Wow that's a great story. I hope the owner of bitcointalk.org bars Hashfast from attempting to sell/rip off anyone else from this site.
I remember many people bailing on Jupiter orders for Baby Jets, and how long the arguments went on and on for weeks and weeks how HashFast was gonna smash KNC... and so was Cointerra. Meanwhile, BFL created a whole new category of company.
Is it outlandish to think Spooners
at least HF is within US territory... allowing it to be stopped. I hope BFL is next.... They are overdue
BUT.... I don't see HOW they can "Freeze" a wallet without the api key.. anyone?
or even WITH the api key. The "freeze" function does not exist. they would have to transfer it to a state held wallet, no?
They don't need to revoke physical access to the key. If coins move from the address, then it's contempt of court and possible fines plus jail time. I imagine if they were stupid enough to do something like that then the court would start freezing bank accounts or tangible assets.
I wonder now if this new prescience will spread to other states housing ASIC manufacturers.
My guess is that this may be "The beginning of the End" for preordered ASICS, which I wouldn't mind a bit.
*I bailed on my Neptune, waiting in the "Refund ready for process" mode...
I bumped one the other buyers order numbers up to the first spot, and refunded the one last in line, so he will get the first Neptune now... no sense in losing that spot. ATM, a refund of 10,100 nets 21 Bitcoin, I like that idea, and am hoping the price stays low whilst waiting on the refund.
