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[philipma1957]

As long as they stay up I will start it back up.

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[Last of the V8s]

It's ONE company "GMO", and I believe their originally announced May 2018 timeframe was way optimistic.
They seem to have toned the timeframe back to "have working silicon in 2018" which sounds like they are targeting TAPE-OUT by the end of 2018 and might be a viable target (that would put actual PRODUCTION into 1Q or 2Q of 2019).

 They seem to have also had some bad timing on when to get involved, with the recent news out of China - unless China DOES in fact ban Bitcoin and it puts Bitmain/BW.COM/EBit and the other smaller Chinese miner makers out of business (Innosilicon will probably survive, they'll go back to being a custom design house like they were before they started doing Cryptocoin ASIC).

Many thanks for your insights. There is another one called DMM. https://www.coindesk.com/e-commerce-giant-dmm-to-launch-bitcoin-mining-venture/

Apart from the bad timing aspects you mentioned, I still can't get my woolly head round the 7nm part - thought the limits were being reached around 10-12nm.

Further, do you actually believe these announcements? Haven't we all heard more such announcements than were to be believed?

As long as they stay up I will start it back up.

Great news. Sorry for off topic.

[QuintLeo]

Intel stated "10 nm end of road for Silicon".

 IBM has mentioned used HYBRID Germanium/Silicon wafers in their 7NM experimental development (this would end up on Global Foundries since GF ended up with the IBM fabs some years back when IBM decided to spin off that part of their business).

This should probably move over to the "Phil's 6'th thread" for any further discussion.

[philipma1957]

well back on point

diff is still near 20%

coins are about 3700

bcc  may have a bust out move  when diff jumps  20% for btc.

 I have been mining it for a while. It could be a good coin.

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Bitcoin Difficulty:   922,724,699,726
Estimated Next Difficulty:   1,107,976,453,219 (+20.08%)
Adjust time:   After 387 Blocks, About 2.2 days
Hashrate(?):   8,431,036,786 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):   
1 block: 8.3 minutes
3 blocks: 24.9 minutes
6 blocks: 49.7 minutes
Updated:   

[fr4nkthetank]

quick question, do you think you'll organize another difficulty contest in the near future ?  Hashrate is still all over the place and shows no sign of....normalcy.  Plus another fork is incoming in a month (maybe), now that will be interesting to watch.  One thing is for sure, Bitmain and friends sure succeeded with their evil plans for higher profitability....10% bonus on bitcoin balances + mining profitability for sha256 is much, much higher than before.

[philipma1957]

quick question, do you think you'll organize another difficulty contest in the near future ?  Hashrate is still all over the place and shows no sign of....normalcy.  Plus another fork is incoming in a month (maybe), now that will be interesting to watch.  One thing is for sure, Bitmain and friends sure succeeded with their evil plans for higher profitability....10% bonus on bitcoin balances + mining profitability for sha256 is much, much higher than before.

locking

moved here

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2188103.0