Lol, I know this is a contrary post and off-topic. But I want to set a few misconceptions straight.

I bought contracts with PBMining in March and have just now reached a positive ROI. Although I don't think it would be possible now for new contracts with PBMINING to see positive ROI. Do I think it's a Ponzi? Heck, I don't know but I'm obviously not the best judge of trustworthiness since I lost 4.4BTC on Lunamine, lol.

BFL have actually delivered my Monarch about a week ago. I was a first day preorder (Aug 17th 2013). I was supposed to be shipped a second "free" Monarch at the same time but am still waiting for that. I also had 600GHs of compensation cloudmining since June 24th that was shutdown today. Yes, the current price is WAY too high at $1.97 per GHs but the Monarch is not outdated tech. It uses .7w/GHs which is still competitive with current generation miners from KNC, Bitmain and Spoondoolies.