Tl;dr Bitmain made a miner similar to the Pandaminer to compete with GPU rig sellers. Considering how many fools buy prebuilts this could be quite lucrative for them. Resale is definitely an issue, but I guess that's a risk buyers will take. Many parts seem proprietary in some way or difficult to replace, which is my main worry.

The only people that have made Bitfury miners that could even possibly have been distributed were Hotminer, and they only released their products to a few people like hagssFIN for review. It's not simply a matter of price but just pure availability as it seems Bitfury doesn't want to part with these ASICs.

No.

The S9 indeed does 14TH/S but factoring in difficulty and global hashrate one miner by itself is extremely insignificant and you'll be lucky to find one block in a year, much less 9 blocks a second. Even if this were to happen, difficulty adjustments would bring the block time to 1 per 10 minutes again.

For reference, the total network hashpower is near 8000PH/S and difficulty is near 900 billion.

And yet trading continues worldwide and the world continues. Thousands of people have called Bitcoin a bubble but it seems unlikely, is this the next professor Bitcorn? Only time can tell.

It's not about how fast your internet is but the consistency is what it's about. WiFi is okay for mining, and even dial up works juet fine. Ethernet provides better ping but that's not really important in the grand scheme of things. Just make sure you connect your miners in a way such that they can't easily disconnect or have a bad connection.

Nope, it's a bad Ponzi scheme attempt at best or he's just trying to lure in gullible people to give him free coins. It is definitely a fraud no matter which way he puts it.

I know people in China with outside connections that have been actively arbitraging recently. To be fair, China has been quite far below Western prices either way- they'll probably begin to catch up to European and North American prices soon.

I run miners in my garage sometimes during the winter and I observed that humidity was never really a huge issue (I live in NW PA where we get lots of snow and winter precipitation). If it gets to be an issue you can get dehumidifier for real cheap that you can empty out once a day; they work quite well.

The basement can be quite good for mining as well, but as you said sound does leak to aboveground floors and in my case it is very noticeable. The basement is also cooler most of the time, so that is a small advantage. Just make sure to have at least some way for air to get out, though.

Windows is more user friendly and is easier to use for most people, while Linux offers more customizability and copes better with 6+ GPUs compared to Windows, at ten cost of less user friendliness (though Ubuntu has both qualities). I recall Linux often results in slightly higher hashrates and sometimes less crashes. Overclocking should be consistent through both OSes. It can't really hurt to try Linux either way, just boot Ubuntu or whatever distro you like through USB and see if it works better for you.

This could be a temperature issue. What are the temperatures like on the board? It could also be a thermal paste issue, in which case a tube of MX-4 can fix. The blade could also just be unstable, unfortunately.

Civic just went up in the last few hours, what are you talking about? If anything it is going very slowly down, unless you are talking about the sharp rise a couple weeks ago.

As long as it can run. Starting and stopping a computer constantly is actually bad for the components and it's actually better to just leave your electronics on all the time for the most part. Dust filters can help in a case setup, but truthfully all you need is a cheap can of compressed air every few months and you'll be set. Keep some thermal compound on hand as well.

2GB ram is honestly sufficient, and you can get a 32-16 GB SSD and partition some of it to use as RAM if needed for some programs. You can get Windows keys for $3-5 from eBay and the forum as well as bitify and some other sites. Windows is good for general use cases but Linux is sometimes used as well for people with 6-9+ GPUs due to software limitations and some BIOSes just not liking more than around six.

Bitcoinwisdomhttps://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator does a great job of making a calculator in which you can input how much difficulty will increase every difficulty period. I'd set it at 10-15 percent. They also offer a Litecoin calculator which should have the same thing. The best part about it is the fact that they offer some reference miners, although their difficulty API seems to be glitchy ATM as they haven't updated in a long time. Best to get your numbers from another site for current difficulty, but otherwise the calculator is fine.

If you like standard form PSUs EVGA 80w 400-600 watt power supplies often come on newegg for less than 10 and 20 USD respectively. This is with rebate though, and it can take a while for rebate to come in. Better than some GPU manufacturers though.

POS is hardly worth using as it generates tiny profits and uses up a whole lot of time. Example is PPC which gives 1% annually. Better off just mining straight up.

Baikal haven't released anything meaningful in a long time, so i find it really unlikely that they are releasing a new miner, especially with specs like these and at a price like this. 100% scam.

Gaming PCs aren't ideal as the CPUs often use more power, but you can use the CPU to mine XMR and the GPU to mine most GPU coins like ETH. Nicehash is good if you don't want to constantly switch between the most profitable coins. It also automatically converts mined coins to Bitcoin. Mining BTC with any PC would be extremely unprofitable- you might make a penny in a month.

Titan XP cards actually don't do much better than Nvidia consumer cards IIRC- it'd be better to simply use GTX 1080Tis/1080s for mining.

It'll continue in the future as more uninformed investors come into Crypto. I guess it's part of Bitcoin growing, hopefully people learn from this. We'll recover soon enough anyways.

At least 120fps@1080 is standard for competitive CS, some mid-range 1060 laptops have 120hz panels which would be suited for the task. This would be pretty overkill but it's a nice laptop for a mobile workstation or if you are looking to play triple a games at high settings. Hell even a 1030 (unsure of its mobile edition name) would be able to run 60@1080 for Csgo.