Quote from: mauiflipper on January 25, 2014, 05:19:47 PM

Quote from: Augusto Croppo on January 25, 2014, 04:57:37 PM

Quote from: Phoenix1969 on January 25, 2014, 11:46:59 AM

UK.Gov seems to think they existed for quite some time... you have proof otherwise?

http://i.imgur.com/fzSG1YM.png

Or you guys too busy whacking off to Rebecca's pic to investigate, and would rather just troll?

We all predicted the "unknown" asic companies secretly developing...and here they are... now you chastise the secret development, when it's a key component to any high tech business, and when it unfolded just as predicted?

http://www.ctsminer.com/about-us/

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ABOUT US

Crypto Technology Systems, the team behind the CTS Miner, have been established in the microprocessor industry since 1975. CTS are an elite group formed internally from a world-class microprocessor engineering company at the forefront of Embedded controller design and manufacture, supplying products for a wide range of applications including Aircraft Testing, Remote Switchgear Operation, Stock Control, Instrumentation, Oil and Petrochemical Exploration, Marine Science and Environmental Control.

We have been following the cryptocurrency industry, and particularly Bitcoin mining, for the past year and a half. In May 2013, a team was put together to work on producing Bitcoin mining ASIC chips to be used in miners. Our small management team have had the backing of 50 full time microprocessor designers and engineers here in the UK. Over the past 8 months, we have worked tirelessly to build a group of products which outperform all competitors that will be available at a price which is un-matchable.

The "Crypto Technology System" is not a subsidiary of "Cambridge Microprocessor System Limited". They are completely different entities. The first entity is fake and unregistered, while the later entity is real and registered. The people operating the first entity is misrepresenting the later entity. They are providing false information to instigate a false sense of confidence among potential ~~customers~~ victims.

http://www.ctsminer.com/contact-us/

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Unit 17A
Chelmsford Road Industrial Estate
Great Dunmow
Essex
CM6 1XG
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1371 606056

http://www.cms.uk.com/cms_contact_us.html

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Cambridge Microprocessor
Systems Limited

Unit 17, Zone D
Chelmsford Road Industrial Estate
Great Dunmow
Essex
CM6 1XG
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 1371 606050
Facsimile: +44 1371 606051

The "Crypto Technology System" is using a very similar address and telephone number used by "Cambridge Microprocessor System Limited". Notice the slight difference is the zone letter for the address and the last digits for the telephone number.

A research using domaintools.com Internet page shows the domain ctsminer.com was redirect from the IP address 185.8.106.66 to the IP address 199.188.201.252. In accordance with the above evidence, the Internet Page was host in the IP address 185.8.106.66 from 13rd January 2014 to 17th January 2014. An examination of the IP address 185.8.106.66 reveals some interesting results, such as:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/185.8.106.66/information/

The WHOIS record on 19th January 2014 for the domain butterflyiab.com matches exactly with the WHOIS record on 12th January 2014 for the domain ctsminers.com:

That means it is very likely the same person operating the domain ctsminers.com is also responsible for the domain butterflyiab.com. Both domains were first directed to a hosting service located in Lithuania. One domain is being used to perpetrate a fraudulent scheme and the other was registered to prey on people which misspell the official domain from Butterfly Labs.

IT does not mean that the same person is operating both domains. It just means they used the same domain registration obfuscation service. Corporations do that in order to not give their competitors and clue as to what they are doing. I performed some ns lookups and IP geolocations:

ctsminer.com resolves to 199.188.201.252 -> United States -> Los Angeles -> Namecheap
cms.uk.com resolves to 94.136.40.103 -> United Kingdom -> Derby -> Webfusion Internet Solutions
butterflylabs.com resolves to 141.101.123.48 -> United Kingdom -> London -> Cloudflare Cdn Network

The fact that ctsminer.com & cms.uk.com are not hosted on the same server or even the same network is a little disconcerting, I must admit. But clearly nothing to do with butterfly labs.

You are correct Butterfly labs has nothing to do with this. They also have nothing to do with the post you quoted. The URL in question is butterflyiabs.com note the i instead of an L.

Did you see my post above directed at you ? Just curious if you can give me an answer.