Now this is good stuff!  Great job Puppet.

 Excellent point.  I was looking for validation.  Negative trust restored.

 The problem with that thinking is that the bitcoin network hashing rate is not "known" per se at any point in time but it is calculated based on the number of blocks being found per unit of time.  Finding blocks is probability based and there are inherent swings in the apparent hashing rate because of this fact.  It wouldn't make sense to take your miners offline because you don't know exactly when you are going to solve your next block- you might solve three blocks in the next 16 seconds and then wait hours to solve the next even though you haven't altered your hashing rate.  I would imagine if you are observing this phenomenon, there is an entirely different explanation for it. Perhaps they don't have any coins to sell because they haven't produced any which would explain why the apparent network hashing rate had also taken a dip and the fact that they aren't selling leaves buyers looking to buy and edging up the price.

 

 Why not try the sales@bitquan route and see what they'll do for you before you give it away?

 Do you have to ship it to China?  What's the cost?  I have a board that went as well but I was thinking it isn't worth the shipping fee to replace.

 I finally got my Neptune refund which I had requested on or about May 24th and received my refund on or about November 11th.   I didn't find out about the refund until today as I had a partner in the deal who initially did the wire transfer of funds.  Our refund was requested in Bitcoin to speed up the process.  We were promised 5% if we didn't get the refund by September and 10% if not by October. I have no idea how they arrive at the Bitcoin value and the interest calculation but according to blockchain time-of-transaction values, we go our money back plus almost 5%.  Knowing KNC from past dealings, October is September and July is June so I guess November is close enough to September... who knows.  I was just happy to get my original funds returned.
 
 I will remove the negative trust I gave to kncminer because I got my coins back and it's the right thing to do.  I would however advise anyone planning on dealing with KNCminer in the future to proceed with extreme caution.

 Good luck to all waiting for Neptune refunds, bonus Neptunes, Titans, Titan refunds (I know they said "No refunds") and to those still ironing out Titan issues. 

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  Yes but the belief disappeared long before that...

 Today I see hashnest going for .001125BTC/gh which I guess doesn't figure into the %mtce fee but if the purpose of your post is to make a case for purchasing one over the other then it is important to make that correction.

 Good point.

 Canadians tend to be polite and responsive for the most part.  I'm sure it's a little unsettling to be treated otherwise but don't stop treating others the way you expect to be treated; maybe it'll catch on

 Well that's great.  Glad to hear you got it working so quickly without issues.  Nice to hear AM success stories!

 Maybe because Bitcoin price is going down a difficulty is going up, they are paying only what a miner would produce (if they actually had some) and in terms of fiat, that amount has plummeted over the last year.  Given that most miners wont make back their cost, they don't have to ever pay you back everything you gave them either.  If you do the math, you will see it for yourself instead of believing in them based on the fact that they are still around.  Notice they are located in Canada and will not sell to Canadians - ask yourself "Why?"

 Not accurate.  The bold lines should not read Bitcoins as the mtce fee is in USD and must be converted to BTC.  This means a rising Bitcoin value increases the dividend yield.  The red normal font line shows your error in calculation and the red, italicized lines indicate where you were just being silly (and after saying Friedcat's numbers were convoluted, geez!).  If you want people to verify your work, you have to show it - I see what you did there though.

P.S. I am NOT working nights

 Yep about 0.49557% after the 0.4% selling fee.  Not bad for a couple of weeks of investment - it works out to a nominal yearly rate of 12.8849%
More importantly, Bitcoin value is increasing which increases the number of Bitcoins in the dividend

  I got the feeling the Prisma was a little rushed to market.  I don't understand how they can be so problematic - I mean this isn't their first miner... it's the 4th or 5th?!  

That doesn't sound like Canary.  You must have really pissed him off.

Did you make sure the boards were chained in incremental order?  (Example: 01:17,02:18,03:19,04:20,05:21...)  I understand it is crucial.

 Perhaps it was not clear that we are now trouble-shooting.  I was asking that you only power the board which is not hashing and only connect that board to the power supply.  That would be board 8/24 (switch setting 00011)  Disconnect the data cable interconnections to the other board and connect only the one long data cable from board 8/24 to the controller.  MAKE SURE to keep power on the board that powers the fan but only power - no data connection.

 Does that board work alone?

 Try connecting only that board to the controller.  Make sure you have power to the board that supplies the fan too!  You are using the 1300 watt EVGA?

Well it doesn't count every hash so it's an approximation based on the number of hashes at a certain difficulty per unit of time.  It's probability based.  Wait half an hour or check your pool for rheir stats as it might update more quickly.