New ASIC Cedartec [Probable SCAM]

[bitpop]

Purchased 3

[Magnate]

The fans and vents all looked photo shopped onto the case! Each of the two small fans appear to be cut and pastes of each other!!

If they had of put half of much effort into to te video as they did their website they might be a bit more believable.

Seriously - you sent how much money developing these ASIC chips and you can get a decent video camera or make an effort to shoot something does doesn't look like a 3yo is holding the camera and manually focusing??

[Global BTC]

So, obviously these photos are shopped:



Please note how conveniently the cellphone blocks the view of the place where the chips where photoshopped onto the board. However, the tenth chip should be visible in that picture. It's not there.



Can anyone recognize the board? To me, it looks like some old-ass board with an RJ45 jack (bottom right) glued on. The golden connector next to the RJ45 jack looks like a TV antenna connector. The socket on the top left looks similar to a PC motherboard power socket. Maybe it's from a TV cable box?

[bitpop]

Looks like a mini atx with WiFi

[maxmint]

Video from their media gallery: https://vimeo.com/65249930

[Global BTC]

Looks like a mini atx with WiFi

Oh yeah, the golden connector is for the WiFi antenna! And the sockets for mouse, keyboard and other peripherals have been snapped off. You can see the small pins sticking out of the board between the RJ45 jack and WiFi antenna connector.

[bitpop]

Scamfucks

[Red_Evil]

hmmm

Better than BFL ...

[Shevek]

dB relative to WHAT?

Relative to nothing or, if you want, relative to the level of 0 dB at the limit of human perception (actually 0 dB correspond to 20 micropascal of pressure amplitude)

[Bitcoinorama]

Scamfucks

Yet you ordered three?

[Fuzzy]

hmmm

Better than BFL ...

Better PR at least.

[Bitcoinorama]

Looks like a mini atx with WiFi

Oh yeah, the golden connector is for the WiFi antenna! And the sockets for mouse, keyboard and other peripherals have been snapped off. You can see the small pins sticking out of the board between the RJ45 jack and WiFi antenna connector.

+1 blatantly, thank-you, someone that speaks sense, finally. I honestly cannot believe we are even debating the legitimacy of this or that some morons on another thread are trying to defend this, let alone part with BTC!!

So, so desperate to believe in anything...

[Bitcoinorama]

Also the chip on his finger is far smaller than those on the board in relative size!

Aaaaaand he's erased the branding on the chip above the gold wifi aerial in the second pic. The first has thick bold white lettering, the second, vanished, like magic!

Leaving nothing but the same slither of black repeated many times over the surface of the chip. Amateur.

[Fuzzy]

I honestly cannot believe we are even debating the legitimacy of this

No one's debating it, we're just having a laugh at this lame attempt 

[Bitcoinorama]

I honestly cannot believe we are even debating the legitimacy of this

No one's debating it, we're just having a laugh at this lame attempt  

No mate, not here. Here; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170739.100

Lol!

[torusJKL]

From their index page:

CEDARTEC was founded 2010 in Lebanon,
with the aim to develop and produce affordable
quality goods with high standards.
A long time we have thought about what our first product
could be, the decision was taken, finally, on a SHA-256 ASIC
product, influenced by the very positive development of the electronic currency "Bitcoin" which we want to support.

After 2 years of development time, we are sure to release and ship our first product in few weeks to our customers, so we have put our webpage online and finally started to accept orders.
We limited our product "CT-80", which we release for our customers, to 1000 units. Every device is working with 10 built-in chips working at a processing speed of 80 GH/s with a maximum power consumption of 200 watt.

2 years ago nobody was even using FPGA let alone thinking of ASIC.
But these guys from the Lebanon had a sixt sense on what will be and that they would have to start with ASIC development in 2010.

I doubt they are real.

[Fuzzy]

I honestly cannot believe we are even debating the legitimacy of this

No one's debating it, we're just having a laugh at this lame attempt  

No mate, not here. Here; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170739.100

Lol!

I HOPE no one's thinking of doing any business with them, but most ppl are having a good chuckle 

What a joke!

 

[Bitcoinorama]

At least a couple have ordered there and admitted it.

[mokahless]

Boy are the people who order this thing going to be disappointed when they receive their unit.

Bitcoin requires a double hash of SHA256. It needs to do SHA256(SHA256(n)) not SHA256(n).

[Xian01]

Oh God... Not another thread...