Hey guys,
I plan on visiting Cointerra next week. No real purpose, but I'll be in town. I've been keeping up on and off, but I'd like to get a concise summary of what they're doing and what they've done so far if anyone has a good article.
I can also ask and try to get answers on any current burning questions. (How much hashing power do you plan to put out? Is there any more help coming for your underspecced ASICs? etc.)
Link or PM me if you can help, thanks!
Thanks!
I'm leaving for austin next week too. gonna visit the Texas Bitcoin conference, and combine it with SXSW as well!
I'm arriving in austin tuesday night, so perhaps i'll see you at the bitcoin conf? i will also drop into cointerra as well later that week, though I'm guessing they'll be at the show for most of it, as they're a sponsor.
i think your burning questions are worth asking, especially the ones about the future of the product lineup and when the full speed miners will ship, etc.
your question about how much they plan to put out... is a complex question, and whatever answer you get will depend on many factors... not least the price of bitcoin decides whether people are buying mining equipment and any bitcoin asic suppliers need customer demand to drive their sales... and also, needs the context of how much hardware the other suppliers will put out to be a useful piece of data.
Do you happen to know what percentage of the network is currently filled by the others? like knc, bfl etc? cointerra recently announced they're powering 1.7% of the network with their first 1000 systems sold. i wouldn't be surprised if knc powers more than 50% of the network currently.
one small piece of data... andreas (knc) was on a panel at the berlin bitcoin conference a couple of weeks ago and said they've done something like $88m in sales in the last 8 months (think he said the split was nearly half jupiters and bit more than half were neptune pre-orders).. which is incredibly impressive! from that revenue we can probably work backwards and figure out how many PH's they've sold (i think $40m of jupiters = 3-4 PH, and $48m in neptunes = 15-20 PH) and ... but we still won't know how many they plan to put out for the rest of this year (but I'm guessing 50 PH sounds about right).. but i suspect with knc's unblemished reputation they will sell significantly more PH's than cointerra ever could.