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Hi, some of you around here might know me, some might not. Those that do know also know that I have been hinting about launching several new cryptoprojects for quite a while. So without much further ado, here it is, hope you guys like it.

INVICTUS Mining is a brand new crypto mining / hosting project that we have been working on for quite a while. It all started as a small-scale hosting for several friends and over the course of the past year grew to full sized industrial hosting solution.
 
We are specifically focusing on Ethereum mining (but really anything thats possible to mine with our hardware) and currently host about 80 mining rigs for our private clients (each with 6-7 GPU) and another roughly 90 rigs for our swiss partner CHOAM, with which we are going to cooperate.

What we do is not cloud mining though - the rig is effectively yours and we simply take care of its hosting. If you don't like our service or you simply want to host it elsewhere, we will ship it to you. We do not offer any kind of "unlimited" cloud mining services currently.

We are a small, experienced family-style company that knows how much it can bite and what can work and what can not. Therefor we are not broadly opening to unlimited amount of customers but we will be slowly publishing new open hosting slots as we make them available.

The controlled amount of customers and proper planning of expansion makes it possible for us to promise that theres always gonna be someone to talk to in case of any problems instead of just another faceless helpdesk ticket that noone replies to.

Don't worry, we've been there too and we do intend to do it in a different way.

You can find more information about what we do and how on our newly published site:

http://invictusmining.com/invictus-mining (http://invictusmining.com/invictus-mining)

The site is VERY much still work in progress (take this more as a public beta really) as we are working around the clock to get everything working properly (like getting the current prices on the web if they are not there already).

The price for a slot is currently $ 5000 for hardware and $ 180 as a monthly maintenance fee that covers EVERYTHING. No other hidden fees or charges, everything the machine mines is completely yours (each rig delivers 200 MH/s of hashing power).

If you mention bitcointalk.org forums in your order (or in the communication afterwards as we are going to contact you with exact prices / timesheet / contract and other things), you get a discounted price of $ 4500 / $ 160.

We are really sorry about the currently low amount of open slots - we are still running in public testing mode and while lot of the hardware is on the way, it takes a while before it gets here. In case the slots are completely out, you can either get in queue on our website or just watch this thread as we will try to keep the mini-emissions updated here.

If you have any questions regarding the current test run or how we are planning to operate in the future, feel free to ask in this thread. I will try my best to get you the answers.

Creepas is an awesome member. He had helped me out greatly in getting my rig up and running, and I would trust him 100% with no reservation. I look forward to purchasing services from him in the future. Deal with confidence!

This guy knows what to do. Watch him close.

Firstly I'd like to say that creepas is a professional and has helped me a lot getting my miners to work. If you believe in ethereum, this is a solid chance to earn some. And regarding PoS - it can delay again like last year, noone knows. But mining zcash is basically as profitable and can be mined with the same machine decently. And I'm willing to bet there will be other cryptos with profitable GPU mining.

I will prepare full explanation today or tomorow evening. Thank you for the question.

cReepas

I havent had the pleasure of knowing personally, but if the OP holds true...
this should turn /churn  out some very nice things!
i wish the very best and i am positive we will have a brite future in most aspects!
Good Job and Good luck

Creepas is a great guy, extrmely helpfull and knows his stuff. Met him personally a few weeks ago so I know he is a real deal, keep it up!

Take care mate!
Bart

creepas is a very helpful person. I had a lot of issues and he tried to and he did help me a lot. We were fixing some issues via remote desktop.

Unfortunately i had issues a couple of days later and he offered me to help me again. Totally great person! We will fix this soon, i am positive with this topic :D

Nice project you have out there. keep up the good work!

1 - What is the complete parts list for $5,000 - saying $5,000 for hardware is completely vague.
2 - What is the hosting environment - would need video and pics of the space, wiring, cooling solution etc. @ $0.20-0.36 per Kw/H you're charging A LOT. There are other hosting solutions that charge 1/3 of what you're trying to.

Are you guys thinking of doing a hosting only option in the future?

I'd be willing to pay a premium on the monthly price if I could send you a 4U chassis and have you host it.
All I need is 2 x network ports and 1 x power cable, and you'd likely never have to touch it ever again as one of the network ports is out of band IPMI :)

We are preparing contracts and conditions for the hosting-only part of the service. Very likely scenario is that that the fee will be tiny bit lower than usual but we wont be able to provide instant hardware replacement in case of your rig. Rest of the services offered under our maintenance fee should be doable. We will keep you posted, if you please leave us your contact on our website. Thanks a lot for interest.

Hi, apologies for the late reply - just wanted to take a look at what Gigawatt offers right now.(Oh, he deleted the post. But we can explain anyway, for those others wondering)

To be absolutely honest, I'm still not sure I understand all aspects of their business model on 100% just from the website, so the comparisson is based just on what I managed to read there.

First of all, theres currently so much space in the cryptomining market for this kind of services that we welcome presence of other companies like Gigawatt and wish them the best in their enterprise. Competition has always been the driving force of progressive industries and we are all for it - as its best for the customer that way.

That said however we do offer bit different set of services than they do. The way I understand it from their website, the key differences are:

GIGAWATT:
 - You pay for the hardware, but it's not "yours". You can't take it home if you want to or if you are not happy with the hosting, fees or anything else.
 - Hardware failure costs you extra every time
 - Specialized mining hardware with minimal resell value if mining goes out of fashion
 - No insurance of the machines
 - Fairly complicated energy price / fee system (that's just my personal dig, I like simplistic things, it might be ok for other people)

INVICTUS:
 - You pay for your hardware, its yours and you can take it home at any point once you paid it off.
 - Theres one flat maintenance fee. It doesn't scale with ETH or other product price, so it doesnt creep onto your rising profits.
 - The fee covers EVERYTHING (you don't pay anything else) including insurance and hardware replacement
 - Hardware is top of the line gaming, so in case the whole mining business goes bye bye, you can instantly resell it for pretty good price (the machine is yours after all)
 - Even if Ethereum switches to PoS, there will be other profitable products to mine, theres still plenty of space. And if literally the worst happens and it all ends, you can just resell the hardware to gamers.

We also don't offer "unlimited" hosting spots. We publish only guaranteed spots that we can take care of as this is not a "get rich quick" scenario but rather a slow-paced pre-meditated business plan to grow at a consistent pace.

The hosting fee on paper might be bit higher than some other semi-comparable services, we understand that. But we don't plan on being the price leader. And if you are going after the cheapest possible hosting solution, we might not be the best choice for you.

Hope this helps.

Wish you success and thanks for taking time out to explain and compare.

Understanding you say hardware would be ours to take home, but what IS the hardware?

Also what is the hosting environment currently - would be great to see and also great marketing and selling point as well.

1 - The exact part list (brand / GPU chipset) is changing quite a lot but generally we get pretty much every full "rig" to around 200 MH/s or slightly more. Generally speaking its solid MSI/Asus motherboard, 7x GPU + extenders (mostly MSI 480/580 Gaming 8GB these days but that can change depending on current global logistics), 1600w gold or plat PSU, m.2 SSD, 4-32 MB RAM (specific setups and prices are very doable).

We are also guaranteeing that the setup will work together and produce the promised output and that we will instantly replace any hardware free of charge. The rig is also insured against pretty much anything while its in our hosting, so thats something that might not be present at other hosting solutions.

2 - video / pictures of the hosting will be available soon, we are doing pretty large expansion of the space right now and waiting for some pro photography afterwards. And as for the price - yea, this is not the cheapest hosting solution but also it's something bit different from what everyone else offers. We sell you the computer, you can get it shipped to you at home at any point you want after you buy it. The fee is also flat so in case the price of the mined currency grows a lot, we will be eating significantly less of your pie than % fee based services.

Cool Creepas. I am working on the same concept. I wish you the best of luck! Fun to see different people are working on pretty similar ideas!

Seems like a interesting project! I currently have about 600 mh in my home and can´t really host any more machines (heath and to high electricity), this would offer a perfect solution. So as i understand it it is possible to set up some sort of monthly payment plan, right? How would that look? if you can give perhaps a example of how such a "pay-off" contract would work?

Good luck in your project :)

Rofl

Nice spam post!

I like how all these newbie accounts are offering their praise for the OP as their first post.

Classic fail. 

where u located.

There is function on Bitcoin Forum where you can take a look on what the person wrote as a last posts. When you use that you will see that many newbie accounts are active in other topics as well. :)

cReepas

We are located in Czech rep. in power plant.

We will post here some examples of calculations.

cReepas

Not even CLOSE to believable :D 
but hey maybe were just cynics and a REPUTABLE member here can vouch for them, or jesus maybe even some damn PROOF other than words would be cool, but im sure well get the usual "due to security i can't prove anything with photographic or ANY evidence" excuse xD

Not giving OP a penny and i suggest others tread lightly at this point in the project's info :/

Hello,

Please post photos of your facilities

Hello - we understand the skepticism and it is valid. There's a lots of very dubious services around the internet and we certainly dont want to be among them. So to address at least part of it, let me try to explain.
You dont pay anything directly via semi-anonymous paygate or cryptocurrency. If you are interested in a hosting slot, we will first contact you via phone or email and discuss the scale, specifications of the machines, time frame, price and other details (we are still running fairly small scale, so these details are negotiable) - if everything is ok with you, we will send you a contract to sign by which we are legally bound (and in which we promise to get you a mining rig with certain specifications and host it - although you dont have to host it with us if you dont want to) and that allows you sue the living shit out of us in any european court if we dont deliver what we promise.

For the second part - we can provide some crappy fotodocumentation, but it's only mobile photos and its pretty much two months old and at a different location. We are hosted directly in a power plant, so this is our first testing spot two months ago with about 50-60 rigs. Since then, we have expanded to a different place and waiting for everything to finish in few weeks to get a solid photosquad in to get some decent representative pictures (and sort out a livefeed and all the usual stuff).

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y5D_zzH1oeZkhHenB5Tk8zeDA (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y5D_zzH1oeZkhHenB5Tk8zeDA)

We understand if you are feeling disturbed by the lack of more compelling photos and we also understand if you wont bother with us as a company until we get decent visuals of the operation available - we will try to work on it intensively.

cReepas

Creepas is a nice guy he helped me on skype with my 7gpu rig months ago.

He told me about this business and it looks cool but my primary concern was how safe it would be to give my money/crypto to a new and not so known and widely used business.

On a side note, does anyone use that gigawatt business? Looks interesting with the tokens but seems they are sold out of hardware

Prices of stations are within $4400 - $5200 range.  what are the range available and the discount we get from being a member of Bitcoin Forum is applied on all of the range?

I am interested in one slot and I have fill the form.

Thank you very much for your interest - right now we are sold out (the last slot sold few hours earlier but took some time to confirm it) but we will have another batch ready next week and we will contact you with an offer including the bitcointalk discount.

Once again, thank you for your interest and looking forward for our cooperation.


cReepas

Hello,

we will have in close future also rigs full of asus strix 1070 8 GB, but price will be higher.

If you are interested contact us.

cReepas

Pictures on the website are of Gigantic Industrial Coal Miners ... Dude ... at-least pick up the right king of mining images. I wish you all the best in this endeavor, and remember, in the early days reputation is everything.

I have been working with crepes for a while and it has helped me a lot. He is a great professional and a mining expert. He certainly knows what he's doing

Hi, we do realize that the massive mining machine is bit of a tongue-in-cheek but at the same time we doubt someone would actually thought you are getting THAT kind of machine in our contract. The overall idea was to symbolize strong, industrial type of machinery.

As for the reputation - we do realize that and we don't plan on letting anyone short. Right now, we have VERY much under-estimated the interest this will generate. We have almost 80-100 machine slots reserved ahead and currently we are fighting 24/7 to actually get the hardware here as soon as possible.

A big thank you to creepas for helping me out with my first mining rig.
He gave professional advise and helped my by modding the default BIOS of my RX480 cards to achieve much higher hash rates.

Its a cool service and founders are trustworthy,i am using their custom bios from month and they are really supportive

 Hello,

I want to thank everyone for a really sucessfull and hectic month for Invictus Mining - we managed to get another 14 GH/s of mining power up and running and we have more and more hardware coming our way (which was bit of a bottleneck lately). However through the world, the prices of GPU's are rapidly increasing and to keep up with the prices we will be forced to do a price bump to accommodate the changes. We still have a last batch of GPU's for the old price, enough for about 40 machines right now (ASUS STRIX - either 7x 1060 or 7x 1070) - if you are interested in these last few for old prices, contact us via our website the standard way.

During next week the new batch will be already priced according to the new GPU prices. Thank you for understanding and support.

Invictus Mining Team

Hello all,

thank you all for huge support and puting another 10 GH/s in last 3 weeks. We will add much more really soon. Now we have only 10 last slots left so if you want to be part of our private mining community you should hurry. We do only have nvidia servers left with ASUS STRIX 1070 a 1060 (7x) inside. The price is now 6000 USD for 1060 server and 7000 for 1070 server.

In case you have any questions just contact us on website.

Best regards

Invictus Mining Team

Hello all,

we have last 5 slots left. If you are interested pls contact us asap as we will close this promo soon.

Best regards

Invictus Mining Team

Great project , i hope ur business is doing good !
This community need some pictures ;) (and for your website also ;D ) for most of us is not enough if you just updating your own topic , and only newbies with a very low activity , or only 1 activity posting how great you are !!!

All higher ranked member  see this as a scam , till you can not prove another way !
160$ monthly hosting/maintenance fee for a 200MH/s rig is a little bit high anyway :)

Hello,

thank you for your reply, first of all we got most clients here from czech rep. and i do belive we are doing great here. We have few clients from USA and RU and one from germany. I do belive our clients dont have bitcointalk accout so even if we force them to create one the will still be newbies and it will look the same.

As pictures i posted some new ones here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y5D_zzH1oeZkhHenB5Tk8zeDA (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y5D_zzH1oeZkhHenB5Tk8zeDA) and tomorow i will make some new photos of the expansion we are doing right now...

If you think 160 is too much you live in some country where is cheap electricity its great for you. All our clients are okey with this price and no one even talked about it.

Regarding SCAM - we operate completly legal we have agreements and we do send our clients officiall recipe after they pay each payment. We do accept all forms of payment and i do belive all our clients do bank transfer.

We will also soon have some interviews with some known blockchain people and we will also ask our clients to have some visible feedback. Can you give us some pointers what you personaly will prove that we are legit service:

Best regards

Invictus Mining Team

i also addet screenshot from minerstat. But we have there only 48 servers as we didnt migrate all of our servers there. We will have soon live on our website online MH/s of all our servers. (And servers of our clients of course as well...)

Best regards

cReepas

While I like the concept, the prices are very high.  With a 1070 rig (I don't know the hashrate you are guaranteeing with those... I'll guesstimate 32Mh/s) it would take you a long time to pay off that rig.  Considering difficulty rises I'd say it would take you 24 months to break even.  You'd have to be gambling that ETH will go up in its worth quite a bit to make it worth it at these advertised prices.

I run  a rig 8x 1070 DUAL ASUS 8OG,cost me 4,5k€ so 5k+$, this 7k$ x 7 gpu is joke lol.

I yeah on dual mining ETH+LBC u can grab 31,5 and 30,5 with correct OC, i dont try solo mining on ETH but yeah, prolly 32mh/s per card.

So actually 200%7=28,5 mh/s ... so u take 3mh/s for you and all the subcoin + u overcost buy from 1k5$ easy

U get 160$ fee, with professional account i bet 0.08 cents by kwH, so on cost prolly 90-100$, u merge direct profit +60$, stole hashrate from gpu 3mh/s per GPU, plus u do 1k5$ instant profit on sell spot.

Go fuck ur self loool

At least if u do self mining software with real improvement, u just use everything plug it together and sell it. How can u justify so much expensive cost ? U have nothing in reality, a little "know mining" only for noob,i am noob and i can do the same as u easy pz

Hello,

the price is high because all components is hard to get and also all cards went up like crazy. Also i do belive now is the roi around 12 months. But you dont take in cosideration folowing: 1. The hardware is yours so till its in warranty (usually 3 years) it has value and the value is not 0. 2. The price of ETH or ETC can go up... 3. you can move to other currency like Zcash or some new commers :)

Best regards

Invictus Mining Team

Hi, would be basically interested in hosting near Germany (CZ ).

Please keep us up2date. Thanks

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Hello,

first we dont use cheap dual cards, but we use best asus strix... so its different level. Also if you take a look on prices if you got your rig even few weeks ago it would cost as you said. But today its much higher.

Also you dont have your rig insured. You dont need cooling, you dont need professional electrical guy, you dont need junktion box, you dont even need security, cameras, motion sensors, you dont even need to pay to have a guy nonstop around the rigs when some card is off to exchange it.
You also dont need to invest into building we are, you dont need to have multiple internet providers, you dont need to have many thinks...

Also you invested only maybe 1h to make your rig work and to have it stable, but in our case it takes time to test everything. Sometimes raser is damaged, sometimes PSU, but our customer doesnt care as we find it, and replace it with our HW while his HW is on the way to be replaced by manufacturer.

As your time cost maybe 0 USD some people value their time higher so they dont mind to pay some extra dollars to have experience where they just pay and it works :).

Also we dont steal any mining power from our clients. (i also dont know how it would be technically posible...)

Best regards

Invictus Mining Team

Hello,

our hosting is in power plant near České budějovice. I will be there tomorow to overlook adding another 50 servers. If you want we can meet there :).

Best regards

cReepas

At ur structural level, u dont pay for HW issue, u have contract with your sellers, they assume swap and spare for u, if u dont ...
U say u go on 100 rig, i assume u stick to a data center. U have a lot of university with big facility open to share for real low fee and security facility. Bioscan, pay by GW/h, permanence human check, etc ... I dont have u price on hand but i bet u get lot of profit from this.
U say "cheap asus card" i am on top level with this one, i can get same as your strix, prolly i resell less, but i buy less.
I am really sceptic about Mining Loan, i check ur offer on launch was good, a bit to much on fee. But u expense so much ur price ... I agree u better from any other service provider.

Hello,

ss we got some clients in Russia we have now also ru language: http://invictusmining.com/mining/ru (http://invictusmining.com/mining/ru)

We are working to correct any errors so dont judge it too hard for few days.

To the Trust issues some members here have we will add partners and clients to our webpage with their comments...

Best regards

Invictus Mining

Understood, I realize you have to have your markup.  I would just caution new miners who think that their income will stay the same over the amount of time you are paying off the rig.

Do you monitor all rigs, manage them, and only provide the profits to an ETH wallet?  Or do you allow the user to log in and manage it themselves, either through a portal or some other mechanism?  I'm trying to understand the value added by the maintenance fee.  It might be worth it if we could point the miner to our own preferred pool or target different algorithms that might be profitable versus ETH.

Hello,

we do monitor the rigs, user for security has only dashboard where he can see exactly what is going with his mining. All the rig mines goes to client. He can choose to move to different pool etc. we dont care. If anything is wrong with his rig we solve it.

I will write more tomorow.

Best regards

cReepas

Hello,

there are many legal questions on your part as for example many thinks seems to work how you explained but when you really come and try to setup 100 rigs problems starts to rise. For example with university. They simply dont have so big power cables. Just the power cable that powers our junktion box and goes cca 40 m from trafo costs 500 USD per meter. Also university needs to sign with you legal agreement that its okey as you need to insure it. What happens is that usually system like you said works when you have 1-5 rigs than it stops to scale and you need to start investing money.

Best regards

cReepas

Best

Hello guys,

i went today to powerplant and did some photos so you can see that really new expansion is in the process. This week i will post some more photos from the works.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y5D_zzH1oeZkhHenB5Tk8zeDA (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y5D_zzH1oeZkhHenB5Tk8zeDA)

As you can see we are really working :)

Best regards

cReepas (Invictus Mining Team)

Hello guys,

we prepared promo for you:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4y5D_zzH1oeZ1ZNWjRNVjVvRUU/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4y5D_zzH1oeZ1ZNWjRNVjVvRUU/view?usp=sharing)

Take a look and if you want contact us for more details.

Best regards

Invictus Mining Team

Hello guys,

we now have forums and blog:

http://blog.invictusmining.com
http://forum.invictusmining.com/

Blog is already active, forums will be active soon.

Best regards

cReepas (Invictus Mining Team)

We have again some new slots ready so if you want to start mining contact us. :)

cReepas

(Invictus Mining Team)