good detective work... an odd mix of people.. but hopefully in a few days we'll see how it pans out.  hope its not another xcrowd.

You think this was uk money?  its possible...  perhaps middle eastern money.

they say somewhere between $1.9m invested and $2.5m invested, which seems cheap to get a 28nm asic for "only" $2.5m (the NREs, expedite fees, wafer production and system production costs are about double that in total)...  i suspect it costs a lot more to get a 28nm asic made, especially a high performance one (they said 550 GH/s) that would need high performance packaging and cooling as it needs to run very hot.   They also said it was 0.8 W/GH, which would mean the chip is nudging past the 400 watts per package that seems extremely hard to cool something that hot... only liquid cooling could do it, .. just.   unless of course its not one asic at 550 GH/s, and is a collection of slower asics that together are 550 GH/s

BTC Olympus is a company started in the UK , our initial investment being a capital injection of $ 2.5 million $ 1.5 million in loans from financial institutions.