Friedcat has made his weekly update post on BitcoinTalk and I must confess, I think they are very close to deploying their ASICMiner ASIC bitcoin mining devices. While it is still unknown exactly how much hashing power they are about to unleash on the bitcoin network form the second image below, it seems that it will be a lot.
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If
you have orders at Butterfly Labs you
can now check on it's status using their new on-line ordering system.
As forum regular Lab_Rat points out in a post though, it is still in the process of being implemented so don't flip out if your order has not been loaded …
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BFL_Josh
has updated the BFL ASIC
Status
thread and with the ship date only 4 days away the expected shipping
date has been pushed back.
This time according to the post the date has only been pushed back to the "17th for shipping, probably a bit later in the week …
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After
the recent
announcement
on the BTCFPGA site that the production
of their new ASIC mining devices were to be taken over by CAN ELECTRIC I
thought I would investigate further.
Apart from the story being a very strange one that I had posted about, I had a vested interest …
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Things have moved on with BTCFPGA, going from strange to bizarre there is a new
update on the official BTCFPGA website.
Apparently after the infamous Asian Buyers deal fell through leading to a series of strange posts that ended in the total failure of BTCFPGA there are now Canadian Buyers according to a wall of text on the official website pictured to the right and quoted below.
In one huge paragraph, the author has covered may topics, ranging from the simple ""Tom" or "Dave" is no longer affiliated with this company in anyway." to the informative "My company has been developing custom ASIC and FPGA based solutions for decades we work in the military and telecommunications sectors and can accomplish this task at ease." all the way to inflammatory statements like "BEWARE OF BFL. ITS ALL LIES".
I will leave you to make up your own mind.
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With
the news of Avalon ASIC bitcoin mining
devices are finally being
delivered
and evidence already being seen in the bitcoin
difficulty it would be easy to forget
that there are other bitcoin ASIC companies that are very close to
delivering their own ASIC bitcoin devices.
One of the more …
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core developer and Red Hat Linux software
engineer Jeff Garzik has made a post on his
blog,
his Avalon ASIC has arrived!
Keeping good on their promise, Avalon shipped one of their first units express directly to Jeff for verification. It seems Jeff is unpacking it right now, and taking …
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Many
of us have been watching the bitcoin network
difficulty and hash power estimates
since Avalon claimed that they were
shipping over a week ago on the
18th
and wondering when we will start to see the evidence of ASIC
power effectively double the network difficulty.
In
what is becoming a running joke of some sort Cablepair(Tom) from BTCFPGA
has made another post of
the official forums
stating that "all that nonsense that was posted on the Bitcointalk forum
last night was not me".
In an unusual move by the administrators at BitcoinTalk who usually …
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