Dirt on the heatsinks and them selling it as new.. damn that's not very honest.. Is that just with Bitmain or also with WhatsMiner etc.?
Also, do you know how many of these units are being produced? Like tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands? or is there some place I can find this out?
Thanks for the information btw, really appreciate it.
This was years ago with I think the S7. I think there were a few members here who got their units and looked inside and they were full of dirt. When inquired about it, they just said its very dirty warehouse in China.
One way we could track the Bitmain sales was basically by looking at their BTC payment address, you could easily see how many units people ordered by the amount of BTC spent. I think phil used to track this back in the day. No idea if they still do it like that. Most likely each payment has a unique address these days. And many people can pay by fiat which might not be on the blockchain. So impossible to get the unit numbers. They will never release this info.
Yeah was easy to see when they accepted btc you could look at a btc addy you paid them in and follow it backwards they used to have like 4 addresses with 5000-30000 btc in them
They were holding 100,000 plus btc even when coins were at 15k in 2017
They are more clever now and who know how much they took in via bank transfer. Or bag of cash money payments.
They sold old gear now and then. But the biggest con they do is cloud mining.
I have written many posts of what they can do via cloud mining. Including shutting done 405 of the btc gear in the world . while maintaining a 17 eh farm outside china.
this would mean:
17000 x 0.0047 = 80 coins daily when diff was 25.03
17000 x 0.0090 = 153 coins daily with the current diff of 14.3
I can prove hash is shut down including all of viabtc's cloud mining which was done in partnership with bitmain.
I can prove bitmain said they have 10% of the world hash when they claimed it the worlds hash was 170eh so 17eh
I do not know how much is outside china.
But they were building a large farm in Texas (now sure if it was done)
Times are very interesting but
Just check it out right here
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/19oNXtgrEX9Lt6c7w3XXAxAWR2T7Ff7CiC