Quote from: Biffa on December 09, 2013, 09:24:41 AM

Quote from: bobsag3 on December 09, 2013, 09:08:51 AM

Quote from: Biffa on December 09, 2013, 09:04:07 AM

Quote from: DyslexicZombei on December 09, 2013, 01:21:38 AM

Updates straight from bobsag3 in Hong Kong visiting Black Arrow:

Can you say miner pr0n? Cheesy

These are ~~Prosperos - except prototypes running with Bitfury instead of Minion chips:~~ Bitfury boards:

http://i.imgur.com/PZsSdoo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/X69NCBP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fw5qBvl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/pSkWGPL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dO4kzm8.jpg

FPGA simulating the Minion ASIC hashing away: http://i.imgur.com/2pq0Fz7.jpg

Full album here: http://goo.gl/s9U6IX

So nothing of the 28nm tech other than a FPGA simulator?

What else would you expect? Its pretty public that the chip is still in development, and that they wont have the chips until Jan/Feb.

Wishful thinking on my part then

Thanks for the pics

bASIC built nice FPGAs but couldn't deliver an ASIC, so being Devils advocate here...
you could scam a pre-order by using customer funds to build/buy equipment to mine Bitcoins on until they demand a refund with hosting as a cover.
Did you check the company accounts to see where the customer funds are and if they really do have 70% of $5m needed to create an ASIC?
If I was putting my neck on the line, with US authorities, by going into business with someone from China I'd certainly want to see their accounts.
Thanks for the pics, and good luck everyone.

p.s. hosting ASICs will one day be the death of Bitcoin, it's not a decentralized network!