bat shit crazy
according to the link you posted from ccn.com:
Québec Inc. also requested the return of its deposits of $46,746.09, $23,255.66, and $23,824.42 for a total of $93,826.17 because its deposits had not been spent on electrical power since the Miners were not plugged in.
plus other deposits, nearly half a million dollars in fiat were stolen and not just the gears ( if i understand correctly).
but this very particular piece is interesting:
... since the Miners were not plugged in.
I don't quite understand this part, when you get someone to host your gears, you have full access , or at worst case scenario you could monitor the hashrate.
if thousands of gears wen't offline, the gears owners should have known right after the gears were unplugged ! , it takes a lot of time dealing with the transfer of that large number of miners.
but reading further down, it seems like MinedMap claim the miners were never plugged in , if that's the case why continue sending them money for electricity bills??
also by looking at the video, i wonder, if they were able to get rid of the miners why not the boxes? and if they wanted to sell them , why unbox them in the first place?
my guess is that Northway lied about their ability of hosting that many miners, and they took them else were, but still if they were else where up and running, MinedMap would never go this far.
there is something missing here, and i think the most important question is the one you pointed out:
One thing that crossed my mind here is that because they waited so long to actually show up and confront the guy,