Re: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It

I hope the facilties are being taken care of by a good security team. Not to be a tinfoilhatter but the more success you have, the more enemies you make. Certain people would be very happy now if the AsicMiner hashing farm were to *accidentally* blow up.

This is not a bad question. In my head the two ASICMINERs datacenters are patrolled by PLA super-troopers, but we really have no idea. Obviously the team behind ASICMINER is more than component, so I'm sure they have thought long and hard about security, and have solid ways of protecing wallets. If everything were operating from a typical office/ datacenter, a bunch of guys with guns could take it over and steal the coins the day before dividends are sent... it would be a not-too-small fortune. At this point I am so impressed with and confident in ASICMINER/Bitfountain/friedcat, I'm sure that they they have a setup/plan for the wallets so that even the Triads have no chance of getting the jump on them.

I nominate a query regarding physical security of the current mining datacenters for the next shareholder question poll.

I nominate a query about mining a small amount on p2pool in order to keep it finding at least a block a day. In fact, with p2pool, if they are able to mine more efficient than the average, they can potentially earn more than solo mining. However, pointing all the hash power at p2pool would make it too hard for anyone else to find shares. However, I am currently working on proxy software that can track shares and submit shares from multiple users to p2pool under the same address. The payouts can then be made to the individual users once the coins mature. Once this is ready, I'm hoping we can get a few pools set up and then p2pool should be able to remain useful for smaller miners at much higher total hashrates.