Quote from: chalkboard17 on June 29, 2015, 08:35:42 PM

Is this site claiming to be brazilian based? Brazil's got one of the most expensive energy prices. I am surprised nobody ever took a look at this. I am struggling to mine with solar panels (and being robbed by waldohoover) here. No way somebody is mining 850gh/s in Brazil. He would need to have a gigantic solar farm or steal electricity which would be easy at small scale but very hard at such scale, not to say impossible.
I doubt he is brazilian. Marcelo Santos is a very generic name, Marcelo is one of top 10 first names and santos top 3 surnames.

if this goes by the 0.01% possibility that is not a scam, I would love to visit their farm!

I did touch on the subject of energy prices in Brazil a few days before you had asked about it and in the research I found was not promising. As of 2013 Brazil ranked a 2-3 times higher costs of energy than more developed countries such as US, Canada, or even Russia and in the last year alone the energy prices have tripled. The reason it could not be competitive is the heat, Brazil is a very hot country and most of it's energy comes from air conditioning. If you had a mining farm it would be very expensive to run it in Brazil because it would cost additional money in order to keep the miners cool so they don't break down from the heat, this is why the most competitive mining farms are run in cold climates, india which has some of the lowest costs, or China where some farms are subsidized by the government.

Quote from: Crestington on June 28, 2015, 04:33:42 AM

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Quote from: ValleyOfTheWolves on June 28, 2015, 03:34:40 AM

I was just sarcastic you guys already make drama tjeezzz..

and by the way where did you get that much time and energy to write each page something pfff.. can't deal with your guys
have better things to do.

Good Bitcoin investments don't take a lot of babysitting and leave one with some free time. See how many people are questioning if Hashnest is really mining, or if they're really in China, etc. If you invest in legit mining or Bitcoin funds, you don't have to constantly worry and watch to make sure you're coming out ahead. Kind of nice, actually.

Normally I would garden or something but it's been crap weather, and Netflix gets old, so why not have fun here?

I found this, maybe is can help? This is supposed to be their business or possibly related.

http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.adaobraga.com.br/brasil-tecnologia-da-informacao-ltda-o-golpe-do-boleto-facultativo/&prev=search

No actual listing of "MKT information technology" anywhere, and if it's located in Curitiba Brazil I can't imagine how it could compete effectively anyways since Brazil is one of the hottest countries in the world.

Quote from: Crestington on June 28, 2015, 11:14:06 PM

Quote from: hantmec on June 28, 2015, 03:17:44 PM

Quote from: Crestington on June 28, 2015, 11:52:06 AM

So how would it be possible for Scrypt.cc to be able to negotiate lower energy prices when Brazil has approximately triple the energy costs as USA with the recent hikes in energy prices? http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-business/electricity-bills-to-increase-by-70-percent-in-rio-and-sao-paulo/#

You may also combine this with the anonymous newbie account, no pictures of any mining equipment, and the recent "hack" which would make it pretty much impossible for them to repay all customers. The name Marcelo Santos doesn't really mean anything, might as well be Jesus as there is nothing to check it against.

Completely agree, just pointing out that Curitiba is not in the states discussed on the news you've posted (Rio and São Paulo); Curitiba is in Paraná (the state where I live and where the situation is even worse since not only the federal government raised the power bill nationwide, the state government has raised it a little more in Paraná).

At least one thing on this website has a high probability of being real: the admin is indeed brazilian. Some people have claimed that he is american / indian because of IP tracking results, but today he answered a message on S.CC's "trollbox" (chat) in perfect portuguese, even using a slang.

Curitiba itself wasn't really the point as the general vicinity gives an idea of power costs. Would power costs between neighboring countries be radically different? No it would not because it's affected by environmental factors such as weather and if you are mining, that generates a great deal of heat in one of the hottest countries in the world. You could not achieve less power costs than US, Canada, or even Russia because the national average in Brazil is twice that of those countries and in order to keep all the rigs from literally melting in the heat, the cooling alone would make it uncompetitive.