I think it was smart to not touch the hot wallet (with public address, right?) and only empty the cold(?) wallet of which the address was not known.

Agree.


Still, how about the transfer that originated from Localbitcoins.com ?
Someone was at the sending end of that transaction, if he/she can recall who he/she was doing business with, who knows what information that will reveal.

Afaik, localbitcoins transaction are either in person in cash, or with bank transfer.
Does localbitcoins.com maintains a history of all transactions, if possible ?

Point is they somehow found this btc address so someone knows where it came from.
Or they simple did a random selection from the blockchain (most likely).

And how about 1KBy6MvcBb2qQRS5fQT92o2c5Dq2W6ygx4, that received 1325BTC on 2014-07-29. Two days later it received 0.00000001BTC from 1NktQfw949Sv7acr3vj1WS98PPPtNBzMRb, which got funded 0.05BTC in transaction https://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/3069a8c913c506e068743c71225ba9554e20883a9ac86b0543d93de195042d50 received from Localbitcoins.com! So who is behind this transaction?

For example, who owns 1FactomGnNFTsTVx8jiGjcLKDpyL65GDsH - looks like a "manufactured" address ".Factom...". This is one of the addresses that transfers 0.0005BTC.

Figuring out who owns the btc addresses that received the multiple 1000BTC transactions could lay in the small amounts that are also received on those addresses.
These small amounts look like advertisement amounts, so somehow someone found these addresses somewhere.
Questions is where were they found...

ANX, are there deposit problems ?
Emails to support are unanswered?!

If you paid AlphaTech with bitcoins, the sad answer is yes.

Is this the best you can do, tell us that we're incapable of designing an electronic device with Bitfury chips ?
I dare you, I know for sure there are multiple designer teams that can design a miner with the new Bitfury chips within a month. That is, with proper documentation and sample chips.

Don't get me wrong, I can understand more or less that Bitfury is not willing to sell their chips, because that will make the piece of the BTC pie that Bitfury will mine smaller, but I am sure Bitfury (and the shareholders) will appreciate the profit coming out of selling chips.

Thanks, I've set up an page change alert on www.bitfury.org/products.html

Will sample chips be available soon ?

I hope you do realize that designers need the datasheet and sample chips multiple weeks before any bulk purchase of chips can occur.

Four days old already, how about giving information about the datasheet and the availability of sample chips for designers ?

It's listed on Cryptsy: https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/ZRC_USD

As far as I understand the OP, each coin will have a value (at the end of this year) of us$1, that can be applied to get a discount of up to 5% on a purchase at participating merchants.

Let's wait and see.

According to their specs, https://d19y4lldx7po3t.cloudfront.net/assets/docs/coinspecs_022615v2.pdf :

1.5 MINING ALGORITHM
The exact hashing algorithm used is a combination of the 5 finalist algorithms that NIST selected as
candidates for SHA3 (BLAKE, Grøstl, JH, Keccak and Skein). The first in the series, Keccak, is executed,
and then the order of the next four is determined based on the result. In addition, there is an opt-in
process of mining with Proof of Knowledge of transaction data that allows miners to gain a 5% increase
in rewards. Read more about this here.

You asked for assurance that Bitfury would sell their new chip, so I was wondering if you got a positive reply.

Although I would be using different words, did you got your assurance ?

This has been asked by others and me before, any info yet ?

Is the datasheet available for the BE300S ?

Can you explain how you got the screen that allows you to change the voltage please ?

That's odd, because the hash speed did go down when I switched from 1000Mhz to 800Mhz.

Maybe one can ssh into the machine, but I haven't tried this.