Very grateful for participating in a campaign I genuinely felt good supporting.  If you ever need help in the future don't hesitate to ask.

Ever since the Q1 price spike and looking at the roadmap I've had the same thought.  Kept buying on the dips and already am seeing great reason for 1-2 year considerable upside.  I think the $15ish spike will eventually grow to the new price floor as more adoption/marketing grows.

Consider this my airdrop comment, but be careful with that rule similar have caused thread closures.

I see the payment wallet has reached zero, is the campaign done/winding down?

I recently saw Coinmarketcap rolled out their own portfolio tracking app (not sure how new it is) but it appears to have the same functionality as blockfolio, and I'd wager the same information hoovering (tracking your portfolio and using/selling that data to others).

Just curious if anyone out there has used both and has seen any clear reason for one over the other.

ALSO, does anyone have a FOSS/private application or system (besides excel) for tracking their portfolios outside these two apps or the few major websites that do the same thing?

Think in relation to servers.  Silicon actually has a VERY low failure rate over time, and actually if it runs fine for the first week you're in good shape.  As has already been said dust accumulation and adequate airflow are really the only major concerns from a maintenance viewpoint.

That it was a manipulated and ultimately unnecessary cash grab orchestrated by big players in bitcoin to make extra cash.  From a technical functionality/utility standpoint it works just fine, but is also open to future manipulation by the big BTC bag holders who pushed for its creation.

Hacking has been a reality in crypto since it's inception.  If there's a way to profit from hacking people will do so, and being able to predictably manipulate a coin's market you can definitely make money.  It sucks for those trying to play fair but is a fact of this world.

Exactly.  Even with nicehash a CURRENT gen mid-high end cpu will generate .50-$1/day.  Not really worthwhile by itself but as others have said if you're running a GPU already it's a nice bonus.  However the net after electricity is probably nil or negative, so if you're worried about daily net profit it's probably pointless.

If you'd read the Ann even a little you'd see it's an ERC20 token.  They had an ico, ether tokens are created via smart contract and never mined.

General rules:
If it's a "token" you can't mine it
If it had an ICO you probably can't mine it

If you're trying to send to the ICO address that's long done and over with.  You need to head to an exchange to buy tokens now.

Unless you're laundering dirty money or planning to not pay taxes you legally owe there's really no reason KYC should be a concern.  While I understand and respect the anonymous foundation of crypto, for active traders KYC/AML is just a fact of life.

Gratefully i've been holding my post-first-days profits wallet off topia.  Made some decent coin back then and holding some in anticipation of staking but it looks like a long slow road from here.  Surprised there's still as much mining interest as there is.

Fingers crossed this develops well and doesn't die on the vine.

HAH, I like that thinking, and is a better apples:oranges comparison than Lisk to IOTA too.  Those lisk comments are really from left field related to this project, might as well compare IOTA and Ark or IOTA and Amazon.

You have to look at each crypto project in context.  Just because you prefer betting on a different horse doesn't mean you go to the dog track to complain about everyone's bets on a greyhound.

To avoid gross price manipulation I can respect giving little forewarning of the snapshot, especially with how long the announcement of it occurring "sometime" has been out.  With that said I'm a little concerned with the apparent lack of updates regarding it, considering they already set and delayed one date I'm certain they don't want to do it again, but really even giving a window of a week or 2 as a committed timeframe would be nice.

I've seen past splits and swaps go silky smooth or be completely unhinged, hopefully the helium team is REALLY getting their ducks in a row.

Frankly I think the 42 zen/node is not bad at all.  I'm partial to the number, given that it's the answer to the ultimate question anyways, but as has been said upthread there's an impetus to get as many secure nodes running as possible.  If the barrier to entry is too high, and/or the node reward too low compared to that entry barrier it will greatly discourage people running them.

One of the unique features of ZEN is the secure node structure compared to many other multi-level PoW/PoS structures.  Master node coins rely on either VERY early investors who have hands of steel or whales to purchase and operate the nodes.  A DASH MN right now is out of reach for most normal human beings, even far less expensive coins like PIVX have an insanely high entry point to run a node, with very limited dividend payments (relative to other uses of that capital).

ZEN should work to build out the secure nodes and then encourage AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE to deploy them.  Keeping the coin requirement within reason is critical to that.

Also, as has been said already at $10 a ZEN, an SN is already a $420 buy-in,  assuming ZEN will continue to appreciate in value, especially as coins are locked in nodes that only goes up.  Reasonably $20-25 ZEN is not unbelievable, and then you're talking about <$1000 for one SN, that is NOT the same as a master node in concept or execution either, rewards will be lower.

It's about securing the chain, not making money as much.

Renogy brand 100w panels have had a few firesales recently.  The real problem is doing the cost per watt math + reliability of power supply generated + battery bank cost if you want to stabilize output + control hardware + time or cost to install it all.

At face value solar mining sounds like a great idea, and I give credit to anyone that does it, but the cost is not fiscally or technically sound.

From a hobbying perspective it's a cool idea.

Much like GPUs, if you're concerned about resale at all then yes.  Otherwise I'd say mobo matters no more than beyond it's ability to run the cards you want and has features you may want.  I'm thinking specifically probably wanting an m2 slot, either for an extra card or not needing a sata power channel for your hdd, and an on-board power/reset button so you don't need an aftermarket switch jumper.

I can not for the life of me get a wallet to connect out on my staking rig.  I've tried deleting peers.dat, I've tried adding the nodes to signatum.conf and placing that both in the appdata folder AND the wallet folder, i've tried adding the nodes manually via console.  Still I get ZERO connections.  It's not blocked by the firewall and is whitelisted at my router too.

Any clue wtf is wrong?  I can get it to connect and update from my laptop but when I run it on my stakebox I get nada.

In my experience Trex is usually pretty conservative on these things, so I wouldn't hold my breath.  I'm sure soon, but honestly given the current market volatility paired with the functionality of the new Block DEX and what the impact that may have I'm guessing we may be looking at days rather than hours.  (Thinking back to my experience with the ZCL/ZEN split).