaik the facebook page is the only remaining official web presence. (asicminer.co & asicminer.info is down since a while now)
chinese year ends 31st January, let's see what the year of the horse has up its sleeves for the cat.

former business partners or team members taking AM's design and selling products with new chips under another name.
not to forget Bitmain's no-preorder policy (what a coincidence  ):
...created a myth...more and more trust...welcome to AM's business model - oh the irony

well, sounds not too much like scraping the bottom of an empty barrel in my ears.
this whole mining business is like the goldrush all over again and a lot of shenanigans are going on as seen with other companies.


after chinese new year and (hopefully) successful tapeout it's defintively time for a board meeting with Q&A and an update to all shareholders to get back to old strengths and shed some light on these assumptions & future plans for 2014.
to quote fc's words:

while being in this doubtful mood i have to add it once again:
if AM plans on selling branded products for the endconsumer market on a larger scale in the future,
with growing competition the lack of a website is really starting to disappoint me.
(bitmain, knc, cointerra...every company has a site with shopsystem and partly a support forum while by contrast AM relies on scattered resellers, a facebook page and bitcointalk threads. as long as it works that way...good, but for how long?).

oh and by the way, what happened to the planned Blockchain-based exchange?

update:



Next week there will be two days of hearings on the regulation of digital currencies at the New York Department of Financial Services.
link: http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/hearings/vc_01282014_indx.htm
estimated livestream: http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=nysdfs

Location: 90 Church Street, 4th Floor Board Room, New York, NY

Full lineup of speakers:

Tuesday, January 28th

Panel 1 (11:30am - 1:30pm) – The Investor Perspective: The Future of Virtual Currencies
·        Barry Silbert – Founder & CEO of SecondMarket and Founder of the Bitcoin Investment Trust
·        Jeremy Liew – Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners  
·        Fred Wilson – Partner, Union Square Ventures
·        Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss – Principals, Winklevoss Capital Management

Panel 2 (2:30pm - 4:30pm) – Virtual Currencies and Regulation in an Evolving Landscape
·        Charles Lee – Creator of Litecoin
·        Judie Rinearson – Partner, Bryan Cave
·        Carol Van Cleef – Partner, Patton Boggs
·        TBD Additional Witnesses

Wednesday, January 29th

Panel 1 (10:00am – 11:00am) – Law Enforcement and Virtual Currencies
·        Cyrus R. Vance, Jr – District Attorney of New York County
·        Richard B. Zabel – Deputy U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

Panel 2 (11:30am - 1:30pm) – Virtual Currency Commerce and Consumer Protections
·        Fred Ehrsam – Co-Founder, Coinbase
·        Jeremy Allaire – Founder & CEO, Circle Internet Financial
·        TBD Representative of Overstock.com

Panel 3 (2:30pm – 4:00pm) – The Academic View on Virtual Currencies
·        Ed W. Felten – Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, and Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
·        Susan Athey –  Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Only if it's not too much effort. (you've already done this thread a great favor with the creation of almighty chartbuddy)
I'm sure i wouldn't be the only one to throw a tip in the jar.  

nice...thanks for the summary, but could you split it up to several pages?
my waterfox keeps freezing when i open it. (old quad, 8GB RAM)

http://videos.senat.fr/video/videos/2014/video21109.html
http://videos.senat.fr/video/videos/2014/video21110.html
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLr9WVHKBpk&list=PLp2r4CA6BWKUkZW9FB2jlKOD49w6FMwbp)

French Senate Hearing on Bitcoin and Virtual Money
"Bitcoin et monnaie virtuelle"

Date : 15/01/2014
Language: Français (so far I haven't seen a translated version with english subs. I'll keep looking...)

Commission(s) : commission des finances

Sénateur(s) : ADNOT Philippe, de MONTGOLFIER Albéric, MARC François, MARINI Philippe, YUNG Richard

Intervenant(s) : BEAU Denis (Directeur général des opérations à la Banque de France), CARPENTIER Jean-Baptiste (Directeur du service Traitement du renseignement et action contre les circuits financiers clandestins (TRACFIN), ), D'AMARZIT Delphine (Chef du service du financement de l'économie de la direction générale du Trésor), GARCIA Jean-Paul (Directeur national du renseignement et des enquêtes douanières (DNRED), ), GRANDVAL Gonzague (Président de PAYMIUM SAS)

here's the reddit thread with some feedback from french native speakers.

yup he cares so much for AM that he directly jumped to this thread after registration.
somebody ran out of sockpuppets...

if i may chime in:
https://www.tradingview.com/u/Gordon%20Geeko/#published-charts

i'm still more lurking and learning about TA, but sir lagsalot's charts are some of the most interesting i've seen so far on tradingview.
big thanks from my side here and keep it coming.

Update by the producer Ben Bledsoe on the delay of "Rise and Rise of Bitcoin":
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1vig6b/what_happened_to_the_bitcoin_documentary/

According to the comment they signed up with one of the top documentary film sales representatives in LA
and rework the whole thing for better quality to reach a wider audience.
Let's see what comes out of it...

edit:
Update on "Life on Bitcoin":
http://lifeonbitcoin.com/post-production-status-report/

thanks for the info.
the special economic status could still present some advantages in regards of regulation,
or am i wrong with that assumption?
just read through some articles from wikipedia and newspapers concerning this subject and tried to figure out if there is any benefit to this location.


edit:
ah...yea that kinda makes sense...shenzen for production, hk for mining.

proudhon has in a way perfected the art of preventive counter-trolling.
i assume his intention is to desensitize unexperienced trader's liability to news fud & blindly following crowd behaviour.
seems like an interesting (and quite amusing) approach.

so please...

from which city is fc operating?
if i recall correctly the reported mining farm with the liquid cooling is assumed to be located in HongKong area (i think someone found it on google maps).
with HK as financial centre in that area with special economic status i feel quite confident coming regulations could play out a bit softer there.

short update with two new entries to the list:

Bitcoin Myths Exposed! - A Conversation with Erik Voorhees(
Interview by Stefan Molyneux

and a vid series with Andreas M. Antonopoulos at L.A. Bitcoin Meetup (cohost of Let's Talk Bitcoin):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUuU4nSRTVg&list=PLbSdnuFOLV4nMiQG9gvPBX_VQUf6E4COM
Personally i don't agree to some of his points, but it's still a good presentation.

i'm no expert in that regard so i don't know what bot they use.
only one that was mentioned once in a while here is butter-bot (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=197175.0)

+1

would be really good to have some trustable users from chinese subforum who could shed light on what's going in china on a regular basis.
i saw the same problem on AsicMiner thread when a chinese interview with friedcat took quite some time until it appeared there.
unfortunately it seems to me there are rarely chinese users on the english forum, at least we get updates like this one from time to time
which recalibrate the perspective on the current situation there.

i suppose not much atm.
afaik AM never directly relied on taobao, probably only merchants from the group buys sold products there.
imo taobao just goes the safest way here as even the big players don't seem to know how strict governmental regulation will be after january deadline.

+1
@OP: please change thread title...it's totally misleading.

and it's "just" the chinese version of ebay. i'm sure there are still plenty of alternative platforms in china to sell products.
imo taobao just wants to have a clean slate until government announces further steps of regulation after the 31st january deadline.

Interview with Austin Craig on upcoming documentary "Life on Bitcoin" (see 1st post for details) by futuremoneytrends.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xne_V0dljCA

small holidays update:
Bitcoin - The Documentary: Switzerland Trip Update
(the team also lowered donation thresholds)

"Deep Web" by Alex Winter reached goal on kickstarter
Alex is answering questions on Reddit
msnbc article: http://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/bill-ted-bitcoin