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Our Conquest is the sea of stars

By Hailong Hao

“Money is much too serious a matter to be left to central bankers.”
— Milton Friedman
When Nobel laureate Milton Friedman wrote down these words, he may not have expected that within three years after his death, people began to use Bitcoin (Bitcoin, BTC), a virtual currency based on Internet. As advocated by Milton Friedman that the rights to issue currency should be taken away from central bank, this is quite a great social experiment in recent years. However, since a variety of economic practices that he has promoted, we are sure about one thing- he never doubted that his dream could come true.

In this sense, Dr. Friedman was regarded as a practical idealist. Nobel Prize is not easy to get hands on, but there has never been short of idealists. Except speculators, these idealists are an important reason why Bitcoin could spread and still strong today. I think ASICME.COM’s founder Yaorui Yang could be counted as one of those idealists.

When I first got in touch with him, Yaorui was just releasing Bitcoin miner development plans. Because of the soaring market value of Bitcoin recently, media has a lot of reports about it. (There is one thing for sure in China, if an Internet product is in CCTV news, it must has become very popular in Internet.) At the same time, a large number of mining teams mushroomed in the market. However, the core hardware Avalon chips made by Dr. "Pumpkin Zhang,” need reservation to buy, most of these teams are selling “futures” in terms of this circumstance. So does ASICME.COM team. As a doctoral student in economics, I keep my eyes on Bitcoin since it released. Although I did not mining many, I am so interest in this worldwide social experiment. I ordered a miner from butterflylabs (of course, it is also a future). Since butterfly team has “bounced check” history, I even suspect that I may end up with leaving the machine on the shelf for two decades after I get them and then sell them as historic souvenirs. So I decided to book one more and I finally chose to order  from ASICME.COM. And this is how I finally become part of  ASICME.COM team.

The reason why I chose them seems ridiculous. When I saw a photo of Yaorui, I thought he was a crazy man. However, from the wild face I could feel the entrepreneurial spirit inside. On his Douban’s(a SNS website in china) home page, there is a list of the things he was engaged. It appears that he is a person who follows his heart and does whatever he is interested in. But, only the people following their hearts are able to understand how difficult it is - because such a person should be responsible for an idea that casually comes in his mind.

Later I found that he is anarchist. The reason to join Bitcoin business is to fulfill his dream. “isn’t it for money?” You are right, it is also for money. God will not allow if idealists could not make money. But compared to the “money only” team, the team with a dream is more sincere. If you believe that the rights to issue currency should not be given to central banks, you will feel just the existence of Bitcoin is a wonderful thing. If you do not have the similar experience, I strongly  advice you to have a try; trust me, you will not be disappointed. Our team is such a group of people.

If we did not have common ideal, you could hardly imagine how the people like us could do business together:

Yaorui Yang(Sanya / Lhasa): initiator, co-founder of renren.com (“Chinese facebook”), founder of the ASICME.COM, owns a surfing club, and a inn in Tibet.

Le Kang (Beijing / Hong Kong): manager of big customers, jiepang.com ex-operations director, Commercial Director of breadtrip.com.

Hardware Team Leader (Beijing): Senior Hardware Engineer, 7 years experience in hardware development, five years of experience in FPGA development. Specializes in high-speed digital signal processing hardware design.
　　
Software Team Leader (Beijing): 7 years experience in the development of embedded systems, industrial product development experience. A well-known mobile phone chip company engaged in the development of the underlying software. Specializes in hardware and software development and Linux systems development and software-hardware combined adjusting.
　　
Hailong Hao (Paris): PhD Student in Economics
　　
Wenpei Xu(Xiamen): Executive Director of FuJian WanXingLong Group

Jingwen Xu(Shanghai): Master in Designing management, cofounder of a independent brand, ex-brand planner in Ormosia group

Ya Jia (Beijing): Formerly worked in an Asian top-five hedge funds, Chief strategy officer of a luxury website.

Shuang Geng(Beijing): customer service, HR of automobile consultant company

Zhan Jin(Wuxi): customer service, Hezhifushi customer service team leader

San Ye (Wuxi): customer service, Hezhifushi customer service

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If we merely have the ideal, our project would not complete financing in just seven days and successfully released. We are all in part-time to do this and we are in different parts of the world. Decentralization meets the idea of bitcoin, and I believe it’s no coincidence. If we do not trust the Internet, neither bitcoin nor our collaboration can generate so much energy.
　　

Let’s talk about the products. Otherwise someone will think I was some "life coach" who only talks about dreams. We are developing the first generation of mining machines using chips from another company, Avalon, and have titled this line of products “ASICME Avalon”. They are foolproof and plug-and-play devices, so you do not need a computer to operate them. Meanwhile, ASICME improves upon flaws present in the original Avalon machine. The most powerful in this linup can mine approximately 88 Bitcoins per month at current mining difficulty level (a calculator for mining is here), which is based on the strongest ASICME 320 models and also supports extensions. The most important thing is that we have booked batches of Avalon chips, and we promise: if we can receive the chips on time, we ship the miner in 90 days after you order. Because of Dr. Pumpkin Zhang's credibility in the industry, we believe that we can delivery on time.

If you have Avalon Chips, we are pleased to produce our bitcoin miners for you, no matter where are you live in. We will deliver miner in 15-20 days after we received your chips. We will compensate customers for any loss incurred in the event of a chip failure.　　

Yaorui Yang, the founder, tweeted on Weibo.com (Chinese twitter) recently, “Our Conquest is the sea of stars”.  Those who are familiar with Legend of Galactic Heroes should also be familiar with these words. However if the earth is still not in “universal harmony”, how can we say we can start our odyssey in the universe? This sentence may become a romantic fantasy. But I would say that a currency, which can circulate worldwide without coercive power by any government, is exactly a start of “universal harmony”. In this sense, we have embarked on a journey of the first step. ”Our Conquest is the sea of stars."

[More details see ASICME official website ASICME.COM]

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