Original link: www.cybtc.comFROM:http://www.bitell.com/t/2045Summary: Recently, Shenyu posted the parameters of SilverFish scrypt ASIC Litecoin Miner on its Weibo, "single module 12M, overclocking about 16M-20M, power consumption is about 200W, expected delivery in June, recently there may be a presale, pre-sale price is not higher than 20000RMB. "This Weibo attracted widespread concern as soon as it's posted.This time, CYBTC got an opportunity to interview with the God Fish...
ahr999: Hello Shenyu!I've Heard a lot about you. It's a great hornor for me to interview you, I am ahr999 from CYBTC.
God fish: Hello.
ahr999: all questions you do not want to answer, you could refuse to answer.By convention, could you please make a simple self-introduction?
God Fish: 7-colored God Fish (Mao Shi Xing), age 24, digital currency practitioners, the world's fourth-largest BTC pool and second largest LTC pool F2POOL founder, COO of Yibite digital technology .
ahr999: Today, the purpose of the interview is very clear.You posted on the Weibo SilverFish scrypt ASIC miner parameters, the latter the "single module 12M, overclocking about 16M-20M, power consumption is about 200W, expected delivery in June, recently there may be a presale, pre-sale price is not higher than 20000RMB."This is the main purpose of our interview today, for this miner, our first question is to what stage the progress of the project?Currently has chip taped out yet?
God fish: In September 2013 we already completed the FPGA design, and on-line operation, after more than three months continuous testing and improvement, conducted in January 2014 back-end chip design, evaluation and optimization through more than a dozen rounds, now has commissioned TSMC for taping out production.
ahr999: Now that we are most concerned about two time node, pre-sale time and shipping time.
God fish: Pre-sale is expected in early April, shipping time in early June.
ahr999: Can be more specific?
Fish God: what i just told you was already very specific.
ahr999: Well, we will pay close attention.About Scrypt ASIC miner, now, it seems competition is very fiery, you certainly know, Zeus and KNC have already pre-sold.So, how do you think these competitions, and what are the advantages of SilverFish Miner?
God fish: First of all, welcome the competition, only competition can promote the de-centralized development of digital currency industry, to form good industrial ecology.Now it seems that shipping time of SilverFish Miner may be earlier, together with a full set of solutions, the performance also has advantages.
ahr999: According to my comparison, SilverFish Miner's Hashrate is 16-20MH / s, the power consumption is 200W, no more than 20,000 yuan.But the KNC's Titan, 100MH / s, selling only $ 9,995, the equivalent of 60,000 yuan, seems to be more affordable.
God fish: For deflationed digital currency mining, time is a critical factor, KNC miner expected delivery time is Q2/Q3.
ahr999: In other words, KNC will be later than SilverFish, right?
God fish: There is a large gap in timing, maybe when you earn the SilverFish Miner cost back, KNC has not yet shipped.
ahr999: Now I understand, though SilverFish has not yet started pre-sale, the shipping time will be earlier than others.
God fish: In fact, we had no pre-sale plan, but to see the market being misled, we had to release some of the pre-sale miners, but later was mainly to sell stock.Most of the miners, especially for novice miners, mining industry is still not well understood, particularly do not know the importance of [time] for mining deflationed digital currency.Generally speaking, number of digital currency which is dug out in the first month after receiving the miner may account for the majority of the miner life cycle total number.
ahr999: ah, I can't agree more that stock is the king, but SilverFish will be forced to pre-sale.KNC's Titan received $ 2 million pre-sale orders 4 hours after the release, what do you think of it?
God fish: KNC miners' hot selling showed us the miners are very passionate with Scrypt mining algorithms.
ahr999: Yes, this could be another opportunity for the miners.
God fish: Yes, opportunities and risks.
ahr999: KNC wants to open the Chinese market, has been pre-sold in the mainland of China, while Zeus put the sights on the international market, they will distribute globally, does SilverFish also have the plan for international market?If I did not count wrong, SilverFish should produce the first batch of 1,000 set miners, all will be sold domestic?
God fish: SilverFish first production of about 9000 PCB, will keep 4000-5000 modules for own use, set up intensive mines, earnings for our shareholders.The rest mainly for domestic sale, but not exclude foreign sales plan.
ahr999: a module 12M, the SilverFish website writes the total production of 100-200G.
God fish: right.SilverFish chips, by a very conservative estimate is single chip 300K, the test results from the current run is also very stable at 550K, a module can be overclocked to 16-20M.
ahr999: expected at what time,users can go to the company inspected the miner drive performance?Where is the company headquarter?
God fish: Expected delivery in early June, welcomes customers to visit the company, SilverFish mining directly provide complete hardware and software solutions for big cilents, which will greatly reduce the overall costs for novice miners, SilverFish program includes hardware, heat systems, surveillance systems, alarm systems, software, services and solo mining pools.The company currently located at Hangzhou, in early March a small scale shareholders meeting has held in Beijing Galaxy SOHO, will hold irregular shareholders salon in future .
ahr999: Pay attention to your Weibo, right?
God fish: Yes, we will publish the relevant information on the official website of sfminer.com, Weibo, QQ group, the so stay tuned.
ahr999: Whether SilverFish Miner to use agents mode to sell or not, what are the requirements for agents, or do you already have confirmed agents or general agent?
God fish: Agent program will start in May, welcome experienced partners to contact us. Currently we focus on chip production, PCB, SMT, assembling and other work.
ahr999: pay close attention to it.In addition to the pre-sale of products now, follow-up what other products is also developing, 28nm chip?
God fish: will conduct follow-up studies and attempts at 40/28nm.
ahr999: Can you tell us about the progress?
God fish: Temporarily no comment
ahr999: understood.What's the scale of the company? How many people in R & D team?
God fish: The company currently is not large-scale, core team has dozen people, IC backend designed by Alchip design, commissioned TSMC for taping out production, PCB and SMT production is completed by the team member's own internal electronics factory.Alchip is also KNC back-end design services provider, has a wealth of experience in chip design digital currency.
ahr999: No wonder you're so familiar with the situation KNC.That's all questions for miners and the company, thank you for your patience.Here are some personal questions, can we ask?
God fish: ok
ahr999: You are the legendary person in Chinese Bitcoin community, known as the talented all done: build mine pool, do OEM, mining machine auctions, rental operator force, doing websites, and SilverFish Miner.Can you tell us about these stories?
God fish: by the end of 2010 I saw Bitcoin introduction on technology blog , in 2011, read most of the official forum post,got system understanding of Bitcoin, also met a group of early domestic players, including pumpkin Zhang, Osamu, LaoDuan, the night cats.2012 With BTC prices rise, more and more people participate, then virtually no domestic BTC website.Night Cat and I participated in the early construction btcman together, and later established LTCBBS forum, focused on mining technology.With the emergence of ASIC in 2012, I realized that the lack of a stable mineral pool, dropped out in 2013 to establish a F2POOL mine pool, is running well.April 2013 because of me and several friends have deployed a large number of ASIC mining machine, will naturally do the beehive mining machine OEM, these have accumulated valuable experience for the subsequent production of the miner.Massive ASIC miner on-line, replacing the GPU mining, mining agreement also updated.11-12 January 2013, a large number of blind investors to join the circle to make Bitcoin pandemonium, we realized that it is necessary to do a good job of investor education, the development of industry and government health of ecosystems and other aspects of effective communication.Therefore, me and several partners have jointly established a Yibite digital Technology Co., Ltd., established yibite.com digital assets portal for providing timely and reliable information about the industry and investors science education.In addition, Yibite digital technology have combined to Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai institute, preparing for the establishment of "China Digital Currency Research Center", which is a non-profit organization, will conduct basic research on some of the technical direction for digital currency.In the 2013 during OEM Beehive BTC-ASIC, the chip due to the arrival time constraints, coupled with fondness for scrypt algorithm, i carried out a special study, and in September completed the FPGA program, which is later the SilverFish Miner.
ahr999: The pool was briefly closed in July last year, what is the reason?was it attacked?
God Fish: Early PPS mine pool usually with little luck, make ends meet, in the September-October period suffered a massive DDOS attack.
ahr999: Now, someone tipped-off on the internet that the pool steal hashrate, what's your take on that?
God fish: First, it doesn't exist, it is impossible.Most users do not understand mining, speed and earnings are not positively realted..wu and earnings are positively related to the basic speed value is only an estimate, including HW, R, S and so on.There are some mining machine is not very stable and individual chip failure will lead to reach the nominal count force, or a large number of HW which affects gains.From most users reflect the view, the pool close to the theoretical income Basic earnings.
ahr999: I'm sorry, I'm novice, what is the meaning of wu?
God fish: wu is the actual number of operators.
ahr999: It seems i need to do more homework.
God fish: Besides mining is in fact a process of brute force cracking, there is a Luck value, with good luck fewer operators may also completed an A, Luck is generally around 5% fluctuations.Sometimes relatively large, so some users may find sometimes higher than the theoretical benefits, sometimes a part of the low.
ahr999: thank God fish patiently answered.You've ever done Avalon OEM, was there any twists and turns with that experience?
God fish: Yes, the chip serious bouncing.
ahr999: Did this affect you seriously?
God Fish: We conducted a pre-sale of the mining machine PPS compensation, but also inspired my determination to do SilverFish Miner.
ahr999: self-developed chips.
God fish: Yes.
ahr999: Speaking of which, it seems you have done hashrate rental, then how?
God Fish: July 2013 due to the large-scale ASIC mine layout and graphics card, a small amount of hashrate was open to rent.Most users have purchased this back and have a profit of about 2-fold.At present, because energy and electricity restrictions, sales has been suspended .Users who have purchased a daily payment of normal progress.
ahr999: It seems that investment on you never lose.Even that bouncing, you have done the compensation.
God fish: Yes.
ahr999: Do you have subsequent program for IPO?
God fish: You can check our website and Weibo.
ahr999: By the way, talking about Yibite, today it has invested three hundred thousand Yuan for Mar.21st Incident to apprehend the murderers, is it your idea?
God Fish: No, yesterday when the incident happened I was on the plane, it is a idea from other board members.
ahr999: what't your take on Mar.21st Incident?
God fish: can refer to the announcement on Yibite.com , "We must no longer remain silent!."
ahr999: I hope everything will be okay.
God Fish: Well, the future will be good.
ahr999: your experience, it is not smooth sailing.Along the way, what is the most impressive thing?
God fish: The most impressive thing is in early 2013, a batch of Miners from pumpkin Zhang delivery delayed, had also miscommunication, resulting in most buyers think the whole thing was a hoax.I realized the importance of reputation in the digital currency industry, we have only one chance to make mistake, If fail to live up to expectations, lost credit, can not go on in this circle.
ahr999: Finally, one last question, do you often on CYBTC's forum?What is your ID?Do you have any comments and suggestions for CYBTC forum?
God fish: ID is the 7-colored God Fish.Due to the recent focus on chip production, there is not much time on the forum.But CYBTC is doing good, from the miners as the entry point is a good direction, Wish you're doing better and better.
ahr999: Thank you, get on our forum once you have time.That's all for our interview, thank you very much for your time.
God fish: You're welcome, keep in touch.
