I'm not really looking for ROI. I feel it's too pricey to reach enough h/s to achieve that. I'm just doing it for fun and to support the currencies.

I see now that BFL has begun selling cloud mining contracts. For $10k you get 5000 gh/s of mining capacity for only 12 months. But that'll only earn you roughly $5k in coins over the course of the year on average, probably less. So what gives? Why would anyone be interested in that!?

I run for mining at home:

BFL 10 gh/s btc unit
Gaw fury Asic LTC miner
3 USb dual miners (LTC only)

At roughly $0.11 / kWh, what is my approximate energy cost / month?

I've got it figured out now. Thanks for your help.

Ok, so I created a new wallet with two-factor auth. Backed up my private keys, master public keys (all 3), seed, and wallet password.

electrum was open now and sync'd w/ the network.

I then restored a new standard wallet using one of my public keys (#1), and then electrum opened as watching only. got rid of my hot wallet file (w/ a backup made of course first).

I sent $10 worth of BTC to my watching only wallet.

Now, when I restore my hot wallet from seed (w/ two-factor), i still see a 0 balance.

what happened? i only see my balance in the watching only wallet.

Thanks.