1/14 update: We've requested a full BTC refund via our legal representatives. For those that bought in BTC, we're fighting to get you back your full BTC refund (minus a legal fee spread amongst R1-4).
Please see page 15 for more details.
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9/24, Tuesday Update: The 72 Hour HashFast Sale is OVER! However, the only place you can still get Flash Sale pricing until Friday is: HERE. 
Round 4, non-MPP Sierra:
98 93 90 78 69 59 54 47 43 18 ZERO shares available! Wow! 2 Sierras sold in 5 days! Thank you everyone!
Please PM thomas_s to reserve backup shares in case of non-payment from R4 reservations.Round 3, MPP Sierra: SOLD OUT.
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..__..-..__...-' /__/ /__ `_ ~~--..__...----... DZ's Miner Cooperative, Round 2 ..."The little Co-op that could"...
An At-Cost Democratic Miner Co-operative with the world's lowest fees
for vetted miner hosting/management services: 2.75%
~40 members, 1 Scientist, 4 IT Pros, 2 Network Engineers, 2 Electrical Engineers, 1 Finance Employee, 4 GB Coordinators, so far, with multiple host sites
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This Co-operative is operated by a John K. vetted Network Engineer based in Hawaii, DyslexicZombei or DZ, who gets to design prototype IT hardware and lab/field networks in support of cutting edge research projects, and has been in the line of work of T&E and R&D for nearly 10 years, with 50-60 Hawaii/US Aerospace/IT/R&D/Civ. Engineering Endorsements on LinkedIn. The backup remote administrator is jungle_dave who is a former Electrical Engineer and Network Engineer. Mining Equipment will be operated by vetted IT pros or a vetted IT college student, with backup host sites available. Payouts are every 2 weeks minus a 2.75% Hosting/Management fee, the lowest around. Once sales begin, Refunds available up until unit ships at 1.5% restock fee. We vote on all buying, shipping, and resale decisions as well as vote on the month to attempt equipment resales after 5-7 months of operations. All suggestions are welcome to help improve our Co-operative. - Approx. total value of GBEC / GBC ASIC pre-order sales or pre-sales of shares on this forum by DZ Cooperative in last 6 weeks: $30.2K
- Approx. value of DZ ebay ASIC sales (including 4 HF Baby Jet shares listed on ebay/BTC Talk GB forum & purchased on ebay worth $620) since Aug.1 : $3.3K
- Approx. value of ASIC related hardware or services currently listed items on ebay by DZ: $30.5K, selling as a trusted intermediary
- Several new GBCs and Bitcoin Miner Hosts vetted for free, and several scams pointed out on two BTC related forums.
- Number of HashFast miners ordered or reserved: 2 Baby Jets, 2 Sierras, 3.2TH/s+ Total
-Data current as of 9/23/2013
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We're aiming for the $6,000 Non-MPP HashFast Sierra for Round 4! Includes 20-30 min. UPS backup + Express Early AM delivery + 2.75% host fees.
24 hours left to try to secure a 2nd Sierra. I worked hard to extend the deadline to Friday by doing down payments on 2 Sierras arranged with John S.. If we don't sell the 69 54 shares remaining, well, we're just going to divvy up the 100 shares from the Round 3 MPP miner. 
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Tip o' the hat to user Molex1701:
If you're unfamiliar with GBs, in general: you get 1/100th of whatever hashrate we end up with and the payouts generated from this hashrate minus a 2.75% service fee.
TL;DR: Your 1 share costing either $69 OR $115 (share price decided by majority vote NOT APPLICABLE for R4, for now) would be worth 12GH/s est. to be delivered on Dec. 1. Your est. HashRate per share will likely be 15GH/s after overclocking, thanks to heavy duty A/C capacity at bobsag3's place in Missouri. I can't guarantee 15GH/s but that's the incremental goal.
Your 1 share could be worth up to 48GH/s depending on which level of HF's MPP is triggered [Not Applicable for R4]. Share price is rock bottom, and includes 20-30 minutes of backup UPS/battery purchases + bobsag3's 120A Backup Generator on tap for longer outages. We are *NOT* responsible for paying for a 2nd rig out of the co-GBCs pockets. We're also not responsible for late delivery but will seek a total refund if the group votes for this.
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Round 4 [OPEN]9/22 AM update: Darn that bobsag3 fella!
Here I was enjoying a nice peaceful Sunday when I read Bob's latest thread. He's got a point dangit. Anyway since thomas_s had to work but I'm sure it wouldn't exactly break his heart for all of us to buy more at-cost shares for his Industrial Class Rig GB debut as a co-GBC:
Here's Round 4 since we ran out of shares in Round 3 in 12 hours.
Shares are priced to move at only $69 each with NO MPP, repeat NO MPP. We can add this later via majority vote ($115 per share) but to secure this order, we're pricing it as $6,000.
1 share = 12-15GH/s est. to be Delivered on December 1.Please PM me for soft share reservations.
We only have 48 hours left in this sale (actually less). This co-operative has secured 2 Sierras at Flash Sale pricing via partial deposit tonight with full payment due Friday night. Round 3 gents: Please get your funds in for R3 as soon as possible so I can send the largest possible payment for this.
Round 4 gents:**
We only go to actual sales if we reach 85% soft reservations, or 85 shares reserved for Round 4. **
We aren't going to actual sales on R4 until 85 reservations held.
However: if possible, you can send me your BTC for R4 so I can include it in tonight's down payment for 2 Sierras. In the unlikely event that we have to refund the entire R4 miner (or for my other Group Buys), there will be *
NO* Restock fee!
Just make sure to label your payments with the correct Round #, so I can track your payments.====
Details at the following link:
http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=43a3515a4cff1032dafe95c87&id=9d981903ee&e=1cb2a901a6Sept. 21, PM, EDIT, SITE CONFIRMATION: https://hashfast.com/shop/sierra-2/Aww yeah! Who were the first GBCs here to offer you a 50%+ reserved 22.9% discounted Sierra?
** If we need to buy a 2nd rig to get to 3.6TH/s or 4.8TH/s if we opt for the MPP: we ALL pay extra for extra hardware according to our share of the miner *if* it's voted that we assemble the miner somewhere instead of selling the extra 3rdX or 4thX chips (assuming we can mount 2X chips in a Sierra). **
Cheers!
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[Round 3 INFO BELOW, CLOSED]
9/21, Early Afternoon, Round 3! Who woulda thunk?
Thank you to everyone that participated in Rounds 1 and 2 of my first Group Buys on this forum after 10 years of Ebay electronic re-sales and purchases without incident.
Only 22 20 16 15 5 ZERO shares out of 100 left! 100 shares reserved in less than 12 hours! This may be a possible GB speed record, if such a thing is tracked.Sorry, snooze you lose! First come, first served.
You can PM thomas_s. or I for backup shares for R3 as it's possible a few shares may spring free.I also may have a few reserve shares on an Aug. 9 HashFast preorder, Order 616.
Please PM for backup at-cost shares for R2 or R3.=====
UPDATE: 21 votes for MPP so far. 30 more votes needed for majority win.
There are currently 47 42 shares available out of 100. This Round 3 is being hosted by *two* GBCs with me being the Sr. GBC with override control, and providing remote admin, remote troubleshooting, miner payouts, shipping details, and resales of the R3 unit at possibly the 5-7 month mark of operations. I believe a GB with 2 co-GB Coordinators, is yet another first I may have brought to the GB forum as yet another innovation I've helped introduce.
Details to follow. Please reserve your at-cost shares below to take advantage of this
MPP Sierra at 1.2TH/s+ at $10,800 or $6,000, only for 72 hours.
Why should you trust me? - I've organized 2 at-cost HashFast Group Buys in a democratic, open fashion in a little over a month for HF Orders 616 and 991:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/openr2bhashfast-host-dbl-hashrate-upgrade-43-10-13ghs-mpp-274055- I run
Group Buy Escrow Coordinator Services for the Group Buys / Custom Hardware forum at ultra low costs and faster response time then most any Escrow service available on the GB forum (Disclaimer: I'm only an Escrow Affiliate at BTCrow; not a full Escrow Agent but I can provide what I call are Escrow+ or Escrow Plus services, above and beyond what typcial Bitcoin Escrow services can provide). Please click the GBEC link in my sig for more details on these services for new GBCs. I've also vetted several new GBCs and vetted miner hosts for free. I serve as a hardware neutral advocate for both buyers and sellers and a resource for smaller custom hardware mfgs. that wish to offload customer services to me.
- I also run 28nm
Bitcoin Miner Host Matchmaking Services with International availability and hosting sites with vetted miner hosts in 3 different US states so far at only 2.75%.
- I put my reputation on the line for any GB or financial transaction that takes place on this forum I'm involved in. Short links about your GBC:
Why you should trust me:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2956448My online/offline endorsements:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2997877Me, as user KauaiDKer, trying to give away a good paying job in paradise at a National Lab in the middle of a recession:
http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1373159Terms and rules of this third Group Buy in a little over a month, will follow the details of the first 2 Group Buy's details where applicable such as refund terms but will use BTCrow for
optional escrow at an 1.5% additional fee instead of John K. Escrow like we did in Round 1 as a mandatory fee.
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Round 3: HashFast Sierra Flash Sale, with MPP. 20-30 minute UPS/Battery Backup built into at-cost share price. Finish edit, 10/10. Excel xfer, 10/11.
Payouts sent every 2 weeks. Before payout, 2.75% Hosting/Management fees are deducted every 2 weeks once operations begin.
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|Shares| Username | Wallet Address |Share Status| Notes |
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| 2 | DyslexicZombei | 17a29H9BhUnaPZgZSdFifPndGxxWQXayuH | PAID | / Your GB Coordinator / Net. Eng. / Primary Remote Admin |
| 1 | bobsag3 | TBA | HOST | World Class vetted Hosting Avail., W/ Lowest hosting costs |
| 1 | a..........m | TBA | PAID | |
| 0 | jungle_dave | TBA | N/A | Backup Admin, former EE/Net. Engineer. Plants trees in Amazon! |
| 2 | firsttimeuser | TBA | PAID | 2 / DZ Co-op Round1 HashFast BabyJet Vetted Miner Host |
| 3 | corather | 1CkDkXNvfHSMEijiy6X3kYVKZvuibGkCjh | PAID | |
| 1 | tripppn | TBA | PAID | Previous co-op member |
| 20 | -Redacted- | TBA | PAID | Boxed Set of DZ MC shares |
| 4 | baros008 | TBA | PAID | |
| 50 | thomas_s | TBA | PAID | Co-GBC / Donated 1.5 Share to R1 member 0.5 to charity |
| 10 | Anonymous | TBA | PAID | Votes ceded to GBC. Manual override avail. GBC votes last. In R2|
| 5 | Tomdraug | TBA | PAID | |
| 1 | Miramym | TBA | PAID | |
100 shares.
* 1.5% restock fee for Refunds ** 1.5% fee for optional BTCcrow Escrow protection and dispute resolution. **
PLEASE SEND A PM IF YOU SEE INCORRECT INFO. Mahalo!
[DRAFT; finished editing 10/10; xfer to Excel 10/11]
Round 4: HashFast Sierra Flash Sale, with NO MPP. 20-30 minute UPS/Battery Backup built into at-cost share price.
Payouts sent every 2 weeks. Before payout, 2.75% Hosting/Management fees are deducted every 2 weeks once operations begin.
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|Shares| Username | Wallet Address |Share Status| Notes |
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| 0 | DyslexicZombei | 17a29H9BhUnaPZgZSdFifPndGxxWQXayuH | PAID | / Your GB Coordinator / Net. Eng. / Primary Remote Admin |
| 0 | bobsag3 | TBA | HOST | R3 member. Ultra low cost vetted Hosting/Mng. Fee. 2.75%|
| 5 | TomDraug | TBA | PAID | |
| 5 | a..........m | TBA | PAID | |
| 0 | jungle_dave | TBA | N/A | Backup Admin, former EE/Net. Engineer. Plants trees in Amazon! |
| 2 | firsttimeuser | TBA | PAID | DZ Co-op Round1 HashFast BabyJet Vetted Miner Host |
| 1 | corather | 1CkDkXNvfHSMEijiy6X3kYVKZvuibGkCjh | PAID | |
| 1 | vaprx | TBA | PAID | |
| 7 | -Redacted- | TBA | PAID | Boxed Set of DZ MC shares |
| 6 | baros008 | TBA | PAID | |
| 3 | thomas_s | TBA | PAID | Co-GBC / Donated 1.5 R3 Share to R1 member 0.5 to charity |
| 10 | Anonymous | TBA | PAID | Votes ceded to GBC. Manual override avail. GBC votes last. In R2|
| 1 | Miramym | TBA | PAID | R3 member |
| 23 | amer | TBA | PAID | Largest voter for R4 open major decisions |
| 2 | minerphil | TBA | PAID | |
| 10 | thehun | TBA | PAID | |
| 6 | wontons | TBA | PAID | |
| 5 | jplacek | TBA | PAID | |
| 9 | slayernine | TBA | PAID | |
| 2 | thyatis | TBA | PAID | |
| 2 | unknown.usr | TBA | PAID | |
100 shares. *Thomas_s and I reduce shares in R4 to solve oversale issue of 3 extra sales.
* 1.5% restock fee for Refunds ** 1.5% fee for optional BTCcrow Escrow protection and dispute resolution. **
PLEASE SEND A PM IF YOU SEE INCORRECT INFO. Mahalo!
