Alpha Technology Litecoin (Scrypt) ASIC Miner Order Batch 1 Now!

[blopblop]

Thank you for the information.

I think one of your first priorities right now should be to improve communitation and show that you are not scamming people.
From my point of view answering the following questions would really help, among a lot more questions which people has asked here before:

1. Updated Proof of work of the asic scrypts. Photos, videos, real working scrypts in pools, true tests which people can easily verify.
2. Photos and videos of the company, photos of all employeers, more detailed personal information of employers and other companies involved in the project. If you look at Space X company, they (Elong Musk) have a really nice way of communicating with people with a lot of interviews and videos online.
3. Adding a forum in your site will help to ask a lot of questions.


Some questions regarding the ASIC scrypts:
1. Since they will be connected to your Alpha Server, will they allow to solo minning?
2. Would we able to update the software (rom, firmware) inside those scrypt ASICs to make it compatible and mine coins with new modified versions of scrypt algorithm?
3. It will be really nice if we could remotely test our ASICs before they are sent. Even if you test them in your own enviroment, it will be a really good way of saving a lot of time and money for us and for you if some problem is spotted before the final send.

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[ymer]

Hey all, latest news:

Progress by our engineering partners has been picking up fast and a quick update for the week's end is as follows:

Engineering Update

-       ASIC design has been more optimized and frozen.

-       ASIC Synthesis & Physical design is going on. Tape out target end of march.

-       Provision for MBIST and boundary scan for DFT has been done.

-       Architecture of Mining Board design has been finalized and design has been started.

-       Sitara ARM AM335x Processor from TI for Host Board has been finalized and design has been initiated.

-       Provision of power consumption & temperature on the LCD display has been incorporated.

Mechanical Update

-       Eliminated switch from the enclosure. All the input and set up will be done through web pages just like a router.

-       Enclosure material will be of Aluminium.

-       Universal power supply has been identified for 5mh design.

-       5Mh box will be 1u but much smaller in size ( easy for transportation, likely half of 19” rack).

-       Power figures as of now are looking good

o    5Mh<=70 watts

o    25Mh<=300 watts

I really find this information very hard to believe

[st4nl3y]

1. Updated Proof of work of the asic scrypts. Photos, videos, real working scrypts in pools, true tests which people can easily verify.

I am looking forward to alpha technology answering ^this^ question...

[Nordstern]

Some questions regarding the ASIC scrypts:
1. Since they will be connected to your Alpha Server, will they allow to solo minning? ...

What? Connected to Alpha server, like a pool?
Imagine the Viper is hashing with 100 MHash internally @ 300 W, Alpha Server is telling me that i only hash with 25 MHash. Nice Profit for them... on my power cost! This is an absolute NO-GO! Where did you read this?
Think about the Alpha server is down or they broke! the investment made is gone!

Why not make a connection to cgminer like always, or as an option everyone can choose...

[markm]

There was some proposed scrypt miner thingie that did propose to control which coins you could mine somehow. Dunno if it was this one though.

-MarkM-

[goldbars]

This message is to all batch 1 customers, regarding you having preference in future releases. This will indeed be the case, you will all be given priority in subsequent batches and our future products. It is because of you that this has been made possible so thank you from everyone at Alpha Technology.

Regards,

Fiaz.

good news and thank you as I have two orders with you guys

[crazyearner]

3 weeks on and no response to any email. Phone support no response When are you going to respond alpha as I have asked several times regarding units investments group activities meeting in person and others stuff and you are yet to respond to any of my questions. Guess you must be that business to ignore an investment opportunity to bring more people into buying equipment and getting things running quicker.

Hey I can't really answer your questions without knowing them. Your welcome to PM me.

Fiaz.

Well if you have been reading emails I sent over then you would be answering all my questions.

Questions that I asked in a number of email. Hope you can answer these.

• 1 Is it possible to come down to company location and see progress of units and a working prototype in working order.

• 2 Are you going to be doing any video progress of units showing details and outlines of work in progress and explain in detail of whats going on how things are working and what you want to do in the future as a business and what you want to provided the community for crypto currencies.

• 3 Would it be possible to pay on collection for units via pre ordering and say paying a holding fee for collection in person like 1% to 2% of unit and pay rest on collection..

• 4 What is the expected release date for units. As many people no longer do pre orders unless their within a matter of days or 1 to 2 weeks at most. This causes a lot of loss on earnings putting money in and getting no return. Is their going to be a compensation plan in place for adding extra hash to make up the loss like other company's have done. Or to provide refunds based on market price.

• 5 Are you dependent on pre-order funds coming in for your hardware to be manufactured and to be brought to market? Or do you have enough funds to make the hardware and then start selling?
  
  5a Are you looking for investors to invest within your company? If so then what agreements and contracts do you have in place to be legally binding?

• 6 What relations did you serve back in 2013 with CHESHIRE TECHNOLOGY LTD as this company is now dissolved and yourself's have had a business name change into Alpha, what was the reasons behind this?

• 7 With regards to Terms of service and Point of sale. What guarantee do we have as a customer besides the 6 month guarantee after shipping. This is in terms of while waiting. If expected date has passed what refund polices do you have in place and what compensation will be given if any due to loss of keeping coin and and buying later at better market rates.

• 8 With regards to payment options. I see you accept Paypal and Bank transfer. Do you provide refunds if for say your target of release has passed and you are behind on release date would we as a customer get a refund.

Also regarding hardware and Paypal are you aware that if you are selling bitcoin mining machines or other related products to do with crypto currencies. Per their current Acceptable Use Policy for Money Service Businesses, PayPal may not be used to operate, business including the sale of bitcoins, bitcoin mining units, and other related bitcoin or related crypto products.

I had asked Paypal a while back selling computer equipment and if found to be related to crypto currencies it is against their TOS and POS. How are you different in accepting Paypal for payments do you have some sort of agreement in place with Paypal that is allowed to actually accept payments?

Now for some fun stuff.

• Have you considered setting up a pool for people to mine on?
• Have you considered to have an exchange platform for different crypto currencies?
• Have you considered having a renting service to rent hash power like http://www.cex.io and have much better rates.
• Do you plan on having an upgrade service for hardware to be upgraded with extra components like a cad system to slot extra units in or expatiation slots etc?

Thanks for taking the time in reading and hopefully answering my questions as I also know a lot of others are more than likely asking half of these questions but yet to post or are still unanswered..

[seleme]

3 weeks on and no response to any email. Phone support no response When are you going to respond alpha as I have asked several times regarding units investments group activities meeting in person and others stuff and you are yet to respond to any of my questions. Guess you must be that business to ignore an investment opportunity to bring more people into buying equipment and getting things running quicker.

Hey I can't really answer your questions without knowing them. Your welcome to PM me.

Fiaz.

http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/youre_your.htm

Your over you are is common grammar mistake in UK.

[nightengale]

This message is to all batch 1 customers, regarding you having preference in future releases. This will indeed be the case, you will all be given priority in subsequent batches and our future products. It is because of you that this has been made possible so thank you from everyone at Alpha Technology.

Regards,

Fiaz.

This is awesome to hear. Thank-you for responding to my inquiry on this.

[ymer]

Hey I can't really answer your questions without knowing them. Your welcome to PM me.

Fiaz.

Well if you have been reading emails I sent over then you would be answering all my questions.

Questions that I asked in a number of email. Hope you can answer these.

• 1 Is it possible to come down to company location and see progress of units and a working prototype in working order.

• 2 Are you going to be doing any video progress of units showing details and outlines of work in progress and explain in detail of whats going on how things are working and what you want to do in the future as a business and what you want to provided the community for crypto currencies.

• 3 Would it be possible to pay on collection for units via pre ordering and say paying a holding fee for collection in person like 1% to 2% of unit and pay rest on collection..

• 4 What is the expected release date for units. As many people no longer do pre orders unless their within a matter of days or 1 to 2 weeks at most. This causes a lot of loss on earnings putting money in and getting no return. Is their going to be a compensation plan in place for adding extra hash to make up the loss like other company's have done. Or to provide refunds based on market price.

• 5 Are you dependent on pre-order funds coming in for your hardware to be manufactured and to be brought to market? Or do you have enough funds to make the hardware and then start selling?
  
  5a Are you looking for investors to invest within your company? If so then what agreements and contracts do you have in place to be legally binding?

• 6 What relations did you serve back in 2013 with CHESHIRE TECHNOLOGY LTD as this company is now dissolved and yourself's have had a business name change into Alpha, what was the reasons behind this?

• 7 With regards to Terms of service and Point of sale. What guarantee do we have as a customer besides the 6 month guarantee after shipping. This is in terms of while waiting. If expected date has passed what refund polices do you have in place and what compensation will be given if any due to loss of keeping coin and and buying later at better market rates.

• 8 With regards to payment options. I see you accept Paypal and Bank transfer. Do you provide refunds if for say your target of release has passed and you are behind on release date would we as a customer get a refund.

Also regarding hardware and Paypal are you aware that if you are selling bitcoin mining machines or other related products to do with crypto currencies. Per their current Acceptable Use Policy for Money Service Businesses, PayPal may not be used to operate, business including the sale of bitcoins, bitcoin mining units, and other related bitcoin or related crypto products.

I had asked Paypal a while back selling computer equipment and if found to be related to crypto currencies it is against their TOS and POS. How are you different in accepting Paypal for payments do you have some sort of agreement in place with Paypal that is allowed to actually accept payments?

Now for some fun stuff.

• Have you considered setting up a pool for people to mine on?
• Have you considered to have an exchange platform for different crypto currencies?
• Have you considered having a renting service to rent hash power like http://www.cex.io and have much better rates.
• Do you plan on having an upgrade service for hardware to be upgraded with extra components like a cad system to slot extra units in or expatiation slots etc?

Thanks for taking the time in reading and hopefully answering my questions as I also know a lot of others are more than likely asking half of these questions but yet to post or are still unanswered..

We have never mentioned an ''alpha server'' and have no plans for anything similar to this.

Regards,

Fiaz.

Are you going to respond to crazyearner or now that he gave you the questions are you going to ignore him like the emails?

[wilson1973]

We have never mentioned an ''alpha server'' and have no plans for anything similar to this.

Regards,

Fiaz.

It was the first time I had heard that rubbish too, glad you nipped this in the bud before it ran out of control.

[Kestrel71]

Your over you are is common grammar mistake in UK.

Sorry, but it is no mistake and it is you who needs to correct his grammar.  He said "Hey I can't really answer your questions" which is correct, he is not saying "You're" or "you" as that would not make any sense at all.  In this instance he used to correct wording.

I am also looking forward to fiaz answering a few of these questions put forth by crazyearner.  Especially the one mentioning visiting the premises of your business.

[anderl]

What I find odd is their ability to achieve the density to put 5x the density of chips into a 1U server.  I can't imaging the temperature problems at that density and the ability to dissipate heat.  I think they will have a high failure rate.

Hey there, we have optimized our ASIC RTL design in such a way that we will be able to achieve higher performance with a very low number of chips, thus the density of chips per machine will be significantly reduced.
Additionally we have optimized the power consumption extensively. The chip packaging has also been designed in such a way that thermal dissipation will be spread over a larger area, besides that we also plan to have heat sinks with sufficient fins so that a larger surface area is created so as to dissipate heat more efficiently.

Fiaz.

It seems that if you reduced the size of the design on a 25Mhs unit so much then what is the 5Mhs unit still a 1U unit.  It seems you should be able to reduce the size of the 5MHs unit as well.  Otherwise it seems a waste of space (1U).  Will you provide the ability to expand the 5MHs units by adding more cards to it?

Also a lot of your specifications are very linear.  You are just increasing the 25Mhs unit by a multiple of 5 over the 5Mhs unit.  Do you have more realistic metrics?

What is your expected failure rate on the 28nm production.  Leaping straight into 28nm without proving your design at 65nm seems like a huge risk and if it is not vetting I'm expecting that if you have high failure rates that it will delay shipping.  What is your warranty period and will it compensate for manufacturing defects?  What is the expected turnaround time for RMAing defects.  As LTC difficulty rises due to the deployment of these units will you compensate buyers for the downtime due to these RMAs?

[kab]

Your over you are is common grammar mistake in UK.

Sorry, but it is no mistake and it is you who needs to correct his grammar.  He said "Hey I can't really answer your questions" which is correct, he is not saying "You're" or "you" as that would not make any sense at all.  In this instance he used to correct wording.

I am also looking forward to fiaz answering a few of these questions put forth by crazyearner.  Especially the one mentioning visiting the premises of your business.

Read again...

Hey I can't really answer your questions without knowing them. Your welcome to PM me.

Fiaz.

[st4nl3y]

you, your, you're ..whatever. what difference does it make if there's no answer..

[wilson1973]

you, your, you're ..whatever. what difference does it make if there's no answer..

Couldn't agree more, people being pedantic over trivial matters. Lets keep this on the subject of asic scrypt miners, not the do's and don'ts of the english language.

[funktrust]

I'm very optimistic and liking how this is going so far, I'm just glad I pre-ordered and not listened to the trolls. The Scrypt market is going to be big in 2014-2015 and getting first dips on ASIC hardware will be a massive advantage.

[vvhiteknight]

I'm very optimistic and liking how this is going so far, I'm just glad I pre-ordered and not listened to the trolls. The Scrypt market is going to be big in 2014-2015 and getting first dips on ASIC hardware will be a massive advantage.

Another fool easily parted with his money.

[funktrust]

I'm very optimistic and liking how this is going so far, I'm just glad I pre-ordered and not listened to the trolls. The Scrypt market is going to be big in 2014-2015 and getting first dips on ASIC hardware will be a massive advantage.

Another fool easily parted with his money.

Judging by your previous hateful and rude comments on this board, you're kind of a dick. Why so much hate?

[Dabs]

I rolled the dice. The bet is, will we win or lose? Or something in between? Only time will tell.