HalleyBTC, a New Service Offering Bitcoin Savings Investment

2 Nov
2015

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A new service called HalleyBTC was just recently launched that offers high ROI for its Bitcoin savings investment options. The service is apparently operated and backed by one of the large Chinese Bitcoin mining farm operators – Halley China (though it seems that it could be ZeusMiner/ZeusHash instead through some partnership with Halley China), so that is apparently where the interest for your investment is coming from. While Halley China is not open to international investors (their website is only available in Chinese), it seems that the new HalleyBTC service is targeting a broader English speaking audience. They have definitely launched the new service right on time as with the recent jump in the price of Bitcoin there is a lot of increase in user’s interest in different ways to invest in Bitcoin.

The service offers three types of investment options, the first one is called Current Deposit and it gives you 0.02% daily interest with no fixed period. The other two higher return options are for 30-Day Fixed Deposit with 15% expected APY (Annual Percentage Yield) and 90-Day Fixed Deposit with 17% expected APY. The higher interest rate is ensured by the fact that your investment is being locked for a specific term, so apparently the Bitcoin you invest on the long term can in turn be used for investment in the existing Bitcoin mining farms of the company to increase the mined coins for example. There are a lot of tools and services that can improve your investing. You just need to pick one that is right for your personal investment style. For example, if you are comparing Motley Fool and Morningstar, you should focus on which service is ideal for your personal needs.

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For their launch HalleyBTC is running a special promotion giving each new user the chance to get 1 to 10 Bitcoins as a bonus deposit to start your investment. All you have to do is register a new account and click on the Get Bonus button on the main page. Do note that what you get as a bonus investment in BTC cannot be withdrawn and will be in your account for 10 days only, what you get to keep is the interest rate you accumulate on the amount for these 10 days. The idea is to get to try and see how the service works without having to invest any of your own Bitcoins up front, do note however that this promotion is only valid up to November 8th November 15th, so do take advantage of the offer before actually sending any of your own coins!

– For more information and to try out the new HalleyBTC Bitcoin investment service…

AlcheMiner Planning to Launch Second Generation Scrypt ASICs

1 Nov
2015

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AlcheMiner has posted that they are planning to start work on a second generation Scrypt ASICs, however they are looking for investors to help them start the process and that they plan to gather $5 million to $7 million for the Alchemist II project. They are looking for serious investors offering multiple investment plans starting at 50K USD, 500K and 1 Million USD offering different benefits. According to the information published it will take them about five to six months for the first batch to be launched in the market after the fundraising goal is met. The new chips are supposed to be used in AlchemistII-128 128 MHS miner with 280W power usage priced at $1299 USD and AlchemistII-512 512 MHS miner with 1150W of power usage and a price of $4950 USD.

The brief specifications for the new chip:
– Hash rate: 2 MHS
– Power consumption on the wall: 3~4J (1.5J~2J/MHash)
– TSMC 28HPC tech node
– Full custom design

The problem with their offer is that with their first generation hardware things were not that bright, there were issues and delays, problems with some of their partners such as MAT. Now the company wants to find big investors for new Scrypt ASIC miners promising hardware delivery in half a year with not so attractive hardware prices although specs look promising. The problem is that their track record is not that good, even though they actually had some hardware released and the current situation with Scrypt crypto currencies including Litecoin is not so great at the moment. The low market price of LTC following the recent halving of the block reward and the general uncertainty in the future makes it hard for anyone to actually invest in Scrypt ASIC hardware that is actually not ready at the moment. The recent SFARDS fiasco with the company being very vocal prior to having their new hardware ready and then going completely silent after apparently it has been ready for market also does not do any good for initiatives like the one AlcheMiner is trying to do. So what you might be waiting with anticipation in regards to Scrypt ASIC hardware could only end up being the next generation Innosilicon hardware that might soon be available…

Updated Windows Binary of the ccMiner 1.5.72-git Fork by SP for Maxwell

29 Oct
2015

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New update in the form of a Windows binary release compiled from the latest Git source code of the ccMiner 1.5.72-git SP-MOD fork by SP optimized for the latest Maxwell-based video cards (source) to bring things up to date. The latest release comes with some performance improvements for the most profitable algorithms such as lyra2v2 and quark as well as Bastion Cpu mining support implemented (no GPU support for the moment). Do note that the SP-MOD fork of ccMiner is designed for Nvidia Maxwell GPUs such as the already available GTX 750, 750 Ti as well as the newer GTX 960, GTX 970, GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan X. The Windows binary release we have made available here is with support for Compute 5.0 and Compute 5.2 GPUs or with other words only for Maxwell-based Nvidia video cards compiled with CUDA 6.5 and VS2013.

– To download the latest ccMiner for Maxwell version 1.5.72-git by SP for Windows OS…

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