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Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has heard of a company by the name of nTek. They are selling 1Th/s Bitcoin ASIC Miner with only a 14 day leed time. The following link will take yo to their website with details and pricing of miners.

http://ntekcomputers.com/

Tarik

Well, the only "Erupters" we know of consume far more than 300W per Terahash... in fact NOTHING sucks as little as that, 500W per TH would be phenomenal and make news all over.

They are selling on eBay so I am wondering if they are legit due to eBay protection.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1Th-s-Bitcoin-ASIC-Miner-/181300072390?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a36538fc6

nTek Computers is not associated with Paul Burgess in any way.

I agree that he is a scammer because I also talked to him in the past and he sent me an image of his "miner." The image was clearly a very bad computer generated rendering. That was not the part that raised red flags though. The fact that he argued with me on the phone and tried to claim that it was a real photograph taken with a camera was just a straight lie.

At one point we looked into getting 1Th/a miners from Paul Burgess but at the same time we were already working on building our own for a while. Just like you said though Paul was offering to take payment through PayPal. That was the only reason I wanted to see if it was legit.


Do stay away from Paul Burgess...but again we are not associated with him at all.

We are building our own miners and getting the Coincraft A1 28nm ASIC chips directly from Bitmine.ch

You can call or contact Bitmine and ask them if we have purchased a large quantity of chips.

sorry to hear paul burgess is giving you a bad name.this guy ripped my mate off $4080 via paypal!

Man, do people really fall for this stuff?... It's a real shame.

Can't believe people get away with these scams.

We did not purchase anything at all from Paul Burgess. It was very easy to see that he is a scammer when he emailed fake photos and tried to pass them off as real. He then got angry when I asked him about the "photos" on the phone.

We are building a real 1200Gh/s miner based on the Coincraft A1 ASIC chips. I just want to make this clear because there are these posts with our company name and now information about Pual Burgess we are not associated to them.

At one point we were looking at getting Paul's 1Th/s miner to resell here in the United States but we have also been working on our own ASIC miners well before that. Our miners are real and based on 28nm chip technology which is very real.

Just wanted to try to clear this information up.

I do like this miner:

http://ntekcomputers.com/products/1ths-asic-bitcoin-miner-1000gh

From the picture it looks like I can plug my speakers into it.. Sweet!  ;D

The turbo mode reminds of my old IBM XT too, I loved my turbo button on the front...

I don't see any business entity in VA with ntek in the name:

Clicky (https://sccefile.scc.virginia.gov/Find/Business?SearchTerm=ntek&SearchPattern=K&as_fid=w%2FMZ%2FAdIAlIecN%2B8%2Binc)

nTek Computers is part of RevUp Render, Inc. 

RevUp Render is a registered corporation in the state of Rhode Island. You can look it up if you like.

What I want to know is can I hook my speakers up to this miner:

http://ntekcomputers.com/products/1ths-asic-bitcoin-miner-1000gh

It looks like it in the picture, that would be awesome!  :o

DOesn't matter, if your marketing under nTek, you need to have a business entity somewhere under that name. I own a small consulting business, I know how it works, I can't register under company X and sell stuff to customers under company Y when company Y doesn't exist anywhere. You can have wholly owned subsidiaries and even alias's, but they have to be registered entities somewhere. The ONLY possible explanation could be your John Doe DBA (doing business as) nTek. But DBA's have no affiliations with "parent" companies, so the whole RevUP thing in another state doesn't wash.

The whole thing just doesn't seem right. I'm not trying to bash you, but there's a ton of scams in this space. Reputable people with real products to sell, should either be saying I'm John and I've bought some ASIC chips by the dozen and I'm assembling some end-user products, and I might have some 2Th/s hashers to sell, or doing business under a real company.

nTek Computers is more of a brand of RevUp Render. As an example, Disani is a brand of CocaCola: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani

We may make nTek into its own company soon but for now our focus is on getting our TH miner out the door. Please just give us time to show our miners in live videos and reviews soon.

So do the 1 th/s machines ship in 2 weeks from purchase or not?

I would be highly skeptical of that, considering the chips they claim to be using haven't been shipped as samples even yet.

If this were a genuine product, the timeline would be something like "two weeks" until they get chips, "two weeks" testing out their board design "two weeks" productionising it, "two weeks" working the bugs out of their production process, "two weeks" redesigning the Raspberry Pi controller after realising the design they stole off a Reddit post actually does something completely different...

Flashman, please see this link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=294235.180

Coincraft A1 chip samples have already previously shipped. The production chips are scheduled to be delivered before the end of this month.

Oh seems Bitmain's official news feed is a little behind the times.

Bitmain is a different company from Bitmine.ch

Gah, that's who I meant. Too many similar names.

I have already ordered the machine. I like the idea that they are taking paypal just shows that its not a scam but lets wait and see

 Waiting on delivery will update you guys once I receive  it will update you guys on it .

Please do so.
I am eager to know about the result. :D

Is this even rackable? 2Us? 4Us? Nobody cares if they look beautiful. They gotta be rackable.

WTF told you they are taking Paypal?? They only take either credit cards or bitcoin.

I'm sold until I get to the price.

Get closer to $7k and I am interested again.

Just spoke to Ry

Chips arrived at nTek today and are already on the way to the PCB builder in California which will receive them Monday!!

See photo links below

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qial9f82rwciv3p/Photo%20Jan%2031%2C%2010%2004%2014%20AM.jpg

And

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hh80qanjngu3h3p/Photo%20Jan%2031%2C%2010%2025%2012%20AM.jpg

why did you use the fake cherry piee photos in your auction listing ?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1Th-s-Bitcoin-ASIC-Miner-/181297068728?ssPageName=ADME%3AX%3ARTQ%3AUS%3A1123&nma=true&si=fVAveQK6vNKIKY%252B85H8IJceW2Bg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

i see someone left you feedback 10days later, yet nobody else has received there miner here.

ANYONE WHO PAID VIA PAYPAL DONT WAIT LONGER THAN 45DAYS TO CLAIM AS PAYPAL ONLY LET BUYERS CLAIM WITHIN 45DAYS.

I think These machines will not arrive.

I just provided photos of the the actual chips they obviously are making something. They arnt just going to waste a bunch of money on some chips and not do anything with them. Doesn't even make sense

i seen the photo of the chips yes.This is not what i asked.Also i just want people to be carefull as we almost lost money and the photos were the same as the ones in ntek ebay listing.

There is only one photo similar and these are completely different units. Time will tell just be patient and wait for those like my self who have already paid.

Ntek has been keeping me in the loop since I ordered 2 of them. Every day Ry and/or  David has emailed me or I spoke with them on the phone  and told me what's going on and answered all of my questions. They have had my money over a week now and so if they were scammers why do they still respond. I am not paying anymore so y keep it going.

This is all I am saying about it. No one should bash or talk bad about a company or person with out knowing all facts or proof. Now if I ordered my 2 months ago or even 45 days ago or if it was a preorder only then you might have grounds to tell people to worry or be careful.

You have over 45 days to file a dispute on a credit card and they are only asking for 14-21 days so what is the big deal

Man if they don't wanna get bashed, they shouldn't put eBay listings up like that that are completely devoid of facts and proof, contain lies and stolen pictures and have dozens of red flags to anyone who has been around bitcoin longer than five minutes.

Many things so far consistent with known scams.

Yes there are scams but ntek isn't one of them. Ry and or David have been in constant comunication and I showed earlier the pictures of the chips. Why would a scammer buy a ton of chips just to rip people off. Those pictures are real pictures and bitmine confirmed it was shipped to them.

What more do u want. Monday pcb production starts so the proof will be that's alone once they get them back.

Ry said he will know more about time frames wants production starts on Monday so let's wait and see.

Did you get your machine yet?  I have not.  It was promised to be delivered on Feb 15.

To expensive!

Hello,

I was on your site and the form factor seems way too small for 1TH/s the heat dissipation would be murder at that size...

And how long does it take to get the unit once paid for?

Thanks..

bkminer, if you look here: http://ntekcomputers.com/blogs/news/12254065-ntek-th-miner-development-update  You will see updated photos of the size of our case. We have a special "Patent Pending" case design that uses a standard full size 4U design but it is the interior of the case that is very unique. Our designers came up with a very difficult internal case and cooling design to ensure the A1 Coincraft chips have adequate cooling.

If you order a miner from the website soon then the new order would still be part of our first batch we are building right now. We will be shipping in the order the payments were received but it will still be in the first batch so we can now safely say that we can stick to the 14-day timeframe. There is a good chance for new orders that we will be able to ship sooner. IMPORTANT: This only applies to a limited amount of miners that are not reserved from the first batch. Next batch orders to follow will be built and shipped shortly after. We have worked out all the design issues with our 10-chip A1 ASIC PCB design now so we are passed any delays we experienced since February.

Nice, that box looks quite a bit larger than the original picture I saw.  Thanks for the quick answer.

Yes exactly. That was a rendering we made in January.

The A1 chips get pretty hot so we designed a special case that is not your standard mining case design by any means. This is why we filed a Patent Pending app for it. Essentially just picture a miniature wind tunnel on each side of the case with metal rods and brackets supporting four large aluminum heatsinks. We will be releasing photos of the inside of the case over the next few days. Difficult to explain without showing a photo or drawing. We really think customers will be very happy with the design and that is why it has taken us a little longer than expected to ship. The case design did not delay anything but we had some voltage problems with the PCB's related to the A1 Coincraft chips. Those issues have all been worked out now though and we are expecting to start shipping over the next week. Now we are moving into full production mode.

No one received anything? I see they now have 64MH and 80MH scrypt miners!!!!!!!!

But the pictures are identical to the bitcoin miners, so guess it's a scam

http://ntekcomputers.com/products/ntek-64mh-s-28nm-scrypt-asic-miner-72mh-s-in-turbo-mode

Looks like the early warnings back in Jan are right...

Moreover It looks too expensive

Has anyone received anything from them?

Hi Guys - Just to let you know, I also ordered a 1.2Th/s 1.6Th/s (on turbo) miner from nTek.

I have been given official word that the first batch should be shipping end of May/Early June.

They are extremely slow to give updates, however. I am growing impatient. If I get a traceable shipping number before end of week, I will be okay. Otherwise, we have to do something. People should not be allowed to advertise something on EBay, prompt a sale, and then not deliver. I was promised 2 weeks early on, and that was back in March. As one can tell, it is June now. Soon it will be 2015.

Each update I get includes "thanks for sticking with us" and an offer to get something else at a discount.

Sorry guys, I just want what I ordered first. Once I decide it is real, then we can look at something else.

Isn't it weird that it has a turbo mode though? I mean, wouldn't you always want it running in turbo mode?

What are the downsides of having it running on turbo all the time?