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Claiming to be China’s largest holder of bitcoin, angel investor Li Xiao Lai has funded a new Beijing-based currency mining operation, Sfards Technology. The company is the result of a merger between Gridseed and WiiBox. Additional funding was provided by venture capital firm Matrix Partners China. The seed capital for the new endeavor was not disclosed in a press release.
Lai will lead the management team for the new operation which plans to launch “next-stage” ASIC technology, promising more power and efficiency.
“We are also expanding the capabilities of the WiiBox: an open-source mining hardware control system,” the company said in the release. “The platform will now also include an innovative hash rate rental feature, granting users the ability to seamlessly rent their equipment and use bought hashing power to mine a multitude of coins with complete autonomy.”
Sfards also states that it intends to offer cloud mining services in the future.
http://www.sfards.com/
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October 18, 2014, 09:54:52 AM |
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interesting, now wait till they release their product, hope it's not pre order?
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October 18, 2014, 10:35:47 AM |
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![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) We are currently researching structural design, heat generation solutions... Yeah, we basically need more heat from mining equipment... ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) p.s. funny font they use on their website.
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October 18, 2014, 11:01:24 AM |
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well, they have a 5$ website so next step is to ask money for pre-orders, thats how things works for years, right ?
PS : i hope im wrong PS 2 : i doubt
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October 18, 2014, 12:28:43 PM |
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well, they have a 5$ website so next step is to ask money for pre-orders, thats how things works for years, right ?
PS : i hope im wrong PS 2 : i doubt
I'll give them a message and feel them out.
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October 18, 2014, 01:38:51 PM |
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I'll give them a message and feel them out.
pervert...
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October 18, 2014, 04:09:21 PM |
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I'll give them a message and feel them out.
pervert... Umm, actually SFARDS felt us out first with their press release, thus dogie's comment is akin to a reach-around during the first dance. Yes my life is better left to chance I could have missed the pain but I'd have had to miss the dance
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October 18, 2014, 04:27:38 PM |
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Haidian District, Beijing, ChinaOutsourcing/Offshoring Current Sfards Technology Ltd Previous Teleperformance, Mercedes-Benz UK Ltd Education Peking University
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October 18, 2014, 04:46:00 PM |
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Looks like a place to get someone to set up industrial farm. I didn't see any new products. On http://www.sfards.com/product#part2 the close up of some miners looked like back of S3's to me(I could be wrong).
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October 18, 2014, 05:11:57 PM |
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Looks like a place to get someone to set up industrial farm. I didn't see any new products. On http://www.sfards.com/product#part2 the close up of some miners looked like back of S3's to me(I could be wrong). ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfards.com%2Fstatic%2Fassets%2Fimg%2Ff_1.png&t=665&c=MsraPQS4VhOkFQ) The above image depicted on their site representing their own can be viewed here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=738232.0 (OP) ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diginforce.com%2Fimages%2Ffarm%2F10.jpg&t=665&c=tx8cjl2xDD6ITw) So, one can easily conclude that both entities are one and the same, or SFARDS is using an image sans permission.
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October 18, 2014, 05:47:40 PM |
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Looks like a place to get someone to set up industrial farm. I didn't see any new products. On http://www.sfards.com/product#part2 the close up of some miners looked like back of S3's to me(I could be wrong). GridSeed G-Blade http://gridseed.com/en/product/blade_en.html( Antminer S3 is non-square, taller ) As for the picture: 国内另一家矿业巨头格锐思捷GridSeed拥有三代矿场机房建设和运维迭代经验,近期与WiiBox合作推出了
From [...] the merging of two industry leaders Gridseed and WiiBox, comes SFARDS Not so much a 'new player'.
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October 18, 2014, 06:35:20 PM |
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From [...] the merging of two industry leaders Gridseed and WiiBox, comes SFARDS Not so much a 'new player'. So we know their stuff is going to be expensive. I was not a fan of the first Wiibox controller either.
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October 19, 2014, 03:04:08 AM |
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What a horrible name. Makes me think of smelly farts.
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October 19, 2014, 03:52:23 AM |
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What a horrible name. Makes me think of smelly farts.
They put as much thought in their name as they did in opting to not tick the appropriate permalink box in their Wordpress theme. At least they're consistent, having the ugly name go hand-and-hand with their sites ugly URLs.
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October 19, 2014, 03:54:07 PM |
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Marked difference in scammer pages and legit ones. The legit ones show their hardware and photos of their stuff....the scammers use stock photography, ironically one vendor used stock photos with someone I know in it. Got some serious lulz out of that. But that should be a red flag as they are unethically (not necessarily illegally) misrepresenting themselves as something more than what they are.
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October 19, 2014, 04:20:25 PM |
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be VERY VERY careful downloading from httx://wiibox.ne t/ (deliberately screwed up URL to prevent the stupid thing from happening) This is linked on the sfards site as a tool for monitoring miners.....by itself a potential security hazard. It is obvious they are targeting bigger miners operations....IF it is malware, then it will pretty much be a red flag to avoid them at all costs.
They have an app on there. I am running some forensic tests on there to see how it works. They have done nothing to show they are legit here. But that does not mean they are not. But it would be stupid for them not to at least try to reach out.
Also Wii is a registered trademark of Nintendo.....
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October 19, 2014, 04:28:03 PM |
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Is this Josh's new alias? ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fs9.postimg.org%2F4b8b9dz4f%2F1474611_10200703829790849_274636887_n_jpg_oh_9f5.jpg&t=665&c=3rM-fDjc5XoLng) According to his Facebook page (not linked), Jack exited the closet in 2010. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackniederer![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.licdn.com%2Fmedia%2Fp%2F3%2F005%2F058%2F0ea%2F253f7c7.jpg&t=665&c=awsmUxbKX_kZmg) Jack Niederer 孟巍
International Project Development Manager at Sfards Technology
Haidian District, Beijing, ChinaOutsourcing/Offshoring Current Sfards Technology Ltd Previous Teleperformance, Mercedes-Benz UK Ltd Education Peking University PS sorry, that was just tooooo easy... ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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October 19, 2014, 04:33:49 PM |
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So the verdict? Legit? or scam? Seems off. But if they merged with another company with a legit rep, then it could be the real deal.
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October 19, 2014, 05:27:07 PM |
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I'm still on the fence, and as they are not selling anything at this point I guess they have some time to legitimize themselves.
Would be interested to hear from SFARDS, Gridseed and WiiBox....
The Gridseed site indicates nothing about them being acquired.
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October 19, 2014, 05:43:23 PM |
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I'm still on the fence, and as they are not selling anything at this point I guess they have some time to legitimize themselves.
Would be interested to hear from SFARDS, Gridseed and WiiBox....
The Gridseed site indicates nothing about them being acquired.
Well here is the red flag. Downloads. They have downloads to monitor gridseed devices. They also claim "open source" but there is no source code to be found. So they need to post up the source and get their ducks in a row. Makes sense if they are looking to establish legitimacy. But this is a poor start.
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