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 OK so your right the holy grail of open source mining is the ASIC chip. 

But in this example we gotta do the hardest thing last. And that step is complete right?  
Bitcoin is 16 years old and now we are ready go develop our own ASIC chips. So you know what we gotta do?  

We gotta take a perfectly good brand new asic and we have to zoom in take photos do 3D scans make macro models talk to experts under what we are looking at and reverse engineering all that way from the start to simple to difficult. 

Its gonna take a long time these chips are no joke. 

They are literally made by human slaves from Africa and China I'm not using hyperbole its true. So its financially and morally important we do it. 
People are doing it but its going to take a looooong time. You know why?  
BC its not cool its not viral its not catching on with the youth.  The second we get kids doing this in science fairs the problem will be done. 
But for now we have to keep supporting #bitaxe bitcoin isn't like the stock market where it's all funny money spinning out of nothing. Bitcoin is being issued every ten minutes. So blah blah blah.  
Make bitaxe cool. That's it that's your mission make bitaxe desirable.... You know what desirable means? 
When someone sees you driving a brand new BMW they desire one they go out and work to get one..... Now we need to make bitaxe desirable how do we do that?  Yet to be determined. 


Let me tell you why I desire the bitaxe... Because of the brutal cyber punk design I love to see the mother board and the chip and how its a fractal design of the human city infrastructure. 

I desire the bitaxe BC it send a message to the ppl around me that even tho I'm taking a moon shot at least I have a dream of solving the block and stamping my proof of work in the history of the time chain.
 It shows that it's not just HOPIUM I'm running the code that is changing the world to be a better place.