They have hired a new guy to man the phones... Eugene. wont pass the call, claims "He is the manager on duty" but does not have access to the system to look up an order.
They have an outsourced call center. Good luck actually getting a hold of someone at HF. You can call John directly (his phone number is publicly available): John Skrodenis
HashFast Technologies
(415) 484-5789
Josh Lee is Jung Lee, and I've been wondering if he's another one of Charles Lee's brothers. |
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Just made a phone call to Atlas Brewing Company and it seems like 30-40 are expecting to show, and here I set with nothing special to wear, but at least I'll have a real goat in tow in the back of my truck--seriously!
~TMIBTCITW
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Anybody here planning on attending tomorrow? I'm still on schedule in spite of the cold and distance.
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Lordy, I step away from here for a few days, and look what Phinnaeus Gage turns up. Wow. Thank you. I'm still trying to piece it all together, but wow, nice job. Speaking of sex, of course we know that Johnny Scrotum was a marketer for kink.com. One thing I was planning to do was to try to take a look into his former company, Kt Productions, registered in Dublin, CA: http://www.wysk.com/index/california/dublin/mpw8t4j/kt-productions-inc/profileIt seems that this may have been a porn production company. I wonder what they produced. Scrotum's role at Hashfast seems to make even more sense if Phinnaeus Gage has in fact discovered that the freakish muscle porn prostitute whatever the hell he is dude is a power behind the scenes. Perhaps they met on the set? My own rummaging around on Eduardo-san has been limited. He's easily tracked back to a crummy apartment north of University of Texas campus, where he got an MBA, but I've found little so far after that. Appears to be either an immigrant (explaining the lack of older records) or another name changer. Phinnaeus? De Castro and Barber's relationship goes back over a dozen years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devicescape_SoftwareLong Dong Johnson and Scrotum have been connected for who knows how long now, but it's been awhile, both together at the onset of kink.com. Some dude in Nashville put together btckink to help facilitate payment to said site, and perhaps that's where Frick and Frack first learnt about Bitcoin, if not earlier. I may have to fire up my copy of Mt Gox's email dump to see if I can glean any further connections. |
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Oh yeah, MT has some big plans for bitcoin. Keep on the look out, y'all.
MT is the state of Montana, right?
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Who's goin'  ?  Yeee Haw! Meet at BitPay's booth? TC. Rumor has it there's an Occupy HashFast booth in the making. Wear something kinky so that they won't get aroused (read provoked). Look for the booth with the Hung, Muscular and Fun guy named Scott snappin' selfies.  <image linked to URL source> |
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Reserved till spring.  |
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Wind chill: -50o F and fallin'.
Let's make this a pick on theymos thread for a couple days so that he'll get that warm, fuzzy feeling deep inside to help keep him warm.
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Someone needs to figure out how to send a Phinnie
First, it needs to be determined the cents value of a Phinnie, a number associated with yours truly. |
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Has someone done a nice chart yet if its is even possible to get a full ROI. Otherwise im going to start hoping they just dont deliver and refund in full BTC
Not withstanding what was said to one guy in a closed office, do you really think they are going to take a 200% loss refunding essentially every BTC payment batch 1 customer at $300/BTC (if the price stays the same until December) when most of them paid at $100/BTC? That is a rhetorical question BTW, as this is a company that accepted orders under one set of Terms and Conditions, and then sent out order confirmations a week later with an updates terms link on the bottom that added a new "guaranteed" date to the end of the year all while claiming the new conditions apply retroactively and that refunds are not possible prior to then. They'll do what they please. You have the option of paying through Bitpay or directly to a HashFast's Bitcoin address when you placed an order. HashFast kept 3,000 Bitcoins in this address and probably more in other addresses, so yes they can indeed afford to refund BTC for BTC without taking a loss. https://blockchain.info/address/1KFrqkEGy6Yq7X4SYCbYoj8HEwfbWVUDJ9A PM bird suggested that I should bump this forward. |
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I dont know if the market can bare another pre-order asic company. Unless you have plans to sell before sep/oct i dont think you'll find many buyers. Good luck.
After BFL and Avalon pre-orders, nobody in their right mind would order anything that does not ship immediately.Still, KNC sold many, so maybe he can scam few people. Good Luck. Not even if they announce a hand-picked team of engineers?  |
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I keep seeing people say HashFast is investor backed. Where is that information coming from?
A myriad of places, like the following for example: http://decentralizedhashing.com/2013/09/hashfast-tapeout-sierra-mpp-new-next-gen-chip/HashFast Tapeout, Sierra, MPP, New Next Gen Chip
2013/09/21News
Since the last update we’ve seen HashFast tapeout, create a miner protection program, let us know they are working on another chip, and released a new option for miners, the Sierra.
Having founded Devicescape Software in late 2000, Eduardo de-Castro and Simon Barber are not new to venture backed start-ups. Devicescape specializes in wifi connectivity. After becoming successful in this business for a number of years Simon became interested in Bitcoin and wrote his white paper. This was 2011, the same year he was courting investors to help him make an ASIC.
Unfortunately it was too early in the game, and they weren’t ready to sign on. “It was disappointing and frustrating. He really believed at the time (rightfully so) that we had a great idea. Today – many of those investors regret not funding him the first time,” says John Skrodenis. Well apparently they did come around, investing enough to design and tapeout the Golden Nonce (GN) chip with the largest, most experienced team that bitcoin mining has seen.
After going through their short list of possible design teams, they found Uniquify to be the most experienced and able. The HashFast team worked on conceptual, front end, and logic, leaving the physical design and management of the fabrication to Uniquify. Their engineers have a great deal of experience in this area, and HashFast was able to create a team from which even the most junior member had already been involved in designing ten 28nm chips. Being the only company that is designing chips with a team that has already been through many 28nm tapeouts could be a huge advantage.
In a recent interview Simon Barber told me that they paid a premium be able to hand pick the best engineers from their company. Since Uniquify has been through the process so many times they were able to help smooth the process out, and give a gestalt view. This greater awareness of the situation allowed HashFast to choose the most appropriate path for a chip designed to mine bitcoin. For instance, some semiconductor manufacturers emphasize low cost over speed.
Normally this wouldn’t be too much of an issue, but bitcoin? The difficulty is doubling every month, recently. Every delay counts. Many of the 28nm chips began at the same time, after people realized that Avalon and Butterfly labs could use a little competition. The race is so close that if one company cuts costs a little by using a slower process, they and their customers could be left behind.
Uniquify directed HashFast to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC). The largest semiconductor manufacturer, a couple distinct advantages of going with TSMC are fast production, and low error rate. With the large infrastructure, and stability that brings, it looks like HashFast customers can feel assured that everything possible has been done to secure their future mining profits.
Another way that HashFast is giving their customers a leg up is through their Miner Protection Program (MPP). The Baby Jets in the first batch are automatically protected. Miners from batch two have the option to buy into the MPP. For those that have it, they are guaranteed up to 400% additional hashing power if the difficulty rises fast enough that your machine doesn’t pay for itself.
For instance with a Baby Jet you start with 400GH, and could get an additional 1.6TH for a total of 2TH. For a current order this would add an additional $1,500 to the original price of $3,500 for a total of $5,000. At this point we don’t know exactly when the extra equipment would ship so it’s difficult to give estimates on what kind of ROI this will give. There’s no other deal quite like it, though.
HashFast also announced their Sierra recently. As you can see here the return is exceptional. This 1.2TH machine goes for $9,500. Or if you think the difficulty will destroy your return you can add the MPP on for a total of $14,000. This would give the potential of 4.8TH. Or perhaps more.
Simon Barber on Bitcointalk, “One highly relevant feature regarding power use is that the GN chip incorporates on-die temperature sensors and a control system designed to adjust voltage and clock speed to the capacity of the cooling system. Thus if the cooling system can dissipate a greater amount of heat, the software can “overclock” the chip to fit it’s power usage to the heat dissipation capacity, and produce greater hashing capacity.”
You can assume that room temperature has a great deal to do with how well the cooling system works. Looks like we need a place with a cold climate and cheap electricity. Will someone please set up a tidal generator near the North or South Pole, and host there?
Speaking of hosting, HashFast has tentatively announced that they are working on an option. According to a recent post we should be hearing back from them soon. This can have a number of benefits. The company that designs and creates a product is often the best placed to repair, upgrade, and optimize performance. Hosting opens up the market for those that can’t mine their selves. The only barrier left is the large price tag of the most efficient models, like the Sierra. Since I believe that HashFast is relatively undervalued, and nobody has jumped in to create a group buy specifically for them, I’ve decided to start putting some effort toward that here.
With all the work that the HashFast team has put in, it seems they would be ready to sit down for a second and catch their breath. Apparently they are going farther than anyone currently imagines. FinFET is a 3d structure that gives transistors a greater capacity, and utility. There are a few things to overcome before the manufacturing process can be streamlined. The design will also be quite a new terrain.
In conclusion, if you are watching the market of bitcoin mining equipment manufacturers there are a lot of companies vying for attention. If you’re still not sure of what company you should be with, HashFast deserves a good look. ===================================== And here, among other things (in yellow): http://www.coindesk.com/hashfast-tapes-out-400-ghsec-28-nm-mining-chip/HashFast has reached the tape-out stage for its 28 nm mining ASIC, and expects chips from TSMC in time to ship boxes by late October.
The firm, started by Simon Barber and Eduardo de Castro, is preparing the Baby Jet ASIC miner, which will sell for $5,600, and use its ‘Golden Nonce’ chip. The chip will provide a nominal 400 GH/sec hash rate, operating at under 1 W per GH/sec.
Barber originally envisioned a 65 nm ASIC, but originally failed to raise funding from skeptical investors. When bitcoin prices ramped up earlier this year, the investors got interested, and the firm raised “in the range of” $700,000.
In July, the firm officially signed an agreement with Uniquify, a California-based silicon-on-chip design firm, who will be using TSMC to fabricate the chips.
Like KnCMiner, the firm is being conservative about its projected performance, refusing to publish anything more than a nominal performance rate, but acknowledging that it could be overclocked.
“We are pushing boundaries in multiple areas on this product, and we want to keep our projections reasonable and keep some safety margin in there,” Barber said. “We are including an oversized cooling system that should be able to cool this with no problem at all but until you get real hardware in your hands it’s hard to provide guarantees.”
HashFast is aiming to get its first units out at the end of October, depending on how board installation goes. The rest of the units will ship “early thereafter”. It will also offer customers a full refund if they haven’t got the promised hash rate performance by the end of December, Barber promises.
It has also started a miner protection program, to help insure customers against difficulty that rises too quickly.
If the network difficulty rises so quickly that a miner doesn’t generate more bitcoins than the customer paid for it, then the firm will offer additional hashing power in the form of more ASICs.
It will calculate the hash rate shortfall if a box fails to reach ROI over a three-month period, and will then send the customer twice that hash rate to compensate. The protection program has a ceiling though: if the difficulty goes through the roof, the firm will only ship up to four times the original hashing power purchased.
“This is our attempt to ensure that our customers will get a good ROI,” Barber said. The protection mechanism works only in bitcoins, and won’t take account of the bitcoin/USD exchange rate at the time of purchase.
This is where the $2.8 per GH/sec rate on the firm’s web site comes in. The chips deliver that price-performance ratio in the most extreme case under the miner protection program, if a customer purchased the Baby Jet and the company shipped four times the 400 GH/sec capacity to the customer later, for a total of 2 TH/sec. Assuming that the miner protection program doesn’t kick in, then the price per GH/sec is $14 at the nominal hash rate.
The firm is already well into development for its second-generation chip, which uses a FinFet design. FinFet uses 3D structures, in which the microscopic transistors on the chip rise above the planar substrate on the chip. This gives them more volume than a traditional transistor gate, which enables them to conduct electricity more effectively, reducing the necessary voltage and increasing switching performance. The result is a faster, lower-power chip.
“It’s the most aggressive design available in our time schedules,” said Barber, who believes he’ll be taping out this chip in the fourth quarter. He wouldn’t say what process node the design used, but CoinDesk notes that last year, TSMC announced plans for a 16 nm FinFet capability in early 2014. |
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I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Abram James Kottmeier (or whatever name he uses during house calls) and John Skrodenis have been partners (probably in more than one sense of the word) in previous ventures, namely the gay sex industry.
With all due respect, ninjarobot & gmaxwell, PG's work might prove very useful for anyone going further than just bending over. It does belong here, in my opinion, and does merit some thanks. Proving that Kottmeier & Skrodenis are very close is a very interesting fact. Proving that HF is actually open to taking a couple more "pre-orders" despite what their website states is very useful. Cheers PG, keep up the good work. I agree, some of this is certainly useful. I think we should be careful going on witch hunts though. But from Phins work it is clear that HF typically says one thing and does another: * Shipping in October! > Err.. we meant December * Shipping in December! > Err.. we meant January * Full BTC Refunds! > Err.. we meant USD refunds * Imminent Dramatic Price Increase, Buy Now! > Errr.. we meant we are not taking orders > Err... Sure we will take your order! * etc. It also shows the background of their Marketing team. John has been deep in the affiliate marketing for the porn industry. Really 'affiliate marketing' is just another term for spam and black hat SEO. Just take a look at http://www.xfire.com/blog/ziduru13/5164643 ("Posted on November 4, 2013; by John Skrodenis"). Spamming free blogging services with fake accounts and 'fake' youtube videos to drive traffic and create commissions. Scroll down to see the linkspam (anchors to optimize for Google search results) to other fake accounts on other blog services. Look at the username patterns: ziduru13 jaxisy36 sybyre42 toregoza46 widydy27 ciduta98 wugyny27 fediju94 cocafe58 vehane88 All fake accounts with link spam to affiliate porn sites. The worst kind of garbage out there. This appears to be the business ethic and expertise John brings to the table and also explains the business with the fake Twitter and bitcointalk accounts during the launch of the HashFast sales: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262052.msg2830811#msg2830811The fact that John is now bringing in his buddies is not a good sign. at all. HashFast really needs to clean ship here. They appear to have a good engineering team, but their sales and marketing is the worst I've seen. Deceptive and dishonest. It might work for the porn business but not in the ASIC mining business. So fix it HF. EDIT: It could be that the content from that spam page was scraped by a bot and John has nothing to do with it. In that case my apologies. These guys are un/capable with anything. From what I've been gathering, BFL is a total scam, so I have been looking at KnC and ASIC Miner. However, there is a little bird going around claiming that there is another company called HashFast that is coming out with some good hardware. Hmmm..... Any thoughts?
[[If you don't know what I'm talking about, please refer to "Custom Hardware".... Mining > Hardware > Custom Hardware. ]]
I wouldn't be surprised to learnt they bust a nut after each time they post. |
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Someone needs to go to CES and stand in front of their booth with these pictures and information to hand out to anyone who stops by their booth. Doubt anyone is going to give money (for bitcoin devices at least) to a prostitute.
Anyone in vegas? I'll pay.
Of course, if a potential customer is into getting raped via role play with a prostitute, then all bets are off, and the customer wins regardless if s/he receives a HashFast product or not. That's some expensive role play Maybe they'll accept Kink Coins. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/12htcb/should_kinkcom_should_use_bitcoins/526c3f277cb1 5 points 1 year ago
People who use experimental internet-based currencies are capable of finding porn for free.
Out of interest has anyone used btckink.com recently? It looks like it is done manually by some guy, who may have gotten bored with it by now. |
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Someone needs to go to CES and stand in front of their booth with these pictures and information to hand out to anyone who stops by their booth. Doubt anyone is going to give money (for bitcoin devices at least) to a prostitute.
Anyone in vegas? I'll pay.
Of course, if a potential customer is into getting raped via role play with a prostitute, then all bets are off, and the customer wins regardless if s/he receives a HashFast product or not. |
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Via a PM from an undisclosed Bitcoiner. |
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I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Abram James Kottmeier (or whatever name he uses during house calls) and John Skrodenis have been partners (probably in more than one sense of the word) in previous ventures, namely the gay sex industry.
With all due respect, ninjarobot & gmaxwell, PG's work might prove very useful for anyone going further than just bending over. It does belong here, in my opinion, and does merit some thanks. Proving that Kottmeier & Skrodenis are very close is a very interesting fact. Proving that HF is actually open to taking a couple more "pre-orders" despite what their website states is very useful. Cheers PG, keep up the good work. Thanks, bud. And notice I don't, nor never have provided any bitcoin wallet addresses soliciting tips for my service. In fact, I'm on record in paying out bitcoins seeking relative info in the past. |
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http://webinfo.reformal.ru/playpen.com/www.playpen.com
Playpen - Talk to the Girl Next Door!
Keywords: PornHub, sex, youporn, Porn, playpen Models, Anal, Lesbian playpen, ass, John skrodenis, Porno http://playpenreport.com/about/Playpen.com was founded in 2009 by James Johnston and Kathee Claudio, two experienced entrepreneurs with a vision to build a platform for adult entertainment that empowers both performers and consumers. Now, let's all agree to shove Abram James Kottmeier joining HashFast in November under the rug. The SOB's been a driving force (no pun intended) behind (again, no pun intended) HashFast from day one. Q.E.D.
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With all due respect, I may have gone a tad--only a tad--overboard, but the gist of what I've posted is to show that we are not dealing with who we think we are dealing with.
While what you dug up may be scandalous in the "my grandmother would be shocked sense" if you look at Kottmeier's Facebook page, which is public, he posted on Dec. 7th saying, "What a two-weeks this has been. New job, a trip to London, and a pathway to me living my infinite potential back in clear view." In other words, he didn't work for Hashfast until late Nov. I agree with the others this really doesn't have anything to do with our problems with Hashfast. I guess you missed the part where I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Abram James Kottmeier (or whatever name he uses during house calls) and John Skrodenis have been partners (probably in more than one sense of the word) in previous ventures, namely the gay sex industry. Also, I shown that Mr/Ms Kottmeier lives at The Sierra at Jack London Square--Built in 2003--a 223-unit condo complex. Now, about your grandma comment. Would you like to see a pic of James standing next to his grandmother? It's on his FB page. She'll be the one without the tattoos. Ergo, he REALLY DOES have anything to do with our problems with Hashfast. |
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