Bitmine

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Bitmine AG
Websitebitmine.ch

Bitmine AG was a retailer of Bitcoin mining hardware and Bitcoin mining ASICs, both under the name CoinCraft.

Bankruptcy

On May 20th, 2015, Bitmine AG was declared bankrupt[1][2]

ASIC

The Innosilicon A1 Booster / Bitmine Coincraft A1 ASIC is claimed to have been initially designed by Bitmine and contracted out on a 1-year exclusive availability to Innosilicon, LTD. Co. In its public declaration regarding its bankruptcy, Bitmine AG singled out Innosilicon as one of the major reasons for its bankruptcy, stating:

We engaged this company with a regular contract and entitled them to develop our 28nm ASIC based on our know-how and instructions, along with the full turnkey process of creating the mask, wafers and IC packaging. We had signed a contract that was expecting to guarantee us a one year exclusivity on the chip, however at a later stage we received proof that Innosilicon was plainly violating the contract from day zero and selling our own A1 chips to whoever inquired them directly

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It is also worth mentioning that while we were struggling with thousands of junk chips, the A-grade ones could at all time be purchased in Hong Kong directly from their Chinese resellers, at some point even at lower prices than what we ourselves paid for.

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