That's what I thought when thinking about it.  Just S7 on hashnest you have no worrying about working, and they have people to do the fixing if something goes wrong.

For a year to have no issues is kinda unheard of.  My ones with a month were pretty good for a miner.  You really have to have physical access this is why hosting center is better home if your going to be gone a year.  And cloud takes it one more step of not being there.

The key is someone beside you monitoring it over the next year.

Difficulty is a huge factor.  The calculators that show you a year or months with no difficulty are very bad for profit guessing.

Here is a good calculator: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator it allows dificulty increase. What is your electricity price? If we know it we can give much better idea of if you have profit or loss running.

You need a spot for miners at this point almost.  You can run a Avalon 6 easier in side a room.  But S7 would be hard without actually doing some sound mods. Phil has shown a good one in past.

But I would not expect the miners to be any smaller.  You either need to be able to get use to it, or have an area.  I think it's moving from home miner to hobby miner.  That is the trend I see.

Are you saying you had 0 zombies with U3?  Or are you saying with other devices?

It's pretty U3 specific other ones can get it.  But it seems to be firmware that is not the greatest on U3.  They can be helped with scrypts and it really does help.  But out of box they are not so great.

The S5 runs loud and hot.  I would not recommend it for a room you need quiet like bedroom or living room, etc.

There are some good miners for by you but a S5 is not one.  And you should never have to gamble to make ROI.  If your doing it where you have to gamble to make money you should not be mining.

The odds of a machine running for a year are not great.  I have went over a month on certain machines.  But a power outage, internet outage, etc.  In a year you chances are will have a issue.

That being said you can leave a computer home with teamviewer.  Have an account and leave it signed in on startup.  You could deal with some issues that way.  It is possible it could take a power off/on depending on what miner it is some are better then others.  But if that you could need someone to physically do it.  If you truly don't have anyone who can do a restart I would not buy one.

Or look into hosting or if S7 there is always hashnest.  Then you can not be there depending on what it is.   

Your doing sig campaign wrong then.  Your goal should be for it to be extra money from your normal posting.  If you go to posting more due to hitting some max.... you are not posting for right reason.

I would work on getting more then your current content on post's.  You have a lot of 1-2 sentence posts.  One day when you try to join a higher paying campaign I think your goal of max posting now will hurt it.  But that's just my opinion.

Also don't believe everything you hear from people.  If someone say's "I have a ton in bitcoin" that could be such a wide variety.  It could be from the whales worth hundreds of thousands or some guy who thinks hitting hits first BTC is big.   You need more details than he say's he has a lot.

If you know his BTC address you can look it up.  You might be able to tell what hes doing depending on activity.  But again you need to know more.

I think those will be out of his budget.  He mentioned 50gh-100 gh, I think that is for budget reasons.

So hes looking in the lotto mining area as far as gear.  Sadly no lotto mining ROI's. (Or very very small amount)

Trading can be a 2way street though.  For everyone who sold and got the gain someone else bought the coin.  I know it's not quite that simple with values that can go up.  But a lot lose in alt coins.

You really need some great research, or info that a coin has something special to invest.  I personally like BTC as it's pretty stable. Most alt coins are not that stable.

Order's like that on S7's and Avalon 6's could keep us at these high difficulty's.  I hope we lower it some, but I think what I wish and what happens are two different things.

Also price around 395ish most of day so pretty stable. But we just can't break that 400.   Once we do I think it will be interesting how fast it goes up.

The hard part is your asking for so many things.  First you mention alt coins most that are worth something are scrypt coins not sha like bit coin.  So huge difference really there.

After that the 50-100 GH's is kinda hard it's really in the lotto area.  You could do a U3, or some compacs.  The compacs will be higher but much more efficient.   But neither of these will get you ROI.

You really have to have decent electricity and go bigger to have chance at ROI.

I think escrow will be necessary in this.  Always smart to use escrow though.

Looks very cool in videos online.  Is that your bottom price?  Seems I can get it cheaper online then that.

There are like 2 that have always accepted new account's.  I suggest using time till junior member or full member to learn about the forums and bitcoin.  Most important make sure you are able to make a constructive post.

Putting a signature on you is like a target, if your post's are short or one liners good chance of ban.  Until you are able to post and not do those bad posts you should go without a signature.

And arguably the best option is search.  Most questions have been asked before.  Not all some are unique.

But a suprising amount have been asked multiple times.  Some threads are so big you can't read them all to, and I think some of us realize this. Look at like S3 thread I mean massive if you started now to read to current.

But search is one good option for most questions.

Even at months later it still can go down.  Look at Doge it had a community like no other coin.  I liked it's community and one day it turned opposite way and was not a great bet.  It still is around but one could argue it's best day's are behind it.

Sadly a lot of coins are pump/dump.  They pre-mine them and say X for X service... etc.  They justify pre-mining with this in quite a few coins.  I do not believe in coins that pre-mine.  The best alt litecoin everyone knew when it would start and he mined the 1st block and then everyone else was able to mine right away. Even released things in advance so people could test it and make sure mining would work for them on start.

I think alt coins are fun, but new ones sadly a lot of times turn out not so well.  Like burst do the calculations its horrible on the "hd mining" it makes no sense.  But every few weeks a burst coin guy will come through and praise it looking for suckers to mine it.

Favorite time of the week.  Was able to get my mining and also sig campaign.  Which makes it all the better.

And since I post the same amount I would without a sig campaign... it really is a bonus for me.  I actually did not start sig campaigns till hero member wish I started sooner. I think I'm on of the few to wait till hero. But cant go back in time I would change that.

I could be wrong but it seemed like you seeked attention, which is a like a troll.  Are there worse trolls then you? Yes there are... but most of them don't troll meta.  You are in arguably the most important thread on the forum.  It's meant to be serious.

The things you did like use massive letters with bold, to get attention.  Then get in trouble and use massively small letters that cannot be read. You have to agree you did it to seek attention in some forum.   Joke making and attention seeking sometimes can be the same thing.

I was surprised how many threads they let you get up to before ban to be honest.  I think if you take a step back and leave meta alone your life will be much better on the forums.

Most miners tell on amount used with efficiency.  Is that what your referring to?

Cost of electricity paid is normally in the KWH form on price.  There are many calculators out there to tell price if that's what your looking for.  Some are specific to mining and mesh with it others are just for electricity in general.

I do like your price on electricity "$55 per kilowatt month, divided by 730 = 7.53 cents per kwh.".  That is pretty hard to beat on other hosting.

Do you get access to your miners of if you wanted to change something do you submit like a ticket?   Also how is the heat now that you moved?