the dude tried sellin me this miner last night lol. after sendin him a post from twitter with a user askin why his order hasnt shipped months after and of a person from china askin how to buy these in china he replied back tellin me basically thats not proof that asicminer isnt shippin what they have sold. i even went on to ask him to please provide the reviews/pics/posts/threads/.....anything that supports the idea that these miners are in fact real. he ignored that part even when i said it in multiple comments again and again. its one thing to overlook it once but a handful of times is hard to brush off and a simple mistake.
the only reason he recorded this video is because i asked him to provide the tear down he promised. keep in mind he replied sayin he created the tear down already showin the internals he just didnt have time to upload it. that claim was a month or so ago. he then records this video last minute yesterday evening and labeled it a "tear down" but doesnt remove a single thing from the miner. he also shoots the entire video from a crack in the miners case. thats the same as claimin me recordin an s9 video through the fins of the fan is classified as a tear down. thats retarded!
ne way to my main point. i told him to put him money where his mouth it and get me one of these miners. i will even pay for a new one once it arrives. i would then tear it down fully and upload all the pics and videos for everyone to see. if its legit i would fully come out sayin im sorry and i was wrong....he replied back sayin i could buy the one he shows in the videos to finally end this "harassment". i emailed him usin the address he provided and was shocked to find out he wanted me to pay him $4700 for the machine he got for free and that isnt even confirmed to be an actual miner yet. he has since stopped replyin to me but at 4700 at the current diff it would take almost 3 years to roi. thats not takin into account increases in diff and the simple fact that no one even knows if this is a real miner.
if u watch his video u will see a standard pc power cord being plugged into the internal psu floatin in the center of the box. this means a specialized power cord wasnt needed like they claimed. u can also see how he avoids showin what he "thinks is the controller" on the other side of the miner. thats a pretty important part but he doesnt show it in his so called "tear down" video. if that wasnt enough everyone should note that these miners dont have a web interface. u cant configure the miner. u have no control over the machine what so ever. in order to do ne "configuration" u have to login to asicminers website using a login code printed on a sticker inside the miner. thats important because if the company runs away again how do u configure ur so called miner?? u cant login locally like u can with every other miner on the market. come to think of it has there ever been a miner that u couldnt config locally?? besides hosted or cloud miners of course....but physical hardware always has the config controlled locally via a controller or ur pc.
also what miner in the history of miners has had as little coverage as these have?? what miner havent been taken apart?? what miner has been "shipped all over the world to many many customers" with not one of those customers posting about them?? there is 0 info about these machines that everyone except folks in china can purchase it seems. this dude even told me people tell him all the time about their miners arrivin but those people have yet to post a single word confirmin these claims hes makin?? not 1 person?? really?? how is that possible??
based on the specs of the miner its pretty large. it also says it has the exact same number of chips in the unit as an antminer s9. since size doesnt really matter when it comes to liquid cooling why is so much free space bein created in a miner they claim is for datacenters and has the ability to pack lots of hashrate into a tiny package?? to me the design looks like it provides very little miner density. they could have used a design similar to the antminer C1 that had everything in a nice neat package or make a slightly larger enclosure to mount everything in that. instead they made this big box with tons of wasted free space in it.
why did they send him a review machine too? he has no cred in this community. reddit has dogged him for his ignorance in the past as well so y wasnt a trusted third party reviewer chosen instead of this clown? he didnt even review it. he recorded himself walkin around the box a few times and turnin the fans on. other than that he showed us nothing of value....except maybe the whole cloud config nonsense. i just hope he remembers that profiting from a scam isnt legal in the us especially if ur helpin push the scam onto others. he just wants to make a few bucks from sellin hardware that is unknown.
im still lookin to tear one of these down so if ne one has one please lmk. im tired of goin back and forth with retards that are clearly tryin to gain from somethin they know is an elaborate scam. this will continue to be one until proven otherwise which hasnt happened in the months they have claimed to be shippin them out so i dont see that changin now. hopefully we see someone actually tear the machine down and show all of us what is really goin on inside that machine because this dude sure as hell isnt willin to do ne thing in a legit way.