What's your goal? To prove there aren't enough miners? Then door in the face with sec? What if you tipped him off and he's buying every used miner he can? And lease the actual warehouse? What has the fcc said so far?
Well, since I just lost almost an hour's worth of work in my replies by accidentally hitting the back key, I will keep this simple. and try to elaborate on as I go.
There are two components at play here:
A. The Hardware
B. The Financial
Both play off one-another.
Hardware:
Nearly every electronic device sold within the United States radiates unintentional emissions and must be reviewed to comply with CFR 47, Part 15 before it can be legally imported, advertised and/or sold within the US market. This process has been established to insure safe operation of the equipment and to certify one device is not going heed the operation of another device. These days, this ever increasingly important process involves first filing FCC Form 740 [or the electronic equivalent] then having a FCC approved third party test facility certify each device [model] in question before a publicly accessible FCC approval status is assigned to the submitting company’s existing or newly issued FCC ID. After this stage, the appropriate product labels with the FCC certification identifier are made and applied to each unit (typically alongside the serial number of the device).
GAW Miners primary alleged violation was having their name/logo placed on uncompliant mining hardware and then importing this hardware in volume to (1) use and (2) sell it within the US. This opens GAW/Zen up to a significant amount of liability for each and every device they have sold or continue to use every day in their own operation. As a once FCC licensed ISP, it also does not help their case if they claim ignorance of the regulations. Likewise, being complacent to or knowing the FCC (and unrelated CE) logos placed on each miner PCB imported without proper certification creates an environment of potential regulatory fraud on the part of GAW Miners et al.
Financial:
Since day one, I allege GAW/Zen has been using the ill-gotten gains from their uncompliant hardware sales to facilitate the genesis and continuing infrastructure backbone of what many see as a highly suspicious Ponzi-type operation. Since this component of the situation is more legally sensitive, I cannot and will not get in to any details other than it is being investigated and time will tell the outcome on that front.
-To your question-
My goal is simple:
To prove those who said I had no proof of any GAW wrongdoing and questioned my professionalism wrong.
As I have always stated, I have no ill feeling towards Mr. Garza or his family. However, I take being attacked with unfounded legal action seriously and will open my own “war chest” to fight for the segment of the industry that does play by the rules and must comply with the laws others feel do not apply to them. This has nothing to do with ham radio, tin hats, or me feeling bad about being banned from HT, which I don't. This has everything to do with making sure everyone who wishes to get involved in this industry as a hobby or business can do so without feeling like they are being scammed, led on, or swindled out of their money - which only defaces the REAL industry and makes it that much harder to adopt in the real world.
Scott-