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Heck, maybe someone found him before you did. That ruling out the option of the chinese guy taking off on his own.


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Too bad so many people got burned. So much for collective idealism and financial prosperity through Bitcoin cryptocurrency. I guess i should give up on the whole idea of "mining" before I even started.
Hey, hope you guys find the scammer.
Don't forget to have fun big boys. At least now you can say, you were part of the story, when the time for stories comes and you and all your friends are around the campfire.


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PS:
Just made this acc to comment, heheh. I guess i am tired of googling everything about this.(basicly the last three days instead of doing more important university related work). Those coins became popular only after the bubble burst, two or three years ago.
I ended up here after a lot of topic-crawling. Topics such as:
sha256, bitcoin, gpu mining, eruptor sticks, fpga mining or ASIC machines.(through all its stages of pre-ordering + delivery + negative ROI). Not adding the power grid costs and effort setting that up. I guess this currency has only one way to go. And that is the corporate way, where they can afford the most expensive ASICs in the first few months after manufacturer-company delivers on their purchases(before clearing up their own bills.)



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TL:DR
Never give up. It's the community that remains after downfalls such as these. And by the way, now this topic gives me 1000+ pages worth of reading material, considering that I was late for the party, not having invested on this myself at an earlier point(I didn't even know the bitcoin specifics a few days ago, lol).