Yeah it would show that. View-only wallets really should just disable the balance display instead, or maybe change the label to "Total amount received". It is somewhat misleading the way it is now.

I'd say the picture is more confusing than misleading. All of the auditing use cases are still supportable as voluntary transparency. I'm not sure what is meant by the last item about parents monitoring spending though, that seems a bit misplaced.

Yes.


Sure but not sure why you would do that. You could also be asked to show where you spent money on mortgage, taxes, etc. If you did that you wouldn't have enough left unaccounted to send the same money back to yourself.

Is anyone going to be there?

http://conference.rt.com/

Not sure about any of the numbers above, but 32.9 mHash/s (assuming the m stands for M) is higher than the total net hash (last I looked, 11 MH/s, might have moved now), so if you could sustain that you'd be getting maybe 7000 monero a day (order of magnitude). So no. A desktop i7 should be getting you between 50 and 500 hashes a second (order of magnitude again), and 1 monero a day (oom yet again). So 27 seems very wrong.

I don't know what that is but I'd guess SHA256.

New CPUs are extremely expensive on a price-per-hash basis. Don't buy it expecting to break even in a reasonable amount of time.

Also note that "bitcoin mining score" is an entirely useless measure for mining Monero.

I'd guess that CPU to be not faster than 400h/s (300-400 possibly).

Yup, sounds right.

Infect some torrents run a botnet which mines for you 

i guess you would need a gpu and not a cpu, but i guess also you can't build a rig which mines break even, perhaps if the power is for free ...

If you are buying a rig specifically to mine, then GPUs are the way to go, because the hash/$ is much better and you can scale (many GPU cards per rig). Probably some 750ti model is your best bet, especially if you can get a good discounted price.

That's a big if though. As luigi says you probably won't break even on hardware any time soon even if you are profitable in terms of power.

If you are buying computer for some other reason, or already own it, and want to mine, then CPUs are fine. They seem a bit more power-efficient than GPUs in the best case, though probably not the one listed above. The lower-power variants (mostly laptop and server models) are more power-efficient than the high-performance desktop models.

Rented servers are usually much too expensive to even break even. The cost of rental is usually many times the cost of electricity used to run the server. Of course that makes sense since the rental company has other expenses.

Anyway most CPUs will run something like 50-70 hash/thread where threads is cache/2. With that estimate you can work out some numbers.