@QuestionTime: Why are you feared to ask simple question to Giorgio from Bitmine? You should question everyone if you have doubt or you have some purpose for the misleading information. We do not have any business with Bitmine. Also Bitmine could not even put the answer in legal term to the question:
Does Innosilicon have right to sell the chips or not?
Do you see Innosilicon on this list:
http://bitmine.ch/?page_id=5204Designed from scratch, Bitmines Coincraft A1 is a third generation Bitcoin Mining IC developed by Bitmine in co-operation with a team of expert engineers from
Innosilicon. Targeting the highest possible power efficiency, the A1 is made to be deployed in huge binary trees structures within large scale private or public mining pools.
@QuestionTime : everyone knows they are in cooperation!
Aye, they even have Innosilicon as a hyperlink.
It would not be a simple matter of calling an electrician to wire the machine to mains if there are no compliance marks.
Indeed not as you can see on the pictures. It's simple enough to use a different power source though. You have done well to point out enough controversy surrounding these devices, but the claim on the bitmine website is they could be a scam (they've sent me hardware, I'm not saying whether others will get hardware), or they're sending some kind of inferior or imitation product - and I can't attest to any of that.
But stolen goods? IP concerns?
The bitmine CoinCraft A1 chips used in these Chinese 28nm miners were not legally obtained from bitmine or its authorised distributors.
I don't see evidence to make that final association, but I shall ask bitmine myself.