Thank you for the kind word's.  My goal is to do this for quite a few wallet's as I feel it's a important thing at this point.   I currently have 2 wallets done, and a 3rd on it's way.  So I'm hoping to make it easy for someone wanting a hardware wallet to look at a few threads and get a good compassion.

I can tell you no other wallet has the following that the TREZOR has.  It has created quite the following on bitcointalk.  Which it does rightfully deserve with such a great not only device but code behind it.

I'm been playing with a few hardware wallets.  They really do add security without near as much possibility to screw up as paper wallets.  Hot wallets are kinda a different thing as they are needed for certain applications.

But honestly I make 0 money for everyone that does it. But look into hardware wallet, there are a few great choices out there.

Do research before you invest in cloud mining. Never trust a site that cannot prove hardware.  Never trust one with a calculator that does not include difficulty.   And never trust one with wording like "forever". Those are 3 rules I think are important.

Also never let anyone push you into investment.  Research and sadly you will find there is a lot of ones out there that are just ponzi's. 

Most will not be able to do anything "bad".  But look at "rogue access points" if anyone has one of these set up at one of the places your going.... a splash screen could be a bad thing if they are trying to harvest logins, depends on what the splash screen asked for.

And they could have a page that looks real... but again it's sitting there to harvest passwords so it looks real but when you log in you don't go anywhere.  Chances are slim this is what is happening but you should be aware there are AP's like this if your using free ones so much.

As far as trading in digital currency the fee's normally are not the problem.  Problem is if you pick wrong you can lose just as quick as you can gain.  So it's a HUGE possible loss if coin is pump/dump.

Sadly there are only a few coins I view as decent coins.  A lot are just utter crap.  I like keeping in BTC myself and it may be a slow rise but I believe in it overtime.

I don't think this will help that much to be honest.  If person is under a certain rank with low activity, or not ... use escrow and it solves it.  You can not save everyone sadly some buy without using escrow from unknown... and they get burnt.  They have to want help ... and escrow is already in place.

The reason I would not do this is sometimes "self-moderated" is needed. I use it in certain thread's as one troll can ruin a thread that does not have it.   If it was not for trolls or people who want to advertise I would not use it myself.  But when I do a review you would be surprised  some people get joy out of being a troll, so self-moderated I'm able to keep thread going without the trolling.

Education for the people buying on "hit and run" scams is far better then some new limit.

I find this item scary as heck if someone plugs into standard 110/120 and uses it to start a 220/240 PSU.   The thing is they have the "CE" I can't tell but can anyone tell if that is the Chinese Export one? I know CE has two meaning's and one logo looks very close to the one just saying it's a Chinese Export.

The fact you can only get in china... scares me again as I'm guessing there is a reason no US company want's to be selling this thing.  I would not use it ever with my mining gear personally.

There are multiple reports of sounding bad during first hosting place.  I do agree with that, I was not a customer so I cant really dispute it and am not trying to.

I'm just supervised if so many got burnt they would not still be in thread posting.  Normally when people get burnt the backlash follows the company in great numbers any time they try to operate.  And that is not here.  So just not sure what happened to other users, but I agree possibility of burning up a miner does not sound fun.

Just for fun if you have a second sd card try the BlockC firmware in my first post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1257327.0 .  it is dhcp so should be easy to try out with not a ton of time.

I'm just curious what another image does if hardware still stay's the same.

Do they still support recovery via serial/usb?   I know long ago S3's did but was not sure on S7 bricks if there was a home option to fix or if shipping in is only choice.

But everyone reading this unless a firmware provides something really good, don't risk it for a update that has very little.  Just a high risk game on updates.

I'm missing the joke.  What part are you saying you were joking about?   I could be blind but I don't see anything remotely funny.

Only comment I see from you in quote is "To be fair he doesn't say 250k "what" he had to invest, it may have been satoshis ..."  And I don't see how that is funny at all... sounds like misinformation.

I plan on running mine for year's most likely.  I might sell a compac or two to pay for electricity eventually.  But as of now I'm just enjoying using them.

And I think the long term Phil mentioned really is important.  Talking about year's of running not just a week or two.   We stand much better odd's then some think by running for so long.

If you truly are doing it to learn I would suggest using a RPI and a compac.   Some might say a full miner... but with it there is so much GUI you don't do much.

As far as learning building the program in linux, getting a USB hub that works with PI, learning command lines, etc.  You just learn a lot more then point/click.  So I think a Raspberry Pi and with a compac is best but there are other options.   

But if you just want to learn without the commands, or building software then a full size miner is much easier.

Better then 20 percent but bitwsidom still not a 5 percent week:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    93,448,670,796
Estimated Next Difficulty:    105,249,700,370 (+12.63%)
Adjust time:    After 1244 Blocks, About 8.2 days
Hashrate(?):    710,030,778 GH/s

Price around 440 so not to bad there.

Out of curosity when you say you pick S7 how are you showing that?  Have you ordered a lot of them?

That is kinda what I wondered today if this is just choosing without ordering... it really does not count for much.  But if it is choosing by ordering that shows something.

Alway's love new pictures to look at .  Any idea when we will see one with the black color that was selected?

I'm looking forward to seeing that color on PCB.

It's kinda good and bad news.  It's good that there is a option someday there.   But bad that we really don't know how long till someone mod's it.   And with warranty I'm not sure how many will try during it or if after.  It will  be pretty obvious a mod on that if you needed warranty work.

I will be more positive on it's possibilities after I see it being modded.  Which I guess might not be that long depending on who is working on it.

I'm not sure on his policy on giving that file out.  But you are right he is one to contact.    In perfect world you select it during shipment and it's shipped to you with it on it.

He has always been a great guy on selling so I have a feeling he will take care of you. He really does seem to care about his customers.

On chips on batch 8 right on top when you open the box is a paper making sure you look at chip's/heasinks.  If a heatsink would fall it could stop a few chips or worse depending on what happens.

I read from above buying from amazon.  At this point I don't think any 3rd party has warranty with bitmain, at one point they had official re-sellers..... but was long ago.  I highly suggest getting it direct from bitmain.   Even though it might seem small a 90 day warranty is very important to run it and make sure everything is ok.  As in all honestly you cannot tell that when you get shipment from say amazon just by opening box and looking if it's going to work long term

The whit is just kinda the classic so it let me see what a lot of users are getting.  There is the other color's out there and it really is as said above personal preference.  No matter which one you get you still get the same great features.

On myTrezor wallet I started off with site I wanted to test and use it first.  It works really well.  You can have multiple accounts on it, so you can easily have BTC in different addresses for different purposes which for me is a big thing.   I like to keep my selling and mining, and signature different accounts.   I just have really started to use it below you can see a lot of the wallet from myTrezor site it allows a lot as far as a wallet to start with, very easy to navigate.  And comes with features such as signing and priority sending (send with higher fee so faster).   So really does have a lot.  I do plan on other wallets testing:


Also they have a really good comparison to other wallet types: http://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-faq/_images/compared_to.png .  If interested in TREZOR I suggest looking at it, I didn't post it as there is a LOT of features and would take up a lot of space which is good.

Again if anyone out there is using TREZOR I would love to hear your favorite features, how you feel about using, etc.   I feel users who have used long term really can contribute a lot in this type of thread.