Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

Quote from: klee on August 25, 2013, 08:32:18 AM

Miner protection offered by KnC would be a huge plus.

A New Yorker relocated to rural Georgia, I sometimes get surprised at the lengths gone to make money down here. Cable was new and the local company went out to all the rural homes and ran cable no charge. Very sloppy but done. They put in fiber early on which was great. They wanted no personal routers and to be called in for home networking but of course that didn't fly. No telling if that was official or just cable guys wanting more work. Every telephone pole has a ground wire from the inter pole steel cables. The something like #10 gauge uninsulated copper ran down the pole and grounded the support cable in conjunction with the steel cables to a ground support. The cable company also used these grounds, clamping in grounds from from their junction boxes strung on the lines. Those junction boxes hanging in the air under their own support steel cables have #10 copper clamped from one side of the junction box to the other over the junctions providing a lower resistance conductor than the steel cable as just a little better safeguard from lightening surges. Now every telephone pole has, or had, one of these grounds. On my property, the home is ~535 feet from the front property line and there are two telephone poles within my fence and one on the road outside my fence. I get my cable from an office in a town 17 miles south. When there's a problem they farm out the troubleshooting to a private electric company in Alabama. The cable company's own trucks do major work however. Mowing my lawn along the road this year my mower got caught in some #10 wire, uninsulated, lying in the grass a few feet from the roadside telephone pole. It had been cut from the pole about a foot from the ground to about 5 feet from the ground, a 4 foot gap. I immediately suspected an antisocial neighbor but then I noticed other poles on the road also had the ground cut in the same manner. Jogging 5k south and back I noticed the telephone poles there also had the grounds cut. I wrote to the cable company and the power company. The cable company sent somebody from Alabama who called his boss then handed me the phone whence I was told they weren't going to replace the cut ground. They said that the other poles on my property all had grounds. What this does, removing the grounds on telephone poles along the road, is to reduce the number of paths to ground for the energy of a lightening strike increasing the damage radius. This was either done officially by the power or cable company, like arguing the grounds increased the likelihood of a lightening strike (but removing the ground wires increasing their repair calls thus giving them statistics for higher rates) or by the workers of the private Alabama company that services the area so they'd have increased service calls and make more money. Particularly, the unpopulated areas without power transformers for non-existant homes or cable, why remove the grounds there except to have a higher probability of lightening energy out there traveling to populated areas causing damage. So, yes, some kind of insurance policy by KnCMiner would be nice.

I remember years ago a tow truck company got nailed for pouring oil on a something like a bridge entrance ramp so as to drum up business.