Haha yeah. I just wasted too much time ... I'm disappointed with myself.

With the bitmain not currently taking any new orders on Antminers L3+, I was looking for another place to purchase them. All of the L3+s available on ebay and amazon are 4x original value and I don't trust any of the sellers.

 Looking at other websites like as-shop.su. Link below. DO NOT PURCHASE FROM LINK. For the prices that they are selling at $1430, the website has to be a scam. While at this price it is around the price of an L3+ from bitmain, it would be unreasonable for the site to have purchased a large pre-order batch and hardly mark up the price for resale. I would not recommend to buy from them no matter how tempting. 

https://as-shop.su/shop/bitmain-antminer-l3-250mhs-400w/

I figured as much.

Is there any way to know about how much the difficulty will increase when people start mining with these?

What other currencies are well suited for smart contracts? Besides Ethereum


Has there ever been a ethereum classic smart contract

BTC will remain the most stable since and is the main place where people move value when the altcoins crash.

I own six altcoins. All together my altcoins make up around 30% of my crypto portfolio.

I have litecoin, ethereum, monero, sia, and zencash.

I have noticed in the zencash slack group, many of the early investors are pushing the developers toward having higher node payouts. According to the zencash whitepaper the payouts for the secure nodes (similar to a masternode) is 3.5%, which is much lower than that of dash.

Many of the early investors are pushing for a payout similar to dash and are citing that currencies like dash have done so well due to the masternode system. They cite other currencies like chaincoin as examples of other altcoins with masternodes that have great increases on the value. The devs have been pretty good about standing with their decision to keep the node payouts low.

@raf16 Besides the masternodes, it seems like dash has been developing their payment system to hopefully allow their currency become more widely used. Do you think that dash is an intentional pyramid scheme or just a misstep in their development? If was truely a pyramid scheme why would spend so much time on developement?