Bitmain's transparency policy over Zcash ASICs ended after just one month, and nobody even noticed

@boxalex @Vbrik I’m happy to report there is no “fake news”. Let me try explaining a different way, if you found the original post to be unclear:

  1. Bitmain’s May blog post describes their new transparency policy which applies to all units:

We have therefore decided to carry out the shipments and QA of all Antminer Z9 Mini units in the most transparent fashion possible.

  1. Bitmain’s first tweet with shipping information was on May 27 and the last tweet was on June 27.

  2. Bitmain’s July press release says their transparency policy only applies to some units:

We will publish information… for the first model of all new miners
… shipments within the first batches of those models

As @Shawn and others have alluded to, what constitutes a “model” and “batch” is completely arbitrary and upto the manufacturer to decide.

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