Even a pawn shop should be able to test, but they would most likely destroy the casing. Your best bet is to find a local coin shop and have them use a karatmeter.
Yeah, it turns out that they are fake. Even though I've known the guy that I bought them from for years (wasn't a coin shop), it turns out he didn't scam me, it's just that he himself didn't even know that they were fake because they looked the same, weighed the same, and measured the same as real ones (to the untrained eye). I hope no one thinks that I was trying to pass them off as real, and now of course I can't afford to buy another casascius coin so I'm going to lock the thread. When I have the money to afford another casascius coin I'll make a new thread. |
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If i order Antminer L3+ now , do you know when i will really receive it ?
If wait too long maybe is better to buy used one but it will cost more.
Don't they are scamming by not releasing to March when they know the difficulty will not ROI! Right now I have 5 L3+ when they were making 1.25 coins a day now they are making only 0.3381664727261184 in 24 hours. That is for 5 miners that means you will not make no 2 coins by March a month! Bitmain is out to destroy the Litecoin profit! Without getting 1 new unit a month you can not stay up with the difficulty and they are intentionally doing this to make sure you do not ROI and they make the money! I started mining with my 5 in October 1st and now down to not even .4 coins in that short of a time.. There will be no profit by March! That is .3 coins less every month so add the month of Jan, Feb, and March and I will not even be at .1 coin a day! They are holding and mining....I have a buddy ...he is getting a mess of (or did) dirty L3+'s with replacement fans..(ya think maybe they might be mining these puppies?) thus the wait til March....rinse/wash/repeat the ways of Bitmain are the usual 'yawn' evil.....its a grind ...but Bitmain feels someone has to take advantage of all you prosperous miners of any asic flavor  (Bitmain:Day to Day Evil: is a grind, but someone has to do it!) (tm bitmain) What I would like to see is more competition. Bitmain pretty much has the entire market to themselves. What is stopping someone in America with a bunch of money from making their own miners? Is it because the chips have to come from China? |
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Any local coin shop should be able to test them for you w/o opening the assay card.
Both LC and I have Sigma Metalytics verifiers that can do the job, too...
I didn't get them from a local coin shop so I didn't have a machine to test them with, but the serial number on my bars are definitely not smaller like your website suggests. The first "C" in my serial numbers never cross with the "essayeur fondeur" logo like your website suggests they would if they were fake. I don't know how to explain the other discrepancies but I still doubt they're fake, maybe there is some other explanation? Either way, I'll find out for sure soon, but already one of the details on my bars don't match up with one of the details of the fake bars on that website. |
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Looks like I have more research to do but from what this website says mine do look a lot like the un-genuine pictures. I'll obviously only now be offering to pay via Bitcoin and not these bars until I get things straightened out. I believe there is trusted escrow on this forum who can test your bars. I've already messaged mj to handle escrow as I've used him before for handling physical escrow deals. He said he can't test precious metals but knows a trusted escrow that could for me to use, but now obviously I have bigger fish to fry than trying to buy a Cas coin. Going to get this straightened out first with the man I bought them from. Until then obviously I can't offer these for payment, but I still doubt they're fake. |
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Looks like I have more research to do but from what this website says mine do look a lot like the un-genuine pictures. I'll obviously only now be offering to pay via Bitcoin and not these bars until I get things straightened out. |
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Trade for precious metals you say?? Like a bit fat pile of gold?
I have a 2011 I might trade for something like 15oz gold
Yeah, like a big fat pile of gold  PM'd. |
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Looking to get my hands on a couple Casascius coins after I foolishly sold mine a year ago. Message me if you have any that you're interested in selling whilst the price of bitcoin is on the up and up!
Escrow required of course, as I'm primarily looking to do a trade deal for some of my precious metals.
edit: only offering to pay with Bitcoin until further notice, not precious metals.
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I might be interested in selling the entire setup (miners, power supplies, cables, switches, etc, everything needed to start mining included) if the price is right. PM if you're the slightest bit interested.
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This is a great setup. However, I'm quite concerned about the costs that you will be making for paying your electricity bills.
Don't be, it only takes a couple of days to pay off the entire electric bill for the month, then it's all profit |
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I wouldn't have sold the coin if I didn't need to spend the bitcoin, thus I no longer have the bitcoin.
AH. Now I see. Try not to think in terms of unrealized gains, just imagine if you hadn't had those bitcoins back when you needed them. Very true indeed! |
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I sold my funded cas coin a year ago when bitcoin was $1000 for 2.5 bitcoin.
Never sell, I want to off myself for having sold mine. Next time bitcoin takes a big dip I'm buying one again and I swear the thing is going in a safe deposit box on the other side of the planet.
So you sold a Casascius for 2.5 btc Now you have 2.5 btc You can buy a new Casascius for 1.x btc ...and you want to *off yourself*? Why? I wouldn't have sold the coin if I didn't need to spend the bitcoin, thus I no longer have the bitcoin. |
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I sold my funded cas coin a year ago when bitcoin was $1000 for 2.5 bitcoin.
Never sell, I want to off myself for having sold mine. Next time bitcoin takes a big dip I'm buying one again and I swear the thing is going in a safe deposit box on the other side of the planet.
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We are at $340, where are you guys pointing miners? litecoinpool or prohashing?
miningrigrentals, more profitable than either of those. what is your profit there? others can rent you asics there? and what happens, if nobody rents? 0 profit? Depends, you can set your own price. The price I have set now, I make ~40%-60% more than prohashing. If nobody rents they have a system so it automatically mines other backup pools that you set. If you set your price right though, there will be the demand for it to almost always be rented. Do you constantly update the rental price yourself or do you let the "market" determine the price? I used them previously but it seemed that I would my miners would get rented right before a spike in prices. You can have them set the price automatically so it changes for you, or you can set it to a static number and change it as you feel the need. Even if you undercut the cheapest guy on there, you're still making far more than any pool could ever make you. |
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We are at $340, where are you guys pointing miners? litecoinpool or prohashing?
miningrigrentals, more profitable than either of those. what is your profit there? others can rent you asics there? and what happens, if nobody rents? 0 profit? Depends, you can set your own price. The price I have set now, I make ~40%-60% more than prohashing. If nobody rents they have a system so it automatically mines other backup pools that you set. If you set your price right though, there will be the demand for it to almost always be rented. |
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We are at $340, where are you guys pointing miners? litecoinpool or prohashing?
miningrigrentals, more profitable than either of those. |
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I think you should replace those tarpaulin with more solid thing like plywood.
Also tarpaulin seem to be more easier to be burned
get rid of that tp link switch, its crap and you will eventually have connection problems. any miner with that kind of setup should know any type of networking hardware with link in the name is crap and eventually has link problems down the road, get something that's better The TP-Link products I've been using have been working just fine. If and when it ever fails, it will be replaced. |
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Just created an account and switched over from Nicehash, I've got all of my L3+'s listed there now!
Looks very promising!
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