Possible You can squeeze much more money from Bitmain for not releasing it at all...
Fuck Bitmain.
A cynic might also read a little too much in this offering:
a) These high end guys may have some intel on how close ETH is to the end of the PoW phase.
b) They also may know something about the next generation of cards and that the advantage of their mod(s) maybe reduced.
Couldn't agree more. If you follow her last posts on bitcointalk she switched to the 'green' team.
twitter states also that she went to asia and is thrilled about the new things that are coming from nvidia e.g. gddr6 etc.
maybe a swing by to bitmain and other asic manufacturers to see their latest eth miners (not the e3) *lol*
who knows, ohgod what a gossip
Yup, I am Jihan. Also Casper is coming tomorrow, and we're selling our totally top secret tools and miners to cash out.
It's not a VBIOS.
I was about to ask about that! If we don't try what you offer, it'd be very hard for you to get new customers. Maybe if you already have some connections then those might choose to trust what you sell, but new customers would prefer a DevFee, at least as an alternative option.
The devfee option is literally to help the community; if I didn't have to pay salaries, we'd release everything for free. Unfortunately that's not a sustainable model for business. Testing this alone chews up a lot of funds in electricity costs.
The problem with the devfee is that I don't feel comfortable just releasing a one-off, or packaging this on top of someone else's hard work (i.e CCMiner, Claymore); OhGodACompany has very, very, very high standards with our software, and while we have OhGodAMiner, it's not something I want to release to the public - yet.