I like your idea, this is something which can be further worked on.

Merit Sources are just as 'centralized' as the 'Default Trust'. Plus if you take into consideration things like bias, time spent by merit sources on the forum etc. It isn't the best way to distribute merit or the efficient one, to say the least.

What I had in mind was a sort of stake system... So Let's say 20,000 merits monthly would be distributed to people who 'contribute' to the forum. Each 'upvote' will get you X amount of stakes, Depending on the rank of the member who upvoted your post. To prevent spam, You could exclude upvotes from newbies, jr.member and members. The "sMerit" will function the same way as it does now.

You would get 1 stake if a Full member upvotes your post.
You would get 2 stakes if a Sr Member upvotes your post.
You would get 3 stakes if a Hero Member Upvotes your post.
You would get 4 stakes if a Legendary user upvotes your post.
You would get 5 stakes if a mod upvotes your post.
You would get 10 stakes if an Admin upvotes your post.

This sort of system will consolidate for things like bias from merit sources and time which is required to 'lookout' for merit-worthy posts. Let's be honest here, Many boards are 'under-merited' because of the reasons I mentioned.

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Thanks, will do! To be honest, I have been chatting to the owner since Wednesday and he has been very supportive of my hesitancy to do business with a unknown supplier, to the extent of answering many many questions as well as sending pictures of the actual units that will be shipped. I will provide a more comprehensive update once I receive the miner but for now, the experience has been very good. I eventually paid with BTC, so that cost an additional $100 but it was much better than the other conventional methods requested by the suppliers on Alibaba. Considering I am from South Africa, the trade assurance fees were +/-$150, the conversion fee from Rand to Dollar via MasterCard or Visa was approx. 2.5% of purchase price and Alibaba charged another 2.4% as a transaction fee. There probably was some other surprises as well. Hopefully I don’t get screwed by customs so waiting anxiously.

Like I said, I will provide the full breakdown when I receive the miner...

Why not try us, PSU already includes and bitcoin pay are supported:
https://www.akminer.com/all-products/lyra2rev2-asic-miner-dayun-zig-z1-ship-now-free-shipping-psu-and-power-cable-included



below is some recently orders screensnap for you reference.

https://img.krisdiary.com/images/2018/10/18/japan2.png
https://img.krisdiary.com/images/2018/10/18/japan3.png
https://img.krisdiary.com/images/2018/10/18/Japan1.png

Also user"yrk1957" has bought miner from Us before, you can check his answer in this thread earlier.

I got my Zig Z1 from here: https://leiqing.en.alibaba.com/?spm=a2700.8443308.0.0.36803e5fGjkX2d

It was pretty fast shipping (4 days), pretty fast response times and they will work with you on customs forms.  Also they are VERY good at trying to help with issues... (they aren't the manufacturer, but they will try to help)

Also, I wanted to confirm what was mentioned earlier in the forum.  Setting the frequency to 1000 and the "auto-frequent" to "1" in the JSON file has greatly improved my stability and hash rate.  I have no idea why that would be the case, but it is working much better now.  Been running about 18 hours with no hiccups at 6.85 gh/s.

So it may not work for everyone, but I have seen a noticeable improvement.

I have heard www.Bittawmart.com is boss

 

Never heard that sites before and I think it's not safe if you don't buy directly from the manufacturer.
If you are looking for a list of the real manufacturer where you can buy ASICminer you can check them on my small list below

http://www.canaan.io
http://www.bitmain.com
http://miner.ebang.com.cn
http://www.innosilicon.com/
http://www.pangolinminer.com/

I was worried too, but everyone I spoke to that has been doing this for a while said it is fine as long as you don't use 2 PSU's for 1 hash board.

Its running great now, just LOUD.  Suprnova (verge) Lyra2Rev2 pool is horrendous, 15-20% error rate.  1-4% on MPH.

And I guess your just a dick head newbie who was scammed thousand times before lol fuck out of here you filty troll

So you mean a gas station should ask the driver for what purpose is he going to use the gas before fueling the car?
An exchange is a middleman, it's not their business to research the purpose or the team of a project nor are they able to foreseen if a project will turn out to be a scam.