GUI progress

https://github.com/mbg033?tab=activity

Interesting iCEBREAKER that you come here to troll given you are also facing fraud charges for hashfast.

Also interesting that KNC is also behind a certain alt coin that you support.

Hi to all the forensic accountants following iCEBRREAKERS trail..........

I'm more or less completely beside myself at Zander's claims that Classic implements BIP9: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4lvdsj/repost_from_rbitcoinclassic_warning_flag_while/d3qztv7?context=1

He might as well also say that Core implements 109 for all the relationship to reality that his remarks have.

gmaxwell apparently reported it to the vanillacoin/vcash developers themselves via a github issue, assuming good faith which would have meant the lack of the required Bitcoin attributions was an honest error. Instead of correcting the error (which it clearly wasn't), the vanillacoin/vcash developers hid the issue.

As far as I know,no Bitcoin developer has, so far, reported the issue to github itself nor made a takedown request with github on the basis of the license violation and copyright infringement, but they would be within their rights to do so, and will be for the next 50+ years (unless the repo is deleted first).

This attempted deflection is invalid as I have explained before. John-connor is not the copyright holder of the relevant openssl code that was clearly copied, nor is he the copyright holder of all of the relevant Bitcoin code that was clearly copied. As such he is still required to comply with the attribution requirements of the license, both as a matter of copyright, and as a matter of not misleading investors about the origin of the code he falsely claimed to have written from scratch. Also, that copyright holders have not, so far, taken other action does not mean that they won't decide take other action some time in the next 50+ years.

As far as whether the thread should exist at all now that the company is in liquidation, there is probably some precedent for that? What happened to threads about other miner manufacturers after they failed?

I ignored a blanket condemnation of Sweden, made by a Swede, in another thread, because it's not something I know about. If someone wanted to trash the American business mentality, I might speak up - unless I thought his assertion was valid.

I defended a comment about "human garbage" in another thread because, as a person who doesn't like to be stolen from, and as a businessman who works to provide for my customers whether I win or lose (and I have taken my share of losses to keep promises I made, losses caused by others failing to keep business promises to me), I don't think it's entirely fair to blame the victim of theft for allowing himself to be robbed and give a pat on the back to the robber as "just doing his job".

KNC definitely was winning for a while. Their silicon design guys have always done a good job of keeping ahead of the curve on efficiency. But you can't convince me that building a case from 18AWG steel instead of 24AWG steel would have lost them the race, or that putting a second PCIe jack on the board (which, really, should have been there from the start) would have lost them the race. I don't expect carrier-grade, but I do expect machines that survive shipping intact and are designed to not catch fire. There's a reason my weakest PSU board still used 9oz copper where some other guys' strongest boards use 3oz.

As someone who has been building power supply equipment for 2.5 years, hosting miners for 1.5 years, designing and building miners for 1 year, and working my ass off to fulfill business promises for five years, I like to think I know a thing or two about building things right and how to not screw customers.

I also don't think you know me well enough to judge what I would and would not be complaining about. And yes, I know a thing or two about "best efforts" and "thankless/endless tasks" especially in the bitcoin economy. And I do not backpedal.

He can still persue damages from the personal assets of any or all of the company's former directors.

So much "congestion" 

https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

Which fee should I use?

The fastest and cheapest transaction fee is currently 60 satoshis/byte, shown in green at the top.
For the median transaction size of 226 bytes, this results in a fee of 13,560 satoshis (0.05$).

Guys, what happened the last couple of days with bitcoin that prompted such a sharp rise in price? The rise was only shared by litecoin. Was there anything implemented recently by these two coins that increased their value?

FWIW, I politely reported the copyright violation (the code being a copy of Bitcoin Core run through an auto-formatter with all the attribution removed) as an issue on the github for the project and john-connor accused me of stalking him and then hid the issue tracker on that github from public view. :-/

maybe he did rip off some Bitcoin code.

Ignore it

I politely reported the copyright violation (the code being a copy of Bitcoin Core run through an auto-formatter with all the attribution removed) as an issue on the github for the project and john-connor accused me of stalking him and then hid the issue tracker on that github from public view. :-/

These monero trolls are what makes BCT a hostile cesspool. But these trash posting rtards don't get it.

Continue the bullshit, there will be consequences.

The problem is not the cable. I never said it was the cable. Nobody said it was the cable. The problem is that the miner itself is drawing up to 400W through a single PCIe jack. People sometimes have trouble with the SP20 and Avalon6 taking in 500W through two jacks and still roasting connectors. The KNC Neptune pulling 400W through a single connector and causing fires is a well-documented problem, not something someone made up on a whim to make the manufacturer look bad. Just do a quick search for "Neptune fire", you'll see claims going back to 2014. That's the kind of thing even an intern engineer should have caught long before it came to production.

I've got some pictures of my own, of some Titan cubes that required rebuilding (for at least the second time) after shipment because the entire housing was so flimsy that heatsink mounting screws were ripping the threads out and coolers were flopping around loose inside the case breaking stuff. That's also the kind of thing even an intern engineer should have caught long before it ever went out the door.

Aside from any complaints about how the management may have mistreated customers, the design and build quality of their later products is some evidence that they were "mailing it in". Those amateur engineering blunders are the only things I have hard evidence for, but it's enough to convince me they stopped caring about what got sent out a long time ago.

No, just no.

I was told by the 'Gavinista' that Bitcoin is practically dead. Why is the price going up I'm pretty certain that a certain 'group' of people at a certain subreddit don't even care, as they continue with ad hominem and ETH promotion.

Things would be much simpler if the remaining 'opposers' just accepted Segwit at the moment. You can then focus on a HF afterwards. What Antpool is trying to do now does not help the situation at all. The network was practically at a point where consensus has been met. With KNC gone, Classic is completely done.

Yeah, their early miners were super expensive but because they were super efficient compared to everything else at the time. They proved they could do good work, which is why people trusted them enough to continue buying.

Regarding claims of incompetence - that picture says quite a bit. I think bringing to market a 400W device taking in power from a single connector good for less than 300W continuous is claim enough. There's a fair bit of demonstrable shoddiness in their later miners, a bunch of rookie mistakes you wouldn't expect to see in someone's college project let alone from engineers from a multi-million-dollar company. From what I've seen of KNC miners, their silicon guys were pretty good but board-level guys need help and the mechanical guys should have been fired.

He did offer them up for a bounty, but so far no one has approached him to buy the exploits.
John_Connor just asked that the funds be held in trustless escrow before he is willing to pass them on.

Just call his bluff and offer to buy them and we will see the truth of all this

I am glad to see KnC miner die!  Fuck them.
They fucked so many people with their incompetence.

Icebreaker - you're in the wrong conversation. If we were talking about people suing a company who failed to deliver because of outside factors (or accidental incompetence), what you say might make sense. But since the lawsuit here is that the company failed to deliver because they intentionally refused goods and services to customers which had already paid for them - willfully kept money to themselves that should have gone to customers, and willfully kept machinery that should have gone to customers - there's really no way to defend that as simply "gambling" on the customer's part and therefore the business is not in the wrong.

Are preorders a foolish gamble? Yes. HOWEVER, however, they have become a foolish gamble not because companies of the occasional case where a business fails to deliver due outside factors driving them to it out of necessity, but because of all those companies who abused their customers by redirecting preorder money into their own pockets, refused refunds, self-mined on customer gear and intentionally delivered it late (if ever) - or the ones which were cons from the get-go, had no intentions of ever making hardware and wanted to take your money and disappear.

So if you want to defend a business forced into bankruptcy by bad market conditions, which had a reputation for respecting its customers, making good on its promises and communicating honestly when things weren't going right, go for it. But if you want to defend a business who for the last two years has made its profits by actively and unapologetically stealing from its customers, well... you're on your own.