If we get bot working again and funded every week.  I like weekly just as it's easy. 

If pay is same and amount of posts allowed is same monthly would work.  But I don't think it will fix current problem, I think once bot is fixed and is always funded weekly is just as easy ( or should be). 

And I'm in same boat with missing 2 weeks of payments so far.

Expensive all depends on how much you are storing.... I don't look at 100 dollars as a expensive item to keep my active wallet secure.  If you were holding a single bitcoin then yes that would be considered expensive.

So all relative to how many coins you will be using it to secure.

Good and convenient I see as two different wallets.  Most convenient wallet?  Going to be a hot wallet likely blockchain.info (due to popularity).   

Best wallet.... I see as hardware wallet.  They are easy to use and also very secure.  I think you should make security a bigger deal then convenient. 

It should be batch 7 it was only one that was 5.06 Th/s.  And was actually only one rated over 5, so it should be a batch 7.

We really should let this thread die.   Someone took smartminer and photoshopped it.... not a suprise.

The sad thing is chances are someone or ones will fall for it.  I cannot explain it but these keep poping up due to they make profit again is sad.  This product does not deserve to keep the name high up in hardware section.  And all the bumps do this.

The good thing is if you get a good PSU you can use it multiple asic generations.  So you literally can plug new gear into old gear spots.  That's what I plan on doing with my spots of last gen gear.  I did not sell PSU's as I re-use them.

Also you can always sell PSU at end if you are not going to re-use.  They keep a decent amount of value if a quality PSU.

This is not a regular business in mining terms 1 year is a LONG time.   Gear can change a lot within a single year, so I would argue a sucessful buisness needs to pull profit quicker, or sell machines off and get roi quicker.

Selling machines has helped by bottom line.  I have normal electricity price nothing secial.  So I mine as long as I can being profitable, keeping a eye on prices of gear on secondary markets.  I recently sold all last gen gear.... I invested in coins.  And eventually it will go back into machines.

ETH and PPC are a good point.   If we could get some alt coins that truly bring profit and ROI on machines.... would be good as miners to have more the just BTC to mine profitably.

I don't believe the one about stealing electricity.  Just someone saying they saw a tweet... seems to good to be true.  Also I think they would get gear out of there quick and to another location.  So would be temporary.

I still have a lot more questions then anwsers to go from 13+ to this... still just don't get it.

Yes but look at the ones owned by Bitmain.  Do you think they pay near per unit as we do? I highly doubt it.   Also electricity it no doubt is a few cent's.   How many .... hard to saw.    But would bot surprise me 1-2 cents.

I think ones linked to manufacture are most profitable.  Second I think the big mega mines, again they are getting discounts due to amount they buy.   And again very cheap electricity.   

There has to be a lot of profit or they would not continue to re-invest.

I read it as 220 units.  If it waas meaning boards I think he would have had to put hashing boards (and would be a weird way to sell by board number).

That being said I cant imagine anyone paying much for these as a group.  I think they would have done better selling 1 at a time.... but looks like they are in a hurry.

If you are able to it would be much appreciated if you tell us what your plan is on getting caught up.  Like caught up by X date would be great.

Thanks.

I don't know about the 850.... "Power Consumption: 1293W + 10% (at the wall, with APW3, 93% efficiency, 25C ambient temp)".  It seems like you are wanting to push a PSU hard.... not sure why.

Keep the EVGA 1300 its a good PSU.  You can sell it after if you need to when your finnaly done mining with it.  And get the one phil is selling.   I don't see reason to go to 850 to power 2 hashing modules... and try to push the psu.

I pushed not to do it on any that did not run off SD cards.  S4's and C1's ran off sd card....  bad flash reflash the sd card simple and nice.  But cheapness made ones run without sd cards.  Removes your ability to fix a brick quickly.  Ever since I bricked a S3 I have mentioned many times I don't update unless big flaw.  Only one that met this was some S3 reset did not work.... so big flaw need to update.  Been a LONG time since a good reason.

On S7 if works... don't touch firmware.  The hard part OP is you need to try to go back to working firmware or do another flash... to see if it is a bad flash.  But problem is your power off's.  If you get a single power off during your re-flashing you have a brick.  So your in a hard spot.  Might look at re-ordering a BBB board for your batch if truly is F'ed and count it as lesson learned.

Batch 1 was bad enough everyone got partial refund.  Some ran up to spec but a lot did not.  To avoid this phil is right buy a + model and you should not have to worry about the really bad ones.

But S3's had a personality it seemed to me.  I always had some better then others and fined tuned each one.  But get a + if at alll an option over normal.

You say that but really there is nothing that makes right now that cheap.  It is current price.   Cheap... look back 220's through there now that was cheap. 6 months or so ago... now looks cheap.  Right now is market price.

So yes we hope it goes up and speculate it hopefully.  But there is no guarantee's in this game at all.

I really want a negative just to see one again.  I still don't know what is going on to slow down so much.  I think this is the calm before another storm.

And I could be wrong and hope I am.  But I think hashing jumps will be back especially once next gen hit's spec and starts shipping big.

I don't believe a lot of it.  They say " We have Bitmain Antminer miners 220pcs new in box."  For a S4 to still be new in box at this point and 220 of them for this amount of time seems like a very unlikely thing.

The water cooling job I don't think was to great they say "This also comes with 150pcs S4 miners already converted with water cooling with water blocks, but many of them don't work well so please treat them as junk."   That tells me you will recieve them in parts... and treat as junk 150 unit's that is a issue.

Someone is trying to get out of the game with previous gen gear.... but I think they waited to late with shipping costs.  And considering it sounds like the water cooled ones are considered junk to them.

I don't know why threads like this keep continuing.  GPU/CPU day's of ROI are OVER.  Yes you might make a profit over electricity if you have low electricity price.  But you will not be in ROI and pay off a nice CPU/GPU.

Everyone really is a few years to late.  The 90 day roi on that equipment just does not happen anymore like once did.

WTF really is a good question.   Price is 416 so dropped... but I think don't think that causes stop from big jumps in difficulty to negative.   I can think of a few ideas.... but none of them make sense.

People turning off gear... I don't see it as I think almost all will have info-structure they will put in new gear when old gear is done.  There is still a lot of A1's I suspect plugged in at very cheap electricity, some day they will come off but is it happening now? I don't know.

Big data centers buying gear to get last roi before having? Again I'm not sure... I can see it happening.  A lot of these I would think are in talks with Bitfury, and that scares me.  I keep thinking one day we will see news of bitfury shipping gear..... and that I think will make difficulty jump a good amount.  Again I don't know.

I really do want to know what is going on though.  Just not enough facts right now to prove anything.

Also hardware wallets are a really good options if you need use of coins.  It allows you to be protected even if used on a compromised computer on most.  Such as Trezor it is really a great tool.

I still see future where more and more use hardware wallets.