Rockminer.... that name certainly brings back memories for older members of the forum, and not necessarily good memories either.
But anyway, that
AMHash drama was all a long time ago (in cryptoland time anyway), over three years.....
I thought the brand ROCKMINER would have been so toxic after that episode and the behavior of the principals involved so poor, plus the fact that Rockminer were broke and not making anything, that the name would have been dropped as useless.
The next time I heard of Rockminer being mentioned was when I was researching the
Gainbitcoin cloudmining scam and the thief and scammer Amit Bhardwaj came out as having
bought 40% of the Rockminer company, two years ago, thru his fraudulent company Amaze Mining..
On the occasion of the stake acquisition, jubilant Amit Bhardwaj, said “I liked the vision of the company and what they are building is extraordinary and inspiring. After a series of exciting conversations and meetings with Alex (Co-Founder, RockMiner), the terms of the acquisition were finalized”.
Alex, co-founder of RockMiner also showed his happiness on the latest partnership with Amit Bhardwaj and said, “Joining forces with Amaze Mining & Blockchain Research Ltd allows us to double-up our focus on innovation and product development”.
Yes, only two years ago, within "2-3 months," he claimed that
Each 14nm chip in the miner will be able to attain up to 65 GH/s. This development comes after 3 years of hard work at RockMiner.
(Which turned out to be 10% less than Bitmain's S9 chips).
Your own version of your timeline doesn't include Mr. Bhardwaj's investment though. Why is that?
In that short period of time, Rockminer claim to have built a huge business
5 mining farms located in
Sichuan, Yunnan, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang
We have participated in or led the construction of dozens of mining
farm facilities
In the meanwhile, our mining farms in Kazakhstan, Canada, Sweden
are also under construction.
What I find most impressive is that you have been able to build this huge conglomerate without the Internet noticing at all.
Google "Rockminer" and see what I mean.
Apart from the newly revitalized Rockminer.com site at the top, your first page is ancient reviews of 2014 hardware, not one single mention, not a press release, not a review, of all the massive expansion you claim into the realms of
5% of total network hashrate
Nothing apart from your Twitter account that is, which has a four year silence until this August.
When I say "without the Internet noticing" (further example, the Wayback Machine shows nothing for four years), I guess maybe that's what people mean when they refer to the 'Great Firewall': a Chinese company like Rockminer can bring itself back from the dead and grow into a major player in the Bitcoin world without the West knowing about it at all?
This seems to be a strange time strategically to be actively expanding cloud mining activity, when it's estimated that something like 500,000 S9's equivalent have stopped mining BTC during the recent price and difficulty drop.
Presumably you feel confident to be able to deliver a profitable service, seeing as you claim to be mining with
75W/T
machines.
Which would they be, as you only list
Avalon 841's as the most efficient on your shop page (insecure btw), and they are not 75W/T?
