Hello, this is our first PR post for Active Mining and we are really excited to be able to bring you valuable information directly from Active Mining Corporation!  I wanted supply our first update on Ken’s travels and meeting’s with the Engineering firm in Oregon.

First and foremost, the Avalon clones are operational (built using the 30 sample chips we received), but here is a synopsis as to how we arrived here; the default TP-Link router, we thought initially, was a bit finicky, so we considered replacing it with a Raspberry Pi we had on hand.  Ken and the Engineers worked with the prototypes over the two day duration, and eventually determined through rounds of tests that it was not the TP-Link, but yet it was the Controller Board which one of the Engineers discovered Friday.

After jumping the first few hoops in our testing phase, we feel very comfortable about our clones, but there is still more testing to be performed. Currently the 30 chip prototype is hashing at 6 GH/s per board before being pushed to the normal 8GH/s per board, so that all hardware parts can be tested extensively.

Ken did not return home empty handed, a prototype is on its way for him to bench with.  He is planning on working with and tweaking this prototype to have it functioning optimally in time for the 20,000 chips to arrive from Avalon.

Also, dividends on the shares that were tendered to AMC-TENDER are going to be paid to the tendering address, more on this to follow.

So in short, while we wait on the delayed Avalon chip delivery, we will take advantage of this to test with the TP-Link further, asses stability, and continue our operations.  Below are just a few pics that were taken of the Engineers working.

http://tinypic.com/r/b7aqv6/5

http://tinypic.com/r/v5izrq/5

http://tinypic.com/r/348hssk/5

http://youtu.be/k-T1xt75jBs

(Pictures aren't showing properly on the forum, will look into this later, for now follow the links.)