Inside the Race to Build the World's Fastest Bitcoin Miner | Wired Enterprise. Avalon Asics CEO Yifu Guo. Photo: Alec Liu There’s more than one way to make money from the Bitcoin craze, which has seen the value of the digital currency increase more than six-fold over the past few months. You can do it the old-fashioned way: buying low and selling high. But for the sophisticated digital-currency investor, there’s a whole other world of Bitcoin speculation: the Bitcoin mining rig.
Like the currency itself, this strangely lucrative game is heating up — in a big way. One mining rig — available for preorder at a cost of about $1,800 in February — is now selling for more than $22,000 on eBay. Over the past year, a handful of companies have raced to build a new generation of computers that are specifically designed to mint digital money, and many speculators across the Bitcoin world are dying to get their hands on the latest hardware.
For Bitcoin miners, the name of the game is cryptography. That’s where the new mining gear comes into play. Wired.com. Leap Motion.
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In the latest example of finding media innovation where you’d least expect it, CBS is embedding a video player in a print ad in Entertainment Weekly that will serve up a buffet of its fall TV lineup. The CBS foray into a print-digital alliance plays full-motion video at a crisp resolution. The ad, dubbed by CBS and partner Pepsi Max “the first-ever VIP (video-in-print) promotion,” works like one of those audio greeting cards. Opening the page activates the player, which is a quarter-inch–thick screen seen through a cutaway between two pages concealing the larger circuit board underneath.
The audio quality is equally good (extremely poor video shot by this reporter notwithstanding), but beware: There are no volume controls, and in a quiet environment, it’s quite loud. This is surely a intentional design feature, aimed at getting the attention of people nearby. Unlike the wholly unsatisfying debut of the e-ink cover in Esquire magazine last year, this works. See Also: Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day. I’m here at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, where the latest batch of the incubator program’s startups are showing off the fruits of their labor to a room of press and VCs from around Silicon Valley.
The turnout today is huge — VCs representing billions of dollars in managed funds are here, with investors from US Venture Partners, XG Ventures, Founder’s Fund, Greylock Ventures, First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, True Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Venrock, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, FBfund, renowned angel investor Ron Conway and more in attendance. There are also plenty of executives from established companies, including Google exec Bradley Horowitz and Don Dodge from Microsoft. Past Demo Days have certainly received their fair share of attention, but it seems like YC’s larger class size, and perhaps the companies themselves, are bigger draws than ever. DailyBooth DailyBooth, which we covered yesterday, is a “Twitter for pictures”. Listia Listia is an “eBay for free stuff“.
Technology | 'The godfather of instruction manuals' In 1987 as I bought my first Haynes instruction manual, I was quite unprepared for the look of respect that I got from the mechanic who sold it to me. At the age of 18 I was only used to looks ranging from disinterest to hostility from engineers, but buying the Haynes instruction manual for my car - an old Morris Minor 1100 - suddenly marked me out as someone with credibility. So five cars later, five Haynes manuals later, and many years of spotting Haynes manuals in people's houses and giving them that look of respect, it was with tremendous anticipation that I found myself making a Radio 4 programme on instruction manuals and about to meet the man himself, the godfather of instruction manuals, John Haynes. Early start John Haynes himself was ensconced in a large shady office, emerging from behind a huge desk full of models of cars and stacked with instruction manuals; he looked like Father Christmas but with the twinkle in the eye of Willy Wonka.
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