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Yep, that is a mess, and a lot of chance for money to go "missing".

Ken will not tell us about the eASIC cash, what happened to that? Even if it gets refunded today that works out to 0.0002 per share in one hit.



This is the worst of it all, because shareholders paid for that eASIC deal.  eASIC NRE was the whole point of the IPO
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I thought it was 10 000 BTC.
10000000*0.0025 = 25 000 though, I hope I made a mistake...  see https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/activemining-the-official-active-mining-discussion-thread-252531
It was messy, with ken putting a buyback wall at the time. see https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-coming-flash-crash-in-amc-245713
I wonder how much was really bought, i.e. if you exclude Ukyo buying with his fractional reserve or kslaugther's buybacks.

Because a lot of people seem to think we have only 200 bitcoin left.
Which again was never proven, I wonder why any legitimate shareholder would claim that - it would be extremely bad for the company, but helps kslaughter get away with the losses.
No large expense was ever proven (the Avalon order was refunded, right?); not for eASIC, nor for the other ASIC IP. The only one I can think of is buying miners from HashFast, and it certainly shouldn't be worth 10 000 BTC.

I have stated that we only have around 200~400 BTC left in wallet's that Ken has shown us. Who knows how much money we actually have, but I believe Ken never raised 25K BTC as shares started being sold at .0005, not .0025, that means at minimum we started with 5K btc, what Ken did with this 5,000~25,000BTC, who knows.

I don't know how Ken could have lost this much money, (even a month or so ago we were at 1.5K BTC left in wallets he's personally showed us IIRC)
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I thought it was 10 000 BTC.
10000000*0.0025 = 25 000 though, I hope I made a mistake...  see https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/activemining-the-official-active-mining-discussion-thread-252531
It was messy, with ken putting a buyback wall at the time. see https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-coming-flash-crash-in-amc-245713
I wonder how much was really bought, i.e. if you exclude Ukyo buying with his fractional reserve or kslaugther's buybacks.

Because a lot of people seem to think we have only 200 bitcoin left.
Which again was never proven, I wonder why any legitimate shareholder would claim that - it would be extremely bad for the company, but helps kslaughter get away with the losses.
No large expense was ever proven (the Avalon order was refunded, right?); not for eASIC, nor for the other ASIC IP. The only one I can think of is buying miners from HashFast, and it certainly shouldn't be worth 10 000 BTC.

Yep, that is a mess, and a lot of chance for money to go "missing".

Ken will not tell us about the eASIC cash, what happened to that? Even if it gets refunded today that works out to 0.0002 per share in one hit.

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Right after we made the the deal with eASIC, hashfast and cointerra came out with their 400 and 500 GH/s chips, after having eASIC run our RTL on their platform and for the minimum number of chips we had to purchase, we did not have enough pre-orders to cover the purchase due to hashfast and cointerra selling 17 Million in machines.
While the excuse makes zero sense, this is an admission that the deal with eASIC didn't go far. Thus, kslaughter should still have most of your coins.

Hey does anyone know exactly how many bitcoins were raised?

Because a lot of people seem to think we have only 200 bitcoin left.
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forget it magzy you are not even aware of what you are doing.
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I'm talking about your duplicitousness, not about definitions of scam and what qualifies as one.

Well there are 2 dimensions to the application of the scam label.

1) me, as in my experience and the facts known to me. e.g. it's a scam because of x,y,z, known to me at a.b.c points in time. The only thing that can reverse my perception is my money refunded (still not here by the way)


2) other people, who have had dealings with VMC and have called them a scam, a trick, a fraud or whatever. This is their perception,  I'm just posting their story centrally on my thread for all to see.

there's a thread called  [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Manufacturer Trustworthiness Guide  (Read 9401 times) https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guide-dogies-comprehensive-manufacturer-trustworthiness-guide-1st-feb-2016-456691

Changelog 03/10/2014
Company changes:
  • Bitmine demoted to C. Continuing delays and lack of communication both globally and with individual orders. Hire some PR and CS. Also preferring (openly) commercial partners in production. Review March 22.
  • AMT demoted to D+. Very delayed, no communication.
  • VMC demoted to F. The evidence suggests it is simply a scam. Avoid this company.
  • Bitmain promoted to A+. Continued market leading success.
  • Blackarrow not changed but promotion not activated. Although they have sorted all refunds, delivery is still a while away.
  • Avalon not changed but promotion not activated. Promotion to A if trade in order problems are dealt with.
  • Cointerra promoted to B+. Newer firmware is more stable and compensation is ongoing.
  • Lightning ASIC promoted to C+ due to good success. Promotion to B if no problems before March 22 [building reputation].
  • Drillbit review delayed, awaiting new products.
  • Redhash review delayed, awaiting new products.
  • Technobit not changed but promotion not activated. Too many units are failing in the wild, but are being dealt with.

Note that this scam accusation has not been withdrawn.








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minerpart, anyone that asks you to invest bitcoin in his business is a scam

do not send your money to anyone, that is the only way to stay ahead
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I'm talking about your duplicitousness, not about definitions of scam and what qualifies as one.
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I can't cope with any more of your 10 paragraph posts magzy.

The point you are missing is that you are saying something (scam) until you get your money then you will be saying something completely different (not scam). So you are lieing right now. Either the whole company is a scam or it isn't. You getting your 2k back doesn't turn a scam company into a legitimate company. If they are a scam now they will be a scam when your cheque clears.

Basically you are blackmailing the company. 'I will call you a scam until I get my money. Stuff everyone else who is being scammed, if I get my money I will go quiet.' You are a hypocrite and a liar. But you can't see that and that's fine.

if only everything in this world was as black and white as we would like it to be..

IF I get my money I will go quiet about my experience. I will retract all previously made scam accusations.

But if the others who have contacted me, (having seemingly taken on a leadership role to resolve their problems), still have not received a refund or a product or a DOA product then I will continue to post these facts centrally on my thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/vmc-unofficial-virtual-mining-corporation-discussion-491609 for all to see.

If VMC manages all expectations and stops promoting itself as being a scam by its own actions then the page should be void of all issues.



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I can't cope with any more of your 10 paragraph posts magzy.

The point you are missing is that you are saying something (scam) until you get your money then you will be saying something completely different (not scam). So you are lieing right now. Either the whole company is a scam or it isn't. You getting your 2k back doesn't turn a scam company into a legitimate company. If they are a scam now they will be a scam when your cheque clears.

Basically you are blackmailing the company. 'I will call you a scam until I get my money. Stuff everyone else who is being scammed, if I get my money I will go quiet.' You are a hypocrite and a liar. But you can't see that and that's fine.
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But surely actm is either a scam or it isn't.


My opinion is that while others and myself have been defrauded of money then this would point towards fraudulent behavior.

To get the officiated answer to this ask the Certified Fraud Investigators who are investigating  Actm, VMC and Ken Himself for, ummm, fraud.

Scott Johnson, CFE
Investigator
Office of the Missouri Secretary of State
Securities Division
600 W. Main Street, Room 229
Jefferson City Missouri 65101
(573) 751-4704
(573) 526-3124 (fax)
[email protected]
and
[email protected] who is also working on this investigation.


You are saying you will STOP calling them a scam when you get your money.

I already have stopped calling them a scam after refund check arrived. I have shown good faith by being open about this and apologised to ken for something that was out of our control.  But not the terrible terrible communication not just towards me but towards everyone who has had the displeasure to have to deal with him.



That is rediculous. So you are admitting you are only calling them a scam to get your money back, you are lieing about this.

I have been calling them a scam because all the evidence was pointing to it being a scam. for others though (see my thread) they are of the opinion that they are all being scammed. I am only the messenger reporting on VMC's truthful status of products and refunds. These are facts not lies.



you are lieing about this.


I am not lying about anything - I'm  freely admitting calling them a scam because all the evidence was pointing to it being a scam.

To get the official verdict on this please speak to the Office of the Missouri Secretary of State (address above)



So it takes a liar to know a liar is all I'm saying. You are speading lies to benifit yourself. Does that make you any different to how you view Ken as behaving?

your argument fell apart 2 paragraphs ago
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I've got no idea if you are lieing or not. But yes the guy clearly couldn't run a bus nevermind a company.

But surely actm is either a scam or it isn't. You are saying you will STOP calling them a scam when you get your money. That is rediculous. So you are admitting you are only calling them a scam to get your money back, you are lieing about this.

So it takes a liar to know a liar is all I'm saying. You are speading lies to benifit yourself. Does that make you any different to how you view Ken as behaving?
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^ Sure, but you are still spreading shit about the company (or it's shareholders)? I sense you are still angry, despite the reasons for your refund delay apparently being:

1) Your own same-day cancellation
2) Your complaint to the AG Office
3) Your postman

I just think it's a bit odd that you are still out to damage actm when you found out they didn't really do anything wrong in your case. Or do you think they did? I don't know the full details.


Well they did, I could go on about how they completely ignored any and all requests to communicate.
Or didn't even tell me they posted a refund check.
Or when they said that they where having problems with refunds - when they had in fact already posted it.
Or about the time when I got a PM from Ken saying that I can have his new prospector card - while the refund check was in transit.
Or about when this was cancelled this because he was faffing around with the order. and then said he will post it ASAP.
Then he went on a diatribe about the reasons for the the refund delay:

not sure what you did wrong but I got my refund in less than 2 weeks time from first contact.

What he did wrong was ask for a refund before his wire transfer had cleared the bank.  This caused his refund request to be rejected as the order had not been paid.  Then, when his wire transfer cleared the bank it was not marked as accepted on his account, most likely due to his refund request above.  [REFUND WAS ACTUALLY POSTED AT THIS POINT] Now, it took another month for his payment to be accepted on his account.  Now, his refund request most likely was in limbo due to it being reject above.  Now, when that was cleared up his refund request was on the bottom of the stack.  Now, that is where it is now as we are waiting to start refunds again within the next week or so.  That being said, since he complained the the Missouri Attorney General office, we had to pull his refund from the stack and respond to the Attorney Generals office.  Therefore his refund is the very bottom of the stack.  


I could also go on about all the stringing along with refund promises:
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January 30, 2014, 02:25:51 AM
We have a back log in refunds and are processing those as fast as we can.  If you have requested a refund from customer support then it is being worked on.

February 05, 2014, 01:11:34 AM »
That should have been processed, please contact customer service and tell them it has been 7 weeks.

February 05, 2014, 11:04:02 PM »
We had a little problem in December with BTC processing, so all Bitcoin refunds have to be checked, so that may be the hold up.  I will look into why you refund has not be sent.

[REFUND WAS ACTUALLY POSTED HERE]

February 27, 2014, 07:13:29 PM »
Virtual Mining is currently processing and confirming pre-order refund requests.

March 10, 2014, 12:10:40 AM »
Refund to you ASAP.

March 11, 2014, 01:28:16 AM »
I have just hired a new customer service rep.

March 17, 2014, 03:57:11 PM »
Refunds will be processed in 2-4 weeks.

April 01, 2014, 07:29:34 PM »
Me:Ken, Given that refunds will never be processed, I'll take this deal to accept product from you instead of a refund.
Ken: I don't think so, we will just send you a refund.

April 07, 2014, 02:26:10 PM »
We will be issuing you a check soon.

April 22, 2014, 05:49:22 PM »
We are sending out your check today.

April 22, 2014, 06:05:53 PM »
@Magzy We are starting today to issue refunds including your check today.

Edit:  @Magzy  In getting your check ready, we found in our records that we have already issued our check number 123 on 2/17/14 to you.  That check has not cleared our bank, so we are put a stop payment on that check and re-issuing another check to you.

Sent to: kslaughter on: April 23, 2014, 12:07:29 AM
No more false promises please.
This needs to be sent with a tracking number and a signature - I am happy to pay for this additional cost. Deduct it from the $769
OR the BTC address above I will then go through my post history and clean up any posts accusing VMC of scams et-al

April 23, 2014, 12:09:40 AM »
It has already been mailed today.

Sent to: kslaughter on: April 23, 2014, 12:12:52 AM »
So Given that I am at the bottom of the list as per your post 2 weeks ago, all refunds have been given now?

April 23, 2014,  at 01:22:21 AM »
No, I moved you to the [top] so that you would STFU.




Or I could go on about some of the other people awaiting refunds and being given the same spiel:

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Refunds
@metalchain - Still waiting - I sent PM to Ken many times. He always reply to me "We will ~~, ASAP~~~, Quickly~~~, next week~~~"

@cryptoconomist- still waiting  - "Two weeks ago on a Friday I spoke to him again and he  literally promised me he was going to ship my order on the following Monday, but haven't heard from him. Since then, when I log into my account, my initial order has now been moved to "refund" status and my new order to "cancelled" which contradicts what Ken and I discussed.  I wrote so many emails to him and to the Active Mining threads but my posts keep getting deleted"

@meccaflare0 - still waiting "ken owes me like $x"

@greek_hephaestus - unknown  -"Thank you very much Magzy for your suggestion . I will do it in a few days. [contact the AG] First I send one more message to VMC. Thank's again."

@coindesk - http://www.coindesk.com/mining-hardware-companies-miners-roundup/

If ever there was a lesson in how not to run a business, this would be in the text book somewhere.

still spreading shit about the company - You're goddam right! (although this is just status of customer orders and refunds on my thread - which I'm updating on a daily basis because all of my posts are being deleted in the official threads. ) https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/vmc-unofficial-virtual-mining-corporation-discussion-491609


I sense you are still angry - You're goddam right!

When I get my money in my hand i will retrace all scam accusations and I will cease to be angry.

edit: please correct me if I am posting lies - I will happily admit I am wrong if so and stand corrected


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^ Sure, but you are still spreading shit about the company/its shareholders? I sense you are still angry, despite the reasons for your refund delay apparently being:

1) Your own same-day cancellation
2) Your complaint to the AG Office
3) Your postman

I just think it's a bit odd that you are still out to damage actm when you found out they didn't really do anything wrong in your case. Or do you think they did? I don't know the full details.
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^@minerpart, still waiting for replacement refund check. posted 11 days ago.

Once it arrives and cashed in el-bank I'm gone from this cluster fluck
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^ magzy I thought you were over this company now that you found out your refund check was indeed sent out in February but had been delayed in the post?
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^ they are promoting active mining by removing any bad statements about it.

In the US this is known as "promoting an unregulated security" but only if you reside in the us.

Punishable by a $1m fine or 10 treats in prison
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^The moderators are protecting you from The Forces Of Evol.  If not for their concerted efforts, no one but them would be holding teh bag of dicks known as Active Mining.
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Weekly Update 4/30/2014

AMC:

Datacenter:

We are continuing to add TH; however, at this point our 2 units of air conditioning are maxed out.  We have been repairing the third unit and it should be up and running next week when parts arrive.  After the third unit starts running we will be adding more THs to the datacenter.

VMC:

We are improving our logistic and our shipping is starting to run a lot smother.  We have just added our Gold Rush boards to our website and at less than $2 GH these are starting to sale.

MSD:

No new news this week.

Shares:

No new news this week.

Nice update, packed full of useful information!  Every lingering question answered fully, no dodging here!  What an amazingly great "CEO"

EDIT:  And of course the censor Nazi's are out in full affect.  I quoted no troll and asked a legitimate question.  Typical fanboi losers trying to protect their bumbling buffoon master Ken Slaughter.  It kills me these sheep allow him to continue like this, do not challenge anything he does and censor legitimate questions from shareholders.  Soon ACTm Thread will have to censor their own posts. 


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This x100

Ken you need to stop over-promising and under-delivering. It's bad for confidence, it's literally the difference between constantly disappointing and pleasantly surprising.



Can we name anything that was under-promised and over delivered?  I am trying to think of an example, does anyone have any "over delivered" instances we can refer to in this project?
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