Complaint to The Advertising Standards Authority.26 Dec 2023 23:00
Your complaint:
https://quantumblockchaintechnologies.co.uk/
The video, copied above, shows a simulation of Method B in operation. The claim is that in the run as shown a mining rig will win 26 blocks whilst a normal rig will win 10 blocks. The claim is being made supposedly to entice interest from Mining Pools. It is also likely, or rather certain, that it is being used to entice people to invest in the company.
The company is listed on the AIM market,
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/QBT/quantum-blockchain-technologies-plc/company-page
Private investors on forums often make statement similar to, "The blockchain transactions are mined and depending on the level of difficulty the rewards are proportional and usually given out in BTC. That leads nicely onto Qbt….The first to mine and validate the transaction wins the reward." in an effort to do the same. It is misleading. You can estimate the number of rigs presently on the Bitcoin Network from these two sites.
https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_network_hash_rate
https://m.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=00020231025110633223f8vE5pxQ06AB
The first gives the present Network Hash Rate as 497.54M TH/s for Dec 25 2023. The second gives the Hash Rate for a Modern Rig, The T21 from BitMain as 190 TH/s. Dividing the two, 497.54M/190, gives an estimate of the number of rigs on the Network as 2,618,631. The block difficulty is adjusted to limit the average rate at which blocks are solved to one every ten minutes.
This is all buried in statistics which makes it very easy to mislead people. The average time a single machine will take to solve a block will be 36,186,310 minutes or 49.8 years. A single QBT enhanced rig will not get a sniff against the whole Network. You need a significant number to see a provably statistically significant result. If QBT are worth their salt then they should be able to provide expectations for level of market penetration along with confidence limits to achieve this. They don't.
A simple example would be to work out how many Rigs of the present pool would have to be enhanced by Method B to win 50% of the blocks. It is 10/36 x 2,618,631 or 727397. The penetration required for proof is likely to be unsurmountable.
A professionally run Mining Operation would be able to do this for themselves and make the rational decision to show QBT the door despite the claimed advanced discussions. A Private Investor will not have the knowledge or experience to do so and will swallow the fallacy and indeed amplify it.
I trust, indeed I absolutely know, that the Advertising Standards Authority eat and breath statistics and will be able to do a much better job deciding how valid my suggestions are and, if they prove to be of concern, will ask QBT to both remove such false advertising and publish corrections or maintain that advertising but with the qualifying information prominently added.