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Excited to receive mine, still have the 1st one sitting in the shipping materials it came in, definately going to have to get them framed soon and hung up in my office in my new house, right next to my painting from Start The Art.

Thats what I was thinking as well.  Mining can be hard to predict a couple of months out, but in a week you should have been able to accurately figure how much you were going to make.

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Yea agreed, I think they are starting to get nervous about the halving and some of their competitors, hence why they are trying to offload as much product as possible.  I am just not comfortable buying any hash currently until the halving evens out and I can make a proper assessment.

Did we ever hear what the big surprise was?  Or was it just coupons being issued?  Seems like a silly thing to take the exchange offline for, for a couple of days...

ahh great, thanks for taking the time to respond.  Now the funding for the solar panels, are you more looking to sell seats to fund it or are you also interested in taking out loans to do so?

I may not be understanding how this works totally, I have 1 seat at address 1Nasty4EcS2DhFdcMFMDLNumZVLismquYW and it is not showing any donations on hold or any coins at the address.

Looking for a 2 btc loan at 2% interest for 7 days.

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I believe there are a few good options out there to switch mining to besides P2pool.  I understand the appeal of decentralized mining, but unfortunately the hashrate doesn't seem quite high enough to lend enough support to that idea.  I think we could be really well off supporting one of the pools that does a lot of good for the community such as Kano's or Bitminters, as opposed to f2pool and antpool that don't fill blocks regularly.  I understand that this might be against what the group stands for, but options are getting thin.  I also don't support mining lottery style for solo blocks.  Using Nicehash is also a good way to get higher mining rewards than currently being paid, something to think about.

I think that expanding mining operations would be a good route to go.  It seems like silver sales are the main drivers behind distributions currently, and current mining gear will only continue to mine less as time goes on.  By beefing up mining capacity, I think the group would overall benefit from higher distributions, more being put back into mining gear, and more silver and seat sales.  Going about this may be tough though, I know I could offer my entire basement as housing for units, but I would need compensation for electricity (around 8 cents per kwh).  There may need to be some creative conclusions to get there, but my belief is mining should expand.

Other business units may be a good investment as well.  Investing in the creation of a faucet or small payout game could help profits.  There are numerous other possibilities as well where expansion could occur.

I think the login period should be extended, I don't think I will remember to login every 3 months to "renew" my seat.  I personally believe you should never lose your seats and should always get distributions, but perhaps say after a year or so those donations are considered donations back to the group if you don't login, but you keep your seats.

These are a couple of my thoughts, there isn't quite enough money to procure large discounts from major equipment manufacturer's, but there are always deals on these forums if you look hard enough.

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