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Hero MemberActivity: 924Merit: 511 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **News, Updates, Information, Questions** September 19, 2014, 05:51:42 AM #2 When you say you are partnered up, you mean these contracts will be tradable via exchanges? Or Did I miss understand that aspect of the post / partnership.





Furthermore, how would X-algo clouds work? Do we also get to choose where these clouds mine/perform?



Finally, will you be allowing paypal / credit card to purchase contracts?

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LegendaryActivity: 896Merit: 1000 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **News, Updates, Information, Questions** January 03, 2015, 02:46:02 PM #4

Quote * The prize is $5000 in Bitcoin! The prize will be drawn on November 30th 2014. The winner will be notified by email. One registration grants one entry. Each friend referral grants one entry. The winner will be published on Mintsy.co. The draw will be performed randomly by a computer. No private information will be shared with third parties. Not available to residents of Arizona. The $5000 prize haven't been be drawn on yet? Seem nothing update on official site.

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Hero MemberActivity: 826Merit: 1001@Bit_John Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **News, Updates, Information, Questions** March 15, 2015, 08:00:07 PM #23 Quote from: PeterI on March 15, 2015, 04:37:23 PM There are no FAQ on site. FAQ is very important.

I have a question.

I bought contract 2 days ago, but I have no payouts (I have worker and pools).

While process of buying I read something about 5 days delay but don't remember exact what.

Could you describe payouts rules?



We have a full FAQ being draft and each page has a help popup associated. I have to dig into the contracts a bit it took mine a day to start working... Remember its still really early beta so expect some goofiness. I will get you the payout info soon and post it here. We have a full FAQ being draft and each page has a help popup associated. I have to dig into the contracts a bit it took mine a day to start working... Remember its still really early beta so expect some goofiness. I will get you the payout info soon and post it here.

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NewbieActivity: 7Merit: 0 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **News, Updates, Information, Questions** April 15, 2015, 11:07:42 PM #26 I have been mining the BTC Pool for 36 days now and to be honest, I am disappointed because despite contracts, the network doesn't solve enough blocks to get payouts. An example is this: In the last 2 weeks, there has been one solved block for one payout. Since I began 36 days ago, there has been a total of 13 payouts. While I do know this is beta, it does not seem to me that the contract is worth it. Now, I will tell you that they guarantee a refund on hashrate they missed, but that does little good if the network delivers on hashrate but cannot solve blocks. I am on pace to make $8.80 on a contract that cost $59.00.

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Hero MemberActivity: 826Merit: 1001@Bit_John Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **News, Updates, Information, Questions** April 17, 2015, 01:36:33 AM #27 Quote from: Senseidyer on April 15, 2015, 11:07:42 PM I have been mining the BTC Pool for 36 days now and to be honest, I am disappointed because despite contracts, the network doesn't solve enough blocks to get payouts. An example is this: In the last 2 weeks, there has been one solved block for one payout. Since I began 36 days ago, there has been a total of 13 payouts. While I do know this is beta, it does not seem to me that the contract is worth it. Now, I will tell you that they guarantee a refund on hashrate they missed, but that does little good if the network delivers on hashrate but cannot solve blocks. I am on pace to make $8.80 on a contract that cost $59.00.



You can mine external pools with more hashrate. You can mine external pools with more hashrate.

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NewbieActivity: 8Merit: 0 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **News, Updates, Information, Questions** April 17, 2015, 11:18:03 AM #29



When I purchased my most recent contract, I was attempting to buy two 10Mh/s contracts for 6 months, but I believe they have been combined into one worker. I believe this happened since my 3rd worker has an average of double the hashing rate as the first two workers/contracts I set up. Is this something I should worry about? I have 4 workers listed on my account but the 4th is 'inactive' and my OCD doesn't like that



Also, should each contract be linked to an individual worker set up on the pool's website? I believe I read something along those lines on the website.



As for setting the difficulty on a mining pool, I know it is dependent on your current hash rate, but with mine having a relatively wide range of fluctuation, I don't know what to set it to in order to get the best bang for my buck. I have been setting it to 64 as most pools mention over time that is the best value for all miners.



Lastly, does a scrypt miner handle scrypt-n and jane? I have gotten as much as 60 bonus MH/s with Mintsy.co off of 4 contracts for 10Mh/s each. Pretty amazing. Kinda sucks when it goes the opposite way like right now and only pulling about 6Mh/s per contract. There are a couple questions I have been meaning to e-mail but might as well fire em off here.When I purchased my most recent contract, I was attempting to buy two 10Mh/s contracts for 6 months, but I believe they have been combined into one worker. I believe this happened since my 3rd worker has an average of double the hashing rate as the first two workers/contracts I set up. Is this something I should worry about? I have 4 workers listed on my account but the 4th is 'inactive' and my OCD doesn't like thatAlso, should each contract be linked to an individual worker set up on the pool's website? I believe I read something along those lines on the website.As for setting the difficulty on a mining pool, I know it is dependent on your current hash rate, but with mine having a relatively wide range of fluctuation, I don't know what to set it to in order to get the best bang for my buck. I have been setting it to 64 as most pools mention over time that is the best value for all miners.Lastly, does a scrypt miner handle scrypt-n and jane?

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NewbieActivity: 8Merit: 0 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **News, Updates, Information, Questions** April 20, 2015, 07:16:16 AM #32 Quote from: devo420 on April 17, 2015, 11:18:03 AM



When I purchased my most recent contract, I was attempting to buy two 10Mh/s contracts for 6 months, but I believe they have been combined into one worker. I believe this happened since my 3rd worker has an average of double the hashing rate as the first two workers/contracts I set up. Is this something I should worry about? I have 4 workers listed on my account but the 4th is 'inactive' and my OCD doesn't like that



Also, should each contract be linked to an individual worker set up on the pool's website? I believe I read something along those lines on the website.



As for setting the difficulty on a mining pool, I know it is dependent on your current hash rate, but with mine having a relatively wide range of fluctuation, I don't know what to set it to in order to get the best bang for my buck. I have been setting it to 64 as most pools mention over time that is the best value for all miners.



Lastly, does a scrypt miner handle scrypt-n and jane?

I have gotten as much as 60 bonus MH/s with Mintsy.co off of 4 contracts for 10Mh/s each. Pretty amazing. Kinda sucks when it goes the opposite way like right now and only pulling about 6Mh/s per contract. There are a couple questions I have been meaning to e-mail but might as well fire em off here.When I purchased my most recent contract, I was attempting to buy two 10Mh/s contracts for 6 months, but I believe they have been combined into one worker. I believe this happened since my 3rd worker has an average of double the hashing rate as the first two workers/contracts I set up. Is this something I should worry about? I have 4 workers listed on my account but the 4th is 'inactive' and my OCD doesn't like thatAlso, should each contract be linked to an individual worker set up on the pool's website? I believe I read something along those lines on the website.As for setting the difficulty on a mining pool, I know it is dependent on your current hash rate, but with mine having a relatively wide range of fluctuation, I don't know what to set it to in order to get the best bang for my buck. I have been setting it to 64 as most pools mention over time that is the best value for all miners.Lastly, does a scrypt miner handle scrypt-n and jane?

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Hero MemberActivity: 826Merit: 1001@Bit_John Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **News, Updates, Information, Questions** April 22, 2015, 02:00:25 AM #34 Quote



Also, should each contract be linked to an individual worker set up on the pool's website? I believe I read something along those lines on the website.

When I purchased my most recent contract, I was attempting to buy two 10Mh/s contracts for 6 months, but I believe they have been combined into one worker. I believe this happened since my 3rd worker has an average of double the hashing rate as the first two workers/contracts I set up. Is this something I should worry about? I have 4 workers listed on my account but the 4th is 'inactive' and my OCD doesn't like thatAlso, should each contract be linked to an individual worker set up on the pool's website? I believe I read something along those lines on the website.



Quote As for setting the difficulty on a mining pool, I know it is dependent on your current hash rate, but with mine having a relatively wide range of fluctuation, I don't know what to set it to in order to get the best bang for my buck. I have been setting it to 64 as most pools mention over time that is the best value for all miners.

I use 64 so far so good.



Quote Lastly, does a scrypt miner handle scrypt-n and jane?

No but there will be options for these in the future



You would have to contact the support guys on this one Ill dig around and see what I can find out, or just buy a second contract myself. I owe you an answer for this.I use 64 so far so good.No but there will be options for these in the future

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Hero MemberActivity: 826Merit: 1001@Bit_John Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **News, Updates, Information, Questions** May 05, 2015, 03:57:16 PM #35 Sha-256 Contracts have been increased. No Price changes.



If you had a 100 Gh/s contract before, it is now 250 Gh/s. If you had a 1 Th/s contract, it is now 2.5 Th/s.



We are also giving you credit for the time used on your old contract. 60% of the time you have already used in your existing contract will be appended to the expiration date of your contract.



This means if you have had your contract for 30 days already, then 18 more days will be added to the end of your contract to extend it's expiration date.

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NewbieActivity: 6Merit: 0 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **News, Updates, Information, Questions** May 06, 2015, 03:10:35 PM #36 I setup external pool pointing to multipool.us, but after few hours, it somehow stopped mining on my external pool, showing 0 khs when i login to multipool. I think to fix it, I have to meedle with the worker's pool configuration and save it for it to start mining again.

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Hero MemberActivity: 826Merit: 1001@Bit_John Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 07, 2015, 09:51:46 PM #39 Sha-256 Contracts have been increased. No Price changes!

If you had a 100 Gh/s contract before, it is now 250 Gh/s. If you had a 1 Th/s contract, it is now 2.5 Th/s.

We are also giving you credit for the time used on your old contract. 60% of the time you have already used in your existing contract will be appended to the expiration date of your contract.

This means if you have had your contract for 30 days already, then 18 more days will be added to the end of your contract to extend it's expiration date.

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Hero MemberActivity: 616Merit: 500something something Bitcoin Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 11, 2015, 05:36:26 PM #49 A few things I'd like to note after using the beta and official product for several weeks:



1. The proxy remains inconsistent. Some pools do not work at all (Antpool) and some pools report double hash rate (F2Pool).



2. The current system is unfair to rig owners. There's no way to communicate with the renter, and in multiple instances, we've had a renter pick a bad pool. Then we get dinged with the fee, and the lost mining time. Per Mintsy policy, the decision to refund is based 100% on hash rate. In a system where owner and renter can communicate, we can provide support to ensure the renter is mining.



3. Support simply closed 2 tickets I filed when the proxy was clearly malfunctioning. I spent a great deal of time ensuring that ~20 S3 units were updated to use the custom cgminer and for a few weeks, successfully rented the Ant Farm to satisfied renters. But when the proxy went wonky and support just closed tickets with no response, we pulled everything but 600 Gh/s.



4. Taking in to account point #1, the inconsistent hash reporting, it seems that basing rental refunds solely on reported hashrate, is a roll of the dice.



5. We should be able to add extra time to a rental if something goes wrong on our end. Right now the only way to compensate is to move another miner to the rental or take the loss. We prefer to keep our reputation up by extending rentals if needed and we can't do that.



That being said, I have enjoyed the altcoin pools. But, for now, we are done with Mintsy.

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LegendaryActivity: 1344Merit: 1015Mine at Jonny's Pool Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 11, 2015, 06:16:05 PM #50



First, here is the good news. The mining contract which I purchased was given a boost to 2.5TH/s and extended. This was an unexpected surprise and I'm very thankful for it. I've actually got a relatively decent chance to come out positive now.



The UI is easy to navigate and you can switch coins at will. If you've got a cryptsy account, you can hook it up directly using your trade key. Any alt coins you mine get paid out to your cryptsy wallets automatically. Bitcoin mining payouts are a manual process. Stats are plentiful, too. You can look at your average hash rate, see found blocks, pool hash rate, expected time to block, etc.



On the hardware side, I've had issues aplenty. Since the pool is also listed in the alt coin service announcements, that's where I first reported my problems. You can see my posts at this link:



My main concern is that when my gear is pointed to this pool via MRR, it fails. Even though I've got the latest version of cgminer with the nicehash #xnonce patch as required, it simply does not connect from MRR. Workers are constantly restarting or refusing to hash and fall back to secondary pools. When I connect my gear directly to the pool, things work as expected.



I have not attempted to connect to and mine external pools with either my contracted hash or my own gear, so I don't have any comment on others' experiences doing so.



Huh... I wonder if I could setup an infinite loop. Here's the scenario:



I setup an external pool here for MRR. On MRR, I setup my primary pool to point back here. So, I'd be telling Mintsy to mine on MRR and MRR would say to mine on Mintsy. I might try that for fun after my gear's current rental ends (assuming it's not immediately rented again).



That makes me think of another scenario. If a purchased contract can be pointed to an external pool, could that pool be MRR? I'd be able to rent my contract out on MRR. Another thing I might try. My experience thus far with Mintsy has been twofold: a purchased SHA256 mining contract (1TH/s for 90 days) and pointing my own hardware here.First, here is the good news. The mining contract which I purchased was given a boost to 2.5TH/s and extended. This was an unexpected surprise and I'm very thankful for it. I've actually got a relatively decent chance to come out positive now.The UI is easy to navigate and you can switch coins at will. If you've got a cryptsy account, you can hook it up directly using your trade key. Any alt coins you mine get paid out to your cryptsy wallets automatically. Bitcoin mining payouts are a manual process. Stats are plentiful, too. You can look at your average hash rate, see found blocks, pool hash rate, expected time to block, etc.On the hardware side, I've had issues aplenty. Since the pool is also listed in the alt coin service announcements, that's where I first reported my problems. You can see my posts at this link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=786492.msg11256333#msg11256333 My main concern is that when my gear is pointed to this pool via MRR, it fails. Even though I've got the latest version of cgminer with the nicehash #xnonce patch as required, it simply does not connect from MRR. Workers are constantly restarting or refusing to hash and fall back to secondary pools. When I connect my gear directly to the pool, things work as expected.I have not attempted to connect to and mine external pools with either my contracted hash or my own gear, so I don't have any comment on others' experiences doing so.Huh... I wonder if I could setup an infinite loop. Here's the scenario:I setup an external pool here for MRR. On MRR, I setup my primary pool to point back here. So, I'd be telling Mintsy to mine on MRR and MRR would say to mine on Mintsy. I might try that for fun after my gear's current rental ends (assuming it's not immediately rented again).That makes me think of another scenario. If a purchased contract can be pointed to an external pool, could that pool be MRR? I'd be able to rent my contract out on MRR. Another thing I might try. Jonny's Pool - Mine with us and help us grow! Support a pool that supports Bitcoin, not a hardware manufacturer's pockets! No SPV cheats. No empty blocks.

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Hero MemberActivity: 826Merit: 1001@Bit_John Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 11, 2015, 11:52:50 PM #51 Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on May 11, 2015, 06:16:05 PM



First, here is the good news. The mining contract which I purchased was given a boost to 2.5TH/s and extended. This was an unexpected surprise and I'm very thankful for it. I've actually got a relatively decent chance to come out positive now.



The UI is easy to navigate and you can switch coins at will. If you've got a cryptsy account, you can hook it up directly using your trade key. Any alt coins you mine get paid out to your cryptsy wallets automatically. Bitcoin mining payouts are a manual process. Stats are plentiful, too. You can look at your average hash rate, see found blocks, pool hash rate, expected time to block, etc.



On the hardware side, I've had issues aplenty. Since the pool is also listed in the alt coin service announcements, that's where I first reported my problems. You can see my posts at this link:



My main concern is that when my gear is pointed to this pool via MRR, it fails. Even though I've got the latest version of cgminer with the nicehash #xnonce patch as required, it simply does not connect from MRR. Workers are constantly restarting or refusing to hash and fall back to secondary pools. When I connect my gear directly to the pool, things work as expected.



I have not attempted to connect to and mine external pools with either my contracted hash or my own gear, so I don't have any comment on others' experiences doing so.



Huh... I wonder if I could setup an infinite loop. Here's the scenario:



I setup an external pool here for MRR. On MRR, I setup my primary pool to point back here. So, I'd be telling Mintsy to mine on MRR and MRR would say to mine on Mintsy. I might try that for fun after my gear's current rental ends (assuming it's not immediately rented again).



That makes me think of another scenario. If a purchased contract can be pointed to an external pool, could that pool be MRR? I'd be able to rent my contract out on MRR. Another thing I might try.

My experience thus far with Mintsy has been twofold: a purchased SHA256 mining contract (1TH/s for 90 days) and pointing my own hardware here.First, here is the good news. The mining contract which I purchased was given a boost to 2.5TH/s and extended. This was an unexpected surprise and I'm very thankful for it. I've actually got a relatively decent chance to come out positive now.The UI is easy to navigate and you can switch coins at will. If you've got a cryptsy account, you can hook it up directly using your trade key. Any alt coins you mine get paid out to your cryptsy wallets automatically. Bitcoin mining payouts are a manual process. Stats are plentiful, too. You can look at your average hash rate, see found blocks, pool hash rate, expected time to block, etc.On the hardware side, I've had issues aplenty. Since the pool is also listed in the alt coin service announcements, that's where I first reported my problems. You can see my posts at this link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=786492.msg11256333#msg11256333 My main concern is that when my gear is pointed to this pool via MRR, it fails. Even though I've got the latest version of cgminer with the nicehash #xnonce patch as required, it simply does not connect from MRR. Workers are constantly restarting or refusing to hash and fall back to secondary pools. When I connect my gear directly to the pool, things work as expected.I have not attempted to connect to and mine external pools with either my contracted hash or my own gear, so I don't have any comment on others' experiences doing so.Huh... I wonder if I could setup an infinite loop. Here's the scenario:I setup an external pool here for MRR. On MRR, I setup my primary pool to point back here. So, I'd be telling Mintsy to mine on MRR and MRR would say to mine on Mintsy. I might try that for fun after my gear's current rental ends (assuming it's not immediately rented again).That makes me think of another scenario. If a purchased contract can be pointed to an external pool, could that pool be MRR? I'd be able to rent my contract out on MRR. Another thing I might try.

I shared this with the development team to see if we can better integrate the MRR stuff, and NiceHash. Thanks for the great feedback! I shared this with the development team to see if we can better integrate the MRR stuff, and NiceHash. Thanks for the great feedback!

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LegendaryActivity: 1344Merit: 1015Mine at Jonny's Pool Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 14, 2015, 02:00:13 PM #54 Quote from: ThePhwner on May 11, 2015, 05:36:26 PM 2. The current system is unfair to rig owners. There's no way to communicate with the renter, and in multiple instances, we've had a renter pick a bad pool. Then we get dinged with the fee, and the lost mining time. Per Mintsy policy, the decision to refund is based 100% on hash rate. In a system where owner and renter can communicate, we can provide support to ensure the renter is mining.

I like the way MRR handles this scenario. If the renter's pool goes offline, or fails, and the renter doesn't have a backup, MRR effectively looks dead to your gear. Your gear then fails over to whatever pools you've setup as backups so you as the rig owner don't lose any time.



For example, I've got my rigs setup like this:



pool 1 - stratum+tcp://us-east01.miningrigrentals.com:3333#xnsub

pool 2 - stratum+tcp://us-central01.miningrigrentals.com:3333#xnsub

pool 3 - stratum+tcp://104.131.12.128:9332



So, if a renter screws up, my gear fails over to my p2pool node.



@BitJohn, setting up something similar on Mintsy would be extremely useful, and alleviate the problem reported by ThePhwner. I like the way MRR handles this scenario. If the renter's pool goes offline, or fails, and the renter doesn't have a backup, MRR effectively looks dead to your gear. Your gear then fails over to whatever pools you've setup as backups so you as the rig owner don't lose any time.For example, I've got my rigs setup like this:pool 1 - stratum+tcp://us-east01.miningrigrentals.com:3333#xnsubpool 2 - stratum+tcp://us-central01.miningrigrentals.com:3333#xnsubpool 3 - stratum+tcp://104.131.12.128:9332So, if a renter screws up, my gear fails over to my p2pool node.@BitJohn, setting up something similar on Mintsy would be extremely useful, and alleviate the problem reported by ThePhwner. Jonny's Pool - Mine with us and help us grow! Support a pool that supports Bitcoin, not a hardware manufacturer's pockets! No SPV cheats. No empty blocks.

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Hero MemberActivity: 826Merit: 1001@Bit_John Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 15, 2015, 11:32:46 AM #55 Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on May 14, 2015, 02:00:13 PM Quote from: ThePhwner on May 11, 2015, 05:36:26 PM 2. The current system is unfair to rig owners. There's no way to communicate with the renter, and in multiple instances, we've had a renter pick a bad pool. Then we get dinged with the fee, and the lost mining time. Per Mintsy policy, the decision to refund is based 100% on hash rate. In a system where owner and renter can communicate, we can provide support to ensure the renter is mining.

I like the way MRR handles this scenario. If the renter's pool goes offline, or fails, and the renter doesn't have a backup, MRR effectively looks dead to your gear. Your gear then fails over to whatever pools you've setup as backups so you as the rig owner don't lose any time.



For example, I've got my rigs setup like this:



pool 1 - stratum+tcp://us-east01.miningrigrentals.com:3333#xnsub

pool 2 - stratum+tcp://us-central01.miningrigrentals.com:3333#xnsub

pool 3 - stratum+tcp://104.131.12.128:9332



So, if a renter screws up, my gear fails over to my p2pool node.



@BitJohn, setting up something similar on Mintsy would be extremely useful, and alleviate the problem reported by ThePhwner.

I like the way MRR handles this scenario. If the renter's pool goes offline, or fails, and the renter doesn't have a backup, MRR effectively looks dead to your gear. Your gear then fails over to whatever pools you've setup as backups so you as the rig owner don't lose any time.For example, I've got my rigs setup like this:pool 1 - stratum+tcp://us-east01.miningrigrentals.com:3333#xnsubpool 2 - stratum+tcp://us-central01.miningrigrentals.com:3333#xnsubpool 3 - stratum+tcp://104.131.12.128:9332So, if a renter screws up, my gear fails over to my p2pool node.@BitJohn, setting up something similar on Mintsy would be extremely useful, and alleviate the problem reported by ThePhwner.

I will get with the developers and see what we can do. I will get with the developers and see what we can do.

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Sr. MemberActivity: 261Merit: 257 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 16, 2015, 12:15:57 AM #58 Quote from: ThePhwner on May 15, 2015, 05:25:48 PM They were not failing over. This was the subject of 2 tickets which were simply closed after several days. For a few weeks the proxy seemed to be working, but we had 2 rental where the proxy messed up, the renter got nothing, we still had to pay our end of the fee, and lost all the mining time.

That's pretty bad, if an upstream pool connection fails the proxy should either fail all the connections to a backup or cut all its downstream connections so the miners failover to backups. They also shouldn't rely on upstream hash-rate validation as it could be inaccurate due to extremely high diff or other weird pool issues it should be measured on the downstream miner connection side. That's pretty bad, if an upstream pool connection fails the proxy should either fail all the connections to a backup or cut all its downstream connections so the miners failover to backups. They also shouldn't rely on upstream hash-rate validation as it could be inaccurate due to extremely high diff or other weird pool issues it should be measured on the downstream miner connection side. Mining Software Developer.

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Hero MemberActivity: 616Merit: 500something something Bitcoin Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 16, 2015, 12:52:23 PM #60 Quote from: bitsolutions on May 16, 2015, 12:15:57 AM Quote from: ThePhwner on May 15, 2015, 05:25:48 PM They were not failing over. This was the subject of 2 tickets which were simply closed after several days. For a few weeks the proxy seemed to be working, but we had 2 rental where the proxy messed up, the renter got nothing, we still had to pay our end of the fee, and lost all the mining time.

That's pretty bad, if an upstream pool connection fails the proxy should either fail all the connections to a backup or cut all its downstream connections so the miners failover to backups. They also shouldn't rely on upstream hash-rate validation as it could be inaccurate due to extremely high diff or other weird pool issues it should be measured on the downstream miner connection side.

That's pretty bad, if an upstream pool connection fails the proxy should either fail all the connections to a backup or cut all its downstream connections so the miners failover to backups. They also shouldn't rely on upstream hash-rate validation as it could be inaccurate due to extremely high diff or other weird pool issues it should be measured on the downstream miner connection side.

Agree completely. There's a lot of potential here for a great service but these are the exact weaknesses that caused us to pull all but 600 Gh/s. It's kind of fun to have a little hash there to mine some alts (MZC has been doing well past couple days) but it's not worth the effort to put our larger rentals up and risk this scenario. My guess is that digitalX doesn't have a big team behind Mintsy but its frustrating that these core issues remain unacknowledged and unaddressed.



We are used to the models/functions of the other sites, where true failover occurs if the renter picks a bad pool, etc.



I'd like to see these issues addressed, as again, there is potential here. Especially for anyone who likes a few alts on the side.





Agree completely. There's a lot of potential here for a great service but these are the exact weaknesses that caused us to pull all but 600 Gh/s. It's kind of fun to have a little hash there to mine some alts (MZC has been doing well past couple days) but it's not worth the effort to put our larger rentals up and risk this scenario. My guess is that digitalX doesn't have a big team behind Mintsy but its frustrating that these core issues remain unacknowledged and unaddressed.We are used to the models/functions of the other sites, where true failover occurs if the renter picks a bad pool, etc.I'd like to see these issues addressed, as again, there is potential here. Especially for anyone who likes a few alts on the side.

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Hero MemberActivity: 826Merit: 1001@Bit_John Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 16, 2015, 03:03:00 PM #62 Quote from: ThePhwner on May 16, 2015, 12:54:19 PM Quote from: malickie on May 16, 2015, 03:36:24 AM I bought a scrypt cloud miner from mintsy and sadly a Lot of External sites I point at do not function at all. suprnova, nicehash/westhash etc. So I went and just pointed at their own servers and so far so good there. Just wish I could point the miner at different altcoins than mintsy has listed. Pretty much when I figured out that issue I have just had the miner pointed at Litecoin in hopes that I will come out ahead of what I spent.



Have you tried the iSpace pools? Just curious. There seems to be a pretty large list of external pools that don't work. It might make sense to restrict or disable this functionality until the proxy is functioning as it should.

Have you tried the iSpace pools? Just curious. There seems to be a pretty large list of external pools that don't work. It might make sense to restrict or disable this functionality until the proxy is functioning as it should.

I have put a group of testers on some of the pools mentioned. If you have a list of pools beyond what is posted already that you want me to figure out why its not mining list them here and we will see what the issue is. I am currently using multipool.us which is working with my contracts. I have put a group of testers on some of the pools mentioned. If you have a list of pools beyond what is posted already that you want me to figure out why its not mining list them here and we will see what the issue is. I am currently using multipool.us which is working with my contracts.

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1. Antpool SHA-256 does not work.



2. WestHash SHA-256 did not work last time we tried ~ 2 weeks ago



3. F2Pool SHA-256 works properly but double reports hashrate.

--I have seen this with rentals too. I cannot see what pool renter picks but some rentals show well over the speed of the rig.



4. The PPCoin pool looks stuck. Even when I pointed hash to it, it showed no accepted shares or change in the hash of the pool.



5. The other SHA-256 Mintsy pools appear to work well. We use ACoin, MazaCoin, Unbreakable, and Unobtainium regularly.











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Sr. MemberActivity: 261Merit: 257 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 16, 2015, 05:58:45 PM #64 Quote from: ThePhwner on May 16, 2015, 04:00:40 PM 1. Antpool SHA-256 does not work.

2. WestHash SHA-256 did not work last time we tried ~ 2 weeks ago

3. F2Pool SHA-256 works properly but double reports hashrate.

--I have seen this with rentals too. I cannot see what pool renter picks but some rentals show well over the speed of the rig.

Out of all of these the only one that doesn't make sense is Antpool as that's overall a pretty standard pool, could be an IP block or something like that but I haven't had issues like this there before.

Westhash/Nicehash will depend a lot on the proxy implementation but it is by far the hardest pool to get a proxy working properly due to obvious reasons.

The F2Pool bug is just a flaw in how the proxy handles share validation, now that I think about it a renter might be able to exploit this type of bug and get free hashpower(depending on proxy implementation details). Out of all of these the only one that doesn't make sense is Antpool as that's overall a pretty standard pool, could be an IP block or something like that but I haven't had issues like this there before.Westhash/Nicehash will depend a lot on the proxy implementation but it is by far the hardest pool to get a proxy working properly due to obvious reasons.The F2Pool bug is just a flaw in how the proxy handles share validation, now that I think about it a renter might be able to exploit this type of bug and get free hashpower(depending on proxy implementation details). Mining Software Developer.

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Hero MemberActivity: 616Merit: 500something something Bitcoin Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 16, 2015, 08:37:57 PM #66 Quote from: alani123 on May 16, 2015, 08:07:23 PM Quote from: bitsolutions on May 16, 2015, 05:58:45 PM Quote from: ThePhwner on May 16, 2015, 04:00:40 PM 1. Antpool SHA-256 does not work.

2. WestHash SHA-256 did not work last time we tried ~ 2 weeks ago

3. F2Pool SHA-256 works properly but double reports hashrate.

--I have seen this with rentals too. I cannot see what pool renter picks but some rentals show well over the speed of the rig.

Out of all of these the only one that doesn't make sense is Antpool as that's overall a pretty standard pool, could be an IP block or something like that but I haven't had issues like this there before.

Westhash/Nicehash will depend a lot on the proxy implementation but it is by far the hardest pool to get a proxy working properly due to obvious reasons.

The F2Pool bug is just a flaw in how the proxy handles share validation, now that I think about it a renter might be able to exploit this type of bug and get free hashpower(depending on proxy implementation details).

Out of all of these the only one that doesn't make sense is Antpool as that's overall a pretty standard pool, could be an IP block or something like that but I haven't had issues like this there before.Westhash/Nicehash will depend a lot on the proxy implementation but it is by far the hardest pool to get a proxy working properly due to obvious reasons.The F2Pool bug is just a flaw in how the proxy handles share validation, now that I think about it a renter might be able to exploit this type of bug and get free hashpower(depending on proxy implementation details).

It also didn't work for me. I didn't bother contacting support as slush's pool worked and it's no difference to me. Thing is, my hashrate has been REALLY unstable. When mining in an external pool my workers went offline very often even when I had 100% of my hashrate allocated there. So I ended up pointing all my hashrate at mintsy's pool, but it's still really unstable. I was hoping that the payouts would at least be consistent, 100 Gh/s (the rate I paid for) would have been making 0.001 BTC. I understand that the hashrate can be unstable, but if it keeps like that, I'm not even going to come close to what I paid for the plan. Every payout I get each day has been well below what 100 Gh/s could have mined. Some days I don't even get a payout at all.



I like the idea of buying mining contracts that can be pointed to external pools, but so far, I'm not really having a great experience with mintsy.

It also didn't work for me. I didn't bother contacting support as slush's pool worked and it's no difference to me. Thing is, my hashrate has been REALLY unstable. When mining in an external pool my workers went offline very often even when I had 100% of my hashrate allocated there. So I ended up pointing all my hashrate at mintsy's pool, but it's still really unstable. I was hoping that the payouts would at least be consistent, 100 Gh/s (the rate I paid for) would have been making 0.001 BTC. I understand that the hashrate can be unstable, but if it keeps like that, I'm not even going to come close to what I paid for the plan. Every payout I get each day has been well below what 100 Gh/s could have mined. Some days I don't even get a payout at all.I like the idea of buying mining contracts that can be pointed to external pools, but so far, I'm not really having a great experience with mintsy.

I'm hoping you can clarify this a bit - you mentioned that payouts some days are less than what 100 Gh/s should earn... but you are also mining at PPLNS pools... I'm mining with my own hardware so the Mintsy contracts aren't an issue for me, so much as the proxy and it not working with certain pools. Not to mention if you're mining the Altcoin pools whether you'll make the PPS amt of BTC or equivalent is also a gamble, again factoring in that Mintsy pools use a PPLNS model. I'm hoping you can clarify this a bit - you mentioned that payouts some days are less than what 100 Gh/s should earn... but you are also mining at PPLNS pools... I'm mining with my own hardware so the Mintsy contracts aren't an issue for me, so much as the proxy and it not working with certain pools. Not to mention if you're mining the Altcoin pools whether you'll make the PPS amt of BTC or equivalent is also a gamble, again factoring in that Mintsy pools use a PPLNS model.

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It would appear whoever made this proxy fucked that up big time.

You are basically going to be mining on garbage because of this and won't failover, this would be why the miners would be mining but the renter was getting no pool side credit and no hashrate was showing up.

Mintsy should probably comp mining rig operators that they took refunds from since the hashrate was being provided but mintsy was not giving the hashrate to the renter due to messed up internal settings. Mining Software Developer.

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Hero MemberActivity: 616Merit: 500something something Bitcoin Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** May 18, 2015, 02:04:19 PM #71 Quote from: bitsolutions on May 18, 2015, 01:09:01 AM I would like to know how a proxy could give out a nonce2len larger than the upstream pools they connect to.

It would appear whoever made this proxy fucked that up big time.

You are basically going to be mining on garbage because of this and won't failover, this would be why the miners would be mining but the renter was getting no pool side credit and no hashrate was showing up.

Mintsy should probably comp mining rig operators that they took refunds from since the hashrate was being provided but mintsy was not giving the hashrate to the renter due to messed up internal settings.



In more than one support ticket I pointed out that Mintsy should be comping people in this scenario and the tickets were simply closed. I'm not sure if there just simply aren't enough resources to attend to maintaining this site but the banners are all over Cryptsy, amongst other places, and it just doesn't work right. Seems like its time to either hire some more devs or shut 'er down. In more than one support ticket I pointed out that Mintsy should be comping people in this scenario and the tickets were simply closed. I'm not sure if there just simply aren't enough resources to attend to maintaining this site but the banners are all over Cryptsy, amongst other places, and it just doesn't work right. Seems like its time to either hire some more devs or shut 'er down.

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I purchased 90 day SH256 minings shares. After a few weeks of mining the ROI is 143 days . This is a guaranteed loss . i'm interested if Mintsy will do something extra for us? If we I can edit my review



It's been running a while now so even if luck does come into play I don't see how I'll earn my money back. Hopefully Mintsy will comment or change their service but in the meantime I highly recommend that people do not invest. Hey guys, I bought some sha256 shares and have been running them for several weeks now. Would love to report on it and also get some feedback from mintsy themselves.I purchasedminings shares. After a few weeks of mining the. i'm interested if Mintsy will do something extra for us? If we I can edit my reviewIt's been running a while now so even if luck does come into play I don't see how I'll earn my money back. Hopefully Mintsy will comment or change their service but in the meantime I highly recommend that people do not invest.

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MemberActivity: 112Merit: 10 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** June 16, 2015, 08:44:14 PM #77 How well do the scrypt miners compare on here are they worth it to RIO on it or nowhere near. Was looking into other cloud contract people who have 50% fee and take too long to brake even on equipment.



1 TH costs around $800 with them and would never brake even that's on a 5 year contract for sha.



Is mintsy any better on the scrypt side of things or waste of $ put into it?





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Last edit: June 26, 2015, 01:19:11 AM by kode54 #78 I just bought a 100MH/s Scrypt contract, and it's been sitting inactive all night. Probably for the best anyway, since when I got frustrated about it not doing anything, I deleted my Fastcoin directory, which included the wallet containing the private key for the address I configured to use with the mining pool.



Do let me know if it's worth my while to keep this 92 days worth of hashing that doesn't appear to be hashing at all. From what I can tell from the terms of my contract, you guys can sit on my contract until 2018 if it doesn't immediately push out any hashing power.



EDIT: Nearly 48 hours, still no hashing whatsoever. I was mistaken, the 140MH/s for less than 15 minutes that hit the mining pool I configured was for a different payout address than the one I used.

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MemberActivity: 112Merit: 10 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** June 26, 2015, 08:52:16 PM #79 Quote from: kode54 on June 25, 2015, 01:19:39 AM I just bought a 100MH/s Scrypt contract, and it's been sitting inactive all night. Probably for the best anyway, since when I got frustrated about it not doing anything, I deleted my Fastcoin directory, which included the wallet containing the private key for the address I configured to use with the mining pool.



Do let me know if it's worth my while to keep this 92 days worth of hashing that doesn't appear to be hashing at all. From what I can tell from the terms of my contract, you guys can sit on my contract until 2018 if it doesn't immediately push out any hashing power.



EDIT: Nearly 48 hours, still no hashing whatsoever. I was mistaken, the 140MH/s for less than 15 minutes that hit the mining pool I configured was for a different payout address than the one I used.



set custom pool to only use scrypt and not have litecoin or anything else in coin as seems tehy got problems with their scrypts and services detecting and onlu US pools seem to be working good EU and p2p pools are a nightmare and any EU pools do not work good. clevermining works smooth for a while and still messes up on ash power being way below and support say if is below it boots up the power of hash speed until its at what should of been and to be honest I wont be buying any more contracts as their average for 10MH is under 2MH or the last week mining. set custom pool to only use scrypt and not have litecoin or anything else in coin as seems tehy got problems with their scrypts and services detecting and onlu US pools seem to be working good EU and p2p pools are a nightmare and any EU pools do not work good. clevermining works smooth for a while and still messes up on ash power being way below and support say if is below it boots up the power of hash speed until its at what should of been and to be honest I wont be buying any more contracts as their average for 10MH is under 2MH or the last week mining.

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Anyway, thought I'd take a look at Mintsy, from a standpoint of running my existing miners through it and possibly renting miners in the future. I set up a couple of workers, set them to use an external pool, and switched my Antminers over. No hashrate showed up at the remote pool. I tried switching to Mintsy's Bitcoin pool...still no dice. Looking at the web interface for the miners, they say Mintsy's dead. They had been out of service for a few months, so I pull the latest version of cgminer from



One other suggestion: Mintsy really should support TOTP two-factor authentication. SMS is clunky for the purpose. I already have Google Authenticator installed for a bunch of other websites (including Cryptsy) and would rather not have to install yet another 2FA app. After taking a bit of a break from mining, I'm looking at maybe getting back in. My Gridseeds will probably cost more to operate than they'll earn back, but there's a chance the Antminer S1s might still eke out a profit if they mine altcoins. I might also throw some money into rentals so I'm not warming up my condo unnecessarily.Anyway, thought I'd take a look at Mintsy, from a standpoint of running my existing miners through it and possibly renting miners in the future. I set up a couple of workers, set them to use an external pool, and switched my Antminers over. No hashrate showed up at the remote pool. I tried switching to Mintsy's Bitcoin pool...still no dice. Looking at the web interface for the miners, they say Mintsy's dead. They had been out of service for a few months, so I pull the latest version of cgminer from https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS1 and install it...still no dice. I also found binaries at https://github.com/7queue/cgminer-ckolivas/tree/master/bin that mention extranonce.subscribe support, but that also made no difference.One other suggestion: Mintsy really should support TOTP two-factor authentication. SMS is clunky for the purpose. I already have Google Authenticator installed for a bunch of other websites (including Cryptsy) and would rather not have to install yet another 2FA app. BTC 1TipsGocnz2N5qgAm9f7JLrsMqkb3oXe2 LTC LTipsVC7XaFy9M6Zaf1aGGe8w8xVUeWFvR | Pool Auto-Switchers: zpool MiningPoolHub NiceHash

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LegendaryActivity: 1344Merit: 1015Mine at Jonny's Pool Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** July 01, 2015, 02:06:20 PM #82 Quote from: salfter on July 01, 2015, 03:34:37 AM



Anyway, thought I'd take a look at Mintsy, from a standpoint of running my existing miners through it and possibly renting miners in the future. I set up a couple of workers, set them to use an external pool, and switched my Antminers over. No hashrate showed up at the remote pool. I tried switching to Mintsy's Bitcoin pool...still no dice. Looking at the web interface for the miners, they say Mintsy's dead. They had been out of service for a few months, so I pull the latest version of cgminer from



One other suggestion: Mintsy really should support TOTP two-factor authentication. SMS is clunky for the purpose. I already have Google Authenticator installed for a bunch of other websites (including Cryptsy) and would rather not have to install yet another 2FA app.

After taking a bit of a break from mining, I'm looking at maybe getting back in. My Gridseeds will probably cost more to operate than they'll earn back, but there's a chance the Antminer S1s might still eke out a profit if they mine altcoins. I might also throw some money into rentals so I'm not warming up my condo unnecessarily.Anyway, thought I'd take a look at Mintsy, from a standpoint of running my existing miners through it and possibly renting miners in the future. I set up a couple of workers, set them to use an external pool, and switched my Antminers over. No hashrate showed up at the remote pool. I tried switching to Mintsy's Bitcoin pool...still no dice. Looking at the web interface for the miners, they say Mintsy's dead. They had been out of service for a few months, so I pull the latest version of cgminer from https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS1 and install it...still no dice. I also found binaries at https://github.com/7queue/cgminer-ckolivas/tree/master/bin that mention extranonce.subscribe support, but that also made no difference.One other suggestion: Mintsy really should support TOTP two-factor authentication. SMS is clunky for the purpose. I already have Google Authenticator installed for a bunch of other websites (including Cryptsy) and would rather not have to install yet another 2FA app.



Mintsy does indeed use 2FA... I have it setup on my account using Authy. Go to "My Profile" and you'll see a "Two Factor Authentication" panel where you can set it up. I've successfully pointed my miners to mintsy (I use S3s) directly, but routing from MRR to mintsy doesn't work at all - unless they've since fixed the issue, it's been a while since I tested it. I have the extranonce patched cgminer 4.7 for the S3 (from NiceHash) and it works out fine. I'm not sure about the S1s since I sold mine last year.Mintsy does indeed use 2FA... I have it setup on my account using Authy. Go to "My Profile" and you'll see a "Two Factor Authentication" panel where you can set it up. Jonny's Pool - Mine with us and help us grow! Support a pool that supports Bitcoin, not a hardware manufacturer's pockets! No SPV cheats. No empty blocks.

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Hero MemberActivity: 520Merit: 501chickens and cryptos Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** July 10, 2015, 08:50:59 PM #85 Can somebody please explain how mintsy works?....



ok wow, its a website were you can buy contracts and rent miners to mined cryptocoins from mintsy own pools or 3rd party pool you prefer.. i had a 3 month contract and i got mixed feelings over it.. not from the mining but from the service, i felt that their are kids running lemonade stands more organized then mintsy.. and they dont seam to want my money.. as in the customers are always right.. maybe an american thing..



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Sr. MemberActivity: 432Merit: 250 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** July 11, 2015, 10:25:00 AM #86 Quote from: sirslayer on July 10, 2015, 08:50:59 PM Can somebody please explain how mintsy works?....



ok wow, its a website were you can buy contracts and rent miners to mined cryptocoins from mintsy own pools or 3rd party pool you prefer.. i had a 3 month contract and i got mixed feelings over it.. not from the mining but from the service, i felt that their are kids running lemonade stands more organized then mintsy.. and they dont seam to want my money.. as in the customers are always right.. maybe an american thing..



if you are a beginner .. first goto cryptsy.com and create an account and create address for your coins wallet that you see in mintsy pool list



Ok..... you took my whole question out of context, i'm asking where i can see how many ltc i already mined on mintsy pool and why are external pools not working.



I'm mining for 3 years now and have a cryptsy account. Ok..... you took my whole question out of context, i'm asking where i can see how many ltc i already mined on mintsy pool and why are external pools not working.I'm mining for 3 years now and have a cryptsy account.

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Hero MemberActivity: 546Merit: 500 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** July 11, 2015, 10:32:29 AM #87 Quote from: Framauro on July 11, 2015, 10:25:00 AM Quote from: sirslayer on July 10, 2015, 08:50:59 PM Can somebody please explain how mintsy works?....



ok wow, its a website were you can buy contracts and rent miners to mined cryptocoins from mintsy own pools or 3rd party pool you prefer.. i had a 3 month contract and i got mixed feelings over it.. not from the mining but from the service, i felt that their are kids running lemonade stands more organized then mintsy.. and they dont seam to want my money.. as in the customers are always right.. maybe an american thing..



if you are a beginner .. first goto cryptsy.com and create an account and create address for your coins wallet that you see in mintsy pool list



Ok..... you took my whole question out of context, i'm asking where i can see how many ltc i already mined on mintsy pool and why are external pools not working.



I'm mining for 3 years now and have a cryptsy account.

Ok..... you took my whole question out of context, i'm asking where i can see how many ltc i already mined on mintsy pool and why are external pools not working.I'm mining for 3 years now and have a cryptsy account.

Because this service is just another ponzi as it looks like. If you read whole thread, you will see that every single person is complaining how bad it works. Don't bother with it and move on, there are way better services out there that will not rip you off.



This service just shows how a good idea and concept is turned into a disaster if there are no proper programmers to code the service's backend. Probably Big Vern invested thousands of bitcoins into this, but at the end this crap was created. Because this service is just another ponzi as it looks like. If you read whole thread, you will see that every single person is complaining how bad it works. Don't bother with it and move on, there are way better services out there that will not rip you off.This service just shows how a good idea and concept is turned into a disaster if there are no proper programmers to code the service's backend. Probably Big Vern invested thousands of bitcoins into this, but at the end this crap was created. Trust thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392425.0

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LTC Mining Pool (Scrypt Algorithm)





Active Workers: 142

Total Round Shares: 14223976448

Your Round Shares: 0

Difficulty: 46285.259

Estimated Block Time: 2825.33 minutes

Time Since Block: 7196.23 minutes

Potential: 25.48524859 LTC/Day

Actual: 0.00000000 LTC/24Hrs



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Sr. MemberActivity: 432Merit: 250 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** July 15, 2015, 06:55:42 PM #91 Quote from: sirslayer on July 12, 2015, 03:38:29 AM Fram... if you go to the mintsy pool and select LTC Mining Pool. it gives you this.. the Your Round Shares ( ) is what you mined in shares.. Mintsy is a PPLNB so having a estimate of coins would be inaccurate ... some sites didnt work and coinotron is one of them.. that sucks because its a good pool..





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Active Workers: 142

Total Round Shares: 14223976448

Your Round Shares: 0

Difficulty: 46285.259

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Thanks for explaining, minsty is still in beta, so i hope in the future other mining pools will be supported, like coinotron or litecoinpool.



I'm mining now on multipool with 2 contracts and it's mining fine.



Did you try or know other external pools that's working with mintsy?? Thanks for explaining, minsty is still in beta, so i hope in the future other mining pools will be supported, like coinotron or litecoinpool.I'm mining now on multipool with 2 contracts and it's mining fine.Did you try or know other external pools that's working with mintsy??

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Hero MemberActivity: 520Merit: 501chickens and cryptos Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** July 16, 2015, 05:49:26 AM #95 my top three multipool that mintsy worked well without high stales and errors



1 Cex.io .. easy to use multipool

2 Ipominer ... always new coins to mine and supports merged coin in the multipool, Cex.io dont do merge mining in thier multipool.. their bitcoin and litecoin only pool does the merge mining

3. ispace ... haves different flavors of multipool options .. even a low diff. multipool for cpus and gpus !!! and merged mining



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What did I do special? Nothing, just mining POT and selling to the highest bidder.



Can anyone report own experience with your scrypt contracts, especially if it differs from my?



They are in Beta stage and these are negative aspects currently (speaking only for myself):

Contracts are not rentable

Misleading info. When you buy contract, you can see that it is tradeable, but contract market is "Contract Trading Coming Soon".

On contract details and FAQ, there is no word about renting. Currently renting of own contracts is not possible. In my case, I bought them to rent, which was not possible

Hashrate: I read some reports about unstable hashrate. I got 200%-1000% of purchased, which could mean that I got hashrate from someone else, but does not mean that I did not get this hashrate from unsold contracts. Mintsy never replied with an explanation what is going on with their hashrate and how much does everybody get. I can confirm that their shown hashrate is wrong. I rent my own rigs there and I've set cgmonitor which actually always shows correct hashrate. If I look at the hashrate of my miner, it shows correct hashrate, looking at the hashrate my renter got, it shows 300%. This is a big mess, especially because renter and rig owner do not have possibility to communicate and refunds are initiated 24hours after the rent is over, which is for crypto, especially for altcoins, it's very long time

There are many cloud services around which are 100% not legit. Until now, Mintsy is far from being accused as a scam, it's just a beta system of an unfinished code.



It's nice to see that someone tries (Mintsy) to create an transparent and legit service and it's great that Vern supports this idea, but whoever is running and developing mintsy, please hire some experienced devs to help your active dev/devs, it's obvious that they are overloaded or there is a problem they are not able to solve by themself, get a good project manager and hire additional devs to pass testing phase. Many negative reports about sha contracts. I bought 2 scrypt contrtacts, payed 0,33btc and earned after 4 days 0,18.What did I do special? Nothing, just mining POT and selling to the highest bidder.Can anyone report own experience with your scrypt contracts, especially if it differs from my?They are in Beta stage and these are negative aspects currently (speaking only for myself):There are many cloud services around which are 100% not legit. Until now, Mintsy is far from being accused as a scam, it's just a beta system of an unfinished code.It's nice to see that someone tries (Mintsy) to create an transparent and legit service and it's great that Vern supports this idea, but whoever is running and developing mintsy, please hire some experienced devs to help your active dev/devs, it's obvious that they are overloaded or there is a problem they are not able to solve by themself, get a good project manager and hire additional devs to pass testing phase.

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What did I do special? Nothing, just mining POT and selling to the highest bidder.



Can anyone report own experience with your scrypt contracts, especially if it differs from my?



They are in Beta stage and these are negative aspects currently (speaking only for myself):

Contracts are not rentable

Misleading info. When you buy contract, you can see that it is tradeable, but contract market is "Contract Trading Coming Soon".

On contract details and FAQ, there is no word about renting. Currently renting of own contracts is not possible. In my case, I bought them to rent, which was not possible

Hashrate: I read some reports about unstable hashrate. I got 200%-1000% of purchased, which could mean that I got hashrate from someone else, but does not mean that I did not get this hashrate from unsold contracts. Mintsy never replied with an explanation what is going on with their hashrate and how much does everybody get. I can confirm that their shown hashrate is wrong. I rent my own rigs there and I've set cgmonitor which actually always shows correct hashrate. If I look at the hashrate of my miner, it shows correct hashrate, looking at the hashrate my renter got, it shows 300%. This is a big mess, especially because renter and rig owner do not have possibility to communicate and refunds are initiated 24hours after the rent is over, which is for crypto, especially for altcoins, it's very long time

There are many cloud services around which are 100% not legit. Until now, Mintsy is far from being accused as a scam, it's just a beta system of an unfinished code.



It's nice to see that someone tries (Mintsy) to create an transparent and legit service and it's great that Vern supports this idea, but whoever is running and developing mintsy, please hire some experienced devs to help your active dev/devs, it's obvious that they are overloaded or there is a problem they are not able to solve by themself, get a good project manager and hire additional devs to pass testing phase.

Many negative reports about sha contracts. I bought 2 scrypt contrtacts, payed 0,33btc and earned after 4 days 0,18.What did I do special? Nothing, just mining POT and selling to the highest bidder.Can anyone report own experience with your scrypt contracts, especially if it differs from my?They are in Beta stage and these are negative aspects currently (speaking only for myself):There are many cloud services around which are 100% not legit. Until now, Mintsy is far from being accused as a scam, it's just a beta system of an unfinished code.It's nice to see that someone tries (Mintsy) to create an transparent and legit service and it's great that Vern supports this idea, but whoever is running and developing mintsy, please hire some experienced devs to help your active dev/devs, it's obvious that they are overloaded or there is a problem they are not able to solve by themself, get a good project manager and hire additional devs to pass testing phase.

Thanks for your comments, I concur with most of it.



Pot that profitable though? Still figuring the math on that



*** I don't see 2 scrypt contracts totalling that little, did you have coupon code? Given how low my hashrate has been, I can see someone having the opposite luck.

Thanks for your comments, I concur with most of it.Pot that profitable though? Still figuring the math on that*** I don't see 2 scrypt contracts totalling that little, did you have coupon code? Given how low my hashrate has been, I can see someone having the opposite luck.

I was not going for most profitable coin, I was going for most stable pool. Mining LTC gave me exact hashrate that I bought, POT showed much more, 50Mh contracts were mining with 200-300Mh in last couple of days, which is 400-600%. Taking this in maths would maybe explain how I actually have already 70% of my ROI.



As I was renting there too, I have multiple tickets regarding hashrate, where for the renter it is shown almost double higher then the real one, mining on external pool shows (in most cases ) "real" hashrate, but it depends still on the pool, there are some pools which Mintsy also shows in double rate, for me it really looks like a bug. Ie, if you make 2 workers, each 1Mh, in sum 2Mh, then you create a new worker and use it's pool for your 2Mh to mine on some pool, their system would show your total hashrate sum 4Mh, would it be correct from a system to recognise that it is 2Mh or is it ok to assume 4Mh? Knowing this fact I was curios if it is the same bug or do I really get so much. According to my contributed shares on mintsy, 400-600% are correct, giving the amount of POT like if I would mine with 200-300Mh.



It would be interesting to find out if they add their own hashrate or is it an uncontroled bug where some of the customers hashrate counts to another account. Maybe some transparency regarding this question would be nice from Mintsy.



I hope that there are no/not many mintsy customers who lost their hashrate, I am really sorry you got unlucky, but I do not think it has anything with luck to do, it's beta system and there are some glitches.





EDIT: No I did not use coupon code, I was asking them multiple times to give me some as I wanted to test their system but had to pay full price.



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I was not going for most profitable coin, I was going for most stable pool. Mining LTC gave me exact hashrate that I bought, POT showed much more, 50Mh contracts were mining with 200-300Mh in last couple of days, which is 400-600%. Taking this in maths would maybe explain how I actually have already 70% of my ROI.As I was renting there too, I have multiple tickets regarding hashrate, where for the renter it is shown almost double higher then the real one, mining on external pool shows (in most cases) "real" hashrate, but it depends still on the pool, there are some pools which Mintsy also shows in double rate, for me it really looks like a bug. Ie, if you make 2 workers, each 1Mh, in sum 2Mh, then you create a new worker and use it's pool for your 2Mh to mine on some pool, their system would show your total hashrate sum 4Mh, would it be correct from a system to recognise that it is 2Mh or is it ok to assume 4Mh? Knowing this fact I was curios if it is the same bug or do I really get so much. According to my contributed shares on mintsy, 400-600% are correct, giving the amount of POT like if I would mine with 200-300Mh.It would be interesting to find out if they add their own hashrate or is it an uncontroled bug where some of the customers hashrate counts to another account. Maybe some transparency regarding this question would be nice from Mintsy.I hope that there are no/not many mintsy customers who lost their hashrate, I am really sorry you got unlucky, but I do not think it has anything with luck to do, it's beta system and there are some glitches.EDIT: No I did not use coupon code, I was asking them multiple times to give me some as I wanted to test their system but had to pay full price.10Mh costs $ 59, in moment I bought it 54 

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im still burned that they gave me a refund then to reimburse lost down time due to development... i had a downtime for almost a month... i just wanted my month of mining.. not btc but i had no choice and i dont want to complain why are the hash rates on not a consistent but rather on a average.. do they know anything about load balance?? well back to the sha contract... how about the 100 ghs 30 day?? lol

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Hero MemberActivity: 742Merit: 500 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** July 23, 2015, 04:27:21 PM #103 I got reply that the underperformance is due to the glitches that they have and as my miners were running with higher hashrate, it's ok to lower it, which is highly under question if this is ok. On other side it's beta, I would say it's even working great as beta if I would know that beta will be finished in next 1-2 weeks, which does not happen.



Word beta means for me currently, take care and do not invest, if you invest, then you are a upayed tester where it could even happen that you get nothing, means like always, do not invest what you can't afford (I hate this sentence, everybody can afford anything, it's just a question of brains and luck). From this point of view I am ready to support them with limited resources for beta phase.

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MemberActivity: 75Merit: 10 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** August 06, 2015, 09:11:56 PM #109 You can call this service beta but in reality it is pure and simple shit. Support is also shit or is that in beta too.

Two different tickets, same canned response.



Purchased a 3 month 250 gh/s contract that won't connect to an outside pool and has been averaging 56 ghs/s.



Also rented a miner six hours ago and have not seen 1 hash.



I am not sure if this is s scam/ponzi or what but this is ridiculous. Learn from my $70 mistake and stay the fuck away My dog ate the rewards

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Hero MemberActivity: 560Merit: 500 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** August 08, 2015, 09:46:20 AM #112 Quote from: wonko on August 07, 2015, 07:35:33 PM All of my contracts have been changed to "Inactive" dunno maybe their data center is down or something



My contract inactive too. The support answer me.



Thank you for contacting Mintsy. My apologies for the downtime. This is a known issue with our Scrypt contracts which are currently under maintenance. Our developers are aware of this and are working on a fix. Please allow some time for them to resolve this issue. Rest assured this is being worked on and your worker will be back online shortly. Once back online your workers will be compensated with more hashing power than promised in the contract. My contract inactive too. The support answer me.Thank you for contacting Mintsy. My apologies for the downtime. This is a known issue with our Scrypt contracts which are currently under maintenance. Our developers are aware of this and are working on a fix. Please allow some time for them to resolve this issue. Rest assured this is being worked on and your worker will be back online shortly. Once back online your workers will be compensated with more hashing power than promised in the contract.

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MemberActivity: 75Merit: 10 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** August 10, 2015, 04:02:07 PM #113 Quote from: efire54 on August 08, 2015, 09:46:20 AM Quote from: wonko on August 07, 2015, 07:35:33 PM All of my contracts have been changed to "Inactive" dunno maybe their data center is down or something



My contract inactive too. The support answer me.



Thank you for contacting Mintsy. My apologies for the downtime. This is a known issue with our Scrypt contracts which are currently under maintenance. Our developers are aware of this and are working on a fix. Please allow some time for them to resolve this issue. Rest assured this is being worked on and your worker will be back online shortly. Once back online your workers will be compensated with more hashing power than promised in the contract.

My contract inactive too. The support answer me.Thank you for contacting Mintsy. My apologies for the downtime. This is a known issue with our Scrypt contracts which are currently under maintenance. Our developers are aware of this and are working on a fix. Please allow some time for them to resolve this issue. Rest assured this is being worked on and your worker will be back online shortly. Once back online your workers will be compensated with more hashing power than promised in the contract.

Me too.



I guess my question is why are they still taking money for contracts that they can't fill. I requested a refund and I was told once the contract is done then I can get a refund. So basically they took my money and will hold it for 3 months then give it back. Or worse, get it fixed and ramp up my speed for the last month so the average meets contract details.



No one has ever sent and email out stating they are having issues ( major issues). All I got was a canned response in reply to a ticket. I don't expect to be notified for every little glitch or reboot but this seems like a major issue ( shit hasn't been running for days )



Either way, it is not good. Frankly, I am getting better service from a collapsing ponzi scheme than these guys.



Me too.I guess my question is why are they still taking money for contracts that they can't fill. I requested a refund and I was told once the contract is done then I can get a refund. So basically they took my money and will hold it for 3 months then give it back. Or worse, get it fixed and ramp up my speed for the last month so the average meets contract details.No one has ever sent and email out stating they are having issues ( major issues). All I got was a canned response in reply to a ticket. I don't expect to be notified for every little glitch or reboot but this seems like a major issue ( shit hasn't been running for days )Either way, it is not good. Frankly, I am getting better service from a collapsing ponzi scheme than these guys. My dog ate the rewards

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Shortly after my purchase, Mintsy changed their contracts, and upgraded me from 1TH/s to 2.5TH/s, also extending my contract duration. At this point, I was quite happy with the service.



I tried a few of the options available to me - using Mintsy pools, my own external pools, etc. I didn't have much luck getting external pools to work, but the Mintsy BTC pool worked just fine, so that's where I kept my contracted hashing power. I also tried to use my own hardware to mine at the Mintsy BTC pool. Relaying through MRR didn't work at all; however, just pointing my gear directly at the pool worked out alright.



So... where did things go wrong? It wasn't for a while into my contract until things started to go awry. Where my hash rate had been very consistent early on, it spiked wildly. Hours would go by where no hash rate at all was reported, then it would spike up to some higher amount for a bit to attempt to compensate. Well, I wasn't too bothered by this because even though the graphs were showing bursty traffic, the average was close to the contracted amount. Unfortunately, then the payouts were way off. Even though I should have been credited for what my average hash rate was showing, the payouts didn't come close to reflecting that value.



I opened a number of tickets with support to explain my issues. I would typically receive a quick reply, even if it was a canned response about being compensated at the end of my contract if necessary. My biggest problem with support was that they were quick to reject any reported problem. For example, when I reported my hash rate and earnings were far below what was expected, I was given the canned answer of "sometimes hash rate dips below contracted rate". When I supplied proof that this was more than just a dip (it had been going on for nearly a week), I was then told that it wasn't possible for me to predict my earnings. Why is it that I'm the one responsible for a bitcoin mining operation's support team's education? What do you mean I can't predict earnings? Every online calculator out there predicts earnings. The formula for calculating expected earnings is readily available. Finally, after providing evidence of my actual payouts vs expected payouts, and how I arrived at my expected payouts value, I was told there was a problem with miner reporting and that I'd be compensated.



Unfortunately, things never really recovered. Hash rate was still swinging all over the place. Graphs reported a large percentage of rejected shares from my contracted hashing power. Payouts were well below what I should have received. Basically the entire month of June the payouts were far below what they should have been. Towards the end of my contract, the pool's hash rate began to drop. It went from a peak of over 7PH/s down to where it is today, averaging about 20TH/s. Since the hash rate dropped so significantly (all during the month of July it dropped), there were very few blocks found, and hence very little payout - although the payouts I did receive in July were right about what I would have expected for the hash rate I had.



It's too bad this didn't work out. The service offered some pretty promising features had it been able to deliver. Unfortunately it couldn't, and for that reason, I cannot recommend it.



By the way, here are the actual numbers from my experience:



Contract purchase price: 2.17543320 BTC

Contract total payout: 1.55217135 BTC

Net profit: 0.62326185 BTC (red indicates a loss)



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Clean UI/UX

Ability to point your contracted hash wherever you want

Direct integration with Cryptsy based on your trade key

Cons

Wildly fluctuating hash rate

Payouts inconsistent with average hash

Mining to an external pool was flaky at best - some worked, some did not

Support team too quick to give canned response and dismiss ticket

Overall rating: 2/5 So, my contract has completed, and I thought I'd share my thoughts here. When I initially bought my contract, I did so with a coupon code I had received offering me a discounted price. So, I purchased a 1TH/s SHA256 3 month contract.Shortly after my purchase, Mintsy changed their contracts, and upgraded me from 1TH/s to 2.5TH/s, also extending my contract duration. At this point, I was quite happy with the service.I tried a few of the options available to me - using Mintsy pools, my own external pools, etc. I didn't have much luck getting external pools to work, but the Mintsy BTC pool worked just fine, so that's where I kept my contracted hashing power. I also tried to use my own hardware to mine at the Mintsy BTC pool. Relaying through MRR didn't work at all; however, just pointing my gear directly at the pool worked out alright.So... where did things go wrong? It wasn't for a while into my contract until things started to go awry. Where my hash rate had been very consistent early on, it spiked wildly. Hours would go by where no hash rate at all was reported, then it would spike up to some higher amount for a bit to attempt to compensate. Well, I wasn't too bothered by this because even though the graphs were showing bursty traffic, the average was close to the contracted amount. Unfortunately, then the payouts were way off. Even though I should have been credited for what my average hash rate was showing, the payouts didn't come close to reflecting that value.I opened a number of tickets with support to explain my issues. I would typically receive a quick reply, even if it was a canned response about being compensated at the end of my contract if necessary. My biggest problem with support was that they were quick to reject any reported problem. For example, when I reported my hash rate and earnings were far below what was expected, I was given the canned answer of "sometimes hash rate dips below contracted rate". When I supplied proof that this was more than just a dip (it had been going on for nearly a week), I was then told that it wasn't possible for me to predict my earnings. Why is it that I'm the one responsible for a bitcoin mining operation's support team's education? What do you mean I can't predict earnings? Every online calculator out there predicts earnings. The formula for calculating expected earnings is readily available. Finally, after providing evidence of my actual payouts vs expected payouts, and how I arrived at my expected payouts value, I was told there was a problem with miner reporting and that I'd be compensated.Unfortunately, things never really recovered. Hash rate was still swinging all over the place. Graphs reported a large percentage of rejected shares from my contracted hashing power. Payouts were well below what I should have received. Basically the entire month of June the payouts were far below what they should have been. Towards the end of my contract, the pool's hash rate began to drop. It went from a peak of over 7PH/s down to where it is today, averaging about 20TH/s. Since the hash rate dropped so significantly (all during the month of July it dropped), there were very few blocks found, and hence very little payout - although the payouts I did receive in July were right about what I would have expected for the hash rate I had.It's too bad this didn't work out. The service offered some pretty promising features had it been able to deliver. Unfortunately it couldn't, and for that reason, I cannot recommend it.By the way, here are the actual numbers from my experience:Contract purchase price: 2.17543320Contract total payout: 1.55217135Net profit:(red indicates a loss)Overall rating: 2/5 Jonny's Pool - Mine with us and help us grow! Support a pool that supports Bitcoin, not a hardware manufacturer's pockets! No SPV cheats. No empty blocks.

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MemberActivity: 75Merit: 10 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** August 15, 2015, 11:02:59 PM #116 So am I really going to have to wait 3 months to get a refund for a contract that hasn't worked for 10 out of the 11 days I have had it. The one day it did worked it was intermittent and avg hash rate was well below ( about 70% ) below what contract was suppose to be.



Business must be good then if they don't want to see another penny from me. My dog ate the rewards

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LegendaryActivity: 1610Merit: 1000 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** August 24, 2015, 07:16:40 AM #121 Quote from: alani123 on August 24, 2015, 06:56:59 AM BitJohn hasn't been active since June 12. Has anyone managed to get a refund? Should we simply call mintsy a scam at this point?



Come on..

Have you ever tried to read thread tittle carefully?

[Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO**



So what it means that they are giving you almost twice more hash than what is paid for. Have you thought where the hell that extra hash is cumming from?



For me all threads with titles like this are 100% scams from day one!

Come on..Have you ever tried to read thread tittle carefully?[Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO**So what it means that they are giving you almost twice more hash than what is paid for. Have you thought where the hell that extra hash is cumming from?For me all threads with titles like this are 100% scams from day one!

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NewbieActivity: 10Merit: 0 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** August 27, 2015, 05:24:46 PM #126 Quote from: alani123 on August 26, 2015, 09:14:11 AM I think that at this point it should be pointed out that this service is very close to being a scam. Unless someone here managed to get a refund, I've heard nothing but negative experiences. Furthermoire, BitJohn hasn't been online here for months and the support isn't helpful. Stay away people.



I'm having the same inactive contract issue with external and Mintsy pools, so far over 2 weeks and a bunch of lame excuses later and I have yet to get a refund. My initial experience was great by the way, I bought a total of 8 contracts with them, the first two went just fine. Two more stopped working close to contract end, the last 4 still have months on them and have been inactive for some time.



I asked several times for a refund and wasn't even answered. Worse, it doesn't seem like a resolution is coming any time soon, here's a quote from my ticket:



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My apologies, unfortunately we have not been able to resolve the issue with inactive workers at this time. We are currently seeking a new provider. (our old provider Digital BTC has backed out of our contract) Once a new provider is active, accounts will go live again and we will decide on case by case basis what we will be doing with accounts that were affected.



Your patience is greatly appreciated as we go through this transition. Thank you, have a great day!





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Sincerely,

Leah

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Hi M****,My apologies, unfortunately we have not been able to resolve the issue with inactive workers at this time. We are currently seeking a new provider. (our old provider Digital BTC has backed out of our contract) Once a new provider is active, accounts will go live again and we will decide on case by case basis what we will be doing with accounts that were affected.Your patience is greatly appreciated as we go through this transition. Thank you, have a great day!Ticket: https://mintsy.freshdesk.com/helpdesk/tickets/ Sincerely,LeahMintsy Support

So they currently have NO HARDWARE PROVIDER according to her response. When I asked in a followup how they could think it reasonable to not offer a refund when they don't even have a hardware provider I was ignored. My advice is likewise to stay away.



For those like me that aren't getting money back so far, complain everywhere, let's make sure that if we don't get our money they at least don't get new customers signing up for a non-existent service. They're US based, so I'm planning on filing a complaint on Project Investors Inc with the Better Business Bureau, this is the company behind Cryptsy and Mintsy,



Best of luck to anyone still waiting for their refund. I'm having the same inactive contract issue with external and Mintsy pools, so far over 2 weeks and a bunch of lame excuses later and I have yet to get a refund. My initial experience was great by the way, I bought a total of 8 contracts with them, the first two went just fine. Two more stopped working close to contract end, the last 4 still have months on them and have been inactive for some time.I asked several times for a refund and wasn't even answered. Worse, it doesn't seem like a resolution is coming any time soon, here's a quote from my ticket:So they currently haveaccording to her response. When I asked in a followup how they could think it reasonable to not offer a refund when they don't even have a hardware provider I was ignored. My advice is likewise to stay away.For those like me that aren't getting money back so far, complain everywhere, let's make sure that if we don't get our money they at least don't get new customers signing up for a non-existent service. They're US based, so I'm planning on filing a complaint on Project Investors Inc with the Better Business Bureau, this is the company behind Cryptsy and Mintsy, http://www.bbb.org/south-east-florida/business-reviews/business-and-trade-organizations/project-investors-in-delray-beach-fl-90098747 Best of luck to anyone still waiting for their refund.

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I have to tell you my experience with mintsy.co to all forum... very bad, pure scam!



I bought a contract:



Duration: 6 Month (s)

Hashrate: 2.5 Th / s

Price: $ 949.00



And, in the six months ... received only $ 260.96



Do not invest in Mintsy.co, pure scam , scam , scam , scam , scam , scam ...



Always inactive contract issue Hello everyoneI have to tell you my experience with mintsy.co to all forum... very bad, pure scam!I bought a contract:Duration: 6 Month (s)Hashrate: 2.5 Th / sPrice:And, in the six months ... received onlyDo not invest in Mintsy.co, pure...Always inactive contract issue

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Hero MemberActivity: 826Merit: 1001@Bit_John Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** September 14, 2015, 06:40:13 AM #132



Cryptsy was to provide the development DigitalBTC the mining, and hashrate. Without discussing the legal side of this they pulled out the the deal rather abruptly. Leaving everyone in a lurch. I know Paul who is still on the board of directors for Mintsy is trying to find another partner/provider, and then find a way to refund or recover lost work for those that had contracts.



I did find this article and I can only assume it may be related.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/digitalbtc-reports-6-77-million-first-year-net-loss-management-nonetheless-bullish/



About all I know at this time. If I can find out more I will post it. So this whole ordeal is out of my hands since I have limited involvement with the business side of Mintsy, but I thought I would update folks with what I know especially since I promoted it in its early stages. Mintsy is a standalone joint venture between Cryptsy, and DigitalBTC.Cryptsy was to provide the development DigitalBTC the mining, and hashrate. Without discussing the legal side of this they pulled out the the deal rather abruptly. Leaving everyone in a lurch. I know Paul who is still on the board of directors for Mintsy is trying to find another partner/provider, and then find a way to refund or recover lost work for those that had contracts.I did find this article and I can only assume it may be related.About all I know at this time. If I can find out more I will post it.

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NewbieActivity: 10Merit: 0 Re: [Official] Mintsy.co Thread **SHA contracts 150% more hash same price!!! RETRO** September 15, 2015, 03:32:51 PM #135 Quote from: BitJohn on September 14, 2015, 06:40:13 AM



Cryptsy was to provide the development DigitalBTC the mining, and hashrate. Without discussing the legal side of this they pulled out the the deal rather abruptly. Leaving everyone in a lurch. I know Paul who is still on the board of directors for Mintsy is trying to find another partner/provider, and then find a way to refund or recover lost work for those that had contracts.



I did find this article and I can only assume it may be related.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/digitalbtc-reports-6-77-million-first-year-net-loss-management-nonetheless-bullish/



About all I know at this time. If I can find out more I will post it.

So this whole ordeal is out of my hands since I have limited involvement with the business side of Mintsy, but I thought I would update folks with what I know especially since I promoted it in its early stages. Mintsy is a standalone joint venture between Cryptsy, and DigitalBTC.Cryptsy was to provide the development DigitalBTC the mining, and hashrate. Without discussing the legal side of this they pulled out the the deal rather abruptly. Leaving everyone in a lurch. I know Paul who is still on the board of directors for Mintsy is trying to find another partner/provider, and then find a way to refund or recover lost work for those that had contracts.I did fi