Quote from: elokk on March 17, 2016, 03:37:38 AM

we need to stop buying Bitmain gear. Vote with our dollars and force these bad actors to conform to what is right or we make them irrelevant.

Quote from: Newko on March 17, 2016, 03:41:48 AM

I wish I did more research before buying my S7 - I didn't realize what a greedy company they were, mining empty blocks and all. Now I wish I had an Avalon 6 instead. Well, it least I won't mine there.

Quote from: philipma1957 on March 17, 2016, 03:53:53 AM

The reality is complete separation from antpool/bitmaintech is hard to do.

Quote from: elokk on March 17, 2016, 04:11:43 AM

My next miner will be an Avalon mostly because they supported this pool with the contest plus everyone talks highly of the quality

These are exactly the reasons I just bought an Avalon 6 and not an S7, despite the S7 being just slightly more efficient. I told myself I would never buy new asic gear, I started with a $20 S1, then graduated to a $100 S3+, both before I even really knew who Bitmain was. I recently picked up an S5 for <$180, another good deal for the hardware, but buying used I didn't feel like I was directly supporting Bitmain. I will run the S5 for a while still, I may bring the S3+ back but yea, it is tough to completely separate from Bitmain since they are so pervasive. Once I saw how Avalon supports cgminer I made up my mind that they would get my money if/when I decided to buy a new, current generation miner, and they did.

Quote from: nhando on March 17, 2016, 06:35:01 AM

Running it as a business, you simply can't beat the S7 as it's priced to kill off the competitions.

It's unfortunate that the bottom line has to drive business decisions many times. Even though the Avalon 6 is not as cost efficient as the S7 if it were my business I would do everything I could to put my money with Avalon; sometimes making the "right" decision is better than making the cheaper decision if your business model can support it.

Quote from: TTravis on March 17, 2016, 05:06:51 PM

Because they can. They called me into a meeting at their location. I brought my electrician along.

You are a paying customer, you have a service with them, you are entitled to use that service as long as you pay for it. You should have brought a lawyer, not an electrician. They don't get to tell you what you can or can't do on your property, nor can they limit you to an arbitrary average value of those residents around you. They are stupid to drive away a well paying customer.