Alpha Technology: 2 Years & no Viper, Refund or Prosecution
It has now been over two years now since I and thousands of others around the world pre-ordered the Viper ASIC Scrypt miners from the Manchester, UK based Alpha Technology. No-one has yet received a miner, refund or an update of the fraud investigation from Greater Manchester Police. This is something that is baffling many in the industry as they still haven’t even a finished product to ship on a promise gave in May 2014 that they would begin dispatching the miners in July 2014 by the director Mohammed Akram. This date has moved continuously throughout 2014/15 and now into 2016 with....
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Alpha Viper circuit board. Alpha Technology has confirmed that shipments of its Viper Scrypt miner will suffer delays of up to a month. The company had previously planned to ship the 'batch one' units in September, but now says the date has been moved to October. "We are confident that we will be shipping in the latter half of October 2014, provided everything goes as planned," director Mohammad Akram told CoinDesk, explaining: "We are doing our best to ensure our customers receive the highest quality of product, which is performing at, if not better the advertised hash rates and power....
British ASIC designer Alpha Technology has revised the spec for its upcoming Viper scrypt miner, promising a significant speed boost, but also dropping a few features in the process. The hashing power gains are significant: Alpha had originally promised 5 MH/s and 25 MH/s units, but earlier this year it revised those figures to 16 MH/s and 90 MH/s respectively. Now it is promising to deliver 50 MH/s and 250 MH/s - 10 times the original rates. The company says the decision was made after long consideration and lengthy negotiations with its partners, coupled with strong competition in the....
September is here, bringing cold air to many parts of the world that play home to bitcoin mines on both the hobby and industrial scale. If you're a home rig operator, you're no doubt looking forward to the day when you can turn down the air conditioning and let some of that cool fall air inside. This week's roundup takes a look at several corners of the mining community, from inside the new rig of a solar power-producing hobbyist to inside Bitmain's manufacturing facility. Alpha Technology releases update on Viper. The long-awaited Viper scrypt miner has reportedly moved closer to....
Alpha Technology was working towards shipping their Viper units by the end of July, but due to technical issues, they had to go through a second-tape-out process, thus delaying the shipments. They waited until July 28th to tell customers about this little surprise, distancing themselves from their claim of being transparent. Their news even went so far as to "remind" all of their customers that they upgraded their devices from 25MH/s to 250MH/s back in May. Even though PayPal did what PayPal does best, and locked Alpha Technology's funds, Alpha Technology was still able to fund the second....
Alpha Technology has a new development update and its Viper scrypt board seems to be making headway. The British ASIC maker said it has completed the schematics for the ATX power distribution board and of the AC power metering board. Those of the actual ASIC board are not complete yet, but Alpha said it is "almost" done. In addition, the company has finalised the design of the enclosure and WebGUI user interface. ASIC tape-out initiated. Alpha said it is currently in the process of initiating tape-out at GlobalFoundries. The chip design has been finalised and sent to the foundry for....