they were at 14 tera some time ago
they are selling their blades 50btc each that do about 10 to 13gigahash each.
They are getting ready for their 200T chip order.
200T chips? Where can I find info on this? Release plans? Price?
They aren't selling chips, they are putting 200TH+ online in their own mining farm in the next 4-6 weeks.
Wow wow wow hold up. 200TH/s in the next 1-2 months? They could triple today's network? At the very least, it sounds like they could own ~50% of the network.
I don't care if they split it up among the top 5 pools. The fact that some one entity owns almost 50% of the network is just skewed.
Either the other ASIC competitors need to step it up, or ASICMiner ought to start telling those blades for cheaper than 50BTC and getting the hashing power more evenly distributed. It's only 10GH/s per board, they could cut the price in half and still make a profit.
BFL is just starting to ship, but barely, and slower than molasses. Avalon is selling massive amounts of chips, but they won't be ready for another 3 months or so.
I have been keeping an eye on this, as I noticed that AsicMiner, as a single mining entity can take over 51% of the network easily if they keep growing at their current rate, especially with this next blade shipment. Today I also noticed something interesting that they are now showing up on Blockchain.info as their own Mining Pool, and have for the past 4 days apprently,
http://blockchain.info/pools?timespan=4days.
Honestly, I am not sure what is going on, but AsicMiner has definitely more than doubled their hashing power in less than 1 weeks time (source:
http://www.asicminercharts.com/), and seemingly will be doing it again in another week or so. If their systems were to be compromised at that point, there goes the neighborhood.
