Quote from: WillJ7 on December 05, 2018, 03:35:26 PM

Quote from: Xantrax on December 02, 2018, 01:10:58 AM

Sia is a great project with a company behind it, institutional money will come in at some point in the future if they can act together

I'd say you were a great comedian, but you probably believe your own statement. Brad: you will appreciate this -- it is coming up on the one-month-away from when I paid Obelisk for my SIA miner. What do they send me in my email inbox? An offer to buy an upgrade board for my miner, which has yet to ship. Or, they will buy back my as yet unshipped miner for $300. Swell, I'd love to light several hundred dollar bills on fire, what a great idea.

Because nothing screams we are really focused on getting the product you paid for out the door like announcing new products for the item that I already paid for and which STILL hans't shipped. Clue #2 is the stale 'if you need support, come join Discord, yeah!'

Clue #3 is that it would be trivial to put a spreadsheet grid up on the Obelisk site that let anyone see which orders (by order number and order date) had shipped, and which had not. I don't see anything like that. I write to "support" and I am directed towards vague postings, vague promises about the end of November, and such.

Here is what I think based on the evidence to date: they don't have their act together, it would take someone with the brains of Netflix to offer to buy them out. Amazon is not Netflix.

Edit: Another way to view this announcement is beta board v1 sucks. Doesn't make sense to make more of them. So let's give the suckers who paid almost a year ago these choices: pay MORE money for a decent board, the v2 board, or if you have really lost all patience, we will refund you $300, because we can take those unshipped units and give them to the hold-outs who want a miner but feel insulted that we want them to pay all over again for the v2 board.

yeah....lots of $450 coupons about thou...(I did not get any just saying) and you take off in the USA another 25% on equipment deduction off taxes you owe this year for the purchase...then add say your compensation for your previous obelisk (mine was $603.85 I think it was for 5 obelisks) ...well...I can see why their site (was) locked up yesterday and would not allow me to put in my BTC address..(hey, they probably have to generate some $$$ to pay the compensation by selling the boards..sorry couldn't resist)

anyway, the whole crypto universe is upside down..my non-forked obelisk from 2 months ago doorstops now make bucks....fake satoshi has crashed the btc price and such and likely

has taken over BCH as an altcoin...bitmain is going down with about $1 Billion in debt ... the SEC will likely NOT touch BTC ETF with a 10' pole for years

etc, etc.

Sheesh. From that perspective mining Siacoin and holding it looks downright sane! (not that I'm sure I should HODL anymore)

Just waiting now for Craig Wright proving he is Satoshi with private keys (hey, going with the craziest ideas lately) that would dump BTC to 1k fast indeed..everyone hates his ass.

Talking to my CPA today. My taxes set aside is fine. Although I can see the lecture coming Sad

However, I think we are going to get a recession so I can payback with my lecture

next year...hopefully....if crypto comes back and stablizes..and IF siacoin actually gets some traction on their 'network cloud storage' ....who knows...chump or champ we will

likely know by end of 2019