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Re: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It
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minerpumpkin
on 06/06/2014, 17:55:04 UTC
Quote from: ujka on June 06, 2014, 05:52:58 PM
Quote from: sngwinner on June 06, 2014, 05:50:06 PM
Quote from: minerpumpkin on June 06, 2014, 05:16:25 PM
WOW!

Friedcat is pushing the open source development of his new "Block Erupter Project" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=641957.msg7168771#msg7168771
This is the AM train gaining speed. Havelock still standing?  Cheesy

I'm asking a lot of questions today! Can someone explain why this is good news? If our next gen chip is going to be open source then how do we have any advantage as far as producing the chip? Can't anyone use the open source designs to produce the chip itself? Pardon my ignorance on this subject.
Chip design is not open!
Only design for reference boards.

Exactly. Now potentially everyone can design their own board, improve on it and build/sell a miner. Also, since the design can be improved, the efficiency may get better.