Interpol?  Interpol acts like a liaison between different country's police.  They don't really investigate anything.  They just get information on criminals from other investigating bodies and send that information to others.  You'd have to go to your local police, tell them about Sovu (Or whoever) and then that police would contact interpol and tell them about their active investigation.  At which point, when he is picked up in Swaziland or whatever, Interpol is notified and they hand him over to your local police.

You might be watching too many TV shows of Interpol flying around making arrests.  

From Interpol's FAQ:  

"How do I report a crime to INTERPOL?"

"If you have information about a crime being planned or that has been committed, or if you are the victim of a crime, you should report this to your local or national police authorities. They can then access the appropriate INTERPOL channels if required. The INTERPOL General Secretariat can deal only with information provided by the appropriate law enforcement agencies, not members of the public."

If that's true, than at this point Black Arrow should just mine with the things so they can earn enough money to finish them and ship them out.

I do believe they don't have much money, it's why they don't give anyone a refund.  But if they are at the point of just closing the doors and not finishing the hardware, well then I would hope they use some common sense and just mine for the money they need.  Otherwise we're all screwed regardless.

Thanks, I think what I'll do is put up a default for the device but allow you to change the wattage for each frequency if you want to spend the time to figure out what each of them are for your device/psu.  It's the same as going to one of those profit charts where you can preselect a miner and see what it might earn.  Obviously an Antminer S1 at 180gh isn't common, it'll be 176gh or overlocked to 200gh, etc.  So providing the same kind of flexibility to enable you to change it would be ideal. 

At the same time, if you run a lot of these units together and want to just assume a base average among them, having some idea if downclocking would result in more profit would be handy.   I'm writing it for myself but will make it available to all.  Then just improve it where good suggestions like yours come in and make sense.

Thanks again.

Thanks JP, that's a good start!

Does anyone happen to know what the wattage usage is of the S3 at each frequency?  I'd like to put together a web form that takes the current Bitcoin price and the price you pay for electricity and then figures out what frequency would be best in terms of efficiency.  I could hook the units up to a watt meter and figure this out myself, but was curious if anyone had already done it and can save me the trouble?  (Or if there is a defined ratio, I could use that as well I guess.)

I'll make the site public and then potentially add other miners to it if they offer the same ability to change wattage/frequency and I have access to the numbers.   Maybe I'll call it Intelihash.   Haha...

X3's have shipped, there are photos and comments of them in the wild.  Though it does not appear to be very many so far...

This seems to be a 0% loan for you to purchase the ATM machines, but you give no indication of what kind of revenue you expect to be getting nor how much each share can be expected to get back.  It makes no sense to purchase $100 in shares, have your dividends then distribute $10 and then have the fund collapse from lack of reinvestment.  That would mean the average shareholder would lose $90.  There is no growth potential here.  It's a loan that you get to decide how much you get to pay back.

You need numbers and more clear guidelines as to what investors would gain from giving you their money for your business, since the investor is the one carrying the risk.  So far it doesn't sound good at all.

I will send you a variety of freshly baked cookies in the mail every week for 52 weeks. 

The coin has a very strong developer behind it who appears to be committed to it, at least so far in the technology sense.  It's complete, it works, and he's open to any good ideas to improve it.  He is, however, often pretty busy and has not laid out a real roadmap as to what he's going to work on to help improve the coin's adoption by consumers.  (Which is key to making it profitable.  Otherwise, nobody is going to use it.)

On the other hand, as a coin, there is nothing about Hirocoin that makes it special or better than the other coins that are out there.  There is no reason for anyone to use this coin, currently.

At best, it'll be flat with maybe some minor take-up due to the reward limit in effect.  However, there is little investor interest because it doesn't distinguish itself.

If you look at a similar coin, such as Noble, you'll see a much higher degree of interest and heavy programming investment by its developers.  Hiro Coin isn't anywhere near that level of effort, so it is very stagnant.

That said, Hiro can't do it all himself.  You need to have outside players building tools and adopting the coin to make it more worthwhile.

Realistically though, that will not happen until this coin is designed to distinguish itself from all the other coins that are out there.  Right now, it's just a Me-To coin.   It works, it has a developer, but improvements and new software?  That all seems a long ways off...

It's cheap though.  I'd buy a couple million coins and sit on them.  There is always the possibility that Hiro invests real time into this coin and develops new features that cause it to stand out.  Then you could have a Darkcoin style situation where it just shoots up quickly in value.  Though Hiro has said he's not interested in making the coin anonymous himself.  So that's not likely to be the course the coin is charted towards.  Just as well, there are too many anonymous coins right now.  It would do little to distinguish it.

Branny,  next time do a Google Hangout On Air.  Which is different from a normal Google Hangout.  On Air lets you broadcast to as many viewers as you want.  You can still invite people into the discussion with the same limit on those people being able to participate, but everyone can watch without joining.  So you can drop and add people if someone has something to say, etc.  It's right there in the Google Hangouts area at the top.  Just switch to On Air and set it up, etc.

So basically anything valued over $2500 needs "formal clearance" and you have can either act as your own agent or pay someone to be your broker.  I believe however that if you tell them it's for personal use and not for resale, they don't need to go through formal clearance and brokerage.  But I could be wrong.  I'm sure someone here has experience with this kind of thing. 

I hear everyone worried about their place in line and how it's not fair that such-and-such go their order first.  But I honestly would prefer they just keep shipping.  There are not so many orders that the queue position should really matter.  As realistically they should be able to produce all the units in a week or two maximum and ship them all out.  How many more orders can there be?  What with all the folks asking for refunds and chips, I feel like there is a handful of orders left to assemble.

So any delay at this point is just being driven by Black Arrow's slow assembly process and whatever position you are in is probably minor compared to that.

You're assuming that their information on Ebay is legitimate.  There are many things bought and sold on Ebay by scammers who are never found or prosecuted. 

People throw the word Ponzi out there, but most everyone simply believes that because they don't appear to be actually mining.  However it's quite possible they are doing something else, investing in oranges for instance.  The amount of projected profit from their prices has always been rather small.  You could probably put the money into interest bearing accounts and get the same amount of profit over the five year time span and not even worry about mining.

So while true that a Ponzi will eventually run out of money, if it's some kind of investment fund masked as a mining operation, than it could run indefinitely.

Based on some of the things others have said, I tend to think it might be a stock market investing fund. 

You won't pay a tax.  They just need that number so the NSA can track what you're buying and match it against your email and phone records.  ;-)

Right, but what I was saying is that whoever Ken's project manager wasn't that was installing and running those boards is probably going to sell them to pay himself back for the salary that Ken owes them.

I'm sure that the conspiracy theory is that Ken took it offline and pointed it somewhere else or sold off the inventory to pocket the cash.

In reality, I bet Ken didn't pay the electric bill or the Internet bill, and it's off because of that.  Coupled with it's probably really all leased at someone else's data center and they weren't getting paid so they shut it down.

Maybe check Ebay and look for a bulk sale of Hashfast boards.

He was saying that "WE" as in Minersource changed their system which is completely separate from the system that Black Arrow uses.  Black Arrow and Minersource have different order numbers and different systems entirely.

I believe what he's saying is that they don't have any money to give you.  It went to the fab.  And that they are unable to refund you because of it.  At least in the short term.  Assuming they start selling a competitive miner such as the X2, then they could earn enough to pay the refunds.

Of course, we don't really know how much money they have as a company in terms of reserves.  So maybe they have millions and could afford to do it.  Or maybe they are working at McDonald's to make ends meet.  We don't know.

Ok, so worse on power but I was on the button with the hash.  Who wants to send me a cookie?

Do you just want my Counterparty wallet address?  1FkWzJyeoY7RP7bQET3gNvcmVkMZWEattM