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Author Topic: [ActiveMining] The Official Active Mining Discussion Thread  (Read 479237 times)
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September 04, 2013, 11:20:14 PM
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Back to 0.004x. Maybe shareholders need more than a ... pdf ?
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September 04, 2013, 11:21:02 PM
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Oh, come on!
Euphoria!  
"Mining machines capable of generating up to 24.756 TH/s"!  Them is some pretty exact numbers -- he's got a few boxen hashing away down in the labz -- either that, or he built a fixed-clock chip!

Where's your ENTHUSIASM?  

Buy Buy BUY!!!11!

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September 04, 2013, 11:23:02 PM
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Back to 0.004x. Maybe shareholders need more than a ... pdf ?

Try http://www.easic.com

Think it hits the press tomorrow.

At the mo there's flippers making a nice profit I expect (and they're on this very thread I'm sure!)
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September 04, 2013, 11:25:41 PM
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Most of the trades right now are just short-term flippers buying/selling to other short-term flippers, as there's been no significant time for the news to spread and gather interest of long-term shareholders.
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September 04, 2013, 11:25:47 PM
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Back to 0.004x. Maybe shareholders need more than a ... pdf ?

That'd be the first time ever.

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September 04, 2013, 11:36:05 PM
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Back to 0.004x. Maybe shareholders need more than a ... pdf ?

Try http://www.easic.com

Think it hits the press tomorrow.

At the mo there's flippers making a nice profit I expect (and they're on this very thread I'm sure!)

http://www.easic.com/vmc-uses-easic-to-achieve-24-756-ths-bitcoin-miner/
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September 04, 2013, 11:37:44 PM
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What we really need to know is the die size.

It's possible Labcoin's 65nm chip may take up less space, making their chips potentially more profitable.

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September 04, 2013, 11:43:27 PM
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What we really need to know is the die size.

It's possible Labcoin's 65nm chip may take up less space, making their chips potentially more profitable.

Labcoin has yet to prove that they developed the 130nm chip (or give any indication that they aren't running a total scam for that matter).  Why don't you worry about that when their "65nm chip" is not a figment of your imagination. 
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September 04, 2013, 11:45:02 PM
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ffssixtynine, thank you for posting this right away, and for all of the pressure you and the rest applied to get this deal confirmed.

I'm very happy that ActM is no longer the only company with a semiconductor vendor that won't take her to the prom. Smiley

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September 04, 2013, 11:45:21 PM
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What we really need to know is the die size.

It's possible Labcoin's 65nm chip may take up less space, making their chips potentially more profitable.

If we're talking about futurology, we can also talk about VMC going for standard-cell 28nm, using eAsic's easicopy process and getting chips at pitiful costs (price is y-axis below). Then it's game over. Smiley

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September 04, 2013, 11:58:25 PM
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What we really need to know is the die size.

It's possible Labcoin's 65nm chip may take up less space, making their chips potentially more profitable.

If we're talking about futurology, we can also talk about VMC going for standard-cell 28nm, using eAsic's easicopy process and getting chips at pitiful costs (price is y-axis below). Then it's game over. Smiley



As you can see on the chart, the cutoff for 'profitability' of using the easicopy instead of nextreme is 300-900 thousand units.  At 25Gh/s, that comes out to:

7.5-22.5 petahash.  

That's the threshold for for it to be profitable for ActM to switch to easicopy.

Assuming he can get 10 chips per board, that's 30-90k boards. At $25/board, that comes out to $750k-$2.2 million for enough boards to put 300-900k chips on.

That means in order for it to be profitable for ActiveMining to go to the easicopy rout to get standard cell asics, he would need to be making an so large he'd have to spend $750-2 million just on the blank PCBs to put them on.

Not impossible. But it's a long way off from what I can tell.

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September 04, 2013, 11:58:41 PM
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To the MoooN Cheesy



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September 04, 2013, 11:58:47 PM
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What we really need to know is the die size.

It's possible Labcoin's 65nm chip may take up less space, making their chips potentially more profitable.

If we're talking about futurology, we can also talk about VMC going for standard-cell 28nm, using eAsic's easicopy process and getting chips at pitiful costs (price is y-axis below). Then it's game over. Smiley



Would the ELI5 on this chart basically be that at some point the chips are going to cost next to nothing to produce, therefore any difficulty increases will easily be met via the production of more chips?

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September 05, 2013, 12:00:34 AM
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To the MoooN Cheesy

Oh come off it. It went to the moon....but just popped in for a bite and then decided it had enough.
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September 05, 2013, 12:03:09 AM
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To the MoooN Cheesy

Oh come off it. It went to the moon....but just popped in for a bite, ya know?

See that little "Ignore" button under his username?  Click it. Smiley

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September 05, 2013, 12:09:54 AM
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See that little "Ignore" button under his username?  Click it. Smiley

Oh you mean that box that looks like the color of my piss after heavy kidney damage?
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September 05, 2013, 12:10:00 AM
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To the MoooN Cheesy

Oh come off it. It went to the moon....but just popped in for a bite and then decided it had enough.

And it will again, but this was so sad...  An ideal opportunity to prove the doubters wrong.  All people had to do was *hold*.  There was no market on burnside's gameserver.  The price would have went through the roof -- but no.  
People started tripping all over each other for a chance to get out Sad  
Confidence inspiring.  
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September 05, 2013, 12:11:13 AM
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What we really need to know is the die size.

It's possible Labcoin's 65nm chip may take up less space, making their chips potentially more profitable.

If we're talking about futurology, we can also talk about VMC going for standard-cell 28nm, using eAsic's easicopy process and getting chips at pitiful costs (price is y-axis below). Then it's game over. Smiley



As you can see on the chart, the cutoff for 'profitability' of using the easicopy instead of nextreme is 300-900 thousand units.  At 25Gh/s, that comes out to:

7.5-22.5 petahash.  

That's the threshold for for it to be profitable for ActM to switch to easicopy.

Assuming he can get 10 chips per board, that's 30-90k boards. At $25/board, that comes out to $750k-$2.2 million for enough boards to put 300-900k chips on.

That means in order for it to be profitable for ActiveMining to go to the easicopy rout to get standard cell asics, he would need to be making an so large he'd have to spend $750-2 million just on the blank PCBs to put them on.

Not impossible. But it's a long way off from what I can tell.

Your overall analysis is wrong. You are analyzing it as if the transition should only be based on volume to lower unit price. It won't be. The point where it's profitable to go for easicpy is not just based on unit cost, but on whatever possible gains in either hashrate or power consumption from using a standard-cell ASIC. The bigger the gains, the quicker the transition will be done.

Least of all, let's not forget VMC also sells chips in bulk, so there's no money to spend on "blank PCBs" there.
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September 05, 2013, 12:18:57 AM
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Least of all, let's not forget VMC also sells chips in bulk, so there's no money to spend on "blank PCBs" there.

Someone has to spend the money on those PCBs.  And the point of the chart is that, overall, it will be cheaper to stick with the regular ASICs until you get up to 300k units (per whatever time period they're estimating), it would just be a waste of money otherwise. Obviously, if the power/wattage is better then that will be an additional consideration.

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September 05, 2013, 12:25:15 AM
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Least of all, let's not forget VMC also sells chips in bulk, so there's no money to spend on "blank PCBs" there.

Someone has to spend the money on those PCBs.  And the point of the chart is that, overall, it will be cheaper to stick with the regular ASICs until you get up to 300k units (per whatever time period they're estimating), it would just be a waste of money otherwise. Obviously, if the power/wattage is better then that will be an additional consideration.

The point of the chart is to compare chip unit price with sales volume, meaning that VMC can/will have access to chip prices that can be competitive with anyone else. This was the original issue you raised, unit price.
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