Quote from: tmfp on December 04, 2018, 11:14:57 AM

Rockminer.... that name certainly brings back memories for older members of the forum, and not necessarily good memories either.
But anyway, that AMHash drama was all a long time ago (in cryptoland time anyway), over three years.....
I thought the brand ROCKMINER would have been so toxic after that episode and the behavior of the principals involved so poor, plus the fact that Rockminer were broke and not making anything, that the name would have been dropped as useless.
The next time I heard of Rockminer being mentioned was when I was researching the Gainbitcoin cloudmining scam and the thief and scammer Amit Bhardwaj came out as having bought 40% of the Rockminer company, two years ago, thru his fraudulent company Amaze Mining..

Quote from: Nov 2016

On the occasion of the stake acquisition, jubilant Amit Bhardwaj, said I liked the vision of the company and what they are building is extraordinary and inspiring. After a series of exciting conversations and meetings with Alex (Co-Founder, RockMiner), the terms of the acquisition were finalized.

Quote from: Nov 2016

Alex, co-founder of RockMiner also showed his happiness on the latest partnership with Amit Bhardwaj and said, Joining forces with Amaze Mining & Blockchain Research Ltd allows us to double-up our focus on innovation and product development.

Yes, only two years ago, within "2-3 months," he claimed that

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Each 14nm chip in the miner will be able to attain up to 65 GH/s. This development comes after 3 years of hard work at RockMiner.

(Which turned out to be 10% less than Bitmain's S9 chips).

Your own version of your timeline doesn't include Mr. Bhardwaj's investment though. Why is that?

In that short period of time, Rockminer claim to have built a huge business

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5 mining farms located in
Sichuan, Yunnan, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang

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We have participated in or led the construction of dozens of mining
farm facilities

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In the meanwhile, our mining farms in Kazakhstan, Canada, Sweden
are also under construction.

What I find most impressive is that you have been able to build this huge conglomerate without the Internet noticing at all.
Google "Rockminer" and see what I mean.
Apart from the newly revitalized Rockminer.com site at the top, your first page is ancient reviews of 2014 hardware, not one single mention, not a press release, not a review, of all the massive expansion you claim into the realms of

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5% of total network hashrate

Nothing apart from your Twitter account that is, which has a four year silence until this August.
When I say "without the Internet noticing" (further example, the Wayback Machine shows nothing for four years), I guess maybe that's what people mean when they refer to the 'Great Firewall': a Chinese company like Rockminer can bring itself back from the dead and grow into a major player in the Bitcoin world without the West knowing about it at all?

This seems to be a strange time strategically to be actively expanding cloud mining activity, when it's estimated that something like 500,000 S9's equivalent have stopped mining BTC during the recent price and difficulty drop.
Presumably you feel confident to be able to deliver a profitable service, seeing as you claim to be mining with

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75W/T

machines.
Which would they be, as you only list Avalon 841's as the most efficient on your shop page (insecure btw), and they are not 75W/T?

Hi there,

Certainly you have some misunderstandings about ROCKMINER.

1. We do not own AMHash ourselves. We had a partnership with ASICMINER at that time (2014). The hashrate of AMHash was provided by ASICMINER. We ended the partnership with ASICMINER and didn't participate in the hashrate redemption part. (ASICMINER was taking care of ending AMHash and they redeemed hashrate from customers.). The news you said that ROCKMINER was broke is FAKE. ROCKMINER NEVER WENT BROKE once.

2. Mr. Bhardwaj never bought 40% of ROCKMINER. He had the intention to buy some shares of ROCKMINER but he did pay it. The article in Medium does not match the fact and we are reaching out to the author to retract the article. As for the 14 nm chips, we didn't make hardware anymore after 2014 and tranformed our business model to mining facility management.

3. Here are some press about ROCKMINER
https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/rockminer/
https://bitsonline.com/interview-alex-lam-rockminer/
https://www.cybtc.com/article-3285-1.html
https://www.jinse.com/bitcoin/250127.html

4. In the past few years, we tried to keep a low profile in front of the public because we want to provide the best service to our customers. After a few years of learning and managing, we think we have the ability to provide our customer with great cloud mining experience. And you may have a new attitude towards ROCKMINER after experiencing our service.
We can guarantee that all the hashrate from our cloud mining platform are 100% real and you can experience 7-day free bitcoin mining by registering on our website.

5. Our X10-BTC cloud mining contract does not run by Avalon 841. You may check the details of this contract in this link: https://hash.rockminer.com/orderdetailx10?fee=0.00017396&elefee=0.00011&price=0.0885&buy_num=300&unit=GHS&efficiency=75&eunit=mW&lang=en
The daily earning of this contract still have some profits even with the current bitcoin price and difficulty.