Quote from: mohamedtarmohamed on December 13, 2014, 01:04:08 AM

Its clear their servers are not in at the address on their website as its an accommodation / registered office address.

They may not want to make public their mining farm address for security reasons which is understandable, but I am willing to give an undertaking to them and sign any agreement that I will not disclose the exact location.

I'm note even sure if i should assume they have hardware running somewhere
in the center of london, I don't know if I would...
how much is the average power costs in london? I have no clue...

I guess it could be close to what you'd pay in other eauropean metropolitan
regions. but that power needs would be in the ranges of mW/h, however
the rates differ somewhat compared to standard private conditions.

but there's countries close or within the EU having waaay lower energy costs
and some attractive remote locations... in terms of getting some serious
building for nuts and energy at fractional costs you'd pay at home this is a very
apealing option.

abandoned industry class depots and facilities are a steal, no condemned ruins of course...
they might even bring out the red carpet for you, as actually someone is giving them
a bunch moolah for what lay fallow til then Wink

that's however one factor that could change a lot and that'd be factors I would
care for a lot when choosing a location.
low energy costs are a real game changer to keep you running esp. in the
starting months. poland and czechia seems to be very interresting locations
regarding this.

putting 1 and 1 together, my guess would be the whole thing consists of several
different calculations and sub venturing... not just some pure, true oldschool
mining farm from the days when 'cloud' still was associated with that plushy
vapour stuff over our heads and not close to being awarded the
don't-you-dare-saying-it-just-once-more - word of the year.

a lot of eggs in various nests, step by step some physical mining here and there,
some franchising to get things going with little to no initial costs for parting the
earnings... some fixed interred here, some venturing there, dealing with hedged
future options could be a vial option to crank your stock back up if you're actually
into that kind of gamb...err trading.

having the right people at hand to fiddle your own stuff would be also an option
to get a big advantage...
...but in whatever place such engineering would be supposed to happen, one thing
is sure, it's not that stock one time install miner warehouse that we can see in the
image that almost went viral over the last pages of this thread.
guess, that was intended to suggest being representative and provide that techy
look and feel, just enough to send the anticipated 'serious' message Cheesy

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now turning suspicious mode completely of, my best guess would be that they go for
a wildly mixed concept (but want to build up more own physical mining power.)
that would fit exactly the special nature of those type of trading/mining companies
but usually mixes badly with the concept, most people share when making their
estimations if a certain business can be considered 'serious' and 'trustworthy'.

... needless to mention that I suspect at least 80-90% of mankind to prefer
beeing shy and less talkative about such adventurous patchwork calculations
than to go straigh open, as they fear such openheartedness is the way to drive
their crowd away.
so it's more likely the do like most would do and try to vamp up their image
as god as possible, to give the customer what they suppose he need to see to
cut asking questions.

that's in fact is how all business works... but all those fraud woven and high risk
assets especially on this sector also help with donating some extra pessure...

I'd prefer if at least part of a walkthrough video as well would include an interview
whith the guys where they tell teir story. something you can actually believe, that
is the point when those human face to face skills are back in game.
you can tell way better if someones telling bull or not if you get input on all
channels... no need for location details, but something plausible no sweettalk...

...pff, as if someone would believe that all those retailer cloud mining backends
actually had only the remotest influence on what actually happens with some miner
hardware?!? ...let alone that minerhardware running on the same continent... let
alone that minerharware running at all ...most things happen in the mind

I'm always at the position, tell it how it is... if someone choose to stay, he knows the stakes.
so he has the feeling to have full controll.

if you tell a nice story to suite the customer who might already being suspicious, he wont
let go the alert mode for a very long time and every little glitch will spill loads of adrenaline...
so he suspects more and more things being beyond his controll.

... and because most people are easy to impress with fine addresses and their imagination
renders some tacky ass office in some fine street, and in fact in most cases it's
just tacky ass postboxes in some fine street.
maybe with some office service you can rent... answering phones, checking the mail,
fax, etc... logistic backbone or an entire staff... even on an hourly basis.

and most people still go 'whow... nice1, that addy' when their imagination goes wild.
sure, save to say you have a slightly different picture of an address somewhere in bromley
than you get picturing an east end office with london tower at hands reach, somewhere
between eastern smithfield and royal mint street... sounds even better Cheesy

everyone can hire such service, it's as much 'office' you need on fixed budget... and as said,
the address looks a lot better on your letterhead...

mundus vult decipi ergo decipiatur...

oups... that was a lot and one...