Quote from: QuintLeo on April 11, 2018, 09:04:38 PM

Quote from: shellyfinest on April 11, 2018, 02:12:39 PM

Noticed in Jimmy Song's recent article that he links to Orion Miner when talking about startups set to compete with Bitmain ... almost to the end of the article :

...First, there is a lot of competition coming. There are no less than 4 startups that I know of that are entering the mining space attempting to dethrone Bitmain. There are also larger companies like Samsung, Intel and Nvidia that are looking into getting into this very lucrative industry....

https://medium.com/@jimmysong/mining-centralization-scenarios-b74102adbd36

Not sure if he's vetted them or what, but interesting he links to Orion and Halong as valid up an comers to compete for market share soon ....

Interesting that he claims 4 but only provides links to 3 (there's a link to someone called "oasis mining" in there as well).

I also don't buy the "larger companies" claims - Samsung has no reports of being interested in making miners, all of the reports to date appear to be about their CONTRACT FOUNDRY work to make chips for EBang, Nvidia has not shown any interest in getting into cryptocurrency at all and has stated multiple times they don't like their GPUs being used for mining, Intel has had a few vague reports of some sort of interest but ZERO confirmed interest.

Sounds like yet another "I want to sound important by repeating vague claims I've not bothered actually checking into" type "journalist".

Jimmy happens to be pretty well respected and know wtf he's talking about. I trust what he says.