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It sounds like a marketer got a little too excited and decided to name their developer kit The 21 Bitcoin Computer, not realizing the confusion they were about
by zettahash 11y ago
It sounds like a marketer got a little too excited and decided to name their developer kit The 21 Bitcoin Computer, not realizing the confusion they were about to create.
My understanding is that 21 has created a board that fits on top of a Raspberry Pi 2 to offer a miner, full bitcoin node, wallet, some fancy hardware acceleration, and several development tools for engineers who are new to bitcoin and want to experiment with building products on top of it.
It's only been an hour since all this news is coming out but so far I think they're completely missing their target audience by dumbing down their marketing material and selling preorders through Amazon.
- tvladeck 11y agoI actually don't think a marketer touched this project at all. If one did, they didn't do a great job defining the purpose of this device. They didn't talk - or if they did, they didn't listen - to potential customers about what pain point this could solve. They didn't define a positioning for this product. Etc. Sell goods for BTC? What about Stripe / Braintree? Buy goods w/ BTC? What about buying BTC on Coinbase? Mine BTC? There are more economical ways.
- akhilcacharya 11y agoThe only real value of 21's product is power efficient mining. I'm bewildered as to why they would focus on the buying or selling aspect.
- fit2rule 11y agoBecause this thing contains everything you need to operate in the Bitcoin economy at all levels - mining, purchasing, selling BtC - in a smart little easy to install package. So I'm a small business owner in .. lets say, Morocco, or .. Laos, or Sao Paolo, and I want to stop using US$ to purchase stuff from China. This makes it very, very easy to do that.