I am monitoring this thread. Could be interested in reserving 20-25 NF1s.
The only things missing are:
1. I hate to hand over money to strangers. Have you conducted successfully GB in the past?
2. So far, you are only pseudonyms on a online forum, Can you share real life identity of the NF1 members and contact info?
3. I am waiting to see a video of a working prototype.
4. I have red this thread and you really like to know what you're talking about. I would like to know if this is your first electronic project or if you have accumulated a serie of similar realisations in the electronic field and/or if you have relevent professional background that would help potential customers to trust your ability to fulfill this project successfully.
If you're able to address these points, I am pretty that I will be interested to invest in this venture and probably many more will with these info as well.
Good luck and be your enterprise successful!
Hi,
on the various questions:
#2 : I understand your concerns. Would it work for you if I provide my info to John K? For a number of reasons I would prefer not to publish team members personal info.
#3 : We're working hard on that. Getting the chips running is one thing. Rewriting the mining software to support them - quite a different challenge. We've been in talks with several mining software developers (ckolivas, luke_jr and DrHaribo to name a few).
While we're probably going to launch with limited support for just cgminer we are also going to provide those developers hardware and whatever further assistance they need for incorporating support for NF1 in their miners. This however may not happen right away and most likely after we have the mass-produced miners. We've set aside about a dozen devices to be sent out to developers for that specific reason.
#1 and to some extent #4 : I have been in the electronics and software field for over 20 years (I think one of my first hardware+software projects was presented at an exhibition in 1991). I've been working for example with Microchip PIC's microcontrollers when they only had 16C84 (including the one with the software protection bug). Over the last decade I've designed and executed a number projects from end to end - and I mean here from designing the schematics, through writing the software and organizing the entire manufacturing process (including procuring of materials, services, etc) to setting up industrial-scale Q&A and testing for finished products. Compared to some of those projects this one is rather tiny.
Have I done a GB specifically on bitcointalk.org - no, that's the first such GB. Nonetheless - I know first hand (and in details) exactly what's involved in every step. Some of the other team members have been coding for even longer than me. I'm okay also providing JohnK our team members LinkedIn profiles.
Please PM me if I missed anything as I would prefer not to go too much off-topic
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