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8 blocks for the day. Not bad. Lets start the new day with some more green blocks.

What state do you live in?  Can't you just switch providers?  It doesn't make sense, if they allowed 400A connection to your house, you're allowed to use all of it.  Otherwise they will reject the connection to the transformer.  Most residential transformer doesn't even allow connecting 400AMP from 1 house as typically you will need 500MCM cable which is too big for their connector Bus Bar.  The work around is 6 smaller parallel cables.  That was the issue at my house.  Fortunately that transformer was overloaded and overdue to be upgraded so I got lucky and was able to hook up the 500MCM which is a FAT heavy Copper cable to the new transformer.  I had no issues driving most of the 400AMP at 80% which is 320AMP.    DMwardjr have similar configuration and was actually trying to go to 800AMP to 1000AMP for his house.  Just tell them you're running a lot of servers at your house.  Sounds like they're just trying to make more money from you.  

Because they can.  They called me into a meeting at their location.  I brought my electrician along.

hello,

Here's I just had on their site:
https://enshop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020160307020331375uYwfnI5D06C6
Price:       665 USD  ( 1.613 BTC )


So I believe this is just fine.

Last s7 price I saw was $650 on bitmaintech

I still can't figure out why someone would pay $800+ for an S7 on eBay when you can get a brand new one from Bitmain for less. When I ordered mine, it took less than a week to arrive here in the U.S. No problems with customs, etc. Very smooth and easy. You could probably do pretty well buying a bunch from Bitmain and turning them around on eBay.

BTW, I can't help but notice that this whole "home/hobby miner" and the "small business miner" industry reminds of of the earlier days of Internet providers. Back in 1999 I became interested in Bulletin Board Systems (AOL being the largest commercial one at the time) and there were lots a small BBS systems that guys were running out of their homes and making a few bucks. So I bought some equipment and software and started my own local BBS with local content, etc. it quickly became clear that I had to offer Internet access too. So I brought in a fractional T1 from a whole Internet provider and a fiber optic line from Verizon, started selling unlimited internet for $14.95 month. This was before cable modems, satellite,etc. I was using 28.8 modems and the new "fast" 56kb modems cam out, so I upgraded my equipment and kept going. I built the business to about 200 customers and was starting to turn a small monthly profit, but illness in the family forced me to shut everything down (sent my customers to another local provider - didn't even have time to sell). well in retrospect, there is no way I could stayed in business anyway, because once cable and other high speed internet came along, all the small guys went out of business - they just couldn't compete with the big guys.

This is what I'm seeing in btc mining. Big guys with millions of $$ are squeezing out the small guys. Who can compete with the likes of a BitFury data center? I hope I'm wrong, because the small guys are what keep the network healthy and widely distributed.

I apolgize if this is off topic or wrong forum for this discussion, but I just wanted to share that experience with the group.

Ok, back to cracking that stubborn block!