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August 14, 2013, 12:04:16 AM |
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Big advancements of the graphic end of VMC today, I've been working with another web developer/designer who's been given the go ahead to develop the new VMC website. As of now the new logo has been finished and paid for and the design brief for the rest of the website is in the pipeline, hopefully I'll have more to show when progress is further underway!
Im very excited to see the results! Thanks for your work on this ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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Stuartuk
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August 14, 2013, 12:16:02 AM |
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Thanks for you work on this hazryder. Looking forward to the grand unveiling. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) +1
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August 14, 2013, 12:59:40 AM |
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Please tell me if I'm woefully mistaken on this:
From what I can tell, if ActM hit all their projections, the eASIC deal comes to fruition on time, we start pounding out chips and hardware, adding to our own mining, etc., ActM would almost certainly be a top 3 bitcoin-related hardware/mining company.
Is that wrong?
I know there was some talk about comparison to ACISMINER in here and the Speculation thread, but I've got to believe that having such an apparently capable chip manufacturer as eASIC in your pocket, would have to give you a huge leg up - potentially to a point of drastically surpassing everyone (albeit not forever).
Now, again, this makes some assumptions on the order of what could be called entirely egregious. No matter. I'm interested in the hypothetical.
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August 14, 2013, 01:04:17 AM |
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^+1
That's why some of us are here...for the huge potential this stock/fund has is.
Handled right it could be one of the big three, handled wrong...they drift into obscurity. (But the spark of potential is definitely there.)
The biggest factor with all these funds is getting the real goods out of prototype as early as possible.
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August 14, 2013, 01:10:43 AM |
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Ok. If this is the case, then I have another question:
As of right now, who are the competitors to ActM that will also be manufacturing/designing their own chips?
From what I can gather: Cointerra, ASICMINER, KnC, and I believe Labcoin are all either looking to manufacturer their own stuff, or are already doing so. Who am I missing?
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N_S
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August 14, 2013, 01:16:56 AM |
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Maybe this is short-sighted, but I'm not really concerned about BFL at the moment. They seem to be a total laughing stock and while they'll still likely sell some hardware, I think their time in the spotlight is coming to a fast close.
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CMMPro
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August 14, 2013, 02:09:36 AM |
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BTCGarden has stated they are moving forward with their hardware....they just aren't going to offer an IPO for it anymore.
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ArcticWolf
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August 14, 2013, 02:18:17 AM |
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Ok. If this is the case, then I have another question:
As of right now, who are the competitors to ActM that will also be manufacturing/designing their own chips?
From what I can gather: Cointerra, ASICMINER, KnC, and I believe Labcoin are all either looking to manufacturer their own stuff, or are already doing so. Who am I missing?
Cointerra are 28nm, but are making some crazy claims that I dont have to much faith in re hashspeed per chip ASICminer are currently 130nm, and looking at 65nm Labcoin are also 130nm, and from what I have heard not looking into going smaller BTCGarden are also 130nm Hashfast also making crazy announcements at 28nm If ActiveMining can deliver on time, they will definitely be in the best position of them all
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N_S
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August 14, 2013, 02:23:41 AM |
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Cointerra are 28nm, but are making some crazy claims that I dont have to much faith in re hashspeed per chip ASICminer are currently 130nm, and looking at 65nm Labcoin are also 130nm, and from what I have heard not looking into going smaller BTCGarden are also 130nm Hashfast also making crazy announcements at 28nm
If ActiveMining can deliver on time, they will definitely be in the best position of them all
If I'm up-to-date, the skepticism surrounding the other 28nm chips with such high hashrates is in heat management, is that right? I also recall someone mentioning something about signal interference, but I didn't understand that.
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Vigil
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August 14, 2013, 02:24:13 AM |
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When are we expecting the eASIC announcement?
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N_S
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August 14, 2013, 02:30:27 AM |
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When are we expecting the eASIC announcement?
Not a clue. I'm trying to lobby for consistent weekly updates over in the Speculation thread. I really think this would remove a huge amount of the FUD that's been plaguing both ActM threads, as well as provide shareholders with more confidence. We're not talking Creativex-level updates, just one each week on a certain day - news or no news.
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ArcticWolf
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August 14, 2013, 02:37:47 AM |
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Cointerra are 28nm, but are making some crazy claims that I dont have to much faith in re hashspeed per chip ASICminer are currently 130nm, and looking at 65nm Labcoin are also 130nm, and from what I have heard not looking into going smaller BTCGarden are also 130nm Hashfast also making crazy announcements at 28nm
If ActiveMining can deliver on time, they will definitely be in the best position of them all
If I'm up-to-date, the skepticism surrounding the other 28nm chips with such high hashrates is in heat management, is that right? I also recall someone mentioning something about signal interference, but I didn't understand that. Im pretty sure the question is internal signal interference. Vbs can explain it far better than I can
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redbeans2012
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August 14, 2013, 02:39:32 AM |
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Ok. If this is the case, then I have another question:
As of right now, who are the competitors to ActM that will also be manufacturing/designing their own chips?
From what I can gather: Cointerra, ASICMINER, KnC, and I believe Labcoin are all either looking to manufacturer their own stuff, or are already doing so. Who am I missing?
Cointerra are 28nm, but are making some crazy claims that I dont have to much faith in re hashspeed per chip ASICminer are currently 130nm, and looking at 65nm Labcoin are also 130nm, and from what I have heard not looking into going smaller BTCGarden are also 130nm Hashfast also making crazy announcements at 28nm If ActiveMining can deliver on time, they will definitely be in the best position of them all Labcoin working on 65nm chip
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zumzero
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August 14, 2013, 02:47:03 AM |
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Cointerra are 28nm, but are making some crazy claims that I dont have to much faith in re hashspeed per chip ASICminer are currently 130nm, and looking at 65nm Labcoin are also 130nm, and from what I have heard not looking into going smaller BTCGarden are also 130nm Hashfast also making crazy announcements at 28nm
If ActiveMining can deliver on time, they will definitely be in the best position of them all
If I'm up-to-date, the skepticism surrounding the other 28nm chips with such high hashrates is in heat management, is that right? I also recall someone mentioning something about signal interference, but I didn't understand that. vbs is your man for that kind of answer. He suggests that it beggers belief that so many people are investing into these projects willy-nilly without actually understanding them and doing their homework. The claim that a massive chip is able to consume 350 watts is dream-land material, so I hear. And as a man who draws over 500 watts gaming on two AMD cards, I can see why. In this case heat dispersion is a major factor. Not to mention power draw. If companies like AMD & Nvidia spend hundreds of milllions on R & D in order to tweak out the best competitive benchmarks, how on this planet Earth is a Bitcoin start-up going to out perform them? These are nothing more than bold claims that some btc mining companies are making with their 'super' chip designs.
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Crossposted because relevant to our interests: Well fuck me sideways!! ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Uniquify, HashFast Ink Agreement to Produce ASICs to Increase Hashing Speed for Bitcoin Minersgeeks.broadwayworld.com / Aug, 13, 2013; 10:38 AM SAN JOSE, CA – Uniquify ( www.uniquify.com) today signed a multi-year agreement with HashFast Technologies to design and provide silicon fabrication services for a new generation of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) expected to dramatically increase hashing speed for Bitcoin miners. Under terms of the agreement, HashFast Technologies, a pioneer in custom designs of ASIC chips for cryptographic hashing, will use Uniquify’s technology for the production of ASIC chips for cryptographic hashing. The strategic partnership between HashFast and Uniquify, a leading high-performance semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and system-on-chip (SoC) design, integration and manufacturing services supplier, is poised to move HashFast to the forefront of the cryptographic hashing industry.
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August 14, 2013, 03:43:14 AM |
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Crossposted because relevant to our interests: Well fuck me sideways!! ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Uniquify, HashFast Ink Agreement to Produce ASICs to Increase Hashing Speed for Bitcoin Minersgeeks.broadwayworld.com / Aug, 13, 2013; 10:38 AM SAN JOSE, CA – Uniquify ( www.uniquify.com) today signed a multi-year agreement with HashFast Technologies to design and provide silicon fabrication services for a new generation of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) expected to dramatically increase hashing speed for Bitcoin miners. Under terms of the agreement, HashFast Technologies, a pioneer in custom designs of ASIC chips for cryptographic hashing, will use Uniquify’s technology for the production of ASIC chips for cryptographic hashing. The strategic partnership between HashFast and Uniquify, a leading high-performance semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and system-on-chip (SoC) design, integration and manufacturing services supplier, is poised to move HashFast to the forefront of the cryptographic hashing industry. Can you post some previous work that Hashfast has been involved with? Are there any major companies they have done work for, such as hard drive manufacturers? Just curious, I'm interested in putting some money into this but I haven't really heard anything about "hashfast" other than its name. I am curious as to what they have produced rather than what they are "going" to produce
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