The BFL driver page

[Gabi]

I don't know where to open this so i put this here

In the BFL website driver page we can find

Drivers:
Computational research
Medical imaging
Packet integrity verification
Generic fingerprinting engine

and in the homepage

Butterfly Labs manufactures a line of high speed encryption processors for use in research, telecommunication and security applications.

Yeah well, nice but...erh... problem: BFL so far only make bitcoin mining hardware. As far as i know nothing else. Medical imaging? Computational research? Lol? Why putting links that just bring you back to the driver page for these things?

[squid]

I dunno, maybe to help legitimize the company and show potential other avenues of revenue to attract investors?

[Gabi]

Dunno, maybe yes. But for me it's more suspect with these fake things than without them 

[crazyates]

I asked this question a while back as well. I think it's that because a FPGA is programmable, you can work with them to develop a bitstream for their Single for whatever purpose you need.

[Desolator]

I have a feeling that's what their employees' backgrounds are in so if a customer came along and asked them to make something related to one of those fields, they would do it but aren't necessarily currently doing it.

P.S. are you named after Gabi from .HACK//GU?

[senseless]

Their FPGA units are relatively easy to repurpose to another task. Mainly encryption. But you could do other stuff (more inefficiently than encryption, but still possible).

With the number of ASIC pre-orders for bitcoin mining hardware, I imagine they will be using those profits to work their way into computational processing in other fields.

[Frequency]

I don't know where to open this so i put this here

In the BFL website driver page we can find

Drivers:
Computational research
Medical imaging
Packet integrity verification
Generic fingerprinting engine

and in the homepage

Butterfly Labs manufactures a line of high speed encryption processors for use in research, telecommunication and security applications.

Yeah well, nice but...erh... problem: BFL so far only make bitcoin mining hardware. As far as i know nothing else. Medical imaging? Computational research? Lol? Why putting links that just bring you back to the driver page for these things?

They will NEVER use fpga board or something else for this purpose never, they ar not in it for the research they in it for YOUR money...

If your corebusiness is BTC mining u don,t put this on the website, u put BTC mining out there, but if you want to gain trust..u just create an perfectly looking website with pictures of mining gear with at the background an medical microscope so that it appears and looks like an real laboratorium ...whats it is NOT...

[squeept]

Ummm....selling things to researchers makes money, doesn't it?

Oh, and an even better way to gain trust is to manufacture and deliver a successful line of products, hire more personnel to deal with increasing demands and complaints, and purchase manufacturing equipment and show it being delivered. THEN RUN OFF WITH THE MONEY!!!! HAHAHAHAHA SUCKERS YOU FELL FOR IT!!!

[Inaba]

Damn, I knew we were missing a step somewhere...

[squeept]

He "+1"ed me...

[Fcx35x10]

interesting