Recently, and by recently i mean this last week, a press release has made big rounds (bitconnect; Wallstreet:online; finanztreff.de; boerse.de…) advertising the miner of all miners, a BEAST of a miner that can mine Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Dash all at once, with whooping Hashrates of 130TH/s for Bitcoin, 4.5GH/s for Litecoin, 3GH/s for Ethereum and 11GH/s for Dash. It is produced by Hminers. (https://hminers.com/)

Sounds like a scam so far? Ding. Ding. Ding.

Not only would it be groundbreaking if a miner could solve SHA256, scrypt and Ethash but the Hashrates themselves should make anyone that knows anything about mining stop and question the reality of this product.

But i decided to dig a little deeper than to just dismiss it, hoping to find evidence beyond just knowing from a first glance.

A mere fifteen minutes later and a quick google-reverse image search of the company’s CTO Benjamin ‘Ben’ Berglund led me to a free Stockphoto site. (pexels.com)

BUSTED.

So the most shocking thing about this press release are not the Hashrates, nor the low low price of 7000 USD only payable in crypto…

Its the lazyness of the news outlets promoting this blatant scam to not have fifteen minutes to check.

Gotta give it to the scammers though, they did make a video that reminds me of Tommy Wiseau’s early works: https://youtu.be/RdCQXHipW7s.

till the next time,

hodlmycrypto