1660Ti might make sense because of its energy efficiency but there is no reason to get a 1070 with all the thrashing on that card the hashrate drops down to 25-27. If you insist on used nVidia, go with a 1070Ti which should only cost $20 more than the 1070 and will do about 20% more hash with the same energy usage. If you're not a tight on electricity budget nothing beats a used RX 470/480/570/580 as long as they're 8GB variant.

That's so evil. I grew up buying electronics and motherboard combos at Frys back when they had those ECS combos - back again when AMD was tied with Intel haha. Credit rating my butt, as if the credit card terminal is checking your FICO at every transaction.

I stopped shopping at Frys after they retroactively changed their return policy on video cards after a sale was made back in 2017 (before ETH blew up so tons of cards sitting on shelves0. I bought 3 ASUS 1080s but only opened one and it ran so damn hot that it wasn't even suitable for gaming. Went back to Frys after 3 days and they refused to take the cards back after 1 hour fight with store manager. They said the policy on the receipt was outdated. I even asked a sales person about the return policy before buying which I do for any $100+ item. Manager said the sales person I spoke to was wrong and refused to budge, so I left on amicable terms leaving the items at the store, and called AmEx and told them about the issue. Got a chargeback (AmEx really punishes merchants) and I filed a complaint with the State department of consumer affairs. Changing terms after the fact is fraud.

It's only a matter of time before Fry's closes down. I haven't stepped foot in a Frys since that incident in 2017. I'm surprised they didn't die this year. I buy everything at Microcenter for the most part.

If it's only held by 1000 people worldwide does it have any real value? It would be like giving a Monet painting to a homeless man. He would be rich from asset but it's not able to b utilized unless he sells it. For BTC to keep its value it needs to be coveted by the population at large. 2 Billionaires trading it among themselves would have no real impact on the rest of the world.

This is their stated reason, but it doesn't explain why coins that are fully traceable are still banned b governments. The unbanked world is coming to the realization that it doesn't need a bank to work as a middle-man siphoning off fees every time money is moved. A decentralized can do the same thing more efficiently and for less fees. Therein lies the rub. The banks bankroll plenty of politicians. Everything from mildly unethical things like giving 0% interest loans on a governor's mansion all the way to highly illegal like holding gold obtain during wartime confiscation like all that Nazi gold sitting in Swiss accounts or all the money England looted from India.

If the banks don't make money, the politicians lose a big source of financial support, and that's just not acceptable 

You're fooling yourself and others if you believe that the reason governments banned BTC (and other cryptos) is because of their use for illegal activities. A local man was murdered yesterday using a crowbar - by similar logic governments would start monitoring sales of crowbars and restrict their usage.

The reason for the ban was because crypto was being used to circumvent the established tradition of having banks move your money to another bank - all under the purview of the government. They need to know what you're doing with your money at all times apparently, even if it's perfectly legal or illegal (such as money laundering). The only reason they make the laws with titles saying it's to combat terrorism is so that no rational person would be opposed to combating terrorism. Yet their fiscal policies of separating people and their money is a veiled form of terrorism in and of itself. There is no reason why banks should be closed 2 days a week when plenty of people around the world have to work all 7 days and on holidays.

As long as ignorant people allow such crooked politicians to control the system the ignorant people will be treated as children. Children should haven't direct access to their money - only a wise government can help them spend it properly /s

I think it's become quite apparent that there is a significant reselling opportunity for the 3070. Anybody who gets their hands on one won't even bother breaking the outer seals and will instead flip the card for $200 profit - that's 0.5 ETH in just 1day of work. Are you looking for benchmarks or just curious if any of the retail channels have put any cards out yet? I expect 6800xt to be out before the 3070.

People are trying to time the market and part of the market price is based on people reading trading charts and looking at moving averages while others are basing prices on external factors like Paypal allowing BTC purchase through their website. The two sources are incongruous and have no real bearing on each other.

You should just set an auto-buy routine that purchases a small amount each month that you can afford. Say you're willing to skip 4 $13 meals a month - save that $52 dollars each month and set it to auto-buy BTC on the 15th or something. It would have bought some BTC when it was $3k, it would have bought some at $6k and also $13k. The point is you would own some and have no regrets about the timing. If you're paralyzed with fear about timing the market then owning crypto is not helping you (at least not mentally).

Let's just look at the most talked about US company in 2020 - Tesla. Xpeng is being sued by Tesla for blatant theft of IP via USB thumb drives where source code was transferred by previous employees. This is not like where former VPs of on auto company like GM go to work for another company like Ford. In that an employee can take ideas and trend, not actually licensed knowledge. Tesla's case is currently waiting to go to trial. Although innocent until proven guilty, this is consistent with how Chinese corporations have worked for 30 years. Why reinvent the wheel when you can steel somebody else's bike.

Those people accomplished nothing other than damage city property so that taxpayer had to repair lawns and sidewalks. Occupiers largely sat in tents on grass and sidewalks eating trail mix, prepackaged food or fast food and left tons of trash behind to destroy the local environment. Did you forget the amounts of trash that went down the drain from those people living in cardboard boxes and tents? Doing something just for the sake of saying "we tried something" is not prudent. It's like creating change to alleviate boredom.

As a physician I've done more pro bono work that those lazy welfare collectors will ever have done. In fact I went 3 years making less money than the cost of my malpractice insurance seeing Medicaid patients. Focus on the issue at hand and trying to defend people's lifestyle choices. If people weren't apathetic in the first place the politicians and Wall Street would not have gotten to the place it is at. Protesting Wall Street greed while walking around with Apple phones, Nike shoes and a Coca Cola in hand seems antithetical.

It all comes down to share submission. It's not like the pool is discriminating against AMD cards versus nVidia cards. If you left the miners running for the same amount of time, just compare the amount of shares submitted between the 2 rigs (assuming same difficulty). The ratio should be within 5% of that ration that is showing on your local machine. Anything more that 5% deviance you can start suspecting things. Maybe one rig has more latency.

One good coronal mass ejection and crypto will be put on significant hold for a matter of weeks if not years, although the sun is heading towards solar minimum at present.

It's never a smart idea to put all you eggs in a basket unless you are making the market move by yourself (whales). Having the ability to scoop up a deal when the situation presents itself is the key to winning.

Cryptocharles sure likes to talk and post a lot...

Not a single business leader who is involved with corruption/fraud will ever be prosecuted and face jail time because the politicians they support receive the same treatment. If the politicians were actually held accountable for bribery and corruption and put into jail, perhaps they would actually care to make sure offending company leaders are prosecuted. The mindset "it's better you take the fall than me".

Sadly the ones who uphold the laws (courts) are usually appointed by the corrupt politicians. So it's a feedback loop - no discernible way to interrupt the pathway.

Well BTC is sitting at $13k right now and ETH is sitting around $410. BTC is at roughly 13/20 it's all-time-high and ETH is 410/1432. If ETH moves to parity ATH as BTC then it could double, but Vitalik is doing his best to make sure that nobody wants to mine ETH. What we need now is a good reward drop right guys? 

I wish I got more 5700XT when they were near $350. All the decent ones I see on Newegg are at or near $400. I wonder if AMD did actually cut manufacture of the 5700XT to pump out 6800XT.

Just had to report 3 posts for this again. It's the same person logging into multiple accounts and spamming it in the Claymore and Phoenix miner threads. New users will of course click the link and get malware/trojans on their system/network. Hopefully it's just limited to crypto and does not proliferate into keylogging or other vectors that would result in drained bank accounts and identity theft.

Yes the hardware wallets use a seed based of the inherent base index of the device itself, like a hardware token. The purpose of a good hardware wallet is that you can keep it on your desktop plugged into your computer and not worry about it being stolen and being accessed to have your wallet drained. Even if the thief has your device, he doesn't have your biometrics or your pin (most devices reset after 3 failed attempts). This allows you to properly store copies of you keys in remote areas of your house or even outside your country (depending on paranoia level) for long term retrieval in case your house burns down or a thief steals the device.

How quickly BTC can move upwards is more of a function of how desperate people are to sell coins when given an opportunity to cash out some profit. If, on every exchange, only 1 person has BTC listed for sale and only decided to sell it at $20k, then as buyer begrudgingly buy small amounts at $20k price across all exchanges the price will be adjust to $20k. But that's not the case as there are massive sell walls. The current US election, the covid plandemic, government bans on crypto and other factors are influencing people's sell wall. Good news on the world stage usually help bring down that sell wall. A weaker monsoon season for example would help Asia/Africa.

He's lucky because he's implying that his only copy of his keys was store on the hardware wallet. The wallet would be secure for perpetuity, but the coins would still be lost to him. To prevent loss, the keys should be either written down on paper or digital sources - obviously it would make sense to obfuscate the key. Perhaps putting 1/2 of the key in one room in one book and the other half in another room in another book.

Thieves steal pretty much any small electronic device because those are easy to resell and have value. The hardware wallet allows easy access with easy security, but it doesn't prevent the keys from being lost.

You will find the collective group of billionaires accusing all crypto of being scams because it's a direct affront to their business model and their status. Dimon, Buffet, Gates (he used to support it until he went viral - pardon the pun) - they all have it against crypto.

For those who think this 1 Billion as a punishment - well Chase must have made $5 Billion if the fine was 1 billion. The fines are always less than the true amount of the crime. It's why the banks continue to do this repeatedly. Just like DRAM price fixing, the billion dollar fine that Samsung/Hynix had to pay was less than their profits.

Good old Chase bank - kicking active military out of their homes during wartime because the soldiers were too busy on front lines defending their country to be fighting unlawful foreclosure notices. If you're not a religious person this kind of makes you wish there was a hell 

Trezor under the bed? That's one of the first place criminals look when flipping through a house - they're looking for money, drugs or guns. Guess the criminals didn't know what the hardware wallet was. You got lucky. You could have printed your public and private keys in 20 point font on paper and plastered your walls with it and still been safe

I have a Nano Blue but took all the funds off of it. It was too cumbersome to interface with. Paper wallets divided around the neighborhood/world works better for me, but it's good to hear the wallet did its job.

10 RTX 3080s? Isn't that ½ of what nVidia produced in the first batch? I kid I kid, it's a quarter.

Sometimes it's just easier to make money flipping the cards instead of flipping the bits. I made more money selling power supplies and 4 year old hardware than I did mining for about 4 months. I'm surprised the DeFi thing lasted as long as it did.

BTC broke $13K, maybe ETH will go for a 2nd run. It's back over $400 but hashrate is up 50% from 3 months ago.