It's very hard to understand your question to be honest...

If you're asking if you should request a loan in order to buy miners, it's actually a very simple economic calculation:

If the principal plus the intrest of the loan is smaller than the fiat equivalent of BTC (or altcoin) you'll mine in a timeframe you're confortable with, it might be a good idear to request a loan... If not, you shouldn't request one.

It all stands or falls with following parameters:
- how much income will your mining operation produce (mostly dependant on your power cost)
- how much risk are you willing to take ( a longer ROI means bigger risks)
- do you have collateral? You can live in a country where you only pay 0.001 cent/Kwu for power, if you don't have collateral, nobody is going to lend you sufficient funds to setup a decent mining operation. If you're going to go to the bank, the collateral might be physical. If you want a loan from this forum, you should read the "no collateral, no loan" guideline Vod once wrote...

you can always try to run
https://github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet

It needs https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd
It's a bit harder to setup than your usual wallet (it's basically an alternative full node, and a cli wallet written in GO that uses json-rpc to connect to this node), but i've tried it in the past, and found it was able to handle big workloads...

Usefull stuff... I'll defenately follow your developments when i'm back at the office.

I quickly browsed part of your code
 At first sight, i couldn't detect any backdoors, just some really clean implementation of the bitwasp librarys

Indeed.. I'm actually waiting to mix, and chipmixer seems like one of the best options since bitmixer dissapeared

1.6 = mocacinno

You are talking about cloud mining... In this case, yes, 99% of the cloud mining companies are scams. The rest sell you all their risk for a small part of the profits...

Actual mining is completely different: if you do all calculations and risk assesements beforehand, you're reasonably safe

If you would know the share diff set by the pool, technically you should be able to calculate the average time between two shares (based on said share diff and your hashrate).

Since the share diff is not shown on your screenshot, i can't help you with this average

Im not really an expert on altcoin mining, but everything on that screenshot looks fine to me...

Everything is initialised, you're connected to the pool's statum proxy,  you seem to be hashing, you just didnt find a share yet

Je kan wel een aantal dingen afleiden: begint het adres met 1 (P2pkh) of met 3 (p2sh). Begint het adres met nog een andere letter/cyfer: geen btc adres.

De kans is groot dat een adres dat met een 3 begint aan een of andere service toebehoort.

we're in the bitcoin mining subforum... I would probably agree with you if we talking about altcoin mining, but if you're talking about BTC mining, even an usb miner would beat GPU mining every day of the week.

Eventough the list of non specialised hardware for BTC mining hasn't been updated for a while, i think it still makes sense to do the math
If you look at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison#AMD_.28ATI.29
A rig with 6 x AMD 6870 produces 2.5 Gh/s while consuming 1200 Watt.
The price of one card is ~€200, the price for a PC, risers, PSU,... will likely be over €400. The sum of this rig would be €1600

ONE geccoscience compac runs at 8 Gh when underclocked, it consumes less than 6Watt. It costs €50
It can be controlled with a rPI, setting you back €50, using 3 Watt
https://www.bitshopper.de/shop/sha-256-miner-en/gekkoscience-compac/?lang=en

When we compare both, using FREE electricity:
The GPU rig: https://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator/?h=2.5&p=1200&pc=0.0&pf=0&d=860221984436.22200000&r=12.50000000&er=2764.06270000&hc=1880
at current diff, block reward and btc price, you'd ROI (pay back) your rig in: 930714 days (that's ~2500 years)

The compaq: https://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator/?h=8&p=6&pc=0.00&pf=0.00&d=860221984436.22200000&r=12.50000000&er=2764.06270000&hc=100
break even when everything stays status-quo: 15470 days (that's ~42 years)

If you add a power price of 1 cent/Kwu, things get even worse for the GPU rig.
So, to sum it up, if you GPU mine, you'll break even when all wars are over and the planet has been reduced to a barren wasteland, only in 100 generations will your investment in the rig be payed back (in case the diff doesn't rise, the price doesn't fall and the block reward would magically stay the same)/
If you mine with a recent usb miner, it depends on your age, but there's a decent chance the usbstick will have payed for itself by the time you kick the bucket

I'm missing your point here... Nobody is using anybody else's resources... The OP was asking why an ebay seller was selling an obsolete usb mining stick for so much money.

The most obvious reason for me is because i don't want anybody to know how much BTC i own exactly. Most people keep their private keys on a desktop, a hardware wallet or a paper wallet, but they still keep everything in their home.
If somebody would know you helt the private keys of addresses loaded with 100's of BTC in your home, they might get tempted to rob you...

i think both these options above are correct:
- because newbies are tricked into buying a "free money machine"
- because they're a collectors item

I just wanted to add i bought one to teach myself about mining, knowing perfectly well it would never ROI. A usb miner is/was the most price/efficient way to get your hands on a very little bit of hashrate, so you learn the ropes

Maybe somebody on localbitcoins would be willing to sell you $100.000 worth of BTC... Altough with this sum, you should be carefull not to attract people that want to rob you, or want to sell you BTC that is directly linked to illegal actions...

os2sam is right, but just to elaborate on this subject:

A miner can chose up to 1Mb of transactions to fill up the block he's currently working on. This includes the coinbase transaction rewarding 12.5 BTC + sum of the fees of the picked transactions to the miner (the miner could potentially also use somebody else's address for the coinbase reward).

After this, the miner calculates a merkle tree of all transactions in the block. He then generates a block header using the highest element of the tree, the previous block header and some other data and starts hashing this new header. If he finds a block header whose hash is better than the current diff, he can push his block to the network.

If you solo mine with 5Gh, you can pick whatever transactions you'd like, but the odds of you finding a block header whose hash is under the current diff target is astronomically small. So the odds the block you were working on can be broadcasted (and accepted) by/to the other nodes of the network is astronomically small...

As a matter of fact, at current diff:
https://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator/?h=5&p=1&pc=0.10&pf=0.00&d=804525194568.13200000&r=12.50000000&er=2591.67940000&hc=0.00

It will take you (ON AVERAGE ), 7998632 days to solo mine a block... So you'll have to wait an average of 7998632 days before your transaction gets included in your own (valid and broadcasted) block... Maybe you're better off paying a decent fee and broadcasting the transaction to the other nodes, so some other miners will also be tempted to put your transaction into the block they're working on

Am i missing something here?
Let's assume we're mining with an S9:
It consumes 1375 Watt and hashes @ 13Th... give or take (https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/bitmain/antminer-s9-miner/)

volt x amp = watt
110 volt * 20 amp = 2200 Watt
Cost : $835/month


Let's assume we buy 3 S9's and a full rack...
3*S9 = 4125 Watt, ~40 Th/s
2*half a rack = 4400 Watt @ $1670/month

The cost of 3 S9's + PSU's =~ $4500 (if you're extremely lucky, it'll probably be a lot more).

At this diff, BTC price and block reward, we'd have following figures:
https://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator/?h=40000&p=4125&pc=0.0&pf=1&d=804525194568.13200000&r=12.50000000&er=2583.50010000&hc=4500

If everything stays status quo, the hardware *should* have payed for itself in about 140 days.
If we include the customs charges, some Shipping and handling, and the fact an S9 isn't always stable... Also factor in a bit of diff increase, and we would be looking at ~200 days ROI.

Thank you very much 
I'll edit my signature right away and send you a PM!

Here's the one i used succesfully in the past: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover
There's also a relatively trusted user that runs a wallet recovery service on this forum, i can't seem to remember his name atm dough...

So, you're probably using last year's wallet... Are you sure you have no idear what the password back then might have been?

If you have a vague idear about the passwords you usually use, there are ways to brute-fore the old wallet. This technique only works if you either chose a (very) weak password, or if you have a vague idear about the password that was used..

Sad to see i'm not in, i'll probably try to re-apply next week tough (unless you think my post quality isn't sufficient?)