Antpool has given support to Bitcoin Classic. That might have something to do with it.
Pool wars once again. Why don't pools just let each other operate and if your pool is that good people will join your pool. The kicker is everyone will bad mouth Antpool and bitch, bitch, bitch, but drop $10k on Antminers on the other hand. Confuses me.
Remind me to ask Kano where he thinks the miners on his pool comes from next time he's here to talk shit about antpool. Maybe he can go troll KnC, Bitfury and 21inc into start selling some decent gear to home miners.
Trust me when i tell you that if there were better options the market would show you what we thought of Bitmaintech!
The responsible Bitcoin community has about had it up to here with bitmain pricing schemes(by this i mean wait to turn on your mega farm til after you got top dollar for miners), piss poor support, mining empty blocks, spv mining, lagging block propagation, hell they don't even answer questions on their own forum Bitmaintalk! No matter how much good you have done for bitcoin in the past, it can all easily be forgotten with what they are currently up to.. I for one think there is plenty of hash on the network for its own security.. Bitmain selling miners as a front to cover the fact that its themselves growing far bigger in market share than any one entity should have in bitcoin.. 25 % id say thats getting a bit greedy(who knows what they hide at other pools such as f2pool) not to mention the fact that 71 % of all hash is in china and growing! im sure there is a threshold on what the community is comfortable with i for one know there is for me.. antpool/Bitmain/China/f2pool is pushing this limit on a daily basis..
Here's a little quote from their rma page. "Special note when you fill the waybill:
Make sure to describe it as "Warranty part" .
The declared value is according to the quantity of defective parts you shipped back ,we suggest you declare $5-20 for one board.
if the declare value above the $45 on one parcel ,well have custom issues ,and you need to cover the Chinese import tax and the storage charges due to the custom issues ."
Gives ya a good idea just what the parts are worth and how bad they f&^% us when they send that garbage to us. I love how they want us to lie to customs on the value of the board/s when its getting shipped to them
Let me ask you this.. if it gets lost in transit. then what will you get for a refund.. Exactly what you declared on value of the item.. last i checked you cant buy those parts used let alone new at 5 - 20 per board anywhere. And on top of it being a supposed warranty they get to put the screws to you on import tax and storage if you decide to declare it with the correct value. Doesn't sound like they have much confidence in the products they send out to me. IF they did then it would be free to rma a miner under warranty. Im sure there are many other complaints this is just all that ive witnessed in the short period of time ive been in bitcoin.
Best Regards
d57heinz
