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Topic: [ActiveMining] The Official Active Mining Discussion Thread - page 63. (Read 479317 times)

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(Also PMing Ken with this)

Suggestion List:

Clean up Product List: There are too many products offered. K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) should be applied here as (let's face it) the majority of people that are into mining bitcoins right now are not the brightest and it allows for a cleaner website, Easier PR releases, easier $/GH Comparison with other companies.

Lower Prices: Current pricing is not beating any competition out there, VMC needs to set a very good price for their products based on when they are expected to be delivered.

Offer unbeatable Guarantees: Stand by your product, everyone understands things can go wrong but you need to follow KnC's Ruleset. "Under Promise and Over Deliver". This will build the trust that VMC needs to recover from a rocky start.

Clean up Website: The Website as is looks very clunky, old school. You can look at just about any other competitor and their websites are very SIMPLE, ELEGANT, and TO THE POINT. VMC's website is currently none of these and honestly I believe it is overwhelming for most users contrary to what a few "customers" might have suggested.

Use Legit Pictures: Don't use these 1/2 assed photoshop pictures, it screams unprofessional and in a time where every little detail is nitpicked about an ASIC Company you have to use decent graphics to portray what you expect to be shipping.

Press Releases: Once the above is completed and everything is running smoothly you then run all of your PR. You contact every news website you can and have them update or write new stories based on prices/products. Currently all of the stories that were ran after the eASIC News Release shows that VMCs current lineup of products are not very good compared to the competition. It's time we give them something good to compare.


This is good.  I'd like to point out that almost all of the above relate to the selling of hardware.  As we all know a large part of the business is also in creating mining farms and I suspect it is this area that has most of Ken's attention given his engineering skills.
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Crypto is the separation of Power and State.
"Over Promise and Under Deliver"

You mean like this?

Promise: a bewildering, nebulous array of hardware configurations at contradictory price points.
Deliver:  boxes of fans

Promise: a competitive, state of the art BTC ASIC
Deliver:  an FPGA ported to a half-ass My First EZ-Bake toy version of ASIC that can't get anywhere near 1GH/watt

Promise: a modern e-commerce site
Deliver: a hideous throwback to the 90s, complete with frames and VRML chat room, best viewed on dial-up using Mosaic 1.0

Promise:



Deliver: LuLz   Cheesy
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Changed, Thanks!

Sure thing! The original way is how we currently have it in bitcoin mining Smiley
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"Over Promise and Under Deliver"

Should be: Under Promise and Over Deliver
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There was this guy with the name hy.. or something, the one with those shiny business cards, and as far as I remember he announced a few weeks ago that he and one other member is working on a new design and that this is coordinated with Ken. Anyone remembers this?

Yep, his name was hazryder or something, but yes, I remember it also.
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Personally I think this image is pretty inspirational. It encompasses a lot of the qualities and aspects of Bitcoin ie it's global (globe background), it's a digital currency (zeros and ones), it's mined (mine entrance), it is globally significant (central Earth), it's pretty bloody exciting (lazer vortex!). I think the month since IPO it took Ken to make this was time well spent. And you guys wonder what he's been up to? I mean, come on, LOOK at this - it's amaze-balls!!!

VMC - sucking up all your coins into a black hole! Grin

(I'm kidding, hope this is clear)


Anyone with concerns regarding the images , website, pricing, etc. should write thoughtful, details messages to Ken. He reads his inbox quite regularly. Get in touch with the man himself and let him know what you think!

There was this guy with the name hy.. or something, the one with those shiny business cards, and as far as I remember he announced a few weeks ago that he and one other member is working on a new design and that this is coordinated with Ken. Anyone remembers this?
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It's like the cover of a cheesy rap album
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This one's even more inspirational -- price halves in one day Shocked


Edit: GO GO GO!
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Touchdown




Personally I think this image is pretty inspirational. It encompasses a lot of the qualities and aspects of Bitcoin ie it's global (globe background), it's a digital currency (zeros and ones), it's mined (mine entrance), it is globally significant (central Earth), it's pretty bloody exciting (lazer vortex!). I think the month since IPO it took Ken to make this was time well spent. And you guys wonder what he's been up to? I mean, come on, LOOK at this - it's amaze-balls!!!
Looks more like a SR promo to me. Tongue
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Personally I think this image is pretty inspirational. It encompasses a lot of the qualities and aspects of Bitcoin ie it's global (globe background), it's a digital currency (zeros and ones), it's mined (mine entrance), it is globally significant (central Earth), it's pretty bloody exciting (lazer vortex!). I think the month since IPO it took Ken to make this was time well spent. And you guys wonder what he's been up to? I mean, come on, LOOK at this - it's amaze-balls!!!
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Likely a mistake, another I saw: "KNC and HashFast orders placed now are expected to ship at the end of November, while VMC and CoinTerra’s orders will be shipping in December. " Wait, whu..? VMC and HashFast would be the same chips, no?

Also, I read this "HashFast (a separate company from ActiveMining’s Fast-Hash chip)" is that what you saw?

Yep.
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Anyone with concerns regarding the images , website, pricing, etc. should write thoughtful, details messages to Ken. He reads his inbox quite regularly. Get in touch with the man himself and let him know what you think!
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Likely a mistake, another I saw: "KNC and HashFast orders placed now are expected to ship at the end of November, while VMC and CoinTerra’s orders will be shipping in December. " Wait, whu..? VMC and HashFast would be the same chips, no?

Also, I read this "HashFast (a separate company from ActiveMining’s Fast-Hash chip)" is that what you saw?

HashFast is different to Fast-Hash - and I think ActM should send a cease and desist letter frankly... because it is clearly confusingly similar.

The article also said VMC might have chips in October/November - presumably they are talking about shipping dates for hardware orders, not for ActM hashing.
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Likely a mistake, another I saw: "KNC and HashFast orders placed now are expected to ship at the end of November, while VMC and CoinTerra’s orders will be shipping in December. " Wait, whu..? VMC and HashFast would be the same chips, no?

Also, I read this "HashFast (a separate company from ActiveMining’s Fast-Hash chip)" is that what you saw?
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At the bottom of the article they say that ActM are both fast hash and hash fast.   Is this good or bad?
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VMC should offer:

1. 256GH Module's
2. Host Machine
3. Expansion Case
4. Chips

I see no point in offering 64gh modules

Also according to TGB, the Silver Unit (2 Module) at $4,543 is cheaper per GH than the $353,777 Platinum Unit (6 Module x 6 cases) - which is a little offensive to potential buyers of the big fella $353k product.

If they're miners are really just PCI-e cards, they should really just sell the cards and let people put them in their own motherboards/cases. Should be able to get 8 per motherboard.

The goal should be to make manufacturing a simple as possible.
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VMC should offer:

1. 256GH Module's
2. Host Machine
3. Expansion Case
4. Chips

I see no point in offering 64gh modules

Also according to TGB, the Silver Unit (2 Module) at $4,543 is cheaper per GH than the $353,777 Platinum Unit (6 Module x 6 cases) - which is a little offensive to potential buyers of the big fella $353k product.
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Note to Ken and Board: Product complexity is BAD. Simplify the offerings! Confused customers is no good.

Agreed. The whole website is a bit user unfriendly imho. But that's not the highest priority right now, I guess. Still two months till ETA.

Anyway. I kinda love his funny image skills. Grin



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