You'll have to purchase your own power cord. the reason they don't include it is, they sell to several different countries with different voltage set ups on power grids. You need to purchase the correct power cord for your setup. Eg; USA = 110 v. They are easy to find and not expensive.

The Vendor does not offer those options for remittance. Those options expose them to further fees from the CC company and also exchange risk in currency conversion. Agreed, a better option, but still costly and cumbersome for all parties except the intermediary.

This is an excellent observation. In addition, don't you just wonder who is getting the "float" on that "Limbo Money"? We all know that traditional banks and fiat systems basically, temporarily steal our money and hold it hostage for inordinate lengths of time. Even though interest rates are negligible, if they do it in serious volumes, ( and they do ) it's just risk free, free income off of our dollars. It's legal theft. There is so much abuse and corruption in this system that people just basically accept it. My money was held captive for almost an entire month and there was not a thing I could do about it. It's time for this to stop. Most of us have to work for a living. Not banks and government. They just steal it from us!!

     Just for the fun of it, I decided to run a real life, real money test to compare the efficacies of a BTC Wallet based transaction versus my old world, USD Bank based wire transfer.

     Within a matter of days of each other, I purchased two pieces of mining hardware from a reputable manufacturer in China with a solid Customer Service record. On June 19th, I bought one unit and used a USD Wire Transfer to make payment to the overseas Co. Then on June 21st, I purchased another unit, same machine, but used a BTC transfer from my wallet. After 25 days the final results are in.

USD Wire Transfer;
     The cash was immediately deducted from my US bank based account on June 19th. It then went into "banking limbo" for 21 calendar days. On July the 10th, the Chinese intermediary bank acknowledged receipt of the funds I sent on June 19th. On July 15th the Chinese Co. acknowledged the receipt of the funds to their Co. account. On July 17th, my account and order were updated as " Paid pending shipment".  After much nervousness, emailing, stopping in the bank and updating "transfer info" with the recipient company, almost 1 MONTH later the transaction was completed.

BTC Wallet Transfer;
     Upon placing my order online, I received the BTC address to transfer my payment to. I entered it into my mobile phone, put in the exact amount of the purchase and hit "send" from my BTC wallet on my mobile app. ( of course I only keep enough on my mobile app to complete immediate transaction ). Literally within 10 minutes, my payment was received by the recipient Co., Confirmed as received and my pending order updated to " Paid pending shipment". 10 MINUTES!


     While there is still work to do, I think it is highly unlikely that such an archaic,clumsy and inefficient banking system can survive the ensuing block chain onslaught.

Death to traditional banking!

Long Live The Block Chain!!!

I thought that WAS the "compromise"? Regardless, it would appear that "scaling" challenges will be with us for a very long time. This will not be over after these dates no matter what the outcome. Has the internet ever conquered "scaling". It seems to immediately utilize all new capacity very shortly after it comes online.

I would rather explain the ramblings of Timothy Leary.

The unit is $7,000.00 USD from Baikal directly and are available. Personally I wouldn't even consider that price as close to what would be fair. Your yearly profit at .07 cents electric with it's specs is around $9,000.00. Not a chance I'd purchase hardware in this environment that takes almost a year to return my investment. No thanks.

These are available from Baikal directly but they have not published the price. Anyone know what these cost from Baikal?

Lose the POS. It's a death nell. Handing power and preference to people with the most power and money is what the crypto currency community is trying to eliminate. We already have a system that affords the richest and most powerful the greatest advantage. It's called Fiat. Myself and MANY other supporters will never be involved in POS Crypto's. They are a centralized scam.

That's awesome! LOL!!

.....and yet I am completing purchases and transactions with LTC with ease. I'm not sure where this "coin fandom" comes from or why people think there is only going to be one Crypto currency. I assure you, there will be many. All with different Niches to fill. Until they are ferretted out and identified, we all can benefit by supporting their eco systems through mining and rewards. It's not likely an accident that LTC is the highest mining profitability of all coins currently. Apparently there are a large number of participants that see a unique utility in it. After all, it is the one that has successfully engaged Segwit. BTC, not so much. I have no doubt it will, but truth is, LTC already did. Without any issues.

     LTC="scamcoin"? Hmmm. Interesting. First I've heard of it.

There is a cat on Amazon that has sold several of them at $5,700.00-$6,000. Even at double the current difficulty you can justify a $2,000.00 purchase price. $5,900 a unit? I think not. I suspect that after these folks take a beating on these irrational purchases they will be available at decent levels. Eventually the froth will bleed off the market and irrational exuberance will resume it's rightful place in the US stock market. 

Yes ETH definitely looks like a rough arena. POS seems inevitable so us rookies are probably best served to not even get into that "pool". 

There was no complaint. Just an observation and question. It is what it is of course. I was just curious as to how the more experienced miners viewed the effect of ASIC's on the viability of GPU's going forward. It would appear that there is an almost certain obsolescence now built into GPU systems. Does the departure of their Hashing power even begin to offset the new hashing power of the ASIC's power and efficiency?

 So it has begun.   July 8th, LC hashing difficulty = 250k, July 9th 275k. This is a new high by just 3k, but probably an indication that some of the new ASIC Scrypt miners are finding homes in Mining farms across the land. I suspect by October the LC profitability Calcs will look dramatically different.

     For you salty old mining vets, how do you think the evacuation of GPU miners in the face of the ASIC assault, will offset the hashing difficulty jumps? If any?

Welcome to the new High Tech Global Arms race. Currently ASIC hardware is sold out with all three of the reputable manufacturers and Pre-Order is the only option. It is seemingly impossible to buy 8-10 of the newest rigs let alone $1m worth. Very frustrating. In all likelihood, once the manufacturers have spooled up to meet demand, difficulty rates will change the game board dramatically. There is one seller on Amazon, ( reputable being the critical phrase here ) who is selling the L3+ for $6,000.00!! He'll probably sell those out to.....

Is this the favorite word of the current society?? "Bubble, bubble, bubble". WTF?? The US stock market has been in a "bubble" for 11 years!! All things are relative! Stop the knee jerk chicken little crap. IT's a MARKET!! They fluctuate!! Too many amateurs in this space mounting soap boxes and claiming legitimacy. It is what it is.