I think hosting is a good idea, unless there is some catch like electricity AND a hosting fee. If a board were to go bad, I would assume they could have someone come out and replace the board, better yet, if a board went down you could just credit our account for the downtime of the board. I try to subscribe to hosting with a variety vendors, just because I don't want to put all the eggs in one basket. At some point, you could just rent out the Th/s and not really have each miner owned by each client, I think this would be a smart way of doing things to buy, sell and trade Th/s. I know other vendors offer something like this, but I don't find the method being transparent enough for me.
I am also one of the ones who bought in Dec of 2013. It is now May 2014. Today, a you can buy a brand new 1.4Th/s miner for only $4,000. As I see it, every customer who ordered a 1.2Th/s miner has already lost $2,000+ for each miner. We took a chance on your company when buying this miner, and I hope you can do something to redeem our confidence soon.
I would also be interested in hearing about the MPP.
I guess AMT has conveniently forgotten this tiny detail in their latest proposal.
The MPP is important because that was the advertising hook to buy AMT's products. At the end of the day if they get things together and do provide the technobit boards, that would be a nice change of pace for us and for them to be able to properly fulfil their obligations in that regard.
We need fully working, validated and hashing miners at 1.2Ths in complete form that should be described in detail so that we know what we are getting (and actually get that instead of another comprimise)
And the MPP needs to be honored as well as there was clearly a massive delay for everyone. Some of us got hardware in various degrees of working order. Most failed within the first few days of just having it hashing. All in all various delays. The hosting option is ok, but with paying electrical on that seems kinda silly. Better for us to host the hardware in a facility near us and just pay the fixed rates that are charged by a datacenter. As there are not alot of details on each option its hard to say which is best at this time. But I am all for a hardware refresh if technobit hardware is involved. Seems like it would be a much better way to go and I think would satisfy alot of people on here. We appreciate the additional communications and hope to see a timeline on things so we have an expectation and actual results.