It's not 'typographical layout' it's copying, pasting, and replacing a few words. He'd definitely get in trouble for it if it was an academic assignment.
Like I said, not evidence of a scam, but sloppy and unprofessional.
What the hell?
How old are you?
This is the real world, this happens all the time, this isn't some high school class....
Wake up man, life is going to hit you hard if you have the mentality that life is like the inside of a classroom.
Lol what? If you think my life is going to be "hit hard" by the fact I'm not investing in ActiveMining, you're completely delusional. If someone is sloppy and unprofessional. There is nothing wrong with having
standards as far as who you
invest your money with.
If they're going to be sloppy and unprofessional at one thing, they may carry that through in other aspects of their business as well.
sloppy. ..
It's not sloppy or unprofessional if he's copied the layout on purpose so that potential investors can do a quick side by side comparison with the big competition. I would say that is smart. It shows Ken recognized where the challenge lay (in pulling some investors away from AM) and shows he is recognizing he needs to make chip spec info accessible and quickly cross checkable for interested parties.
I don't really buy that. If you want to make it easy to compare data, you can use a table and just show the numbers. (and also it's not a "layout" it's a paragraph of text)
And all that really matters as far as investment goes is the $/Gh/s and in the long run the W/Gh/s. Things like chip clock speed, hashes per cycle, etc aren't important. It doesn't matter if a chip is 10x as fast if it costs 12x as much and uses 15 times as much energy.
Anyway - it's not something that on it's own would make me this company is a bad bet, but there are a lot of things. I just don't see them keeping up with the massive amount of competition from other companies that seem much more professional/competent.
I mean, look, for example, at how much success HashFast has had in selling BabyJet pre-orders, before they'd even taped out. They've sold $2.75 million worth of pre-orders to customers, plus the orders from the IceDrill IPO. I don't think their customers will ever make ROI, but
their investors are going to make out like bandits.
Cointerra is saying they'll be putting out in 2PH in December.
KnC has their PCBs and cases, all that's left to do is put in the chips and ship them.
So when I say professionalism, I don't mean acting "corporate" or anything, but simply their ability to execute and get things done, faster and at lower costs then the competition. And to me, it seems like they're lacking. Sorry.
I'm not trying to get people riled up. If you want to invest your btc in this company it's obviously up to you. I'm just trying to explain why I think something like plagiarism by the CEO of a company, along with things like an ugly website with misaligned images are going to be big red flags for some people.
