Quote from: theterabyte on February 19, 2014, 10:57:40 PM

The following things are still of critical importance IMO:
1. Ensure that the new address where all COG funds are stored will be verifiable and contains *all* the expected "reinvestment" funds (so it should have 50% of all divs since the time of the last CT order, right?)
2. Ensure that all of our hardware is using a visible pool like eligius, against the same address, and has backup pools should eligius go down, for best uptime
3. Ensure that the pools we use, along with their deposit address, are all documented ON THE WEBSITE (for BTC and scrypt miners) (we can't be digging through this entire thread to get critical info like our current hashrate, payout address, etc)

Once all of these are done, the "present" is taken care of, and there can be no question about stolen funds moving forward, the only questions are about the past. To clear those up, we'd like to see the following:

1. The long-promised financial report. How much did our CT order cost exactly? What money came in/out last year?
2. What payout address was in use during the infamous "missing div" period? Was the discrepancy due to your error, the pool's error, bad luck, or something else? Any answer is better than no answer.

Finally, after that in priority, it'd be nice to have a discussion about next steps.
1. Tell us more about this PR person
2. What does our reinvestment fund look like? Are we still in talks with CT? Will we be placing another order soon? How are the scrypt machines doing, is their return making that look like a better plan than more ASIC based hardware? (imma guess "probably not", but worth considering)

Here are the answers to your questions, in order:

1.) Garrett plans to have the new public address where all COG funds are stored up and running tonight. The %50 of all dividends since the last CT order will be a part of it.
2.) All hardware is currently going through Eligius. The backup pool is through btcGuild.
3.) Documentation on the pools being used, their deposit addresses, and other information about hardware, hashrate, etc will be on the Cognitive website sometime tonight. I believe specifically at www.cognitivemining.com/charts

1.) Unfortunately, we don't have a financial report yet. Putting one together is going to be a very time consuming process, and we don't have the time quite yet. Soon though.
2.) The "missing div" period was a result of very bad luck. Right now we don't have any way to prove this, but its what happened.

1.) I've already told you a bit about myself
2.) Our reinvestment fund has around 15 coins in it. As far as communication with CT, Garrett was in Austin last week talking to Ravi (CEO of CoinTerra) taking about future orders, and what the pricing will look like in the coming months. Garrett has established good relationships with the CEOs of both CT and Hashfast, which will be very advantageous in the future.

I hope this clears some things up. More info to come in the next few hours, including PICTURES!

Thanks for your patience,

Samuel