Looking forward to progress on this. I'd like try out your latest wallet too.

Most of the times I've used my bitcoins to buy items, it's usually via the web. A few websites in the UK, do accept Bitcoin, mostly electronics is my preference over the years. I can't say I've done many exchanges in person, as that pretty much applies to if I did it via, Card, Cash or Bitcoin. I work from home and I prefer it that way, for health reasons.
However it's far easier in the UK atleast for me, to find a place to pay online, than to pay in a physical store. To be fair, that wasn't much different when My Wife and I went to SF (USA), it surprised me, how few places did accept Bitcoin, it was mostly Chinese take aways (which btw was very nice).

I'm sure you are aware there are three main methods to gain income from games, selling them from point of sale, or a free play game, with ingame items to buy, the being third via advertising. Generally I'm in favour of the free play, you tend to get a larger player base and it does help increase it's popularity as free games tend to get played more often and encourage others to play it than ones you have to pay to play, which can often mean you spend less advertising it. You do have to make sure you make enough sales of course, but build it right and this is not usually a problem.

There are plenty of very addictive puzzle style games on FB for example, so this will be my example.
However this idea will probably work best in social environments, so if you don't want to implement it with that, it won't be of much use.
From a programming stand point, they are not that difficult to program, time consuming maybe, but not hard.
And when people get frustrated in unable to complete levels and get reminded their friends "beat" this level (with scores even), some will pay to get bonus items, so they can get pass that level or just merely beat a rival.

It's an idea that has been done to death, but it's has been done so because it works.

1) Block based games, where you have to move them about in an arena based upon special rules, certain things will happen. Make it interesting and difficult with those rules and it becomes a game of skill and planning.

2) Numbers game, recreate different levels of difficulty in cryptology experiments with hidden messages. Keep track of times and obviously correct answers. Could do it like a hangman style for correctly figuring out a message for example, or maybe only allow full message guess'.

I personally think Cloudflare is a terrible method of DDOS (any kind of attack really) prevention, they might of started off with that being their goal, but they veered of course when they realised their methods were actually quiet good at caching. Their security aspects of their service are laughable now, you are better off keeping those in house, with your own servers with dedicated (server) resources assigned to it.

If you use it just for it's caching, that fine, but I just laugh if anyone tries to convince me if it's good to prevent attacks on their servers.

I will probably going down the route of a refund, since Yifu (Avalon) has essentially suggested he is going to work on doing that for those who want it.
Yifu has broken his agreement (via the deadline) for many if not all of the groupbuys now, so he doesn't have much right grumble at us.
I just feel bad for all those who will end up taking a big loss like the assemblers (if a mass refund happens), who bought things in advance and now will have less use for them.

If I get a full refund (or near enough), I do not mind setting aside a small percentage of my refund for Nekonos (My appointed assembler).
I'd prefer to end up with a product, but at this point, as already pointed out in various threads in is going to have to be the next gen chips to be worthwhile.

I'm not greedy, but if the TOS says you promise something, you have to stick to it. But I don't want an innocent third party screw by it either.
If you feel the same, I'm sure Nekonos won't mind a few donations goes his way, I'm sure the same would to other assemblers that you had chosen.

While a lot of fun to do the whole oil submerge thing (done it in a "designer" fish tank for my media center), unless you use very expensive industry grade non-conductive coolant (rather than just mineral oil), it's actually got worse cooling properties than water and also it's usually got a viscosity many times higher than water so you need a really heavy duty pump, so it be noisy as hell because of it.

So I can't recommend it for any big power guzzling PC as cooling that oil is certainly not as easy as water.

There are some silent ones, since they are passively cooled GPU's in the 7750 & 7770 series I believe Sapphire made them. So without the fan it would be silent, but obviously the heatsink is huge for the GPU and of course it's not that powerful.
Otherwise you can go with Watercooling and go over the top on radiators and use really quiet fans and/or a fan controller to reduce the noise of them.

Water cooling is probably the best option, it's just more expensive, but means you can go for bigger cards yet still achieve silent operations if you get your setup right. For WC, the XSPC Razor water block is one of my favourite at the moment.

Watercooling (WC) is the probably the safest long term cooling solution that provides safe low temperatures.
There are method to cool it way beyond what WC can do, but I'd not recommend it; Pelters, phase changers, Liquid Nitrogen, Coolant submerging etc

The sort of temperatures you can expect out of water cooling will be dependant on your WC setup, how many parts you are cooling and your air temperature around the PC, since that is the coldest it will get too.
Usually I'd go for 1 240x120mm Radiator per CPU or GPU needing cooled, so room temperature is the best it will be at.
By the way, some of the best fans for WC and air cooling is Scythe Gentle Typhoon series, noisy, but does the job and you can always use a fan controller to lower the voltage if you need it quiet.

Trying to go significantly below room temperature is not recommended, as you have a lot more to consider in the areas of condensation and other issues if you go below freezing. It can be done, but it's not for those for good for those with more experience in this area of more cooling first.

Check out localbitcoins and see if there is many in your country who operate there.
I do have a link for it my signature, yes it is a referral link.
Generally it would be faster with localbitcoins.

I'm not sure if I'm more shocked by what Avalon has stated has happened, or by all the angry replies that are going on in the main topic about it.
Kind of sad all round.

Just one recommendation, if your going to be stressing the PSU (or multiple), paying out for a gold (or better) rated one will be worth it.
Not only will it be more efficient (technically save you money), but lets face it you want to ensure thing is reliable, so don't skimp on it's power source.

Ideally you'll want to be using PCIe extenders for all rigs with multiple cards, not many motherboards can cope with more than 4 without them.
These PCIe Extenders are flexible wires that plug in between the motherboard and graphics card to give extra room and allow you to use all the PCIe slots. It is worth getting powered extenders, as many high end graphics card tend to rely on the extra power usually gained from the motherboard.
Most GPU's you'd want to mine with are double or triple width (slot size) so they take up a lot of space, blocking nearby slots if you plug them directly.
This one you picked probably can't do more than 2 GPU's, slotted directly in the motherboard.

The speed (1x / 4x / 16x) means the transfer speed of data across the bus, but since the amount of data is tiny it can work on even 1x speed.
Also PCIe 2.0 or PCI 3.0 doesn't matter either within reason, as they are both compatible with each other and while their is a speed difference it won't effect a mining rig.
You only need to worry about it's speed if the GPU is going to be used for large data like gaming for example.

Good luck.

I'm more of a tech geek, rather than an investor type, but I'm no stranger to investing, but I tend to keep things simple in that area.

If you don't want to do the mining, don't pay for the privilege of someone else profiting from your investment in mining. That is all PMCs are, them taking a nice % cut of the rather small profits and slowly paying your less due the pretty normal nature of bitcoin mining returns lowering over time, ensuring what little profits there was, you won't make back enough to cover your initial investment, but the owner sure would of (though many argue they don't).
That is also why their contracts are so complex, so when they get a lot of complaining investors near the end of their life expectancy who haven't made as much as they hoped, they are off the hook. They care more about that aspect, rather than reinvestment to keep a PMC going for the long term.
The only investment that looked like a mining contract to me that actually turned a good profit for me was ASICMiner, but that was quiet different, that as an investment in a new technology for Bitcoin, rather than someone just buying someone elses tech, something you could of done yourself.

Currency trading is far better for those who don't prefer the aspects of dealing with the mining and only deal with the buy low, sell high principles of turning a profit. Find an few exchanges you can trust, with low fees and give it a try, start low and sensible and it's easy to turn a profit.
Not every exchange will have buy and sells at the same price so you can sometime find a nice gap to make a profit between them.

Just do your research on an exchange first, some have a bad reputation for a reason and for a currency trader you are best staying away from them. Don't let greed get the better of you just because their have good prices.
For example; the Mtgox price is higher than most other exchanges at the moment, but a lot of people have trouble getting Fiat money and Btc out of mtgox, so it's a terrible choice if you want to move your assets around to make the most of prices elsewhere.

Hopefully we shall all have some good news soon.

and this is why I keep recommend people move over to things like localbitcoins.com
Seriously all trades are usually completed in under 5 minutes, none of this wait a few days to hope it appears in my bank account eventually.
Also, fees, almost none compared to every other exchange I've used before.

They don't hold your fiat currency, just the Bitcoin, so as long as you stick to deal with people who are relatively local and do a bank transfer you always get instant payments.

I do feel sorry for those stuck in a bad situation with these exchanges, but move on a different type of exchange, not another of the same breed wearing different clothes. Until banks feel comfortable with Bitcoin (which might never happen), unfortunately exchanges which use them are going to get screwed and screw over their customers every so often. So stop using exchanges which rely on that relationship.

If things can be done via Linux, I prefer Ubuntu, but I do admit there is still some things that are easier in Windows.
The past 5 years Ubuntu and various apps have been chipping away at the need for Windows.
Wine was one the best things that allowed to make to have almost no reason for Windows any more, even for gaming.

Setting up a pure mining rig is best done with Linux as long as you familiar with Linux based OS.
There is plenty of guides for using standard Ubuntu and getting a mining rig made out of it or using a custom and ready to go OS.

Whom ever you buy the chips from, you'd have to ask them what arrangements they can do for you. But when it comes to Bizwoo/Nekonos I do know that purchasing of the assembly process is a separate cost and you arrange the courier pickup from their offices on the finished product which is also a separate cost, which is a lot cheaper than I expected. So keep that in mind.
Once Bizwoo (Bulk Chip buyer) and Nekonos (Assembler) get the Chips, I think the expected time to completion was in the region of 2 weeks.
I'm not sure about other assemblers, there was not that many when I was making my pre-orders, especially not in Europe, only 1 in the UK, which is Enterpoint, whom is opting for a rather different design.

I'm not aware of anyone is ready with a buy it now solution since they've only sent out sample chips, to get designs like the Klondike tested.

I pre-ordered mine as someone from the UK, via this group buy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=200067.0), but I'm not aware their being any space left for any more buy ins for the chips anymore.

Best of luck, there was a few Europe based chip buys 2 months back, when I was doing it, however most of them are complete now.

Your options will be limited to buying up what chips you can now and get them completed via a Europe based assembler (http://www.minerfactory.com/index.php/miners/klondike.html) as I've used as they do accept chips bought outside of their group buys.

OR

Wait for the completed options, which come out later, which you will pay a mark up price for and also be later before you get a working device mining for you most likely.

As a small note there is a UK based company who has made mentions of entering the market with ASIC based products, Enterpoint, but their goal is to make really really large multi-chip designs, so expectations is it to be expensive. But they generally only sell once it's ready to be sold, no pre-order non-sense.

I've created my account on the site.
I look forward to final to when I can finish off this order.

There are a few ways you can make money via Bitcoin, though it's not exclusive to Bitcoin;

Arbitrage - Regularly buy (low) and sell (high) in value Bitcoin across multiple exchanges to provide a steady profit.
Bitcoin Mining - Buy (invest) in mining gear like ASIC devices (do your research first on which) and sell your Bitcoin profits.
Bitcoin Goods - Sometimes there can be a profit in buying things in Bitcoin and selling it in your local currency or vice versa.
Bitcoin Services - Provide a service like programming (example) and invoice in Bitcoin.

These are far from everything you could do.

Point is except my 2nd example, generally speaking Bitcoins is no different than any other currency, it's about finding out what works for you and were your skills lay to make the best at it.
Also Bitcoin prices fluctuate in comparison to most currencies, so you can either see this as a risky thing, or something you can take advantage of if you know how.

Good luck.