Quote from: Metroid on Today at 02:19:19 AM

Quote from: Bitcoin_Arena on Today at 12:05:20 AM

Who even spends that much and buy ASICs from sites like Alibaba or Aliexpress?

I know some merchants have the Trade assurance program, but there have been several complaints about people buying equipment that stops working after a few weeks..... well, after the trade assurance period has expired.

It's funny but is entirely possible they place something inside to make that hardware to stop working after some time, like a timed small bomb, it could be a circuit or many circuits, a board to be fried, I heard some asic companies were doing that to random ltc asic miners back in 2013, to me in the end they are all scammers in some way, asic market is scammer's paradise.

This reminded me of the malware called "logic bomb" as once infected the host it waits until a certain predefined time to blow up the data or do whatever it is programmed to do.While I believe this to happen in the Cybersecurity world I find it difficult to believe it that ASIC producers are doing it unless solid evidence is provided,meaning a lot of ASICS blowing up for example after 6 months of use.In the IT world everything can happen but I find it a bit difficult that even good companies like Bitmain do this.