RE: Bitmain blocking 3rd part firmware16 Apr 2024 10:28
Brew - if you read the RNS you will see why the origin of the mining device manufacture is highly highly likely not to be Chinese in my opinion.
‘Due to the very specific, architectural choices in the Chinese manufacturer’s design of BM13XX chips along with no formal collaboration between QBT and the manufacturer, the Company first needed to understand the architecture of the chip and how to best implement Methods A and B’
So ask yourself how can they be live testing on a Bitmain rig with a Chinese chip when they’ve not managed to port to this yet?
If you read the RNS further down it does say the ‘Company is performing intensive live mining tests 24/7 using ASIC-based Bitcoin mining devices connected to two large mining pools’
Now back to the top of the RNS ‘The Company has, over the past nine months, entered into early-stage exploratory discussions, under Non-Disclosure Agreements (“NDA”), with two large mining rig manufacturers in China and North America’
So if they’re in discussions with a North American and Chinese rig manufacturers, and they’ve had challenges porting to the Chinese manufactured machine and chip, whose machine and chip do you think they’re using for live testing?
As for your comment on the firmware this makes no sense. The very reason QBT have designed the SaaS solution on servers is to protect their IP so that they didn’t have to deploy any firmware onto physical machines.
You are simply trying to peddle uncertainty which goes against the public information available. Why would you do that for your own investment?