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This is the guy who got a full refund. Oh OK thanks for bringing that guy up again.

Fresh topic started today in Scam Accusations.
Just because you're up on all of Ken's scammings doesn't mean that some n00b with coin to spare won't want to see this.

&lol @ your "one disgruntled customer" edit.  One customer disgruntled enough to report Ken to the Attorney General Cheesy
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This is the guy who got a full refund. Oh OK thanks for bringing that guy up again.
It's interesting that he could never get through to VMC on the phone for 'a month' but everyone else under the sun gets through no problem. mmmm

4Mill in orders and one disgruntled customer, that's good going by any standards!

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So many pigeons...
AKA Another Happy Customer

Hello bitcoin miners!

I talked on this website about VMC and asked had anyone received a miner from VMC yet?
All said no, and also the fact that Kenneth Slaughter had not given his trusting prepaying customers updates
as to WHY we did not get the miners on time. I phoned and emailed until blue in the face, and then went to the forum
to see who else was not getting answerers! Kenneth who before getting my money would reply to emails and answer the phone.
Once he got the money I could not get him to reply to email or phone even after a month of trying.

BECAUSE I CONTACTED THE !!

Office of the Attorney General
Senior Advocate
Consumer Protection Division
P.O. Box 899|Jefferson City, MO  65102
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: (573)-751-8810 |Fax: (573) 751-7948

He then got the message loud and clear and got MAD and canceled my order with VMC!
I did not want that to happen but for him to reply to email and answer the phone !
I could not get him to talk to me so I went to  Attorney General, and that is why he canceled my order!!!
Kenneth that is no way to run a company, with people money that put blind faith in YOU....
Kenneth you should have told the people that the miners would be late and why!
You cant just have your family run the company!
MY experience in dealing with VMC would tell anyone JUST stay away from VMC they are not operating with the customers best interest at heart!!!
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You can't play chess with a pigeon, as they will just knock over all the pieces, shit on the board and finally strut around like they won!

lol  Cheesy

I think you might be right Zumzero+funky, he'll go along with 'I'm an investor' (where did he come from??) and then when we get good news he'll shit all over it just as shares are going live!

This pigeon wants cheap shares. Cheap cheap cheep. Maybe he's really a budgie.
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You can't play chess with a pigeon, as they will just knock over all the pieces, shit on the board and finally strut around like they won!
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myBitcoin.Garden
Ignore this f****r breadcrumbs.  He's an obvious troll and is taking people for a ride.  He's trying too hard and thinks he's got everyone.  Sure, why not call yourself crumbs and prove that you can still fool people into believing you are not one of the ActM regulars?  Does it make you feel good and prove that you are betterer than everyone else?  Don't answer.

*re-ignored*
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fancy words

They are just normal words, used pretty much in the correct context, but if that's your criticism so be it. If you don't like the realities of investing in business start-ups don't invest.
newbie
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forward-looking profit analysis

Forward-looking
Yup! Know that that means. Seems to mean imagining something, like in the future. Sort of like speculation, or guessing.

Profit Analysis
Hmmmmm...... that's a hard one. Maybe that means, more guessing about something with a limited amount of data.
Like, drawing an elaborate curve from a very limited number of data points.


So by using some fancy words, you try to legitimize counting chickens before they hatch, when you have no fertile eggs either.


It is only 3:00 PM or so here in Washington, D.C. and the CEO's weekly report has not yet been published so we still have some time to wait to get that good news.

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Too many of the posts in this thread are really nothing more than counting chickens before they are hatched.

Sure, it's called forward-looking profit analysis - or something like that. All start-ups with public offerings need to be examined along the same lines. You have not invested in an established company or project here. That's why there was an IPO. If you look at Friedcats's new project with anything other than 'chicken/hatch' eyes you'd be wrong because every new chip project is a new egg in this cutting-edge tech market.

A few facts go a long way - we have the funds to produce the chips we intend producing and we have two chips on the way with production assigned to two different global entities. The chances of success are very high. There is no known stumbling block in our way with the 55nm chip (already taped) and the 28nm is under the same design-team who have already produced a taped out ASIC.

The other fact is that we have had a delay with our 28nm ASIC. That's not unique in this industry. We have reacted tio that delay by upgrading this 28nm to full custom design creating a far more efficient ASIC. So to counter your saying I'll offer - one step back, two steps forward.



Do we have chips on the way or are we going to be told 3 months from now that the RTL/PCB design/etc was botched again?  I won't believe there's actually a product on the way until there's at least one shred of proof other than press releases at this point.
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The other fact is that we have had a delay with our 28nm ASIC. That's not unique in this industry. We have reacted tio that delay by upgrading this 28nm to full custom design creating a far more efficient ASIC. So to counter your saying I'll offer - one step back, two steps forward.

If by "delay" you mean "complete failure" and by "upgrade" you mean "downgrade," you're right on the money Smiley

You are now PROMISED a 55nm chip in the spring, instead of HAVING completed 28nm miners now.  If you feel that's an "upgrade," the rest of your thrashings on this forum begin to make sense.
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Too many of the posts in this thread are really nothing more than counting chickens before they are hatched.

Sure, it's called forward-looking profit analysis - or something like that. All start-ups with public offerings need to be examined along the same lines. You have not invested in an established company or project here. That's why there was an IPO. If you look at Friedcats's new project with anything other than 'chicken/hatch' eyes you'd be wrong because every new chip project is a new egg in this cutting-edge tech market.

A few facts go a long way - we have the funds to produce the chips we intend producing and we have two chips on the way with production assigned to two different global entities. The chances of success are very high. There is no known stumbling block in our way with the 55nm chip (already taped) and the 28nm is under the same design-team who have already produced a taped out ASIC.

The other fact is that we have had a delay with our 28nm ASIC. That's not unique in this industry. We have reacted to that delay by upgrading this 28nm to a full custom design creating a far more efficient ASIC. So to counter your saying I'll offer - one step back, two steps forward.

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Wasubii,

You have hit the nail on the head.  Too many of the posts in this thread are really nothing more than counting chickens before they are hatched.

What is worse, is there are no eggs yet, even.

We have chicken coops built, two experts on domesticated fowl husbandry, but no eggs and no chickens.

And yet, those who speculate with pretty numbers think themselves not the FUDster and not the trolls.


Only Ken knows the truth and he is holding on to it tightly.


Please.  Let's keep one foot in reality.  The guy can't open his eyes for a publicity shot, can't write above grade-school level, and you think he'll hit the theoretical process efficiency?
ROFL.

Reality is Ken has taken on 2 in-house engineers who have already proven their metal with a taped out 55nm with excellent specs. So get back into your chair.


yada yada yada...

something about counting your chickens before they have hatched...
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you have just said that friedcat's announcement is far less substantial then Ken's release.

For the product we are talking about - and we are talking about this 40nm chip not anything that FC has done before - this is indeed a far less substantial news release than one from Ken which mentions a chip that has been taped out. That is a fact. FC's chip is all on paper as far as we know. He does not mention any post-production stage. You are assuming a lot.

His company's ability to make and deliver a product for a premium price is unmatched.

You cannot - especially in this industry - measure someone's potential by what they have achieved in the past. This is a completely new project - new projects present new problems. As kleeck said, AM has had it's own setbacks along the way and a lot of people lost a lot of money in their slow a steady decline on BTC-TC. This 40nm chip is in it's very early stages, you might think FC is a better bet than ACtM but OK it's still a gamble. I like the odds right now on ACtM. You don't, and that's fine.

Edit - if FC has all the funds he needs I just wonder why he is looking for partners and customers months before the chip is ready? Why wouldn't he just get the chip fabbed and start selling when he has them? I think he knows how problematic this process can be and he knows there is a big risk of delays and wants to share that risk so that any losses are not just his own. This business is hard.



so by your standards for every new project everyone is on equal ground at any given point in time.  regardless of past successes or failures.  sounds like good solid thinking.

in my opinion friedcat doesnt care about the share price (his last time to care about the share price was probably the IPO).  he cares about delivering a good product and a lot of it.  yes he has missed his own dates and scrapped his own projects, but at the same time he was (and still is) delivering a product.  he projects to have the chips available for shipment March 2014 (BEFORE ActM's 55nm).  he has distribution channels.  he has established business relationships and STAFF.  you ask why he is looking for partners and customers months before the chip is ready.  for one, he isnt looking for customers cause they have been waiting for him for a while.  since you cant seem to see why this is worth it let me break it down.  he needs to know the approx demand so he can 1. adequately assess chip production needs 2. adequately assess chip pricing points 3. find out who his best channels for distribution will be in any/all regions so they dont have to waste time/deal with small orders.  These are just off the top of my head so I'm sure there are more.

WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT WHAT FRIEDCAT DID OR DIDNT DO OR CAN OR CANT DO?  WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT KEN CAN OR CANT DO.

call me a FUDster or naysayer all you want.  All I care about is a realistic approach to this company.  not some unsubstantiated numbers based on the hope that BTC will rise to $5000 and that there will be $40,000,000 of sales of a 55nm chip that is projected to be ready 2nd qtr 2014 and/or a 28nm chip in 3rd? qtr 2014.  we "need" Ken to post something along the lines of what friedcat posted.  we "need" Ken to find partners that will purchase his raw chips in bulk and handle everything else.  i think all the rational people that would post here dont because they have seen what the loud extreme sides post and see there is no hope trying to talk about anything of real substance that wouldnt be savaged by one or both extremes.


EDIT - added friedcat's projected delivery timeframe of the 40nm chip since Minerpart says ActM's chip is further ahead because tape-out is complete.
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Please.  Let's keep one foot in reality.  The guy can't open his eyes for a publicity shot, can't write above grade-school level, and you think he'll hit the theoretical process efficiency?
ROFL.

Reality is Ken has taken on 2 in-house engineers who have already proven their metal with a taped out 55nm with excellent specs. So get back into your chair.


yada yada yada...

something about counting your chickens before they have hatched...
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Edit - if FC has all the funds he needs I just wonder why he is looking for partners and customers months before the chip is ready? Why wouldn't he just get the chip fabbed and start selling when he has them? I think he knows how problematic this process can be and he knows there is a big risk of delays and wants to share that risk so that any losses are not just his own. This business is hard.

As difficult as it is to design and produce a chip, it is a logistic nightmare to manage the sales of millions of them. And yes, all indications are that this production line will run into many millions of chips produced. These chips will be distributed... everywhere.

It would be foolish for anyone to just discount the capability of AM. They have a long history of underpromising and overdelivering. The failure of Gen2 was the exception, and a very valuable learning experience, one that would have bankrupted anyone else. It appears likely that they will emerge even stronger for the experience.

That does not mean there is not a place for competitors. But they are best served by taking their blinders off and recognizing AM for what they really are, not for what they wish they would be.

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myBitcoin.Garden
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Normally, we would not respond to a detractor. Haters just gotta hate, you know?

But, this is why my three questions are the most important post on here today, and will remain so until the CEO of Active Mining gives his weekly PR statement:

A) All the posts of theoretical size and speed and power and cost of ASIC chips that do not exist are really pointless speculation.

B) Once the CEO of Active Mining answers Questions #2 and #3, then all of your silly speculation will be truly pointless, because we will have an answer to something which has been the cause of silly speculation like yours.

1) What will be reveal today in the weekly PR posting?

2) Will the CEO of Active Mining say that trading will begin?

3) Will the CEO of Active Mining say that there are new delays for trading to begin?

Most pointless post I've seen in ages.
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This is just getting ridiculous.  Next thing we know, people will be calling kleeck a sock puppet.  Just get over the fact that there are genuine investors here who believe in the company...

Accepting that would shatter my faith in humankind.  I refuse to believe that anything called "Homo Sapien Sapien" could be that stupid.

As far as socks go, here:

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Kindly address myself as me and not 'you guys' and do not confuse me with anyone else on this thread...

ORLY? Cheesy Cheesy

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Any chance the reCAPTCHA can be made accessible for humans? What a joke!

#ActiveMining

Don't do what I did though. My God, the reCAPTCHA is unbelievably hard if you are a human!  Good luck buddie.

*The word you were looking for is "captcha," "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" Smiley
Fail!

Of course, you're also a bunch of other accounts, but I'll start with the obvious.

BTW, do you prefer fannybaws, zumzero or???
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myBitcoin.Garden
This is just getting ridiculous.  Next thing we know, people will be calling kleeck a sock puppet.  Just get over the fact that there are genuine investors here who believe in the company and are happy to challenge the fudsters and naysayers.  How many times do you need to be told that minerpart is resident in the United Kingdom?  Personally I welcome his contributions.  He uses logic and facts to support his arguments and goes to a great deal more effort than some of the more judgemental members of this forum.  Some of you need to ask yourself what you are actually contributing if your posts only comprise of disparaging remarks.

I totally agree that we should not be quoting the trolls especially if we, ourselves, have instructed people to do the same in the past.  So miner, try and bite your tongue there please.

In other news, who's as excited as me about today's update?  It might not be today but it is only a matter of time until we hear some amazing stuff, and with every weekly update we get, we edge that bitcoin closer to
D-Day!  Grin

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If we're being honest, FC did a great job giving up the strongest position in ASIC mining BY FAR. I was moderately invested in AM, and made out well by noticing FC's major oversights before the market, en mass, did. There is no excuse for him being so far behind the market. But I digress.

FC's communication has been bad. He has long stints of saying nothing and good luck getting a PM back from him.

As for his business model. Well, that is exactly why the share value of AM dropped through the dirt. His model is erratic. He went from building miners to focusing on a really cool, but probably not very lucrative cooling solution. He had a massive lead on any competition and ended up throwing it all away. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see FC enter the market again. He was a pioneer in this industry, so I'll give him props for that, but his business model went from "ZOMGAMAZINGCOMPANY" to "WTF IS HE THINKING!?!" and now back to "Maybe he can pull this off..."


i will not argue friedcat seemingly made a lot of mistakes and that the company could/should be much further along than it is (but where would that leave the global hash rate at this time then - 20, 30, 40, 50PH?).  when I said Ken could do a lot worse than emulating friedcat i meant it.  and by worse, he really is doing/has been doing exactly that.  how some of these investors can act like Ken is the shit is mind boggling.  minerpart downplayed friedcat's ability to deliver his published specs and upplayed (i know it's not a word but it works) Ken's ability to deliver his published specs.  this is one of the reasons I would much rather read crumbs/ve/mainline/etc than those that seem to be able to bend space/time with just stating it is so.
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