On another note -- since this affects the credibility of Smarterhash -- owned by the person who ran LifeForcePools...
If you go to
http://shop.lifeforce.info/shop/astro-100mh/You see:
Shipments scheduled to begin 6/22/15 PLEASE NOTE YOU ARE PRE-ORDERING
HASHRA ASTRO
100 MH/S ASIC SCRYPT MINER
QUANTITY DISCOUNTS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL ANY ORDER YOUR MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED
So what is the deal? Is this a scam or is this real? Why is the shop still up? Lifeforcepools is down, but their shop is still up.
I really don't chime in on a lot of conversations, but figured I throw a quick post on this. Way WAY back when the store first opened I figured fuck it, and pre ordered a single unit. if I lost out then well it's not much money. So he (lifeforcepools) did go silent for quite awhile, but since February, he's been very vocal through emails about his dealing with HASHRA. I still have every last email he has sent. What I will say because I doubt we will ever see these machines is that HASHRA may turn out to be bad, but lifeforcepools has, at least to my knowledge, been quite good to everyone. If they decided to back out of the pre order, from what I understand, he has fully refunded their money. So I would say for now Lifeforcepools shop seems legit,(remember he is a reseller giving people option to pay with paypal, HASHRA only accepted BTC), HASHRA is still in question. Do your research yourself, but this is how I understand it, that's all.