Hi voxelot,
Thank you for your comments and for asking to join the co-op I call: "The little co-op that could." IMHO it takes an enlightened (or at least semi-enlightened) man to publicly admit that he's wrong.
About setting up a new one: you and possibly Sam may want to think about teaming up with bobsag3. I think it's more important to succeed together and let everyone take the credit then to fail separately to acquire a Batch1 pre-order on a HashFast (if that's the sort of blinking hardware you find to be sexy) before they run out. But hey, everyone has free will which I think is a wonderful thing.
Another thing to consider: CoinTerra is *supposed* release a 1TH miner to allay the grumblings of the filthy masses.
In which case: BeepBeep2 would be the one you'd want to join up with. As a GBEC I don't find their MPP as attractive as HashFast's but at least there is one, which is a step forward for the ASIC mfg. community.
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Hi DyslexicZombei,
We will preserve your place in line.
Today, Mt Gox Weighted Avg: $129.36422
To complete this order today, please send 44.8655741 BTC to the address below
(Calculation: 5804.00 / 129.36422 = 44.8655741)
Address to send:
1NawHvHnYy1VUqwch8GRdGgXhdanjmLpmk
Please let us know when you have sent the BTC.
Cheers,
John"
To which I sent him the Blockchain transaction for the buy we already made, LOL! I then proceeded to remind him that I thought they owed me 1.861 BTC as a refund & that he's not my proctologist...ok, ok so I added that last part.
So good news! We didn't lose our place in the outbound shipment from 10 days ago!===========================================================================================
REMINDER: Don't forget to vote! Voting starts at 9PM HST, which is about 3.5 hours from now, and will run for FOUR days.
PRO VS. AMATEUR HOSTING
PRO
- They're...uh pros with an IT background
- Least chance of theft or unintentional damage
- Automatically insured
- They cost more
- They care but they don't really care (not their BTC)
- Unless you pay an arm/leg, they have network outages in normal situations and power outages in long emergencies just like everyone else. Don't believe that BS about 99.99+% uptime
- May need to scramble to find a place that does colocation of mid towers which are awkward fits in most server rooms. You have to use the "platform" method which many DCs don't have set up for this purpose; (warned them about it...grumble...grumble)
AMATEUR
- They're amateurs
- Then again it's like hosting: a mid tower in your house because it's looks like & smells like a mid tower PC (Aren't you glad we didn't step in it?). Towers are already in many people's houses.
- They cost less but what do you care? Your hosting/management fee's a flat 2.75%
- Fastest response IMO (esp. w/ backup hardware. Thx Phillip!) because it's *their* BTC that's being lost out on
- Need to be vetted & have security/insurance in place for losses/theft
- There's a trust factor: How do we know they won't run off with the miner? (By vetting obviously and public meet ups, if possible)
Hope that summed up the pros/cons of both. Please feel free to add your own concerns. If you don't vote, I'll just assume you don't care.
And you know what they say about assuming? It makes an ass out of you and the Ming Dynasty.
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