Dyslexic, after doing some further due diligence into you and reading through about 100 of your previous posts on your other BTC endeavors, and after reading what others have to say about you (particularly those who were unhappy), I've come to two conclusions:
1) your communication via these forums is not the best, but 2) there is a good enough probability that you will not run off with my DRK.
Having said that, I am ready to deposit but you seem to be making this 'batch' stuff way more confusing then it needs to be.
Now that your batch 3 address (XucWymKo3MCmVvFwGW1SKBtNrshbmfBmpE) only needs a 25% stake, do you want me to send my 100 DRK to the batch 2 address (XvJXGuqUBzdMxXjFJdX5fTzAXgxcpM5jWh) or should I just send it to the batch 3 address anyhow?
JL
1) Point taken. I may have been too wordy on this launch but I'm trying to do better on this project as far as information sharing but the simple fact is if I don't have something new/different to say, I've given up saying it just to repeat myself.
I attempted to build a democratic Bitcoin miner's co-op, which worked out well when mfgs. delivered. At one point we were the 6th fastest team on the largest pool, outranking the teams from countries like Russia, Germany, Poland, Canada, & 1 of the 2 China teams. When mfgs. delivered late or never delivered at all: my team & I ended up being the unfair targets of some of the community's unhappiness about manufacturers being late. For example, my only negative trust rating was from someone pissed off about not receiving a refund from Black Arrow, when the simple fact of the matter is BA had all of our funds & had not released the funds back to us yet, and after speaking about the whole manner and defending the co-op's leaders, I was advised not to say anything about the situation from partners so as not to further inflame things.
It hasn't been fun to repeatedly have to mediate disputes within the co-op; to play the neutral party or defender of the minority in a decision, and to deal with mfgs. that straight up lied to us one hand while having to deal with infighting and false accusations that one or more us took the money and ran with HashFast or Bitcmine order money (or were somehow involved with a conspiracy with the mfgs). The last straw was a persistent stalker troll that kept at it for weeks, who finally dragged my daughter of all people into our long running internet pissing contest.
I was so disgusted that the forum allows such behavior and so disturbed that a grown man would drag some stranger's child into their feud over nothing (the troll wasn't even a paying customer!), that I took a month+ long break, where other co-op leaders covered for me, after working for free for the co-op for 7 days straight for months on end. Actually I've paid to work for the co-op so far, being that I'm the one that came up with most of the funds in our ongoing 2 state legal battle vs. HF to get them to live up to the promises they made to Batch 1 buyers and if you know how much attorneys charge, it hasn't been cheap.
When it came time to defend my fellow miners: I put my money where my mouth is, got publicly called a liar by Hashfast by a new employee that didn't know the case history, and I didn't ask for a single satoshi from co-op members in Rounds 1-4 while doing it.
When mfgs. have delivered, payouts have gone on without major incident. What's different here is that we're not waiting for some lying or completely lost manufacturing team to deliver us cutting edge ASIC hardware with a short half life. What's different is that you just sign up and get paid out, and there doesn't have to be much interaction besides checking on payout problems and changing ownership; we're not on pins and needles hoping that our promised "good deal" ASIC rig finally ships.
Besides: I can't run off. It's against my ethical code, my spiritual beliefs, and since so many Sr. and Hero members know me, I'd lose my job/clearance over short term temporary gains, when I can just build a needed service that could pay off much greater over the long run, then some type of short term scam scenario.
I just got a big order for full nodes. What you're seeing here for the community owned nodes is just the tip of the iceberg compared to the demand for full node setup/management. I've thankfully been asked to set up and manage a significant percentage of the new full nodes that are going to come online in the next week or so. I won't be able to do a Batch 4 for a while because of it. For these full nodes: I happily won't even have access to their 1000DRK stake. There's no need to steal/scam my fellow miners for such stupid risks when I can make more offering a service to my own community. The time off has been good to me. I'm recharged, refocused and happy to never directly deal with an ASIC mfg. again.
2) It's all mix and match at this point. Some people have gone silent, and some have even upped their stakes. I'll clone and customize these servers as their wallets are ready.