Theoretically you are correct, but dropping one pool and picking up on another, in a perfect world, should result in the same payout.

Pool hopping has been shown to cause lower payouts, because you are generally hitting each pool during their slow periods and leaving before the good luck periods happen.

I am sorry if you feel insulted, but the reality is, is that every other week someone starts calling Antpool "out" for being a scam or fudging the numbers because difficulty has a few days of bad luck.  They decide to talk shit instead of reading back a page or two to the last time that it happened and educating themselves on what luck actually means and how it works.

And, just so you know, pool hopping will get you the worst return of all, since you will more than likely miss the good days and only hit the bad ones, since you are only following high spurts at different pools.  Case in point, according to Hashnest, Antpool is at 36 blocks today with an hour and a half to go.  Very high luck today, just the way variance works.

Why else would the OP be complaining?  If he had nothing to hide then it would be little issue to just send the units back, have them evaluated, and issued new components, as Bitmain does every day with other customers.

Maybe instead of complaining he should be grateful that they offer a warranty service and would take the time and money to pay and train employees to do this work.  It surely would be cheaper if they dropped the warranty program and didn't have to worry about faulty units that weren't claimed faulty after a day or two of receiving them.

What does the Asset Ranking mean?

You get paid for blocks that reach 6 confirmations if you own mining shares.  If you do not own any shares at the time the block gets counted on Hashnest, then you get no payout.

Well can you go ahead and show some math on why you believe that this isn't luck based?  Its all too easy for people to call out shenanigans, but when it comes to actually proving it math wise, people shut up pretty quickly because they have no idea what they are talking about.

If you are looking at a week to determine luck, then there is absolutely no way you will be remotely accurate.  It is too short of a period.

There is never a shortage of people to immediately start saying something is wrong the minute a small lull occurs, but they are more than happy to accept it as fact when the pool pays better than normal.  Just be happy the pool allows you to mine here or go find another pool.  No one needs to hear about, "what your opinion" is.

Interested in a test unit, PM sent.

thanks for the advance notice.  its nice that we have are able to plan around it since its known in advance and no one will freak out.

Well your wrong, that is how everything works.  You bring your broken phone, computer, insert gadget here, into where you bought it from, they decide if they replace it for you.

Its not fair you didn't listen and overclocked your units which broke them and voided your warranty, and now your complaining about it.  Besides, they can't tell anything from the blades about how you ran them so just send them back and they will get replaced.

To add to the above.  You never really know how much bankroll the casino has (bitcoin casino that is).  This is because, you probably never know who the actual owners are, and they could literally tell you anything.  Just about anyone with programming knowledge could set up a little gambling game on a site fairly easily, so you get in the realm of people with a few thousand or even hundred who just wanted to try it out, thinking they would make a lot of money.

Well, in the short term, the casino can lose, and a few thousand can actually go pretty quickly, so yes, I would say that many bitcoin casinos could bust out pretty quick, as they don't have any institutional investors that are providing huge amounts of bankroll to bet against.

Nah sorry, have to agree with Kyle on this one.  This seems pretty dodgy.  Guys, regardless of trust, this is still a very new account and I would avoid doing any paypal deals in general.  Its just not worth the risk and there are better ways to transact.

Is this your 2nd new account in the same day asking for the same amount of loan with no collateral?

Go away scammer!

Probably in 30 minutes have some neg trust account come on here and "give" it to you.

Scam, brand new account asking for large loan with no collateral.

DO NOT SEND THIS USER ANYTHING!

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Wow your whole argument is like whipping before you poop...it just doesn't make sense.

He is a major reason people aren't flocking to bitcoin.  They look at his scandal and say, look, everyone, even the biggest of exchanges, just steal your bitcoins.  He has turned more people off to bitcoin than probably any other person in the history of bitcoin.

Yea agreed, if I had more time I would do it myself, its just easier to leave it on auto lend.  I have my brother looking into getting it set up on a server for me.

Did you read the ToS?  That is not what it is.

IDK, haven't really cared about scrypt that much.  They aren't shipping yet though.

EDIT: Why not look into the PACMiC if your trying to earn some returns on your coins?

Why not go post on localbitcoins for this kind of service.  To be honest a fairly new account, with absolutely no feedback, offering to sell bitcoins for cash in mail and not saying they will accept escrow in the first post is extremely shady and I would caution anyone from going into a deal with this user for the aforementioned reasons.

Well you did get an ROI, unfortunately it was a negative one.  From the looks of things, at the current difficulty, price per bitcoin, and price per hash on Hashnest, it doesn't look like you can buy any hash, hold it, and achieve a positive ROI before they become unprofitable to run.

Remember that Hashnest will ship you the miner for a fee once it becomes unprofitable, maybe that will help your calc?  Or try day trading the hash?

As for scrypt, the only companies that look to be about ready to ship scrypt miners are whoever makes the A2, with their A3 & A4, and Sfards, that i have heard about.  Neither are shipping, so it does no good to do any calcs because we don't know the price or what the current state of the game will be like when they are ready to go.