[ANNOUNCEMENT] 28nm Hercules ~500 GH/s ASIC NO PREORDERS!

[miaviator]

EDIT: It was pointed out that although the site may show Error the subscription still goes through.

[BTCOlympus]

http://imageshack.com/a/img191/7664/k3yw.png
It works

Website says Error, but sends you an email anyway, to get you on the mailing list.  That appears to be all the info we have presently.

It is working even when it errors. Check email.

[miaviator]

Lol!  Can I get that email address?

I'll confirm it works even if it errors and edit my last post.

[aerobatic]

Any relation to the ill fated Xcrowd Olympus?

[af_newbie]

price ? shipping time ?

more info and video of working unit ?

it looks interesting http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=301725126
but we need more info .

coming soon it's not enough

anyway , count me in for one

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=301725126&authType=name&authToken=GVTO&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=297061559&authType=name&authToken=MxT5&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=300018362&authType=name&authToken=vlu7&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name

UK money, US marketing, Eastern European development

Let's see what they will ship...  Strange that they did not publish any technical info.  
Hope they did not just hack linkedin accounts.

[aerobatic]

price ? shipping time ?

more info and video of working unit ?

it looks interesting http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=301725126
but we need more info .

coming soon it's not enough

anyway , count me in for one

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=301725126&authType=name&authToken=GVTO&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=297061559&authType=name&authToken=MxT5&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=300018362&authType=name&authToken=vlu7&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name

UK money, US marketing, Eastern European development

Let's see what they will ship...  Strange that they did not publish any technical info.  
Hope they did not just hack linkedin accounts.

good detective work... an odd mix of people.. but hopefully in a few days we'll see how it pans out.  hope its not another xcrowd.

You think this was uk money?  its possible...  perhaps middle eastern money.

they say somewhere between $1.9m invested and $2.5m invested, which seems cheap to get a 28nm asic for "only" $2.5m (the NREs, expedite fees, wafer production and system production costs are about double that in total)...  i suspect it costs a lot more to get a 28nm asic made, especially a high performance one (they said 550 GH/s) that would need high performance packaging and cooling as it needs to run very hot.   They also said it was 0.8 W/GH, which would mean the chip is nudging past the 400 watts per package that seems extremely hard to cool something that hot... only liquid cooling could do it, .. just.   unless of course its not one asic at 550 GH/s, and is a collection of slower asics that together are 550 GH/s

[BTCOlympus]

price ? shipping time ?

more info and video of working unit ?

it looks interesting http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=301725126
but we need more info .

coming soon it's not enough

anyway , count me in for one

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=301725126&authType=name&authToken=GVTO&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=297061559&authType=name&authToken=MxT5&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=300018362&authType=name&authToken=vlu7&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name

UK money, US marketing, Eastern European development

Let's see what they will ship...  Strange that they did not publish any technical info. 
Hope they did not just hack linkedin accounts.

good detective work... an odd mix of people.. but hopefully in a few days we'll see how it pans out.  hope its not another xcrowd.

You think this was uk money?  its possible...  perhaps middle eastern money.

they say somewhere between $1.9m invested and $2.5m invested, which seems cheap to get a 28nm asic for "only" $2.5m (the NREs, expedite fees, wafer production and system production costs are about double that in total)...  i suspect it costs a lot more to get a 28nm asic made, especially a high performance one (they said 550 GH/s) that would need high performance packaging and cooling as it needs to run very hot.   They also said it was 0.8 W/GH, which would mean the chip is nudging past the 400 watts per package that seems extremely hard to cool something that hot... only liquid cooling could do it, .. just.   unless of course its not one asic at 550 GH/s, and is a collection of slower asics that together are 550 GH/s

BTC Olympus is a company started in the UK , our initial investment being a capital injection of $ 2.5 million $ 1.5 million in loans from financial institutions. 

Hi!
Our initial investment, that means in July, was 4 mil $. As for the chips, we use liquid cooling and we are almost ready to deliver the system.
More info coming soon

Have a great day!

[rammy2k2]

can i come visit you ? local pick up ? i pay with BTC

[BTCOlympus]

can i come visit you ? local pick up ? i pay with BTC

Of course, but our assembly facility is near Cairo, Egypt. If you are from Uk, you have daily flights to here.

[r3animation]

Can you post a picture or better yet, a video of the working miner?

[Anddos]

What exactly are those 2 screenshot for below the logo,what are you trying to say to me?

[onscreen]

Sorry but this looks incredibly scammy.

Offer no pre-orders so that they can create a rush of orders who pay 90% on paypal (covered) and 10% BTC. Then dissapear and run away with the BTC.

It just makes no sense not to offer pre-orders from a business point of view.

[BTCOlympus]

What exactly are those 2 screenshot for below the logo,what are you trying to say to me?

Teasing pictures of the finished product.
We are working at the final desing, this is only a glance 

[miter_myles]

Hercules! Hercules!

[samson20min]

Based on what i read on linkedin (they say Poseidon is equipped with 6 Hercules chips and i don belive that bullshit) and again, i dont belive they will ship this month!
But, if they deliver on Jan. 2014 with price next to KnC Neptune i can se my profit like this:

http://s27.postimg.org/allxr9dcj/Speculating.jpg

[RenHoek]

hmm... very suspect all this!


Stephen Conor Giles ‏@StephenCGiles  19 Nov  ON TWITTER:
3.3 Th/s Bitcoin Miner coming soon! Stay tune: http://www.btcolympus.com

[samson20min]

hmm... very suspect all this!


Stephen Conor Giles ‏@StephenCGiles  19 Nov  ON TWITTER:
3.3 Th/s Bitcoin Miner coming soon! Stay tune: http://www.btcolympus.com

Yeah. And on linkedin is only 3Th/s. Are they scaling down cause they realise its imposible to deliver that much hashing power?
I'll ask on support mail and post the answer here.

[RenHoek]

again time to bring this  :

[Xian01]

For what it's worth, I've asked to receive a review unit that I would pay for in full upon delivery, and report back to the community as to the legitimacy of this product.

In theory, they are OK with the request and have passed it on to the rest of the team for approval.

Will keep ya'll posted.

[miter_myles]

lol - in that case put me down for a review unit too!