The website screenshots suggest an interesting possibility.

In china, it's illegal to price goods and services in bitcoin as a unit of account.

It was not illegal back then. It's illegal now.

Our last Bitmain order was on 2-June-2014, so that's changed in the last 12 days?

Can i use exchange btc address? (bistamp)

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I don't think that's recommended. Mine to your own local wallet.

I already did it and now....i wonder if can still do something.
I never received my first pay, can anyone help me in this situation?

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I hope this whole "block withholding" incident has educated a few people on the nature of developing custom software and hardware for an open-source protocol and network which involves earning real value... you have to take full responsibility for your own f#@kups! It is not Eligius's responsibility (or anyone else's) to make sure your hardware is functioning properly and inform you about it and pay you out for work that was incorrectly submitted... it's up to you to make sure it all works properly, especially if you're running 100's of TH/s.

What I don't get though is: if you have so much hashpower, why wouldn't you be solo-mining?

Also, is it not possible to mine on the test network first, before messing with the rest of the 'real' network.

They knew exactly what they were doing.  It was no "accident".  The accident is they got caught.  Anyone who has the dough to setup hundreds of TH/S, wants to get the maximum reward they can, anyway they can.  They don't care about fairness or legality. 

I totally agree that it doesn't looks like it was unintentional, I also doubt that it was. I was also trying to point out that even if it was unintentional, that it's no excuse. If you are running your own fork of cgminer on your own hardware then you must deal with the consequences if your software/hardware combination doesn't work and actually ends up causing harm to the other pool users. They should actually return all of the bitcoin mined with their faulty hardware as it's been proved to not work correctly and was (intentionally or not) stealing from the other pool users.