And I should add sidehack and novak did a great job on the compac's.  I bought them and they still work today.   So I'm not doubting his ability when I say I don't think there will be upgrade kit's.  Its been since S1 to S3 since last upgrade kit on Bitmain... so quite a while.  I think it will remain buying new gear vs upgrading.

I just think getting chips is very hard.  Espically when you go to current gen chips, and next gen.  I may be surprised by someone getting a source on chips.... but I think it's a tough road to put it mildly.

Latency is a bad thing for miners so above is perfect example of this.  If your competing against others you really don't wan't to be fighting a bad ping/high latency.  This is why for example Bitcoin Pools have multiple servers in different locations.  They can help cut down latency by having a server for that pool close to you.

As far as amount of bandwith needed it is not really bad at all.  You don't need a huge amount of data for mining.

What county are you located in? With most regular exchanges some are legal and best in certain countries.  I would say there is not one that is best for entire world, it depends on location.

There are options like localbitcoins but you will pay higher.... and I like a good exchange better.  But if you let us know what country your in we chances are can give a much better idea of what exchanges are worth looking at for you.

On saving it look at good paper wallets, or hardware wallets.   Make sure good ideas for security when doing setting it up, as you want to make sure it's secure.  But for most cases don't store in exchange is good advice (there are exceptions like coinbase that has a insurance policy).

The fact is bitcoin is not a get rich scheme.   Even at 5 dollars a hour take that times 5 days and say 8 hours a day.  That would be 40 hours at 5 dollars a hour so 200 per week.  At 52 weeks per year were talking about   10,400 a year.

That is just very unrealistic unless you have a skill to sell, or money to invest.  Without a skill if you are looking at faucets and surveys you will end up no where close to that. 

Some of these threads honestly scare me.   Everyone needs to understand when it comes to cables all are not equal, there are some very cheap adapters out there not meant for mining.   I honestly don't think OP realized how it being so hot to the touch is bad.    It should have been unpluged right away, you are totally right about melting gear and it could be a lot worse depending on setup.

People need to learn to respect electricity.   You don't get second chances with it

It is unlikely that there will be a "re-engineered" design for older antminers to use BW's new chips.  And I don't think it will happen with Bitmain's new chip either.  They focus on selling a entire miner it's been quite a long time since we have seen a upgrade kit.   They could suprise us, but I doubt it.

Again they focus on selling full miners.  From their perspective I can understand some of their reasons for it.   I think sidehack managed to buy a few BM1384's for the compacs.  But he could not get them again so took chips from full miners (correct me if I remember story wrong).    But getting chips is not easy at this point from any company.

This makes no sense when looking at picture, you are appealing user: Drakrmaster in deleted post.   But now you claim SktT1 is a friends account .... and you used it to appeal ban for  Drakrmaster.  It's just kinda farfetched.   As you sure appear to be claiming username as yours in deleted post.   krunox123 did a great job showing deleted posst.

The more you fight it and bring it up the better chance people give you negatives for entering giveaway twice.   My advice is set back and let the ban expire as chances of getting a sig spam ban reduced is very very slim.

OP's account is not banned it is locked due to security.   It happens if you use secret question to reset password, account is locked:
May 29, 2016, 08:30:17 PM - binmon - password reset via secret question
May 29, 2016, 08:30:17 PM - binmon - password reset via secret question 

A moderator will not be able to unlock needs to be an Admin.  He needs to find message with a BTC address he can sign with as mentioned before.

Marco is doing a good getting resets out on time, so thanks Marco on that!   This makes it where we don't have periods for more then 7 day's which is nice.   I am fine if we keep resetting on time perfect and payment comes a few day's after, works fine with me.

With ethereum GPU mining has come back.  So we can no longer say no GPU mining.  CPU I would agree is gone at this point. It is really the only coin out there currently worth it to mine with GPU, but it is profitable at pretty high electricity prices even.  Difficulty is growing pretty decent lately though.  So if you buy multiple cards... if you ROI without selling at end is hard to say.  Also new GPU's come out pushing down prices of older stuff.

But his one radeon GPU might be worth running ethereum for fun.   Depends on what card if it is able to handle it/worth it.

The goal of a faucet is pay you very little, so less then whatever faucet owner makes off ad's on site.  Most are not "scams" in that sense as if they don't pay out they lose traffic quick.   But yes it is possible you go and they don't payout but most don't do this.

On to are they a good source of Bitcoins? Heck no you will spend hours earning cents.  It honestly is sad if you do the numbers you just are not going to get a substantial amount.   It honestly will be dust in most wallets.  But some do spend time at them... I would not recommend it to anyone personally unless they are wanting dust to play with.

Also be very careful when investing in cloud mining, sadly many that push for investors on here are scams.  It just is to easy to fake that they have equipment and in the end you have less coins then you started with.   Luckily they have stopped pushing as much it seems it was pretty bad at one point.

If you do go cloud mining I highly suggest going straight to hashnest which is with Bitmain.  They are as legit as it gets, but mining is not a sure bet know that going into it.

Most of these are not serious  I mentioned this in a previous one in Mining board.   It tends to be people that think mining is a get rich quick scheme (which it is not) and come with a number very high for them thinking it means more profit.    They do the ROI and find out it is not get rich quick... and tend to leave thread.  If he posts electricity price we can give a idea if chance of ROI, but never invest more then you can lose.

I highly suggest OP starting off slow or anyone for that matter.  To jump in with 200k worth of gear from 0 would be crazy. If he is serious about starting mining I would suggest finding a place (hopefully he can start at home or place he already has access to).   And get a miner or two to learn with. 

And no offense was meant OP.  Its just when you ask some of the questions you did it is not in line with someone ready to invest 200k, or even 20k. 

Normally you know if you have posted a post with a BTC address.  If you know you have you can go through your posts here and look for it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=220123;sa=showPosts;start=0

If you have not posted an address you can sign with... chances are your out of luck

Bitwisdom is heading up some:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    199,312,067,531
Estimated Next Difficulty:    198,367,788,490 (-0.47%)
Adjust time:    After 892 Blocks, About 6.4 days
Hashrate(?):    1,373,429,219 GH/s

Value wise coinbase is around 534, so still holding in 530's which is nice to see.  I keep hoping we see another surge in price.  It sure is fun to watch when it does happen.

You are missing so much.   You need to know your electricity cost, your equipment (cooling, psu's, etc).   Each can very depending on location and that brings up cost of location.  But unless you are hosting somewhere you have a lot to figure out.  And giving you ROI months out.... no one can tell you accurately especially missing so much info.

It's going to be highly tied to electricity price.  But most will be looking at S9 that are buying new gear due to specs.

The solution is either software monitoring PC's and hashrates.  Or some pools you could use names to indicate PC's.   With ether I really have not had to much freezing, if you are chances are something is wrong with your setup.

And I'm not saying these GPU mines will become as big as industry as BTC mining asics.  But I still think there are some commercial mines happening, looking at Ether I don't think the difficulty is all hobby farmers.  But then again that is speculation on my part.

I highly doubt you get them unbanned.  You have to look at it from admin side if they let people say "It's my (insert family here) account" all account farmers would be able to get unbanned.   You had some crap posts and ban evaded it would appear since from same IP and honestly accounts have some in common.

Your 3,4 account have same registration day.  Add to that the fact the accounts 2-4 posted only in altcoin, and russian local.  They just share a awful lot in common.  They seem to be accounts that are being farmed to gain activity.   

If you story is true it is going to be hard to prove I think.  You would have to convince an admin of it, and I think chances are very small as all account farmers would say this if it works.

I would let it go and only pump every week or so.  You are not looking for a signed message but a  post where you post a BTC address you posted that you can sign with now to prove account ownership.

So look for if any of you posts have a BTC address posted.   Here is a good topic on signing a message - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0

Just click the link on thread above yours, there is a entire thread that talks about it.  It appears to be becuse he was doing crap posts - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=727696;sa=showPosts . 

You will see what I call one liners.  But if you do a bunch of one liners and crap posts that don't help most signature campaigns will remove you.  They don't want to pay for spam like posts.