Topic: Alpha Technology Litecoin (Scrypt) ASIC Miner Order Batch 1 Now! - page 251. (Read 529054 times)
December 19, 2013, 04:20:45 AM
Specification is available here https://t.co/HOqKYIOxEA
December 18, 2013, 05:32:06 PM
3. Images of our new office, and official Viper trailer.
Will you do an open doors day to meet your team, visit your new offices and see a working prototype of your miner ?1. This link is not working: https://alpha-t.net/news/development-update-17122013/
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Website being updated to avoid any future disruptions or performance issues.
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December 18, 2013, 05:28:12 PM
1. This link is not working:
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2. Another pre-order project. Hope the timelines are tight.
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2. Another pre-order project. Hope the timelines are tight.
December 18, 2013, 05:19:16 PM
Depending on the price I may just get a 5Mh/s miner. Hope the price is reasonable not over $1,500.
December 18, 2013, 11:23:53 AM
Wow I thought scrypt was difficult/impossible using ASIC. Wasn't that the "point" of it? How has it been circumvented?
It was/is difficult, not impossible.
Nothing is impossible in computer world.
Or "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth." - Archimedes
December 18, 2013, 10:05:46 AM
Wow I thought scrypt was difficult/impossible using ASIC. Wasn't that the "point" of it? How has it been circumvented?
It was/is difficult, not impossible.
Nothing is impossible in computer world.
December 18, 2013, 09:28:14 AM
Wow I thought scrypt was difficult/impossible using ASIC. Wasn't that the "point" of it? How has it been circumvented?
Yeah exactly... please read my post above and help me to understand if these scrypt asics are worth the buy
What do you think about the memory bus point?
December 18, 2013, 01:20:29 AM
Wow I thought scrypt was difficult/impossible using ASIC. Wasn't that the "point" of it? How has it been circumvented?
December 18, 2013, 01:18:37 AM
Altcoin market is very risky. short term or similar. Not sure how many people wants to buy it
December 18, 2013, 12:57:59 AM
I too am interested, however I am quite weary. Even early Bitcoin Asic companies did not have much luck, and the theory behind mining a SHA based coin with an Asic device is far less convoluted. I'm still hesitant to believe that such hardware could have been developed in such a short amount of time. I handled SHA based ASIC devices somewhat similar in architecture to Bitcoin miners 5+ years ago, therefor it didn't come as a shock that it could be made to suit Bitcoin's needs.
I'll be watching your releases, but I doubt anyone that has been around for more than a year will be on board with the preorder scene. The BFL situation was a mess, and the Asic companies that went under taking their funds with them even worse. I have a hard time seeing this go more smoothly for you, but for your own sake and those that do choose to preorder, I wish you all the best of luck. There would have to be outstanding circumstance in order to get me to preorder anything.
That being said, I will have no trouble ordering after seeing you ship a batch out.
I'll be watching your releases, but I doubt anyone that has been around for more than a year will be on board with the preorder scene. The BFL situation was a mess, and the Asic companies that went under taking their funds with them even worse. I have a hard time seeing this go more smoothly for you, but for your own sake and those that do choose to preorder, I wish you all the best of luck. There would have to be outstanding circumstance in order to get me to preorder anything.
That being said, I will have no trouble ordering after seeing you ship a batch out.
December 18, 2013, 12:57:07 AM
im going to follow also!
December 18, 2013, 12:47:18 AM
Following development. Best luck! I may buy in depending on specifications.
December 18, 2013, 12:39:44 AM
I'm in, great news. 
December 17, 2013, 06:39:10 PM
Good news.
Just waiting for the prices.
Just waiting for the prices.
December 13, 2013, 06:05:37 PM
interested in this miners, do keep me posted.
December 13, 2013, 04:19:57 PM
Some people say that ASIC hardware for scrypt would not outperform the GPUs due to the nature of the scrypt algorithm whereof performance depends on the memory bus speed.
But there is some fixed limit on memory buses' speed that the technology has not outreached for many many years thus far, and GPUs seems to be the fastest hardware available regarding memory speed.
Is there some documentation that explains why scrypt performance depends on that?
I'd like to understand this point to find out if mining LTC faster than the GPUs do is possible.
A deep knowledge of the scrypt algorithm may help.
But there is some fixed limit on memory buses' speed that the technology has not outreached for many many years thus far, and GPUs seems to be the fastest hardware available regarding memory speed.
Is there some documentation that explains why scrypt performance depends on that?
I'd like to understand this point to find out if mining LTC faster than the GPUs do is possible.
A deep knowledge of the scrypt algorithm may help.
December 09, 2013, 05:17:22 PM
Is Alpha Technology still selling pre orders? It's shown on the site that it's all out os stock (sold out?) 
November 30, 2013, 09:47:30 PM
now should be good time to draw investors into scrypt market.
November 24, 2013, 02:24:13 PM
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November 21, 2013, 01:35:31 PM
Waiting for price and hashrate...
yes exactly
maybe also power supply electricity consumption
and delivery conditions - I will not be paying 20 BTC in advance and wait till January only to get know that in February shit happens and they bankrupt or something.
We all know that it already happened many times before that not everybody got what they ordered and prepaid
be careful
I am watching it everyday, of course I would love to have shiny mining machine at home but I cannot give away my money just in foolish hope that they will deliver it.
if you were at their place and know that in case something happen you don't have to deliver goods what would stop you from not taking the cash of other people?
TerraHash shuts down, bitcoin miners upset
http://www.coindesk.com/terrahash-shuts-down-bitcoin-miners-upset-with-refund/
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