Quote from: philips on June 07, 2013, 11:09:55 AM

The promise is there:

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We are going to be releasing the specs and reference board designs, so someone will develop their own firmware.

Josh 06-06-2013 06:20 PM in Shoutbox.
But when, who knows.

I wrote another email to Josh as follows:

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Hi Josh,

Thank you for your answer.

John K. already expressed his good will to do the escrow.

Where I can't get you any hard number on how many chips we will buy, it's certain that the community is willing to invest a lot in this.

To get the most interesting deal possible and all of the potential/undecided costumers involved, you could give them some guarantees, that way they can put any doubts behind. Could we agree on random chip selection hash test attended by our representative before escrow release? Community based board development is also a very good motivation. Are you able to arrange sample chips (even with only some cores working) and chip documentation delivery to (2-3) community lead developers in let's say two weeks?

As the the number of chips could be pretty high, let me please know what proportions of grade A, B, C .. chips are most beneficial for your company.

Thank you Josh,
Kernel32
BitcoinTalk.org community member

Two weeks to get the samples to developers. Sounds fair?

Let's see what happens next. Stay tuned guys.