Quote from: Rafael Oliveira on May 30, 2018, 04:50:03 PM

Quote from: senseless on May 09, 2018, 08:01:16 PM

Hardware:
We intend to provide the crypto community with a low cost, low power and high performance alternative to GPU mining. We are looking to produce a board based on either the Xilinx Ultrascale+ or Intel Stratix 10 lines. Performance to power ratios for cryptocores we have developed have ranged from anywhere in the low 3x multiplier to as high as 100x GPU performance to power efficiency. We are cautiously optimistic that we will be able to deliver these devices at a cost / performance ratio greater than a GPU.

Software:
We will provide end users (customers) with software and bitstreams to allow them to operate their device in a 'plug and play' fashion similar to that of GPU mining. The bitstreams provided may or may not include a fee as it is up to the developer to set the fee. As time comes closer to launching orders / sales we will list some performance numbers that we have achieved for bitstreams that we intend to allow usage of with the device. I expect that the best performant cores and designs will come out of community designs from community RTL developers.

Allmine Crypto Shell:
Our FPGA devices will have our encryption keys burned into them and as a result we will be able to distribute secure encrypted bitstreams and software. The goal is to provide a development environment similar to that of the "aws-fpga" / Amazon F1 service. Community RTL developers would be able to access the software and compile time scripts / libraries necessary to securely compile their code into our shell environment. We will be able to distribute these community driven crypto cores and collect a developer set fee on behalf of the developer.

05/29/18 - We are going to delay pre-sales at this time. We have calls scheduled with both Intel and Xilinx for this week. News to follow.

Hi,

After reading all post in this topic, I understood that yours proposes derivate the idea of whitefire900 posted in the other topic.

I have some questions, I'm sorry if some seem a little obvious but I'm not a technician in that area:

1. How long will the equipment be guaranteed?
2. What is the deadline for delivery?
3. Where will these devices be specifically produced?
4. Is there any expectation of unit price with fees?
5. What is the minimum order to have a discount?
6. What will be the form of payment and the means that can be used?
7. Can they be shipped to Canada?
8. In the review of the initial post of this topic you wrote: "Our FPGA devices will have our encryption keys burned into them and as a result we will be able to distribute secure encrypted bitstreams and software."; In addition to enabling automatic operation with the software you have distributed via Allmine Crypto Shell, does this mean that devices can only use validated firmware within their de-development environment?
9 If you give up using this mining equipment to your encryption keys that are recorded on the devices have prevented other uses?

Thanks for your attention.

Good questions. Side question, Rafael are you by any change Portuguese?

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