Topic: *New PCI-E Based ASIC miners 1.2th/s - 1.9th's +\- 10%* - page 3. (Read 41518 times)

This PCI-E Based ASIC miners 1.2th/s - 1.9th's +\- 10% scam is like a Walking Dead zombie which just won't give up trying to grab your bitcoins!

Parallella = FAIL.   Adapteva always fails to deliver results.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva
These guys are known scam artists in the hardware community.

Beyond this, I'd like to add I love all the discussion regarding construction of litecoin mining hardware.   The main bottleneck of litecoin mining is memory bandwidth, not excessive memory size or logic frequency.  Additionally I think you will be hard pressed to produce enough ASICs to amortize the high cost packaging required to provide said memory.  Its kind of hard to beat modern GPUs which have 384 bit 6 gbps data buses.

Uhhhhh, what? I can't believe you're still trying to get this scam going.

I spoke with bargraphics on the phone yesterday and he's been keeping in touch with me via voice/text. For those that have had our money taken with no contact from Jon we should all keep in touch so if anyone hears anything we can keep each other posted.

SCAM BUMP

Sock puppet #1 (ks3rv3rg) loses all credibility and mysteriously goes silent, just as sock puppet #2 (Bargraphics) shows up.  What an amazing coincidence!   

Bargraphics just sent you a PM. Would like to exchange contact information with you as you are the only one that can reach him. I sent him another msg this morning with no response. Us forum members should help each other out to build more trust within the community. Let me know if we can touch base and hopefully i can get into touch with him. Thanks.

Did this 'soniq' guy fall for the scam or is he part of it?

https://blockchain.info/address/1CkhnDPQpK5CiQWf8r6WfVwet5F7Kozu7C
https://blockchain.info/address/1HD5drkLSsy6iCL2RjEqwMYpLYa2HRX6Du
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/soniq-64968

wow it's so easy to scam some people. You can't wonder why there are so many scammers around here.

Troll post? You gotta be kidding me. I don't waste my time by trolling on the forums. I have proof of contact up until last Tuesday. He was suppose to touch base wit me on Wednesday and he disappeared. I have proof of e-mails as well as text messages. Best way would be to contact law enforcement in Raleigh, North Carolina and talk to the fraud unit?

I gave him the chance to prove his product and decided to throw a few coins his way. You live and learn. At first he was very responsive. Kept in touch via phone and e-mail. I've been texting, calling and e-mailing him since last Wednesday and no response. Any one else in the same situation? Let's do something about this.

Well it seems I have been schemed!!

He has to live his conscience...

Actually its just been 8 pages of trolling about how stupidly this scam was written.

edit: (HeadPalm) Crap, I think I just bumped the thread again

We're sort of running out people to troll here I think... This is a popcorn thread for us.

I think these guys copied their design from here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=216990.new#new

I guess we are in the 11th hour of ASIC scamming..   Hurry, just a few months left to scam someone!

Has anyone actually got Avalon chips yet anyway?

Wow, why is this thread 8 pages long?

First page should just be "sup, this is a scam move on" and it should never have gone past that.

I think this is part of why I can't really get motivated by bitcoin the way I want. The community seems to have far too much money, and far too little sense.

^This.
The quality of scams has really declined since Bitcoin was found by the mainstream media. It used to take weeks to unravel the hoaxes, now they fall apart half way through the opening post. 

Dude, this isn't black magic.  There isn't a mystical configuration where if you put chips X+Y+Z in a special order you get a performance upgrade.  It's fucking Electrical Engineering, it's a science.  Avalon chips are a known quantity, their performance is a known figure.  When someone comes around asking for pre-order money based on the claim that he used Avalon chips to make a PCI-e miner that gets performance several orders of magnitude greater than the chips are capable of, it raises some red flags.  Shit, raising red flags isn't even a strong enough statement, it just tells you that the person making such a claim is full of shit.  In addition to that:

This person has made wild claims such as having a group of engineers with 150 years experience designing this thing, but meanwhile describes basic principles about the technology incorrectly.
This person provided 0 evidence that anything he is saying is true - proof of chip purchase, info on designs, CAD drawings, board specs, pictures of a prototype or construction etc.
This person talks like a 14 year old raging while playing Call of Duty.

The list could go on.  And after all this mounting evidence that VPSguy is a scammer, you keep trying to claim he's a "legitimate business person".  Do you see why everyone thinks you are a sock puppet?

ASICS are "Application Specific Integrated Circuits". They are circuits specifically designed to do one thing, hash sha-2. There is no magic that can make them go faster than they're designed to go. Electronics only go as fast as they're slowest part. Thats why you can upgrade a computer with more ram and a faster hardrive and it will go faster. But the ASIC chip is the limiting factor here. You can't physically get significantly more hashing from them than they're designed to do. I can give a it the fastests bus possible and it will still only hash at 282 MH/s. We're not just being mean here. The numbers hes giving us are seriously impossible. Is he going to try to overclock the chips 100 times. I'm not sure thats possible even with some serious hardware modification and do you know how much liquid nitrogen they used to even overclock a chip 2-3 times higher? http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137478/celeron-overclocked-1ghz