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Topic: Scam Alert: KNC started cloud mining packages selling for 1/13 the Neptune price (Read 5454 times)

newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
I will be dissapointed, if ANYONE will buy Gh/s from them for such big price..
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1995 USD for 1 TH/s (6 months) ≈ 1.99 USD/GHs - that what they offers.

It you do simple calculation, for 6 months, it will never produce bitcoins for 1995usd even with this diff.

what was they thinking.

and you can buy Ghs lifetime, with trade possibilities for same price in CEX
legendary
Activity: 4438
Merit: 3387
The dishonesty extends beyond idiots who cannot do math when figuring the rise in difficulty. What is wrong with raising your standards as to what we should expect from a merchant? Businesses practices which are deliberately misleading and repeated lies of omission need to be called out by the rest of society.

But first dishonesty must be demonstrated, and the falling price of hash rate is not dishonesty, it is reality.
hero member
Activity: 658
Merit: 501
I wish these ignorant people would stop preordering. They claim that it is all a scam because they lose money, even though it is their own fault.

When a customer preorders mining equipment, they are assuming the risk of a rising difficulty. If they don't understand that, then they have no business mining. If they do understand it, then they have no right to whine about.
Yes , its their fault. The bitcoin paid should be held in multi-sig escrow and be returned if they fail to deliver as promised.

The dishonesty extends beyond idiots who cannot do math when figuring the rise in difficulty. What is wrong with raising your standards as to what we should expect from a merchant? Businesses practices which are deliberately misleading and repeated lies of omission need to be called out by the rest of society.
legendary
Activity: 4438
Merit: 3387
I wish these ignorant people would stop preordering. They claim that it is all a scam because they lose money, even though it is their own fault.

When a customer preorders mining equipment, they are assuming the risk of a rising difficulty. If they don't understand that, then they have no business mining. If they do understand it, then they have no right to whine about it.
member
Activity: 69
Merit: 10
So we all compete with manufacturers:

Manufacturers sell their kit which generates income.
Manufacturers mine which generates income.
Manufacturers sell their GH as a Service (shall we call it GHaaS or THaaS) which generates income.
Manufacturers put your cloud hashing into their pool which generates income.

Anyone seen the increase in size of unknown of https://blockchain.info/pools?timespan=24hrs

The dawn of the age of industrial mining
legendary
Activity: 2912
Merit: 1060
Damn it they'll never ship the 2 for 1 Neptune
hero member
Activity: 798
Merit: 1000
‘Try to be nice’
well they had to go out in style -

this game has been over for a long time.
sr. member
Activity: 299
Merit: 250
KnCMiner is still in the process of shipping Neptune Bitcoin miners, but now offers cloud hosting. One cloud hosting package gives you 3TH/s for less than $1,000 per month and you do not need to pay for power. Neptunes cost pre-order customers $12,995 and also give you 3TH/s, but you pay for shipping costs, a PSU to power the unit, 16AWG cable upgrades, and power consumption for running the machine. Neptunes only recently started shipping and very simply, most Neptune customers lost five-figure sums of USD by pre-ordering instead of waiting.

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/kncminer-snubs-neptune-customers-cloud-hosting/2014/09/04
sr. member
Activity: 420
Merit: 250
KNC hasn't yet finished shipping their $13,000 Neptunes, yet now they're offering 3 tiers of cloud hosting, including 3TH/s for less than $1,000 per month. (1/13 the cost of the Neptunes) Unlike the still shipping Neptunes, you don't have to pay for shipping or power costs.

Please discuss.
You are comparing the monthly cost of renting their hashpower to the overall cost of owning their machine. This is like comparing apples to oranges. It is not a fair comparison.

They are essentially trying to sell off excess miners that they were unable to sell.

I ran the numbers and you would be almost certain to not ROI at the rates KnC is offering.
legendary
Activity: 1400
Merit: 1001
After recent events they trustworthy rating is not the greatest. I would like to see this project of theirs works first, check some people's opinions and then judge.
hero member
Activity: 728
Merit: 500
I would never trust KNC again for whatever reason.
hero member
Activity: 854
Merit: 502
6 month contract?  Shocked
Even its infinity, hard to tell when we have BEP, now only for 6 month.

Invest just for losing money, its worst than ponzi game
sr. member
Activity: 308
Merit: 250
KNC hasn't yet finished shipping their $13,000 Neptunes, yet now they're offering 3 tiers of cloud hosting, including 3TH/s for less than $1,000 per month. (1/13 the cost of the Neptunes) Unlike the still shipping Neptunes, you don't have to pay for shipping or power costs.

It is too bad that people paid $13,000 for KNC Neptunes that haven't started mining. It will mine around 10 BTC, which is worth less than half of that now.

BTW, even KNC's price of $1.79 assumes a pretty optimistic prediction for the rise in the difficulty. I wouldn't pay more than $1.50 per GH/s.

Whats even worse is that is only 6 month contracts...at least Cex.io lets you buy and sell for indefinite periods of time...
The electric costs for the GH/s at cex will soon exceed the revenue they produce unless they find more efficient miners or the rate difficulty is increasing decreases substantially very soon.
legendary
Activity: 4438
Merit: 3387
This is a much better deal than the the Neptune, however, when i input 3TH into mining calculator, it gives 1.65 BTC per month.. so it  maybe better to directly buy Bitcoin with the money..
Just my opinion Smiley

Don't use that mining calculator. It doesn't account for difficulty changes. 3 TH/s will never generate 1.65 BTC per month.
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
Theymos, unban my account.
KNC hasn't yet finished shipping their $13,000 Neptunes

These guys are card-carrying thieves.  They used that $13,000 to build their data center while their customers got nothing.  Still no Neptune delivery.  All the while, they promised not to mine over 5% of what they sold to customers.  

On the day they announced the opening of this new Cloud Mining service, the promise not to mine over 5% was removed from the FAQ page of their website.  

Fucking Swedish Scum.  No less.

Now they hash at about 5% of the entire network - that is ALL the mining equipment EVERYONE made. 

Liars, cheaters and thieves. 

Wow... You're right. They did.
legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1026
KNC hasn't yet finished shipping their $13,000 Neptunes

These guys are card-carrying thieves.  They used that $13,000 to build their data center while their customers got nothing.  Still no Neptune delivery.  All the while, they promised not to mine over 5% of what they sold to customers.  

On the day they announced the opening of this new Cloud Mining service, the promise not to mine over 5% was removed from the FAQ page of their website.  

Fucking Swedish Scum.  No less.

Now they hash at about 5% of the entire network - that is ALL the mining equipment EVERYONE made. 

Liars, cheaters and thieves. 
legendary
Activity: 2912
Merit: 1060
Wow never thought the cexio scam could be topped
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
This is a much better deal than the the Neptune, however, when i input 3TH into mining calculator, it gives 1.65 BTC per month.. so it  maybe better to directly buy Bitcoin with the money..
Just my opinion Smiley
hero member
Activity: 658
Merit: 501
KNC hasn't yet finished shipping their $13,000 Neptunes, yet now they're offering 3 tiers of cloud hosting, including 3TH/s for less than $1,000 per month. (1/13 the cost of the Neptunes) Unlike the still shipping Neptunes, you don't have to pay for shipping or power costs.

Please discuss.

Regardless, of the problems of pre-ordering, anyone who cares about Bitcoin should reframe from purchasing cloud hashing as it incentivizes bad behavior from ASIC manufacturers and doesn't address any problems with centralization.... plus its just stupid from an investment perspective... people should just buy bitcoins directly if they only care about making money.
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
A pumpkin mines 27 hours a night
Phew, I don't know if this really qualifies as a scam, but it definitely has a very strange aftertaste if those accusations really are true! People who pre-ordered a Neptune for FIAT indeed have lost the gamble when it comes to the BTC they're about to mine and the current Bitcoin price!
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