Topic: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It - page 992. (Read 3917568 times)

Efficient units that can be made faster incrementally that can be put to market immediately
Are better than heavy R@D units that take years to get to market and cannot be used for a while

I'm familiar with the concept, and I don't think that there is any conflict whatsoever (right now) between growing total hashrate and the ability to keep cold spares. Think about it: the delay of deployment due to learning how to deploy these quickly has already been flushed out. The estimated rate of 60 boards per day is an estimate of actual deployment, and can't be used as a "peak" value of actual hardware racking - nobody but Friedcat's team knows the actual rack rate. Add to that the knowledge that the percentage of the network has not only kept up, but has INCREASED at the same time, and we can extrapolate that the deployment of hardware has accelerated beyond the initial few weeks' rate. They're learning how to deploy faster, so there's no reason to put a limit on their deployment efforts just because we don't see the effect on the network hashrate. That's how I came up with my theory... mind you, it is just a theory, but I did take into account the idea that the deployment must accelerate beyond the growth of the network in order to maintain the current percentages. Of course, it won't stand up perpetually, but for now, deployment is accelerating beyond what's necessary. And that makes me think that there's no reason they can't assembly-line this into a cold standby situation. That's how I think I'd do it, anyway, in order to avoid growing hashrate too quickly while leveraging the workforce putting the hardware into place at peak efficiency.

Mmm.. I don't know, I think they are building out things as fast as they can, and nothing is sitting idle, other than inventory allocated for delivery to hardware buyers. Bear in mind to keep up with difficulty gains in the network, they need to be racking and stacking 60+ blockerupters per day. They need to do this 7 days a week, while also building out all the space, networking switches, power, and cooling to support over 3100 blockerupters they currently have deployed. (They have proven their ability to deploy at a peak rate of ~60 blockeruptor boards a day.)

Remember these numbers will only go as they try to maintain their share of an ever growing hashrate. Someone mentioned the law of large numbers earlier. I think an explanation might be in order.

"The first is the law of large numbers. As a company gets bigger, each percentage of incremental revenue suddenly represents a fundamentally larger number. As the base grows, the amount of new business needed to make a material difference in earnings also rises, increasing the pressure on sales to find new markets, new categories, and new geographies. In other words, the larger a company becomes, the more the entire engine has to work harder."

IE: It's going to become exceedingly harder and harder for AM to maintain their share of the network, and it seems at some point they might not be able to keep up. (When and if that happens only really FC could guess.)

-helixone

Or they're holding back to avoid a juggernaut hashrate which would harm hardware sales.

My personal opinion is that they spend time racking and networking devices that are powered down but ready to go, and that they keep an eye on hashrate/difficulty closely enough that they simply provide power to the cold devices when a boost is necessary to maintain their "dominant but not too powerful" position. I have no evidence for this other than a gut feeling based on observation of the hash rates and competition, but I'm pretty sure reality is something very close to this description. I wonder if they have at least 50% spare hashpower ready at any given moment, but that's just me daydreaming.

In a word: Juggernaut.

Well if it finally ships we would have a competitor sort of depends on how fast they can clear their backlogs

It amazes me that there are still people who believe even one iota of what BFL states.

Congratulations to all shareholders on today's dividend! I really didn't think it was going to be that high again.

Our mining earnings chart shows that ASICMiner, despite the 28% difficulty increase that occurred on June 5th, has continued to exceed past week's earnings in mining:



It occurred right before the previous payout, so they have had to increase their hashing power by 28% over night, to keep up with past week's earnings.

Amazing! I really get the feeling that ASICMiner really has this planned out much more than many people had expected (including myself!).

I saw the thread as well. Since it was the first unit shipping, it had a special serial number - 1337.  Looks like BFL doesn't consider this an official release - maybe they don't want to get the hopes up for others with single orders or worse, the mini-rigs.

Seems to be deleted. A few minutes ago I could see it, whithout any pictures. I tried to follow the pictures and get the invalid error message. Back to the text Iknow also,see only invalid message ...

... It was working a moment ago
GAH Damn next time I'll take a screen cap lol
Summary of URL
Showed units being put into boxes they had personal ID's someone watched them be lasered on
Said that they will put foam for future shipments of boxes instead of just packing it in there

On a bullish note
Second note wall has officially past the halfway point in available to paid shares
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=213729.60
755 shares available.
765 shares paid
480 shares in reservation/escrow + 121 From thread (Not including PM's)

Maybe they didnt like me sharing the link?!

Just me? If so, could someone quote it//message it to me?

Thanks

Two routes
LIES:
Or
Finally but how long till they catch up
Anyways thanks TAT

Head's up:  https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3214-first-single-sc-60gh-s-has-left-building.html

I was waiting for someone else to start that meme hehe

ASICMINER - Sweeter than π... (yes, I was waiting for that).

Goes off to vote and voted

And yay we did beat PI XD

Cat Rich or Fry Trying