Well, some will be glad to hear that I'm not being extradited/waterboarded/dragged to the High Court for asking a few questions about Gainbitcoin and Mr. Bhardwaj/Kumar. (Somebody be kind enough to explain the multiple surname scenario sometime? I'd be obliged).
So, I just thought I'd have a look to see how Gainbitcoin is going along since the halving.
It's difficult to assess the overall effect of the halving on miners, as it's difficult to work out their base costs and profitability, but according to
https://blockchain.info/charts both total hashrate and difficulty have not substantially changed, whereas income has halved. Unsurprising really, guess that's sort of why it's called halving.
Tough times for marginal miners without the latest low power consuming hardware.
Gain's Mining FAQ's are still rather confusing for potential clients that may want to mine Bitcoin, as they only refer to Radeon video cards used for scrypt mining, with no similar information regarding their ASIC hardware.
The main change however, is this
CONTRACT COSTS PRE HALVING
CONTRACT COSTS POST HALVINGWow, the name change to "Amaze" is totally appropriate!
A
massive decrease in hashrate charges, for 1
BTC you now get 1500 G/hs, against only 400 pre halving!
Sounds like a bargain, comparatively certainly for any new investors, but if I had a pre halving 18 month contract I'd be a little bit miffed at how drastically I had overpaid. Caveat Emptor, I guess.
As I showed with the previous coinwarz calculations, Gain's pre halving mathematics were a bit, errr, difficult to understand. Maybe it was just me being stupid, so let's use coinwarz again slightly differently, just putting in 1.5 T/hs with no running costs, and see what happens
Coinwarz shows that 10 months of mining at current difficulty and price with 1.5 T/hs of hash equals $336.10 gross.
But Gain say that should be $600, as 10 x 10% = 100% ROI of $600...
Full ROI in 535 days/300 days?
I guess coinwarz must be wrong. I never was much good at maths. There can't be any other explanation....can there?
Just looking back thru the thread, fruitlessly scanning for slander, libel, lies etc. I notice that the mug shot of Mr. Bhardwaj/Kumar is now showing as an "invalid image".
That's because the website from which it was taken, bitcoinalliance.in no longer exists.
It redirects to a brand spanking new exchange site called buyucoin.com.
As
the Merkle points out, a brand new exchange on a brand new website should be treated with caution, especially when
...the website uses an online HTML form to complete the verification procedure. There is only one page to create an account, and some interesting details are being asked. Not the most secure environment to host such a form, and it may turn away some users in the long run.
Anyway, all good that there's new people coming in and providing Bitcoin services, so Good Luck to Shivam Thakral of Hapur.
Shivam's obviously enthusiastic, as his 34 Bitcoin related posts (with 1,100 views in only one month!) on
Quora bear witness to.
Funnily enough, one of the questions he answered was about Mr. Bhardwaj/Kumar and Gainbitcoin. Small world.
100% legit.