Oh yea, I am aware and expect my payments to go up a little, but I know usb sticks really won't ROI, but it's fun to have them here micro-earning with no electricity cost.
 

The avalon's are not usb, correct?

I can run 6 nanofury usb sticks simultaneously, but I cannot run more than one U3 or more than one Compac without the LIBUSB errors.  There must be a common denominator, but I don't know enough to know what it is, I assume it's just the age of my system/OS.

After the first 30 days Phil has posted that the club pool potential payout will be reevaluated based on hash per user.  I would like to see it limited to hash from Compac sticks for the payout calc, and any other devices are just "donated hash".

Received my first 3 payments from 2 of my gekkoscience compacs mining with "free" electricity.  It's fun that they can earn back some of the btc I spent purchasing them.  Only 597 blocks to go before 1 has paid for itself, lol.

I get that if I try to run more than one stick on my old XP machine, but the same sticks/hub run just fine on Win7 (yes, yes, I'm doing a Linux build "soon"!).  I believe it's trying to tell my my old computer is old and the usb architecture does not support running multiply usb miners (I get the same errors running more than one U3).

No, it won't.

I find no value in "likes" or "+1" or "thumbs up" or whatever.  It's silly stuff invented for social media and it's really pointless.  Who cares what if a lot of people "like" something?  A lot of people are idiots.

My experience resyncing the block chain on core 0.11.0 three times now, it still takes about 4 days, not hours, to resync the chain from scratch.  This is on high speed cable internet in the US.

Finally, someone else with my same Comms error!

You said it "evens out" after a while, but I suspect that it's just your difficulty gets adjusted from 1000 (bfg standard) down to single digits for 1 stick and so you start seeing submitted shares on the screen rather than just the Comms error.  I see about 1 Comms error every 30 seconds.

How long will yours run with the errors, have you had the sticks going for days?  Mine seem to hash just fine despite the error, however, after long enough (about 24 hours or less or so I've noticed) the Coms errors take over completely!  The sticks still appear to be hashing, as evidenced by the numbers and flashing leds, but pool side shows 0 hash coming through.  Meanwhile an endless stream of Comms errors is floating through the bfg window, multiple each second, rather than the one or two errors every minute.

You have to recoup your initial "investment" (purchase price of hardware + psu) before you see any profit.  Even with 2 cent power (which is rare in and of itself) you won't see profit for over a year. That's why I mention ROI even at low power rates.  New hardware purchased at retail price just doesn't make any sense right now.

Look up one post above your reply.

I don't think this is the appropriate thread to discuss the SP50, but
show me the ROI math.  I can't see the machine to be profitable in a year even with 2 cent power from the calculators I've tried.

I don't think the SP50 or the S7 will ROI before the halving...

The answer to "why" is poor hardward design by Bitmain.  There's something screwy about the usb and power and how it's all done on the circuit board.  I don't know enough to talk details, I'm only repeating the tl;dr of what a hardware guy told me after tearing into one.

The ROI math using assumed pricing for these beasts doesn't even make them seem that profitable for large-scale mining.  I don't think any of the current gen hardware will ROI before the halving less than a year away.

It's an impressive machine, but coming on the heels of the S5+ and S7 I don't like the trend of "bigger bigger bigger" in both physical footprint and electricity demand.

I wonder where we'll be a year from now, 12.5 btc block rewards and 100 billion network diff...

OP,

You're in it for fun, you do not need bleeding edge ASIC technology.  You'll over pay for it both in purchase price and electricity usage (despite the increased efficiency, the trend with miners now is to go big big big, just look at the S5+, S7, and SP50).

Buy yourself a used S3 and start playing, you can find them almost given away now.  They are still fairly efficient, two of them can give you 1TH so they're "big enough" to put your U3 hash into perspective, and you won't break the bank playing with them.

Think of your average person, they are pretty dumb.  By definition, half the people are more dumb than the average person.

There is no emphasis on critical thinking, too many people blindly accept what is presented to them, whether it be religion, political views, or consumer products.  It's more and more rare that I come across folk with common sense and good critical thinking skills.

It comes down to there are just too many people, I'm cheering for the next extinction level event to happen soon and wipe the slate so it can all start over again.

The negative swing at the beginning of this period is like the tide being drawn out to sea before a huge tsunami washes over everything...

I don't have much of a memory, I have to write everything down I need to do or I'll forget, I always have little post-it notes on my desk or in my car.  I couldn't tell you what I ate last weekend, let alone what cpu is in my 10+ year old computer.  

In my rudimentary understanding of it I don't think it should matter, but I don't know, I guess that's part of what I need to figure out.

I found this page: http://superuser.com/questions/320992/how-to-check-if-pae-is-enabled-windows-7-32-bits, I'll run through the suggestions and see what's what with my cpu, from what I read I believe my old XP box is PAE enabled.

By the time your refrigerator generated enough bitcoin to buy 1 gallon of milk it will be so far in the future we probably won't need refrigerators any more.

There are very, very few people who are able to make a living as professional gamblers at casino games, there the house holds too much of an advantage.

The recent boom of poker shows that it is very possible to make a living gambling professionally at cards.  Since these games usually pit player against player it removes the house from the equation.

It is also possible to make a living at sports betting long-term, but even the guys who are really, really good at it only have just over a 50% success rate.

Check out https://bpb.opendns.com/a/www.professionalgambler.com/Winperct.html and https://bpb.opendns.com/a/sportsgambling.about.com/od/sportsgambling101/a/55percentwins.htm.

You don't understand how pools work apparently.

Well geeze, you guys actually expect me to remember what year I built this computer?  It could date back to 2006, maybe earlier, but most certainly not later.