Re: CoinTerra announces its first ASIC - Hash-Rate greater than 500 GH/s
Anyone had any luck recently with contacting Cointerra by email/forum/PM/telephone? I've made several attempts and had no luck. It also appears they are moderating their forum posts on http://forum.cointerra.com/ which is totally fine by me but at least dedicate a person to moderate them. It's not like they are dealing with thousands of posts. Being legit in my book means hiring some extra staff to respond to legitimate customer requests during normal working hours.
they have ignored several emails from me for two weeks now. prior to my purchase they answered within an hour on several occasions.
Yea, don't know why they don't hire some extra minions
The MINION might beat Cointerra to market.
Since Blackarrow haven't taped out the Minion asic yet, that seems a little unlikely. they've got $5m+ to raise from pre-sales before they can go into production. And they'd need to pay a lot more in expedite fees to get it in feb versus march.
-- Jez
They haven't announced it yet, there is a difference. Not everyone feels the need to announce their every breath and toilet break to serve as some kind of "evidence" that their project is on track. Cointerra making the announcement means little, they've had no opportunity so far to demonstrate that anything they've promised is true.
I have this sneaking suspicion that both Cointerra and Hashfast are going to miss their December delivery targets, just a hunch. Too much talk, too much glossy showroom stuff. Will it turn in to ASIC gen I part 2?
Will BlackArrow pip them at the post in mid-February, while the guys who paid for expensive front-page advertisements on shiny paper flounder around with their angry over-bought customers shrieking and wailing? Maybe, but the delivery window is narrowing, and they're all 3 looking like converging on the same timeframe. Tortoise (Avalon) won the last race, the hare (BFL) is still attempting to deliver it's overambitious promises.
blackarrow have now confirmed that they havnt taped out. no surprise there. as i said, when someone tapes out, they jump up and down and shout it from the rooftops.
http://ecointalk.net/topic/249-minion-asic-tapeout/