You guys are acting like I am trying to steer people away from this pool when I am doing the opposite. I am merely making suggestions. The same people that complain that this pool may become too small to maintain relevance don’t want to hear varying opinions from their own. I don’t fail to see anything, long term miners, that don’t intend to ramp down ever, don’t have any benefit to this long ramp up time as it is 25% of your btc earned in the first month lost. If you want to gain new miners you have to try new things to maintain relevance. Speaking from experience.

If you read my last post I am not asking for instant gratification nor instant payouts. I CLEARLY stated that there currently isn’t a middle ground for ramp up/down time anywhere. I am just as concerned as anyone else with the distribution of hash across the network. Hence why I helped startup another pool in 2015. What I am concerned with is spinning up 50k in hardware and not being paid for full hashrate until 2 weeks later....this current ramp up period doesn’t benefit those who plan on mining for the long haul as ramp down is irrelevant.

You guys disagreeing do realize that this is why there isn’t more hash at this pool right? With the big pools, the only options are one extreme or the other as far as ramp up/down. No middle ground.

Thanks for the elaborate response.

With the shrinking of blocks per month at the pool, ramp up and ramp down time should certainly be shorter than 21 days. In my specific case I have now pointed over 50 terahashes here and will be pointing an additional 300 here in the next month once I move into my new location. When you are pushing big or small hash, 14 days is a very very long time to get your full hash rates payout. I understand the elimination of variance...but when the pools blocks per month is steadily decreasing, things like this should certainly change.

Anyone else feel this ramp up time is a little excessive now? I mean, 7 straight days mining here I feel you should be fully ramped up, not 12.5TH out of 42TH.

I ordered in January as well, March 1 delivery but hoping sooner. Relocating my farm 700 miles away and am waiting on this order to come so I can move it.

When was your order date?

These “excellent prices” only reappeared after bitcoin tanked. And guess what they only accept bitcoin. No thanks, not giving them $2400 worth of btc just because it is is worth $1200 at this minute.

Once again Yoshi featured in a video showcasing their products yet he has no idea he is their distributor 

Maybe the t9+ casing is the same as the upcoming s11? That would make a lot of sense as to why they did this overhaul. This could be a transitionary unit into the newer models. I am liking them so far. Running 4 right now two more come Friday.

Why that email from Yoshi stating he wasn’t aware he was a distributor when he is the one creating these test videos? What the hell...

S9 just released again, same price....

whats the expiration date on the coupons?

I’d happily eat crap for the negativity I have said for this company. But they have followed the “how not to do business 101” book to a tee so far.

That is what I got from the conversation and what raised a red flag for me to call it a scam. The backpedaling itself was what set off the alarms for me. It wasn’t the lack of supplying ID’s that got me, it was the fact that these three parties are supposed to be working so closely together yet are so far off from each other in conversations.

This was a follow up email sent from Halong yesterday.

By listing exceptions you can claim you are right, I am wrong, fine.

I assumed that if someone was a major distributor for any Tech manufacturer and conducting business anywhere in the United States (i.e. synnex, Avnet, techdata, ingram micro) that they would protect themselves under a corporation and not a sole proprietorship when filing for state and federal ID’s. Every distributor, reseller, or client I have ever worked with required my tax ID’s on both the purchasing and sale side. I don’t get where you think me asking for them was from having no knowledge of taxation. Regardless, even if this was a sole proprietorship all either of them had to say was just that and say they didn’t want to divulge that information. They didn’t, they just did a lot of backpedaling.

Who in their right mind would conduct business under a sole proprietorship when they are the sole distributor of a major manufacturer? They would be personally held liable for any issues if it came to court and put all their personal possessions at risk. Your presumptions on my lack of knowledge hold no water here. I asked for a tax I’d state and federal under the presumption they were not dumb enough to operate under a sole proprietorship. Also if you look at my email I asked both Scott and Yoshi about the ids.

Reread the first paragraph you quoted me saying...and ask yourself if that is what I said.


Thank you.

Listing a companys phone number is not violating anyone’s privacy policy and neither is divulging a company’s tax ID’s. Where did they teach you that in the IRS? I’m sorry my BS flag is waving hard at that statement.

That exact number given to me is on bitmain warranty’s site plain as day. I am not and don’t intend on giving a cent to this company on no one else should either.