CoinTerra Battles With Performance Issues and Security Breach

CoinTerra Battles With Performance Issues and Security Breach

CoinTerra is offering compensation to early adopters of its latest TerraMiner IV mining rigs, based on the GoldStrike I ASIC. All customers who ordered the first batch of TerraMiner IV units, scheduled to ship in December, will now receive a second rig, free of charge. Although the first batch was originally supposed to ship in December, it was actually shipped last week. The second batch was pushed back from January to February, while those who ordered TerraMiner IV units from subsequent batches should get the miners on time, The Register reports. Not quite 2TH/s. CoinTerra was hoping....


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