Like we said, we fully understand any concern.
We are at this moment not able to update our original website, as we do not have access. That also is true for our email, and other accounts along with our bitcointalk forum account. We do not have any other way of proving.
We are using our EU based services now, as this is the only account we have access to at the moment. Our who-is records do not match up because baikalminer.eu is registered from Sweden.
If you recieve any shady emails, please do not respond to them as we do not have access of our email.
If by registered from Sweden you mean registered with a hosting provider in Washington state (enom.com) then you're right. The email provider is web-hosting.com which is owned by namecheap.com.
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Umm no. Website isn't down. Only one email address that we know if is not setup at the new email hosting service. Sounds like scam.
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For what it's worth the support address doesn't bounce. But if they were going to get rid of the baikal address on purpose why not remove it from the website? They took the time to add the quad cube miner to the website, would have been no additional effort to remove reference to the baikal address.
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$400 for shipping is pretty insane though. Those cubes are light so a tower of 4 of them would not be very heavy. You can get an antminer, which is heavy, shipped from china for less than $100.
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I got my cube a few days ago. Baikal's website was a nightmare to order from but they came through for me twice now.
I have a mini and a cube both hashing on a Singapore node of the Dash P2pool and I'm getting regular payment to my wallet.
I'm sorry for all the people who have had problems but for me it was all OK. I had very little confidence after my experience of ordering the cube but I have to say: you can trust Baikal if you are patient with them and use their email as much as you can when ordering.
The question isn't whether baikal is trustworthy, the question today is whether someone is impersonating them.
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Hopefully there isnt any scamming going on!
What are the chances of the e-mail, website AND facebook account being hacked?
Same passwords used across all of them? Email and website could be "hacked" if someone just managed to redirect the domain. If that is the case I think we could expect the website to suddenly become a whole lot more functional when the scammer replaced it with their own. Way too many red flags for me. I'm staying away from baikal for a bit. We may hear something from their BTCTalk account soon.
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Their e-mails are coming back, anyone else got the same problems? Address not found Your message wasn't delivered to baikal@baikalminer.com because the address couldn't be found. Check for typos or unnecessary spaces and try again. The response from the remote server was: 550 5.1.1 < baikal@baikalminer.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown Yup just posted exact same in another thread.
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I just got a bounceback on my email to baikal@baikalminer.com. This is the same address I used to communicate with them before. Not sure what this means but I can think of more bad reasons than good ones. The response from the remote server was: 550 5.1.1 <baikal@baikalminer.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown
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hi guys, i got problem with my baikal mini. it cannot stop blinking. i checked at router's client list and there is no baikal. i plug a hdmi cable and it shows a repeated progress about failed to change to 1536mhz i have replace the controller with another orange pi one and still no luck. write a 8gb image to a 8gb sd card and replace the original sd card, still the same. emailed the support address of baikal, no response after 2 days. i try skype baikal too, and same, no response. anyone can help? http://imgur.com/a/ySRI2You can try a firmware reflash. I have no idea how successful that is likely to be. It is just something that occurs to me as an option. See my post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1875337.msg18644199#msg18644199There is a link to the manual for the cube which contains instructions on how to flash the firmware. Actually now that I think about it, scroll above my post in that thread and check out the first two posts as well.
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Any updated specifications yet for the updated Giants? Looking forward to seeing the updated miner details. Any idea when these will be back in stock?
Other than "someone somewhere said they heard someone say", is there any solid evidence of any models other than the cube forthcoming from baikal?
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There were several instances in the past month or so where certain coins were moving a lot (especially when BTC itself was moving a lot) and polo was basically unusable because of lag. They say it was because the website was being overloaded, and maybe that is true (or maybe not). But if they have just gotten so busy from a web page usage perspective due to volume on the popular coins, then it could make sense for them to remove a bunch of coins to try and alleviate that situation.
The suspicious thing about the delisting was that several of those delisted coins pumped right before the announcement and then of course crashed right after the announcement.
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Who do we contact exactly? I don't see the ID/email address to send txn/shipping info... Do we send it to OgNasty?
I sent the transaction I.D and shipping info to bittawm after making payment to the escrow address in OgNasty's thread : www.bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=631008I think there are only about 6 miners left available in the group buy as I just grabbed a few Sorry - should have been more clear. Just wondering if it was a scammer? That account who posted (0wlcatz with the zero on the front) and the one who tried to scam you are one in the same person.
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Who do we contact exactly? I don't see the ID/email address to send txn/shipping info... Do we send it to OgNasty?
I sent the transaction I.D and shipping info to bittawm after making payment to the escrow address in OgNasty's thread : www.bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=631008I think there are only about 6 miners left available in the group buy as I just grabbed a few Well at least OgNasty would return money to anyone dumb enough to fall for this. Except that isn't OgNasty's thread you linked. Not even a BTCTalk link. EDIT: This Owlcatz guy is obviously the same person as the 'bittawm account. Fucking scammer...
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The pics are antminers. You can tell because they have a sticker that says antminer right on it. These were just taken off of bitmain's site. You can see the name bitmain on the PSU in one of the pics. What all that says about the "Dihao" miner, if it exists I don't know, but there were other people making large hashrate scrypt miners a year or so ago but they were pretty power hungry and LTC was not worth as much. EDIT: I also just noticed it calls it an L3+ dominator basically trying to piggy back off of both bitmain and innosilicon. Seems like a scam with that many inconsistencies.
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Based on the number of cores ( 512 ) these should perform similar to 1/4 of a 470. IMO miners are better off getting a 470 or 570 4gb at around $150 - $170.
So what's that like 6.25 mining ETH at stock with basically almost no ability to OC since the limitations are in the mobo itself? Well that does sound like a waste of time.
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Anybody else pay for a baikal mini 300 yet never got delivery confirmation and being ignored by baikal??
I sent 0.72182 BTC to address 1GHFCBgT9ouScAz95ERSbSpk2EKiS3RBbX within minutes after my order was confirmed. Order shows unpaid and baikal will not respond to my emails or repeated questions on skype
I paid BTC0.7383 to 1EoX4arqRPRngtkLMvrHv2boEbPCQmvpS1 then sent transaction confirmation to Baikal via email. Had it answered quickly and had a follow-up email conversation with some additional questions, all answered promptly. It was yesterday. Then this morning (Friday) I got a message from DHL informing me that my Cube was on its way from China. So far so good… *fingers crossed* I finally got an email reply from Baikal. They must have overlooked my order and apologized. My account on their website has now been updated to paid and shipped! Ahh good deal. Thanks for posting. I was wondering about it. I sincerely hope they fix the website. They could eliminate all of this skype and email headache with a properly functioning web site.
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Anybody else pay for a baikal mini 300 yet never got delivery confirmation and being ignored by baikal??
I sent 0.72182 BTC to address 1GHFCBgT9ouScAz95ERSbSpk2EKiS3RBbX within minutes after my order was confirmed. Order shows unpaid and baikal will not respond to my emails or repeated questions on skype
I paid BTC0.7383 to 1EoX4arqRPRngtkLMvrHv2boEbPCQmvpS1 then sent transaction confirmation to Baikal via email. Had it answered quickly and had a follow-up email conversation with some additional questions, all answered promptly. It was yesterday. Then this morning (Friday) I got a message from DHL informing me that my Cube was on its way from China. So far so good… *fingers crossed* I was trying to order and contacted one of their skype accounts. He told me I was wasting his time and if I wanted to be blocked when I asked for an email verification / quote via email to be sent to me. He sent me a bitcoin address that he has since deleted. When I furthered the point of just wanting to verify he went MIA I hope you have not been scammed, it is middle of the night for them I believe . . we will see. To my knowledge they have only one skype account and all of the other ones are scammers. The best way to handle it is to have them update your account on the website with payment info and then get the payment info from the website. If the skype person says they can't or won't do that then you are probably not dealing with the legit baikal account.
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Curious about it too. I think I read that it did not have an external power connector meaning all power is provided over the PCIe slot itself. I suspect that will severely limit what these can do. But wouldn't mind hearing first hand reports.
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Do you have a power supply ready? Do you need help with that part too?
Basically you need a computer power supply with enough wattage and enough PCIe connectors. Plug an ethernet cable into the miner. Connect the PCIe cables from the power supply. Make sure the power supply is jumpered so that it works without being in a computer. Connect the power supply to the outlet and then turn it on. Find out what IP address the miner got on the network, porbably check your router DHCP table for that. Enter the IP address into your browser. Then configure mining pools.
Thanks! That definitely helps. I do have a power supply and a break out board. Not sure what you mean when you say that the power supply needs to be jumpered If you have a breakout board I believe that means you have a server power supply. I am not familiar with using those to power miners. But if you are using a regular PC power supply it won't turn on without being plugged into a motherboard so the way you get around that is to jumper two pins in the motherboard connector. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-power-up-an-ATX-Power-Supply-without-a-PC/I just cut off a bend from a large paperclip and plug it in to the two pins needed.
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Do you have a power supply ready? Do you need help with that part too?
Basically you need a computer power supply with enough wattage and enough PCIe connectors. Plug an ethernet cable into the miner. Connect the PCIe cables from the power supply. Make sure the power supply is jumpered so that it works without being in a computer. Connect the power supply to the outlet and then turn it on. Find out what IP address the miner got on the network, porbably check your router DHCP table for that. Enter the IP address into your browser. Then configure mining pools.
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