Whats the rough kind of time for mature coins to count in staking terms.   Not sure if reboot and other minor offline stuff would interfere or not exactly.   The wallet is pretty easy to run, does require a bit of memory but thats not much with the cost of memory less nowadays

Good layout.   Optic have lost Hiko, shame that didnt work out but he seems off so I dont blame the team but I dont expect them to do as well as they've done in the past.   Cloud9 I would like to do well with Swag but I'm not sure the loss of Skadoodle is an improvement really, swag can awp for sure though.

I would say Gambit for most likely to surprise as they do seem to have engaged best with their new IGL and thats been to good effect.  Not sure on Liquid especially, SK are the favourites but have been absent at times

Steel fiffy and swag, 3 retired players back for this LAN.  Should be good to watch either way

Unfortunately this is correct, there is a reason the average person prefers online wallets.  Its just more convenient and less hassle for them to manage 'in the cloud' then be sure of themselves handling the files.   Its a small task to anyone half way acquainted with computers but the path of least resistance is what you should expect the masses to follow.
We definitely do want the masses of people who are only half way interested in crypto currency to be involved, we want people who really only have a desire to transfer currency occasionally to be interested.  There is a small tendency by computer enthusiasts to tend towards elitism, kind of a competitive spirit but it should never be applied for a consumer facing product where your random consumer should be allowed to be an idiot and suffer no detriment in use of the product.   My ideal would be someone drunk can use that product, literally they are out of it but its usable to them still that would be the gold standard imo.   The average person is just incredibly distracted and their focus is miles away from proper usage
 Its a really basic point nothing new but I do imagine its a big factor in success of pretty much every product I look at.  I used to deal with Doctors and Lawyers who are clever people but had failed in basic points of their use of computers, frustratingly wrong on simple usage but my purpose was to translate it to their use of the product so it was straight forward for them.
  People just wont bother in the majority to alter their thinking to match a product, more likely they will keep skipping over anything till something they fall over is understandable to them.  My fear is the banks make some killer app for phones and crypto wallets lose alot on business, of course all those people will be lost into the FIAT system which is haemorrhaging money to politics

I dont agree most are losing, the odds are often close to 50% for the players.   There is a cut of course to run the casino but anyone can get lucky, if that was not true and you already knew ahead of playing that loss was inevitable then nobody would play.    The reason why gambling is addictive is that it always appears a big win is possible, someone has to take the winnings.  The biggest share of any game is by far given to the winners, the casino is only in profit by its ability to take a fee basically.   People play because they want to exchange their bad luck for good on a spin of a wheel thats possible, how well you play after the win is what decides success imo

Whales herd schools of fish, its always the main body of the market that forms the movement just the whales deliberately try to appear in such a way to cause the movement they wanted for most profit.  Cant really blame people for doing whats easiest to get the fastest money from price movement, this is capitalism people dont understand in that it operates despite selfish objectives by participates in the market.   If volatility if blamed on whales or others, its not the true factor for the price not finding some equilibrium in between supply and demand

There will be no more 400 series as 500 is a refresh and replacement of all models.   Its very similar and mostly being done just to allow cheaper production costs for AMD, eventually customers see some benefits but for now its only slightly faster at stock clocks.   


No 480 or similar will be no cheaper as its essentially the same card.   Maybe you can save 10 dollars here or there but I dont think we are talking much.  Nobody will switch from 480 to 580 for example as there is no advantage.
We've already seen some offers for 480 at times and that is all the effect possible really.     So far all I've seen people comment is that the 580 is more expensive, but the 480 is no cheaper because of that.  580 will match Vega price on release I think, as you can double them up its possibly a rival in performance so they will not make 580 that cheap these few months. 
If 580 is no cheaper then 480 not cheaper either, imo second hand prices stay high due to miners filling any demand gap

Nothing Ive seen indicates that forks have a chance to 'outvote' the main bitcoin blockchain.  No doubt they need to move forward but its not going to be over just like that because there is competition.    The other alternative crypto standards also have to prove themselves, probably more so then bitcoin in order to take over they will need to demonstrate alot of advantages to win business.   There is speculation and as always its overblown and people anticipate too much and the price becomes too high in that alternate standard, in turn that price will fall back as actual progress is much slower.  Bitcoin only has to plod along in order to advance and if anything slow progress wins more support in its steady course forward

The bitcoin price on OKcoin is sticking right to the previous price ranges with recovering 62% of previous high price as a top for now as 7370 CNY.   Falling back only some, its been well above 6900 this month which would be a marker for some weakness.

USD is more volatile, I feel the relationship from China to USA on bitcoin is unequal with greater effect on the dollar side seen.   Marking the range from ETF reject to the final low that followed March 25th matches many lows and highs such as the January high which recently also marked the low for 13th.   With little happening in China price range, the butterfly effect saw more dollar side worry.  Relatively both sides are quite bullish.
The high for the 12th was predictable and foreseen by a few no doubt, the reaction afterwards is more significant in measure of strength for bitcoin heading into the summer and future protocol news.

Neither of these transactions confirmed,    So far nobodies received payment for reviews.   I get no payment I'm leaving a bad review, pretty shady stuff

Its possible bitcoin has alot of potential but I disagree with this advice also as its equal to hoping for a lottery win.   No skill involved, just get 21 bitcoin tickets and pray it goes higher.  
Thats pretty naive as a plain for a happy and fortunate life.    What bitcoin is going to need is smart young people to actually build a useful platform, improve the usefulness of this protocol so absolutely anyone can get a reliable money transfer system.

Right now bitcoin is a bit too fiddly, whats going to happen is the banks will engineer a system that favours them but is extremely easy to use with cartoon characters on their adverts or something to sell it.
  Meanwhile bitcoin will stay a low percentage exposure product to the technical elite who missed the catch that its got to be usable by those who know nothing about your ideas and only want to expend 30 seconds of thought out of their life on your product before they move on.

People who think they'll get rich by doing nothing deserve to fail and most of them will.

They put in those large sell walls to influence peoples perceptions, thats a common trick.  Also done on real stock books is gaming the order book in a similar way so I guess its a legitimate tactic.  Poloniex allows margin trading so I guess they are just trying to herd the cattle, maybe buying the Dash at a lower price then might be otherwise?

Strange thing is the blockchain didnt confirm this transaction, still hasnt.   Anyone read that better then me, was it an orphaned block or something ?

Thats always true of anyone holding currency.  I presume that what is meant by investors.   Iam I backing USA because I hold alot of dollars, not really I hold them for my own reasons and if anything Im speculating the dollar will do better then my own national currency and so on.   People hold QRK not as investors but partly to diversify away from their own liability elsewhere.   We all know modern cash is easily not an asset but depreciating and unsafe to hold to some extent, what bitcoin did was allow the whole world to transfer value elsewhere far more easily and hopefully QRK can prove as reliable and gain similarly.

5 star Review here - https://trstp.lt/R6V2fw
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Do due diligence I think applies everywhere because I find even professional reviews are compromised by free samples and a lack of care of long term interest in the product. 

What is the maximum amount of drives linked to one machine possible, I guess its limited by PSU more then other factors ?    Is it possible also to use the GPU for burst some of the time and also have the GPU involved other mining besides burst or is that too disruptive as burst always requires the GPU immediately.
In ROI you could also include depreciation and the asset worth of the standing stock

It might be priced in line with the Vega release not that long after.  A bit less then half the power and about half the cost is roughly what I expect.   So something along the lines of retail price of $250 for 8gb to start and perhaps later some discounting or cashback but on release they may include the game Prey as part of a bonus or a token to get it as that comes out 5th May.
Some people say Vega will arrive 5th May on that game date but dont think I believe that

Teamviewer I have used and its fine under one main precaution you take.   Very simple is to use teamviewer on only a machine or laptop with a new install of windows and no personal files.   No other machine or phone in your household should be turned on.    
Then you can safely use the application with trust that really it can only do as much as you allow on that one machine and you have nothing much to lose.   Also you can just never use that laptop again in your house, without wiping it first.     Many people are doing something generic like watching a movie on their laptop and really theres nothing much to do there.

You can always run a virus scan after, or disengage its access to the internet, mostly I would just reinstall windows and remove any customisation previously made so its once again default install.   I doubt really there is much risk.   Doing the opposite and allowing access to your personal business would be not be good though

Its natural for there to be a pattern to price movement like the tide leaves a print in the sand, its not always clearly the same but its not as simple up down on news either.   Especially as much news is anticipated, its arguable future growth in bitcoin is already in the price now.   When you examine a chart especially forex do its in 4hr bars and you will match the influence from each part of the world better.

Im not sure how bitcoin is not fungible, doesn't that just require each part is interchangeable.  Bitcoin is a liquid system, able to retain its value even.  Its purpose or abilities is not different from the beginning ?


Price has again regularly stepped higher.  1240 to 55 is more resistance.  The chinese chart looks more accurate I think in that its sideways and from this it does not appear to be bitcoin will rise especially now, the late march high seems a reasonable point for it to rest.    Chinese yuan has done better as of late, which helps keep a lid on currency flows to alternates such as bitcoin.  $1100 I think is reasonable place for price to reset to on any falter or if leveraged speculation reduces

Is bitcoin accepted for taxes in Japan because thats the biggest thing backing national currency.   Thats a massive point in favour in bitcoin use if its somehow widely accepted, I think it'll take some time somehow.

On a side point, for global currency after dollars decline the system will be Special drawing rights which is money printed not by USA federal reserve but the global bank of IMF.   Here James Rickards discusses some reasons why - https://youtu.be/rsuGtjXS5tM?t=1659

Sorry to ask maybe on the wrong topic.  I just wanted any opinions of the forthcoming AMD hardware and its possibility to bring forward mining speeds.   
580 will come soon but maybe a much bigger move will be Vega in May onwards.

Is Deep Learning relevant to crypto mining or not likely to bring mining gains for the various blockchains?

http://instinct.radeon.com/en-us/the-potential-disruptiveness-of-amds-open-source-deep-learning-strategy/