Topic: Hashblaster, from Essen Germany (Read 15957 times)

Old thread is old...or ancient, even...last post almost has its anniversary!  But just to touch on this one as I'm working my through the list:
It's actually based on this image or a predecessor*: http://javier.esilicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/HFCBGA.jpg
From this page: http://javier.esilicon.com/page/3/
( Took me a bit to find that, reverse image search yielded nothing; 'bga chip bottom' with an additional yellow color filter was what popped it up right in the first screen of results. )

* What's funny is that that image has rather obvious signs of photoshoppery, and I can't decide if the failed scammers decided to smudge that out to make it less obvious (but thus introducing a different obviousness), or whether both worked from a different image that had a logo and both had to get rid of that somehow.  I'm leaning toward the former.

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DBG: Did that someone ever receive anything (like a bicycle light, perhaps), or report the scam officially?

Sadly I know someone that paid for a unit in the "Batch 4" (talking to random people on a PPCoin pool/site).  Also these machines should have already hit earlier customers yet nothing.  I doubt he is the only one... even if only three people actually sent them money that is a fat stash esp. considering that at most they invested a couple hundred into the site (probably a lot less).

Tell your daughter she doesn't need to bow down to anyone, just use free GIMP instead www.gimp.org  

My daughter is a graphic designer and she likes to say: "Bow down, because Photoshop is powerful."

It just amazes me how far these scammers want to go.... their site have been operating for so long..

"Batch 3 is now completely sold out and we are now accepting pre-orders for the final 200 units - Batch 4"

No one bought any machines before and they dare to keep increasing the batch number. ugly people.

Good job lol!

thats' not pretty clear .. smell scam..   

Why is this even still being discussed.

It took ten seconds to see it was a scam.

Man the power of doubt and desire to believe something so crooked could be real is strong here.

You do realise scammers feed off of doubt?

What if? Is their strongest argument.

Still a photoshopped KnC 28nm chip and Carbon copy of the KnC 20nm specs made to sound a little more enticing...

It didn't take long to track down this photograph in Google images.  Likely the source of their photoshop trickery.

Left side, original product image.  Right side...  Hashblaster photoshop goodness.

well, to save moneys they dont need gmbh they can work undercover. as we bitcoiners do
i know where it is but i never paid attention. i got a friend he lives like 5km from the point. ill call tomorrow.

suspicious, its a nursing house but it have game store and some other company..

i think google maps wont help in this situation..


edit:

the company friseurcoach.de is no longer exist at the place so maybe its the place of hashb..? ill call gamestore tomorrow and ask them..


havent found any other DO-Port GmbH companies.. i think its the only one.. because even young companies are registered and can be viewed in germany.

 found the founder of the do-port gmbh http://badoo.com/0245162519/ in 2012 he was 29 now he is 31, im not sure how accurate is the information.

For a Company which exist 2 years and noone knows about, its very trustful!

Domain Name: HASHBLASTER.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1838574720_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Creation Date: 2013-12-09 22:55:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2014-12-09 22:55:00Z
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4252744500
Reseller: NAMECHEAP.COM
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED
Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.
Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411
Registrant City: PANAMA
Registrant State/Province: PANAMA
Registrant Postal Code: NA
Registrant Country: PA
Registrant Phone: +507.8365503
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +51.17057182
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED
Admin Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.
Admin Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411
Admin City: PANAMA
Admin State/Province: PANAMA
Admin Postal Code: NA
Admin Country: PA
Admin Phone: +507.8365503
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: +51.17057182
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email:
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED
Tech Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.
Tech Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411
Tech City: PANAMA
Tech State/Province: PANAMA
Tech Postal Code: NA
Tech Country: PA
Tech Phone: +507.8365503
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: +51.17057182
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email:
Name Server: DNS1.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM
Name Server: DNS2.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM
DNSSEC: unSigned
Last update of WHOIS database: 2013-12-09 14:55:06Z

Key word "part", as i know if there is a company which does fishing business they cant do other business like selling GPU or hookers.. so its only a fishing company nothing else...

Only Payments method "BitPay"...

So I would say its 100%


S C A M

They should have atleast bought self sticking paper to fake the labels...

Either its legit, or a really good scam.

Have we an update on this company?

https://www.hashblaster.com/images/batch_hardware_delivery_big.jpg

The accompanying blog-type post says they took delivery of a bunch of hardware...  but these boxes don't look like they've ever seen a shipping truck.  The labels on a couple boxes are barely sticking to the box.  Not to mention the randomness of the shipping label placement.  Anyone that's worked around a shipping department knows this type of randomness doesn't usually happen.

It looks like a bunch of fresh cardboard stacked to convince someone to send them btc for a preorder.

anyone?

We need to protect wiki page from polluting with scammer's advertising https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Mining_hardware_comparison&action=history

Is here anybody who can touch one of bitcoin.it admins to STOP scamming on the page?

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to follow for "real" companies.

1 TH chips at 0.55 W/GH would be 550 Watt chips...  a tad unlikely to be possible !   Hashfast and Cointerra are hitting the theoretical limits with their 250-300 watt chips.

-- Jez

Its really very sad that the best web sites by far are made by the scammers.   The genuine asic companies seem to have really lame web sites...  based on wordpress and woo commerce.

Why... can't the genuine asic companies start making better web sites!?

In the meantime, at least we can use it as a tool to figure out who the scammers are.  The better the web site, the more likely the scam!

-- Jez

The guy is probably a serial ASIC scammer and by now he has a huge web design budget. 

they site looks pretty impressive though.

Simple test for a scam...
Do they have an "Official Announcement" thread on BitcoinTalk?
No = Scam