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Where can you buy them? Not seen anything anywhere. Someone else has to give us an hóngbāo with the following. Detailed chip specifications, chips and do that soon if you want to get in the design prototype line we have. Again A1, BitFury and Bitmain first then Minion and looking forward to Asicminer 40nm right after that. Gridseed is only possible if there are chips and specs otherwise no point.

Gridseed chips!

Happy Lunar New Year.

We hope to fill this hóngbāo with gerbers and bom soon in the new year.

Update:

Wasp & Hive Prototype Update

The EE team has had what can only be said to be a horrible week with the CAD software and that has pushed things back yet again. Agggg! I feel for the EE putting in 16 hour days just to wrestle with persnickety software is not where we all want for him. In terms of the Hive we have significant airflow enhancements so that cooling will be greatly improved thanks to a "spinal column" looking design. The Hive will be ready before the Wasp and that is a good news for us moving foward. We had 2 potential customers at the meeting and questions about the A1 chip and the PCB were a key point. Our EE is recommending that anyone building for the A1 chip does go with a metal core board based on his years of experience it is required without a doubt. We will be clear to anyone fabricating our design that this is a non-negotiable point as the heat stress on the A1 pads with such tiny tiny contact points it will be a worry otherwise using only a standard FM4 PCB board as you really have to find as many ways to get the heat out as possible.

Licensing Fee Update

Our provisioning server with our firmware will be tested this week so that is progressing very well and will be ready when the Wasps and Hive come together. The WPC is currently discussing the pros & cons of the fee and trying hard to come up with a balance that allows for fabricators or end users to seamlessly get their licenses paid for and get mining without any interruptions. We will have the provisioning server up in time for fabricators and well before the first units are shipped to the community as we will use our own prototypes to test this fully.

Mining Pool Update

We will have to get our mining pool live tested this week to check stratum and cold wallets etc. We hope that we will have a working pool going soon. http://wpcpool.mine.nu/ you can check it out here to keep tabs on that progress.

Website Update

As we wait patiently for good news at the next EE meeting on February 1st the team setting up the website will continue to work on the text and graphics for the site. We are waiting on videos and real demos before we launch the site. We might put up a placeholder site soon so that people can check back that way rather than waiting for a weekly update from here.

Sales

Drop me an email or PM if you haven't already if you are looking at production of our designs. We have many members worldwide so if you need to speak with us in your first language we might have someone in the WPC that can parlez with you. I believe we have 10 to 15 languages available in our collective and we are represented across the entire planet.

I am looking forward to talking with everyone in the meeting today. I hope to see as many people as possible turn up 

Rest you 2 big day tomorrow.

Where yall stayin? We are at the marriot across the bay.. the party tonight was pretty nuts.

Hey that's me!

feel free to tweet me or come and find me.

I'd love to meet all of you (and hope i do).

I had 2 cancelled flights and delays on other flights... In fact i went from BWI BACK to Philly... I went almost all the way home to fly to florida!  Oh well, the TSA was AWESOME and went out of their way to get me to my flights on time. Thanks guys!

US Airways... Not really thrilled with them... The staff was nice but their policies suck. I won't be traveling with them unless they make it right. I missed the party tonight because of the cancelled flights! No comps, no upgrade, not even a free beer 

my hotel hosts: awesome!

best quotes of the day came from a flight attendant

on take off:
"If you can text, your phone is not in airplane mode"

and on touchdown

"Well looks like everyone's got their cell phones out already, and if you don't you better join the crowd"

North American
Bitcoin Conference
Miami Beach - January 25 & 26, 2014

If you are going to be in BTC Miami Beach this weekend you can follow one of our WPC members and the man behind our WPC Pool Joe!  Follow @JoesPool's journey to BTCMiami! Tweet us if you want to meet us!!

Ya we are too buried right now to work that in the tight sked we got anyhow. If there were chips to prototype with in Feb that be possible. But that is a lot of ifs and there needs to be chip specs etc. Thanks for the link I will keep watching.

Seems gridseed is already "out"?
http://mall.diginforce.com/goods.php?id=37

Guys working hard on the WPC Pool. Testing should be done in the next week and we hope have a soft opening of the pool for our members before a full release after that.

Dateline Seattle: News from the EE.


Thanks Bobsag3 the EE got them.

CAN YOU SMELL THE SOLDER?

If it wouldnt get me kicked out...

Say hi to Josh while your there too !!!!    Maybe give his behind a good slap    He'd like that 

Okay will do.

Have a good one in Miami... say hey the Money Bags for me!

I will actually be in BTC Miami Saturday.
Let Dick know he will get the chips tomorrow, along with some bitmain samples.

Def. cannot wait to see how this comes along.  I've been slammed last few weeks so I need to go back and sift through all of the other threads.  Might be next major jump for us down the road when licensing, etc. comes about.

Thanks for that Bobsag3. We have some in hand already and yours will definitely be used in the first run of prototype boards when your chips arrive this week in Seattle so that we can get a fully populated hive and then some. Hope to see you at the next meeting on Saturday.