Well gee...I'm an evil mastermind Putin.....I manage to hack DNC and cause havok..maybe even swing election (was only 80k of voters in the swing states.)

You really think they did not also hack the RNC and/or Trump's emails or have other stuff...I mean they probably both were an open book.

Yep .it is gonna get interesting as soon as the honeymoon period is over and the Russian's drop the other shoe.

I mean if I was 'evil genius' its what I'd do. Why shoot off all your ammo, if you have something or a lot of somethings on the next President of the United States.

A possibility.

Ack! PORN and fixing KNC evil Titan miners....jeez........that sounds...creepy (the KNC part)

But agree want it to hit 1000 usd so it can 'stabilize' at say 900 for the next rebound.

2014 nov 8th

Orig KNC Titan at $10,131.80 with shipping.

2nd KNC Titan used during march 2014 panic when 6 or 7 other scrypt miners
Supposed to come out at 2.6btc or 569 usd I think it was works yet full out.
Also KNC stopped production at this time. Thus till A4 only big miner game in town.
Panic only lasted 2 weeks to a month everyone thought no ROI with equip glut by July 2015
thus the panic. Dumb luck.

Found this last July 2016 a new unused corp default sale of 2 titan miners (orig) on ebay of buy it now 3.5k
split with a buddy my share was 1825 usd

Also tripped over with same buddy via an email to an old tech at knc proper that went thru to the bankruptcy lawyer
and fell into their first auction and prob over bid and won first round lot. He got 18. I got 6 knc 5 cube titans at 1900 each with shipping
we won that round of bids ...lost in a group buy to all others. imho knc insiders bid us into the dirt.

Anyway they sucked built by temps (no real knc employees for 2 years) and shipping damage so should have
got 400mh each ..really got like 342mh each . ROI'd on them recently. Paid off the 11.4K home loan to get
them on a bet BTC would go up. Got that right.

So I mine at 3150 mh (was 3200 plus but cube died and lightfoot can't fix it yet) at 10c kwh I currently get
with last ltc difficulty ..just looked 2034 profit a month.

But as you can see above it was all due to dumb luck. But hey ride the pony while I can

later

Holding 92 btc and mining still ltc to btc after elec for an ROI of 2.1 btc profit a month. BTC will have to dump below
201.21 usd before I start to head into a loss. So holding has been 'berry berry good to me'

as you have it in hand now...what did it cost in comparison on what you could build a rig for?

I'm assuming if they are more or less the same...this pandaminer is just a way to turn GPU mining into ASIC
 
mining ....like ASIC's eventually to become 'doorstops'

Again I'm assuming say the cost is the same if you build or get a panda miner. With alt coin prices not

sure that is a good move now at the prices on such. At least SOME reserve in GPU cards would be available

someday to sell/use....not the same as a panda miner.

Then again if the price is right on these (much less then building your own equiv) they could have a shot

Anyway the first thing I'd do if such arrived on my doorstep...do a build rig price and see where I stand vs the pandaminer on doorstep

later

The media is also driven by FUD.....the more FUD the spread about 'evil BTC' the more money they make. (Those who did not get in early or buy that it is a scam/ponzi...love the
scent of failure)

Thus I expect some FUD popping up here soon. Some of it will be just noise....but it will probably cool the hype a bit on newbies getting in.

Stuff like

1) China Banning BTC ..they likely will make a big noise and try to...but as most of the exchanges are out of the country that probably won't work well. Unless
they ban BTC mining in China..that is not gonna happen..but it would be the kind of press FUD frenzy that would carry on for 4-6 weeks till it petered out.

2) Trump administration doing the same as the above. They are already saying they want to get rid of 'net neutrality' so the big boys can get more bandwidth than
the rest of us..possible..same result as China actions...but lots of noise and FUD to sell papers and get eyeballs to your site.

3) The usual some other coin is gonna surpass BTC in that the block size debate etc..no one in charge argument that crops up every 6 months in a FUD stream

So it all depends...is the use as a store of value and moving income around w/o government and banks in the way and such enough to blow past this stuff
or will (for a while ) btc do the usual 'sideways shuffle' in price...when the FUD hits the fan...it is coming....may not have any effect at all...but a lot of people
hate BTC and its very concept...and most of them have the $$$ to try to get their way...imho it is like trying to nail down jello..but heck if you need a hobby.

Anyway figure not much will come from all this FUD and hand wringing etc....but again it could moot price in a sideways manner again for bit in stops and starts

so hold is what I'm gonna do ...(this too shall pass if it comes as I expect it too...FUD how to cope when you missed out on whatever)

my 2 satoshi's worth

you probably know this

but you can take the LCD out of the board and get 6 cubes to a board

as to if your cubes need fixing...contact Lightfoot on here for repairs and pricing on cubes and controllers (he does not charge if he can't fix it)

later

Unless the volume is new folk. Like China, Venezuela, India, most original before the surge
could just be sitting on sidelines holding. That imho would be same effect and would be
a lot more desirable.

Makes more sense then a bunch of low volume previous to this that held saying ,hey let's pump the price and hold more

ie the 'pie' is a getting bigger and bigger imho leading to FOMO and new adopters, or so I hope

I have 93 btc. Trying to work back to 100. Got some equip for ltc minning, so sold some.

I have 2 paper wallets in safety deposit bank and 1 hot wallet for bills and dust in my laptops.

No other copies of stuff in bank. I figure if the bank falls down a sinkhole then it is proof
The asic miner gods hate me. No issues the paper wallet private keys have never been used.
I simply add whatever I can to an address. I figured 52 on first one. Now trying to
Build up 2nd one up and over 50 again.

No fuss no mess and got a huge safety deposit box for $65 bucks a year

my prediction on BTC

ahem.....

PUMPS .....Press FUD.....Dumps.....Crawls back to sideways......Press Hype......FOMO.....PUMPS....repeat

(note BTC seems to mostly like sideways.....the most also imho)

Most times it is like a Slinky trying to climb stairs........frustrating to say the least

later

That's, not the point..unless you plug your product more then they have LTC will continue to tank...other coins other devs other options......even if what you say is true
not seen a lot of conversations on why LTC On the path it is ..is the correct path..just kinda like....'we know that is enough'

IF it only pumps when BTC pumps it NEVER will have a better ratio than just mining LTC to BTC ..thus without at least a lot of PR on WHY their method of madness
LTC uses in its development is out in the world in a well thought out and consistent manner...(not just a blurb every 3 months when the devs get poked)

Then this will continue till the ratio of LTC to BTC is so low the speculators/traders in china that use LTC also float away

big things are needed in a PR manner ..or LTC imho is just gonna be shoved down to the back of the crowd as a crypto concept/price and use

Btc loves 'sideways' in price. Expect long periods of that pattern on a significant price rise.
Why I mine ltc to btc and hold. 😀

Your efforts to fix Titans are commendable...however you may be moving into the below territory (see meme)......just use a bit of caution!

(Those KNC products are 'dangerous' and the company as well....focus too much more attention on this and this could be your equivalent of the dreaded 'stapler obsession" ....)

Also this comes from Searing who you have a Titan Board with the very problem you have on hand yet you can't fix...

So do I 'sacrifice' your sanity by pushing you down this road to get a fully working cube back? Or man up and warn you off?

I am conflicted

Anyway, don't be this guy! (Come to think of it you probably are this guy...if so your efforts make a lot of frigging sense)

Remember folks...fixing POW miner equipment can effect your social life and shorten your life. (Evil they are...especially KNC and their design..made to drive techs crazy)




Crap..he has my address from my last cube fix....crap ..he is gonna track me down ..take my stapler and burn my house down

I thought Vegas made a post he had that solder ball grid thingy you nneeded to replace a die
I'll see if I can find the post. Long odds this is likely.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170332.msg16227695#msg16227695

Er.   Likely I'm mixed up.  He says custom stencil which may be of some other use

They could make a lot of noise and try to ban it w/o a lot of result. This would be enough FUD imho to maybe dump the price for a bit say, down to 500 bucks for BTC again.

But on the flip side in say a month or so ...w/o a lot to show for it ..people would just carry on,  in my likely clueless viewpoint.

Now if they suddenly went all 'cultural revolution' and banned 'crypto POW mining of sha-256 btc and scrypt...well that would be a whole nother thing like the 'death star'

is parked in orbit kinda scenario.

The key is MORE adoption worldwide! Less reliance on China masses!



But the ways of China Politics are a mystery to me.

Always remember it is a Communist Country playing at being a Capitalist Country..they will tank the economy and

many other things imho to keep power.....just saying..in the west a well running capitalistic society is needed for stable domestic politics, in China

capitalism is just a tool imho

low volume everyone has been dragged out into "the real world" by wives and girlfriends for xmas new years etc

I'm happy it is hanging in there this well.

Also expect same for Chinese New Years for above reasons also

be patient young Jedi ..the force is strong in BTC



Soon! (tm BFL)

In Two Weeks! (tm BFL)

Just barely out of the 'coma' still at 0.00495 LTC to BTC after the massive BTC pump...not impressed yet
thou it is encouraging

Yep..now you've jinxed the works



oops I probably jinxed the works with the above meme.....argh......btc you merciless bitch you are gonna cheat on me

and do the gutter price walk again aren't you! (I so ashamed)

well 0.00414 ltc to btc is hardly encouraging in my quest to mine LTC and xfer it to BTC.....

(i know I know not holding LTC on here and moving it to BTC is the equiv of a crypto slave trader on here....)

but even the LTC hoarders they got be getting freaked....

Ack! Whichever choice you make you jin'xd it with the crypto gods by posting your fears here