Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 2028. (Read 3050071 times)

Please tell me what world do you live in where a couple of meaningless clicks on a website trumps cash? perhaps instead of telling me to take off the training wheels you should try them on yourself instead.

And as for your examples, if you you're going to walk into a Ferrari dealership and request to be put on a waiting list and pay nothing and expected to be honored you are absurdly wrong.and in regards to stocks the last time I checked you had to submit payment before they were awarded.not the other way around.

Your statement makes just about as much sense as asking a hooker not to sleep with anyone else till next weeks payday.  

Someone earlier posted a reply from Sam stating Mon at 6pm. Which would make sense as that is the last openday.

I think pre-order ends Saturday at noon as I received their email at noon Monday 6/03. That or at least by Saturday night this thing is locked and real order numbers will be released on Monday.

....or use at least the search functionality here

Sure the pleasure is all ours, it appears you don't like reading anyway, adiós!

do you know what the real problem is? If  peoples still say, that all peolpes are scamming and all companies are not legit and do not allow one mind or more in the future that  poeples or companies could be legit, then mining and the bitcoin thing will be worth 0.0 in some days because bitcoin can't go under these circumstances to the mainstream....

Great, personally I don't believe KnC have any malicious intent. That seems to be congruent with the opinion formed by those that actually met them WITH ORSoC's lead development present.

You've just jumped from thread to thread crying scam all day without having read up in anything.

You're entitled to your own opinion, sure, but it's ill informed, that's undeniable, based on your initial comment to this thread.

It would be unfortunate if there are any mistakes or delays, and laughing at people's misfortune is not cool.

One would assume from your authoritative sounding nickname that your are a voice of authority, then assumption is the mother of all f**k-ups, is it not?

+1
wow, what are the people doing here?.....and  i get attacked, when i try to sell spots because peoples say that i have 0.0 work for it....you have to spent  extremly many hours and weeks to know that all by reading and searching things about KNC....
very impressive

Yes, if you haven't where the hell have you been?!

That's quite a statement to make considering you were trolling Terrahash earlier today with coincidentally as much informed knowledge before typing your thoughts...

Nope. I just spent ages weighing up the odds on who to place my bets with.

Originally like most I considered BFL. The issue was the competitive advantage and the volume of pre-orders they had at that point, plus growing distrust and no proven prototype (at that point). Actually now to be fair as well as I would only have been interested in the 60gh/s machines (x4).

I had the option of purchasing the Avalon batch 3's. Literally email pinged the moment they released them and I had the chance of being in the 300. I turned down the opportunity as the price wasn't known until that point and it was multiples of before. Plus as we know BFL were *just about* to ship...

I looked around at other offers specifically asicrigs.com, not that I took them seriously, but they were in the UK so I would have paid on pick up in person (I had them agree to this)...but knew too well it was a scam. I had some great fun busting Cedartec and a couple of others, so by the time KnC were claiming to be serious I was in full anti-scam mode. Thing is they started checking out, ORSoC was the biggy...since then I've performed a tonne of research, as of course have others here, in a variety of confidence. I chose to stay optimistic, and have studied product design (BSc) and engineering design (MSc), so I appreciate the itterative process involved in bringing a product to fruition. I had quite a bit of emailing back and fourth and Sam always responded quickly and knowledgabley. Unlike the aforementioned scams it wasn't BS either, he clearly and confidently gave me straight answers and no curve balls.

The Avalon bulk chips were announced and whilst that seems great the issue I have here is the logistics in DIYers splitting and sending respective chip orders to various unknown intermediaries and prioritising their preferred associates. I couldn't confidently see myself with a working ASIC miner (even if the DIY route does work without snags) in an appropriate time and there's too many potential weak links in the chain for my comfort. Actually Terrahash look good, but they're state-side which means crazy import duties for me (UK). I don't think a lot of Butterfly Labs UK buyers have really thought this through properly, the UK's import duty for outside the EU changed last year, there is now an additional stealth levy of 9% on the total cost once the 20% VAT is added for purchases above £130!! Which basically means every mining device from the US.

By this point in any case we all now knew 60-70 gh/s wouldn't have long term use, but would be great for right now. Fact was for me at least it wasn't about to happen right now, and even though Avalon had proven themselves to have working kit, the price upgrade put me off and made me question their intentions. In some ways I'm lucky I had doubts, as they wouldn't have arrived as promised by now anyway!

The KnC route fit my budget, and they are based close by in Europe so I can check them out. Which obviously I am about to for that money! In addition they started throwing the FPGA idea around so I started pressing the Litecoin FPGA idea off the back of reading a Blockburner's thread. I've spoken to him a fair bit and it seemed like a wayy better ROI, but Bitcoin is the dominant cryptocurrency. In any case KnC have promised to revisit that idea, so I'm happy there.

Question is would I like to be on their Payroll? Sure why not, I find this cryptocurrency mining development really interesting. With respect to how I've approached this thread, I've just been helpful to those that are cool and share research and ideas, a little less polite sometimes to those that are too lazy to research and most importantly take responsibility to research themselves, and shot down the trolling shite as it's turned up with no useful purpose. I hope I have been helpful, but trust me it's been for my gain as much as anyone else's!

I probably bullied Daggeto and JohnyJ into attending the openday and asking questions bit too much though, haha!

In any case my confidence, positivity, optimism whatever is nothing to base your decision on, always do our own research. This may as well become a signature now, but the above probably needs a disclaimer in any case!

Edit: another factor i forgot to include was the almost doubling of price and reduction in power BFL revised at the beg of April. I had waited after reading the forums for a while (both BFL and here as a non-member) to see a prototype from them before ordering. I saw the Jalepeno for all of a handful of days before the price increase, but didn't purchase then because I hadn't seen proof of a real multi-chip configuration aside Avalon. Jalepeno evidence does not equal Single SC evidence and how right I was. I still had some itchy feet, the price increase solidified it. For me the KnC choice boils down to this; verifiable background (LinkedIN), video, communications, credit card payment, ORSoC reputation and proximity close enough for me to physically meet and check out those responsible personally, additionally verified by other independent third parties as well (Daggeteo, JohnyJ, 600Watt, et al.).

you need to get out more.. tell that to the waiting list for a tesla or a ferrari

or for certain preferred stock in a company...you really need to get off the training wheels of life

one question for bitcoinrama

are you on their payroll?

No payment was made, but those who followed earliest and were interested in the development clicked a button to generate a volume of interest.

That volume of interest was disclosed to ORSoC meeting a minimum they had set before considering the project as a partner.

Without that known volume of interest there would be no KnC and ORSoC partnership.

Andreas and Sam had no interest on pursuing this without ORSoC.

With this in mind and many serious contenders in the original 500 that confirmed pre-order placements KnC promised to honour those that helped them ensure this project met ORSoC's criteria of a minimum 500-1000 units.

KnC are now making good on that. Which to be fair is pretty damn respectful.

There is some vocal opposition but they were 1. Late to the party or not paying attention, or 2. Not aware of how this has progressed.

KnC and ORSoC for all intents and purposes appear to be a pretty cool set of guys bending over backwards to accommodate as much as they can for people. I can definitely vouch for them taking my ideas into genuine consideration, there's a poll on their homepage proving that!!

In any case they are setting up for production not batches! So dependant on volumes produced per day you have little to concern yourself with. At least in comparison to those ordering month(s) later...

If this is really the case, my sincere apologies. I did not realize that the 1-500 orders were actually money down pre-orders.

But my question is this then, what the hell are people selling exactly with these 1-500 orders? because these things are going for 3btc a piece, nobody in their right might is going to sell a bought and paid for Miner for 3btc... unless this includes the purchase price separatly. I thought these are nothing more than clicks in the kncminer.com "Add to cart" button. But if as you say, money was put up. I have no problem with this.

What I do have a problem with is someone clicking the button... a month ago, then coming to find out a month later, that there may be actual value in the product AFTER someone has already taken the risk and paid, then going back to their cart, paying for a stale order, and getting it before me when they waited till the last minute to pay... This I have a problem with..

3 months only? Not so much then.

Anyway, when I speak of "old busines strategy", I don't necessarily imply fraud. It's a sound practice to keep your business running in case of, say, "Force Majeure". You can more easily dump the toxic bit that way. In Europe it's still costly, but it's usually less than "total loss". I wouldn't be surprised if the IP stayed with ORSoC "just in case".

Incorrect. The initial 500 pre-orderers (if that's a term) enabled KnC to secure ORSoC as a partner.

Part of their criteria to come aboard was an idea of volume of genuine interest.

You may not remember the initial revision of the KnC site, but it gave two scenarios.

Those prepared to pay for a $3k machine upfront pre-order to be in the first 500.

Those prepared to pay half the funds to secure a $3k machine upfront, followed by the second half at the time delivery starts to be in a second batch of 500. (Memories foggy, think that deal was right).

In any case they want to reward those that helped them make this a reality...

In this case confirmed interest talked and said money will follow with a shit-hot ASIC design team.

KnC have openly said; No ORSoC on board, no dice. It was the initial pre-orderers that made this happen...

DPoS... Stop being an ass... seleme is exactly right, Just because Person "A" clicks a button on lets say May 15th for example, then person "B" PAYS for his order on June 3rd BEFORE person "A" has done so, Person "A" should NOT be placed before Person "B".

Money Talks... and this is the equivalent of someone cutting the line which In in most places would earn you an asswhoopin.

but I digress... The price you pay for participating in a specialized market...

Disclaimer: I have paid as of June 4. Now, I get to watch as 500 others get their product before me, regardless of when they paid.

Pure guesstimate...but I reckon older the original sign of interest the earlier you queue position.

Nothing confirmed, haven't asked. Just logic.

ordered 1 jupiter and was wondering...(for a possible second jupiter)

Use my new order number #687 or my old pre-order ID
Order ID: 1778
The desired goods: Jupiter

Ok, wanted to update everyone with an email I received from Sam about the confusion with the pre-order number versus the order number.  Looks like my place in line is, just like was being said before in this forum, based on the pre-order number.  Mine is 1700+ for a 1-500 Jupiter, but I guess there hasn't been a lot of paying customers so my order should still be within the first few days of shipping.

This will be good news for anyone who has a pre-order number above 1700 or didn't pre-register for the 1-500.