That is a far stretch... You willingly volunteered to be recorded, on AMT rented property, with the obvious intention that it be made available to the public, after being invited to "see that AMT was real", for a bounty/payment/compensation. That is like asking playboy to pull your nudes, after a photo-shoot, printing, and sale of the magazine. You sort of loose the right to publication, once you initially give-up that first right to publication, to the other party. Especially "after payment". (The miner. As you indicated, that they gave it to you, because you didn't purchase it.)

Might want to think about that next time, before you admittedly lie on camera, for personal gain. Sports stars do it all the time, on commercials where they endorse products they don't even use or like.

Nice try though, with the follow-up extortion and black-male. Not sure how well that will bode your cause. However, removing the video would do AMT some justice. You are not as popular as most other celebrity images. Rather, those who are fans of you, are not fans AMT would want as clients.

I vote to remove it, but not to avoid the threat of absurd undue compensation. xD

Not to mention, you can have it removed yourself. Just go to youtube and hit the "Report" button. Then place your reason in the box they provide. Since that is a possibility, financial compensation is, once again, not even an option. Since they "did not record you without your permission", and "without intent of its use". (Since you stated those were your own words "testimony", in the video itself.) Still, youtube will honor your request, on a personal level. However, the video is still property of AMT, so, it could pop-up anywhere-else, legally. Since it is also not copyrighted, and in the public domain, anyone can make a copy of it, and repost it.

P.S. Usually a "take down notice", starts with a notarized letter delivered with a signed, return receipt letter, with a 30-day grace period beyond the date of receipt. After which, you can peruse for damages, if damages are justified. However, you have to have a justification for damages, not "just because". A judge will not award you anything, "just because". You would have to have some kind of financial loss or personal loss, of some kind.

$85.00 That's like... um... a half-keg!

JK. I am sure someone found it worth the sale. Hidden whale? Frustrated miner? Stop-loss failure? Type-O on price? (One too many o's, lol.)

Looks like the inputs are all legitimate mined blocks. Might not be them, or it may be coins they actually mined, if it was them.

Well then, I should place my orders lower... I am still game to buy all the premine.

End this downward spiral once and for all. Give the coin back to the investors. Since, well, we are the ones who actually own them. Giving away our BTC is just poor taste. Taking our BTC is even poorer taste.

Since luck comes in waves, and smaller diffs = faster finds... When one person finds a block, in his "wave of luck", thus finds 2-4 more faster than everyone, (since they built off their block faster than it was broadcast)... In those instances, you will see a lot more rejects with smaller workload sizes.

With larger workload sizes, you are still "looking", while a new block is found, and you don't attempt to submit that work, your miner just throws it away, once it is complete. With smaller workload sizes, you will potentially see more rejects, because you finish faster and submit a fraction of a second faster than those still processing a larger workload size.

This is true for solo and in pools. However, in pools, it should give you, potentially, one to three extra shares submitted, per new-block. (Over workload 256.) But again, you will also see more rejects, as there too, your work was submitted, not just thrown away as you get a "new block detected".

At the end of the day, those with more machines will notice greater advantages, while those with only a smaller single rig, may not notice any difference.

Rejects are not bad, unless they are excessive. (Fast block-time coins naturally have more rejects. BTC, for instance, has few. Due to difficulty, luck and long times between blocks.)

If errors are always excessive, it is because you are connected to a node that is usually too far away. Thus, it is taking them a lot longer to send you the new-block info... or you are connected to a rogue-node set, who is purposely rejecting any "submits" that are not their own. They do that to stall your submitted work, in hope that they find a block, which they confirm before yours. (They may also stall "new block found" data.) Just shut-down your wallet, and restart it. You should connect to faster nodes from the list you built. Otherwise you will remain on those sour nodes, until they boot you.)

Also helps if you choose a pool located in your own country/state/city/network. Hopping country-gates and country-backbones or even network-hubs, causes a lot of buffered lag that is unavoidable.

I love it when I hit like 5 blocks in a row, only seconds apart from one another. After having not found one for an hour. It is funny. As "random" as the results should be, there is an obvious pattern of waves, due to the pseudo-random numbers and the fact that everything is based off prime-numbers for the hashing. (Look at any pool and you see the same patterns... waves of 3 and 4 and 5, all from the same people, enough that you can almost predict who will hit the next wave. Just not so predictable that you could ever tell which block they will hit.)

Looks like a fork-lift plowed into it. Now you know why they recommend 1-2" of foam protection, and double boxing.

That, or the guy dropped it on the edge of the truck, or stacked his load top-heavy.

Refresh... Looks like they may have done a website update. It loads for me.

As for moving coins, yes, it is safe. It seems the sour connection data may be coming from the torrent-style connections. Those are just the LTC connections slipping-in to our nodes. They are not using our chain, and we are obviously not using the LTC chain. However, the wallet is updating the information on the status bar, with this wrong information.

When closing the wallet, and reconnecting, for a moment all is fine. Then a few seconds later, the secondary pull of "peers" from the peer discovery over the torrent-list, pulls the LTC data into the list of peers and block-info. (That is just my best educated guess, by the behavior I see occurring.)

Someone taking advantage of the 1:1 offer, to the fullest, no doubt. (Like I have done, with the purchases I made.)

Why settle for less, when you can have more! It's a stale-mate. Few left who can even settle for less, so it has no place to go, except up. Now we know the solid floor. Unless someone wants to sell at a major loss. I am sure those few individuals are gone, or have already cashed-out.

My strategy is, buy more on the floor, to take the average value of all my holdings to a lower loss. Now I can sell for much lower than before, and still make a gain, in the future.

10,000 at 0.00210000 BTC/AIR and 10,000 at 0.00007000 BTC/AIR = 20,000 at 0.00108500 BTC/AIR

Your order, as listed, is order number #1485 paid on 02.13.2014. (Is this not correct, or do you have two orders?)

I have assumed the responsibility of keeping the list up to date. Please let me know of any changes to your order-status.

Thank-you, JD (ISAWHIM)

LINK: AMT Order List, Revised

The original list can be found here. LINK: AMT Order List

Please no trolls. This is not a thread to discuss power consumption, hash rates, how good your attorney is, how many unanswered phone calls, etc

Post your order number, date you ordered, model and amount and whether you have received it.

I will try to keep it as organized as I can. You may also mention RMA status, if you have a issue with the delivered item. However, this is not a form of contact for RMA, for AMT. Please contact them directly for assistance. This is only for historic records of business with forum-members. If you have made a purchase, and are not yet a member of the forum, please sign-up, and make a post with your information.

Thanks, JD (ISAWHIM)

P.S. Please let me know of any changes to your order-status, or corrections.

NOTE: Pending orders may have been received, they have just not been reported as received.

PENDING ORDERS	................	.....................	................	....................
Username	Order #	Date Ordered	Model #	Quantity
..........................	................	.....................	................	.....................
Boaz33	376	10.01.2014	320	?
VBT	403	10.03.2013	192	2
mmfiore	414	10.04.2014	192	?
geoloudon	477	10.06.2013	192	1
otep	492	10.21.2013	1.2	1
NaranKPatel	515	10.12.2013	1.2	1
NaranKPatel	519	10.15.2013	1.2	1
wtiger127	521	10.14.2013	1.2	1
ladi4ever	533	10.31.2013	1.2	2
russellthies	541	10.23.2013	1.2	1
clenell	610	11.11.2013	1.2	1
ladi4ever	631	11.12.2013	1.2	1
rzrminer	640	11.12.2013	1.2	1
tonyca	645	11.12.2013	1.2	1
cowpiboy	666	11.14.2013	520	1
cowpiboy	672	11.15.2013	520	1
captin crunch	676	11.15.2013	1.2	1
cicask8ers	686	11.15.2014	1.2	1
chlangyue0168	690	11.16.2014	1.2	1
chlangyue0168	691	11.16.2014	1.2	1
? ? ? ? ? ? ?	699	11.16.2013	1.2	1
termonator61	700	11.19.2013	1.2	1
cowpiboy	709	11.21.2013	1.2	1
cowpiboy	710	11.21.2013	1.2	1
captin crunch	716	11.22.2013	1.2	2
russellthies	798	11.29.2013	1.2	1
C0Kez3R0	847	12.03.2013	1.2	1
Squeeky62	849	12.04.2013	1.2	1
Chazaki	899	12.05.2013	1.2	2
mdtspain	944	12.08.2013	1.2	1
tonyaca	962	12.12.2013	1.2	1
ISAWHIM	968	12.10.2013	1.2	1
Nyboe	1051	12.13.2013	1.2	2
cowpiboy	1056	12.13.2014	1.2	1
frank754	1068	12.13.2013	80	1
mvick	1127	12.21.2014	1.2	1
eightcylinders	1188	12.26.2013	1.2	1
eightcylinders	1196	12.29.2013	1.2	1
asprin	12??	01.03.2014	1.2	1
mdiggy	1275	01.08.2013	1.2	1
l12	1327	01.13.2014	1.2	4 of 5
drpibb81	1356	01.27.2014	1.2	1
raydeeyo	1433	02.01.2014	1.2	1
delta1299	1452	02.03.2014	520	3
petermolloy	1485	02.13.2014	1.2	1
NotFuzzyWarm	1565	02.26.2014	520	1

NOTE: Some 1.2 THs miners arrived as a partial kit-form*, out of shipping-sequence, as per request.
* Kit forms have been delivered without a CPU-Case, LCD-Display or a PSU.

RECEIVED ORDERS	................	.....................	................	....................
Username	Order #	Date Ordered	Model #	Quantity
..........................	................	.....................	................	....................
WinterParker	?	?	128	1
Biomech	Review	N/A	80	1
pierred	501	10.10.2013	192	1
avaughan4	580	11.13.2013	1.2	1
avaughan4	650	11.13.2013	1.2	1
swiftshoot	803	12.01.2013	128	1
Khanduras	805	12.01.2013	128	1
C0Kez3R0	847	12.03.2013	80	1
YourPalToots	867	12.04.2013	1.2	1
fryarminer	888	12.05.2013	80	1
Stan-O	928	12.09.2013	80	1
mrpark	95?	12.09.2013	1.2	1
FrictionlessCoin	961	12.12.2013	1.2	1
Casiriamine	1121	12.24.2013	1.2	2
l12	1327	01.13.2014	1.2	1 of 5
mellorbo	1428	01.30.2014	520	1
rik_khaos	1432	01.31.2014	1.2	1
opieum2	1493	02.14.2014	1.2	2

REFUNDED ORDERS	................	.....................	................	....................
Username	Order #	Date Ordered	Model #	Quantity
..........................	................	.....................	................	.....................
elaramus	399	?	?	?

You can make an extractor from a candy tin, using scissors. (Had to do that a while ago.)

Make it look like this -<|>- and then fold it at the thick part "|", so it looks like tweezers. (If you have the patience, you can wrap it around a small nail, into a tube.)

The tool is much easier to use, but this will get the job done, if you are in a pinch. (Altoids tins have a nice flat bottom, and just rigid enough to force the tab out of the way, for extraction. Just don't forget to bend the tab out a little, before replacing it, so it does not push back out again.)

Oh, and wide staples work too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5_58o0WaTM

No, They need to be sent to AMT, for replacement. AMT will be sending me "some" of the boards that they know are having issues in the initial testing phase. Your replacement boards should be from the batches that have passed 100%, following an extended test. (I would assume that is how they are going to handle replacements, like Dell does... I had my share of fighting with Dell, once they consumed AlienWare. Though, in all honesty, those components didn't start to fail, until a few months into operation. But when they failed, they were replaced with 100% double-tested replacements.)

Dell now has a bad habit of just sending untested units, beyond boot-posting, and then just repairing the ones that fail in peoples hands. Seems it is cheaper than actually testing every single component and assembled unit.

This situation is a little different, because of the isolated issues that just don't show until after shipping, and after they passed the initial tests.

My assistance to customers, will be technical support. (Though limited by several things.)

I am not personally reworking the boards myself, just identifying the point of failures, and marking the components to be reworked.

If I can, I will try to assist with locating or obtaining missing parts. (Once I have settled-in. I just got out of the hospital a few days ago, and have to finalize the "informal contract", with Josh.)

No, I am not speaking on behalf of AMT. I am simply parroting the obvious and giving personal opinions. AMT speaks for AMT. I am, for what it matters, assisting AMT on the technical side, through my informal contract of services. My duties, as I have stated, are related to locating and isolating faults in post-tested boards, for reworking. (Loss prevention and recovery. To reduce the overhead of potential losses, from under-performing or faulting components on the cards.) Thus, my desire to have knowledge of the specific issues, which are reported here, are of strong interest to me. This gives me a specific guidance for things to look for, to resolve. (Just as Microsoft had issues with PSU's and heat-sinks, post production and post testing. The cause of 90% of the RROD situations.)

Hope that clears a few things up.

The guys with the REV 1 boards, essentially have a "reference design". That is what Bitmine provided for suggested builds. (They also had errors in the gerber-files and parts-lists, provided by Bitmine.)

The guys with the REV 3? boards, essentially have a "modified reference design". That is a board with some of the initial major short-fallings fixed. (Obviously, there are a few more minor issues with those boards, or the issues lie within the A1 chips themselves, which is still being determined, through the software side.)

The "Kit option", was not intended to be produced. It was for those who felt they could not wait any-longer, and felt they could live with the incomplete units. (With the missing components, stated.)

However, there seems to be a little more "hobby", than expected. The new revisions of the boards and backplanes and PSU's, (which was what they did not want to wait for), are being shipped now. There is still an issue with post-tested boards, which I am sure a better testing setup will resolve. Once they know the source of the failures. Josh has informed me of these potential issues, as well as the forums. These "kits", should not be a representation of the "final product". (For those who have gotten the fully assembled units, with shipping damage, that is another issue.)

The short-falling of the chips themselves, and the original erred designs, given by the MFG, is not making this easy for anyone at the moment.

At the moment, no. However, soon, possibly. Let me get settled-in first... I just got out of the hospital a few days ago.
(Had an infection knock me off my feet. Another week of antibiotics and pain-killers, and I should be 100% back on track.)

Got a heat-probe? (The bad chips will be cooler. However, it could be the sister-components causing failure or poor performance. That, or contact shorting from the heat-sink compound on poorly protected terminals and through-holes.)

Just for the record, testing is limited to a short burn-in period. Once cooled and settled-in, there is a chance that post-tested boards may later show signs of under-performance or apparent failure. That is not an excuse, just a real situation. Best to get an RMA, have a replacement sent, and the troublesome boards can be "reworked", or the post-test operation failures can be further diagnosed.

This is one reason why I do not recommend getting the "kit alternative", at the moment, unless you have the technical background to troubleshoot and test these things.

I am not going to suggest fixes beyond anyone's ability, which is why I was going to offer live support. To screen for those who, well, just don't have the understanding, ability or tools required for the more technical stuff. Those individuals would be directed to RMA the misbehaving boards, after a quick "test" that the non-technical individual could do, with guidance. (To ensure there is not just some other issue, like power or backplane issues.)

Heat guns can be found as cheap as $20, with spreading and focusing tips.

Here are some SMT tools and more info, if you are looking to expand your collection.
http://store.curiousinventor.com/guides/Surface_Mount_Soldering/Tools/

If you don't have a good heat-gun, with a temp-control and focusing-tip... There is an alternative way to rework or remove the components. (This is NOT an AMT recommended solution for anything. Use this information at your own risk, and voiding of any form of warranty.)

You can use a hot-plate and focus the heat with an aluminum or copper block. Use an old pot-holder as insulation, to focus the heat where you want it. You can also use a top-side fan, to ensure the stray heat does not loosen other components.
IRON as a hotplate. http://runawaybrainz.blogspot.com/2011/11/surface-mount-devices.html
SKILLET as a hotplate. https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/59
BURNER as a hotplate. http://jimlaurwilliams.org/wordpress/?p=2101

1: Cut a hole in the pot-holder, to fit the block of copper. (Just a tiny bit shy of the actual size, so it holds firmly to the block, as you push it through.)
2: Place the copper block and heat-shielded pot-holder on the hot-plate, and get it "up to temperature". (You can use another pot-holder to contain the heat, like a cover, until the temp is high enough to melt the low-temp SMT solder. I use a junk PCB, which I can just lay on the block. When it turns shiny, it is just about ready.)
3: Brace the board with cardboard, so it will stay as level as possible against the block of copper.
4: Use a piece of electric tape, looped so the sticky-side is outward, hung from a pencil or paper-clip.
5: Tap the tape-wand down onto the chip, while it is heating, to try and "grab" the chip, to lift it off the melted solder. (Do not hold the tape down, just tap it down and pull it up quickly, or it will melt the tape. If the chip is loose-enough, it will stick and lift up off the board. Otherwise it will remain, when you pull up the sticky "grabber".
6: Use copper desoldering braid, to clean-up the excess solder from the chip, (Do that fast, don't linger with that focused heat on the chip.)
7: Clean the tape-gunk with a fresh piece of tape... Tap and pull, tap and pull.
8: Then clean any heat-sink compound off the chip with alcohol.

NOTE: The epoxied heat-sink on the top of the chip should/may loosen with the focused heat. If not, then it would be safe to remain on the chip.

NOTE: This board may not be safe to rework in a reflow-oven. There may be secondary components that my melt, which were added after the reflow process. (Such as the cable connections. Which would have to be removed the old way, with copper braid and a standard temp-controlled solder-gun. Prior to reflow-work in an oven. Never use an oven you cook food in, as the boards will release toxins into the air, which will later contaminate food.) You can quickly remove all parts at once, in a reflow oven, with an insulated fiberglass catch-tray, suspending the board upside-down over it. All the parts will drop-off, except for a few smaller capacitors and resistors. A quick tap should liberate them from the boards.
http://www.freetronics.com/pages/surface-mount-soldering-with-a-toaster-oven#.U1I35PldVK0

Actually, yes, they are aware of a few issues related to the heat-sink compound reacting with some boards. (The issue is not consistent, which is why they are testing them prior to release.)

As for "Arctic Silver-5"... The "made with 99% pure silver" is misleading. It is not 99% pure silver, that would be foil. Of the 0.025% silver, that 0.01mg silver is 99% pure. Thus, "this paste is non-conductive". If it was 99% silver, it would be more conductive than copper. The 0.01mg of silver is in addition to the other compounds, which totals about 40mg.
http://www.arcticsilver.com/PDF/thermcom/AS5_MSDS_3.pdf

Also note, silver paste is corrosive to the aluminum. Any two metals placed against one another, is a "battery". That is why you don't mix copper and aluminum, or use dissimilar metals in direct contact with one another. (The statue of liberty was a copper shell, bound with iron ribs and rivets. The whole thing had to be rebuilt, because the dissimilar metals corroded 10x faster as the moisture in the air had essentially turned each connection into a mini-battery, which caused the structure to fail.)

"Bad boards", that is actually my job. I am sure I will see your board in the future.

I will be offering some technical advice in the future, as well as, (hopefully), some form of live support.

Just a mini-update...

AIRteam is working on a fix for the issue. This "glitch" should be resolved soon.

As for my coin, I have some things in the works, since AIR has decided to keep this coin maintained, along with the new coin. My coin would have been a compliment to AIR and other ALTs, not a competitor to them. However, that is too off-topic for this thread. (At the moment, I am distracted by assistance with AMT miners, which is going to hold me back from developing anything at the moment. Feel free to contact me, for future reference, if you desire.)

I still mine and buy AIR, and have faith that this will become more than most think, at this point in time. It is one of the few coins with its own background processing services, which will not depend on third-party services. Though there is still a lot I do not agree with, about the coin. (That only limits my participation, which is still participation.)