Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 26, 2014, 05:05:38 AM

Quote from: CanaryInTheMine on January 26, 2014, 04:49:52 AM

Quote from: chriswilmer on January 26, 2014, 04:30:40 AM

Has anyone tried just emailing friedcat and asking what's up?

I do it often with no responses. fc changed completely awhile back in terms of communication. don't know the reason. very strange.

on bitmain: the U1, in my opinion is made in the same factory that the ASICMiner USB was made in. Some of the tiny physical aspects/details of the U1 and ASICMiner USB are IDENTICAL.

If I had to guess, I think the simplest explanation for what's going is: fc and ASICMiner had some sort of a revolt occur and a split occurred. it wouldn't surprise me one bit if this was true. But this is just SPECULATION on my part. nothing more nothing less.

Might explain why Gen2 mysteriously "never happened", certainly a good as guess as any. Because like everyone says, all we can do is guess. Hopefully the team is now "100% together" and can move forward in harmony.

Whether there was a split or whatever, it certainly doesn't stop fc from entering into some simple communication on this forum. "Tapeout happened on schedule" or "Tapeout delayed until 30th January". How hard is that to post?

With the Chinese New Year, I doubt there will be any posts for the duration of it.