Again with Coinware/Liquidbits! Why? What's the point? Am I responsible for bringing the topic back? All I said initially what that I feared we might come to regret their proposition. Perhaps I should have said "Let's do everything in our limited power to not come to regret their plan". Let's move on already! They have not been in the loop for some time now, other than being a creditor -- and by very far the largest of all, from what I have read. They made a proposition to the committee, they argued for it in court and answered questions on this forum (no one else so far did the same). The committee rejected it, the judge rejected their deadline, they went their way. Is there more, besides the very easily verifiable fact that neither Coinware nor Liquidbits are registered in the British Ocean Territory but in the United States of America? If anything, the above posts seem to indicate that Coinware / LQB would have had the financial wherewithal to actually pull off the creditor's mega-mine -- but then, again, how is it relevant today? Who cares? That ship sailed a while back. End of story.
The committee said they had other offers on the table, the only thing we saw was the CRO being nominated.
I think that the only thing that really matters today is: Are there indeed other propositions on the table and if so what might they be? I have not been able to find out (besides the eventual, possible, nebulous projects such as the Franchise mine for which I never could find any details besides rumors). The CRO is quiet, perhaps he is working out a deal, or simply preparing to liquidate what's left of the assets at auction. Anyone knows? That would be the "gist" of the situation. The committee should know. I am sure they are in contact with the CRO. It is sensible. Can't they give us any information? It's hard to imagine that "nothing" is going on.
The point being is that all these major Bitcoin Camp are interwoven to one degree or another nefariously.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HGKRj7gx9BcJ:www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/0000/0504/05049895.pdf+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=usFor someone with such a great past there should be more than enough evidence backing up his profile, like papers he wrote, talks he gave at conferences and such..
A remarkable point is at least, for all combos of his name and a company from his linkedin-profile, the first hit is always his linkedin-profile - doesn't increase confidence.
Btw: check this profile, too
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9921043&privcapId=1994285&previousCapId=1994285&previousTitle=iVivity,%20Inc.
"This person is connected to 0 Board Members in 0 different organizations across 0 different industries."
maybe another person, since this finding is not mentioned on his linkedin-profile ?!
http://www.oit.gatech.edu/content/about-oitminor inconsistency found:
http://www.solidoaktech.com/executive.html says Jim O'Connor is still executive
while linked in profile shows this as his past
quick google shots lead me the following results:
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General Electric:
only found Matthew J. O’Connor - same person ? If so why 'Matthew J' instead of Jim ??
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/carlyle-hires-g-e-executive-for-power-investment-team/?ref=generalelectriccompany&_r=0 Star Technologies:
nothing found
Broadband Technologies:
nothing found
Nortel (Networks?!):
nothing found
Zagros Networks:
nothing found
SMSC:
nothing found
Altior Inc.: http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Jim-O%27Connor/1636630158 (easy to fake)
http://www.insideview.com/directory/altior-inc => shows 'http://www.cebatech.com/' as website for Altior Inc.
and this domain is registered, only - no content at all => very fishy----------------------------------------------------------------
techjim.com found here
http://occcsa.com/rfc/rfc2701.htm (no, he did not work on the rfc, just konverted the doc to html)
doesn't look like a page of any kind of professional
http://techjim.com http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JSocfDj7OsIJ:techjim.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk occcsa.com belongs to JAMES O'Connor with mail address
[email protected]JAMES O'Connor looks quite similar to JIM O'Connor, no?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DPiYBBSSC8IJ:https://profile.usgs.gov/oconnor/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnkDr David likes his privacy, so his name has been removed from the website.
I'm going to just preserve this here for future reference, so people won't need to dig through some archives or caches.
Cointerra/Team
Cointerra boasts a highly experienced engineering team of semiconductor architects and designers who have previously designed some of the world’s highest performance CPUs, GPUs and chipsets for Nvidia, Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm and Nortel. Having worked on several generations of low-power mobile devices, our team brings tremendous experience in power efficient circuitry, design methodology and implementation to the exciting new frontier of Bitcoin mining.
Executive team
The architecture, design and development effort is lead by : Ravi Iyengar, Dr. David Tannenbaum, and Jim O’Connor. The Advisory Board is headed by Dr. Naveed Sherwani.
Ravi Iyengar
FOUNDER & CEO
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravidiyengarBefore founding Cointerra, Ravi was a Lead CPU Architect at Samsung Corporation. Ravi brings with him 15 years of industry experience in Architecture, Design and Verification in CPU, GPU, Desktop/Server Chipsets and ASIC Cores, and years of leadership experience in top Semi-conductor companies like Samsung, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Intel. Ravi has a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Wright State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, India.
Dr. David Tannenbaum
Chief Architect
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-tannenbaum/12/4b6/647David works as a Consultant Architect & Designer at Cointerra. He is a Principal Engineer at NVIDIA Corporation and has over 25 years of experience in the industry. He brings with him vast experience in the design of arithmetic intensive logic including single, double precision floating-point, custom floating-point, IEEE formats, transcendental support, fused multiply-add, integer operations, conversions, logical operations, custom instructions, exponentiation, logarithms. Inventor on 20+ patents. David has a Ph.D in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Jim O’Connor
VP of Engineering
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoconnor
Over 35 years of experience in design and management. Jim has held management positions at Altior Inc(now Exar), SMSC(now Microchip), iVivity, Zagros Networks and Orologic(now Vitesse Semiconductor), Nortel Semiconductor and BroadBand Technologies.
Jim has also held lead design positions at BroadBand Technologies, Star Technologies, General Electric, and Teledyne. His experience includes SOC design and verification, Assertion-Based Verification, physical design, systems design, software and firmware in graphics, datacom, telecom and security.
Jim is a graduate of General Electric’s Edison Engineering program and holds B.S. and M. Eng. Degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Louisville’s Speed Scientific School. Dr. Naveed Sherwani
Advisor
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/naveed-sherwani/0/89/2a7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-SiliconCo-Founder, President & CEO of Open Silicon. Prior to co-founding Open-Silicon, Dr. Sherwani was the founder and General Manager of Intel Microelectronics Services where he led efforts to promote the use of disciplined ASIC methodologies to improve design efficiency and time-to-market. He currently chairs the GSA (Global Semiconductor Association) Technical Steering Committee.
Dr. Sherwani co-architected the Intel microprocessor design methodology and environment that has been used in several leading microprocessors. Prior to joining Intel, he worked as a consultant for various telecommunications and computer companies, mainly focusing on ASIC design flow and cell library design to improve time-to-market.
Dr. Sherwani is the author of textbook on Physical Design, which is widely used as the main textbook at major universities around the world. In addition, he has authored or co-authored three books and over 100 articles on various aspects of Physical Design Automation and ASICs.
