ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It

[jimmothy]

It means that the current operator will switch from tat to havelock. Nothing changes besides the guy running it.

isn't tat havelock?

No. Tat is a guy who ran a few passthroughs. Havelock is a team in panama running the exchange and tat was a customer/operator.

[minerpumpkin]

Hopefully FC gives us an update soon so I can test this out. Should be any day now as he said he would likely by the end of the month.

Second week of March. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg5404569#msg5404569

[bitcoin.newsfeed]

Second week of March. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg5404569#msg5404569

What? Announcement about next announcement? Or Tape-out, or delivery date, or what... ? so another 1month delay from "middle of February" to "middle of March"

[minerpumpkin]

Second week of March. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg5404569#msg5404569

What? Announcement about next announcement? Or Tape-out, or delivery date, or what... ? so another 1month delay from "middle of February" to "middle of March"

No, I believe it is the announcement of the final gen 3 specifications and order details, nothing about a tape out delay. That announcement has been expected to come until end February. So a delay until the second week of march is perfectly acceptable in my books.
If the recent increase in blocks being found is in fact due to gen 3 hardware, I believe the tape out has taken place about 2 weeks ago and they're now tinkering with sample chips. Optimizing during chinese daytime and letting the chips hash away at chinese night. But that's speculation.

[michaelGedi]

yeah it's probably fair to say a bunch of us just assumed an announcement after tapeout, but considering the value of friedcat's word tapeout will have occured mid feb and the next announcement sounds like it should be of more substance than just "tapeout completed"

[hdbuck]

yeah it's probably fair to say a bunch of us just assumed an announcement after tapeout, but considering the value of friedcat's word tapeout will have occured mid feb and the next announcement sounds like it should be of more substance than just "tapeout completed"

FC never mentioned any announcement after tape out:

Update

The updates of the chips can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=438359.0

...

The tapout date is pulled back to early Feburary due to further modifications for robustness and stability, but mass delivery date is still March.

So tapeout should be done by now. If any announcement to come, it would be regarding processing orders. He already gathered lots of pre-orders from the other thread, so he is just going to start taking payement for them... CCMFFFFFFF

edit: however, i wouldnt expect any announcement right now since he has a lot of business to do

[minerpumpkin]

Update

The updates of the chips can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=438359.0

...

The tapout date is pulled back to early Feburary due to further modifications for robustness and stability, but mass delivery date is still March.

So tapeout should be done by now. If any announcement to come, it would be regarding processing orders. He already gathered lots of pre-orders from the other thread, so he is just going to start taking payement for them... CCMFFFFFFF

edit: however, i wouldnt expect any announcement right now since he has a lot of business to do

Yes, BUT it was pulled back to mid-february (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg5025133#msg5025133). We should keep that in mind. Receiving samples that shortly after tapeout, mounting them, testing them, optimizing them is a lot for the time since the speculated tape out of mid february.

[aahzmundus]

I really hate the trend of information coming from shitty third party sources in the bitcoin world... Friedcat you used to post weekly updates when you managed MU! Why are we now hearing about stuff from a pumpkin...

[hdbuck]

Update

The updates of the chips can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=438359.0

...

The tapout date is pulled back to early Feburary due to further modifications for robustness and stability, but mass delivery date is still March.

So tapeout should be done by now. If any announcement to come, it would be regarding processing orders. He already gathered lots of pre-orders from the other thread, so he is just going to start taking payement for them... CCMFFFFFFF

edit: however, i wouldnt expect any announcement right now since he has a lot of business to do

Yes, BUT it was pulled back to mid-february (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg5025133#msg5025133). We should keep that in mind. Receiving samples that shortly after tapeout, mounting them, testing them, optimizing them is a lot for the time since the speculated tape out of mid february.

you just killed my vibe  

nahh.. still very excited and thx for that precision

I really hate the trend of information coming from shitty third party sources in the bitcoin world... Friedcat you used to post weekly updates when you managed MU! Why are we now hearing about stuff from a pumpkin...

still, Mr Pumpkin is just reffering to board member Jutharul, who kindly decided to keep us updated since FC obviously dont have the time for weekly updates anymore... but i hear your frustration

[michaelGedi]

FC never mentioned any announcement after tape out:

I never mentioned that he mentioned, I just mentioned an assumption that I vaguely held and assume that others did too... but well, that's the nature of assumptions

[bitcoin.newsfeed]

Second week of March.

... Tape-out, or delivery date, or what... ? ...

No, I believe ...

Yes, you believe ... its nice, but I would like to know from Friedcat, or from board, if the February tape-out was successful or we're still waiting for tape-out.

[rudi]

I really hate the trend of information coming from shitty third party sources in the bitcoin world... Friedcat you used to post weekly updates when you managed MU! Why are we now hearing about stuff from a pumpkin...

Weekly updates made sense when friedcat was paying off early investors: Reassure everyone he's not a con-man, etc.
Now that he has proven that he is trustworthy, he is focussing the company on the longer term. Weekly updates would do more harm than good.

Right now we actually get the best of both worlds: Infrequent and detailed updates by friedcat, and occasional, less detailed updates by a friendly pumpkin 

[minerpumpkin]

Well, for those who don't like to receive news or speculations from me, feel free to ignore me
I just thought, and still think, it is nice to forward information one managed to obtain. I know I'm no board member and I, as well, would love to receive weekly or at least more regularly occurring information from friedcat himself. But I fear that won't happen as of now. I'm not invested in AM since the IPO, but I have been around since before the peak at 4.0 BTC. Until now I was under the impression that most people appreciated me collecting questions for fc, helping to sort out the most burning ones a month ago.
And, hey... what's wrong about being a pumpkin that mines reliably on his patch?

[rudi]

Well, for those who don't like to receive news or speculations from me, feel free to ignore me
I just thought, and still think, it is nice to forward information one managed to obtain. I know I'm no board member and I, as well, would love to receive weekly or at least more regularly occurring information from friedcat himself. But I fear that won't happen as of now. I'm not invested in AM since the IPO, but I have been around since before the peak at 4.0 BTC. Until now I was under the impression that most people appreciated me collecting questions for fc, helping to sort out the most burning ones a month ago.
And, hey... what's wrong about being a pumpkin that mines reliably on his patch?

Any news we receive from you is much appreciated!

[Pompobit]

Well, for those who don't like to receive news or speculations from me, feel free to ignore me
I just thought, and still think, it is nice to forward information one managed to obtain. I know I'm no board member and I, as well, would love to receive weekly or at least more regularly occurring information from friedcat himself. But I fear that won't happen as of now. I'm not invested in AM since the IPO, but I have been around since before the peak at 4.0 BTC. Until now I was under the impression that most people appreciated me collecting questions for fc, helping to sort out the most burning ones a month ago.
And, hey... what's wrong about being a pumpkin that mines reliably on his patch?

I don't think he intended that your work is not appreciated, just that he would prefer to get more frequent updates than now.
Your list of questions usually are pretty good, dear balls-shaped pumpkin

[ThickAsThieves]

Well, for those who don't like to receive news or speculations from me, feel free to ignore me
I just thought, and still think, it is nice to forward information one managed to obtain. I know I'm no board member and I, as well, would love to receive weekly or at least more regularly occurring information from friedcat himself. But I fear that won't happen as of now. I'm not invested in AM since the IPO, but I have been around since before the peak at 4.0 BTC. Until now I was under the impression that most people appreciated me collecting questions for fc, helping to sort out the most burning ones a month ago.
And, hey... what's wrong about being a pumpkin that mines reliably on his patch?

No good deed goes unpunished, I attest!

[aahzmundus]

I guess I would just like to know... how... you are getting information.

[shawshankinmate37927]

I guess I would just like to know... how... you are getting information.

Seems that he is being proactive and asking Jutarul questions.  I appreciate what he's doing, but would also like to see a PR rep attending the board meetings and providing regular updates if friedcat is too busy to do so.  A PR rep could draft an update and forward it to him for approval before release if releasing sensitive information is a concern.

[Flashman]

Trolling for hardware news.

[chriswilmer]

Looks like we were just really lucky in the previous day. Otherwise we would probably have found another block by now if it was a hardware boost.

The alternative explanation is that there was a hardware boost, and now we're really unlucky!

That's OK, I'm not expecting any significant hashing until May.