The need to pay within a hour is ridiculous. If the buyers BTC in in a paper wallet then it can take over 1 hour to get the coin to a paying wallet, and if confirmations are slow then it will take longer.
With respect, how is it Bitmain's problem that you don't have access to your funds in a timely fashion ?
I can understand your frustration, but feel you are barking up the wrong tree here.
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if I wanted to buy something at walmart on Boxing day, I would make sure my paycheck was fully cashed and in my banking account. I wouldnt go to walmart, pull my item off the shelf, and hang around the cash registers for hours/days until my paycheck deposited
*ps: if i had someone standing in front of me at walmart going 'uh, give it a minute, maybe my card will be accepted this time'...DECLINED....'oh, it will work any minute now, can you hold on another 5 minutes?' I would sucker-punch them in the back of the head and ring my own shit through*
As my other posts explain, you do not find out it is an hour until you are in the checkout.
Using your scenario, you have gotten to the checkout and they have told you that the card system is down and ask for cash, what do you offer then, more violence?
This is bitcoin. there is one type of payment and one type only. Your cash example simply does not translate - it would be like the bitcoin checkout asking you to pay with paper wallets despite the obvious fact you are in a different county from the store
If you want to buy something priced in BTC, have your bitcoins ready. dont leave your wallet at home when you go to the store
And yet again you miss the point....
No I'm not. last time I'm responding on the issue, because its not that complicated:
I can accept the merits of having an offline wallet or online wallet that you don't want to send the actual payment tx from.
But seriously: The price and time was announced about 24hrs in advance, with the clear knowledge of limited availability. A smart person would make sure to transfer the 2.4BTC to their payment wallet/address well in advance so they could be the first to complete payment. That smart person would recognise that unless they can both put the item in thier cart AND pay for it quickly, it may be given to the next person who IS prepared.
You did not do this. You did not think it would be important to pay ASAP after purchase, and when you bought the item it told you that unless you pay within 1 hour your Antminer would be for-fitted back into available stock. Because you did not have your money available to give the store, they gave you 1 hour to prove you have the money. You couldn't and the store offered the item to someone who COULD.
not bitmain's fault at all