SAME thing happened to me with butterfly labs during that time lol! i got my money back because i finally got a hold of them and told them that the miner was no longer worth the money i paid them because the miner was time sensitive, like food that had spoiled. and yeah they just said they were "testing" the machines. lol they probably mined like 50 bitcoins just testing the machines and said to themselves... "hmm" lol i support the lawsuit against them if there is one, they screwed us all over because they got greedy and raised the difficulty without us lol. anyways. welcome to steemit. im pretty new here too. you gotta get followers by commenting on peoples posts in the introduceyourself section and the hot section, so i hear ;) peace!