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by asfjklasjfkd 3272 days ago
If cloudcroft and the demorgan group were legit companies then why did they seemingly evaporate after these stories broke? Shouldn't the matter have been handled professionally by a PR rep for the company?

Surely they must have had customers to support and significant assets to support a 2 year old supercomputing company and 9 other ventures. Instead they have been scrubbed from the internet completely in a matter of hours since their ceo was taking PR heat. Can anyone find the new owner of the CO1N supercomputer or evidence that cloudcroft is still using it?
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cornchips 3272 days ago
Improper investigation by the ATO wasn't comfortable so they jumped islands.

No customers, just investments.

Before they were deleted there were videos of pieces of the equipment.

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asfjklasjfkd 3272 days ago
There wasn't a single video of a datacenter or server racks instead there were videos of Craig receiving shipments of xeon phi cards (as in 1 or 2 not dozens or hundreds) and constructing a xeon phi based desktop computer. He also points to a box saying it's full of infiniband cards and xeon phi cards (doesn't open it).

In Craig Wright's supercomputing class, students are given access to a single node of the purported supercomputer. The only evidence of the supercomputer ever existing is on the green500 list.

If it was an improper investigation then fight it in court and release a public statement on the company's site like a normal company. Nuking your web presence and hiding in another continent is not exactly normal behavior.

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cornchips 3272 days ago
Shipments of xeon phi represents the supercomputer. The desktop machines loaded with them is for developers. He had 3 phase going into his private residential area home. In an already 230v country, means a LOT of power...

The evidence weighs with the expenditure of large investments.

The court fights will probably come as evidenced by a segment in his recent public talk. Especially in countries with libel laws. Court costs a lot of time and money which could be used for better things.

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asfjklasjfkd 3272 days ago
Shipments of 1 or 2 xeon phis constitutes a supercomputer? Pointing to a box and saying it's full of infinibands and xeon phis means that we should believe they are full of them? If this guy is one thing he's definitely not modest, if those boxes really were full of expensive computer parts he would show them.

At every turn in this saga of signings, supercomputers, and credentials there's always something sketchy going on. At some point you can no longer accept what this guy says at face value.

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cornchips 3272 days ago
Shipments of 1 or 2 xeon phis constitutes a supercomputer? Pointing to a box and saying it's full of infinibands and xeon phis means that we should believe they are full of them?

There were racks too.

The small stuff you probably saw is for developers.

I find it more likely a technology person would spend a lot money than saving it. If spending millions we are talking DIY supercomputer territory.

At every turn in this saga of signings, supercomputers, and credentials there's always something sketchy going on. At some point you can no longer accept what this guy says at face value.

Name one thing about bitcoin that isn't sketchy.

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