My D3 Nov 1-15th miner has shipped. As stated in a previous post I'm pretty sure mine was the last of this batch in that due to a fluke
of a conversation and a buddy refreshing page...for giggles as we talked...I got one 1.5 hours after the auction wrapped up ....

Anyway, pretty sure I'm the last of this batch. Just an FYI.

Again, imho, I'd only run ONE PSU of any Bitmain flavor to ONE ASIC device....why chance it? Better safe than sorry. Anyway, my advice on PSU's blowing up since 2013 (its a gift)

See previous posts in this thread..they are protected by incorporating as alpha-tech... thus you can't collect from a corp that is likely by this time filed bankruptcy....the
personal funds they made are protected..thus they imho, scammed millions of $$$ in BTC out of this...previous in the thread it is stated they went from UK to India..unsure if
that is true....

again, same thing as BFL ....the corporation took the loss

also, again. people tried that route of debt collection in this thread previously, to my knowledge no one had any sucess ....I think cc refunds were the only real method of
compliance and usually they were like mine...with some kinda hook to allow cc company to comply......

my strategy...ie I've mined LTC since Nov 2014...I currently have like 7500mh of scrypt pow miners on prohashing paying out in LTC.

Lifetime I made about 15,000 LTC.

Like 99.99999% of everyone back in the day of easy diff and LTC I xfered most of it to BTC and/or expences/elec/equip

thus LTC has not failed me...I failed LTC...

to be fair, it would have been quite the long shot bet on keeping all the LTC and having faith it would pump from 1.80 in 2015 and 4.15 this year to over $50....but there you have it

thus my strategy on BTC civil war/forsks is as follows....I assume (after expenses..knc titans going doorstop out of my hash, elec/rent/etc) that I may manage to get to 1,000 LTC again say by May 1st 2018 with current difficulty climbs. (this is pessmistic view...likely would get more)

IF BTC continues to be at say 6-7k or above....I find it hard to believe LTC will not be at least $100 to $150 (again pessimstic) and/or $300 or more...

IF BTC dumps with a so called NORMAL correction of 30% in price from say 6K .to 4K.than I also would see LTC acting in its historical manner and being $100 to $150 pessimistic....and/or $300 or so....

IF LTC does NOT pump above $100 bucks in the difficulty cycle above from now till say May 1st 2018.with either of the above.....than that means a BTC fork like Bitcoin Cash/and or other BTC forks have basically killed off scrypt pow alt coins and mining and thus
LTC and other ALTS of any flavor are toast anyway...they have been replaced in adoption and use....and ALTS have faded......add pow scrypt difficulty to this and all mining of pow scrypt will die and we will go pow scrypt mining wise to the alt coin graveyard.....the gap in value would be too much ....alts would be dust coin in comparison to bitcoin forks in value and use....anyway all other alts would go tthe way of x11 mining...vs price and difficutly...exactly no where...

(anyone remember scrypt-N?)

So anyway, that is my bet....run my scrypt pow out and save as much LTC as possible...and I can save it ALL w/o tax up to $40k in a solo 401k as my crypto is a home biz.....and or other stuff like elec/equip/rent also can be taken off of gross income mining....Ideally, I can come away next year with 1,000 clear LTC after expenses taxes etc..and see...

As I say "hopefully'?

I have BTC also ...so if it pumps to $10k so at that price you'd surely think that LTC would be ..what...$300 bucks or so?
Surely, $100 to $150 is not too far to hope? $300 even looks do'able...

Anyway, that is my bet to run my scrypt pow on a pessimistic frame of mind with difficulty..no matter the price that will not change and you will get diminishing returns of actual LTC..thus the bet....with coin per day/month made mining LTC
dimishing .this is my run to the goal line...

Again, if BTC pumps ... a person should be OK...if BTC dumps....a person should be OK.....holding LTC....(if the past
is any indication)

You all can come back and beat me up on this post around May 1st 2018......but that is my bet on this from again
a pessimistic view and expectations on price and return and of course Bitmain continuing to dominate 90% of all asic markets being scrypt-pow/sha-256/or x11 into 2018 as a monoply.....and pumping crap out like toasters till my May 1st 2018 guess....destroying difficulty of any ASIC miner flavor above...

(who knows...I have a strategy..it is all about 'ego protection' ..thus my plan)

Later

Searing

Note: previously posted on www.litecointalk.io

Please consider taking the poll on this thread also.

Please also post your strategies on any method you may be using from now to May 1st 2018....we all might learn something outside of our niche....

I miss willy bot

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/dash?HashingPower=17.5&HashingUnit=GH%2Fs&PowerConsumption=950&CostPerkWh=0.12

17.5gh

950 watts

12c kWh

$6.59/day.

(The FUNK never ends.....)

STILL bummed the thread vote poll will not let me pick a lambo!

ACK! you have my Avatar! ACK!


TERWA you EVIL fiend!....you want my fabulous chicken pot pie lifestyle!

Are you my evil twin? (calling Mom)

I"m in this long term. I am .how should I say this? Boring as heck.....thus no real reason to pull any of my HODL BTC out ....

I SUSPECT what will happen is ...or could......BTC could hit 10k on the segwit2+2mb fork hype...and whatever the outcome (likely a draw)

the price would rapidly go back 1/3

However, I have no skills on guessing such stuff..thus I HODL..if I had been guessing such stuff I'd have sold at at about 4.5k and be crying right now

so...let BTC have its fun in the sun and go up and adjust

imho, AN ATH WILL ALWAYS BE EXCEEDED AS LONG AS BTC (or a stock of a company say) EXISTS....IT MAY TAKE 2 MONTHS TO BEAT THE ATH OR 10 YEARS

BUT CONTINUED EXISTANCE AND ADOPTION OF BITCOIN (or say the company product or stock) INTO THE FUTURE...EVEN WITH INFLATION ASSURES THE ATH WILL BE BEAT! (again imho)

so, if we get ADOPTION IN MASS, all is well...if not ...well, they say in life you are supposed to plant a tree, write a book, make a fortune/lose a fortune....well

all I need to do now is write a book....(likely a diary of tears if this all goes tulips) ah well, just think of the great nursing home stories I can tell in the commons.....

30 years from now! (eventually if lucky, we all end up there with a toothbrush, ratty robe and slippers....stories will be the currency of choice in the nursing home

and BTC is a doozy..no matter how if fans out)

True ..but if BTC was around 1k in Jan of this year and now dumps back to 3k will I really, really be sorry?

Sure...

will i stop holding NOPE

I mean 3x profit is unheard of on the stock market....

thus it is all good this year...come what may

p.s. the dang thread won't let me vote a lambo ....I'm bummed....

I did a pre-order on the smaller unit....was like $600 or probably like 2 or so BTC also at that point in time..hell...probably 4

Amex did refund me after the MORE than 90 day period...because I lost the 1st dispute pointed out in the 2nd dispute I filed..on alpha tech made a lie and said I paid in full

I pointed out that this was also a pre-order to Amex and only paid partial..they were NOT amused and paid me on the spot...one does not lie to AMEX!

thus got lucky

I assume if I got on the alpha-tech site they would still be saying

SOON!

yep....they got away easily with MILLIONS of dollars if they simply held..probably let the alpha-tech corp take the fall

butterfly labs did the same thing in 2014-2015....the main founder was fined 14k or so.....the bfl corp took the fall

the main owners/etc again walked away with probably 100's of millions of BTC if they held to todays prices

crime pays I guess

the mental tricks of thinking of it as tulip/fairydust/mystical/unicorn money is getting a bit harder as a 'self-delusion' method to HODL however....


good thing I'm boring as hell.....if I ever got a life and a gold digger girlfriend all would be lost...


edit: JHC it is $6553 on Coinbase!

I'm down to 3 days week working....(11 hr shifts work with the dev disabled....over 30hrs is FT)

So I have 4 days to sit around and look at my house not getting fixed...it does not want to seem to want to fix itself..and I have no real desire to do so....

thus why retire...so I can look at it 7 days a week?

(having a bit of a conceptual problem on how this whole retirerment thing works it seems)

Yep...those 3 more Bitmain L3+'s are now more than 2x more expensive. FML. I need Litecoin to tag along like usual...if lucky that will also pump to $200.

(hey a guy can dream more than one dream)

www.bitmain.com Is already making SkyNet.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171025005379/en/Bitmain-Introduces-Hardware-Accelerating-Artificial-Intelligence-AI

What I play at times like this..how I htink of myself  in the crypto/BTC world.....




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-VChTYfOk

What is the need for 'replay protection' if it is gonna use another protocol? I don't get it?

Anyone want to explain what I'm missing?

On a side note: We are gonna see a crap load of forks of BTC imho, why make an ALT from scratch, when you can call it a bitcoin fork for more crypto street cred?

The new way to flood the market with spam/scam/alt coins

 
 Blamo!


   $6,514.41 usd...hell that did not take long.....

(Bitcoin: the hot mess girlfriend of crypto...when it is good it is very good...when it is bad...shudder)

As I sit here and contemplate the above and see the price now is $6,496.84 usd, I realize how lame it is to sit and watch this unfold to $6,500.00 usd.

On the other hand if the exotic dancers at the local establishment we're to see how much BTC I have..my life would 'liven up' considerably....

so yeah....getting in at 2013 ...having my bank in 2013 when I did a BTC xfer contact the SEC (no sh*t BTC was evil in 2013) ...I also had a plumber

come to my basement in 2013 and ask about what my KNC miners were...I said Bitcoin miners, he said that is for drugs right? He never has ever returned

my  calls....

ah, the good old days when I was a newbie koolaid drinker...and everyone was having an 'intervention' because they said I was in a cult ...and BTC would never work


fun times


edit: $6,497.33 usd ...go baby go...

Well....as of this time it is $6489.15 usd for one BTC.

sheesh....

looks like I'm gonna lurk a bit just to see if it breaks $6500.00 for sh*ts and giggles....

They lied...that is 2018 real time prices!.......they obviously want to buy it in 2018 and double their money in 2020

or why the hell else would you build a time machine and contact you? (I mean time machines are a major investment like crypto miners)

thus its a trap...resist..this obvious low ball offer