I love how people are now so invested in KNC miner that they abuse others for not sharing their blind beliefs. Are you really that invested that you're so scared that this might not be fluffly clouds and rainbows ready to give you money printing machines for almost nothing?
What do you think BFL appeared to be like on announcement? Identical.
No abuse dogie,
I don't know you and would like some insight into your motivations.
I literally want to know why you are saying the things that you are saying?
Are you an unbiased observer here? Do you have any stake in any other ASIC miners?
Did you go to BFL HQ when they opened up for pre-orders?
And to answer your question:
Am I scared? No I am not, I am however concerned about my investment, and like most investors/speculators here, I want to do as much due diligence that I can, hence the questioning of your motivations and your bashing of my decision to back KnC with my BTC.
Thats fine.
I own avalons and (possibly used to) own asic miner hardware. Its not a large portfolio, its not integral to my way of life, and if it was valued at 0 tomorrow I'd be annoyed but not devastated. I couldn't care less if this was Avalon suddenly saying 300000000000GH for $1, I have no allegiances to any company.
Its too good to be true:
- tiny process no one has even attempted to get close to. Smallest actual miner today is 90nm [ignoring bfl as no significant quantity and their problems]
- massive, massive hash rates predicted
- tiny power consumption predicted
- really cheap prices
- 3 month lead time
- excellent engineers, apparently really clever
All promised without any designs shown, a shitty drawing of a potential case that doesn't even make sense, no pictures of any actual ASIC hardware. Anyone can rock up an FPGA - that's not proof of anything [watch everyone concentrate on this sentence *sigh*]..
.... and all the while they're a for profit company. They don't have great ideologies like Yifu, they're here to make money. And how do you make money with a miner you designed? You mine on it. You create a proof of concept, raise funds then deploy the shit out of it.
You don't advertise it on a forum, collect preorder money then sell it drip by drip for rock bottom prices. All combined, too good to be true. If these were preordering at 3x the price then it would make more sense, but they know *something* we don't yet.
I can respect your thought process on this one, however don't underestimate the motivation for riches... I'm not rich by any means, but I can tell that if I had the knowledge, means, and most importantly a couple of million dollars that magically landed into my account by random strangers I would make it my goal in life to shit asic's if that was what was needed to keep the money flowing. Now by no means are these guys rich or proven, which arguably works against them, but I'm sure they will give it their damndest to make sure they can give something to their grandchildren. Hopefully its not just a couple million they swindled off some schmucks online... but time will tell.
As for the whole idea of mining your way to success, any investor worth his weight in salt wouldn't even think about dropping 50 million , let alone a million on a unofficially recognized currency that's volatile as hell, and has virtually no serious outlets in which to dump all your golden coins(and no, I doubt Mt'Gox would be able to bring in enough dollars to unload all the coin at a profitable rate). They know this... Its better to sell 10 suckers a pick and get a surefire quick buck than it is to spend hours trying to pan for gold, even if we are the asses wanting the pick, its not hard to understand the concept.
Admittedly, I am invested in this whole thing, and I have to admit that myself like others are dreaming of sunshine and rainbows, and close to a terrahash of mining power in an environment where BTC is at-least worth $100 USD and difficulty lingering around 100M. But I am also aware that it could all be a very expensive lesson and nothing more than a pipe dream. Alot of people are overextended in this, and I hope for those that are mortgaging the house that it pays off but the reality is, your right... there is risk, but nothing good ever comes easy, and Fortune favors the bold.
Lets just hope everyone makes it out of this without triggering another mortgage crisis...