To clarify they're NOT giving them to ALL forum, members, only those who chase the signature bounty, hence it's not an airdrop just a low-entry barrier bounty campaign.  I'm concerned how often it's mis-named an airdrop open to all when it's not.

The nature of the campaign incentivizes multiple accounts and frivolous posting to boost rewards as well which actually increases PnD risk.

The sheer number of sigs I've seen for it, combined with so many low level accounts promoting it was enough to stay ten feet away.  Kudos to anyone who makes money on it, and maybe it will prove a good project BUT i'm not holding my breath.

Pound for pound signatum had a fairer distro and is just as sketchy in the short-term, and I did well mining SIGT.

ALSO: it wasn't an airdrop it was a signature campaign

Staking system is novel and high reward.  Beyond that it's just an active PoS coin with loose affiliation to weather forecasting, so not much.  But hey, the 10k I bought months ago were a good sub-$100 investment (gamble).

1) Does it solve a REAL problem/need
2) Is a token/blockchain, as applied, the best or at least novel solution to #1
3) Is this a new approach not already being serviced by another (well developed) coin or token
4) Is the team communicative and do they appear/have credentials that they can deliver #1
4a) IF the team is anonymous there MUST be a clear reason to do so (anonymity driven coins, etc...)
4b) Do team members have other project commitments past/current/future in crypto (use as a measuring stick)
5) Is the sale being conducted transparently, ideally with escrow if applicable (not through a smart contract)

If it passes 1-5 THEN it's worth EVALUATING deeply as a posdible investment.  Many, if not most, ICOs I fear will become vaporware and crash, likely devaluating the crypto-sphere as a whole over time due to so many people wanting to get rich quick.

Caveat Emptor

Might be time for me to finally buy a ledger.  My keepkey has been trusty, but my god they're slow to update support for coins, ledger is bleeding edge in that area.

Strong words, from an account with ten posts.  You may be a seasoned vet for all I know, but it tends to be the ones who berate the most that know the least in my experience.

I'm counting down the days till I finally earn my Sr. rank, less than two rep cycles now 

I'd say tokenized assets have some potential very positive use cases, but agree completely that almost all iCOs are going to be cashgrab vaporware.  I foresee the coming ICO floppening as the dotcom bubble of crypto.

At least those who invested wisely in that bubble could've still made tons of money in the early 21st century when the industry caught up.

Reminds me a bit of Gnosis.  Kinda came from nowhere, the concept seems intriguing, but projects that have short runups, high initial valuation, limited forum discussion AND most importantly magically appear on Polo give me pause.  It's really the magical polo listing more than anything that makes me skeptical, that exchange just feels way too shady in their listing practices.

Using the stock coolers on a wireframe shelf with a box fan at each end set as push/pull out a window.  Room gets close to 90F, cards are pretty stable around 70C, fans on the PSUs never seem to need to really ramp up so they're fairly quiet.  I have the PSUs at the outside with cards in the middle though so the cards are working a little harder to stay cool.

Each 2400 is only pushing 6 cards + risers so i'm certainly not maxing them.  I'd have gone with 1200s but they weren't in stock at the time.

I've been on suprnova since the start, in general they seem to be one of the most reliable and communicative around.  I like dwarf and miningpoolhub too, but not for zen.

Agree, the dev has already signaled wanting to move to a new project, the utility it added for token creation was minimal and the self-mining angle, while novel, is far from perfect.

Those screenshots are downright beautiful.  For all the newb hype there does certainly look like WAVES has a great future, so long as the functionality matches the flashy graphics this may be the first game changing DEX which has been a long time coming.

In 5 years I hope this mirrors the first pizza bought with bitcoin 

It was meant to be a joke 

I feel like there's a lack of clear understanding or common usage of many terms related to airdrops, for clarity and from my understanding:

Airdrop = free coins given for zero or near zero effort (ex: providing an address for delivery via PM or form) these may require a signup or occur from holding the coins in the right place during distribution (see:gbyte or bitcore)
Signature campaign= NOT an airdrop, coins given for having a particular sig/avatar to advertise the coin
Bounty= an activity performed to receive coins of a non-trivial nature (ex: writing posts on social media, translating ANNs)
Faucets= free coins given in small (near trivial) amounts for click throughs on a webpage, usually with a catcha and time limit between claims
Fork = free coins generated when an existing coin chain splits and develops independent consensus  (see: eth classic or bitcoin cash)
Split/snapshot= a planned distribution of new free coins taken from a single timestamp view of an existing coin chain but generally new coins are completely unrelated to original chain (see:zen or helium)
Exchange/transfer: when an existing coin decides to start a new chain, usually with tech that can't be readily forked, so existing coins are allowed to be cashed in for the new ones, usually over a limited time (see:espers, coinonat)

I'm probably missing other scenarios but I hope to provide some clarity to avoid the muddling of these terms that happens constantly.

I want to get one ASIC for under my desk for the winter.  Since i'd need a real one anyway, it seems to make sense.  What i'm wondering is if there's ANYTHING that will be available to buy by then, that's not price gouged and will be relatively useful to run.

I have no algo preference or specific daily return, so long as the cost ROI isn't measured in years.

Any suggestions?

Across all variables the 1080ti is the best card currently available.  It provides best in class performance across virtually all hashing algos, has relatively low hash:watt, are generally available, provide the best power density in a rig, and will likely have the best potential resale value if/when mining takes a dive.

If you have free electricity and/or an excess of available pci slots the 1080 or 1070 are almost as good. 

Thanks, based on this feedback DASH, ZEC, BCH, and all derivative projects have decided to shut down immediately.

At time of snapshot, otherwise you would have tokens being double payed.  The distribution amount is based on the quarterly earnings report.