Quote from: cryptaioracle on May 16, 2018, 06:30:19 AM

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.

You can convert Joule to Wh, it is indeed a measurement of amount of energy.
Watt's cannot be converted to Joules directly as much as velocity cannot directly be converted to distance without the input of other parameters to build an equation.

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And a kW/h is the number of kiloWatts consumed in an hour, as is a kWh

A kWh is not the number of kiloWatts consumed in an hour, same difference as you can't say that 'distance is the is the number of meters travelled in an hour'.
In the analogy with distance, velocity & time; kW/h would be acceleration (how much the energy flow changes per unit of time), kW would be velocity (amount of energy flow), kWh would be distance (how much energy has flown)

You can not 'use' xx kW in one hour, you can use xx kWh in one hour though. kW/h is simply the wrong unit to use. But as an energy industry professional you of course know better Wink

This is not really on-topic though but it is simply confusing to people who have little knowledge about this. It might be that most understand that it's an error but using the wrong units on purpose because everyone understands is not productive. I will not go deeper into this as we might as well be discussing whether the earth is flat or not.

Quote from: cryptaioracle on May 16, 2018, 06:30:19 AM

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...

Let's see how it turns out, I do think though that they see what profits NVidia and AMD have gotten and want a piece of the pie. A healthy dose of skepticism is never a bad idea.
Possible profits remain to be shown but I think the claims and motivation behind the project are not unreasonable, time will tell.

Quote from: vrdelta on May 16, 2018, 06:31:29 AM

I own two VCU1525's, I sent the OP a PM.

I'll help confirm the feasibility of this.

Curious to see first results!