Is the gun manufacturer using what it manufactures for themselves to benefit themselves by shooting people?  Hell NO!!!

Is the ASIC manufacturer using what it manufacturers for themselves to benefit themselves while harming others?  Hell YEAH!!!  How are they harming others they sale their products to?  By competing against the very ones they sale hardware to by manufacturing four (4) units with the money they are paid from only one unit they sale.  They keep three of those four units for themselves to mine with and take their sweet ass time getting out that fourth one to the buyer.

That's the way I believe it's going.  It's sad but it looks that way.

Thank you for the props!

Maybe you can do it over time.  I'm currently getting out.

Assuming you're talking to me, you obviously have no commonsense.  Did I have to "buy" ZEN if I had damn rigs to "MINE" ZEN?  Could I accumulate more ZEN by buying it?  No need to answer that.  They are self explanatory.

As for providing "facts" to you about other coins in my portfolio; none of your damn business.  I don't owe an asshole that courtesy.

Now, "bang" that on your head a little bit.  Just a little bit...  We need to get "meth" off your mind.  Keep banging...  It just might be working...

 

I'm not mining anything anymore and I had 232 GPU's.  I've been selling all of them on eBay.  Motherboards, CPU's, RAM, PSU's, PDU's, power cords, ethernet cords, 36 inch 6-pin cords, etc...

I'm not buying anymore hardware to mine.  I'm going LIVE with a trading signal/trading education website sometime between last week of September and second week of October.

It's not worth my time to mine anymore due to how small the profits are.

I could honestly care less what the dev team and founders think is best anymore.  They dropped the ball to have something on standby in the event ASIC's were to be found out mining on the chain.

I sold all of my ZEN and have been buying two coins (Cardano and Monero).  

I will probably still provide analysis for ZEN on my future trading website for subscribers who want those signals.  However, I will not invest my personal capital in ZEN.  I have principles I go by.  There are alternatives to invest in with just as much room for serious gains in the future.  I'm simply turning my focus away from mining and onto trading.

I want to offer advice for those who are mining and/or operating nodes for ZEN:  It would be a good idea to invest time educating yourself to become a halfway decent trader in order to have an idea of best possible times to sell your coins at or near the top and make entry again at or near the bottom.  I'm not talking about day trading.  I'm talking about trading the BIG swings that may require one to four trades a month per coin; not trading the hourly or the four hour.  One should not get involved with those time frames unless they have the time to day trade.  Nothing worse than making an exit at or near the top but not being able to make entry at or near the bottom on the 1 hour or 4 hour charts because of being busy at work or with something else you were doing.

I've been supporting myself with mining and trading since 2014.  I'm focusing all of my energy and time on trading now.  I'm getting started remodeling my office tomorrow.  I bought three (3) new 55 inch 4K TV's to use as monitors with a new PC I'm building.  Those three (3) 55 inch 4K TV's will have the ability to have four (4) 27 inch monitors on each 55 inch 4k TV.  I'll have the equivalent of sixteen (16) 27 inch monitors in my office when it's completed.  

Here's the three (3) TV's I picked up the other day:  https://i.imgur.com/Rgv9jlA.jpg

Here is a screenshot of SOME of the hardware for my next PC build:  https://i.imgur.com/AxoJ2xa.png

The motherboard I ordered from EVGA on labor day weekend for $379.99 instead of the current $499.99 it is now:  https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=151-SX-E299-KR

I still have twenty-two (22) EVGA Geforce 1080 Ti K|NGP|N.   https://www.evga.com/articles/01116/evga-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-kingpin/  I've been selling some on eBay.  I plan on keeping four (4) of them.  Two of them will be used in the build I'm about to do with an SLI Bridge for three (3) 55 inch 4K TV's.  I'm thinking about getting 3 more 4K TV's but I want to see how the first 3 do with charting for technical analysis before leaping for 3 more.  

I've already sold approximately 50 x AMD RX 480's.  I still have about another 45 to sale.  I've sold 14 x EVGA GeForce 1080 Ti SC2, 21 x EVGA GeForce 1080 Ti FTW3 [still have 3], I have 12 x EVGA 1070 Ti to sale and 36 x AMD R9 Fury's to sale.

A photo (below) of one of the four (4) 1080 Ti K|NGP|N rigs while I was putting them together:  I even painted the case a copper color.  I was setting it up for eight card rigs but ended up making them 7 card rigs.



They were setup in this mining room (below):  I had 40 rigs at one time; using Awesome Miner to monitor them.  Not anymore...



If Horizen ends up proving to me in the future they actually support their GPU community by going ASIC resistant, I may consider buying GPU's again and possibly support the project.  Until that occurs, I'm sticking with trading 100%.  

If you intend to GPU mine for the long haul, you would be better off buying AMD Vega 64's or next gen Vega's to mine Monero.  That's my opinion if you intend to dive into GPU mining.  It's pointless to try to compete with ASIC's.  Monero is your best bet for GPU miners and AMD Vega's are the best cards for mining Monero in my opinion.  

Another plus about mining Monero is they are on the ball in regard to ASIC resistance.  They'll fork in a heart beat to remain ASIC resistant.  However, in the end, Monero will be forced to fork over to a new algorithm similar to PROG PoW in order to contend with FPGA's coming on the scene.  The beauty of PROG PoW is it renders ALL ASIC's and FPGA's on an even keel [For the most part] with GPU's at a ratio of 1.1 to 1 or 1.2 to 1 in regards to hash rate and power efficiency.

I'm curious, how will an individual's data be protected (private) BEFORE it gets put on their "privacy" blockchain?

I'm not asking about currency that can be kept private with a hardware wallet.  I'm asking about a piece of hardware your data is on before it gets on another piece of hardware that's not encrypted and may be compromised BEFORE it gets uploaded to their blockchain.  Or visa-versa, data that's on a piece of hardware [That may be compromised] and someone now wants to put that data on a privacy blockchain AFTER that data has already been compromised from being entered on a piece of hardware that has been compromised.

The marketing sounds great and all but has everyone REALLY thought this through?

There will be no change in PoW... PERIOD...

I've sold all my ZEN and selling all GPU's now.

So, let me summarize what you've done:

Demonstrate you're NOT an electrical engineer and/or if so, a terrible one at that.

I'm done with you!

Again, let me remind you.  Didn't I say, it's NOT done this way.  That it was only to give you a "taste of the possibilities."  Read my damn comment, ass hole.  Did I not say, that what they were showing was NOT how the government and/or corporations use the power line to record you and/or hack you?  I'm quite certain I said that.  But NO, you have to go and put words in my mouth like an ignorant ass and claim that's what I intended to convey when I said contrary to your very claim.

As for your "claim" of something "must" be done a certain way or "have" a certain thing to do something; your mind is weak and easily manipulated in regards to engineering and stuck inside of a box.  I still find it hard to believe you're an engineer.  

I'm not telling you shit cause you don't know shit.  Your lack of knowledge of longitudinal and metallic current proves you don't know what you claim to know.  Especially, in regards to "transmission."  I actually already told you more than enough for you to figure it out on your own if you actually understood longitudinal current, metallic current and HOW they can be converted.  But do they actually have to be converted?  Can they not "bleed" over when they "naturally" convert; especially when encountering an unbalance or the transmission of a signal or harmonic is above a certain level (dB)?  Hint Hint...  LOL...  But your head is so damn puffed up you can't get it out of your ass.  Besides, your "not an engineer" ass is just too damn ignorant and honestly not worth my time.  

Others on here can continue to think I'm wearing a tinfoil hat as well.  Go ahead, be my guest.  The truth is, all of you tin foil hat talkers are too damn ignorant to KNOW how ignorant you actually are.  If you don't understand longitudinal and metallic currents and how longitudinal current can convert to metallic current OR be at a hot level and be heard while monitoring metallically; you simply won't understand.  It's simply not worth my time and effort to be on here for a couple of days explaining noise mitigation, power influence (longitudinal current) and noise (metallic current).  Why are those important?  Because you have to understand the power line first before you can understand how it can be used in transmission of data.  You have to also understand how those longitudinal and metallic currents (frequencies) can bleed over transformers into devices and from those devices back on the power line through the transformer.

I've actually said enough already.  I'll let your so-called electrical engineer ignorant ass figure it out.

Is your modem in your computer to communicate this very moment?  HELL NO!  Your modem is OUTSIDE of your computer as we speak to act as a mediator between you and your IP.  I've already told you smart meters act as a modem (mediator) to communicate not only with appliances but also with your computers through the electrical wiring in your house.  If you want to choose to ignore this FACT, then so be it.  That's on you.  

Bottom Line: You're an ignorant ass who claims to be an electrical engineer but have exhibited that is further from the truth.  I'm DONE with you!  Not going to bother wasting my time any further with an Ignorant ass like yourself spamming up this board.

A SMALL TASTE FROM 2012 OF WHAT I KNOW FOR A "FACT" THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO FOR A "LONG" TIME:  Again, ONLY a SMALL taste...  This ONLY scratches the surface of what I "KNOW" for a "FACT" they can do.  So, keep acting like a damn ignorant fool.  I know this to be a FACT just from my experience in the field for 3 decades as a Transmission Engineer in the communications field.

DO NOT ASSUME I'M SAYING THIS IS HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS RECORDING EVERYTHING YOU DO.  IT'S ACTUALLY DONE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT WAY AND DONE WITH THE SMART METER ACTING AS THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN YOUR COMPUTER AND THE AGENCY OR CORPORATION RECORDING YOUR DATA (EVERYTHING YOU DO).  I'm simply showing you if this is possible through existing hardware in peoples home, it's also very possible through a smart meter acting as the modem.  Then, maybe you're wondering how the signal is converted (modulated) at the transformer in the computer when it converts AC to DC to communicate with your computer.  That's for those like me and engineers at DARPA to know and for everyone else to figure out.  I specialize on everything that connects everything together.  NOT the actual devices that are connected.  I can tell you what has to be done to communicate between two or more parties on whatever infrastructure you want each parties equipment to communicate under during a particular condition.  It's up to other engineers of that equipment to get it done.

DEFCON 19: Hacking Your Victims Over Power Lines (w speaker)  -  

REMINDER - This ONLY provides an example of the possibilities.  You would be surprised what they can do through a smart meter.  Guess where the majority of those smart meters are made.  China -  v=XjBJHy1hD_A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBJHy1hD_A

I'm not insinuating that at all, Ass hole.  I'm simply saying they're using marketing stunts to insinuate people will have privacy if things are done THEIR way; when all I'm saying is THEY WON'T and they are marketing HALF TRUTHS.

IGNORANCE ON THE PART OF USERS IS BLISS!  In what way?  It's blissful for the developers and founders because the developers and founders are the ones making all the money from the ignorant ones when marketing with HALF TRUTHS.  No?

And to be honest; I would NOT accept a damn dime from them if they wanted me to join the team to help.  NOT AFTER THEY SCREWED THE COMMUNITY WHO SUPPORTED AND MARKETED FOR THEM.  But you go ahead and brown nose because I'm not.  I don't like shit on my nose.  The shit the founders have done freaking stinks.  I don't see how you stand brown nosing with the way the shit they have done stinks.

Bottom line:  I'm a man of PRINCIPLES.  I actually VALUE my reputation.  If they offered me millions of dollars to join their team I would not do it if it meant marketing with HALF TRUTHS.  Yes, they can keep data private on the internet IF IT'S ON THEIR BLOCKCHAIN.  However, CAN THEY keep governments; institutions; corporations from seeing that data BEFORE it ever gets on their precious blockchain?  If they SOLVE THAT, THEY ARE GETTING SOMEWHERE.

You're so full of shit, dude.  For someone who CLAIMS to be a damn electrical engineer, YOU DON"T KNOW SHIT.  ESPECIALLY, About transmission.  I'm not going to bother trying to explain it to you IN DETAIL because you want to PRETEND like you know what the hell you're talking about when you don't.  You do NOT deserve my time.

EXAMPLE OF MANY BELOW:

You do NOT even realize the telephone line is POWERED BY DC, dude.  Do you?  It's 48 to 52 Volts DC.  However, when we talk it is AC.  When you press buttons to dial out, those are Dual Tone Multiple Frequencies (DTMF Tones).  Those tones are AC, Dude that's riding on the same damn two wires as the DC that's powering the circuit.  That's only one example of MANY.

Do you not realize when we talk on the telephone line, it is AC but IT IS POWERED BY DC.  Meaning, AC AND DC ARE BOTH ON THE SAME COMPONENTS (WIRE - COPPER).

YOU"RE FULL OF SHIT AND NOT WORTHY OF MY TIME.  STOP PRETENDING LIKE YOU KNOW SOMETHING WHEN YOU DON"T

Your precious DC current is powering even old rotary phones with 48 to 52 volts DC on the phone line.  That's WHY you can still have dial tone with an old rotary phone when the power is out to your house.  Well, that precious DC current of yours can be converted into AC current when you talk on the damn phone by an oscillator by varying the capacitance when your voice bounces off the diaphragm to change the distance between the metal in the diaphragm and the metal in the oscillator.  Metal plates separated by an insulator is a capacitor.  But BOTTOM LINE:  AC is on the Tip and Ring WITH YOUR PRECIOUS DC THAT YOU SAID, "NONE OF WHICH IS POSSIBLE."  Actually, you're full of shit and do not even know it.

I don't know why I'm even bothering wasting my time explaining this to you.  You're a damn ass hole who wants to act like he knows every damn thing.  I will tell you this:  If I do not know something, I won't hesitate to tell you, "I DO NOT KNOW THAT" and I will NOT feel bad about not knowing it.  I'll simply invest the time to get to know it if I feel it's worthy of my time to know it.  That way, I avoid wasting someone else's time and I also avoid making a damn fool of myself; pretending I know something if I really don't.

I'm sure there are things you know that I don't know.  Does that make you any smarter than me or I than you if I know something you don't?  HELL NO.

So, STOP PRETENDING like you know something when you don't.  IF YOU'RE NOT 100% SURE OF SOMETHING, YOU NEED TO AVOID MAKING A FLAT STATEMENT.  Because it really doesn't look good if you're wrong.  No?

So, you're telling me the components in a computer do not use signals between components to tell it what to do?  You know what binary code is right?  Binary code is transmitted within components in a computer in the form of voltage for a "1" and no voltage for a "0."  Frequencies represent PACKAGES of "1's" and "0's" in ADSL.

CAN'T DC CURRENT BE SWITCHED ON FOR A DAMN ONE (1) AND OFF FOR A DAMN ZERO (0)?

YES, IT CAN.  It's called PULSATING DC.

Again, JUST STOP MAKING A DAMN FOOL OF YOURSELF.

As for explaining the other stuff to you, that will cost you and the ZEN TEAM SOME DAMN MONEY.

Listen dude, you're acting like you know something you don't know a DAMN thing about.

Alternating current DOES reverse direction periodically; changes direction over time; changes rapidly in magnitude over time.  It most certainly does.

The point is there are TWO (2) different types of alternating current.  THEY BOTH ALTERNATE but in different ways.

Power Influence is best known or described as longitudinal current when it's radiated from the power lines into linear and non-linear devices.  The current on the power lines (longitudinal current) alternates at a rate of 60 cycles per second.  There are also harmonics of 60 hertz flowing on the power line.  Those harmonics can be both even and odd harmonics.  However, most of the even harmonics are cancelled out due to non-linear devices.  Which means the odd harmonics are more prevalent on the power lines and in the magnetic fields radiated from the power line.

One cycle (1 hertz) longitudinal will flow the SAME DIRECTION on the two conductors (Tip and Ring) from the Central Office out to the customer AND THEN BACK from the customer two the Central office.  That OUT to the customer from the office and then back to the office from the customer was ONE HERTZ (1 cycle).

One cycle (1 hertz) metallic will flow in opposite directions on both conductors and NOT to ground like the power company longitudinal currents do.  For example:  One cycle (1 hertz) metallic will flow from the negative side of the battery in the Central Office onto the Ring OUT TO the customer; through the customers equipment and back to the central office on the Tip THEN ALTERNATE back on the Tip OUT TO the customer; through their equipment and back on the Ring to the negative side of the battery in the office.  THAT WAS ONE CYCLE (1 hertz) METALLIC.

Dial tone alternates at 440 Hz or 440 cycles per second.  Meaning, it flows on the ring out to the customer and back to the office on the tip; THEN ALTERNATES back onto the tip to the customer and back to the office on the ring 440 times; for a total of 440 cycles (440 hertz).

That was ONLY an example.

You're TRYING to ACT like you know something you don't know a DAMN THING about.  The thing is... very few people [Even in electronics] are aware of two different types of longitudinal current; unless they understand how power influence radiated from the power line is induced into other components and can convert into a metallic current that we call NOISE.  That NOISE (Metallic Current) can affect TRANSMISSION.  This is why it's so important to have a METAL SHIELD around conductors to have Power Influence (Longitudinal Current) flowing 180 degrees out of phase from the power lines on the shield so they cancel each other out and reduce the NOISE (Metallic Currents) on every tip and ring and in other components.

Again, THIS IS ONLY AN EXAMPLE OF MANY THINGS involving TRANSMISSION of alternating currents.  Whether those currents flow longitudinally or metallically.

Just STOP acting like you know something you don't know a damn thing about.

Here's a photo FROM A MANUAL I WROTE to illustrate:  THIS MANUAL has been used by AT&T since 1997.