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October 11, 2017, 09:17:29 AM |
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I have sent them a message to request a visit to their showroom, lets see if they reply
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HagssFIN
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October 11, 2017, 09:47:07 AM |
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I really hoped they would have taken Phil's help on this.
For now this is a scam suspect in my records.
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October 11, 2017, 11:12:59 AM |
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Support - Syan Technologies Ltd. < support@syanmining.com> Today, 10:37 AM You Hi Philip, I noticed that you had added a unit to your cart. As I said, it's impossible for us to ship you a unit free of charge. As I said in my last email, we will refund the full amount including shipping if you do not wish to keep the unit after you have finished your review. Blah blah blah.. Translation: It's impossible for us to ship you something that doesn't and will never exist. |
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Biffa
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October 11, 2017, 11:22:45 AM |
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I have sent them a message to request a visit to their showroom, lets see if they reply
Looks like their "showroom" is in a virtual office, I doubt that will work. Come on guys, even people who should know better are giving this more credence than it deserves, you are all so desperate for an alternative to the current suppliers. This is a SCAM, if it wasn't a SCAM then they would have pictures of working miners, come on, they have three months till launch, you think they wouldn't have working hardware or even pics of chips and boards and prototype miners by now? Sidehack called it. This is 100% scam of the worst type. And I feel 100% justified in saying it because if I am wrong then nothing there is no downside for anyone. But if I am right the fallout is catastrophic for anyone who gets suckered into it, and there are a lot of people who are going to get suckered into this, and every person who sends them money and gets suckered is going to be subsidising the continuance of the scam for months and months and years to come. |
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October 11, 2017, 01:31:13 PM |
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As someone who lost over a hundred bitcoins with Hashfash by falling prey to the preorder game - I strongly advise nobody fall for this potential.
Hashfast had a visible office and much more communicative team and still ended up being a major dissapointment and loss. Syan seems even worse.
I have no plan to pre-order, I just wait and see. Burned myself once with a Lunar Launcher from Hashra. |
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October 11, 2017, 01:34:23 PM |
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Well, likely scam. Anyone email them to at least make a simple youtube video of the machine working? That takes a couple of minutes or so only. Hmmm also 6200 rpm fan should be pretty noisy for home i think.
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October 13, 2017, 07:30:05 PM |
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U managed to buy any of that bitfury?
Personally, no - but Sidehack has mentioned having some chips, Hotmine has been selling Bitfury miners for a while, just for 2 rather well known examples. Raw chips would do "me" no good, I'm not a board designer or coder. |
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October 15, 2017, 11:36:48 PM |
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they are still not sold out so i vote scam.
if they had 1700 machines they would be sold out by now because there is lot more idiots willing to waste money on bogus machine.
they just trying to 'sell' until someone confirm its a scam
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philipma1957
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October 16, 2017, 10:13:20 AM |
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I got more info that does not help their case.
this is from a member here and an email reply to him or her:
Hi [name redacted],
Thank you for your interest in the Vega Home Bitcoin Digital Currency Miner.
The units use our own proprietry 14nm STA1220 chips of which there are 190 in each unit. The unit consumes 1050w power from the wall and is 80 plus rated gold which gives it 87% efficiency.
Unfortunately, we are unable to honour large orders for batch 1 since we have already taken a large corporate order and we wish for the remaining units to reach as many different individuals as possible. As a result, management have imposed a restriction on the number of units available per person. This limit is set to 5. I'm sure in future batches, we would be able to talk about a larger order.
Our only working unit is in the lab and unavailable for inspection since they are using it. We will have units for inspection as soon as batch 1 is delivered to us for quality control and distribution.
The power lead is a USA to 3-pin to moulded IEC C13, 1 meter in length.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.
Best regards,
Clive.
The bolded line tells me a lot. So basically until they show working units just don't order.
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stugots2
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October 17, 2017, 11:56:57 AM |
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that does not sound promising
DAMN I was interested too
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October 17, 2017, 04:42:11 PM |
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It is kinda ridiculous that they only have that 1 working miner in a lab......
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October 17, 2017, 05:11:50 PM |
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It is kinda ridiculous that they only have that 1 working miner in a lab......
1 working unit that can't be inspected, or can't have a video taken of it running, or any other way to verify it does what it says, or that it even exists, all based on a supposed new chip which has no information on. There's so many red flags - they could even just say what foundry they're making the chips on, show blanked out documents of the order, pictures of the chip even - nope. |
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October 17, 2017, 05:29:22 PM |
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It is kinda ridiculous that they only have that 1 working miner in a lab......
Pretty sure they have 0 working miners, nor do they even have a 'lab' for testing. I pointed out it was a scam weeks ago. |
Stop buying industrial miners, running them at home, and then complaining about the noise.
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philipma1957
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October 18, 2017, 02:19:58 AM |
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Do not preorder until they prove they have gear.
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NotFuzzyWarm
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October 18, 2017, 02:28:56 AM
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*** Syan miner is a SCAM! If someone buys their miners without a well-known and trusted Forum User 1st getting one for doing a review and posting it here then well, you have been warned ***
Hell, even AMT did a better job of of showing 'progress' in having a viable miner.... As in pics of chips, various iterations of the hash boards, etc... Of course their whole scheme fell apart when it was obvious AMT's parent Bitmine.ch totally blew the design of their A1-based miner but at least they tried and showed something to the world (as did BFL and few other companies in 2013-2014).
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Thetaj
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October 18, 2017, 08:20:06 AM |
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Probably 99.99% a scam at this point. Their supposed "HQ" in HK doesn't exist.
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October 18, 2017, 01:56:42 PM |
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Probably 99.99% a scam at this point. Their supposed "HQ" in HK doesn't exist.
So I take it your visit to the showroom has been modestly entertaining in that regard at least?  |
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October 18, 2017, 02:57:06 PM |
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It is kinda ridiculous that they only have that 1 working miner in a lab......
1 working unit that can't be inspected, or can't have a video taken of it running, or any other way to verify it does what it says, or that it even exists, all based on a supposed new chip which has no information on. There's so many red flags - they could even just say what foundry they're making the chips on, show blanked out documents of the order, pictures of the chip even - nope. Maybe they cant show documents but pretty much all phones have good video function these days... It is kinda ridiculous that they only have that 1 working miner in a lab......
Pretty sure they have 0 working miners, nor do they even have a 'lab' for testing. I pointed out it was a scam weeks ago. Seems so. I wonder if anyone actually paid for these... |
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October 18, 2017, 05:23:31 PM |
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Website was created in July of 2017, so a very new company. I would probably wait to see for a long while. They don't mention their hashrate or anything, be cautious when you spend any money on here.
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Thetaj
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October 19, 2017, 05:09:25 AM |
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Probably 99.99% a scam at this point. Their supposed "HQ" in HK doesn't exist.
So I take it your visit to the showroom has been modestly entertaining in that regard at least? Mongkok Dimsum is still very good  |
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