What you will find in most of these situations is personal opinions/feelings/vendettas.
A lot of those feedbacks could be taken as a note on how that Forum user operates or a characteristic of their forum use that people disagree with. If neutral trust showed under the profile as a 3rd number from the beginning people may have been more inclined to use that option, as a lot of those tags aren't related to a legitimate scam in the end, more often a perceived slight or injustice.

What I do like about it is that it has had people actually opening up the trust page to read through it, as opposed to just taking it as face value. Since the tweaking of the DT system though, as it was encouraged by theymos, people have been adjusting some of their feedbacks, as well as burying the hatchet to some extent.

That sucks. I'm interested to see how they respond, seeing as your issue is actually something failing, I imagine it will be rather quick. I never did hear back when I was trying to troubleshoot the lame board, but it may have been low to no priority as it was in spec.

Reading through Pangolin's support info, you may get away with only having to ship back the hashboard, but they might not have updated the information lately. Definitely better than sending the whole unit in for repair.


Nice one of those low tax provinces, I get hit pretty hard on everything I bring in. Enjoy, so far my 2 have been pumping the heat nicely to fight the ridiculous cold.

This has been a long ongoing discussion, the forum just hasn't taken any steps towards educating new users. I thought we were close when theymos solicited opinions on a welcome message, as far as I know that hasn't happened yet. I think that every new tab should have it's own welcome/how to pop-up when you first join, with the option to disable after 1 full activity period.

For instance: In messages "Exercise caution when receiving solicited or unsolicited advice in PM. Do not assume everyone has good intentions regarding advice/downloads. Public discussion is best apart from personal/private details" I would also have forum acceptable practices regarding the use of PM's under this message.


In short people are stupid - at least we start out that way. We know nothing, but have an amazing capacity for learning. There's a few ways to do this through experience alone, can be a rough path but generally leaves a lasting impression. We can be shown/taught, welcome messages/warnings are a good way to go about this for people entering a new environment. I've always believed in trying to do more in helping/preventing, could be because I was one of those stupid people until I learned through experience.


There are plenty of members of all ranks out there offering legit advice and assistance. Not everyone is good at offering that advice or troubleshooting so personally I'd rather not see everyone lining up to "help". The problem lies in the naivety of a newbie, who gets scooped up by a scammer before someone with good intentions happens upon them. It's amazing how many people have coins but haven't learned how to secure them, especially after the FOMO of 2017.

I wanted to check with everyone and see if anyone received a response to their PM's?

I can't say that I'm really worried about the amount of "members". Considering it's a low rank with an easily attainable requirements those numbers look good for the past year, to me. When I look at your ratios for member/full member it makes sense to me. That is the first change from low requirement merit to substantial. 10 from brand new -> 90 required from member to full member.

So I'm obviously playing fast and loose with the numbers. With a requirement of 9X the merit required the ratio is nearly 9X the amount of "members" being created against the number of "full members". That's just what jumps out at me.

Overall I think things have improved drastically, especially thanks to the people out there breaking up merit rings and eliminating account farms in swaths. So for these actual stepping stone ranks I'd leave it as is. I personally would eliminate the jr. member rank. This would allow people a good amount of time to be actual newbies, take the time to learn and participate while they wait on merit or activity depending on the user. Obviously anyone can still go and get the copper membership if they need to.

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Okay cool, well in the unlikely even tin the future I wind up on DT1 I'll figure something out to make us both happy. For now I'll just keep your feedback relevant to me in case you do get dropped entirely from the system.

To my short lived but very serious trust issue of this morning. I saw it but as I just finished up a night shift and was eagerly awaiting the sweet relief of sleep; I did something crazy... let it go until I had time to check things out and deal with it. It wasn't my issue necessarily so I figured I would deal with it when I had time. I was more worried about the apparent memory loss I was suffering as I couldn't recall having made a 3.5 BTC trade in the middle of the night.

Looks like I don't have to bother doing much, they is free to use his  feedback as they see fit; regardless of how inaccurate it was. Was glad to see that in the time it took me to write a 7000 page post with no punctuation on the failings of DT and how I hate the internets get a few hours of shut eye that they system functioned as intended IMO.

Thanks to everyone who checked into this, whether action was taken or even just an investigation -nothing wrong with being thorough- as it did free up some legwork on my end. I might reach out to them but I doubt it, at most I'll leave a neutral documenting this interaction, as it's personal/opinion not necessarily trade related; apart from the false risked amount.

Well for now the pillow beckons, just thought I'd take a few moments to chime back in properly.

Hijacking over.

Sorry I'm a little slow on the uptake at times. Does this mean that marlboroza was blacklisted by theymos upon requesting it? Hope so as they shouldn't have the title/role forced upon them.

I'll also feel better about my inclusion so I can see their ratings, while not contributing to forcing DT upon them.


Don't forget some good quality clamps, don't want it sliding off now.

It definitely could. Hard to say how they went about trying to achive their most efficient design. They may have ran the R&D simultaneously, or started on the next design immediately after the last. All I'm saying with this is that it would have been a huge chunk of upfront cost, and a very likely factor in the difference between profits and loss between quarters last year.


You right, everything slowed last year slowly and steadily as far as hardware and mining profits. What is surprising is that all the way into October apart from 1 Diff adjustment it was rising. This had to take a tole on them as much as everyone else; but they still were pulling in a good amount of revenue from their pools and cloud mining business. They are well diversified to earn any way they can off people. For whatever reason people still point miners there for daily payouts, and rent hash off them, it just wasn't enough to overcome their total expenses; whatever they were.


They would I think. Hashrate follows the market so we have been in a pretty steady decline for a while, this has made mining more profitable than it was in September of last year. So all of this gear is looking good right now, so much so that some competitors had begun to raise prices. The big boost to Bitmain at the moment is that they sent out a ton of coupons hoping to push a massive amount of hardware sales starting Feb 26. assuming BTC stays below 4400$ (can't recall for sure). They also have BitDeer cloud mining running hard since December, they have different tiers for what Gen miner you run and charge the maintenance fee based on that. This gives them the ability to possibly earn off the maintenance fee by actually using the efficient gear and charging for the inefficient.


When it comes down to it it's hard to know how the actually account for their held/stored coins; or when they dump some to raise liquid capital. They may be in no trouble at all and simply pull from a reserve when they need the cash. Like I said before it will be interesting to see what their next couple fillings look like.

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While poking around it looks like Canaan decided to try for an IPO in NY, they let the HK application lapse. There was next to no information about it from the little I read but that's another one to watch in the coming months.

Sorry thought I replied. Looks good, I really like the old industrial warehouse setting of your facility. Good luck with the sales.

Have there been any more reports of issues with the PSU's. I'm kicking around the idea of an S15/T15 not to sure yet. I'll have to do some more more testing but I believe I've seen my lines hit above 240 when testing after installs.

I did have to have a check back to see what there APW7's were rated at to see if I felt like risking it, but they were rated up to 264V.

Just wanted to say thanks.

My decks arrived a few days ago, and were packaged great for the journey. Haven't had a chance to open them up and admire them yet.
Still eyeballing that auction, gotta see if I can swing another deck.

As far as their losses for Q4 they could still afford to hemorage another 500 Million and break even on the year. If they ended the year at break even with 2 efficient chip designs that blow the competition out of the water they're starting ahead in 2019. We'll just have to wait and see in their next filing how Q4 went. While I don't doubt they were struggling with liquidity for a bit, I think there sales team cut the right deals/discounts at the right time to being an influx of cash in.

It may have been 2 years to launch a completely new design, but they did continuously tweak/rebrand that previous model. Also they sat at the top of efficiency for that chip size as far as they were concerned so no need to redesign what's working. It was really only early 2018 that any of the hardware companies started pushing for 7nm designs, the S15/T15 chips themselves were announced in September, so that Q3 could have been a lot of the first run costs. Here we are just as few months later and they have another chip launch.

I do think hardware sales still picked up for them, while people weren't expanding and growing as fast they were still upgrading to newer more efficient models while prices are low. Hashrate is a hard indicator in the hardware sales, as a lot of people/mines tried to hold on as long as they could last year in hopes the market turn was around the corner.


Okay glad I wasn't the only one reading it that way.  Love the example

Hope you don't mind me bringing this over here.


I'd say you've deployed a pretty good strategy overall. Good mix of gear, couple different coin streams, and I believe you use a few pools to balance variance. I'm going to assume all parties involved have been happy with your deployment to date or you wouldn't be growing so fast in this market. Do you have any one off gambles going anymore? If I remember you used to throw at Johnny's, and another that had the block finder rewards from time to time.

Just a heads up with those coupons are you sure you can go higher than 300$ for the T15, checking the "coupons" tab on the Bitmain product page for the T15 it says 300$ or less. I'm pretty torn on what to grab myself at least I have a few days to ponder it over, and here I thought I was done buying gear for a while.

Well I'm not sure how the de minus is calculated, when coupons are involved. Bitmain did just dump a lot of coupons into accounts, up to 395 for a S15 and 300 for the T15.

Definitely changes things a bit, and makes me think these units may be closer than we think.

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It's been a while maybe it's my lucky day. Thanks again, glad your happy mood keeps chugging along.

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Well put, I do hope that your programming example rubs off on some of the newer members that may be finding themselves on DT. I must say I've been surprised by some of the members I've seen making it in, not that I make a point of who's what. Just that some seem to think they have to prove themselves once there, or be completely rigid.

So here's a free bump and a little more info as to why I feel you should at least receive a response. The quoted post below shows that dogie has been a long time active member whose posts are really substantial and useful, so much so that this is used as a reference to one of the unofficial rules of the forum #24.


I'm still flabbergasted that this has taken so long to get a simple response/explanation. Either move the threads back, or move all other review/setup threads to the same location. Maybe there's more to it, if so just drop an explanation.

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While here, if you don't mind me asking why did you stop making review/setups?

Agreed, with their current Miner already back on top for efficiency they'll be raking in the BTC/Cash pretty quick. If this next Chip design hits specs as well, they'll be back to flooding the market. Obviously time will tell on the reliability of those machines but at least in the short term their investment in the design is over, and it's time to show some strong returns. It would be interesting to see how things look after Q1 2019, this way even if Q4 2018 was shit (likely with the BCH drama), they'll have some hardware sales helping offset this. I'm guessing this time they'll report right up to the day as opposed to leaving a quarter for the next time. That is if they want the IPO to gain traction.

Not to mention they pulled in a bunch of people with their re-branded cloud mining.

Well the thread linked in OP takes you to the above post. I snipped out the relevant part where I  read what led to my post.

At no point did I say the account was sold by Parodium.

I mentioned that the original account holder "apriand" either took a small loan/payment from whoever (off forum member via telegram) held/took the account to repay the on forum loan from.