Normally if you have a time out during a firmware flash it can be bad news... you really don't want to lose power, timeout, etc.  It can lead to a brick in some cases.   Not all but some will be bricked.

Honestly if it is giving you those issues I would leave it.   S5 miner's are really not quiet.   As far as comment above you should easily know if S5+ it is marked on it and has 3 of them.   I only had one of the S5+ but it was also a great miner.   But I think he is talking about a regular S5 from what I'm reading.

A good example of how long miner's can go is the S3 and S3+.  If treated well they keep on hashing, those with "free electricity" have done very well with them in  many cases as they keep working.  Yes you have to clean and use decent PSU's.  But they can have a very longspan.    I mean going back to stuff that no longer makes sense to mine with like asicminer blades, and usb sticks a lot of them still work longer then mining makes sense.

On PSU the APW3 will work fine with S7 and S9.    I have used it without any issues in my mining area.  I sold my S7's as it no longer made sense to mine for me.  And I kept my APW3's they work great with S9 which is great as I have already paid for them long ago.

They literally killed SP on the S5 and SP20 pricing.  SP tried to compete and they claimed to be losing money at the end of it on SP20, don't know if truth in it.  But Bitmain won that without a doubt.

One thing to is they can also mine them their self's.  They don't have to sell every miner to user's like us they can keep some internal.  If it makes more sense to keep internal vs selling cheap i'm sure it will stay internal.   So I really don't know what to expect on price.  It is a interesting time I will say I'm happy Bitmain is selling to home/hobby miner's still.   If it was not for them I personally would not be mining currently as at my electricity S9 is only miner that really makes sense to mine as far as BTC goes.

It would need to be more then that I think if it will cover entire sig campaign:

1) 7/4 - Unpaid
2) Coins_Bank Bonus mentioned - Unpaid (unsure of amount)
3) 7/11 - Unpaid

I know it will all get sorted out in the end.  But would really appreciate an update if possible.

On a side note it put me on first post of next page.  For those just joining yes first post is still correct.  If there is a spot that post will change. But as there is little turnover asking if there is a spot, or trying to apply in a post is not going to get you in campaign. (Hopefully this will spot a few post's... but I doubt it)

I think you missed his first post on "very slow Internet user so i want use a wallet which can operate over a very slow network".  Downloading bitcoin core sounds terrible on a network like this.  He will want a light wallet that does not have to download blockchain.

Also as other's mentioned possibly a web wallet depending on amount is good as you are using them.   I would caution on web wallet's depending on how much you are storing in your BTC wallet.  Just additional risk with all hot wallet's.

Posting referral link's like that trying to get people to click on your referral is not allowed.  I removed it from quote and I bet moderators remove it from your post.   I suggest going to Meta and reading this list - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0

Your's would fit in number 4 there.  So again it is not allowed on this forum. 

Some will think I'm crazy that are just starting off but eventually you really just have to enjoy the forum's, your title... means some but there is so much more behind your account.   Not all account's are equal if you look at some accounts it obvious they have tried to jump up fast they will do post like "last music listened to", "Last drink drinked" and other crap off topic threads.

When you go for a "good" signature campaign they actually look at posts to see if you are spamming, crap posting, etc.  So a good signature campaign you will have a hard time if you just post like some have said.  Your post's need to actually have some substance or you likely are on your way to a ban.  If your goal of this site is to get paid... you again are likely on your way to a ban.

I find that those that look at signature campaign as a bonus vs reason to be on boards do much better in the long run.  At least in my opinion.

Even if there is... were talking small profit's being realistic.  They will pay a few cent's a hour in most cases of faucet's.  Even if the coin goes up 10x ... still talking rather small.   You are better off most likely to take a few real dollars and buy some coin's then spending all that time on faucet's.

That being said a lot of new coin's are pump/dump.   Looking at google... I'm not sure OP is not trolling possibly.  BRK coin appears to be - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1509819.msg15185942#msg15185942    I'm not sure I would bet on a coin so tied up in world of gambling.  Is there only 1 exchange it's on? Seems hard to find.

We really need to know OP's electricity rate.   So hard to tell people what do on asic's without it at this point, just ROI is all over the board.  One thing to keep in mind even if you achieve the 50 to 100 USD per month that over time it goes down.   We can only speculate how fast it will happen, but it will go down.

On GPU you still go into it spending a decent amount.   It takes a decent GPU and most likely a open air system that you make.   You just don't see near as many miners using cases as it is so much easier to cool down with open air.   I do mine both Ether with GPU's and BTC with asic's.  I can say the asic's are kinda dummy proof at this point.   I find putting together a nice system with 5-6 card's to take more technical skill, and more tinkering most likely.   And yes that is just at start of GPU system this extra effort for the most part.

I think what leads to it is a lot want to get rich quick.  Nothing wrong with that motivation... just mining is not the way in most cases it happens.    There are a few cases of "free electricity" where yes they do earn quite quickly with old gear.  BUT those are pretty few at this point and most have a certain amount of electricity that is max they can do with "free electricity".

The fact is most places you will have a decent initial investment to  mine if you want to do it at a decent scale.   This is why hosting companies are so popular.   I do agree we see these thread's far to often though and at least weekly.  

There is also a chance someone bought with fiat.  So that could be a different ROI schedule that could happen much faster, depending on what BTC does in value.  And yes there is a argument someone could have just put that fiat money in straight BTC I do see that option to.  But that is a different conversation then hardware.  Also the other optimistic  view is maybe some old gear come's offline and we might lose some old hashrate. 

Those are two thing's I can think of that an optimistic type might say.  I do consider it part hobby and part investment to be honest.   I love it that has kept me in the mining game, I just enjoy it chances are always will.    I think most still doing it enjoy it as I think you really have to to keep mining long term.

I think they are at the point there is no "further plans".   With going bankrupt after they were purchased... I doubt anyone else is throwing money at them like BTCS did.   At think point I think we can count on anything that was announced (like sp50) being something that will never exist.  And I could be wrong on that but I just don't see more money being put in them.

But yes I think we all agree sell the SP gear if not "free electricity".  They are only going to get less and less valuable.

You cannot link all Newbies to being fool's.  Some will read and learn from others mistakes so there is a lot of chances for someone new to be pretty "smart" for lack of terms just by learning from others mistakes.   And it depends on their goal in a lot of cases.

I would say it's the ones that are expecting to get rich quick, that are fool's.  As BTC is not  a get rich quick scheme, it is a investment.  The investment is a higher risk higher reward one then most, but still not get rich quick.   Those coming here to learn or use BTC long-term I think are on the right track.    A fool and his money are soon parted... is true in regular investments and also is true here.  But I strongly don't think all newbie's are fool's, and we all started there once.  So if you think newbie's are fools in a way we would all be fool's.

It is not energy consumption that makes it hard to mine in most cases, but energy prices.  I think you will find the big mega mines have very low cost on power, also they are mostly privately owned and you just will not find the numbers OP is looking for.   With being privately owned most don't open up their books and say how much electricity they use as they don't have to.

One thing to is some places produce more electricity then they have use for.  One of the few big one's that opened up is over here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072474.0 . eric@haobtc did a amazing job sharing living at a mine.  But in their case they teamed up with a hyrdo dam, so they were using electricity that would have wasted if they were not there.  So not all electricity is from "bad" sources.

I don't think your going to find the .01 side on signature campaigns anymore, btc went up and payments are just not this high anymore.    To get .07 a week you really need to do some in addition to a good signature campaign.   So signature campaign can help but won't be only mean's if you want to get that level of earning per week.  You might get close though in the good campaigns.

It is a rather big range the .0023 is very attainable per day on good signature campaign.  You will need to spend time on forum's though and make good post's.   But if your like me you will enjoy the forums and find yourself spending a lot of time here.  I actually spend most of my time reading threads.   

I would suggest though finding a way such as service/skill you can sell for higher long term profit's.  Even things such as mining for some, I mine and have for a while it has treated me good.  But you must find something you really enjoy where it where you are having fun and enjoying it.  Lot's of options out  there though to choose from I could not possibly make a list of all of them.

Not to mention with buying direct from Bitmain you have a warranty with them (I know some will knock it but at least it's something).   Add the warranty direct with them instead of a 3rd party and a HUGE profit reseller's added in I cant see why anyone would buy it off Amazon.   Pay like 1/3 more?  Just seems like way to assure ROI is even harder to make.

The good thing is if OP is thinking of using fiat he might reach ROI quicker depending on what BTC does.  But he can go fiat to BTC to buying from bitmain, which I would do over amazon.  

But to know if it's worth it OP what is your electricity price?  Also can you handle heat/noise as it is a big miner?

Still looks like a positive by a small amount on bitwisdom, but again it is a estimate:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    213,398,925,331
Estimated Next Difficulty:    215,557,429,635 (+1.01%)
Adjust time:    After 712 Blocks, About 4.9 days
Hashrate(?):    1,513,827,421 GH/s

I would love to see hashrate go down, but not sure how fast it will be on getting those old miners offline. So far it does not seem like a really big surge of unplugging miners. And some places have such cheap electricity it's hard to say what they can use and still be profitable.  But guess time will tell.

I could possibly be a overclocked SP35.   There was no official 6T miner, but SP35 was biggest at 5.5T.   I did not own one so cannot say how likely the OC is.   But that is my guess on what they are showing.  OP you have a link to one your talking about?

I would agree though and eBay them you will get more there then off of forums, but you do have to deal with ebay/paypal.   But selling them I think is best bet unless you happen to have "free" power.  The nice thing about them is they have the rack mounted design so some will pay more for that.   But the value will only go down with SP being gone, and getting older and older.

Most all the asic's I have reviewed I had in my room during initial testing.  Once I got a mining area it changed as I have 240 there and only 120 in my room.  But I did use many as space heater's.  

That being said it is so much nicer to have them all in one place in my mining area.  Not juggling so many on each circuit being safe.  And putting them in mining area I got rid of noise around house.     So you definitely can use them as space heater's I have but once you get into some of the big miner's it's nice not to.  

Also if you have someone over who is not familiar with bitcoin's it's nice not to have them see these asics all over.  For example when I had fiber installed was not so fun moving miner's or hiding them for a few hour install.   Also a electrician seeing my miner's was the cause of the most outrageous electrical quote I ever got, just as he saw these machines that seemed weird to him.

Agreed will this catch up both missing payments?

1) 7/4 - Unpaid
2) Coins_Bank Bonus mentioned - Unpaid (unsure of amount)
3) 7/11 - Unpaid

As at this point were missing 2 payment's and bonus.  When were this backed up is there a chance he can go to a coffee shop or place with wifi?  It seems like there would be a way to get internet that does not take week's.