That is part of the fun of this I have found is when you guess.  I have never won but still had lot's of fun.  There is SOO much stratagy in some wait till last minute watching... taking chance numbers fill up or missing it.  And there are some throwing random numbers with little thought.  But it's fun to see it all come together.

I'm not so sure on the difficulty going crazy I thought it would have a few month's ago but I was very wrong.  Right now if we get another under 5 before having I would just be thrilled.

Bitwisdom:
Bitcoin Difficulty:    196,061,423,940
Estimated Next Difficulty:    205,038,646,442 (+4.58%)
Adjust time:    After 661 Blocks, About 4.4 days
Hashrate(?):    1,434,006,101 GH/s

Coinbase currently at 776 we still have a chance of getting closer or even crossing 800 this period which would be amazing to see.  We BLEW through 700 which was great.   I feel like no one lost this period with BTC's gain's in value.

I have still been testing different pools with 24 hour runs.  This time I gave BTCC a try with the S9.  During the 24 hour run the S9 hashed very close to the 14T as shown with extremely low hardware errors.   Still no issues with pool comparability, which points to good news.  The pictures below show results which I'm very happy with.



The full BTCC Pool statistic page is rather large with entire info so click here if you want to view it: http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m25/notlist3d/S9/btcc24hour_zpsqailk5yo.jpg
Below is just the graph to show stability which you can see was very stable:

It all depends can't really make such a big blanket statement.  Yes it's tighter margins then a year ago but many are still able to mine profitable.  Even with having the S9 coming out will let many remain mining profitable where S7 might have not been profitable after having.

And we really don't know what value, difficulty will be after having all speculation.   So S7 hard to say who can mine it after having.  But MANY will still be able to mine with S9 it was just a huge jump in efficiency.

And a LOT of the accounts are obvious that they were farmed/sold.   Sadly account farmers have a ton of low quality post in most cases things like offtopic threads what was your last drink, what was last music you listened to, etc.  Basically to raise activity level of account and it becomes obvious it was sold.

And other way is some long period of time without post's and come back posting with a different style.  So again becomes obvious.  So I would not count on buying if you want in a "good" signature campaign.   You really need to start one and have high quality posts from beginning.

I know some will always want to try to fasttrack it by buying.  But I think a lot of them end up banned for insignificant posts or some negged for being part of buying/selling of accounts.

And we still have 23 day's or so till having - http://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/ .  So this amount of surging up in price with this amount left looks very nice.   It's hard to tell what high end will be at the end of this. 

It makes me glad I have some being held aswell.   Fun to wake up to a gain in USD hopefully it continues.  And mining has been amazing not surging high with hash... which I was kinda surprised.   But mining also looks great.  So it's good news kinda all the way around.

The thing is no one know's after having what a profitable electricity price is for S7's.  Just don't know value of BTC, difficulty, etc.  So a LOT of unknown's.   If you get one you for sure can mine till having with S7.   But at having block reward is cut in have... so less income.

This is where the suggestion of S9 comes in at as you will be mining with it after having with 0.06/kWh.  S7... hard to say speculation.  But if you get a S7 with that electricity rate know going into it you might need to sell the miner at having.

It all depends on your electricity price, some no doubt will still be pulling in profit after having (espically if btc keeps climbing).  Hard to say how many cent's per KW after having .... but yes some still will turn profit running. 

Also if you go with the AP3 psu it's not really that expensive for what you get.   I have had good luck with them and since they kept design with S9 means multiple generations of miners can run on it.  And I have spent more on ATX psu's so... don't see it as horribly priced.  But guess my opinion on that.

You are right out of curiosity what PSU's are you using?  Also have you tried another pool just to see what it does? (Pool should not make a difference as Kano works but just being through)

Just wondering on those things as that would be heck of a bad luck to get so many under.   

The site you use as a legit mining site has a testimonial from a bankrupt miner manufacture featured on it's front page.  So makes me wonder things about them... as most would not want that endorsement on front page.   Also look at price of ether - https://www.genesis-mining.com/pricing - 925 dollars for 250-300 dollar card that is not to much wattage... ouch.  Not to mention they use the term "lifetime" mining which I HATE as it sounds like forever.... but that is obviously not true.  So I see lot's of bad.

Again I say go to hashnest and there is none of those issues.  Just a lot more professional and legit.

Someone is pushing them here I saw another thread with it as listed as good investment cant seem to find it but had referral in it.  Was like a thread voting on what was good.  But avoid hashocean... there is no reason to go there.  Anyone that guarantees profit is not a legit cloud mining site they say "Return on investment within 5 months." so... not legit as mining is not a sure bet.

If you want to go cloud mining really just go to hashnest.  You can research a ton of sites... and they will come out scams on almost all.  Hashnest you get a legit chance of ROI and you can trust them. 

Can you post a image of the status screen so it's a little easier to see?   What does hashrate look like on each blade? (A status screen will help a lot of questions here).   Also are you getting number from miner itself or pool? 

I had to do a double take for a second two Leo's in a row .   But CPU coins are kinda dead in my view there just is not anything I see as making enough to pay electricity off of.   I wish it was not true and there was a good alt.  Chances of paying electricity to mine CPU coins are slim... and ROI on CPU chip not even a chance do I see specifically looking at nice chips.

And a lot of the Intel integrated GPU's just don't have enough power to make it worthwhile.  Best by far is Ether it's on a heck of a run.  And takes a decent GPU those intel integrated that most motherboards have just does not cut it.

What a great way to wake up.  See bitwisdom is still pretty dang low (considering having much lower then I though we would have). So good luck continues there.

And coinbase keeps going up up up!  We hit 750.... maybe we can see close to 800 by end of this period?  That would be a hell of a week.

This is really starting to go more twords altcoin.  Many miners have used multiple PSU's when setting up a GPU mining machine.  This is due to amount of power some cards take (espically during LTC day's which is dated).   It can be done just don't mix PSU's on a single GPU I would say.

Just like on bitcoin miners people don't mix PSU's on same hashing board.   But 1 PSU is a much cleaner way of doing it.

I'm sure Marco will announce if he ends up doing this ever.  As you can tell it is full of very happy participant's as it's a great campaign and many like I have been in it a long time.  So not a lot of turn-over of people leaving as it is just a great campaign.

This get's asked multiple times per page which I think is to the campaign and Marco's credit.  (it is only a few posts up it was just asked)  But as of now still first page remains current:

And if it does in your case most likely you would need to work on your negative as also do to front page: "All users who receive valid negative trust (profile shows 'deal with extreme caution') and/or are banned for spam or likewise during the course of the campaign will be denied payment."

Paper wallets are great if used right they can be done very secure.  If you are going to use it alot they are not really what you want for storage.  One thing I don't think I see enough is once you import that paper wallet you kinda lose the security of it being offline even if deleted after.  As if computer is infected or such ... the private key could be compromised.

I would almost suggest making a few paper wallets at once when you know 100 percent it's secure and keep some paper wallets even if there is no money on them.  That way after you import to spend you can send to next paperwallet which private key was not imported.  It is more secure and some might see it as to much and being to overprotective.

There are a HUGE difference between say LBC and coinbase.  With LBC you can count on paying top dollar but some do it to remain anonymous.  I personally don't find it worth it for me as I fell I'm not doing anything I need to hide with coins.

With Coinbase (great choice for US) you do have to let them know your identity with KYC laws in US.  But you get fair prices and can buy direct from a checking account so I find it worth it to do personally.  Not to mention it's a established firm vs user on LBC.

Mining is far from dead.  It is getting harder to do and lower electricity prices were needed.  But the coin has jumped HUGE recently which means all past amount's you mined and held are worth more now compared to say 320 day's.  That is part of I love about mining is mining and holding.

And it is not a dead scene with S9 hitting the market the new efficiency is huge jump.   So it keeps those who were mining profitable (hopefully).   But there is still a lot of action going on I don't agree it's a dead scene at all.

This is very much true people see help as free with it being a forum.  I have been a member for years and I think I have had 2-3 who wanted to help tip (I don't think I accepted either though).   I have even used teamviewer and helped remote with miners... and no tip.

It just has become part of the culture really that help is free in a lot of cases.   I use a signature campaign as I gain a little something for helping and posting.  But it does not compare to say if I would have taken those times helping and actually did real work.   But I enjoy helping so I will continue to do it.  I also don't spam or push people to tip either some might have had tip's if doing this.  I just don't want to be that guy who helps then throws up a BTC address.... as I enjoy helping honestly even if there are no tips.

It is not all but it is a surprising amount.  This is why some signature campaigns don't even count that section which is sad as altcoins are very valid and fun but a lot of posts just end up being horrible there.

But we also have to look at the coins... truthfully there are some pretty crappy coins to that still get post's.  Not every coin is good but many still get posts.   So it is a issue many see I think best way to combat it is sig campaigns not paying for that area just like offtopic as it is full of not so great posts.