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Rosewill makes plenty of gaming accessories and such, they're a trusted company. I use them for their PSU'S and whenever I need a cheap gaming headset or keyboard. Their quality is good, but not a good as, say, EVGA is. Their quality is in the upper middle range. I've tried one of their psus, and they work fine, as long as you don't get their lowest watt, lowest cost psus. Those tend to break VERY easily. Now, for a miner, aim for something around S7 strength. S5 isn't worth using anymore, the days where even people with free electricity using them are gone. They've gone down the drain with the S3 simply because their hashrate is too low and the sound they make is too big. Sure, you can replace the fan, but it's really not worth even buying the miner anymore. B19 S7s (little bit more efficient than the rest, comes out soon) and the S7-LN and any avalon you can get your hands on for less than 500$ is great. I HIGHLY suggest the B19 S7s because of their low prices at 290$(factor in shipping, it gets expensive), or choose a spondoolies-tech. Usually I don't recommend those, but they work well, and even though their time has passed, they are still workhorses and are very cheap. Keep your miner in the basement or an enclosed space far away from your bedroom with good cooling. The basement keeps cool, and keeps the A/C costs low. Don't put ANYTHING near your bedroom except a S3 or a stickminer, because essentially anything else is just a blasting of wind in your ears, and you won't sleep at night. I guarantee that

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I do make short responses sometimes, but those are necessary and it's usually for buying and selling.

Interesting move Bitmain made... maybe it was to offset their BM1385 because they had too many? Usually I would guess that they'd make a rackminer, but they kind of have already. Doesn't make sense to buy this either, so I'm truly confused why they even released this. No profit for whoever does. If anything, demand is DECREASING than increasing for the S7. The only people hyped about this are newbies or people with cheaper electricity, and even with that I'd still avoid this miner.
It does have a psu and costs 300$, but still, has to be bitmain being desperate to get rid of BM1385s.
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Probably due to a large amount of people selling (can't even call dumping at this point) their bitcoins, because only a month ago it was near 300$. Still, it looks like old miners are being turned on, because shortly before and after the price rose, we saw a small peak of hashrate. This'll probably be normal throughout the days before the halving, then we'll see a huge drop of hashrate and difficulty as old miners become turned off, and because there's just a higher ratio of old miner hashrate than s9 hashrate, at least as of now. Later past the halving,  we'll probably see a return of hashrate as Bitmain's S9's get turned on, but it'll be a slow climb.
That said, I think hashrate will cap or keep a slow climb, so +2.74 = leowonderful is my guess.

There's a shorter explanation, if you don't want to read that much. Antpool and friends mine empty blocks that process no transactions except the 25 BTC given to the pool that mines the block, and so they contribute to full blocks. This means that they are causing huge jams of transactions that can last for days. In addition to that, kano has better luck and lower fees than Antpool, and you're supporting a pool built by one of the members of bitcointalk. Sure, Bitmaintech makes our miners, but they're getting more and more corrupted and I wouldn't funnel in my hash power to them as well.

It depends if you want faster shipping or not. Sometimes I will buy from websites like eBay because they ship from the US, not China, and I'm willing to take the extra cost for saving time. Warranty has never been an issue for me even buying from eBay or Amazon. The only bad thing is, people resell for a higher cost there, and if you're willing to buy it for more, but have a smaller ship time, this is for you.

Bitmain's trustworthy enough that you can safely buy from them, unlike BFL which ended up not sending it's miners at all for many people. For now, it is safe, but watch out , because as Bitmain becomes more of a monopoly this could change.

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I've purchased this, I'll leave a review once the two confirmations for payment are done.  Will update this post.

Waste of 5 dollars. Honestly, it would take you 24/7 to earn even your money back, and the method is so damn slow that you'd probably need 4 hours to get a dollar.

What's most likely is a fluctuation of high hash days and low hash days as people try other methods of mining. You'll probably see a very wide fluctuation of hashrate and difficulty in the weeks after the halving, with the general direction of difficulty going either down or up. Keep in mind that while gear is being deactivated, the high-hashrate S9 will also be activated worldwide, and overall, hashrate will probably go up. it could go either way at this point, depending if Bitfury releases their new chips (if at all) to a miner maker, if S9 sales go well, if new miners are created. It's very hard to predict anything during and past the halving, and this is no exception. It also depends where the price of bitcoin is, as if it goes above a certain price point, hashrate could spike, but if it only peaks at a lower price point, miners will not create as much hashrate.

I've sent a pm regarding this review to you. Currently working on the blog, but it'll probably look a lot better in a few days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_HcU7HkLo&feature=youtu.be
Made a youtube video in addition to my review a few months ago. Hope you like it, I have a cold right now so it's not the best but it works.
Waiting for payment, have posted a review for these guys a while ago and paid full, so this is a reputable campaign.

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AMD's now released its new Polaris architecture, and has a new card priced at 199$ that crushes the R9 390X with benchmarks and has half its tdp (150w vs 275w). Nobody knows the ETH speed of these yet, but because the card operates faster on DX12 than even GTX1080s do (in a leaked benchmark screenshot), I think this'll be a turning point for ETH. Nvidia doesn't do nearly as good of a job ETH mining than AMD, but it does a much better job than the 390X, so much that I think this'll bring decent ROI to whoever buys it at this low a price. If you're going to invest in ETH, do it now; we probably won't have new gpus for a while, and amd's price of 199$ is insane! R9 390Xs will probably be dumped and i'll probably buy some once they go low enough, but for scrypt, go for the Innosilicon A4s that are being released soon.  They'll flip the Scrypt world for a while, and we've yet to see a big Scrypt ASIC be released for a while. Pretty exciting times in non-BTC land.

Video cards break pretty easily with mining, though, and with a broken gpu, oftentimes the only thing you can even scrap out of those is the heatsink. FPGAs do have some coins that they can mine, but not really a lot. Generally, any coin that has some algorithm to stop ASICs will work with FPGAs. If you really do just need a beginner ASIC or GPU for mining and you don't care about its hashrate, check out the AMD series of cards. R7s do the job, R9s do it better. For a cheap ASIC, check on eBay or in the marketplace for Block Erupter USBs. They truly used to erupt blocks, but now their low hashrate and 2w power usage is perfect for learning about bitcoin. I still have a few, and they work just fine. U1-3s also work, are portable, and have a reliable hashrate with more modern ASIC chips. The u3 has the highest hashrate out of them all, with the u1 being the "worst" although a U2 is basically a U1 with a better heatsink. Gekkoscience Compacs are the most efficient miner for beginners, and boast a semi-current BM1385 asic. They're very tunable and use low amounts of electricity and people have gotten them up to 20+GH/S from the base 11 or so. There are many options, but truly if you want a good start with mining, just check out the antminer S9 or S7-LN. They feature the newest ASIC chips, although the S7 wont make you anything and the S9 is still debated about profit.

Solar mining is not "cheap" in the monetary sense- but it is good for the environment. It's not cheap, and in most places will require a lot of maintenance just to keep the panels running, then you have the issue of batteries and many more things. Solar, in a laboratory environment, is perfect for most people, but the initial investment is so big that you'll probably have lost more money than you've earned.
If you like the environment, hydroelectric is a better option, although there are still environmental issues with it as well. However, it's usually cheaper and in countries like China that have a lot of hydro plants, they have relatively cheap electricity, and most mining farms use hydro for that reason, so it's a pretty good compromise with both.

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I'm interested in this, I have sent you a PM regarding this blog campaign.

Unless Avalon reaches some 0.06w/gh or so, by the time the miner actually becomes released to the public, it'll probably be obsolete. Bitmain is months ahead (possibly) of everybody and EVEN Bitfury will be behind them. This will most likely be a useless miner and have no profit for anybody. If anything, if this is even 0.08w/gh it'll still be a waste of research and manufacturing. Not real optimistic about the avalon 7.

Who knows, by the time this thing comes out, Bitmain could be started on an even more efficient chip.

For some people the risk of mining is much more fun (for me) and more attractive. Some people don't like sitting on a coin for a price rise, but as of now, it is almost guaranteed that the price of bitcoin will go up substantially after the halving, to a point where you'll make at least, say , 120% roi. With the halving coming on, and coin reward being halved, this otherworldly efficiency will just be equivalent to maybe 7THS today in terms of profit. It's pretty late in the mining world to start now, as people with dirt cheap electricity are taking advantage of their situation. ROI is getting longer and longer to reach, and mining is indeed shifting to large scale projects. This may be the last "good" miner for the average Joe that we'll see - 10 cent electricity and generic A/C.

The trust system is very arguably flawed, and because of DT there is nothing balancing "good" and "bad" DT members. Even though, if the DT is DT, then you WILL get red and you will be untrusted. It's pretty bs, but it's life. Most people don't bother to check why they were - repped, so most of the time they get flamed in threads for "shut up you're a red trust person".

And now my part.

If you're going to learn anything in this forum, tread carefully. Don't do foolish things that will get you untrusted. Although newbies are often not trusted and just generally looked down upon with many things, don't let that bring you down. Look around before posting something here if you're unsure that it'll get you in trouble. Even if you do get negative trust, there must be a reason and usually, if it isn't too bad, you can work it out with whoever gave you the negative trust from DT.

You learn from experience, and eventually if you stick around long enough, you'll get the hang of the forum and like it a lot more. It's just getting past the first few ranks.