back to the topic. As you can see from my signature I am one of the faithful and believe BFL will deliver. The main reason being is ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) are not some mystery piece of tech that has just emerged over the last couple of months to satisfy Bitcoin miners. ASICs have been around for some time. When you hear of something being "implemented in hardware" they are most likely referring to an ASIC. There are even ASICs used for cryptography that perform sha256 already in existence. What BFL is offering an enhancement to existing tech that is focused on Bitcoin mining.
So yes it is worth it and they will deliver.
Gosh gee whizz, a newbie thats barely been on the forums trusts BFL and knows what ASIC stand for.
Obviously if you know what the acronym stands for you know all the specific details of R&D -> Production and all the potential pitfalls along the way.
So, trust this guy - seems legit.
You make this assumption because of a legitimate reason or are you just generally a douche?
Was anything I wrote incorrect?
douche bag seems legit ^
Did you have any content to add besides the definition of ASIC and your 2c of "hey Im a newbie and you should trust me !!!".
what exactly are you contending? ASICS have not existed or there have never been cryptographic asics that can perform sha-256?
Here is something I found by using this thing called a search engine you can try it yourself just type
http://www.google.com in that white box at top of your browser.
http://rf.harris.com/media/SierraII_tcm26-9224.pdfhttp://www.heliontech.com/core.htmAnd now that I've taught you how to use the internet. go ahead and try the search yourself. you'll see numerous academic papers and even a contest hosted by NSIT, (thats stands for the National Institute of Standards and Technology) to implement SHA-3 in hardware. by that I mean they were challenged to implement the newest standard of SHA using an ASIC.
Here is some homework for you little buddy. When did the contest end, and was the there a winner?
why don't you do some research before you come play with the big boys, okay.
He's saying that we all know ASICs exist already, it's been discussed hundreds of times on the forums, but that it doesn't mean anything to us. Until product meets consumer, it's all just a "let's hope for the best" scenario.
As creativex said, yes, they will probably be able to put out an ASIC, but who puts out what, when, with what specs, we don't know, as everything is in flux. And that is a (the?) critical component of this whole deal.