The code basically just runs:

window.open("https://pastebin.com/raw/zcUcd2tm");

The rest is a ruse. Don't send your money.

Wow, crazy - took a look at ebay's recently sold items, had no idea people would pay anything for these. Hard to call the sellers scammers though - especially the ones listed as auctions without promising any type of return, just listing what it does - if someone's willing to pay.... though I personally would make it very clear that it's basically a collector's item/lottery ticket only.

I can confirm tracking on a BCU purchased from Mineority, supposed to arrive Weds via Fedex, FWIW.

Thanks - your contributions have made it easier for even a relative novice to make further modifications to the code and come out (slightly) ahead of enemy and trex, even before their fees.

I've bought a couple mods from you - and been rejected when I asked for a discount on multiple, oh well, but I do have to say that your contributions have been very valuable, and make me more willing to pay full price in the future if it makes sense.

Fwiw, I feel like the altcoin mining community is somewhat distinct from the rest of the altcoin section (edit - so I would keep it in the altcoin mining sectoin). From what I see, many here don't necessarily care much about the specific coin they're mining, only that it gets them the best return (lately people talk more about $, but I think a lot of altcoin miners are doing it to trade them for btc - I fall in that camp).

Wow, yeah, most seem like scams - maybe a couple of domains for sale are legit - but it still seems like the right topic for it even though that topic needs work, or maybe in the thread for this alt?

Maybe digital goods?

How low are you bringing the memory speeds? 1100 seems high for a 56, and high to run XMR in general. I don't see much improvement over 950, and run mine at 920 getting about 1900h/s (edit - unflashed - I didnt see any benefit flashing to 64, either)

The price is coming down to the MSRP, which means that Vega cards should hold their value better going forward. I was really hoping for an ebay bucks promo this week with those Newegg Sapphire 56's at $419, but didn't happen, not for me at least. They're selling quite a bit at that price - I'm a little worried they'll raise it before another promo comes in. Either way, I see it as a good buy right now - XMR is pretty undervalued imo, and would only really tank along with a more widespread alt crash. And it's showing promise with other algos - I think this card has a lot of potential once miner developers have had more time to work with it.

If your modifications are valuable enough, I may be willing to purchase them. You'd have to give me the source code - but - if they're good enough, I'd have no incentive to share it (which would just increase difficulty), and I have no obligation to share it.

That happened to me too when I went to install it on another rig. Both zip and bin check out clean in Virustotal.

Worst they can do is direct all the hashpower to themselves, which they could do anyway with a binary - no need for a trojan.

But I wouldn't run on a machine you use for anything else until this is cleared up. For a mining rig, again, can't see the harm - I'll notice if extra hash is stolen at the pool and promptly report (as would others) - so I don't see a real incentive for the dev to do anything nefarious.

Seems to work well - from what I can tell it automates the process of manually toggling the HBCC slider. Much faster (and MUCH easier) than doing it manually. As long as both tools are together, the HBCC-activator runs first, the screen flashes a few times, and then it calls the miner.

Please keep in mind that ccminer is licensed under GPL, which means that while you are free to modify and distribute as you please (even sell it), anyone you distribute your modified version to must also receive the source code, including your modifications. Otherwise, you're in violation of the terms of the license, and could be liable to the copyright holders.

Your numbers are a bit off, then - what PSU are you using? Most are most efficient around 50% load (something like that, going from memory).

Hmm, I noticed that each additional card would add marginally more to my draw from the wall. Not as much as you're reporting - maybe about 5W/GPU (that is 1 GPU adds 130, 2 adds 135 (265 total), 3 adds 140 (405 total), etc.). I just chalked it up to extra CPU, lowered PSU efficiency, or something. Are you saying 2 cards bumps you by 260W, but 4 cards bumps you by 640W?

That's correct - the OP is violating the rights of the copyright holder by distributing this binary without the added code.

Thanks, and fair point - I just didn't have much time and needed to get things going. I also left most of my update/upgrade flags at 1 - something I have to fix later. So I guess skipping the purge part is for folks like me that had just a couple minutes to get their rigs back up.

I'll follow your advice and purge and reinstall later on when I have the time 

Thanks so much for this. I don't think the first command is necessary (edit: just to get your rigs running - see below, it may be for stability) - just the second got everything running for me. When I ran the first command, I then had to do:

So to get my remote-rigs running again I just had to:

Wow that was an interesting morning. Thanks to everyone that identified the problem and posted a solution so quickly.

Oddly enough, a couple of rigs kept running - I can't think of anything about them that was different from the others. Though they also had the update and upgrade flags set to 1.

For me, just running 

sudo dpkg --configure -a

And then rebooting did the trick.