Glad to hear about loss being less for you and other's.  I think this is a good thing for BTC price aswell hopefully with less of a loss we will see a smaller sell off of people who are scared.   I will admit i was very scared when BFX news came out one being hacked and price was dropping we really have had some scary times over little time.

Current price on coinbase is at 586 which I am not to disappointed with considering all that has went on.   I really hope this continues and we see it go up above 600 again that is a nice base to have.   Also on a side note on ETH it has not been to bad on value considering the whole ETC coming out of it, so again more stability for miners.  So I am hoping we see more good news next difficulty period for miner's. Biggest thing just hoping we can go a while till another big bad news as news really seems to be able to rock BTC in huge way's.

That is assuming we still can purchase gear at a consumer/hobby level.   With them being purchased for big money I have figured they are focused on internal mining first, and I could be wrong I just figure it is biggest factor when being bought as that they can guarantee.  People buying from outside I would guess is hard to factor due to Bitmain seeming to underprice them in past I agree on that.

I am hoping us hobby miners can still get gear.  But I am not holding my breath/time as it is really all still up in the air and we know very very little about current setup, or even how long till they have a working current gen miner.

I can vouch on this sadly in the Midwest summers temp can very highly and a few really hot day's.   What I did was use lot's of CFM's during summer on fan's so the pushing of hot air out becomes very important.  I actually had to upgrade to a commercial duct exhust due to hot summer's a typical home one just did not keep up.  Also it depends on weather some are lucky and can do evaporation cooling which is cheapest option as far as cooling.

But low electricity will always remain king.  If you have that you can work most thing's, there are a few things such as electricity/internet not being reliable that can make even cheap electricity hard.   So there are other factors some politically are hard ... so lots of other items but overall electricity is what most are decided by in my experience.

Seems to be same results after 30 minute's.  No issues mining direct from a batch 1 S9.  Site is possibly slow though as in 30 minutes it show's hashrate much slower on zpool site.  Guess will see in a while if it catches up hopefully.:


I did lose a little hash compared to a normal pool (I've tested many on it).  Has anyone used this pool much is it really paying out so good consistently?

It is a exchange first and a good in in my eye's for US.  The thing they have that very few other's have is insurance.  If they get hacked as a site (not due to user fault but due to site) the insurance is suspose to pay losses.  It has never been tested as they have not been hacked, but it is impressive.   They will want all your info though for using as a exchange.  But with being in US KYC (Know Your Customer) is needed with exchanges so they are not considered money launders.

They do have a wallet to.  But check it out https://www.coinbase.com/ .  They are not good for those gambling/doing bad thing's.  So I guess depends on what your doing I'm assuming all legal.   Which ever one you pick make sure to use 2 factor authentication. Also this is assuming you want a exchange to go from fiat to BTC.  Not one that you are playing with altcoin's really.

I really like coindesk, I think it is overlooked by many.  But give it a look at: http://www.coindesk.com/price/

With it you can pick between like 5 or so different exchanges, or their own BPI.  But I think it is big as you can select the exchange you use as all exchanges will vary on price some ... so most accurate is kinda hard to say I think unless you specify exchange.   Also I love it goes down to 1 hour you can watch current trends or go out much larger on timeframe.   So give it a try. 

I would agree bitwisdom is also great they are king in my eye's as far as ROI calculator.  They have one of the best and most comprehensive there is there.  And it's pretty good on using to guess next bitcoin difficulty change with current data.

The negative trusters have a valid point as it was very much ponzi type when you charged people for shares.  Now your new free claims are just dust ant not really going to add up to anything.   You also skipped a valid question "all investors have been paid like promised" does not anwser question.  Have you paid 100 percent of all investor's money paid for shares? Did they make ROI and how much paid total?

I just don't see the trusted part with your site.  What do you think it is known for that makes it trusted?   Old in itself does not make it trustworthy you can see many scam's that are old and still operating (for example some scam asic companies).

I would say use a wallet that is based on security.  I would look at cold storage like a paper wallet, they will always remain king as they are free and easy to make.  Just have to make sure you create on a machine not compromised and store safely.  Also you can use hardware wallet's some like Trezor make bitcoin storage very easy and very secure to the point you should not be hacked as long as you store seed's safely. 

But online web wallets have a place just to me I don't see it being a main wallet.  They are good for daily spending not long term in my eye's.

The biggest question for this normally is what country are you in?  Depending on that there is normally a few "best".   But it is very regional due to law's changing depending on what country it is in.   For example US Coinbase is a great one, but with KYC they know a lot about you (as any US one would).  But again all depends on country.

And also do NOT store coins on exchanges as a general rule.  They are target's for "bad guy's" so even if you use to convert to fiat I would store in a more secure cold wallet until you need to sell.  Lot's of news about this again going around.

I personally like the newer "bigger" ones for lack of better word.  I am in a good position having a mining area with where power and noise is not a issue currently.  Only thing is with what I pay in electricity all I can currently mine with is S9's and GPU's (altcoin's).   Really the S5 was a miner that ran hot and loud to you could do things to help, but I don't see it is a great miner for a room you use stock.

And I'm not saying it was a bad miner I really liked mine.  In fact I liked the S5+ even better at the time that was really something to have so much power.  I was sad when I had to sell that one and upgrade.   If you had free electricity and looking for a miner of this generation the Avalon 4.1 was much better for a normal room.   But it was a higher priced unit.   

But yest S5 if free electricity can still earn, just make sure to do some ROI math as you don't want to pay to much.  S7's are getting awful cheap anymore so I think a lot more of free will look there and then deal with deal heat/noise.

Shortened as so long but I just tried zpool and am having no issues mining direct to it.  Will test for 30 minutess or so and post a screenshot but right now it seems to work just a tad slower my batch one is getting: 13,797.82 but have only ran for 3 minutes.

So looking promising as far as running it.  Is zpool really paying that well?  

I think there was just not the demand for it.  A lot of asic data center's are not like standard data center's where you need nice rack mounted device.  Yes they are really nice ... but a lot of asic data center's are going to be shelf's where you can set say a S9 and PSU right on it.   So they are trying to make a premium product, so taking some other company's chip and doing it with that.    With that business model I don't see it happening as what are chances they can buy chip's make a miner and do it with competitive pricing?

So a neat idea but likely something that will remain prototype I don't think they will find the chips currently.  And even if they do I still see price as premium product which means money and less chance of ROI.

And only invest money you are able to lose, this is  a big thing.  I know exchange hacking is a topic again you can see how some lost money very quick.   So when investing keep a number in mind you are able to do realistically even if you see nothing back.  This prepares you for worst case scenario.  But if you make good investment's yes you can make big returns with crypto it is high risk high reward type of investment.

I would say learning not bitcoin's in general but specific investments helps.  For example if you want to mine, if so then BTC or alt coins would be what you need to learn.  Could be trading and you need read up on coins and it can be quite hard.  Or even just buying and long term holding is a fair strategy  on making money over time.

But find your niche you enjoy and it is fun.  Personally I love mining so I spend a lot of time there and love learning all I can on it.   You have to find that topic you enjoy and is invest-able after it really can be fun and profitable in many cases.

Bolded part that is not really true.  Being new you will get micro payments, in most cases dust payments that don't really add up.  Just a lot of newbie level accounts that spam, and the sig campaigns for that level don't pay much.  Also they don't have full sig size read more about ranks to see what you get on sig size/abilities it grows as you rank get's higher.

In most cases best way is to just wait.  Use the site and learn how to make helpful posts and do this to full member is my suggestion.  If you build up good posts during the time up to full member you  have a much better shot at getting into a good signature campaign.  I cant stress enough how much quality posts make a difference here.

But realistically being a "newbie" and earning in sig campaign just does not happen in any sizable payment's.

I would not put it as trusted site.  When you say trusted I think of like coinbase, Bitmain, etc.  Your site was not well received by some: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=492957 .  Also been a while since I have seen stat's have you paid everyone who bought shares back? (Might help get rid of some neg trust's if you do pay them back).  Where are you getting info your site is considered a trusted site?

And to your point a website is trusted or not based on many things.  First what is the website some are scam's/schemes others are good.  Then go to history some sites have a long history again.   But reading forum will help decide on this.

Looking at video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urkXA2ShCd4&feature=youtu.be at 22 seconds looks like molex to PCIe?  For S7's I would never use this adapter as it just is not the same power as PCIe cable.  And most molex to PCIe are not meant for the watt's were talking about.  Also in video you mention that it was hot with smaller PSU what specifically was hot and how hot are we talking about?

So not sure with adapter/hot miner might have had a hard life.   It is sounding like controller has a problem which you might order due to time to get.  But when running are you still using that molex to PCIe adapter?

Sadly looks like it went back up:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    201,893,210,853
Estimated Next Difficulty:    212,485,992,334 (+5.25%)
Adjust time:    After 666 Blocks, About 4.4 days
Hashrate(?):    1,416,154,256 GH/s

Even if we see a drop I will want a little bit of time to confirm it.  With Bitmain offering the new S7 + PSU for 50 MOQ order's they could be unhooking and selling them to outside companies.  So temporary drop off from sales of S7 in bulk, but the bad thing is they will be plugged in + chances are Bitmain upgrades internal meaning even more hash on network.

So I think temporary drops from shipping of gear but I could be all wet on my guess.

Getting everyone on board for a change like this would be very hard, it seems for most part Bitcoin companies do not like change.  Getting everyone to even look at size changes is hard to get anything accomplished.   Only thing that they did in my eyes do quick is stop 51 percent on one pool back on G-hash long ago.  They got together and split hash as they had the over 50 for a bit.

So I don't see bitcoin going to quantum computing I think sha miners like we have now will remain what is used.  Now they will get more efficient over time and more powerful but essentially I think we are stuck with asics in BTC mining for the foreseeable future.

You cannot make blanket statements like this.   Keep in mind so many variables it varies greatly on who can do it profitably.  And the biggest factor in most cases is electricity.  But it is not a 90 day ROI like it once was, it is much longer.  But some still do it (including me).

So you can do it your post is really wrong, almost seeming like post was just for sig with size and info in it.  And alt mining really focuses on ETH and ETC let's be honest they are what is keeping it profitable.  So alt coin mining is really a pretty small of group of coins that are worth mining.

I really don't want to take another PPP rate loss so quick after last drop.  And I really don't think that is the anwser anyways on lowering.   Either campaign support's it or does not.   There is a pretty long history of not counting it in general, I can understand this as there are a lot of crap coins.  But with Ether there is some good topics now and actually profitable mining.

What was done in past (long ago) if you thought your post's in a certain section were of high enough quality in a area bot did not normally count, and it was up to Marco's judgement on if it could be added to your post count.  Keep in mind some would get told no as it takes great posts to justify.  I'm guessing Amph had a exemption and with bot maintenance they got rid of it (I would guess it did it to all that had it).  Keep in mind i am guessing here as I did not have exemption for alt coins just remember how they did it long ago.  If it was intentional and there are no exemptions ... do not know that is far above me.  

But I think leaving it up to Marco on each individual person based on post's makes sense.   And again he might not want any altcoin post's I have no idea, as general rule it has not been part of campaign for a very very long time. All is really up to him and I don't know current rule on it.

On payment looks like were waiting on hot wallet to filled, then hopefully it goes out.