I've got a few questions:
1. What is the incentive to buy-in your ICO?
As I understand your token is limited to your ecosystem and pretty useless out side of it, which reminds me of BS like "Lyoness Cashback" etc.
Don't get me wrong , I like your ideas and everything, but I just don't see the point why I should invest in you. Whats in it for me?
Because with your token I don't get shit, no shares of revenue, no shares on your company, nothing.
For example other ICOs like Tezos, Electroneum etc. target to be a globally useable and therefore are speculative investments like BTC, ETH and so on.
But your coin doesn't aim to be that. It aims to be the token of your own eco system which by definition is limited to your existence as a company supporting said eco-system and your ability to execute your plans.
2. You have posted and electric bill to prove that you are already operating mining-farms in Austria
I may be wrong here but to the invoice identification looks a bit sketchy. As Austrian law requires that every invoice has an unique alpha-numeric identification, it seems that your hoster, which seems to be a energy company, has only one customer, which is you. Hence "Re Nr 2017-09"doesn't leave much room for uniqueness for the month of September....
3. Your videos/pictures of your Swedish farm
As being involved in datacenter design for almost 15 years for Austria's Top companies I have quite some knowledge what the "dos and don'ts" are.
It almost gave me a heart attack when I saw your footage. Come on guys really?
No ESD protection while assembling the miners? Power cables across the room so people can trip over them?
What is the power cable diameter lading to one "rack"? If a miner has 10 cards inside and we assume those are 120-150W cards each because of the 6-pin power connector, we get to a possible power drain of ~1,5kW per miner, multiplied by 8 that leaves us with 12kW per rack, which is insane to be powered by such a thin cable. As you are transporting 52A worst case and 30A best case......fire hazard anyone?
Also I am curious about the cooling of the room as I spot 25-30 racks, which would result in 250kW-300kW of thermal energy emitted into that room if we are being moderate with 10kW per rack. Or are you mining Cryptonight so comes down to 1/2 of those figures?
4. You claim that you have specially customized cards for you by Nvidia
Why are those boxes labeled Zotac?
Why would Nvidia go through the trouble of developing a small batch of a product in the first place?
Since when does Nvidia offer alternative designs themselves for a consumer class product? If you would have been running Tesla or Quadro cards, sure I get it, but not with some 6-pin wafer-yield-cutoffs 960 or 1060
Hi, sorry for getting back so late to you, but we wanted to provide you a satisfactory answer and had to find time for our technical lead to answer your very in depth questions!
1.
Your benefits are clearly stated in the whitepaper, it is up to you to buy tokens or not, if you don’t see the benefit for yourself (discounts in purchasing our products). Or you never intend on using them in the future, maybe our token is not for you, which is fine!
2.
This is true, we are the only customer at this location! At the beginning of our mining operation, we started cooperations with a number of small private hydropower plant operators, who would otherwise simply supply the energy to the national power grid. Through us, they got a much better deal and we received a steady source of clean and relatively cheap energy to operate our mining farms.
Any surplus of energy is still supplied to the national power grid.
3.
All cables come in from above through cable trays.
We are actually much more efficient than your retail grade hardware/software assumptions since we have a lot of experience.
One card uses 80 watts @~26 Mh/s Ethereum
One rig uses a total of roughly 850 Watt at the wall
We use CAT7 cables and in the video we were still not finished with assembly, now they are already bound and nicely placed.
There are no cables on the floor that have any power running through them on the floor. Thank you for your concern!
Our power cables have some safety buffer 6² for 3 phases with 32 Amps. For each PDU we are only pulling 29-30 Amps per phase.
I hope that answers all your questions!
4.
First of all, we consider more than 100 000 cards not a small batch, what would be a large batch for you?
Zotac is a close partner of Nvidia, since you know that Nvidia focuses on producing the chips and not the cards (they do produce some but most cards come from partners), working together with Zotac and Nvidia to design our custom graphics card was a logical step for us.
