Again with Coinware/Liquidbits! Why? What's the point? Am I responsible for bringing the topic back? All I said initially what that I feared we might come to regret their proposition. Perhaps I should have said "Let's do everything in our limited power to not come to regret their plan". Let's move on already! They have not been in the loop for some time now, other than being a creditor -- and by very far the largest of all, from what I have read. They made a proposition to the committee, they argued for it in court and answered questions on this forum (no one else so far did the same). The committee rejected it, the judge rejected their deadline, they went their way. Is there more, besides the very easily verifiable fact that neither Coinware nor Liquidbits are registered in the British Ocean Territory but in the United States of America? If anything, the above posts seem to indicate that Coinware / LQB would have had the financial wherewithal to actually pull off the creditor's mega-mine -- but then, again, how is it relevant today? Who cares? That ship sailed a while back. End of story.
The committee said they had other offers on the table, the only thing we saw was the CRO being nominated.
I think that the only thing that really matters today is: Are there indeed other propositions on the table and if so what might they be? I have not been able to find out (besides the eventual, possible, nebulous projects such as the Franchise mine for which I never could find any details besides rumors). The CRO is quiet, perhaps he is working out a deal, or simply preparing to liquidate what's left of the assets at auction. Anyone knows? That would be the "gist" of the situation. The committee should know. I am sure they are in contact with the CRO. It is sensible. Can't they give us any information? It's hard to imagine that "nothing" is going on.
The committee said they had other offers on the table, the only thing we saw was the CRO being nominated.
I think that the only thing that really matters today is: Are there indeed other propositions on the table and if so what might they be? I have not been able to find out (besides the eventual, possible, nebulous projects such as the Franchise mine for which I never could find any details besides rumors). The CRO is quiet, perhaps he is working out a deal, or simply preparing to liquidate what's left of the assets at auction. Anyone knows? That would be the "gist" of the situation. The committee should know. I am sure they are in contact with the CRO. It is sensible. Can't they give us any information? It's hard to imagine that "nothing" is going on.
The point being is that all these major Bitcoin Camp are interwoven to one degree or another nefariously.
Another "time is everything" quote: http://www.chipestimate.tv/aboutus.php
I'm still curious if Josh (Jung) Lee is related to Charles Lee.
FYI: http://www.chipestimate.com/dac2008/presentations/cebatech.pdf
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"Time to market is critical in the fast emerging bitcoin mining market," remarkjavascript:void(0);s Josh Lee, founder and CEO of Uniquify, who notes that the design highlights the quality of Uniquifys work. "First silicon worked as expected, proving Uniquify and HashFast can deliver leading-edge silicon in a short timeframe, and a testament to Uniquifys expertise and ability to quickly turn a design without sacrificing quality."
I'm still curious if Josh (Jung) Lee is related to Charles Lee.
FYI: http://www.chipestimate.com/dac2008/presentations/cebatech.pdf
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Chad Spackman Title or job function CTO, Founder
http://www.scribd.com/doc/228713882/US-Bankruptcy-Court-Hashfast-llc-List-of-Equity-Security-Holders
Compare the list above with what's on this list and see how Chad Spackman truly made out: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HGKRj7gx9BcJ:www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/0000/0504/05049895.pdf+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Feel free to explore other names on the list, starting with James de Castro, while I do the same.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HGKRj7gx9BcJ:www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/0000/0504/05049895.pdf+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
For someone with such a great past there should be more than enough evidence backing up his profile, like papers he wrote, talks he gave at conferences and such..
A remarkable point is at least, for all combos of his name and a company from his linkedin-profile, the first hit is always his linkedin-profile - doesn't increase confidence.
Btw: check this profile, too
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9921043&privcapId=1994285&previousCapId=1994285&previousTitle=iVivity,%20Inc.
"This person is connected to 0 Board Members in 0 different organizations across 0 different industries."
maybe another person, since this finding is not mentioned on his linkedin-profile ?!
http://www.oit.gatech.edu/content/about-oit
minor inconsistency found:
http://www.solidoaktech.com/executive.html says Jim O'Connor is still executive
while linked in profile shows this as his past
quick google shots lead me the following results:
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General Electric:
only found Matthew J. OConnor - same person ? If so why 'Matthew J' instead of Jim ??
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/carlyle-hires-g-e-executive-for-power-investment-team/?ref=generalelectriccompany&_r=0
Star Technologies:
nothing found
Broadband Technologies:
nothing found
Nortel (Networks?!):
nothing found
Zagros Networks:
nothing found
SMSC:
nothing found
Altior Inc.: http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Jim-O%27Connor/1636630158 (easy to fake)
http://www.insideview.com/directory/altior-inc => shows 'http://www.cebatech.com/' as website for Altior Inc.
and this domain is registered, only - no content at all => very fishy
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techjim.com found here http://occcsa.com/rfc/rfc2701.htm (no, he did not work on the rfc, just konverted the doc to html)
doesn't look like a page of any kind of professional
http://techjim.com
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JSocfDj7OsIJ:techjim.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
occcsa.com belongs to JAMES O'Connor with mail address jim@techjim.com
JAMES O'Connor looks quite similar to JIM O'Connor, no?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DPiYBBSSC8IJ:https://profile.usgs.gov/oconnor/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk
A remarkable point is at least, for all combos of his name and a company from his linkedin-profile, the first hit is always his linkedin-profile - doesn't increase confidence.
Btw: check this profile, too
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9921043&privcapId=1994285&previousCapId=1994285&previousTitle=iVivity,%20Inc.
"This person is connected to 0 Board Members in 0 different organizations across 0 different industries."
maybe another person, since this finding is not mentioned on his linkedin-profile ?!
http://www.oit.gatech.edu/content/about-oit
minor inconsistency found:
http://www.solidoaktech.com/executive.html says Jim O'Connor is still executive
while linked in profile shows this as his past
quick google shots lead me the following results:
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General Electric:
only found Matthew J. OConnor - same person ? If so why 'Matthew J' instead of Jim ??
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/carlyle-hires-g-e-executive-for-power-investment-team/?ref=generalelectriccompany&_r=0
Star Technologies:
nothing found
Broadband Technologies:
nothing found
Nortel (Networks?!):
nothing found
Zagros Networks:
nothing found
SMSC:
nothing found
Altior Inc.: http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Jim-O%27Connor/1636630158 (easy to fake)
http://www.insideview.com/directory/altior-inc => shows 'http://www.cebatech.com/' as website for Altior Inc.
and this domain is registered, only - no content at all => very fishy
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techjim.com found here http://occcsa.com/rfc/rfc2701.htm (no, he did not work on the rfc, just konverted the doc to html)
doesn't look like a page of any kind of professional
http://techjim.com
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JSocfDj7OsIJ:techjim.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
occcsa.com belongs to JAMES O'Connor with mail address jim@techjim.com
JAMES O'Connor looks quite similar to JIM O'Connor, no?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DPiYBBSSC8IJ:https://profile.usgs.gov/oconnor/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk
http://web.archive.org/web/20060215132317/http://www.cebatech.com/executive.html
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Tim Sullivan
Founder, President/CEO & Chairman
Tim is a seasoned executive whose career has spanned both startups and large corporations. Most recently, Tim was the President of Lucent's Optical Networking division with P&L responsibilities exceeding $3 billion in revenue. Prior to that he served as Chief Operating Officer for Lucent's Optical Networking Group after joining Lucent in 1998 as VP/GM Optical Area Networking, where he led the establishment of a new business involving edge and server based products. In 1993, he founded Connectware, Inc., an ATM application solutions company, where he served as CEO/President, and grew revenues to $50 million. Beginning in 1985, Tim spent eight years as Vice President at Northern Telecom (Nortel), first directing the Bell Northern Research customer premise, inter-exchange carrier and wireless development operations in the U.S., and later ran the Nortel data networking business where a worldwide data network win resulted in revenues exceeding $500 million. Tim began his career with IBM and his responsibilities included Product Development and Marketing leadership roles in IBM's Data Networking business as well as the leadership and introduction of the network management portfolio. Mr. Sullivan holds a BSEE degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Chad Spackman
Founder & CTO
Chad Spackman has 15 years of semiconductor design and is regarded as a veteran in the ASIC/semiconductor industry. Achievements include over a dozen analog designs for various foundries, six large-scale communications ASIC designs in the communications sector, and most recently designed a complete TCP/IP TOE engine that was licensed to a major semiconductor company. He began his career as Senior Engineer with Fischer & Porter, led ASIC design for Connectware, Inc. and served as co-founder and President of Sandgate Technologies. Mr. Spackman holds a Bachelor of Physics, and Bachelor and Master's degrees in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State University respectively. He is also the co-author of five patents in the semiconductor field.
Adrian Port
Founder & Chief Technologist, Networking and Communications
Adrian Port has over 20 years of experience in R&D, encompassing software development, as well as complex communication ASICs in the ATM and Ethernet industries and related board/box level products. Mr. Port led the development effort that completed the TCP/IP TOE engine licensed to a major semiconductor company. Adrian spent fourteen years with Fischer & Porter in areas including ASIC development and fast packet switching systems, directed ATM ASIC development for Connectware, Inc. and served as co-founder and President of Sandgate Technologies. Mr. Port holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Monash University (Australia), and an MBA in Finance from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, in both cases graduating with distinction. He is also the co-author, with Chad Spackman, of five patents in the semiconductor field.
Jon Wells
Founder & Chief Technologist, EDA Tools
Jon Wells has over 20 years of experience in R&D projects, most recently completing the entire ASIC simulation test environment as used for the TCP/IP TOE engine. Mr. Wells is an expert in software and operating system design, compiler design, and ASIC hardware description languages. Jon was a member of the Computer Science staff at Monash University where his assignments included I/O multiprocessor design, logic simulation and verification. He served as principal engineer at Fischer & Porter developing VLSI devices, including the implementation of hardware description languages and logic synthesis systems. He served as team leader for hardware descriptive language and compiler design at Connectware Inc. and Sandgate Technologies.
Sherry Hess
Vice President of Business Development
With more than 15 years of EDA experience, Ms. Hess joins CebaTech and brings with her domestic and international sales, marketing, support, and managerial expertise. Prior to joining CebaTech, Ms. Hess served as Ansoft's Vice President, Marketing from 2000 to 2005 where she was responsible for worldwide marketing of Ansofts high-performance EDA software product lines.
Sherry, who joined Ansoft in May 1990 as a sales and support engineer, was instrumental in setting up new semiconductor / major accounts throughout North America. In May 1995, Sherry was promoted to Director of European Operations. In this role, she was responsible for all company operations throughout Europe.
Before joining Ansoft, Sherry spent two years with Intel Corporation, where she worked in the ASIC Group and developed relationships with companies such as Bell Northern Research and Northern Telecom.
Sherry holds a BSEE and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Founder, President/CEO & Chairman
Tim is a seasoned executive whose career has spanned both startups and large corporations. Most recently, Tim was the President of Lucent's Optical Networking division with P&L responsibilities exceeding $3 billion in revenue. Prior to that he served as Chief Operating Officer for Lucent's Optical Networking Group after joining Lucent in 1998 as VP/GM Optical Area Networking, where he led the establishment of a new business involving edge and server based products. In 1993, he founded Connectware, Inc., an ATM application solutions company, where he served as CEO/President, and grew revenues to $50 million. Beginning in 1985, Tim spent eight years as Vice President at Northern Telecom (Nortel), first directing the Bell Northern Research customer premise, inter-exchange carrier and wireless development operations in the U.S., and later ran the Nortel data networking business where a worldwide data network win resulted in revenues exceeding $500 million. Tim began his career with IBM and his responsibilities included Product Development and Marketing leadership roles in IBM's Data Networking business as well as the leadership and introduction of the network management portfolio. Mr. Sullivan holds a BSEE degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Chad Spackman
Founder & CTO
Chad Spackman has 15 years of semiconductor design and is regarded as a veteran in the ASIC/semiconductor industry. Achievements include over a dozen analog designs for various foundries, six large-scale communications ASIC designs in the communications sector, and most recently designed a complete TCP/IP TOE engine that was licensed to a major semiconductor company. He began his career as Senior Engineer with Fischer & Porter, led ASIC design for Connectware, Inc. and served as co-founder and President of Sandgate Technologies. Mr. Spackman holds a Bachelor of Physics, and Bachelor and Master's degrees in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State University respectively. He is also the co-author of five patents in the semiconductor field.
Adrian Port
Founder & Chief Technologist, Networking and Communications
Adrian Port has over 20 years of experience in R&D, encompassing software development, as well as complex communication ASICs in the ATM and Ethernet industries and related board/box level products. Mr. Port led the development effort that completed the TCP/IP TOE engine licensed to a major semiconductor company. Adrian spent fourteen years with Fischer & Porter in areas including ASIC development and fast packet switching systems, directed ATM ASIC development for Connectware, Inc. and served as co-founder and President of Sandgate Technologies. Mr. Port holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Monash University (Australia), and an MBA in Finance from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, in both cases graduating with distinction. He is also the co-author, with Chad Spackman, of five patents in the semiconductor field.
Jon Wells
Founder & Chief Technologist, EDA Tools
Jon Wells has over 20 years of experience in R&D projects, most recently completing the entire ASIC simulation test environment as used for the TCP/IP TOE engine. Mr. Wells is an expert in software and operating system design, compiler design, and ASIC hardware description languages. Jon was a member of the Computer Science staff at Monash University where his assignments included I/O multiprocessor design, logic simulation and verification. He served as principal engineer at Fischer & Porter developing VLSI devices, including the implementation of hardware description languages and logic synthesis systems. He served as team leader for hardware descriptive language and compiler design at Connectware Inc. and Sandgate Technologies.
Sherry Hess
Vice President of Business Development
With more than 15 years of EDA experience, Ms. Hess joins CebaTech and brings with her domestic and international sales, marketing, support, and managerial expertise. Prior to joining CebaTech, Ms. Hess served as Ansoft's Vice President, Marketing from 2000 to 2005 where she was responsible for worldwide marketing of Ansofts high-performance EDA software product lines.
Sherry, who joined Ansoft in May 1990 as a sales and support engineer, was instrumental in setting up new semiconductor / major accounts throughout North America. In May 1995, Sherry was promoted to Director of European Operations. In this role, she was responsible for all company operations throughout Europe.
Before joining Ansoft, Sherry spent two years with Intel Corporation, where she worked in the ASIC Group and developed relationships with companies such as Bell Northern Research and Northern Telecom.
Sherry holds a BSEE and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
http://www.guugll.eu/hashfast-open-sources-bitcoin-asic/
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CGMiner is an open source bitcoin mining driver that has been developed for a wide range of GPU, FPGA and ASIC miners. Adrian Port, one of HashFasts Lead ASIC Engineers has been working with the CGMiner team to implement HashFasts protocol. They have been using the CGMiner drivers internally while developing the GWQ interface.
https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=72236397&authType=name&authToken=QplW&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name
In the above, Chad Sparkman doesn't mention Bitcoin as if it's some taboo subject, but he does own an entity in the Philadelphia area, one that may have been used by Joshua Zipkin of AMT.
http://web.archive.org/web/20120605025806/http://www.cebatech.com/
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Our Mission...
Altior's mission is to offer strategic and innovative high performance hardware/software solutions to the networking and storage markets. Altiors platform solutions are designed to be cost-effective, energy-efficient, and deliver realizable value to customers by enhancing system performance, reducing development time, and achieving faster time to market.
Altior's mission is to offer strategic and innovative high performance hardware/software solutions to the networking and storage markets. Altiors platform solutions are designed to be cost-effective, energy-efficient, and deliver realizable value to customers by enhancing system performance, reducing development time, and achieving faster time to market.
Back to Jim O'Connor of CoinTerra.
Dr David likes his privacy, so his name has been removed from the website.
I'm going to just preserve this here for future reference, so people won't need to dig through some archives or caches.Cointerra/Team
Cointerra boasts a highly experienced engineering team of semiconductor architects and designers who have previously designed some of the worlds highest performance CPUs, GPUs and chipsets for Nvidia, Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm and Nortel. Having worked on several generations of low-power mobile devices, our team brings tremendous experience in power efficient circuitry, design methodology and implementation to the exciting new frontier of Bitcoin mining.
Executive team
The architecture, design and development effort is lead by : Ravi Iyengar, Dr. David Tannenbaum, and Jim OConnor. The Advisory Board is headed by Dr. Naveed Sherwani.
Ravi Iyengar
FOUNDER & CEO
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravidiyengar
Before founding Cointerra, Ravi was a Lead CPU Architect at Samsung Corporation. Ravi brings with him 15 years of industry experience in Architecture, Design and Verification in CPU, GPU, Desktop/Server Chipsets and ASIC Cores, and years of leadership experience in top Semi-conductor companies like Samsung, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Intel. Ravi has a Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from Wright State University and a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, India.
Dr. David Tannenbaum
Chief Architect
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-tannenbaum/12/4b6/647
David works as a Consultant Architect & Designer at Cointerra. He is a Principal Engineer at NVIDIA Corporation and has over 25 years of experience in the industry. He brings with him vast experience in the design of arithmetic intensive logic including single, double precision floating-point, custom floating-point, IEEE formats, transcendental support, fused multiply-add, integer operations, conversions, logical operations, custom instructions, exponentiation, logarithms. Inventor on 20+ patents. David has a Ph.D in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Jim OConnor
VP of Engineering
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoconnor
Over 35 years of experience in design and management. Jim has held management positions at Altior Inc(now Exar), SMSC(now Microchip), iVivity, Zagros Networks and Orologic(now Vitesse Semiconductor), Nortel Semiconductor and BroadBand Technologies.
Jim has also held lead design positions at BroadBand Technologies, Star Technologies, General Electric, and Teledyne. His experience includes SOC design and verification, Assertion-Based Verification, physical design, systems design, software and firmware in graphics, datacom, telecom and security.
Jim is a graduate of General Electrics Edison Engineering program and holds B.S. and M. Eng. Degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Louisvilles Speed Scientific School.
Dr. Naveed Sherwani
Advisor
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/naveed-sherwani/0/89/2a7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Silicon
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Open Silicon. Prior to co-founding Open-Silicon, Dr. Sherwani was the founder and General Manager of Intel Microelectronics Services where he led efforts to promote the use of disciplined ASIC methodologies to improve design efficiency and time-to-market. He currently chairs the GSA (Global Semiconductor Association) Technical Steering Committee.
Dr. Sherwani co-architected the Intel microprocessor design methodology and environment that has been used in several leading microprocessors. Prior to joining Intel, he worked as a consultant for various telecommunications and computer companies, mainly focusing on ASIC design flow and cell library design to improve time-to-market.
Dr. Sherwani is the author of textbook on Physical Design, which is widely used as the main textbook at major universities around the world. In addition, he has authored or co-authored three books and over 100 articles on various aspects of Physical Design Automation and ASICs.