The R1 made a decent U3 controller after crazy guy's firmware.   I think the RPI kit was priced where they knew they would not have to make many.  I know I bought a R1 to play with.  But the 400 dollar price tag on 21 Inc... made me stay away.  It did give them a item they could show off to investors... it no doubt helped in that area.

Everyone is real secretive they might have a great idea to do with all the money they have in hand.   But we won't know till they launch it public or it leaks.   And leaks don't seem to happen to much anymore NDA's are pretty tough.   

What did you do for cooling?  I know some push some gear pretty hard but ambient of 115 degrees is getting up there.   Yes some miners can run in much hotter environment's then they advertise. 

But I sure would not risk it.   S3's were tanks I have heard of very hot temps.  Even still a S3 and S5 are two completely different beats.

I don't think were going to hit quantum computers in near future on mining.  Asics do one thing great... they are designed for this.  They will continue to be lower NM and perfect the lower NM.   It just makes sense.

Free power is kinda a different thing as they don't need the latest and greatest.  The newest gear traditionally is in a place that pay's a little bit for gear.  If you have a few cent electricity.... you are lucky and can profit on older gear.

And you can do this through nicehash.  You are better off going over there and selling though it's great site.  You are really not going to find a buyer for a small amount of GPU power though here (i don't think).

With going through nicehash the buyer also knows they for sure get the hash for X amount of time.  It kinda acts as a escrow.

No the hot wallet is filled.  So it is not a issue on funding or Bit-X side.  It is something with payment bot it reset us and did not send any payments.  So not sure what happened.

I know it will be fixed.  Hopefully soon, but it is the bot that I think needs to be told to send out payments for the period.

Everyone is years to late.  I don't care how good of CPU coin it is at this point.  Show me a equation where you not only make more then electricity but ROI on a cpu... I don't see anyone ROI'ing on cpu.

It's a lost cause at this point compared to expenses.

I would guess your dealing with a lot of dust type payments.  When your talking about lot's of transactioons and amount is for cent's... yes dust is not so great.

I look at sending in a larger sense though as I don't gamble or do really any tiny payment's that I can think of.  Gambling I don't see the fun in on most of it.   

I applaud you if you and others can get the carded GC's out of here somehow.  My meaning was it is a moot point as there are sadly obviously buyers out there for it.  Willing to take a cheap GC knowing it's carded.   

But if you are able to get even some of them off the market I do think it is a good cause.   It's not something we want people to associate forum with.

I stick with VPS minining was one of the funnest and fastest types of mining there were.   I mean at one point of time it was profitable to have a EC2 instance with nice VPS.  But miners went so fast it did not stay profitable for long.  CPU coins difficulty skyrocketed with VPS usage.  I can't even remember the name of the alt coin's I mined at the time it was so quick.

Now day's even with a free VPS you are talking about very small gains with cpu mining.   So quite the show of how quick we can go through technology.  

Still I hope he listed it as a 2.7T or that thing is going to be coming back.  It does not matter what settings on ebay paypal has a pretty hard side with buyer.

Did you know paypal has a "changed mind" option now... it's getting crazy I think.   They wanted the item at time of order but don't after time with it, and nothing wrong.  Crazy ebay and paypal...

Honestly you would be doing him a favor long term getting it in hosting center.  EU is just a hard place for miners.  High VAT's tacked onto miner costs.   Some countries have rediclous VAT/Import taxes.  And it normally is not cheap electricity in EU.

But on S5 need to have pretty cheap electricity price.  I sold all my last gen gear as I made more off sale vs mining it.   But if you have cheap electricity you should be in for some deals as last gen just get's cheaper.

I personally won't believe it unless more then some twitter talk happens.    If they were caught... they still have gear that I would imagine they would be trying to get somewhere else.

I just think it sounds like to good of news to be true.   And even if it was true long term I we would need to know if it's something they pay fines, or jail.  And either way they would be trying to get that gear somewhere else I think if was true.  

A little could be batch 11 shipping.  Don't know if we know how big this batch is really.

I could not tell they mention virtual... I could not tell if virtual miner or saying BTC is virtual.  I tried my best through google translate.  They do mention shipping ... so part of it sounds like shipping a miner.  Other part virtual... it is either sketchy or my inability to read that language.

I would love to see more then a rendering.  They have been pretty quiet as far as miners.  I'm still not sure what to think about it.   I thought they would be trying to race against bitfury.  If they are they are doing it in secret.... which I think would be kinda hard with financials and so much info public.

Even thought that one chart does not show them in competition with bitfury.    I think they most definitely are in a competition  against them.    Bitfury if they hit spec on chips... going to be hard to beat.

I ordered from the EU dealer on compacs he was very nice.  They are higher in the EU.   But he was great I wanted one in US as I had collected a set of compacs.  He got it to me. 

Stickminers if your going with anything else then Compacs it really does not make much sense.  And know that you likely will not ROI they are for fun and lotto mining.

What I would do is try to find a deal on a S3 don't know if sub 100.... but they are losing value.  For the money a S3 in that area.... is what I would look for.  And you would have to have VERY cheap electricity.

I doubt we see a S8.  I think day's of even numbers with all in one setup's are done.  I could be wrong but they have stayed away for a while.  I think they have mastered shipping costs staying with odd numbers.

They have been VERY quiet.  When S7 was coming out there was all kinds of rumors we knew with S5+ some big things were changing.  So far we just have not seen that.  That is no way means they don't have it ready to go, but they have had 0 leaks of info yet.

And I have had those hot summer day's.  I ran all though last summer.  Normally 70-80ish.... i had to resort to a LOT of CFM's of air it varied but always was around 12k+ watts worth of gear.  The day's it hit 90... I hated it and watched the heck out of my gear luckily it was a "mild" summer.

But if your talking lot's of gear you can see how I struggled and anwser was more CFM's, got 2 much bigger fan's then I thought I would need.   And eventually put in a professional gable fan as regular home gable fan's even higher end was not putting enough exhaust out. - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1020826.0

And it's hard on your fan's even to run that long I had 1 of my 2 big fan's end up failing luckily within warranty.   But it happened during winter.... and lowes is very seasonal.  I ended up trading one of them in for a 12k CFM fan that pushes a heck of a lot of air.   I can tell anyone out there winter is much funner then summer mining.

I agree when you make the paper wallet you should not make 1 print only of it.  It would be crazy if you did to have it in a area with water around it.  When you store safely you would be smart to have at least a copy always stored away.

I do like hardware wallets more and more.  Also 2nd factor devices.  I see these becoming more and more popular in future.  Which is likely a very good thing.

I think the discount is a strong way of detecting these carded gift cards.  When you see GiftCards at 75 percent... there is a reason on most there are very few people are normally willing to let go for 3/4 of value.  Another good way is asking to see receipt of paying with cash... but arguably this could be defeated.     

Sadly I think this is a moot point as some are obviously ok with buying carded CG... which is honestly sad.  It should catch up with them eventually companies do track addresses of where carded items were sent to.

The only thing I would love to see if anyone ever finds it is what exactley what the equation does that get's to negative.   It does not hurt anything at all as far as hashing but it would make sense if that equation with errors is making it look better on HW errors then it really does. 

But not sure as it does seem to heavily be related to amount of day's.   And again it's hard to get to mad when a miner runs for a month that is normally a pretty happy thing.