Listen, Potcoin... I love the idea of Potcoin.  I love the niche that you're trying to fill in an industry that is growing exponentially.  However... I'm not hating on Potcoin because it's fun.  I'm upset about some of the things that have come to light lately.

The 4/20 video was pretty upsetting(as pointed out by the Reddit poster).  If I was a vendor at that event and you came up to me looking like you looked in the video, and you were baked, I wouldn't want to do business with you.  If we're doing business, I want you sober and professional looking.  I don't care that you smoke... just don't do it when business is on the table.

You're trying to grow a business, not a crop.  The mention of making Potcoin as difficult to mine as it is to grow a crop is silly.  One coin to one gram is silly.  Even at $10 a gram, if you shot for that, you'd be looking at a $4.2B market cap, and I would be a millionaire on POT.  Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be a millionaire.  But if that was the goal, it should have been the goal from the start.  Do you think the whales holding the bag on POT aren't going to insta-dump at even $1?  It's too late now to try to make it something 1:1.  Work with what you have.  Hindsight is always 20/20.

The Snoop video was so over hyped and ended up being pointless.  You basically paid for some Snoop merchandise and signatures.  I can't sell the idea of Potcoin to my friends by telling them "yeah, well Potcoin gave out a Snoop CD".  I understand the legal stuff, but again, it was disappointing.

The coin halving idea was a mess, and still is.  Where is the community poll?  Is that on the radar still?

Why is bitcointalk the secondary means of communicating info?  I'm tired of having to go to the armpit of the internet, Reddit, for Potcoin news.  It almost feels like a slap in the face every time you post there and then "announce" news here with a link to Reddit.  At least cross post the same info so it doesn't feel like an after-thought.

Just my 2 cents.

Again, I like POT, and I want it to succeed.  I'm going to be blatantly honest and critical because of that.  I'm sorry if that offends anyone.

-Fuse

There is a lot less risk in renting rigs, but you have to pay a premium to cover someone else's time/money/effort. Owning rigs will always bring more profit (assuming you don't lose money on the hardware), but you have to gauge your risk tolerance, time to invest, and knowledge.

Where did you hear that? They have a 16Mh/s and 90Mh/s miners supposedly coming out.

I can't seem to get more than 7 units accepting shares with rasp pi +cgminer and a sabrent 13 port hub...always 7 units only anyone know solution

haha if it sounds too good to be true... 2 days huh, you got through those famously slow Chinese customs very quickly



stop calling people liars you imbecile. I am just making a fair warning to other members of this community. Live with it until somebody with an account older than a month buys your product.

Thanks for your order, payment cleared in 1 day, miners shipped. please check email for DHL tracking number.

I had major problems with my Pi's power and using the USB ports.  First it started to lose the ethernet connection, then it would just start shutting down and rebooting.  I ditched the whole controller and bought myself a Cubietruck and could not be happier.  It had built in wifi and so far so good running 20 gridseeds. 

Heeeelp!

Hi.

Two days ago I got a Gridseed 5 chips miner. I tried almost everything, but my computers don't recognise the miner. On Win7 Ult x64 I get always 'USB device not recognised'. I tried to install the two different type of drivers mentioned in various fora and blogs, I tried to substitute them using Zadig. Nothing worked.
Then I tried under MacOS 10.9. Same result.

Has somebody an idea? I have three graphics cards, a BlockErupter USB miner and a BFL 25 GH/s miner all working perfectly. But this Gridseed miner I driving me crazy!!!

Every idea is welcome.

Bye
lcettuzzi

Get a 13-port hub and a 10-port hub, and don't use the splitter. Or get two 13-port hubs, in case you want to connect a few more donuts later. The goal is to keep max 2 levels of daisy-chained hubs, and any hub with >7 ports already has 2 levels inside.

Did the device have adequate ventilation?  What temp was the device running at on a regular basis?  How long did the device last?