Really I just don't get what the hell your end game is here. You created this account solely to flood this thread, which you have been doing pretty relentlessly, and in case you haven't figured it out yet nobody gives a flying fuck.  The pool has 1500+ miners who are being paid for their work and who are openly discussing and working to resolve problems when they do arise (myself included btw so you can save the sock puppet accusations).  The S3's you keep screaming about like a two year old were not a fucking raffle that you bought a ticket for and are now righteously demanding to see proof of a winner's list to.
You have no right to see anything from any of the winners, nor do I or anyone else. It simply isn't any of your fucking business.
If 22 of the 'supposed' winners were posting on here 50 times a day saying they never got them, etc. etc. then *MAYBE* there would be something to discuss but it seems like the only people who have a hard on here are you and one other idiot who may very well be another alias of yours, and you have the nerve to talk about transparency?
Get the fuck over it.  All winners got them, didn't get them, are getting them AND a free blow job from a porn star of their choosing, whatever the story is it is not your story and carrying on here about how you called UPS and asked them some idiotic question about tracking information makes you sound about as fucking crazy as...well...you probably are!
If you even made such a phone call somewhere other than in your broken head the UPS guy probably had you on speaker and the whole office laughed their ass off while he was jerking you off (which incidentally is a great way to relieve stress and it sounds you've got a fuck load of it!).
Why don't you just point your shit somewhere else and end this bullshit.

I think it's pretty obvious anyway tbh, for various reasons, but there are some glaringly obvious lies that give the game away right here on the thread. I find it amazing that people are prepared to accept whatever they are told by anyone claiming to be a pool member/operator without the slightest shred of proof or without asking a single simple question for verification about anything. For example, a quick scan through the last 10 pages provides the following:

1) ThePhwner claims that s0br hasn't been online or contactable due to internet issues - despite the fact that s0br's profile history clearly shows that he has been online - why would ThePhawner say something so blatantly false? Why would s0br not say something about his being missing when he was online?

2) ThePhwner also claims that s0br is working hard on fixing the payout issues - this is impossible without an internet connection as he claimed. Why would he say that?

3) ThePhwner posts two completely different pictures here as proof of the miner he "won" claiming they are the same miner - why would he try to lie about it?

4) Why would ThePhwner say that all delivery records have been irretrievably lost, when all he has to do is contact the delivery agent? Why wouldn't he just do this & prove to everyone that they were sent?

5) If you won a miner & it was delivered to you, wouldn't you want to post a picture out of pure gratitude? If other users specifically asked you to tell them what delivery agent was used & could you please post pictures of your free S3 - why wouldn't you oblige & help alleviate other users concerns? Why would you ignore all questions & requests?

This is just a small sample of what I could see without really looking too hard over the last few pages, I'm sure that if you flick back a few more pages & studied a little harder at what has been said/claimed, it wouldn't be too hard to find many more basic errors/lies/untruths - which is obviously what the user "Really?" has done, and what everyone should be doing.

Running multiple servers for a pool costs money, 31 S3's costs money, paying people to help you costs money, paying a claimed (but as yet, not delivered since the pool started) % bonus to every user costs money, posting 31 S3's to users costs money - how can a pool possibly survive paying out more than they earn, giving miners away, paying for employees & postage costs for miners etc without either a very rich & dumb financial backer - or it being a scam?  Think about it guys - it just doesn't make any sense at all. The saying that "if it sounds too good to be true......it probably is" can be applied in big, bold letters here. All this, and I haven't even touched on the late/wrong/low payments that have been here since the pool first started........

The fact that all the sock puppets here have gone remarkably silent since the revelations says it all, they/he is probably busy right now trying to work out another crap excuse before the scam accusation pops up. I get the real feeling that they/he knows that the cat is out of the bag and are preparing to disappear sharpish......

Ask questions, not only of yourselves, but of everything that is going on here - then ask some more. It genuinely does not add up at all.

Payouts seem ok now so I'm still mining here but this whole s3 business is a real cock up.

The sooner concrete evidence is provided that proves some of these s3's went to genuine miners and not fake accounts or people working for / with the pool the better.

If this cant be given soon then its obvious what's really gone on here.

Looks like its normal payouts for me to at this time.

*edit Been running for 6 hours or so and payouts seem to be better.

Pool efficiency back up, and the large hasher who came / left about the same time left when payouts started to get better.

I am not a tech guy, but could 1 big miner mess with the whole pools ability to work properly? If so, this might be a good place to start identifying problem / solution



Any news on the S3 drawings and what happened? As an honest potential winner of the prize, I am very anxious to see what the outcome will be of this. Can anyone shine some clarity on whats been going on with that?

I received three Antminer S3s and don't know which is the best pool to point them at. I have them up and running at bitminter currently.

Please help/advise,


Thank you,

Brett

If someone with anymore information could elaborate a bit more on this subject that would be great. Is everything going to be re-drawn? Will the people accused of cheating be eliminated and the rest still win? I was pretty excited to win something. And I know if the legitimate winnners will still receive a item that I have nothing to worry. If its all in doubt, that's a bummer, for me at least.

Well, I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but unfortunately I took those pictures from an HTC One and smartphone geeks probably know that's got one of the worst cameras in any modern smartphone

But anyway, I promise if something like this comes up again I'll take the pictures using my trusty Nikon DSLR just to have high quality proof

Ok, you want images, here you go:





I do advise you to check the tracking number at UPS.com though because I think that's better proof than the images. Of course, that is unless you're so decided that it is a lie that you'll just think I conspired to have a 14 lb. package shipped from California to me in Puerto Rico during the dates of the draw just to defend a random pool that is doing nothing for me if the draw prize was a lie to begin with. I can't do much for you if you're so paranoid and stubborn as to conclude that. In the meantime I'll just keep happily mining away and you'll just have to realize that even without the draw, if your miners have a decent efficiency, this pool is delivering so I don't see how the draw, which is a bonus on top of delivering the promised payment can be a damning thing if it were a hoax (which it is not).

I know the feeling. I was also debating buying S3s but now holding to see what happens. I'm still mining with 8 S1s and they're down to pulling in about 1 BTC a month. At my electricity cost of $0.13/kWh this cost me about $340/month. So I'm still making a small profit at the current BTC price. May upgrade using the kits, but not worth it yet. Waiting to see what happens.

Correct. It shows that he has them, has intentions of giving them out, has already given them out, has already kept the bonus going for 1 month. Not 1 thing has suggested this is a scam, furthermore, once this grows a bit more hes already stated the bonus will not be forever. So, while you sit here on the fence, others will continue to join and take advantage of the generosity, while he takes advantage of the expanded user base.

Look at all my posts relating to this pool. I have been critical, in and out, I don't stay here if things are fishy. But yet, I come back every time, as things are always resolved to satisfaction.

Now, I have won a antminer, I already asked to make the delivery snappy! and I asked for a confirmation of delivery so I can track it. Soon as I get a response I will post it here for you, so you can see a real person getting the item for your own eyes

same as you, but 99.94%, no big deal

Let us know your results. Hopefully its a issue that can , and is fixed. I have tried so many different servers. I am testing a few other pools now to see if my results are specific to this pool, or my network. So far the results are showing me having an issue relating to this pool specifically. I am going to switch some hash back and see if its normalized for me.

For people who are running with normalized payouts, can you tell us what servers you are on? The ones I am on that are giving trouble are east2, west1, and NIX telehouse NY

The pool efficiency is currently displaying under 92%, could this be effecting payouts?

This Month's Winners (pool username)

August 1, 2014:  751  GH/s Bigjgc2002
August 2, 2014:  12.1 TH/s silverthornne
August 3, 2014:  2.81 TH/s TexasKevin
August 4, 2014:  223  GH/s BitGuru
August 5, 2014:  396  GH/s ThePhwner
August 6, 2014:  615  GH/s Bigjgc2002
August 7, 2014:  1.8   TH/s xms
August 8, 2014:  556  GH/s jasonrock
August 9, 2014:  2.75 TH/s specialed101
August 10, 2014:  6.3 TH/s lobogil
August 11, 2014: 776 GH/s Rustiga
August 12, 2014: 19.8 TH/s dongce1103
August 13, 2014: 855 GH/s fonzy
August 14, 2014: 706 GH/s megahash
August 15, 2014: 367 GH/s ostabiz
August 16, 2014:  5.4 TH/s microcloudmining
August 17, 2014: 803 GH/s sweetson73
August 18, 2014:  2.9 TH/s specialed101 (2nd win)

Latest Draws:

August 19, 2014: 1.7 TH/s dervishcoiner
August 20, 2014: 4.7 TH/s instahater
August 21, 2014: 6.3 TH/s 9600
August 22, 2014: 1.8 TH/s buy4crypto
August 23, 2014: 524 GH/s cryptcollector
August 24, 2014: 1.63 TH/s archimage
August 25, 2014: 375 GH/s fire000
August 26, 2014: 2.3TH/s Aurel57
August 27, 2014: 1.0TH/s rokroka

Stay tuned tomorrow will be next drawn.

not JUSt the 20% thats not the sole factor, s0br has been active on IRC but hasnt been active posting here to concerns, the Pwner who i think is supposed to be support seems to not always be the most polite person (tho i havent dealt with him directly so i can say for sure thats true) ... the winner list hasnt been updated in 10 days, cant take very long to do a rand() on the number of people who meet the criteria and post the results, lots of little things that when aggregated together start to make a larger thing and if not fixed soon might be the straw that broke this camel's back.  if your risk tolerance is higher then by all means stay on board, im not saying that anyone else should leave, just trying to let s0br and whoever else know that im entertaining the notion since things are starting to go downhill somewhat at least from my perspective...

I'd like to suggest a "stay logged in" option on he login page for the site. At least something that keeps you logged in for 24hrs.

I know it's no a big thing and there's no rush on it but it would be nice to have, Ty.

Also, I noticed a dip in the last I think 2-3 payments and none of my miners went to backups so no issues there. Anyone else notice this ?

All my miners are showing 3333/3334 west1 as dead and are on my backup pools.

I had a hard time cleaning one that was pencil moded. I tried a couple different types of wipes, compressed air, erasers, etc. Finally got it but it was pita. Is there a trick to it?

    Me too. I'd love to win some more!!! 

if the price is right i might be interested in some S1's as well if you want to PM me details...