rejon on Nostr: First day of Chinese New Year, and I can hear firecrackers cracking...somehow making ...
First day of Chinese New Year, and I can hear firecrackers cracking...somehow making me think about the past. So I just type here what I'm thinking directly.
One major mistake I made when we open sourced the Avalon 851 to the best of our abilities, was that we did not either:
(1) Release to Bitcointalk properly. From my past in Open Source, and then Github banning accounts related to Bassel Khartabil/Syria, I was hellbent on releasing everything myself under 100% control.
(2) Not enough marketing power because no proper executive level corporate backing at the time.
However, I tell it as it is...from looking at that repo, one can backtrack the origins of Bitcoin mining from FPGA (Qi Hardware Milkymist > Icarus > Avalon Miners)
In China, open source is/was always kind of funny because everyone just shared code freely because people did not see that as an issue.
There are some good stories about how SMT's used FTP and everyones designs were just in a folder that everyone shared hahahahahaha :)
Needless to say, Bitmain's designs are derivatives of Canaan's design and then Bitmain's optimizations also made it back into Canaan's design simply, in many cases, from shared FTP drives :)
https://github.com/EHash
One major mistake I made when we open sourced the Avalon 851 to the best of our abilities, was that we did not either:
(1) Release to Bitcointalk properly. From my past in Open Source, and then Github banning accounts related to Bassel Khartabil/Syria, I was hellbent on releasing everything myself under 100% control.
(2) Not enough marketing power because no proper executive level corporate backing at the time.
However, I tell it as it is...from looking at that repo, one can backtrack the origins of Bitcoin mining from FPGA (Qi Hardware Milkymist > Icarus > Avalon Miners)
In China, open source is/was always kind of funny because everyone just shared code freely because people did not see that as an issue.
There are some good stories about how SMT's used FTP and everyones designs were just in a folder that everyone shared hahahahahaha :)
Needless to say, Bitmain's designs are derivatives of Canaan's design and then Bitmain's optimizations also made it back into Canaan's design simply, in many cases, from shared FTP drives :)
https://github.com/EHash