Yeah scrypt is same algo as litecoin which has had ASICs for a while now, example: https://shop.bitmain.com/overview.htm?name=antminer_l3_litecoin_asic_scrypt_miner which will net you ~500MH/s for 800W of power

You just need to put "-o stratum+tcp://pool.onepool.online:4000 -u <wallet address> -p x" when you launch your mining software

I setup a new pool for Linda at https://onepool.online/ :: 1% pool fee

If I understand what you are asking correctly, it depends on the exchange you use. They might list all the different forks of Bitcoin or just the one that wins out on the exchange and then you would buy/sell like normal between your altcoins and whichever bitcoin chain the exchange lists that you want.

So really nothing changes for altcoins except needing to wait a bit to see which bitcoin chain ends up being the new dominant one and then using the exchanges that support it to swap altcoins to it.

You should be fine but I would be sure you are running with 2 different private keys, one for main and one for test. This would be just to ensure you do not accidentally submit a transaction on the main net that you meant for the test net and lose anything. The main net would reject a transaction made with the test net key due to insufficient funds and keep your ETH safe.

I don't think this would work. Not even from a legal sense but think of it this way, would you want some random anonymous person you don't know staying in your house with you? No idea on their background, name, anything.

Businesses care about that too, they want to have some way to track down a person if they vandalize or otherwise destroy the hotel. With a complete anonymous system there is no way to prevent people from renting a hotel room and completely trashing the place then leaving since the hotel has no way to pursue them for compensation. I can't see any business agreeing to this or, if they do, staying in business for very long after people abuse it.

In regards to 1, you can determine this pretty easily. Find the voltage for your area (USA is 120V, Europe is 240V, etc.) and divide the wattage by that number to get the amps. So for example, I am in the US so I would do 800 / 120 = ~6.67A.

Then go to the circuit breaker in your house and check the amps allowed on your circuit that you plan to place the ASIC miner. Most residential in the US has 15A circuit breakers and you want to try and keep the total load <90% of the allowed amount for the circuit so a single 800W ASIC miner would fit no problem.

Be sure to remember that this circuit might be shared with other electronics like a TV or lights or anything else that runs in the same general area of the house so try to put it in an area with little to no other electronics to make sure it never puts too much load on the circuit.

This market is completely irrational, can't use common sense to figure it out at all. Panic selling spreads like wildfire across all coins

It depends on how critical that money was for you, if you don't mind letting it sit there then you can wait it out to see if they recover and go back up. It could take weeks, months or even years, there is no way to tell. If you don't care about leaving the money there for a while then might as well leave it to see if it recovers in the future.

I found https://freewallet.org/support/knowledgebase/where-are-my-private-keys/ on their website's support area and it looks like they don't provide access to the private keys. Good luck getting their support to reply, that seems like the only option to try and recover the coins already sent there and for the future make sure to use a wallet like MEW where the keys are generated and stored locally on your computer so you always have access to them.

Can you expand more on how the infrastructure and data would get affected by a 51% attack? I thought it would just be like others where the attacker could prevent transactions or double spend so I am interested in learning more about what you mean

I don't have this exact board but I had to do the following to get >4 GPUs working on my current boards:

First, download the latest bios from Gigabyte's website for your motherboard to a USB drive and flash it to your motherboard (a lot have just recently added multi-gpu support for mining)
Second, ensure that 4G decoding is set to disabled, only UEFI boot is allowed in your BIOS, all the PCI-E slots are set to Gen1, and only have 1 GPU plugged in
Third, install your OS and the drivers for your main video card that your monitor will be plugged into
Fourth, reboot and go back into your bios to activate 4G decoding

At this point you should be able to plug all your cards in and have the OS recognize them without failing to boot. You can then install any remaining drivers necessary if you are mixing nvidia with amd cards.

Note that I am not sure if your motherboard actually supports the 4G decoding option, if it has nothing like this anywhere in the bios even after updating to the latest version then it just might not be possible to run all the slots at the same time with video cards. These are just steps I have had to do to get it working on the motherboards I am using. The issue with black screening during boot ended up being due to enabling the 4G Decoding option with the OS not having the video card drivers installed or not using UEFI boot to load the OS. Once those were both fixed I haven't had any issues with black screens during boot with 4G Decoding enabled.

You can also try looking at different mining profit calculator type sites, odds are your hashing power will be going to one of the coins with the highest profit ratios and most list out what type of hash the profitable coins are (sha, scrypt, ethash, etc.)

Yup, be very careful about loading a single circuit with too many rigs, the biggest worry is starting a fire. Most circuits are setup to match the type of wire in the wall so that they will trip before too much current is passing through the wire to heat it up and cause a fire. Just make sure that not only the circuit on the breaker, but the wiring in the wall was setup to code and the landlord didn't just swap out the breaker for a bigger one without putting new wiring to handle the additional current.

I'm sad I wont be able to dual mine Sia with Claymore after they ASICs are released but, if this ends up driving up their market share and increasing the price per coin then that is good in the long run.

At the very least, the announcement of the ASIC miner has generated a lot of attention towards Sia which could potentially bring a lot more miners and users into the system which will be good for it.

Initially the giveaway threads I am seeing but I am finding some interesting info on here as well

Thank you for that link, just bookmarked as I was looking for a good resource like this