Don't have photoshop at the moment, so I'll just copy and paste that data as of a few minutes ago.

Salt Lake City, UT, United States    01/03/2014    5:31 A.M.    Arrival Scan
Louisville, KY, United States    01/03/2014    4:01 A.M.    Departure Scan
   01/03/2014    3:12 A.M.    Postal code listed for the receiver is incorrect. UPS is attempting to obtain correct postal code and complete delivery. / The address has been corrected. The delivery has been rescheduled.
   01/03/2014    2:01 A.M.    Arrival Scan
Philadelphia, PA, United States    01/02/2014    11:37 P.M.    Departure Scan
   01/02/2014    4:42 P.M.    Pickup Scan

Left from where they say.

Don't know where you get your info from, as I've been following this thread since day one. The Bulgarian connection is Technobit.

As for the rest, well, it's not unusual for a company to send someone a demo to test, who they think will either be objective or help them sell it. I am trying to be objective. I honestly am not sure why they chose me, but the stated reasons were that I had been skeptical without being a dick. Not exactly in those words. I intend to test the machine thoroughly and expose it to the world, warts and all. I'm fairly certain that it's based on or directly uses the Technobit HEX16B boards, so it ought to be a good unit. I have some concerns about the small case, given that ASIC's are noted for their heat and bitfury chips are noted for being sensitive to it. Beyond that, I don't know that much about it, and I'm going to have a blast finding out. I cannot and will not speak to their shipping queue or where they are  in it. They haven't given me that information. They did indicate that they were hiring additional people to handle customer service and hoped to have their problems sorted very soon.

I will say this, though. Several people have posted that they can't get ahold of them by email or phone. I've done both, several times. Email without issue, and phone without much. The longest delay was over the new year's holiday, and that's not so egregious, is it?

It's definitely NOT a one man operation. It is small. I suspect five, based on remarks they've made to me and in the forum. Big furry deal. Michale Dell started by himself, in a dorm room and his father's garage. You gotta start somewhere. My impression of them so far has been that they are technical people and have little to no experience in customer relations. Which is BY FAR the hardest part of business. Let's face it, all of the ASIC manufacturers have had less than stellar communication. This in itself is frankly something this whole fledgling industry needs to overcome. AMT is not alone in their poor customer skills, and it appears from the tracking data that they do indeed have miners on offer. Let's give 'em the benefit of the doubt, until there is good reason to think that they are something other than overwhelmed.

What sites can be used that don't employ any crapware wrappers or use any ad pop-ups to give free hosting?

I like Ninja's version as it seems more spot on and comprehensive. (Two forms)
But the old hosting site I used would make it a moot point to make a generic copy to post online.

Don't kill the lucky guy, eh? I really didn't solicit this. I'd be lying if I said I was unhappy about it, but I ain't trying to do any harm.

let us know about the refund to split the costs in case if the refund is not sucessfull.

Hi Augusto,
 
Thank you for your email. The content in the Alacra Store is produced by our 3rd party content providers, not by Alacra. In this case, the content you purchased was created by http://www.experian.com/
 
 
We do our best to ensure the highest quality content, and we also give our users the ability to research many of the reports they are interested in before purchase by providing features such as free samples, "Search This Document" and "Purchase By Section".
 
As states in our Terms & Conditions, all purchases are final. However, at Alacra, we take pride in our customer service and do our best to ensure all customers are satisfied. Since the content of the report you purchased was not satisfactory and I did check for more substantial information but could not locate any report, we will refund $58.30 back to your PayPal. Please allow 3-5 business days for processing.
 
We hope you find our site easy to use and are looking forward to serving you in the future. Should you have any further questions, please email us at
 
help@alacrastore.com.
 
Regards
Roy

You've quoted three annual reports - not weekly updates. Not answers to shareholders demands/questions. If you add up the amount of content provided by Ken/Active mining, proportional to the companies market cap, there is probably 1000x more info provided by Ken/ActM than these massive corporates. The same goes for update regularity.

I once invested in a gold mining startup - the only updates you would get is when they made positive progress. "We've secured the land", "We've secured the permits", "We've got the first test drills back and they say x y z", "We've mined xxx ounces of gold in the past 12 months" - None of this micromanaging shit people are trying to do with Ken/ActM

You wouldn't survive in the world of normal shares, where talking to the CEO is impossible, and your only info is quarterly (extremely vague) reports and the occasional press release.

Weekly Update 1/1/14

Happy New Year!

The new year looks bright for Active Mining as we continue to assemble our miners for quick delivery.

Not a lot of changes from last weeks update:

We are also continuing to develop our Intellihash program and with our 2013 sales at $6,311,788.33 we have a very good share of the market.

We have been working 100% on our core business.

ActiveMining-PR Staff

let us know about the refund to split the costs in case if the refund is not sucessfull.

I don't think it will be of any real use (not in my case at least, I've already decided that i will go against them), but let's do it. (0.01BTC here?)

would also pay 0.01 btc for this report.

what is the address to send them a registered letter from outside of US? thank you!

My target is to have 50% of my savings in BTC, so what do you think, is this a good strategy?

Bitcoin doesn't have to replace the fiat currencies but it will because fiat currencies aren't stable to support themselves.

As the Feds continue to print USD like there is no tomorrow their fiat currency has become very unstable, other countries have done the same thing and the writing is already on the wall. When the world market collapses (it could be as soon as April 2014) what other currency are they going to use? Likely they will want to use something that everyone uses around the world. It could be bitcoin or it could be some other crypto like currency they invent (so they can control it).

BittBurger today almost every normal person dream to see bitcoin as the globally acceptable currency while fiat currency shall crash soon due to manipulation of it by central banks. I hope we shall be able to use bitcoins everywhere in entire world and no ore fiat currency in our wallets

Bitcoin does not replace fiat. Bitcoin allows people to escape from fiat.

Some might believe that most of the population is very happy with fiat.

They don't mind their purchasing power draining away over time, they enjoy restrictions on how they are allowed to use their currency, nothing pleases them more than having their bank accounts confiscated at the whim of distant politicians and used to bail out politically privileged groups.

If you believe that, there's no reason for Bitcoin to continue to grow.

On the other hand, if it turns out that most people don't actually enjoy those things then they will flee in ever larger numbers as alternatives to fiat become increasingly credible until nobody uses government-issued currencies any more.

Hi,

I am sorry, but the post will remain there.

By the way, if you are not Joshua Zipkin, who are you? Who legally represents the business selling the products on advancedminers.com? Where the legal entity is registered?

Augusto Croppo.

We'll have to respond accordingly then. Thank you for jeopardizing someones family.

Also non of those domains are associated with Joshua, stop making shit up at this point. Do a simple whois check.

Note the e-mail address attached to the paypal account I sent payment to way back.....

Administrative Contact:
   New emotions ltd
   joshua zipkin (joshua.zipkin@gmail.com)
   +359.359878867577
   Fax:
   607 Oak Shade ave.
   Sofia, Bulgaria 1404
   BG

Our Delivery dates range from Oct, 2013 to Dec, 15th depending on the time of the order. AMT received a private investment earlier this year which allowed us the capability to develop/design and manufacture the miners you'll be ordering.

(...)

We are based right outside Philadelphia in Havertown.

28nm will tape out mid october.

See the Sign that says United Securities Affiliates Corp - That's us, we're sharing an office with them because they have a nice area for assembly. Walk in the door on the right side of the build, go up the green stairs and make left, walk in the office and ask for Harry, hes currently in the office while were working with a design team in europe. See the sign in the window that says space available, thats soon to be our space after we finish this round. We move in in november/december. More purchases of miners would help us do that faster. Either get a life, or buy a miner.

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Hi XXXXX,

I am sending you the wire information for order No 1088. You will find it
in the attached file.

After your payment is confirmed we'll issue you a
paid invoice for your coin miner in full detail. Remember to put your
order number in the payment details section of the wire as well.

Also if you can manage, please send a scan of the wire receipt or email
verification of the wire just for organizational purposes and so that we
can give accounting a heads up that your payment is on its way.

Kind Regards,

--
Alyssa Trusten
AMT Billing Dep.
1254 W. Chester Pike,
Havertown, PA, 19083
1855-866-6463
atrusten@Advancedminers.com

Ok... will do that, one minute, I have to open an find out how to post an image

Hey every one!,

I'm new here. I wanted to pass some information that I found during my search in seeing if this company is a scam or not. I found their flicker stream. I then downloaded their photos and ran each image in exif tool i( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format). They uploaded it with their cell phone. This gave us a GPS location where these photos were taken. I have also included a google map where this GPS data takes you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/107201528@N06/10583836383/sizes/o/in/photostream/

(...)

MAP OF LOCATION
https://maps.google.com/maps?t=m&q=42.6586%2C+23.394714&output=classic

I hope this helps anyone out in making the right choice here.

-unf

Yes, absolutely, you got it, except for that small correction I made. That cryptocurrency software is complex at its core is necessary for technical reasons; it's becoming simpler to use as new software/technologies are built on top of it. Just like with the Internet (e.g. TCP/IP -> HTTP -> HTML -> CSS -> JS).

You're thinking very short-term. Technologies built upon the backbone, such as physical bitcoins, will help make it easier to use.

You also don't understand that fiat currencies are mathematically programmed to fail, hence they will fail at some point, whether the end result is deflation or inflation.

How so? The fact that crypto/crypto volatility is much lower would suggest that volatility is not a cryptocurrency problem, but a speculation-driven crypto/fiat exchange problem, which is transitory during the cryptocurrency adoption phase.

In jails, cigarettes can sometimes be used as a currency. There's also no reason why they couldn't be used as currency anywhere else. As an example, read about cacao beans. The longest lasting currency? Wooden sticks (used for over 700 years in England!).

If English isn't your first language, don't assume that others are writing nonsense. Rephrased: Old definitions of currency which do not take into account the fact of the Internet, are obsolete. (I.e. the definitions are obsolete, not the Internet.)

The documentaries were offered for your education, not as references to support my "pointless arguments". There are no contradictions or hypocrisy, otherwise you'd be pointing them out, which you try to do next...

First, I am not right because a documentary says so, I'm right because(/if) it is so. I can think for myself. I haven't watched TV in 6 years. It's a very bad idea to assume that you already know all you need to know. There is nothing more dangerous than a closed mind.

Nobody is against money per se. It doesn't make sense to oppose a concept. It's a good idea to get an understanding of how the current monetary system works (which we are not taught in schools/academia/media), and how it evolved, before one embarks onto more advanced ideas, such as cryptocurrencies or the idea of a resource-based economy (RBE). See, that's the problem, that many of us are still willfully ignorant and even instinctively mock people who point you towards the truth.

I guess I would just have to say that even though we are getting screwed that they did get an impressive amount of money for a company that is just about to be 6 months old or so... (meaning that they may not even have a D&B record yet as they usually take about 6 months before the company is listed with them)

My invoice says "HashFast Technologies, Inc. (“Hashfast”) 97 South Second Street #175 San Jose, 95113 United States".
I will never have nothing to do with HashFast LLC, i suppose.

You seem to have done a lot of paperwork. Any interesting conclusion you would like to share? Thanks.