Compass Mining

🔍🐸 DYORD-

Checked against ScamAdviser, IOSCO, UK FCA, US SEC PAUSE, US CFTC RED -- clean across all four regulator lists, ScamAdviser rated "Likely Safe".

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• UK FCA Warning List:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗
• US SEC PAUSE List:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗
• US CFTC RED List:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗
• ScamAdviser:3.0/5(Likely Safe)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗
• IOSCO Investor Alerts:5.0/5(Not listed)· checked Jul 9, 2026view ↗
• Website Exists:5.0/5(A)· checked Jul 20, 2026view ↗
• Federal Court Records:1.0/5(8 cases)· checked Jul 20, 2026view ↗

Google Search SummaryD+

Compass Mining has extensive, well-documented negative signals: Reddit threads, BBB complaints, and Trustpilot reviews describe disorganization, unresponsive support, miners shown offline for weeks/months, unmet SLAs, and delivery/installation delays, particularly during 2022-2023 leadership and operational turmoil. Sitejabber shows a very low 1.3-star rating (from a small sample), while Scam Detector's automated trust score is higher (88.3), reflecting mixed signal quality. The pattern of sustained, specific customer complaints about service failures across multiple platforms is a real credibility concern.

Compiled from public forum/search discussion (via manual research, automated tools, or both), not independently verified. Reflects poster opinions, not confirmed fact.

Reddit SummaryD

Compass Mining has extensive, well-corroborated negative reputation spanning 2021-2026: a long-running pattern of miners going offline for weeks to months with slow/unresponsive support (tickets taking weeks, sometimes months), a real news story (cryptoslate) about the company losing a hosting facility for failing to pay its own electricity bill, a 2022 Russia-hosting-contract fiasco (seized customer machines, unpaid deposits during a sanctions-driven contract termination), recurring billing/website bugs, and multiple threads soliciting a class-action lawsuit (most recently ~1 month before this research) over undelivered/non-communicating hosted miners. Several long, detailed reviews are harsh but stop short of calling it fraud -- one explicit reviewer wrote "I don't get the feeling that Compass Mining is a scam; they seem to be a legitimate company that's TERRIBLY managed," and another updated their own negative review to positive after direct escalation to Compass's CPO resolved their issue. Still operating and still actively discussed/compared against other hosts as of within the last two weeks of this research, so not treated as defunct.

Compiled from public forum/search discussion (via manual research, automated tools, or both), not independently verified. Reflects poster opinions, not confirmed fact.

Bitcointalk SummaryD

Substantial, multi-source-corroborated Bitcointalk history centered on the same 2022 crisis already documented via Reddit and Google search: after being tied to a sanctioned Russian hosting partner, Compass forced customers to sell Russia-hosted miners at steep losses (~13k paid, ~4.5k offered) or deal with the sanctioned host directly. Separately, one Compass facility stopped paying its bills before the sanctions even began, undercutting that explanation, and the CEO/CFO resigned mid-2022 amid a reported "restructuring." Three independent, high-reputation forum members (mikeywith, DaveF, stompix) corroborated different pieces of this across real time as it unfolded, citing external sources (Twitter, CoinDesk). Forum posters debate reckless mismanagement vs. intentional scam without resolving it. A minority of mentions are neutral-to-positive (partnership announcements, a poster calling it "legitimate," another recommending it), and the company was still active and announcing new partnerships as of 2024. Grade reflects the same "seriously mismanaged, credible but unproven scam concerns" picture already established via other sources, not a new standalone finding.

Compiled from public forum/search discussion (via manual research, automated tools, or both), not independently verified. Reflects poster opinions, not confirmed fact.