[ActiveMining] The Official Active Mining Discussion Thread

[WikileaksDude]

So it takes a couple months to convert BTC to USD to pay the NRE or what.

Butterfly labs working on 28 nm

http://www.butterflylabs.com/monarch/

I dare you.

Who are gonna be the new next victims?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-l-c3rTlnE

[KSGuy]

I thought this was the ActiveMining thread.. not the BLF...lol

[Vbs]

I thought this was the ActiveMining thread.. not the BLF...lol

Indeed, let's bring OOT discussion to the speculation thread.

[VolanicEruptor]

I thought this was the ActiveMining thread.. not the BLF...lol

Talking about how competitors are fucking up is important to the discussion of Activemining.
The more they fail, the more we win.
If we only talked about what's inside the box, we would become insane. 

[Stuartuk]

Yep, 100%, but that's what the SPECULATION thread is for.

Come ON guys.

[zumzero]

I request the board of advisors, when appointed, discuss the merits of issuing emails to confirm payment of dividends. Thanks.

[bigdude]

I request the board of advisors, when appointed, discuss the merits of issuing emails to confirm payment of dividends. Thanks.

Why?

ActM doesn't have email addresses of shareholders, the exchanges do - right?

btct.co already does this.

And bitfunder, should do it, but doesnt. So BF should fix this.

[zefyr0s]

I believe operators do actually get that information from btct, but since we're able to get the e-mails sent from btct anyways, why the second confirmation?

[zumzero]

I request the board of advisors, when appointed, discuss the merits of issuing emails to confirm payment of dividends. Thanks.

Why?

ActM doesn't have email addresses of shareholders, the exchanges do - right?

btct.co already does this.

And bitfunder, should do it, but doesnt. So BF should fix this.

Yes.  It just feels professional. Perhaps ActM could action this even if BF don't?

One consideration is the potential security risk if a shareholders email were to be compromised.  This is why I suggested discussion.



Hello,

This is a dividend payment confirmation.

  Account: x
  Asset: TAT.ASICMINER
  Shares: y
  Paid: z BTC
  Transaction ID:

Thank you for using BTC-TC

[LorenzoMoney]

Why do exchanges or the companies on those exchanges need to collect shareholders' email addresses?

One of the nice things about the bitcoin world is that you can identify yourself entirely through your bitcoin address alone.

The system for paying dividends that currently exists on Bitfunder seems to work fine, and I am a believer of the precept, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I request the board of advisors, when appointed, discuss the merits of issuing emails to confirm payment of dividends. Thanks.

Why?

ActM doesn't have email addresses of shareholders, the exchanges do - right?

btct.co already does this.

And bitfunder, should do it, but doesnt. So BF should fix this.

[ffssixtynine]

Dividend payments come through the exchanges. It is not for any of the funds etc to collect emails and so on.

Btct email when dividends are paid.

This is one for the Bifunder thread and UKYO, not ActiveMining.

[VinceSamios]

I request the board of advisors, when appointed, discuss the merits of issuing emails to confirm payment of dividends. Thanks.

Yeah this is one for the exchange, not for ActM - It should be universally available to all securities on BitFunder - but it's not the responsibility of ActM IMHO.

[4ju5tice]

The company logo http://virtualminingcorp.com/shop1/index.php on the top left of the website should be moved up on the page. It's hanging down a bit and looks bad.

Also, the links at the bottom of the page for twitter and facebook are going to the online store template prestashop pages.

I understand that Ken's working hard on stuff, but this might be a decent filler project when there is time.

EDIT: I bolded it per Stuartuk's comment so that it has a chance of being read by KEN/PR

[Stuartuk]

The company logo http://virtualminingcorp.com/shop1/index.php on the top left of the website should be moved up on the page. It's hanging down a bit and looks bad.

I agree it looks shit.

An excellent post, just what the Official thread is for. Might I suggest you amend your post to include an obvious opener in bold so that PR/Ken can see it easily when they scan the thread.

[AstroBoy]

Well I have no idea how the pre-orders are going, but if we need more, a better website (and store page mainly) would go a long way.  I'm tired of seeing ActM not being mentioned when people talk about companies developing 28nm hardware.  It's a really small niche community here that knows ActM even exists.  I guess the eASIC deal announcement will change that. 

[yuansuyi]

Well, Hashfast has finished design, is doing tape-out. BFL will tap-out 28nm chip this month, according to the preorder webpage.

what is the time schedule of ACTM's chip?  Has eASIC started designing?

[ffssixtynine]

Well, Hashfast has finished design, is doing tape-out. BFL will tap-out 28nm chip this month, according to the preorder webpage.

what is the time schedule of ACTM's chip?  Has eASIC started designing?

All news is on page 1 of the other thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254930.0

Well I have no idea how the pre-orders are going, but if we need more, a better website (and store page mainly) would go a long way.  I'm tired of seeing ActM not being mentioned when people talk about companies developing 28nm hardware.  It's a really small niche community here that knows ActM even exists.  I guess the eASIC deal announcement will change that.  

Amen to that.

[Stuartuk]

Well, Hashfast has finished design, is doing tape-out. BFL will tap-out 28nm chip this month, according to the preorder webpage.

what is the time schedule of ACTM's chip?  Has eASIC started designing?

We don't have that info yet due to the NDA. All we can do is look at eASIC's Proven Design Flow chart and get a bit hard:





http://www.easic.com/migration-to-cell-based-asic/migration-to-cell-based-asic-simple-design-flow/

[neilol]

On another front, it's important to make sure we can get someone with an eCommerce marketing eye on the board. I am tired of reading articles about 28nm manufacturers coming to market and not listing ActiveMining. We will need to be on the radar as a serious competitor to sell real volume. The product cycle is too fast to wait to be proven as a retailer that ships units - we will miss a whole generation of hardware. It's ugly but you really do need to presell.


http://thegenesisblock.com/cointerra-announces-2ths-asic-bitcoin-miner-for-15750/

ASICMiner has been able to sell their hardware at a premium since they are the only company with any ASIC mining products readily available. As 28nm products come online later this year from Cointerra, BFL, KNC and HashFast, among others, the market should mature towards an in-stock model

[afrotec]

On another front, it's important to make sure we can get someone with an eCommerce marketing eye on the board. I am tired of reading articles about 28nm manufacturers coming to market and not listing ActiveMining. We will need to be on the radar as a serious competitor to sell real volume. The product cycle is too fast to wait to be proven as a retailer that ships units - we will miss a whole generation of hardware. It's ugly but you really do need to presell.


http://thegenesisblock.com/cointerra-announces-2ths-asic-bitcoin-miner-for-15750/

ASICMiner has been able to sell their hardware at a premium since they are the only company with any ASIC mining products readily available. As 28nm products come online later this year from Cointerra, BFL, KNC and HashFast, among others, the market should mature towards an in-stock model

I agree with this. We need more public exposure for our products and our brand as a whole. With so many new competitors in the market, it's important to maintain a good presence, of which we currently do not have much of at all.

My thinking is that this is something that will be further addressed and remedied once the chips are closer to production and have undergone some testing behind the scenes, etc. We don't want to rush and spread news of an untested, and yet unseen product as others have done, as this can create even more problems depending on how things turn out in the future.