Today I received this reply to my email including the detailed whois information posted by yelloyello ...
Hi Michael.
I was really suprised when I saw this. I saw topic that you linked to, but I wonder what source is this information from. User that provide this is not giving the source, and we are 100% sure that this is wrong.
(yelloyello please comment)I opened support ticket in our hosting provider system, and I want to get explanation of this (if this is true). If I will have any additional information I will let you know.
In the end I can tell you. We are not connected with this persone from Pakistan.
I dont know why this is apperaring (actually I don know even where this is appearing).
In our domain settings is absolute diffrent data set.
About Netherlands. I am sorry but I dont know how works our hosting company behind the scenes. We do not have control over it.
Regards.
Feng.
Minerscube.com
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With Cointerra now selling June delivery Terraminer iv I have sent a further email to Feng asking him for definitive proof that they are a legitimate company with a real product to sell that will be delivered as promised in May.
I will be making a final decision and confirming an order on Wednesday 5 March.
The numbers for me look like this ...
Minerscube 8.5 ... 20nm technology 8.5Th/s at 1400 watts
Terraminer iv ... 28nm technology 2Th/s at 2100 watts
Minerscube 8.5 ... 9.8 BTC including delivery via UPS
effective cost in NZD ... 9.8BTC = approx $7,000 plus tax on importation 15% $1050 total $8050
Terraminer iv ... USD$5999 + delivery via UPS $821.78 = $6820.78
effective cost in NZD ... USD$6820.78 = USD/NZD 0.83 ... $8217.81 plus tax on importation 15% $1232.67 total $9450.48
As you can clearly see to buy a known product that will be delivered in June but operates at 25% of the other and uses 50% more electricity costs me $1400 more or 2BTC
This why I really really want minerscube to be genuine, at current difficulty it's the difference between earning daily 0.27 BTC (approx) with the TM iv against 1.06 (approx) with the cube 8.5
* those figures are based on the performance of a pair of TM's I monitor, they run at at 1.2 - 1.6 Th/s and discover .48 - .51 BTC daily. I assumed new TM's would hash at around 1.8 and used the same ratio for the cube 8.5 so the numbers were realistic not fantasy.
I'll let you what I finally decide, but it's looking like I'll suck it up, take the hit and order from Cointerra. Once I see that Minerscube are shipping and are performing as quoted, I'll be switching to them I think.