This thread really has become a long term ad.  Looking at front page... ad.  Looking most pages ad's.

I'm not sure this really is helping newbie's at this point.  I think it maybe should go in services and be treated as a add.  It is sad but I think it does less help, and more trying to sell.

The two seem to get confused sometimes.  Blockchain.info was very smart on their naming, that and business sense they have become a HUGE bitcoin company.  They just do the majority of hot wallets.

But blockchain in general is totally different then blockchain.info.   I think OP wanted to know more about the blockchain behind BTC not the wallet.  There are some pretty good videos on the topic I would suggest OP hit youtube and take a look.

I would not mess with OSX on it, just not a ton using U3's on it.  In windows try installing Zadig again make sure it completes it.  It is a pain in the butt for some.  Others it works perfect.  But the driver has a decent chance of being the problem.

Long term I HIGHLY suggest you look into getting a R1 and install Crazy Guy's custom firmware.  It will make your life easier on zombies, and it also is a low electricity usage controller.

That is the thing no one really knows.  We can speculate but it's hard to say.   And even if Bitmain does not sell a ton it does not mean it's not them adding hash.

I figure they have got cost as low as it's going to be on S7's.  They might be able to make them throw them in their own data center and miner internally, and still make big profits.  No one knows.

Bitfury/BW are two I would be watching for next gen chips hitting shelves but don't know when.  And again I have no inside info I'm speculating on this.

I re-read the article I was to into looking at pictures at first.   I saw in it they say "The power consumption of the BW-LK1401 chip is 160W/T, which makes it the lowest in the industry. Building on this technology the second generation BW-LK1402 chips are currently in production with a lower power consumption of 95 W/T"

Is that a correct number on watts to T?  That seems like a huge and good jump if true.  To think a S7 1300 watts for 4.7T or so, this would do 1300 watt's for 13T if I read this right.... man is that a huge difference in efficiency.

And the power dam's really are happening one thread I love is haobtc - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072474.0.   I love Eric's pictures showing a different side of mining, it is much less secret then most companies.

But you will see they built near a power dam, which was very smart.  Once can assume they get it pretty cheap on power.  It's hard to tell how many private operation have great deals on electricity.  I wish it was more like public traded companies with open books.  But that chances are will never happen for most as they remain private companies.

It is my fear aswell it seems the golden ticket is having good chips.  And I do realize these companies spend a ton in R/D so they deserve a profit.  But I think companies right now are making a killing on current gen.  And they also can put in their own data centers.  And it's hard to tell cost for data center there are some miners I suspect.... cost a lot cheaper then what we pay as regular people.

China manufactuers with low electricity will take control of the backbone of the network if price does not go up more, or difficulty does not stop big jumps.  The question is what will happen when market see's it's not really distributed near as much as most would like..... I'm not sure.

I think were in for a heck of a price jump, or eventually a heck of a decrease.  All depends on variables I cannot anwser.

I am surprised to be honest some of first batches did not get some decent coupons.  It seems bitmain has changed for mindset of giving out coupons of good value to make up for it.

Just like batch 10 it's going to drop a decent amount again when batch 11 goes up I think. With difficulty changing so much it's hard to do pricing on gear.   If the price drops more then you mine... kinda stinks as a miner.  We live in interesting times that is for sure.

I consider GPU mining dead already.  Most will spend more in electricity then it brings in, so that is not good.  The ones that do profit will not ROI on the card, which again is not good.

So unless you bought card got lucky on coin, and sold cards I don't see a true ROI happening.  Just too pricey on gear for what it makes.

My guess is the difficulty changing made it where they were not selling to many.  I would think they would wait till after batch 10 shipping date, but I figure we can see a price decrease.

The good question is how much will next batch cost. The last difficulty adjustment and the that will happen on that will happy in about two day's likely will be 35 percent or so is not a outrageous number.  Could be higher or lower...  but will bitmain adjust price that radically? I don't think so but I would love to be wrong.

I think OP will be suprised much much watt's from miners add up to.   Do you know how much electricity your system generates?   I would calculate that and try to stay under at least starting up. 

If it get's real profiitable for you and can mine on normal rates.... you can do it later.  As far as gear current selling is S7 or A6, they are the most current.  There are next gen chips that will hit the market some day but hard to say when.

Same here.  Thank you for getting a payment out.   Only thing is with it going past Sunday, Monday and Tuesday posts did not get paid and the counter reset to zero.

If you can do a payment run for monday/tuesday we would be all back to normal and great.

Payment also does not prove gear, which I find scary.  One could send out amounts and say it was mined when infact it's just BTC shifted around and it's part of what you paid. I know this will be seen as directed twords one here, but I mean it as a blanket statement for all cloud sites.  If they are not linked to hardware like hashnest, or have an official statement from a legit miner company I would never invest on the site.

And granted this will not protect everyone there are ones like Asic Miner that went belly up.  But it does stop a heck of a lot of them if you go based on hardware.

It is kida plug ad chug on information.  Assuming electricity and PSU work which you said they would, then it should run and be easy.   I don't expect it to be hard on setup.

If you have trouble send  a new post on here.  But I think your likely underestimating what you can do.

Odd I'm surprised it can detecct the display being damaged unless something crossed in it that should not.  What I would do is first try to make a backup or pull out SD card and use another one.

I would try a different firmware and disconnect LCD (cannot remember how easy/hard it is been a while since I had a A1 opened).   But some of the firmware was for no LCD on later dragon's.  So later firmware and no LCD seems like it might possibly work.

That is a bummer for sure it seemed like you had a sweet gig with current apartment. You seemed to run a good amount of gear for an apartment... and free is awsome.    Mind if I ask what is making you move?  I would try to stay if I ever found a deal like that.

I am surprised the landlords did not throw a fit though with electricity cost.

The odd thing was on last gen the 4.1's were my favorite, they were just so darn quiet.   But when selling last gen it seemed first to sell was Bitmain S5's, second SP 20's, and at last one was Avalon 4.1's it just seemed ebay did not have near as many searching for them.   I was surprised on results.

But it also could have to do with me wanting to sell Avalon 4.1's as a set with RPI.  I did not really want to split it up.  Looking back on the 3 I had I probley should have split up and sold separately.

Thanks for posting I also find it interesting on pretty different design then rendering.  I do wonder if they make a different one for internal use then external sales.

If I was them I would focus on a miner that is most profitable on sales.  And on internal I would be trying to have more chips, and have most optimized for personal farms.  Having 2 different models might make sense at least at first when filling up their own farms.

They are neat little items that can be displayed.  If you don't mind me asking how much cost do you think it will be for 10 sets?  Also do some colors still have more value?

I remember when they were new I could not understand people paid decent amount more for some colors.   Even back at start was collectors on what colors.

Yes that is more detailed by far.  I was not meaning to be rude just that there are HUGE differences in servers.  To say run a server..... is very generic.

You would need free electricity most likely and still not pay off server.  So I do agree with it not being profitable.  CPU/GPU day's are really over.  Some try to keep GPU going... but just not enough constant profit.