Thanks very much - obviously I'm aware it was foolish - sarcastic gifs don't help anyone but you to feel like a smartass.

People need to be encouraged to come forward about stuff rather than bury their heads out of embarrassment for fear of the scorn they will receive online.

I'm not going to be the only person scammed and this guy is getting away with it.

Thanks Colin, the address to which is was sent is 1NYHQKncPQPeSLiTJdKAV5okYNeH5cpE1i

Hi All,

To my immense embarrassment and dismay, having narrowly missed out on purchasing a KNC Neptune, I happened to find the Hashblaster site which had just 'opened for business' and I went ahead and ordered four. It did not even occur to me that it might be a scam - which is needless to say, mortifying.

I have emailed and tracked the email, but it's not even being opened their end.

Now I have no bitcoins. Is there anything I can do? Obviously I know there is no way of getting them back exactly without them giving it back, which is not likely, but what about legal recourse or other methods? Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers

Any further thoughts on this?

But surely if you want to mine because it's interesting then you could be mining something else, such as perhaps dogecoin which is still comparatively virgin territory?

Great post - I have recently been scammed of all my bitcoins due to my own foolishness, so I am feeling pretty bitter about the whole thing right now, but I did calculate, that with the increase in difficulty coming in the next six months, the "rigs" i purchased would have been useless within that period.

Within six months the increase in difficulty will be so huge that I cannot see how computing power will be able to keep up. Does that then mean however, that people will stop bothering to mine as the cost of running asics will be greater than the yield and the difficulty will decrease?