I feel like it's a mis-translation and actually having to do with communication at board-level, kind of like a mis-described PIN diode or something similar. Either way it's utter bullshit in terms of invalidating warranties.
I don't see how accepting PayPal has anything to do with warranty, and it's clear that they're concerned about people taking positive (and warranted) action against their bullshit warranty policy which is why they won't allow S9 sales, or even multi-unit sales through PayPal. They fear accountability. Phil you can refuse to think whatever you want, but the fact of the matter is they treat you differently due to your presence on the forums, which was clear from you getting some compensation for one of your units after kicking up a stink about it. Bitmain is clearly short-sighted or arrogant to believe that they will never have enough competition to justify accountability to their customers right now. But people do not forget, and when someone else comes along they will choose them over Bitmain if they had a negative dealing as well.
Well I do the give away on the diff spec thread I promote BTC that way. Been a few thousand dollars given away.
It does get me some benefits.
But I don't see them to be this short-sighted. They have been pretty brilliant with gear other then the warranty issues. I talked about the compensation on the s-7 from OCT until May and kept buying s-7's for clients. All I wanted was a discount on the s-7's I kept buying they ignored me for months.
I still like the gear but the warranty issues have created a demand for
Gpu mining Right now at this moment the best way to mine a BTC is build a gpu rig and mine Eth coin then dump it to a speculator for BTC.
Bitmaintech has been a big factor in this happening. I do not understand their reasoning for the anti warranty behauvior.
HeY I saw your gear burn. This is my third bad piece of bitmaintech gear. A lot of others are freaking out with bad warranty service.
I have 2500 watts left in the solar array.
I can go s9 , avalon7 or eth coin mine > if I lived on the solar array site I would be more eth coin then any other mining. Mostly due to the warranty 2 years for all the pc gear vs 90 days for bitmaintech gear.
This is a huge plus for mining gpu coin. =
FACT!I just do not understand why bitmaintech feeds into it with poor warranty service.
BTC is not 50x ETH in market cap more like 9.7x so it is not impossible for a bigger shift to ETH over the next months.
http://coinmarketcap.com/and eth hash rate is at 4.8 th which is a lot of cpu's 40 rx 480's = 1gh x 1000 = 1 th so 40,000 rx 480s are 1 th about 200,000 rx 480s that is 50,000,000 usd worth of gpus actually more since a lot of miners other then rx 480's are in play
https://etherscan.io/charts/hashrateand there is 683 gh in ETC hash rate
https://ethc.coin-miners.info/#/ about 28000 rx 480's or 7,000,000 in mining gpus
so 58,000,000 in gear as of today. that would be 40,000 s9's which may been sold since 40,000 s9's = 520ph.
So the gear value of btc mining gear is ahead of ETH+ETC but not by much.
Maybe btc gear world wide is 4 x the price of ETC gear