Quote from: galdur on April 10, 2016, 02:24:13 PM

Well, I guess all enterprise for profit is driven by greed so there´s nothing new in Bitcoin as that is concerned. Furthermore; the Chinese who dominate mining may not share our western noble ideals about Bitcoin. To them it´s probably just another milking cow.

Its really racist to say that because "westerners" are westerners they're implicitly honorable while because the Chinese are Chinese that they're implicitly evil. When you look at the facts its only been Chinese companies who have shown any sort of nobility by foregoing their own needs for the greater good.

Gen 1 Avalon, they could have put them all in a warehouse and walked away with about $6m of bitcoins but instead they chose to sell them for nothing.
Bitmain have always sold openly to the public with the latest technology even when there have been no competitors.

Meanwhile, almost every western company so far has only done things to maximise their profit.

BFL took preorders for profit while selfmining-ish.
KNC only used public sales to fund their own super farms.
Bitfury only used public sales to fund their own super farms.
CoinTerra, HashFast, Bitmine, BlackArrow, AMT etc etc.... all using public sales / preorders to fund their own farms / doing naughty things.

Also called it back in December:

Quote from: dogie on December 16, 2015, 06:52:33 PM

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BAMM - a WORKING 16 nm full custom ASIC chip @TSMC ! 5x more efficient than our 28nm. Sales to public start shorlty. Decentralize @Bitcoin !

https://twitter.com/bitfurygeorge/status/677132522074017794

I'll believe it when I see it, impossible to tell what is PR with this company.