http://blissdevices.com/contact/I couldn't help myself not noticing similarities... Location, Michael Ramos (previously at HF), Website, ToS...
Who wants to bet that (somehow) we will find a relationship between the two companies, like our money used to tapeout their asic?
Also, PG is gonna like this face:
http://youtu.be/LLrQ40qUegg?t=4m26s"Shipping
October 2014". I registered blissdevices.org just in case.
The idea of HF money going to tapeout Bliss is just completely ridiculous.
There is no connection other than the fact that certain individuals on the sales side who had a bit of a falling out with HF management ended up at Bliss. Obviously they had been talking to the Bliss founders and each other before they quit or were fired. There is no connection between the technical people at Bliss and the technical people at HF whatsoever.
There is no money connection, unless there are some mutual secret investors behind the scenes. I doubt it. HF generally didn't seem to consider Scrypt to be strategic at all. There was no work on a Scrypt ASIC whatsoever as far as I know. No one even mentioned Scrypt or Altcoins. The attitude is/was that those are also-rans and a distraction from Bitcoin.