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Topic: New ASIC Cedartec [Probable SCAM] (Read 8928 times)

hero member
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June 30, 2013, 07:40:05 PM
#62
Sooo, where's the mining farm being listed?
hero member
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May 15, 2013, 03:48:14 AM
#61
No this was the sensible thread where everyone shot it down in flames early on...well, except one guy who bought three!

Not sure if he knows that they refunded others...
legendary
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Christian Antkow
May 12, 2013, 08:15:45 PM
#60
Oh God... Not another thread...
sr. member
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May 12, 2013, 08:12:50 PM
#59
Boy are the people who order this thing going to be disappointed when they receive their unit.

Bitcoin requires a double hash of SHA256. It needs to do SHA256(SHA256(n)) not SHA256(n).
hero member
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May 02, 2013, 11:26:18 AM
#58
At least a couple have ordered there and admitted it.
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May 02, 2013, 11:25:18 AM
#57
I honestly cannot believe we are even debating the legitimacy of this

No one's debating it, we're just having a laugh at this lame attempt  Grin

No mate, not here. Here; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170739.100

Lol!


I HOPE no one's thinking of doing any business with them, but most ppl are having a good chuckle  Cheesy

What a joke!

 Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
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May 02, 2013, 11:20:55 AM
#56
From their index page:

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CEDARTEC was founded 2010 in Lebanon,
with the aim to develop and produce affordable
quality goods with high standards.
A long time we have thought about what our first product
could be, the decision was taken, finally, on a SHA-256 ASIC
product, influenced by the very positive development of the electronic currency "Bitcoin" which we want to support.
Quote
After 2 years of development time, we are sure to release and ship our first product in few weeks to our customers, so we have put our webpage online and finally started to accept orders.
We limited our product "CT-80", which we release for our customers, to 1000 units. Every device is working with 10 built-in chips working at a processing speed of 80 GH/s with a maximum power consumption of 200 watt.

2 years ago nobody was even using FPGA let alone thinking of ASIC.
But these guys from the Lebanon had a sixt sense on what will be and that they would have to start with ASIC development in 2010.

I doubt they are real.
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May 02, 2013, 11:08:53 AM
#55
I honestly cannot believe we are even debating the legitimacy of this

No one's debating it, we're just having a laugh at this lame attempt  Grin

No mate, not here. Here; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170739.100

Lol!
hero member
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May 02, 2013, 11:06:35 AM
#54
I honestly cannot believe we are even debating the legitimacy of this

No one's debating it, we're just having a laugh at this lame attempt  Grin
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May 02, 2013, 11:03:36 AM
#53
Also the chip on his finger is far smaller than those on the board in relative size!

Aaaaaand he's erased the branding on the chip above the gold wifi aerial in the second pic. The first has thick bold white lettering, the second, vanished, like magic!

Leaving nothing but the same slither of black repeated many times over the surface of the chip. Amateur.
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May 02, 2013, 10:28:03 AM
#52
Looks like a mini atx with WiFi

Oh yeah, the golden connector is for the WiFi antenna! And the sockets for mouse, keyboard and other peripherals have been snapped off. You can see the small pins sticking out of the board between the RJ45 jack and WiFi antenna connector.

+1 blatantly, thank-you, someone that speaks sense, finally. I honestly cannot believe we are even debating the legitimacy of this or that some morons on another thread are trying to defend this, let alone part with BTC!!

So, so desperate to believe in anything...
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May 02, 2013, 10:10:59 AM
#51
hmmm

Better than BFL ...




Better PR at least.
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May 02, 2013, 08:24:17 AM
#50
Scamfucks

Yet you ordered three?
sr. member
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May 02, 2013, 08:22:20 AM
#49
dB relative to WHAT?

Relative to nothing or, if you want, relative to the level of 0 dB at the limit of human perception (actually 0 dB correspond to 20 micropascal of pressure amplitude)
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Across The Universe
May 02, 2013, 07:03:24 AM
#48
hmmm

Better than BFL ...

legendary
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May 02, 2013, 07:02:55 AM
#47
Scamfucks
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May 02, 2013, 07:02:09 AM
#46
Looks like a mini atx with WiFi

Oh yeah, the golden connector is for the WiFi antenna! And the sockets for mouse, keyboard and other peripherals have been snapped off. You can see the small pins sticking out of the board between the RJ45 jack and WiFi antenna connector.
hero member
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May 02, 2013, 06:59:46 AM
#45
Video from their media gallery: https://vimeo.com/65249930
legendary
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May 02, 2013, 06:58:17 AM
#44
Looks like a mini atx with WiFi
hero member
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May 02, 2013, 06:55:44 AM
#43
So, obviously these photos are shopped:



Please note how conveniently the cellphone blocks the view of the place where the chips where photoshopped onto the board. However, the tenth chip should be visible in that picture. It's not there.



Can anyone recognize the board? To me, it looks like some old-ass board with an RJ45 jack (bottom right) glued on. The golden connector next to the RJ45 jack looks like a TV antenna connector. The socket on the top left looks similar to a PC motherboard power socket. Maybe it's from a TV cable box?
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