Post
Topic
Board Hardware
Re: BitForce SC - full custom ASIC
by
BFL
on 28/05/2012, 01:00:35 UTC
BFL is announcing full custom ASIC chips.  Shocked
http://www.butterflylabs.com/products/

We're scared Grin full custom ASIC is great!!!!! You would invest probably more than whole BTC worth then if you would go with say 45-nm!!!! You are serious player  Grin I think this is the time, when security of SHA256 for block-chain generation should be .... IMPROVED  Grin But let's go step by step  Grin First deliver mini-rigs with nice performance and cost, then ASIC, then do buy-in, and then everything would be secure, under NDA of course Grin Or Huh? Will you start again taking money for future product with "variable" performance ?   Roll Eyes

Let me first say that I deeply respect the work you've done.  I really mean that.  It's spectacular and we're deeply impressed.  So believe me when I say that we take no pleasure in undermining your plans.  

As you know, you've only announced yourself within the last week or so while we've been working on our full product range in public view for 10 months.  The SC product plan and it's timing has been illustrated on our product lineup page that full time.  

We started out under attack from similar comments like yours above...   it's deja vu.  I think your first post was met with similar sarcasm.  That's just how it is.  You've got to take your lumps in the public forum.  Even the good Ngzhang once publicly accused us of being a scam product.  In sum, we've seen all this before and we're past it.  We've since shipped a quantity of product into the field that would surprise most people.  So if you want to cast doubt, go right ahead.  Honestly, we expect nothing less.  

I would hope that at some point the hostility becomes unnecessary.

Best regards,
BFL