I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Abram James Kottmeier (or whatever name he uses during house calls) and John Skrodenis have been partners (probably in more than one sense of the word) in previous ventures, namely the gay sex industry.
With all due respect, ninjarobot & gmaxwell, PG's work might prove very useful for anyone going further than just bending over.
It does belong here, in my opinion, and does merit some thanks.
Proving that Kottmeier & Skrodenis are very close is a very interesting fact.
Proving that HF is actually open to taking a couple more "pre-orders" despite what their website states is very useful.
Cheers PG, keep up the good work.
I agree, some of this is certainly useful. I think we should be careful going on witch hunts though. But from Phins work it is clear that HF typically says one thing and does another:
* Shipping in October! > Err.. we meant December
* Shipping in December! > Err.. we meant January
* Full BTC Refunds! > Err.. we meant USD refunds
* Imminent Dramatic Price Increase, Buy Now! > Errr.. we meant we are not taking orders > Err... Sure we will take your order!
* etc.
It also shows the background of their Marketing team. John has been deep in the affiliate marketing for the porn industry. Really 'affiliate marketing' is just another term for spam and black hat SEO. Just take a look at
http://www.xfire.com/blog/ziduru13/5164643 ("Posted on November 4, 2013; by John Skrodenis").
Spamming free blogging services with fake accounts and 'fake' youtube videos to drive traffic and create commissions. Scroll down to see the linkspam (anchors to optimize for Google search results) to other fake accounts on other blog services. Look at the username patterns:
ziduru13
jaxisy36
sybyre42
toregoza46
widydy27
ciduta98
wugyny27
fediju94
cocafe58
vehane88
All fake accounts with link spam to affiliate porn sites. The worst kind of garbage out there. This appears to be the business ethic and expertise John brings to the table and also explains the business with the fake Twitter and bitcointalk accounts during the launch of the HashFast sales:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2830811The fact that John is now bringing in his buddies is not a good sign. at all.
HashFast really needs to clean ship here. They appear to have a good engineering team, but their sales and marketing is the worst I've seen. Deceptive and dishonest. It might work for the porn business but not in the ASIC mining business. So fix it HF.
EDIT: It could be that the content from that spam page was scraped by a bot and John has nothing to do with it. In that case my apologies.