Re: CoinTerra announces its first ASIC - Hash-Rate greater than 500 GH/s
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You have arrived at a contradiction:
Both of these statements cannot be true; one excludes the other.
You need to check your premises because one of them is demonstrably false. Hint: it's not Number One.
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You have arrived at a contradiction:
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1. Cointerra is a month late with their tape-out
2. Cointerra has "the best team for designing Bitcoin mining hardware"
2. Cointerra has "the best team for designing Bitcoin mining hardware"
Both of these statements cannot be true; one excludes the other.
You need to check your premises because one of them is demonstrably false. Hint: it's not Number One.
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Those two statements are mutually exclusive. You can have the best design in the world, but not have to necessary funding to complete the tape-out.
Depends on how broadly or narrowly you interpret the phrase "best team for designing Bitcoin mining hardware."
Remember, we were talking about the "best team" not the "best design."
Broadly defined, the "best team" would include people responsible for financing the design process.
Narrowly defined, the "best team" would only refer to the chip architects.
The broader interpretation is more reasonable and thus superior, because it doesn't make sense to refer to three broke but brilliant RTL coders sitting in Mom's basement with no funding as the "best team."
Part of (actually the main constraint to, because SHA2 is trivial) being the "best team" is having people on the team who can get the NRE for tape-out and finance wafer production.