This week we seemed to have gone from 3900 to 8600. So who are the fools who keep selling coins at these prices?
Yup keep buying them still dirt cheap  By the looks of it, maybe CasinoCoin would get to be worth more than 1 USD in the future. So now it is the perfect time to dig in and buy a bunch of them for Xmas! I would probably have over 10 thousand CSC by that time. |
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You want to look at two motherboards and probably those two only: ASRock H61 Pro BTC and ASRock H81 Pro BTC. The main difference between them is the CPU socket. These motherboards can easily handle 6 cards but you'll need PCI-E risers. I'd highly recommend only using powered USB risers and avoiding ribbon risers at all costs. If you want a motherboard in which you can put cards without risers you're going to have to reach deep into your pocket and even then you'll probably run into thermal throttling with some beefier cards if they are that close together. Feel free to ask anything about mining here on in pm. Thank you mate! You helped me choose a decent motherboard to use for GPU mining. There is a little concern that I have and that is once everything is set up, how do I configure the mining process. In this case, how could I configure CGminer to use all 6 GPUs for example?  Both windows and linux should recognize the cards without any issues. Though I'm not familiar with cg/sgminer it's probably just a command line argument. But you may want to look into the documentation of the miner because there will be tons of settings you'll have to get familiar with. Thanks for your reply. I will just take a look at the available commands to get started in this business. It is a very exciting world out there for a miner (at least I think) It is exciting and a great hobby but it's not very profitable anymore. ROI is well over a year for most miners with average electricity costs. Could it be profitable if I don't need to pay for electricity costs? Let's say I use solar and wind power for all my miners...will it still be profitable? Anyways, I don't mind since I will only do it for fun. It can be profitable with average electricity but with free electricity it's much more profitable. Let's say a 6 card rig with modern GPUs use 1000W. With $0.13 kWh you're going to pay $3.12 a day or $93.6 a month. The cards together would make very roughly about $5-8 a day before electricity. So yeah, electricity matters a lot. These are just wide estimations, maybe someone with AMD cards could chip in. Thanks for sharing your thoughts about the electricity costs. For now, I don't have to pay for electricity because I am living with my parents. Until then, I will figure out a way to pay for less electricity in the future.  |
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You want to look at two motherboards and probably those two only: ASRock H61 Pro BTC and ASRock H81 Pro BTC. The main difference between them is the CPU socket. These motherboards can easily handle 6 cards but you'll need PCI-E risers. I'd highly recommend only using powered USB risers and avoiding ribbon risers at all costs. If you want a motherboard in which you can put cards without risers you're going to have to reach deep into your pocket and even then you'll probably run into thermal throttling with some beefier cards if they are that close together. Feel free to ask anything about mining here on in pm. Thank you mate! You helped me choose a decent motherboard to use for GPU mining. There is a little concern that I have and that is once everything is set up, how do I configure the mining process. In this case, how could I configure CGminer to use all 6 GPUs for example? Both windows and linux should recognize the cards without any issues. Though I'm not familiar with cg/sgminer it's probably just a command line argument. But you may want to look into the documentation of the miner because there will be tons of settings you'll have to get familiar with. Thanks for your reply. I will just take a look at the available commands to get started in this business. It is a very exciting world out there for a miner (at least I think) It is exciting and a great hobby but it's not very profitable anymore. ROI is well over a year for most miners with average electricity costs. Could it be profitable if I don't need to pay for electricity costs? Let's say I use solar and wind power for all my miners...will it still be profitable? Anyways, I don't mind since I will only do it for fun. |
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Already been done, I remember a picture with an arcade machine running what probably was mame, and you were able to pay and play games on it, it had the street fighter cabinet, I will try to find the picture. Edit: Anyway couldn't find that one but I have found this:  This is great and all, but wouldn't you have to wait a long time to start playing the games. This is where fiat or a credit card becomes very handy. Bitcoin just can't do all the things that fiat can and vise versa, thats why we need both in the world. Well, if Bitcoin cannot be used due to its slow confirmation times, what about faster ones like Litecoin, Dogecoin or even Ethereum. It will be really interesting to see such payments done on an arcade machine. I am just eager to play one like that or own one. |
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Great, thanks for the information! The staking reward looks great and I will follow your advice regarding doing so with my Raspberry Pis. Is there any way I could keep up to date with current stake reward? How do I see that on the wallet? Also, a good idea would be to avoid staking your coins in just one block. If, for example, you want to stake 30 million coins, it would be better to move them into your wallet with 10 transactions of 3 million each, to increase chances of staking. A single 30 million coins transaction would enable you to stake once and then wait for confirmation till you are eligible to stake again. I didn't knew that. Thanks for the information mate! I guess I need to familiarize myself with PoS coins, as I mostly mine PoW ones. I will try this at home and see the results. |
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My payment was received quickly and successfully. Thanks a bunch!  |
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I know how disappointing it is for having to wait around 15 to 30 minutes for a Bitcoin transaction to get confirmed by the network. But I think faster transactions could be achieved if devs decide to improve the code. Just look at Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Ethereum. They have faster confirmation times and some good features. I have no doubt that Bitcoin will be improved in the near future and it will remain as the top crypto currency. What do you think about it? im not sure your understanding how crypto currencies work, to change the confirmation time of Bitcoin would be to change Bitcoin, which would probably destroy it at this stage. there are a set amount of Bitcoins to be created on a set time scale, with each confirmation. Every 10mins 25 BTC and after (roughly) July 2016 every 10 mins 12.5 BTC and so on halving every 4 years. Can you see how lowering the confirmation time would be detrimental? it would need to either create more Bitcoin or some confirmations would not create any bitcoin which miners need at this stage to reward them...... litecoin, dogecoin and ethereum are all set up with vastly greater amounts to be created. For example litecoin confirms i think 4 times faster but also is set to produce 4 times more coins. dogecoin and ether dont have any limet on the coins created as far as i am aware, all tho i do stand to be corrected on this one. 21,000,000 BTC is all that is ever going to be created, this is what makes each bitcoin valuable and scarce. i find it really strange that someone who is a full member on bitcointalk dosnt understand this  confirmation times on bitcoin will never be changed I understand what you mean. Even though I am a full member, I still have a lot to learn about Bitcoin (technical stuff) before deciding to make something useful (like a Bitcoin application) It is still great to see members of the community helping each other in the time of need. I need to do a lot of research regarding technical stuff of crypto currencies. |
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I know how disappointing it is for having to wait around 15 to 30 minutes for a Bitcoin transaction to get confirmed by the network. But I think faster transactions could be achieved if devs decide to improve the code. Just look at Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Ethereum. They have faster confirmation times and some good features. I have no doubt that Bitcoin will be improved in the near future and it will remain as the top crypto currency. What do you think about it? |
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This is a very interesting computer, although it looks like a Raspberry Pi. It is somewhat similar to the 21 Bitcoin Computer but with Ethereum. I wonder how much it would cost?  |
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You want to look at two motherboards and probably those two only: ASRock H61 Pro BTC and ASRock H81 Pro BTC. The main difference between them is the CPU socket. These motherboards can easily handle 6 cards but you'll need PCI-E risers. I'd highly recommend only using powered USB risers and avoiding ribbon risers at all costs. If you want a motherboard in which you can put cards without risers you're going to have to reach deep into your pocket and even then you'll probably run into thermal throttling with some beefier cards if they are that close together. Feel free to ask anything about mining here on in pm. Thank you mate! You helped me choose a decent motherboard to use for GPU mining. There is a little concern that I have and that is once everything is set up, how do I configure the mining process. In this case, how could I configure CGminer to use all 6 GPUs for example? Both windows and linux should recognize the cards without any issues. Though I'm not familiar with cg/sgminer it's probably just a command line argument. But you may want to look into the documentation of the miner because there will be tons of settings you'll have to get familiar with. Thanks for your reply. I will just take a look at the available commands to get started in this business. It is a very exciting world out there for a miner (at least I think) |
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Well we are still here and coin is alive Now Expanse has gone way lot cheaper than before. Time to dig in and grab some more EXP as I have the feeling that the price would explode someday into the future... |
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You want to look at two motherboards and probably those two only: ASRock H61 Pro BTC and ASRock H81 Pro BTC. The main difference between them is the CPU socket. These motherboards can easily handle 6 cards but you'll need PCI-E risers. I'd highly recommend only using powered USB risers and avoiding ribbon risers at all costs. If you want a motherboard in which you can put cards without risers you're going to have to reach deep into your pocket and even then you'll probably run into thermal throttling with some beefier cards if they are that close together. Feel free to ask anything about mining here on in pm. Thank you mate! You helped me choose a decent motherboard to use for GPU mining. There is a little concern that I have and that is once everything is set up, how do I configure the mining process. In this case, how could I configure CGminer to use all 6 GPUs for example? |
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That is really cool. Could you or somebody else help me set up a full CasinoCoin node? I want to contribute to the network with both mining and use my PC as a full node. Any help please? What system, linux or windows? Do you want to build from source or use the binary? Right now I am using Windows 10 but sometimes I use Lubuntu. I would just use the binary now that I don't know much about building from source. I just uploaded the windows daemon casinocoind.exe to github as well. - create a data directory, ... eg: c:\csc-datadir - create a casinocoin.conf in the datadir with content server=1 rpcuser=casinocoinrpc rpcpassword=[random password] - start the daemon from the command line with: casinocoind.exe -daemon -datadir=c:\temp\csc-test-datadir The daemon should start and save all block and wallet data in the c:\csc-datadir if you want to access the daemon use the command from a new command shell: casinocoind.exe -datadir=c:\temp\csc-test-datadir [command] for example: casinocoind.exe -datadir=c:\temp\csc-test-datadir getinfo If you start with datadir you must always add it when sending commands to the daemon as well. Running it as windows service i have no experience with so you have to look for that your self. I did upload an Upstart script for ubuntu to the contrib folder on GitHub a while ago. Good luck! Hey thanks for sharing this information. I will surely try this at home on the weekeend. With everything set up properly, I could start contributing to the CSC network right away! If everything goes well, I will share my experiences here. By the way, how do I know the IP address of the node to share it with other users? Is it the same public ip address from my PC? Thanks |
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This might sound crazy but do you ever imagined yourself playing with an arcade cabinet, with the ability to pay with Bitcoins instead of a quarter? (0.25 usd) I have been looking for such machine that would serve that purpose, but I can't seem to find it. It will be real fun to play some of the arcade classics with your BTC. Don't you think? Im pretty sure i saw an arcade machine that accepts btc. I cant remember if it was homemade or in a shop. I will try and dig it out if i can. I imagine, the best way to implement an arcade that accepts bitcoin, is to use bespoke tokens which you can put into the machines, but must be bought prior. This is how the asian arcades work. Bitcoin can then be used to buy these tokens. Heres an article on one. Its not the one i saw before but you get the idea. http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/bitcoin-operated-arcade-machine-is-a-game-changer/Now that is what I am talking about. Everything that the articles says makes me want to buy one of these. The only thing is that I can't see it for sale. It only says what it does...  |
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This might sound crazy but do you ever imagined yourself playing with an arcade cabinet, with the ability to pay with Bitcoins instead of a quarter? (0.25 usd) I have been looking for such machine that would serve that purpose, but I can't seem to find it. It will be real fun to play some of the arcade classics with your BTC. Don't you think? Bitcoin isn't the most suited for this use case because of the long confirmation times. Can you imagine adding a credit and waiting minutes just to start your game. And what about faster confirmation coins like Litecoin? Are they worth the shot? I would surely become addicted to an arcade machine with such capabilities to pay with crypto. |
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I'm looking for an affordable motherboard for GPU mining that would have at least the requirements to be compatible with the latest GPUs. I think it is based on the PCI-E 2 or PCI-E connections, am I right? Sorry, but not sure how to set up the GPUs on the motherboard. I have been looking into ASRock motherboards (since they are cheaper) but I'm not sure if they are recommended for this tasks. I would like to know your thoughts about this matter. Thanks. |
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This might sound crazy but do you ever imagined yourself playing with an arcade cabinet, with the ability to pay with Bitcoins instead of a quarter? (0.25 usd) I have been looking for such machine that would serve that purpose, but I can't seem to find it. It will be real fun to play some of the arcade classics with your BTC. Don't you think? |
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That is really cool. Could you or somebody else help me set up a full CasinoCoin node? I want to contribute to the network with both mining and use my PC as a full node. Any help please? What system, linux or windows? Do you want to build from source or use the binary? Right now I am using Windows 10 but sometimes I use Lubuntu. I would just use the binary now that I don't know much about building from source. |
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That is really cool. Could you or somebody else help me set up a full CasinoCoin node? I want to contribute to the network with both mining and use my PC as a full node. Any help please? |
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If I have for example 10mil Litedoge, will I receive after 10 hours the staked coins?
This depends on many factors, like current network weight, current difficulty, your internet connection, the machine you are using to stake them etc. 10 million LDOGE is a relatively small amount to stake right now. I believe you will receive at least one stake within 24h but can't be sure exactly how much. I have a friend staking 20 million coins right now and receives 3 to 6 stake rewards per day. I will start buying 30 million LiteDoge, but I need to know an estimate on how long I would get ROI. Let's suppose I run 4 Raspberry Pis, and each would have a balance to stake 7,500,000 LDOGE running 24/7. Would I get to see ROI fast, or would it take longer? Fast and longer are relative terms. Also no one can guarantee ROI in a certain timeframe on any crypto. The market conditions can change quickly impacting ROI positively or negatively. To answer your question about staking 30,000,000 on 4 different Raspberry Pi SBCs, I would expect maybe 1 stake a day or fewer on each of them with an initial balance of 7.5M. It would be better to keep them together in one wallet at 30,000,000 to increase staking chances. With that amount you would stake several times a day, with my best current estimate being somewhere between 3-10 times a day but probably closer to 3 than 10 on most days. At the current staking reward of 20,000 that would be anywhere from 60,000 to 200,000 LDOGE received a day from staking. Great, thanks for the information! The staking reward looks great and I will follow your advice regarding doing so with my Raspberry Pis. Is there any way I could keep up to date with current stake reward? How do I see that on the wallet? |
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