Is this the post you're saying was removed?
Precisely, we are the owner of the IP inside the A1 chip and the major contributor to the know-how of the inner workings that led to its development. We are aware of things like the one happening here and we even made a press release news concerning this matter:
http://bitmine.ch/?p=5178Whoever purchases these does that on its own risk and may be liable in its own country since we hold IP on that.
Feh this is ugly and I'd seen none of it cos there's too much forum activity to keep track of.
The website caution is:
when purchasing from an unauthorized distributor because most probably theyre a scam or a reseller of lower-grade, non-working or counterfeit ASICs
Where does it say anything about stolen goods?
The bitmine CoinCraft A1 chips used in these Chinese 28nm miners were not legally obtained from bitmine or its authorised distributors.