Topic: AMT users thread. - page 15. (Read 60119 times)

My Story:

In Feb 14th I paid $11,198 for 2x 1.2 miners. I was assured various times that it had a 3 week turn around. Meanwhile AMT was experiencing various technical issues (which were later validated with the IMET situation), but was lying to me and everyone about the orders being shipped out. I had pestered them to the point that I got what I was assured was a working miner from Joshua Zipkin. I met him in person in Haverford area at the Americana Pub, instead of his office as originally agreed and 6 hours late I was there at 4 as agreed he met me at 10PM to pick up said miner. I powered the miner up and within minutes miner 1 is pretty much dead. All 5 cards burned out. So obviously no testing was done there. I had to also provide my own PSU which was not what I agreed to. The second miner worked and over the next couple of weeks the cards systematically died to the point where there was one working card that also gave out a couple weeks later. I had two giant scraps of metal.

I tried figuring out a way to work this situation to work with AMT to see if there were technical issues that could be resolved on the software side. I and a couple of other people worked towards this end and also to make it so that Joshua Zipkin could honor the Miner Protection Program compensation they have prominently advertised that hooked most of us into buying from them (it has since been eradicated from their site but 3rd party web archives clearly state its content and it can be referenced). After much discussions in a group chat, Josh kept making excuses as to why the MPP was not going to happen. Eventually saying "fuck the MPP" It was around this point that I decided he had NO intention of making any of this right with us. His constant disparaging of customers and threats and unethical behavior (including trying to get me to hack BCT), led me to believe that he has no interest in making things right. I was not the only one of this mindset. I gathered information and quietly waited for the chance to give this info over.

Joshua Zipkin spent around 3 months in China getting working miners made (Dragon miners a he referred to them) made as cheap as possible to ship to us. As there was no value compensation, this was a problem. He was attempting to rewrite history and pretend there was no MPP a fact I strongly disagreed with. When the orders started going out in late august (even though he claimed they went out in July which was utterly false), I was not one of the names on the list to receive a miner as he was unable to produce a DHL tracking order for me. Because I vocally protested, he rerouted someone else's refused order (for which I have shown the proof of in my review thread for this hardware), to me which was geographically close.

At the same time someone had also leaked the group chats that I was apart of. At which point Joshua Zipkin chose to deny they happened. I decided to validate them (and they have been backed up by others as well who were participants). Joshua Zipkin in retaliation for standing against him posted my personal information, name and address as well as job history with the false statement that I did "High level" work for the government effectively painting a target on mine and my families backs. I have since reported this information to the FBI as well as the fraud.  

The 2 miners I received as I have seen do not work as advertised hashing at under 800-900Ghs despite the web interface constantly showing 1.27Ths, and are poorly supported by the company. In fact they got so fed up with their customers they actually announced that I should be supporting their hardware. I do it for my fellow customers the best I can with no compensation at any time from AMT or Joshua Zipkin (which I should and can be suing them for as it is as it is their legal obligation to support their product not mine).

Again please tell your story and post it here so it is seen by the press and civil/law enforcement. They are watching these threads in order to take action.

My background includes IT Forensics, IT Security (with various compliance standards like HIPPA, SOX, PCI, etc) in the banking industry as well as IT Systems Architect most in the role of a consultant. I have extensive knowledge of the ASIC hardware and the encryption. I hold 1 computer degree and various certifications as well. My wife who is my business partner here, is a veteran who in this situation would also have been the victim as we were both victimized in this predatory scam of Joshua Zipkins.

In my FTC report I let them know I am a US Veteran. After the leaving the military, I worked for the Department of Defense as a computer contractor for the US Navy as well.  

Also, I am a licensed commodities broker and they should have asked for permission with my compliance officer (lawyer) before using my name on the public forums without permission. I have 2 degrees in Computer related fields and many certifications A+, Microsoft Engineer and Cisco Engineer, and have also worked as a computer engineer and electronics engineer for many years.  I am now a Director of Technology, but I still do hands on work as well. I am willing to testify as an expert in financial matters of bitcoin if needed.

I sent AMT miners $6,000 by Bank wire on Nov of 2013. When the promised delivery date came and went, (Feb 2014) there was no miner. I tried calling and emailing, they did not respond. So I began contacting and filing with anyone who would listen, the FTC, IC3.org etc. This made AMT FURIOUS at me, so they send me a machine that was literally wrapped in cardboard with hardly any packing on the front and back of the machine. The machine came, but it was in pieces, glass everywhere, smashed etc. It looked like they took it in a field and hit it with crowbars. Anyway, I chased them for a long time to return the broken machine, but they were playing games, even turning around on the forum blaming me for not returning the machine. Finally, they gave me a fed ex number to return the machine when I cornered them. They told me to UPS back the machine, but they never picked up the machine. They did this to me 3 times, telling me to send it, but not picking it up. Even the last time they told me to send back this broken machine, they were not even at the address they told me to return it to.  I still have the broken machine, but it is so badly broken it is really not good for anything. I asked for a refund and AMT said "everyone is getting a refund but you, since you complained you are not eligible for a refund" In an attempt to quiet me, they posted my real name and town on the forums, and members were able to see my exact address from googling my name and town.

Fast forward to just recently, They did finally send me a machine from China but it was again one of the ones on the "Naughty list", (people they didn't like). It had no power supply, which should be obvious that it didn't work. Josh told me they would send me a power supply, but again they were hesitant. Eventally, I did get the power supply, and installed it, but the "Naught list" miner does not work properly, it runs slower then even the originally advertised machine. Basically running at Gigahash instead of Terahash. The machine were filtly, had black soot all over the machine like it was being used for a long time.  Even if it did work, the machine the list price by AMT is only $899. (not even worth that since it doesn't work). So I believe I am still owed $5,100 if you don't count all the lost time and bitcoins income. There was also a contract about MPP, if ever the hardware became unprofitable we were supposed to be compensated. However, whenever it was brought up to AMT, their response was always a refusal to honor it.  It would be impossible at todays prices to use the bitcoin miner to break even, and that was what the MPP was supposed to protect against.

Again, just recently they emailed me and said "Please understand that writing crap like that will absolutely 100% not get you a refund", again they were trying to keep my quiet from telling others about being ripped off by AMT. 

 

torrent link for AMT image. I am seeding it. It has a default IP of 192.168.0.245 OR 192.168.1.245 Either way its def one of those IPs. This is the original shipping image with the ONLY modification being the IP.

http://goo.gl/L5DT1B

FYI Authorities both federal and local authorities are watching this forum like hawks now. Let's just say I have it on good authority on the matter. So I would suggest those of you who have been scammed by AMT start telling your story. If you have not previously posted please post. If not then at least file a report with the FTC ASAP. Joshua Zipkin/AMT is also on the hook here and ready to go down.

For those with any order at any status you have the instructions to contact the authorities. I also recommend contacting the FTC and placing a complaint with them as well if you have not. It is critical that you do this even if you have plans to take this to court on your own.

I will post it as a torrent and seed it for anyone who needs it. I got a pretty fast connection 150/150Mbps so it should download fast.

If its convenient I would also like a copy. I did get the miner they sent me up and running, but it will only hash at 850-900Mh/s.

A word to the wise, if you get the miner running, leave it on 128 diff on the miner side. I tried to run it at 1024 diff on the miner side and it caused the miner to crash. I also left the defaults of 1000, but 1050 doesn't seem to do much more for me. I assume 1050 means overclocking?

Yes that is exactly right. I will be compressing it after. But still will be rather large regardless. It will be a DD raw image just to make sure everything is as it should be.

You need to have the raw full image, but it compresses quite well.

The image will be very large as it will be a raw image of the original SDcard. 7.8Gb. I expect to have it ready by late afternoon/evening today. I will post a torrent and leave it seeding.

That would be very helpful. Thank you.

I will need to create one. I had one already made but it had issues. I am setting up a new one from a default image backup I will be uploading.

If you plug a stock Raspian image into the AMT miner, does it boot into Linux?

If so, I'd imagine the AMT card and/or image is bad. See if you can get a working image from someone on the forum.

I'm really not concerned with the politics of it all. I know many have lost a lot of money including myself. People are hurt and angry but I just want to get this thing up and going.

so now, back to troubleshooting.

lol np, Considering AMT has abandoned us to our own devices and passed the buck to me to support users. I am sure that will go over in court and the FTC considering I have nothing to do with them. I am just someone who is here to help.

BTW, Thx to opieum2 and MrTeal for your assistance.

Yes, that is correct.

If you've used the Antminers before I'm sure you're already aware of this, but if your network is on some other subnet you are manually setting the IP on your laptop to 192.168.0.xxx and the mask to 255.255.0.0, correct?

I've tried different cables that are known to work.

I've plugged in into a HDMI monitor but nothing shows up.

I've taken the SD card out and plugged that into a known working raspi (networking, HDMI, etc) but I don't get network or HDMI with the AMT SD card.