Interesting emails today:
The hashfast customers from the G-J section of the alphabet in the email leak have been chatting amongst themselves. It's a whole additional community with many people who haven't received their hardware and whom HF has cut communications with... many of whom were unaware of how widespread the issues were.
In the middle of all that someone posted:
Hello all,
As of today, the 19th of March, Cognitive has entered a partnership with HashFast to open a parallel production line and resell HashFast chips. We will be selling Cognitive branded Hashfast "Evo" boards (
http://hashfast.com/shop/sierraevo/) for April delivery or your money back. Starting on the 4th of April, 2014 we will be producing and shipping 300 boards per day achieving an average (+/- 10%) of 750Gh/s each.
The boards are available for purchase at [URL elided] today.
If desired, I can provide you a private link that displays the realtime hashing output (cgminer feed + eligius address) of a single Evo board.
Best,
Garrett MacDonald
CEO, Cognitive
1.424.253.4278
To which a bunch of people responded along the lines of WTF WHY ARE YOU GETTING CHIPS WHEN I'M STILL WAITING!?
to which he replied
The situation right now is: HashFast is short on money, I am paying for a new, separate production line to begin and will be recieving the profits from it an it's first few thousand boards. Beyond this, HashFast will take control of the line producing Evo boards and will be able to serve customers much faster than before.
The hashfast directors, myself and my partner, and both of our lawyers have talked it over and it is a go from everyone legally.
Cheap hashpower for all, and the ramp-up of a new production line for HashFast customers. This is a total win-win situation.
Best,
Garrett