Maybe we could increase volume by increasing awareness of MonetaryUnit to those people from inside and outside the crypto world. If we could come up with a way to make MUE more attractive (by offering a small reward by joining) And then we would need solid advertising on TV, on Facebook, etc. You get the picture, right? 

Nice site mate. Now I would be able to get in the know of how to use my Raspberry Pi 2 as an XMG miner. I've always wanted to overclock it and I could finally do so with your very informative site. 

I sure did as I bought Expanse very dirt cheap at $0.007120 per EXP. Now it is worth $0.009309 but I still would like it to go up to $0.42 per EXP as it was before to recoup my losses (from previous EXP investments) 

Great advice. Thanks for sharing your recommendations, mate. I guess I would just cashout some of my BTC for fiat, and the rest would be stored on a paper wallet as reserve for the future. Probably Bitcoin's value would rise tenfold and thus it would be greater earnings for me. Still, I would like to see a service (more like a wallet) where I could store my BTC and then it locks up their value for protection against devaluation. 

Thanks for sharing this guide. I guess I needed a better understanding of cloud mining shares before investing into it. Didn't checked the official site where this was explained. I'll take a look at this guide to start investing.

By the way, how long (estimated) would it take for me to reach ROI? Let's say I start with $20...would it take months or years for ROI? Sorry for asking, I'm just getting to understand how this works. 

What would the best way to protect my Bitcoin investments against its devaluation or when its market price goes down? I thought about exchanging my BTC to Nubits, but they are not always pegged 100% to the value of fiat. Then there is BITUSD, and Tether but I'm not sure if it would be the safest way to do this. Even if Bitcoin's price goes to the moon, at least I would protect them in case their value goes down. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Do you think Smartchain based crypto currencies such as Stellar, Ripple, Bitshares or Ethereum worth the investment? Each one of them have promising technologies and maybe get the opportunity of replacing Bitcoin.

Here is what I think of them:

Ripple - Is centralized, but it is currently # 2 in marketcap and due to its centralization it might bring the attention of banks and/or governments to adopt it as their currency.

Stellar - Looks much like Ripple, so I don't see any real difference other than they claim that they are decentralized and have a better upgraded network than that of Ripple. They changed their currency name from Stellar to Lumen.

Bitshares - Provides a decentralized payment system with Delegated Proof of Stake, the ability to invest in assets pegged to their fiat value, and better TPS (as they claim to be)

Ethereum - Similar to Bitshares with the ability to create Smartchain contracts and execute them with gas or Ether. It is basically a decentralized application platform.

Any thoughts or recommendations on which I should invest into? The way I see it, I think that Ethereum would survive, but I'm not pretty sure. What do you think? 

It's been a long time since I left my paper wallet filled with Diamonds and never had the chance to return back to it. After some time, I remembered that I had bought a huge amount of DMD, and thus I'm going to place them on my QT wallet to start staking them. Also, I would gladly invest into DMD Cloud mining and would do so as soon as I receive my BTC from miner earnings. One thing that I always admired of Diamonds is that they are scarce/rare and this would definitely make an effect in price increase as the less supply, the more demand. 

Those are some nice results from mining with a Raspberry Pi 2. I also have one, but I'm not very familiar with overclocking it (as I don't know how to do so on the Pi). Even still, that is a very decent hashrate and sometimes I wonder how XMG mining would be when we merge different RPis as a single system (parallel computing). If this could be achieved on multiple RPis, then it would be a totally awesome XMG mining machine!  

That is a pretty great site. I never thought I could buy luxury stuff, and even a house with Bitcoin. This is really great, just wish I had a lot of money to buy a really cool car. 

That is great, mate! Guess you are not the only one waiting for cheaper Expanse after all. As soon as it becomes much cheaper, I would buy a millionth or maybe a billionth EXP to help support the project. I have the sense that something big is coming for EXP before the end of 2015. All there is to do is just to be patient. 

I have tried staking my Coin Magi with their wallet, and so far everything works great. There are no issues whatsoever. The addition of Hyper to their wallet would be an excellent idea as this would also serve as a cloud staking wallet for it without the need to wait for Hyper Core wallet to sync on your PC. 

Thanks a lot for the payment! I really appreciate it. Received my BTC quickly and easily. 

Thanks for your helpful advice. If wouldn't have checked this post out, I would have fallen for the same scam too. I was about to spend some of my BTC on one of the listed sites there but to be on the safe side, I guess I will just hold them for some time. 

And always make your own research before investing into anything. Ask yourself: Do I need this? Is it really worth to invest? When investing, always keep this in mind: Never invest what you can't afford to lose. For starters, I'd recommend investing in Bitcoin or Gold as it is a safe investment. 

Yes. Mining is not good these days, it was better off at the beginning when there were not too many people into this and the difficulty was very low. Now the only ones that could make profit are those big miners that have mining farms. For an average Joe it is very difficult to profit, especially when the halving comes. 

Exactly. Bitcoin is just going through a lot of issues right now (block size, TPS, etc) and I think that it still needs to be perfected in order to really replace the Dollar. Still, anything is possible and if Bitcoin ever reaches mainstream use, I'm pretty sure it might replace it. Soon fiat currencies would become obsolete and the new generation of money would be crypto currencies. Just my opinion. 

That is totally correct mate! We can see Bitcoin's price go up everyday faster than you can think of! And maybe this is because the halving date is near and thus Bitcoin is increasing in price and demand. Today has been a good day with BTC being worth at $360 per coin. I have increased my earnings faster than I would have done with my bank account 

Glad you are back Joe and ready to push Magi forward to new heights. It is nice to see new stuff happen in the Magi community. It is always active and very friendly. A Coin Magi wallet for the Raspberry Pi would be something great to have. Happy Thanksgiving by the way! 

Thanks for your advice, mate! After a bit of research made in Google, I have finally found the solution. It turns out that the wallet was mining in the background after all. I had to go to the appdata directory (in Windows) and inside the Virtacoin folder, you will find the virtacoin.conf file. Edit it with a text editor and where it says gen=1, replace it with gen=0. Then open the VTA wallet, and there you go. Now it takes only 2% of CPU usage.