I am interested in pursuing this. They've proven themselves to be very shady, cashing 1K worth of my money orders about 6 weeks ago and then claiming that they never received them (even though the MO photocopies indicate otherwise).

You clearly weren't paying attention.  The network difficulty has been going up by roughly 20-30% every 10-11 days since October.  Your earnings have similarly declined regularly since then.  On a day to day basis they've gone up and down wildly (look at the luck chart which shows the last 3 months of luck per shift), but on average, each 10-11 days has been earning you less than the 10-11 days previous.

https://www.facebook.com/CampBX?hc_location=timeline
It looks like they weren't in the office due to bad weather. I have dealt with CampBX a lot and they always pull through for me but I have definitely noticed they have become increasingly slow dealing with things. I worry that they have gotten in over their heads trying to become a legal exchange. They definitely have extremely low volume at this point, since Dwolla shut down and they missed every deadline they announced for their ACH system. I'm keeping an eye on CampBX but have avoided having cash or btc there for months now.

It's unfortunate that the only way to find out the new stuff doesn't work is by putting it live.  Every local test I can do turns out fine, but there are so many thousands of hardware configurations, software configurations, and just plain VOLUME of network activity that you can't properly test in a sterile development environment.

For now, I think I might hang up this attempt at a rewrite and fall back to what I know at least one other pool has done to get better multi-core utilization:  Just run the server process multiple times on multiple ports and have a proxy split the load on the same machine over the different ports.  It feels like a cop out, but I noticed during the live testing that a significant load still hit one core:  The one used for the primary network IO processing, which is extremely difficult to split over multiple cores/threads without significant overhead in mutex locking.  I get the feeling it wouldn't be any more efficient than just running multiple instances of the server.

Exchanges (such as Bitstamp) and sites that buy/sell Bitcoin (such as Coinbase) function in quite different ways. Coinbase just provides you with a price to buy at (or sell at) and then it's take it or leave it.

On Bitstamp you can provide your own price and if there are people on the other side of the offer that have the same price in mind, a trade is made. If there are sell orders for $820 in the books, then my buy order at $820 will be executed immediately. However, if I place a buy order at $810, I have to wait for the price to drop and for people willing to sell at that price to place their orders.

Talking about scam THIS guy managed to trick a lot of people into using his reseller link and he is the 3rd top KNC reseller: http://reseller.kncminer.com/orders

More info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=348743.msg4755253#msg4755253

Fortunate for him KNC changed their policy to only allow change of the reseller info on an order if both the buyer and seller requested it.
Hopefully enough people would complain and he will lose his reseller status and all his awards.

That is called deception.

I think more like 15 to 20 billion. It looks to me like about a dozen companies are about to deliver before april.
            BUT
All those noob miners and new btc users will also be creating "Dead Bitcoin days" driving the price up with a BTC shortage, as the usage increases, and the speculation increases..., which will save us in fiat returns.
Eventually, the transaction fees per block will also become a more significant value as the block sizes increase etc.... untill finally... After the last Bitcoin is issued, that's all that miners will have or need.... transaction fees.
Many good things to come in btc very soon.... Wells Fargo, Google, E-Bay, TigerDirect, PayPal, Borse, Forex, "Bitcoin ATM's", Campaign Donations, IRA's, Military and humanitarian aid, new exchanges popping up everywhere, and best of all, The Chairman of the Federal Reserve himself endorsed Bitcoin.  Need I say more?
I see a future, where there is no "Checkout" in stores at all. The device on the product has either been paid for, or not.. by scanning the QRcode with your android Dick-Tracey watch.... Soon.
Everyone will have a BTC wallet on their phone.
No more digging for change on the bus, or toll roads, or parking meters, paid toilets, Phone booths, vending machines, McDonald's, and all those other annoying places you seem to have to dig for change!
No more bank or store robberies!
No more pickpockets.
Disability "checks" will be deposited on the 1st every month in btc.
Real-Estate transactions will clear escrow in minutes.
There will be no need for "ATM"s or banks for most.
"Checking accounts" will disappear, and those using old fiat will be under suspicion.
Remember that time your buddy went to Vegas, had a blast, brought a hooker to the room, fell asleep, and when he woke up, his wallet and a kidney were missing? That's not likely to happen any more... except for the kidney...hahaha..  except, this time, they track down the hooker, and your kidney, because her wallet recorded a block transmitted from your phone, which was traced via GPS.
Someday it will be embedded directly in your I.D. ...Remember NWO?   ahemmm..., right along with a portion of the block-chain, and be solar or everlasting battery powered with built in retina scanners. Personalized advertisements will play on your phone or ID based on your past purchases and places you visit online as you walk around stores offering coupons and discounts.
This is just the beginning of the world's wealth re-distribution.
The blockchain will literally be transmitted pocket-to pocket(already happening), and some will find they've become sterile from being a wireless hotspot all the time....  lol
Just a year ago, a cashless society was a pipe-dream....   This is gonna be a wild ride!..... and the name KnCminer will live to the end of time.
Those with the most efficient miners will enjoy a residual income forever, which is probably why KNC is going hard at efficiency. Considering the rate of adaptation, and the rate at which coins are produced, leads me to one inevitable conclusion... HUGE price rises, ongoing, in waves, for years to come... Keep those coin folks. Facts be known, I could buy two brand new 2014 Subaru Foresters with the BTC I made from KNCMiner products, or a fixer-upper home... but I know better than to cut myself short by cashing them in.... all, and more than my original fiat has been removed from the pot too. It's pure profit from here on out....
May we all see our dreams come true...  Good night all.

KNC used to be very customer friendly, but not anymore. Now you get:
No refunds
No PayPal/Credit cards accepted
No plausible explanations on decisions they make, but just quoting the word "procedures"

I remember back in August when Sam Cole was willing to talk with his customers for hours over the phone, but now he is extremely busy.

I am also very close at refunding my Neptunes...

The winner in the mining game is the one who as the most power efficient machine (or the one with free electricity).
I know Neptune's will be hashing while Antminer's will be turned off because they use to much electricity.

Are you saying that your kncminer is for sale? If not, where do you find that price and performance that ships now?
How many BTC would you have if you had bought BTC instead? BTC30-40?

3th of Antminers = 5kw (by taking 300watts per Antminer) = 31.654BTC (without shipping) = 25.8k $
3th of Neptunes = 2.5kw = 14.6BTC = 12k $

Two times more $$$ and watts for the same hash-power.

40grand!! u rock bruh!!

dont worry yourself about powering them up yet, they dont know yet either.

all we can do is pray that they pull a 6Th rabbit out of their hat while BTC reaches around 5000usd (aka da m00n) - then we're sorted!!  0.01btc per day yo!!!


see what i did there jelin? do you see? 

i READ the previous post, then posted accordingly.

Exactly why coinbase is for total noobs, and children.   Why would one go to coinbase and establish such a bottlekneck?
It's worthless if you are moving large amounts. Nothing beats a real exchange.
The tiered confirmation system there sucks too. I've been confirmed at all the exchanges...no problem; but when I go to get confirmed at coinbase, I always get rejected, because they always try to ask questions from my childhood, and I don't see how their questions could ever be answered; I'ts like they're asking housing questions from when I was 2yrs old, how the fuzz am I supposed to know that? I gave up after a half-dozen attempts over a two week period...   but no worries with those ridiculous limits, I'm totally stoked with Bitstamp and Camp BX

It´s Sam´s brother with the help of KnC miners that have put a lot of PH on the network, if you had not figured it out yet

Nepotism.

and HashFast is now shipping, so how about releasing some Jupiters to the people just as you guys said KnC?