Sherry has replied and will inform me of the tracking number in 2 days.

Conservatives are about 'We have the money and we're going to keep it.'  To conserve, leave unchanged.

 Trump is riding a xenophobic wave.  Isolationism has support.

Bitcoin is an international currency (if I may use that term).

Banks value the fiat at their core.  Casinos, like insurance companies, are fiscal conservatives, essentially banks.  True one can gamble in any currency but banks have fiat at their core.

If Trump were to be elected, or any Conservative for that matter, how would it effect US Bitcoin?

soy

Maybe the Miami post office sees Trump making so much headway as a Xenophobe that they hope losing packages to China will boost the Bush prospects.

No.  I'll never buy a miner off Ebay.  Repair or replacement from Bitmain will work for this S5.  Might not be profitable nor even break even but will help heat my home at a lower cost than my other miners.

Interesting.  Following the link in the ticket reply email I'm getting a Bitmian page, the person icon when the menu is pulled down says Welcome Billy Johnston.  The page has a left column saying My Tickets and below Solving 0 Solved (no digit), and the right page side shows one ticket, the title, the creation date and the status (waiting). 

Now I go to another machine and open up the Bitmain website and log in.  I look at the person icon and it says Welcome BillJ.  I go to the My Tickets page, where I had created the ticket that prompted the email in which I found the link which I followed above, and now it shows no tickets under the My Tickets.

So, I created a ticket as BillJ.  The notification of ticket creation went to my email address.  Following the ticket link in the email takes to to a Billy Johnston My Ticket page showing the ticket but the ticket on the BillJ page is gone.

Perhaps it's because the ticket was moved to Bitmain Support Center that it no longer appears under my central Bitmain account page where no record of it appears.

Maybe a low level, nationalistic, worker in the Miami post office, viewing the man-made island in the South China sea situation, dead boxed the hashing board shipment in Miami.  Then in response to my email request to Bitmain, Bitmain lied about having already received the hashing board and just assumed it would arrive eventually and gave a typical replacement price and claimed my hashing board had been repaired.  But, when the hashing board still didn't arrive they decided to keep the 0.1357btc and continue waiting for the board before sending a replacement because they want to burn the old down to recover metals.

So Bitmain has had my btc for the s5 hashing board repair for a few hours shy of a week.  To recap: I had sent Sherry an email asking about a repair.  Was given information on where to send the board.  I sent it via USPS Priority Post.  Tracking stopped in Miami.  I received notification from Bitmain that the hashing board had been received and repaired successfully and told I needed to send 0.1357btc to address: 1KwA4fS4uVuCNjCtMivE7m5ATbv93UZg8V, transaction ID is: c6d748a7053f3c26672503b04f09472a80032ea16442cc0087dac5422bc8ed88.
After a couple of days not hearing back after sending the btc, I sent an email asking for info and tracking on the return board.  No reply.  I only then opened a ticket on my Bitmain page and described most of the above including the transaction ID.  I got an email reply of a support ticket created on 17 Jan.  I looked at the support ticket on my Bitmain page on Jan. 19th but the ticket information was gone.  So I went to the support email and clicked the "here support ticket" to "view this ticket's progress online and update".  It was there and I added a note making myself more clear then a second addition later that night.  I just looked again and there's no movement on the ticket.  There has been no reply from Bitmain nor Sherry.  I have just sent another email to Sherry asking for info.  Also I stopped back at the US Post Office where I mailed the package last November and made sure they had all the correct information and phone number Sherry had given me for the shipment and asked them to make sure the trace that I had previously requested had all the correct data.

Perhaps in Miami they thought my poor penmanship, I filled out the customs form unexpectedly at the post office, was deliberate and for the inconvenience, after being contacted with the trace, sent the package on to China less tracking.

So, how do Bitmain repairs work?  After sending the required btc and transaction ID, there are no new entries on my Bitmain page, just indication of the new miners I bought in the past.  It's been a few days.

Yes. I misspoke.  I meant break even in the power cost versus bitcoin mined value.

I wonder if the money spent monthly on electric solo mining might be more profitably spent on Fantasy Five every time the pot goes over $200k. 

LOL  But I look back on my bitcoin interests and when I started I managed to _buy_ a bitcoin by going to Walmart and getting a money transfer or something, back when even with the fees the bitcoin cost me like $27 and it wasn't long before I sold a single bitcoin and bought a 3 foot Samsung Smart TV.  Loving it I bought a ztex that was way over priced, then thumb asics, and then a Mercury - I was riding  high and added another card to the Merc.  I had been completely duped by MtGox as safe and lost maybe half my bitcoins.  Then S3's, S3+'s, C1's and an S5.  But I never really knew my true electric costs and was busily caught up in keeping them running.  Then I did the math and discovered my electric utility had different rates for winter and summer and found I was running at a loss.  I had always kept my winter heating bills low, turning off the heat when I'd be out and dropping it way down at night, never mind the long underware throughout winter months.  A thing that is when heating with bitcoin miners, one really doesn't want to shut them down and light them up every time one goes shopping so some are running at a loss when it isn't smart.  And the 113 difficulty - and Eligius having a round time of 59 hours right now and the last was 2 days at least, things are tough.  But I love the TV.

Oh, forgot I prepaid for a jalapeno then waited and waited and waited and when it arrived its hashrate was just a little inside the low hashrate return product acceptance - like they begrudged sending out products to those who prepaid and sent the better to friends and new buyers at a huge markup - and at that point when the Jalapeno arrived it was just about at break even.

Well that's interesting.  This morning I checked the routing number again and it's back showing the hashing board to have arrived at a USPS Miami site.  Same tracking information as before the tracking number became `not found`.  When I got the tracking number not found notification, I notified Sherry.  This morning I received notification from Bitmain the parcel was received and the defective part has fixed well.  I've been given a figure to cover and am awaiting confirmation they have my correct address.

And today 1/13/16, a few minutes ago, I checked the tracking number on www.usps.com and got the following notification:



    The Postal Service could not locate the tracking information for your request. Please verify your tracking number and try again later.


Perhaps a worker at Miami's USPS took umbrage at my unfortunately poor penmanship on the customs form.

I see.  Thanks.  A large farm may do something similar is a guess.  I myself have an S3 that has a falling hashrate that settles out at 398 GH/s.  I had written a short script, mostly copied from another user who posted his some years ago, to have it reboot at a hashrate of my choosing but eventually thought it a bother and stopped it running on crontab.  A 6TH spike.  That's something.

There's a periodicity to the hashrate (https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=30days&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=).  I wonder what causes it.  The tides and moon?  Or has higher math found periods of greater block discovery that effectively have those in the know shutting down and restarting their miners to better profit?  The experimental method could prove it true or not if one had the math to calculate the points of inflection then just piggyback on their effect to the hashrate.  Two equal clusters of miners, half on the upper half of the cycle and half on the lower would show if one or the other turned more profit. If so I doubt they'd tell us.

Congrats all.  Well done.

I remember now.  When I got the Dell I did a Kill-A-Watt test and it didn't power as cheaply as my modified cheap supplies.  The difficulty is the question if the power meter correctly calculates the power factor or not.  If not then the cheap supplies would be worse.

Wait, I'm rethinking this.  I made an error looking at the current of course as it's out of phase with the voltage.  I've gone to the Kill-A-Watt dollars per day running cost and am waiting for numbers....

I've doubled the S3+ with the Dell PowerEdge cost per day as it's only running one blade - not accurate I know as the other doesn't use two controller cards but I'm only counting one fan on the S3+ half.  Now, cost per day running the full S3+ getting 457GH/s avg times 100 divided by the cost per day of the ½ S3+ getting 225GH/s avg with the Dell at .98pf is 79%.  So, the cheap supplies at pf .7 according to the Kill-A-Watt is more efficient by 11%.  A true test would be to swap out the Dell PowerEdge for a cheap supply and see what it costs.