Thread is now locked
I will revisit this idea in about 4-5 weeks
57 votes were taken.
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full image.
http://imageshack.com/a/img661/1091/J9oSGu.pngmore shots on last page.
Second set of edits: Thanks to Biffa we have an offsite google poll/survey
it allows 1 vote see second screen shot if you vote 2 times.--- yeah I am sure some know how to get around this. I would like to think it may be somewhat of a deterrent since we are looking for honesty here.
Screenshot of the survey
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double vote gets you this.
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I am doing this free of charge zip no fees paid to me.
Since this thread was started by me on behalf of spondoolies-tech on the promise of a fee. A lot of drama came of it. Thus my decision to not take a fee. SP-tech agreed to donate the fee to a charity of my choice. I will pick some charity that will take btc and ask sp-tech to put in the btc. I will show the btc addy with the donation to it.
My original fee was to be equipment worth about 2btc.
Staff/Mods if you will check my pm's you will see my requested fee was 1 sp20 and 2 sp20 fans so I could demo fan mods on a thread here. I wanted to be able to offer a quieter fan solution like the one I did for s-5's. On this thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=927941.0;allThat gear was about 2 btc in value.
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The info below is out of date
Lots of edits.
This thread got a lot of heated interest and it shows a need for a more nimble go to guide to current gear+builders .
My poll was partially compromised due to me not making the choice results blind until the poll ends so I am no longer taking any compensation for this thread or the 7 polls. .
A lot of us have purchased from different builders of asic gear since BTC has started.
Some builders of gear have been brutal really bad. Some pretty good.
I have been asked by a current builder of gear to develop a poll/listing/rating of Manufacturers.
I won't reveal the builder of gear that asked me to do this.
I will say I will be compensated by that builder. no longer true I will not take fees to do this.They want to ask these questions:
- Which, to your experience is the most trusted manufacturer?
- Which manufacturer has the best firmware ?
- Which manufacturer has the best support ?
- Which manufacturer cares the most about its customers ?
- Which is the overall most professional manufacturer ?
They want you to pick from:
1) AsicMiner
2) BitFury
3) BitmainTech
4) KNC
5) Spondoolies-Tech
I listed them in Alphabetical order.
So to do this correctly I will run 5 separate polls. Each one for 10 days.
poll one first question link is :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938258.new#newpoll two second question link is :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938259.new#newpoll three third question link is :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938260.new#newpoll four fourth question link is :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938262.new#newpoll five fifth question link is :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938263.new#newAfter the 10 days I will post all five polls here. EDIT:
I will also tell the ex-sponser's nameThis is an unfiltered thread. I am really trying to do a transparent clean set of poll questions and answers.
Thank you.
I added 2 questions one was mine it is here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938696.0 note this is a blind poll note the choices are a bit different
the other is jimmothy's
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938755.0 note this is a blind poll note the choices are a bit different.