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January 24, 2014, 08:22:11 AM |
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If the companies actually had a product there wouldn't be pre-orders.
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January 24, 2014, 08:24:41 AM |
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If the companies actually had a product there wouldn't be pre-orders.
Man, we need to get a "like" button on this forum, i dont think anyone can say it better than you just did.
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jwhitlaw
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January 24, 2014, 08:40:42 AM |
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The first poster after the "press release" is part of the scam too, I'm guessing.
He's a noob who just HAPPENS to live right down the street from the supposed fab facility.
We can look forward to his next post, when he'll report that he visited their super secret factory and saw all the chip geniuses building prototypes or something.
These guys thought they were going to make like $5 million on this scam. Let's see if we can keep that close to zero.
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testerx
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January 24, 2014, 08:48:38 AM |
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lol a 20nm ASIC when the fabs haven't even started putting out their 20nm product yet, lol. What is this magical foundry that already has 20nm chips to market?
If you believe this then I have magical 14nm ASICs for sale, only 1BTC per Thash, no refunds of course lol
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TookDk
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January 24, 2014, 08:53:35 AM |
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I can't help notice that the pictures of the chip on the front page, one picture show a chip in flip-chip package and another picture shows a BGA package. That is very suspicious to me, if you made a "great product" then show some real pictures of the hardware instead of some stolen photo shopped pictures. That is zero credibility in my world, if you don't have a product to take pictures of yet, then publish a datasheet at least.
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Cryptography is one of the few things you can truly trust.
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HellDiverUK
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January 24, 2014, 08:58:19 AM |
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I'm wondering why a UK company is 'selling' items with dollar prices? That alone makes no sense.
Scam alert, scam alert, whoop whoop, scam alert!
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January 24, 2014, 10:40:34 AM |
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Becca,
It would really help if you could show pictures of your prototype that you have just finished testing or even better a video of the miner hashing.
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January 24, 2014, 10:46:09 AM Last edit: January 24, 2014, 11:02:05 AM by Gator-hex |
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Yeah, beware, the web site registrant is hidden behind a "privacy" shell company in Australia. Source: http://who.is/whois/ctsminerDomain Name: CTSMINER.COM Registry Domain ID: Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.publicdomainregistry.com Registrar URL: www.publicdomainregistry.comUpdated Date: 12-Jan-2014 Creation Date: 12-Jan-2014 Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 12-Jan-2015 Registrar: PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com Registrar IANA ID: 303 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse-contact@publicdomainregistry.comRegistrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1-2013775952 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: PP-SP-001 Registrant Name: Domain Admin Registrant Organization: Privacy Protection Service INC d/b/a PrivacyProtect.org Registrant Street: C/O ID#10760, PO Box 16 Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Registrant City: Nobby Beach Registrant State/Province: Queensland Registrant Postal Code: QLD 4218 Registrant Country: AU Registrant Phone: +45.36946676 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: abuse-contact@publicdomainregistry.com... Registration Service Provided By: IT ITCH PRIVACYPROTECT.ORG is providing privacy protection services to this domain name to protect the owner from spam and phishing attacks. PrivacyProtect.org is not responsible for any of the activities associated with this domain name. If you wish to report any abuse concerning the usage of this domain name, you may do so at http://privacyprotect.org/contact. We have a stringent abuse policy and any complaint will be actioned within a short period of time.
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southerngentuk
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January 24, 2014, 10:48:07 AM |
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lol a 20nm ASIC when the fabs haven't even started putting out their 20nm product yet, lol. What is this magical foundry that already has 20nm chips to market?
If you believe this then I have magical 14nm ASICs for sale, only 1BTC per Thash, no refunds of course lol
I have some 0.01nm Asic's per-manufactured, the foundry was provided by miaviator, these little beauties came straight from its rear end. Pictures coming once I find them, there pretty small..
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Searing
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January 24, 2014, 10:49:04 AM |
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they have a counter on their page of units available for pre-order i suppose we could watch that and see how many people have more money then sense i myself am 1/3 down on the www.alpha-t.net litecoin asic scrpyt miner supposedly but it was 1/3 down they took paypal and it is thru amex credit card I have till the 5th of feb to decide to pull..maybe more with paypal ..but that is my timeline in this case i suspect that they ARE legit but seem somewhat clueless..ie amatuer action so will likely pull my order BUT to put money in this place with not even their level (alpha's) for info etc and/no paypal or credit card that is just crazy its ok to put down something on the chance it is legit but to have NO exit strategy via paypal or credit card is plain suicide quite frankly that is the only reason i did www.kncminer.compaypal via credit card anyway ...been there but only do this kinda stuff with an exit strategy and protections ...let them prove it to your first or you walk Searing
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southerngentuk
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January 24, 2014, 10:50:22 AM |
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Yeah, beware, the web site registrant is hidden behind a "privacy" shell company in Australia. http://who.is/whois/ctsminerDomain Name: CTSMINER.COM Registry Domain ID: Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.publicdomainregistry.com Registrar URL: www.publicdomainregistry.comUpdated Date: 12-Jan-2014 Creation Date: 12-Jan-2014 Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 12-Jan-2015 Registrar: PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com Registrar IANA ID: 303 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Email Masking Image@publicdomainregistry.comRegistrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1-2013775952 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: PP-SP-001 Registrant Name: Domain Admin Registrant Organization: Privacy Protection Service INC d/b/a PrivacyProtect.org Registrant Street: C/O ID#10760, PO Box 16 Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Registrant City: Nobby Beach Registrant State/Province: Queensland Registrant Postal Code: QLD 4218 Registrant Country: AU Registrant Phone: +45.36946676 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: Email Masking Image@privacyprotect.orgummm gold coast, did we not have a scam outfit there a couple of months back...
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January 24, 2014, 10:52:30 AM |
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Yeah, beware, the web site registrant is hidden behind a "privacy" shell company in Australia. http://who.is/whois/ctsminerDomain Name: CTSMINER.COM Registry Domain ID: Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.publicdomainregistry.com Registrar URL: www.publicdomainregistry.comUpdated Date: 12-Jan-2014 Creation Date: 12-Jan-2014 Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 12-Jan-2015 Registrar: PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com Registrar IANA ID: 303 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Email Masking Image@publicdomainregistry.comRegistrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1-2013775952 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: PP-SP-001 Registrant Name: Domain Admin Registrant Organization: Privacy Protection Service INC d/b/a PrivacyProtect.org Registrant Street: C/O ID#10760, PO Box 16 Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Registrant City: Nobby Beach Registrant State/Province: Queensland Registrant Postal Code: QLD 4218 Registrant Country: AU Registrant Phone: +45.36946676 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: Email Masking Image@privacyprotect.orgYep it does look fishy... but I would not assume anything yet. Let's give Becca a chance ;-) I gave one to BFL, KNC, HashFast and Cointerra. For me its like 50% scam and 50% legit (considering Cointerra delivers additional hashing power together with original order). It would be nice to put one more into legit basket.
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merv77
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January 24, 2014, 10:52:54 AM |
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I think we're never going to hear from rebecca again...
she/they should have have known that bitcointalk isn't very good forum for scammers.
I love this forum. If it wasn't for this forum I would have been scammed many times over. cheers
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merv77
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January 24, 2014, 10:56:23 AM |
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Yeah, beware, the web site registrant is hidden behind a "privacy" shell company in Australia. http://who.is/whois/ctsminerDomain Name: CTSMINER.COM Registry Domain ID: Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.publicdomainregistry.com Registrar URL: www.publicdomainregistry.comUpdated Date: 12-Jan-2014 Creation Date: 12-Jan-2014 Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 12-Jan-2015 Registrar: PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com Registrar IANA ID: 303 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Email Masking Image@publicdomainregistry.comRegistrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1-2013775952 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: PP-SP-001 Registrant Name: Domain Admin Registrant Organization: Privacy Protection Service INC d/b/a PrivacyProtect.org Registrant Street: C/O ID#10760, PO Box 16 Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Registrant City: Nobby Beach Registrant State/Province: Queensland Registrant Postal Code: QLD 4218 Registrant Country: AU Registrant Phone: +45.36946676 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: Email Masking Image@privacyprotect.orgummm gold coast, did we not have a scam outfit there a couple of months back... most probably the same mob... queensland has always been a state where scam artists originate from, even before the internet days. btw, I'm Australian.
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January 24, 2014, 11:01:33 AM |
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most probably the same mob...
queensland has always been a state where scam artists originate from, even before the internet days. btw, I'm Australian.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=323084.msg3459817#msg3459817Payonix, just a couple of km away.. I think this post summed it up nicely.. Hi critta,
Sorry to hear that you have been scammed by Payonix. We believe they are operating an arbitrage-type scam where they take your money, invest it in bitcoin, wait for bitcoin price rise, sell the bitcoin for profit, then return your original money. It works even better if the victim paid them in bitcoin. Your money gets tied up for a few weeks, but you get it back in the end (hopefully). In the meantime you have suffered opportunity loss (you lost the use of your money during that time), and they have profited using your money.
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January 24, 2014, 11:03:05 AM |
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another scam ... another photoshop ...
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January 24, 2014, 11:20:34 AM |
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Hi Rebecca
Nice to see a(n alleged) female posting an announcement for new ASIC hardware. I should warn you that even though you (may) have a vagina, the forum members will prefer to fuck you up the arse regardless for trying to scam them.
Cheers.
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January 24, 2014, 11:23:16 AM |
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What the fuck is this complete bullshit.
Jesus, girl, you could have picked a bigger dick than 5TH/s to scam customers with? But even at 5TH/s it's clearly a complete load of crap.
But worse, and this is the bit that pisses me off the most about this SCAM - they've used the name of cgminer on their fucking website. Bitch - be gone.
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January 24, 2014, 11:33:15 AM |
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I just checked their first blog post. Rebecca claims in her blog post that:
"I personally would like to give the in house web development team, who spent countless hours building and testing, perfecting the website. It truly is a fantastic platform to showcase our products."
Haha. An in-house development team who uses WordPress and don't know what a .htaccess file is nor how to use one! http://www.ctsminer.com/wp-content/uploads/ have a peruse!
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January 24, 2014, 11:57:38 AM |
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Hi Rebecca
Nice to see a(n alleged) female posting an announcement for new ASIC hardware. I should warn you that even though you (may) have a vagina, the forum members will prefer to fuck you up the arse regardless for trying to scam them.
Cheers.
Ok Lads, who's first... I think the unicornhasher should go first..
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