CoinTerra announces its first ASIC - Hash-Rate greater than 500 GH/s

[btc_uzr]

For someone with such a great past there should be more than enough evidence backing up his profile, like papers he wrote, talks he gave at conferences and such..

A remarkable point is at least, for all combos of his name and a company from his linkedin-profile, the first hit is always his linkedin-profile - doesn't increase confidence.

Btw: check this profile, too
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9921043&privcapId=1994285&previousCapId=1994285&previousTitle=iVivity,%20Inc.
 "This person is connected to 0 Board Members in 0 different organizations across 0 different industries."
 
maybe another person, since this finding is not mentioned on his linkedin-profile ?!
http://www.oit.gatech.edu/content/about-oit

minor inconsistency found:
http://www.solidoaktech.com/executive.html says Jim O'Connor is still executive
while linked in profile shows this as his past


quick google shots lead me the following results:
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 General Electric:
 only found Matthew J. O’Connor - same person ? If so why 'Matthew J' instead of Jim ??
 http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/carlyle-hires-g-e-executive-for-power-investment-team/?ref=generalelectriccompany&_r=0

 Star Technologies:
 nothing found

 Broadband Technologies:
 nothing found

 Nortel (Networks?!):
 nothing found

 Zagros Networks:
 nothing found

 SMSC:
 nothing found

 Altior Inc.:  http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Jim-O%27Connor/1636630158 (easy to fake)
                        http://www.insideview.com/directory/altior-inc => shows 'http://www.cebatech.com/' as website for Altior Inc.
                                                                                                               and this domain is registered, only - no content at all => very fishy
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 techjim.com found here http://occcsa.com/rfc/rfc2701.htm (no, he did not work on the rfc, just konverted the doc to html)
 doesn't look like a page of any kind of professional
  http://techjim.com
  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JSocfDj7OsIJ:techjim.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

 occcsa.com belongs to JAMES O'Connor with mail address jim@techjim.com

JAMES O'Connor looks quite similar to JIM O'Connor, no?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DPiYBBSSC8IJ:https://profile.usgs.gov/oconnor/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk

[Puppet]

A remarkable point is at least, for all combos of his name and a company from his linkedin-profile, the first hit is always his linkedin-profile - doesn't increase confidence.

Right. I guess your point is that Google is in on the con too?

Btw: check this profile, too
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9921043&privcapId=1994285&previousCapId=1994285&previousTitle=iVivity,%20Inc.
 "This person is connected to 0 Board Members in 0 different organizations across 0 different industries."

So Businessweek doesnt have more data than that.. which is probably automatically aggregated from somewhere else anyway.
Your point?

maybe another person, since this finding is not mentioned on his linkedin-profile ?!
http://www.oit.gatech.edu/content/about-oit

How many Jim O'Connor's do you think there are? One ? Two?
There are 891 on Linkedin!

minor inconsistency found:
http://www.solidoaktech.com/executive.html says Jim O'Connor is still executive
while linked in profile shows this as his past

Wooo.. you got him there! Red handed.
Clearly he has had nothing better to do lately than maintain his old solidoak website for stuff like that. Best I can tell solid oak is dormant now.

 Altior Inc.:  http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Jim-O%27Connor/1636630158 (easy to fake)
                        http://www.insideview.com/directory/altior-inc => shows 'http://www.cebatech.com/' as website for Altior Inc.
                                                                                                               and this domain is registered, only - no content at all => very fishy

ooh very fishy. altior.com domain redirects here:
http://www.exar.com/data-compression/

Wonder how that would come?

Exar Corporation will acquire the assets of Altior Inc., a privately-held company in Eatontown, NJ with a development center in Bengaluru, India.

The transaction, expected to close on March 22, 2013, includes $5.0 million in initial consideration to be paid in a combination of cash and stock and a three-year earn-out against net revenue contributed by Altior. The impact to the company's guidance for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013 is expected to be immaterial.

Founded in 2004 as CebaTech, Altior Inc. designs, develops and markets hardware and software compression solutions for use in big data applications. The company provides FPGA based PCIe cards and compression software that is ...

http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/mergeracquisition/exar-acquires-altior


Fishy, they changed their names after 10 years, and now someone bought the company! Unless that $5M acquisition was all part of preparing for this con.

Give it a rest already.

[btc_uzr]

Thanks for contribution!
I'll take a closer look onto it as soon as I've some spare time left, this evening I guess.


*edit:
When you visit cebatech.com it is as I said, an empty page, and it is not forwarding. If so let me know how forwarding in this situation works from a technical point of view. Would be awesome to learn sth. about invisible tags or else...

**edit2: sorry didn't look close enough in the rush, you mentioned another url

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[Puppet]

reread my edit. THey changed names before the acquisition.

Founded in 2004 as CebaTech, Altior Inc. designs, develops and markets hardware

Nothing weird about that old domain name being unused now, is it?
BTW, Id change my company name too if it was called CeBaTech.

If you still have any lingering doubts, this should put it to rest:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=292998.msg3145630#msg3145630

[DPoS]

This thread can be condensed to a single TL;DR version:

MOVE ALONG PEOPLE, THIS IS A SCAM

exactly

just because they worked 'in the industries and are world class blah blah's' do not stop them from going for a fat money grab

BFL led the way


but I hope more people believe in this tripe so they are too scared to mine (can't get ROI, so no point, stays on sidelines)

[Puppet]

This thread can be condensed to a single TL;DR version:

MOVE ALONG PEOPLE, THIS IS A SCAM

exactly

just because they worked 'in the industries and are world class blah blah's' do not stop them from going for a fat money grab

Taking bets?

[DPoS]

This thread can be condensed to a single TL;DR version:

MOVE ALONG PEOPLE, THIS IS A SCAM

exactly

just because they worked 'in the industries and are world class blah blah's' do not stop them from going for a fat money grab

Taking bets?

Yeah I bet on KNC by ordering from them

[Puppet]

Yeah I bet on KNC by ordering from them

Buying asics (from any vendor)  isnt betting as much as throwing money away.
How about putting your money where your mouth is and bet cointerra is a scam?

[Sitarow]

This thread can be condensed to a single TL;DR version:

MOVE ALONG PEOPLE, THIS IS A SCAM

exactly

just because they worked 'in the industries and are world class blah blah's' do not stop them from going for a fat money grab

Taking bets?

Yeah I bet on KNC by ordering from them

I too have a day 1 order from KNC.

The question I posed was to the validity of the Cointerra project.

[GodHatesFigs]

I too was skeptical, until I read the Anandtech interview (those guys don't post information hastily) and saw the youtube video confirming the involvement of Ravi and others.

[ecliptic]

I too was skeptical, until I read the Anandtech interview (those guys don't post information hastily) and saw the youtube video confirming the involvement of Ravi and others.

This one?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7246/the-rush-to-bitcoin-asics-ravi-iyengar-launches-cointerra

[zedicus]

Well if they were selling engineers then all this hype around "Samsung's" ex cpu guru might be worth a nickel. Since they are selling miners they are gonna have to do a lot better the constantly talking about the "team"! 

[DPoS]

Yeah I bet on KNC by ordering from them

Buying asics (from any vendor)  isnt betting as much as throwing money away.
How about putting your money where your mouth is and bet cointerra is a scam?

So you say buying a miner is throwing money away but also say cointerra is not a scam?

Then how can you win any bet if you are saying they are all a scam? 

[Puppet]

So you say buying a miner is throwing money away but also say cointerra is not a scam?

Indeed I am.

Then how can you win any bet if you are saying they are all a scam? 

I cant bet by ordering hardware, but I am willing to bet you or anyone else Cointerra will prove to be a real company with real products. Even if those products will end up losing money for most of its customers.

[DPoS]

So you say buying a miner is throwing money away but also say cointerra is not a scam?

Indeed I am.

Then how can you win any bet if you are saying they are all a scam? 

I cant bet by ordering hardware, but I am willing to bet you or anyone else Cointerra will prove to be a real company with real products. Even if those products will end up losing money for most of its customers.

We differ on the term scammer then

[Puppet]

We differ on the term scammer then

So you would define any company that would sell a product that works as advertised, is delivered on schedule, at a price agreed to by its customers as a scam, only because that product would not provide its customers with windfall profits?

Interesting. I guess that makes almost all companies a scam.

[crumbs]

We differ on the term scammer then

So you would define any company that would sell a product that works as advertised, is delivered on schedule, at a price agreed to by its customers as a scam, only because that product would not provide its customers with windfall profits?

Interesting. I guess that makes almost all companies a scam.

If you consider breaking even on your investment to be "windfall profits," there's no such thing as a scam

[GodHatesFigs]

I too was skeptical, until I read the Anandtech interview (those guys don't post information hastily) and saw the youtube video confirming the involvement of Ravi and others.

This one?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7246/the-rush-to-bitcoin-asics-ravi-iyengar-launches-cointerra

Yup! Recommended reading for all interested in the company.

[DPoS]

I too was skeptical, until I read the Anandtech interview (those guys don't post information hastily) and saw the youtube video confirming the involvement of Ravi and others.

This one?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7246/the-rush-to-bitcoin-asics-ravi-iyengar-launches-cointerra

Yup! Recommended reading for all interested in the company.

Amazing things are created in press releases and on whiteboards all the time

Top notch vaporware team here

[mokahless]

Thanks for posting the entire profile. His profile is not publicly viewable, unlike most. I simply assumed it was blank.

This is what I like to see. Due diligence and discussion both ways without trollers. A few more (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269093.msg3140206#msg3140206) fishy/sketchy/odd things to be taken care of and I may start looking at them more seriously. It took me several months before I found KNC to be trustworthy enough to take that risk.

That said, I will never make a serious investment in anything without fraud protection from escrow, CC or Paypal.