Quote from: 2112 on May 12, 2018, 07:41:44 PM

Quote from: GPUHoarder on May 12, 2018, 06:51:55 PM

Whats wrong with 900W to 1kw per hour exactly? Other than being pedantic I think that saying consumption is 0.9-1 KWH is understood.

Your teacher should have explained to you what is the difference between kW/h and kWh.

But on a marketing site dedicated for miners, that to quote earlier post in this thread:

Quote from: nsummy on May 11, 2018, 03:46:18 AM

The fact is that 95% of miners out there have a very rudimentary understanding of computers, algorithms, and programming.

I would add that they also have rudimentary understanding of literacy and numeracy.

This is what makes reading mining forums such a great fun. Are people really that stupid or are they just pretending? How to they are going to bamboozle people with bullshit calculations involving non-existing units of measure like kelvin-watt-henry?

On this occasion I'd like to post a good advice that reeses had given about ~~a year~~ six years ago:

Quote from: reeses on October 05, 2012, 05:21:47 AM

I'd recommend reading "The Big Con" for some of the history, and watching Confidence and The Sting as examples of the "classic" con games.

I read that book, and although it was written between the world wars, it is very pertaining to ~~Bitcoin~~ all cryptocurrecies. Here's a short excerpt:

Locating and investigating a well-to-do victim. (Putting the mark up.)
Gaining the victims confidence. (Playing the con for him.)
Steering him to meet the insideman. (Roping the mark.)
Permitting the insideman to show him how he can make a large amount of money dishonestly. (Telling him the tale.)
Allowing the victim to make a substantial profit. (Giving him the convincer.)
Determining exactly how much he will invest. (Giving him the breakdown.)
Sending him home for his amount of money. (Putting him on the send.)
Playing him against a big store and fleecing him. (Taking off the touch.)
Getting him out of the way as quietly as possible. (Blowing him off.)
Forestalling action by the law. (Putting in the fix.)

Really not meaning to offend anyone, this has been a very interesting and entertaining thread, even inspiring all around in a way that leads to substantially more decentralization. However, as an energy industry professional I must say that a kw/h and a kWh is substantially exactly the same thing. Not sure what you guys are onto here... a kW is a unit of energy, it is a 1,000 Watts. Watts are convertible to Joules or Therms or any other unit of energy. And a kW/h is the number of kiloWatts consumed in an hour, as is a kWh, the number of kiloWatts consumed in an hour. a kW is a measurement of power, and a kWh is a volumetric measurement of energy. you can use 100kW in one hour is 100kWh or you can use 50kW for 30 minutes and 150kW for 30 minutes and it will also be 100kWh.

How is the original post confusing or misleading again? No, the OP hasn't offered "evidence" of his experimentation other than several photos and videos, but a lot of people that seem to know the art well are discussing the possibilities in a meaningful way, which makes the claims relatively speaking, plausible. And considering how FPGA's have been used for ages to mine similar algorithms, and considering how the FPGA's currently available OTS are dramatically larger and more powerful than those original silicon used to mine BTC... it all makes perfect sense.

Why not just wait until May 30th or whatever and let him release his work to the various people that are willing to try it out and have hardware? And if none of it materializes, the difference between a kW/h and a kWh is totally irrelevant. And if it does, that is really neat too.

Just saying... of course seeing is believing, but not really any reason not too here. If Bittware or anyone else is trying to just unload a bunch of hardware, do they really need to do it in a bitcoin talk forum? I think there is more going on out in the world than what people are making out here. Healthy skepticism sure... but look at the size of this thread! People realize this is a really important topic, there is a reason for it. Centralization of hashing power and ASIC's in general are beginning to threaten the security of crypto software... the very thing it was meant to solve. Not good...