Thx Bitcoinorama 4 nothing, mostly the mercury hash only 80-99Ghas, most of 200 oct boards ended in Jupiter's owners hands, or on ebay, bitmit, marke place
and please do don't write like there is only one manufacturer for each part of mainer in world
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My sentiments exactly!!!
Not sure why he's blaming Orama for this.. but I do feel where he's coming from (yet, wouldn't blame Orama). I <3 KNC and their quality products, don't get me wrong, but I'm also capable of separating my fandom and calling BS on some stuff. And I'm definitely flagging them right now.
1. They had the capability to limit the modules to just Mercury/Saturn orders, despite claiming otherwise or saying they weren't sure how to handle it. Anyone who runs a database backend to serve a website ordering system, has the capability. If they claim they don't, then something is way off base. They could've simply limited it to Mercury/Saturn purchasers, X number of them for Y amount of time, at Z price, after which they would be available for anyone to purchase.
This would be similar to what they're doing with the Neptune--only previous customers can get them, X number, for Y amount of time, at Z price. The very thing they claim they couldn't do regarding the modules! So.. BS on that.
The reality is they wanted to firesale the units to clear out stock, and be mostly done with the 28nm systems. With such a good rep on fast delivery, they can then say "well hey we're out of our current product.. so PREORDER with us for our even BETTER product", and folks will bite that fishook.
2. They talk about protecting the network.. but really? I'm flagging that. In reality, it's likely a business move which buys them time to take care of matters on their end (which can be good), and provides them a get-out-of-jail-free card with regard to selling "from stock/off the shelf". This is a key point. Protecting the network is all about ADDING hashrate, not witholding it.
What they're ACTUALLY doing is trying to prevent the BFL Bugger, where so many orders are being shipped that some people get their equipment and it doesn't even mine anything due to such a high difficulty.
That's not protecting the network, that's covering their ass so they don't get bad reviews similar to BFL.
Anyone who understands mining would know that withholding hashrate isn't protecting the network, it's just helping keep the difficulty down so you can profit from mining (KNC mines also, keep that in mind).
Anyhow.. I have confidence they can pull off the 20nm stuff, and their designs are without equal right now, but I just think they burned a few bridges in order to open up a few pathways to the industrial side of mining. In the longrun, it will be professionally hosted sites and industrial-based home setups which will carry bitcoin. It's clear KNC is positioning themselves to be the #1 hardware supplier of those customers, and is leaving the consumer/foundational miner behind.
Anyone who doesn't see that, has blinds over their eyes.
And Orama, I wouldn't be to sharp to say Cointerra's chips are being rated at "maximum" output. There just may be some surprises in store.
Just my .02
