Okay what's the concern here?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vsixjajt1pwz74u/Screenshot_2014-01-05-15-57-51.png
Topic: [2013-11-21] Alpha Technologies Announces ASIC Miners for Litecoin are Coming - page 2. (Read 21061 times)
January 05, 2014, 03:59:01 PM
January 05, 2014, 03:15:32 PM
Link doesn't work
try this: http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/findCompanyInfo.shtml use webcheck and search company number: 08483921 then click on " Order information on this company" and scroll down.
January 05, 2014, 03:00:56 PM
January 05, 2014, 02:57:53 PM
found some strange activities + there is no real proof of a working prototype or even detailed product/ board design. to me it's just another "pre-order scam" I will keep investing in my GPU's 
http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk//wcprodorder?ft=1
http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk//wcprodorder?ft=1
January 04, 2014, 01:38:18 PM
Is the first order number possible 5000? Who's got a low number?
order 4861 right here
http://alphat.emux.fr/
January 04, 2014, 01:37:34 PM
Is the first order number possible 5000? Who's got a low number?
January 04, 2014, 01:32:45 PM
Their site is up for orders now
£5450 total for 25MH/s
https://alpha-t.net/product/viper-scrypt-miner-25mhs/
£5450 total for 25MH/s
https://alpha-t.net/product/viper-scrypt-miner-25mhs/
December 31, 2013, 07:26:58 PM
And why are the arrows on the chasis? is it a multimedia player that mines? :>
December 31, 2013, 05:21:20 PM
They just added extra cost to every buyer, mainly buyers from EU. lmao
In order to get units to people who purchased them faster (funny as they will wait months anyway so week extra would not kill anyone), they are going to ship them from India.
So not only VAT, prepare for hefty Import tax and Duty charges... Hope they will not forget eec and rohs stickers lol
In order to get units to people who purchased them faster (funny as they will wait months anyway so week extra would not kill anyone), they are going to ship them from India.
So not only VAT, prepare for hefty Import tax and Duty charges... Hope they will not forget eec and rohs stickers lol
December 30, 2013, 11:21:59 AM
a specialized SPU* then, maybe you'll save 30% of the cost, but then you'll never compete with the low price GPU achieved because of the high volume they get produced in
* Scrypt-Process-Unit
* Scrypt-Process-Unit
December 30, 2013, 11:13:48 AM
I always thought CPUs and GPUs are ASICs designed for general purpose computing. A scrypt ASIC might be a fully functional CPU heavily optimized toward a specific task.
The way I think of it, somebody could create chips that removed things not used by mining and beef up things that are. Example, dump floating point and use that space to add instructions that do several of the operations demanded by scrypt simultaneously.
Sort of the same way GPUs gain mass parallelism at the expense of a constraint that lots of threads must be executing the same code without variation.
Imagine you could make a cheap graphics card that was cheap because it omitted all the components used for video that were unused in mining. This could qualify as a step toward a scrypt ASIC.
The way I think of it, somebody could create chips that removed things not used by mining and beef up things that are. Example, dump floating point and use that space to add instructions that do several of the operations demanded by scrypt simultaneously.
Sort of the same way GPUs gain mass parallelism at the expense of a constraint that lots of threads must be executing the same code without variation.
Imagine you could make a cheap graphics card that was cheap because it omitted all the components used for video that were unused in mining. This could qualify as a step toward a scrypt ASIC.
December 30, 2013, 11:08:12 AM
so if this is not a scam and someone bought the asics in one hour, who were they? do you see any changes in the hashing power these days?
btw: this is gonna kill the business for many miners who were supporting litecoin because there were no asics
btw: this is gonna kill the business for many miners who were supporting litecoin because there were no asics
That really assumes that litecoin ASIC's are that efficient. At the moment it seems like maybe litecoin ASICS will be as powerful as self-contained GPU's, which won't really make that much of a difference.
December 30, 2013, 11:05:59 AM
so if this is not a scam and someone bought the asics in one hour, who were they? do you see any changes in the hashing power these days?
btw: this is gonna kill the business for many miners who were supporting litecoin because there were no asics
...btw: this is gonna kill the business for many miners who were supporting litecoin because there were no asics
The ASIC aren't even done yet. Alpha-T says they will begin shipping around Q2 2014.
ASICs coming out will kill it for the small time miners, but theoretically should drive up the price of scrypt coins as they become harder to mine.
December 30, 2013, 11:00:02 AM
so if this is not a scam and someone bought the asics in one hour, who were they? do you see any changes in the hashing power these days?
btw: this is gonna kill the business for many miners who were supporting litecoin because there were no asics
btw: this is gonna kill the business for many miners who were supporting litecoin because there were no asics
December 30, 2013, 04:29:40 AM
Congratulations on the appointment yesterday Mohammed / Muhammad!...... http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/directors/alpha-technology-%28int%29
Am i missing something culturally, or could it be duff info?
Am i missing something culturally, or could it be duff info?
December 30, 2013, 03:22:43 AM
sorry but it's all a scam... you can't ASIC scrypt...
Another one , do you people even bother to think before typing?
You can make an asic for everything , scrypt sha256 it doesn't matter.
The cost are more prohibitive for scrypt but that's all.
December 30, 2013, 12:31:44 AM
sorry but it's all a scam... you can't ASIC scrypt...
December 30, 2013, 12:29:50 AM
they just released a picture of their 'viper' board on twitter .... 
https://twitter.com/UkAlpha
photoshop anyone?
https://twitter.com/UkAlpha
photoshop anyone?
December 26, 2013, 11:48:43 AM
I just got bit info about them... not sure what are they capable to deliver but I asked some people in Manchester and there is a company with that name on the address they provided and it's there for years. So, at least, that part is legit.
Do you say that Alpha Technology were at that place for many years now? I personally thought that they were new, at least under one year old..No, their mother company, Akram Accounting or something like that. They said it's 25 years old family company and I got an info from some Manchester people that Akram Accounting is on the address they provided for few years at least.
December 26, 2013, 10:48:37 AM
I just got bit info about them... not sure what are they capable to deliver but I asked some people in Manchester and there is a company with that name on the address they provided and it's there for years. So, at least, that part is legit.
Do you say that Alpha Technology were at that place for many years now? I personally thought that they were new, at least under one year old.. Jump to: