As I understand this company  they are directly connected with Lightening Asic and made a lot of gridseed orbs back in the day. They also really fucked a big reseller in Australia   you would need to look at
The further you stay away from them the better off you are.  I think they did you a favor by not sending the gear to you.  I also think you are smart to have abandoned the thread.

I thought this was it .
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615985.0

But I think this is the thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=436031.0

this was a disaster.

I could be wrong  but I think this seller's company  was directly involved.

Most likely  they did not want to send the gear to philipma  because :

1) he would have told the truth about it
2) or they simply want to hold everyones money  and ship slowly

So it took close to 8 minutes to start mining?

The power supply may be weak  but the rest looks very good.


Product specifications
Operating system
Windows 10 Home
Processor and graphics
6th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-6400 Processor; Intel® HD Graphics 530
Memory
8 GB DDR4 memory
Hard drive
128 SSD + 1 TB HDD storage
Graphics
Radeon™ RX 480 Graphics Card by HPI
Optical drive
ODD DVDSM 9.5 Tray
Networking
WLAN I 3168 ac 1x1 and BT 4.2 WW
Audio
DTS Studio Sound™
Keyboard and mouse
HP USB Wired Keyboard with volume control
Power supply
300 W AC power adapter
Memory slots
2 DIMM
Expansion slots
1 PCIe x1; 1 PCIe x16; 2 M.2
External I/O Ports
1 USB 3.0 (Type-C™); 3 USB 3.0; 2 USB 2.0; 1 RJ-45; 1 headphone/microphone combo
Energy efficiency
ENERGY STAR® certified; EPEAT® Silver registered
Dimensions (W X D X H)
14.88 x 6.5 x 14.33 in
Weight
15.77 lb
Warranty
1 year limited hardware warranty (information at www.hp.com/support); 90 day phone support (from date of purchase); Complimentary chat support within warranty period (at www.hp.com/go/contacthp)
Software included
McAfee LiveSafe™
Return & exchange information
For the Holidays, HP.com will gladly accept returns up to January 15th, 2017 for most products.
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I build my own pc's  but that hp.com is a good deal for a person that does not build gear.

To follow up on Phil and sidehack and yxt  they are all correct.  Some alt coins are terrible garbage design for theft by deception. Others have some weight behind them.

They actually serve a purpose to aid and help BTC and that is Liquidity  which is lacking in BTC  due to a transaction cap of 680,000 per day which is never done since to do that every block would need to be empty.

BTC only does 240,000 to 300,000 transaction a  day.  Alt coins fix this (well help to fix it).

So this is 1419 retail?  Parts would be included and shipping to the USA is included?

So is 900  good enough for the setup shipped to New York?

So you sold 1 biostar z170 rig

and now are seling your second biostar z170 rig correct?

what about the other three rigs?

I know you tested his board  in a weird manner, but I forgot what you did..

So  if you want  to make these cheaper..

you can buy this


http://www.lowes.com/pd/Reflectix-100-sq-ft-Reflective-Roll-Insulation-48-in-W-x-25-ft-L/3011906   40 bucks  for 25 ft by 4 feet

http://www.target.com/p/adjustable-3-tier-wide-wire-shelving-chrome-room-essentials/-/A-17136152?lnk=abtest_searchpdp_3   31.50  for 1 set.   63.00 for 2 sets

that is about 100 dollars 

you could fit 10 s9's on first rack
you could fit psu's on second rack

and  you could lay a mover blanket over the silver foil

So phil where do you get these ideas?  You built a tent inside a barn!

Has any one been paid?

The Pool still reads block is pending.

I never did a pick just followed threads I will  be sad to see them stop.

 One thing is for sure  your call on ETH coin GPU  mining pushback against  the asic BTC monopoly did happen.

Hey Phil now that you replaced the cpu and found you did not short the biostar z170 mobo did you figure out how to get it to do the fourth card?

State laws vary, but I like that I can use paypal credit.  You need a paypal business account since buying an s9 might be called a business not a hobby.

You could take the DOA 3 day option pay the paypal fee of 81 to bitmainwarranty.  The use paypal dispute for the warranty process.  You would have 180 days for 81.

So 1589 + 25 + 81 = 1695  and if your paypal is a business paypal  you can dispute for 6 months.  This is better then  anything I can think of even better then buying the 180 day warranty.

So Phil bitched and moaned for 3 things:

  1)pay with paypal                      > They gave it to us
  2)pay less without a warranty     > They gave us the 3 day doa
  3) pay more for a long warranty  > They gave us 180 day or 1 year

So why complain if you are in an area that bitmainwarranty.com services this is great.

Got the photo?

Coin price is still good $625.45 at Coinbase.

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty


Bitcoin Difficulty:   220,755,908,330
Estimated Next Difficulty:   225,426,096,600 (+2.12%)
Adjust time:   After 129 Blocks, About 21.0 hours
Hashrate(?):   1,623,250,633 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):   
1 block: 9.8 minutes
3 blocks: 29.2 minutes
6 blocks: 58.5 minutes
Updated:   8:5 (5.0 minutes ago)

We have 129 blocks to go.

If I remember you used to modify and upgrade a lot of Mac Gear and sell on ebay before you got into mining back in 2012 am I correct?

Coinbase price dropped down to 622

Difficulty dropped a bit :

Estimated Next Difficulty:   223,679,439,759 (+1.32%)
Adjust time:   After 436 Blocks, About 3.0 days


https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Phil are you going to try XMR?

Price is up it was 572 on the 29th  it is now 617 !

Difficulty is doing pretty good.


https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Estimated Next Difficulty:   225,321,872,237 (+2.07%)


http://www.nextdifficulty.com/

Conservative: 0.1% -0.4% Continous: -1.9 %