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.
China does not allow people to owns a gun, mate you hypothesis only working on USA..of course there are still a possibility to getting a gun, but in fact, I think Friedcat does very well on security, so far, I did not see anyone knows who is friedcat ....I also think that people will buy a gun to do a robing may not understand what is bitcoin...
It doesn't matter. Someone with enough money and interest can hire ten thugs and one bitcoin-savvy IT guy and storm the datacenters. They don't even have to rob the bitcoins. Destroying future AM ability to remain a significant player is more than enough to disrupt the market. I'm 100% sure that Friedcat and co. have thought about the possibilty of sabotage and other unfair corporate practices.
Perhaps, because the very sensitive nature of this issue, actual security measures are best kept hidden from the public. Still, some reassurance on the matter surely can't hurt
