I think the new one fan S7 is very likely. For them to make a design change I think shows they planned on making quite a few for it to pay off.   So 1/2 fan cost could add up on filling up a data center.   

We also don't know when bitmain hits next gen.  It is likely they looked at designs due to next gen aswell (pure speculation there).

But bitwsidom just gets more ugly:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    166,851,513,283
Estimated Next Difficulty:    177,908,355,847 (+6.63%)
Adjust time:    After 567 Blocks, About 3.7 days
Hashrate(?):    1,322,509,643 GH/s

I think of them as more of a exchange then a wallet.  This thread is for bitcoin wallets... i guess it might be a hot wallet.  But personally I do not like to keep coins in exchanges there are many examples of this going wrong.

One of few that you might keep a little is coinbase due to insurance.  LBC does not have insurance that I know of like conbase.  So your picking a risky exchange to keep coins on as a wallet in my opinion.

Can't click on quote appears it might have been deleted.  It is extremely shady but buying an account is not against rules (I'm not pro buying accounts I will admit).  Even deleting history is not against rules, just shows it was bought almost always unless they deleted for was part of scam or something.

What he might get in trouble for is unsubstantial posts with signature - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=51057;sa=showPosts look at all one liners and small posts.  It's marginal where its not a total crap post... but a lot of small ones. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1430887.msg14481491#msg14481491 is perfect example. So who knows.

Are you sitting up solo mining or what are you needing the HD for? I'm unsure if you were doing it to be a node, or setting up solo mine from scratch.

Sounds like intresting project as I like those old stick miners due to memories.  I agree with person above would love to see pick of the 8 block erupters.

I am no where close but in US.  Are you able to tell us what you can offer?  I mean what is electricity price your getting? 

I'm just curious as I have not heard much about prices of running a mine in Ohio.

So you have tested psu to make sure it is putting out proper power?  What did you do to check PSU and rule it out?

But to die off totally is rare more often its a blade or something.  For no lights and fan's or anything I would give psu another look over.

I think this shows what sweet deals they are able to find on electricity.  It's hard to fault these companies for going with China, as much as I would like it to be more distributed. 

Think they can drive a semi from factory to plant with tons of new miners.  So cut down costs there.  They are saving costs and getting cheap electricity.  I don't see it stopping unless electricity prices go up.... then things change.  But a LOT of these business's have already made the initial investments and are just replacing gear at this point.

And by buying a account you could be missing many topics like how to sign a message. I think you are missing out on so much for jumping into sig campaign and trying to buy an account.  Buying account is a shortcut and it costs you on not having a learning time like most would when leveling up.

Being a "total newb" and jumping into a signature campaign is a mistake.  You are looking for short term gains.   You only get to be newbie status once.. and it is a time to learn.  You honestly are missing out by buying an account.

If you use good posts you have no risk of becoming a spammer just for joining a signature campaign.  If your posts are small or bad, yes you will be treated as insubstantial posts more often due to having signature.    But still for this to happen you did some crap posts.  So do good posts and it is not a worry.

Only thing is some HATE all signatures and you might be ignored by some.   But there is nothing you can do to stop this as its up to each person.

I'm saying if in US I would lean twords one such as coinbase.  It works great with US accounts (each country has different exchanges that are best for it).  So it is very location based.

LBC tends to be people who do not want to give bank info to a exchange or have name tied to the BTC, so it normally costs more then a regular exchange.  Also I think its safer to go through coinbase vs a seller on LBC in most cases.

If your mining bitcoin having area for the gear makes your life much easier.  I have a mining area at this point.   Some gear like S7's are just loud and so is bitmain PSU's with the little fan's.     Some do not realize how much noise these machines can make.

Heat as coming as we go into summer months so some places this is a huge thing.  My weather makes evaporation cooling not a option.  So I use big fan's with high CFM's to get through the summer mounths.  And this is made easier with having a area dedicated to mining.

Honestly if you are not comparable with seeing amps on a circuit breaker (which I am not pushing as if you touch main possible death as mentioned).  But if you are this far away from being able to look at breakers I would not invest in Bitcoin.  As it's possible you could trip a breaker if use to much... and if you cannot flip it yourself your electrician bills will be big and kill profit.

I know I tripped breakers before before I got a mining area.  It was a game to put some on one circuit and some on others. But if someone turned my microwave long ago I remember it would trip a breaker if I had to much mining gear on it.   So in home mining you can run into this.

But getting a electrician for starting to check breaker, and wire guage.  Is not a bad idea.   Also might ask about getting a dedicated line or two and see price.  All depends on what your long term plans are.

The problem with shelving it was you put nice video cards on a shelf for 18 months, that means they lost value sitting there as new generations of GPU's come out.  And they do always keep coming out with new GPU's.

I personally am more likely to sell GPU's (which I did on almost all my rigs) and buy back in if I want.  ETH has a lot of fan's but has not convinced me to build any new rigs/buy back GPU's.   And I could be missing a big opportunity... but I have a hard time shelling out for GPU's at current point.  I would need to see long term gains personally.

Not necessary say he bought when at 900 dollars on BTC.  That would be around 3333 bitcoins and he would have lost around 1.5 million or half of his bankroll.  So it can go both way's.  There are no guarantees in crypto.

Long term speculation is hard to a point where it's almost impossible on some.

I'm already thinking I speculated to low... which I don't like.   Hopefully difficulty does not keep going up but bitisdom is slightly over 5 now:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    166,851,513,283
Estimated Next Difficulty:    175,267,306,640 (+5.04%)
Adjust time:    After 745 Blocks, About 4.9 days
Hashrate(?):    1,228,895,774 GH/s

They can do it... but read post pooya mentioned - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1100903.msg11720132#msg11720132 .  It may seem crazy to someone wanting to change name but to get a name change it would take a good amount of donation to forum.   They don't lower it anymore as it would be unfair to users who paid old price long ago.

Very very few have gotten a name change by asking, some use them as examples and try to push for it to.   But Its a uphill battle that almost all will get turned down for namechange in most cases. 

Honestly being just Jr. Member if you really want a change get a new account and switch over.  If you have to have other name this is best option the longer you wait more you lose as far as rank on account when switching.

Part of it is we need to get "mainstream" normal people to adopt bitcoin.  I know I saw some family this week and one LOVES asking bitcoin questions.  We need to mainstream enough that answering of questions gets people to want to use it.

But a lot of non technical users are hard to get.   I think it starts with more and more sites/places accepting bitcoin.   But if we really become mainstream or if it's some other coin with "blockchain" it's hard to say in the very long term.

They already started to lower payouts a good bit back.  Part of it is due sadly to abuse like your recommend.  Using 4 accounts is tying to game the system on sig campaigns.    Imagine if everyone used 4 accounts instead of 1, the more popular this is the lower they pay will become (in most cases). I like some of your other guides but this one seems very short term, and not a long term help.

I would LOVE to see you do a guide on talents they can learn (coding, websites, art, etc).  Maybe throw a resource center in with free but good ways to learn different skills.  You could even go through services and rank them in amount needed and focus on most needed.  Lots of possible ways it could go.  I hope you move more to this as long term it's better for all.

Sadly it can be a slow process. Making a thread and signing in right thing.   But again it can be slow you can look at other threads to see this, admins are busy and this seems more common place anymore.

Best thing you can do in mean time is get DT members to leave temp feedback saying it's been hacked.  This warns others about it and shows up bright red by their name.  I think this is best option in time you wait.    DT members do read meta a good amount... so I expect this is likely outcome.

One of the best examples is the block erupters.  They at this point  should be very very cheap.  They were mass made and a lot of us owened more then we ever would want at this point (I sold mine off long ago when the blade was new).   

But people still buy block erupters for collecting (which some do all colors) and learning.  They bring far more then what is logical.  I have sold MANY generations on ebay and it's worked out well.  Only one I have gotten returned was a R1 router as they said it was not a reliable router.... which who buys a R1 to act as a router for other devices to connect to.... but that is another story.