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Re: CoinTerra announces its first ASIC - Hash-Rate greater than 500 GH/s
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Bitcoinorama
on 08/08/2013, 22:26:15 UTC
I'm suspicious of Cointerra. They are entering a market of consumers who have been fucked and misled by every ASIC mining company. Why are they any different than anyone else? All these companies have proven to be motivated by the dream of printing money, just as much as their consumers are motivated to throw money at them to finance their dreams, and then never get their product. So, big deal, Cointerra has access to better technology, does this mean we should automatically assume they will run a more honest business? You can talk all you want about business models that favor the consumer, while you plan on taking pre-orders, and plan on delivering late because you do what every other mining company has done: massive delays without any real excuse, misleading consumers, etc. At what point should we assume you are anymore honest than they were?

Another concern is the fact that you have only announced one product, over .5 TH. How is that good for the market? It will most probably be too expensive for entry level miners. See, that is proof that you don't care about what will make the real Bitcoin market strong, and that is the small people.

I hope I'm wrong.

I've been in talks with Ravi and his team since the San Jose conference. When considering an investment, probing the integrity of the people involved is an important part of my investigation - long lasting business success in a non-protected market just doesn't grow on dishonest soil.

All my findings have confirmed my initial impression that this is a group of ethical and extremely skilled people that have the vision to help shape a completely new industry - that of crypto currency transaction clearing. This idea is very exciting to me, which is why I decided to become an angel investor.     

Tuur Demeester

Hi Tuur, when you state 'completely new industry' of crypto currency transaction clearing, do you just mean ASIC mining devices, or something more exotic w.r.t. purchasing and mainstream accepence?