Don't fall for cloudmining, 99% of those companies are plain scams, the other 1% lets you carry all the risks for a small portion of the rewards.... Doesn't sound like a good deal to me

You're overthinking it about the S7's installation. The S7 has some sort of raspberry-pi attached to the machine, so you don't need an external computer. Everything is pre-installed, it's kind of plug-and-play... Just plug in your PSU, plug in the ATP cable (networkcable), surf to the web GUI from your PC, enter the details your pool shows you (the stratum+rpc server, port, username, password), then just let the ASIC hash...

Before even thinking about buying an antminer, answer philipma1957's question tough!!! IS you power cheap?

Please, stop using only uppercase letters, it hurts my eyes.

In bitcoin mining, the best ASIC (hashrate/Kwu) at the market today is the S9:
https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/bitmain/antminer-s9-miner/

~1375 Watt =~ 13 Th

Since you didn't include your electricity cost, i guessed it would be around 15 cent/Kwu.
At this moment, current diff, block reward, BTC price and 15cent/kwu:

https://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator/?h=13000&p=1375&pc=0.15&pf=1&d=804525194568.13200000&r=12.50000000&er=2804.56000000&hc=0.00

1xS9 ~ 0.00406319 BTC/day

You'd need about 2500 antminer S9's to make 10 BTC/day

1 S9 costs $1248
+ customs (21% in my country)  = $262
+ decent PSU =~ $300
+ Shipping/handling = ??$100??
+ part of a rack = ?
+ part of an A/C unit = ?
+ part of renting a warehouse = ?

I estimate you'd need to invest close to 5 million dollars in order to purchase a farm that makes 10 BTC/day

Which OS are you using, and which electrum version fails to start?

I hope there isn't a way to verify if the traffic went up, it would mean both mixer were keeping logs

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Usually, i'd say it was best to mine some altcoins using your GPU, but looking at that screenshot, it looks like it's a GPU that's embedded on your motherboard.
Your best shot might be to mine CPU-only altcoins, altough i wouldn't expect much profit from them.

If i were you, i'd close this topic, and open a new one in the altcoin mining subforum, specifically asking which altcoin you can mine with an i3. Expect very little profits, expect huge power draw, expect possibly shortened lifespan from your hardware (untested)

It verifies using electrum

quoted, but i cannot verify the signature, not with my own tool, nor with electrum 2.8.2

I could also consolidate unspent outputs.
For example, i have received 1000 payments of 0.001 BTC in the past. I'm able to spend 1000 unspent outputs.
If i decided to purchase a 0.999 BTC item, i would use all 1000 unspent outputs as an input, and i would generate one new unspent output (and 0.001 as a fee, which will likely not be enough).

If my transaction was the only one that made it into the last block, the utxo set would have decease by 999, since i have used 1000 unspent outputs, and only created one new unspent output

1) yes, you can make several transactions to the same address. However, if you want some extra privacy, it might be a good idear to generate a new address each time.

2) no, the fees would be exactly the same. Electrum needs to combine unspent outputs and use them as inputs to create a new output. It does not matter if all those inputs are signed by the private key belonging to one address or multiple addresses. It's the amount of inputs (and newly generated outputs) that determines the transaction size, not the amount of addresses. In turn, the fee is calculated based on this transaction size...

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I've actually written a little tool to help with such query's
https://www.mocacinno.com/page/feeestimate

Just enter the number of inputs, and one output, and you'll know exactly what the most optimal fee at this very moment should be...

I've been using electrum for years without a hitch... I would consider it secure and easy to use.
The easyest way to move your coins would be to create one single transaction using your multibit HD spending all unspent outputs as an input and only generating one output that can be spent by the first address of your new electrum wallet.

In other words: create a new, clean electrum wallet, generate a payment request, then withdraw everything in your multibit HD to this electrum-generated address... Since it's a transaction between two wallets you own, you can cheap out on the fees a little bit

BTW: don't discard the recovery seed phrase of your multibit HD, it's a good habit never to throw away these things...

1) no, usually you can only use the seed (passphrase) to restore your wallet within electrum. This is because other wallets use different derivation paths.

2) yes, you can deduct the xprv from the seed, and in turn, you can derive all private keys from this xprv.

3) yes, your private keys are sufficient. However, most wallets (including electrum) create new private keys -> public keys -> addresses in order to use as a change address every time you create a transaction. Also, each time you generate a payment request, most wallets will generate a new private key/public key/address combination. If you only export/backup your current private keys, you won't be able to spend BTC that was sent to the new addresses that were generated afterwards.
This is why it makes more sense to save your seed phrase. When restoring your wallet using this seedphrase, electrum will be able to regenerate your xprv, and regenerate ALL funded private keys/public keys/addresses, not only the ones that were in use at the time of the backup

yes... As long as the wallet you pick on the new computer allows you to import private keys (like bitcoin core or electrum)

I've never heared about this happening... I would immediately assume it's either a hacked account that's going to be pained red pretty soon, or it's somebody that gave you his account so you would gain activity over time, only to claim it back in a couple of months/years after it has been promoted to legendary...

Even if your online wallet isn't going anywhere, there's a possibility two sustainable coins will emerge after the fork, and there's a real possibility your online wallet might only support one of them.
In other words: you'll lose all unspent outputs on the unsupported chain...

I'm not really into altcoin exchanges and market predictions, but isn't there a risk you'll have to sell your BTC when the price is low, and re-buy the BTC when the price is high? (in other words, isn't there a big risk you'll start with x BTC and end with x-y BTC?)

I have always advised anyone to stay away from online wallets and exchanges. This is especially true pre-fork.
Bitcoin core is indeed a good desktop wallet, it will have to download and verify the full blockchain tough (this takes time + diskspace). If you want to skip this requirement, an SPV wallet like electrum will do to.

As long as you withdrew all your BTC to a local wallet that allows you to export your private keys (and/or promises to support both chains) before the fork happens, you'll have unspent outputs on both chains. If your desktop wallet doesn't start supporting both chains after the fork, you can export the private keys and import them into a wallet that supports the alternative chain. You do need to watch out for a replay attack tough (transactions on one chain can potentially be replayed on the alternative chain)

I don't really understand the question here... Are you asking what will happen to the electrum users if there will be a lasting fork?