Good luck. That is ancient hardware and the company is long gone.

The ASIC mining chips are highly customized designs done in-house  by Bitmain, MicroBt, Canaan and Innosilicon. The designs are then sourced out to TSMC and Samsung for production.

The chip foundries used are NOT in China! China has zero cutting/bleeding edge foundries and it will be many years before the lithography technology needed for 10nm and lower nodes is sold there.

TSMC is In Taiwan and of course Samsung is in Korea. Yes Intel has foundries that could be used but their best tech is reserved for their own usage. Sidebar to that, Intel has always used a different definition for what a node-size is: Intel refers to the metal layers vs the gate size. Technically, Intel's 10nm node is equivalent to about TSMC/Samsung 7nm nodes.

Back to foundries in the US, Global Foundries operates a 7 & 5nm foundry in upstate New York.

Yeah right. Idiots. Surprised she didn't mention 'save the exploited children!' as part of the FUD
Unlike Fiat, Bitcoin transactions are all recorded in an open public ledger making it fairly easy to track tx's as coins are moved around. Now who owns those addresses is a bit harder but at some point the crypto coins are exchanged into fiat. Existing kyc/aml regs cover tracking that.

Exchange now below $30k. Bet some of the barely profitable older gear that were recently brought online will be shutting down...

Yeah, I'm from the Detroit area and am still dumbfounded at how some rather vocal folks here feel that Kwame Kilpatrick did no wrong and was unfairly punished. The guy is/was as corrupt of a politician as they come...  

Passed your links onto Kano who is the operator of KanoPool. He has a ton of info, insights & experience regarding the various pools...

It is not fake.
However, in the pictures they are dealing with what looks to be a s9 or other hash board that uses secondary on-board regulators that set the voltage applied to the chips (Vcore) on each board. If a board has PCIe power plugs then the board has the 2nd stage Vcore regulators and yes you can program voltage per-board.

When a board has hard metal bus connections fed from the built-in PSU and all boards are bolted to that bus - forget it. Yes Vcore can be adjusted by the controller commanding the PSU to put out whatever works best BUT that voltage (found by tuning) is a compromise derived from results of the combined boards. Perhaps one board *can* use lower voltage, perhaps another needs higher to be reliable but all are fed the same voltage so the result is xx Vcore is at best overall compromise.

 
What cable and for what kind of miner.... They are all different...

With any miner that is using a single built-in PSU such as the T17's all hash boards are fed the same voltage. Unlike the s9 and lower the hash boards in a T17xx on up do not have a secondary Vcore regulator so you cannot change the voltage per-board - eliminating the 2nd stage regulator that is at best 94% efficient and more likely around 85-90% is part of why new miners are more efficient.

Zero news of that here.
Got any reputable links about it?

Then you are hanging out in the wrong areas...

Stick to the technical areas such as here and here where you will find the real ongoing developments and Bitcoin technical support or the Bitcoin Mining areas for useful info regarding mining and the hardware usedBTC.

Areas such as "Project Development" and pretty much anything dealing with alts -- that IS generally crap and to be avoided as it will rot yer brain

A reliable source? ROFL!
They and most other crypto news sites on the web pretty much just immediately post any 'news' sent to them by contributors without any sort of editorial checks for accuracy. Sometimes like in this case - the author was pretty clueless about what happened... Then there is the issue of pay-to-print where PR firms literally pay the sites to carry 'news' announcements of some new service/product/etc. Again, rarely any checks for accuracy  

I use such sites only as a very general heads-up on what is happening in the crypto space. If I see something interesting I then always dig into the source of the news to get the complete story - not just cherry-picked tidbits that attract eyballs. In short - always take their 'news' with a grain of salt.

Of course the board is now sparkling clean. You do know that all PCB's and their components go through through ultrasonic cleaning at several points as part of the manufacturing processes right?

As to if it will fix anything - maybe. Biggest help is that components will run a bit cooler when not covered in dirt.

Interesting that several folks who got pardons were sentenced for cannabis smuggling/distribution. Guess times really are a-changin' 

Very true however Luck certainly does come into play - my "Lucky" R4 running 8-9THs has hit 3 blocks in the several years it has been running, the last it found was block# 543875 March 7, 2019.

Really? None?
April 3, 2019 one of my M10's hit block# 570025 and Dec. 16, 2019 one of my 841's in a 60TH cluster got block# 608428. Over that time I was only running between 300-375THs. I've hit a total of 10 blocks on Kano since I started there back in Oct. 2015...

Going a bit OT here but since I know you are a fan of 3rd party firmwares, it is stats like that which make me and a few others question if said FW's work as they should... Things like that is why Kano only allows miners running OEM firmware there. It's not say that Bitmain, Canaan or other makers can't bugger things up when they make changes but at least they have a record of finds.  

And just how would that work on sites like KanoPool where you have to be registered to mine there? Rewards address can only be changed by going into the account settings and editing it. Change the address and you must confirm the change via email. If a mining site takes their users security seriously I would think most operate that way.

Your only option is to go through a "pool" that supports what solo mining gives you - winner finding the block gets all rewards and hopefully tx fees minus what the solo pool operator charges for using their service. For KanoPool the fee is 0.5%, -ck's is 2%. As I recall Antpoo and Slush charge even more.

The odds of a solo miner hitting is so massively low, AFAIK Bitcoin Core removed the option of directly mining to it several years ago. That is why you are having to setup a mini-pool/proxy. Solo mining is truly a lottery with  very very very very very low odds of winning unless you are using a large farm running a few hundred PH for the solo effort.

Yes it can. I've never had any issues using Coinbase (though I use Pro) regardless of spiking exchange rates. It's slowed down several times but that's it. Been using them since 2014 and been through several price spikes with no problems.

As I said back on page 2, They are not looking into issuing their own crypto coins - they are setting the framework to use what will most likely be stablecoins pegged to local currency. There is no difference between that and using debit/credit cards - it all boils down to just moving numbers around between different accounts, not physically shipping cash between folks/businesses.