The prices you noted on whattomine are about right with your electricity prices.

It is simple enough setting up mining with your gpu. If you just want to trial, you could go to Ethermine, follow the download miner steps and run it for a day.

Also highly recommended msi afterburner and drop your power use percent to 70 and your memory overclock by 500 plus. It will be more efficient and generate less heat.

There are plenty of mining resources but happy to answer any questions.

Don't do what Donny Don't Do Does by over quoting (case in point)

The best drug for big pharma isn't prevention or a cure. It is treatment. Especially an exclusive patented drug that provides ongoing 'treatment' for your condition and requires weekly/monthly top ups to improve your symptoms or increase your lifespan. Oh and it happens to be costly.

That is why all the research funding goes into treatments, rather than cures. What about vaccines and cures? Well Governments fund those or they don't get funded at all.

I could go on and on about this. Money in big pharma is also one of the reasons why relatively little funding is allocated to find new antibiotics. Anti-microbial resistance is a time bomb and I really hope we happen to find a new antibiotic within the next couple of decades even though most of the money goes elsewhere.

Big pharma pours money into the most profitable areas, not areas of greatest health need. A cure/treatment for male hairloss? Well that gets more funding than Malaria, which kills more than 400,000 people per year.

Outside of big pharma, the entire American healthcare system is broken. USA pays almost double per capita than other developed countries for healthcare, and doesn't get better outcomes (sometimes worse). In fact, based on life expectancy USA is actually worse than many countries - too much eating junk food and not going to the doctor early due to high upfront costs, so instead incurring greater costs down the track when serious conditions are left unchecked for too long.

And before people say 'oh well those OECD countries have higher taxes!' well the taxes they pay cover healthcare, which is half the price or better than the cost in the USA. If I had a choice between paying $1000 in taxes (which then goes to healthcare), or $2000 directly in healthcare for the same treatment, I know what I'd pick. Adding the middleman of the Government reduces healthcare expenditure by half.

Really, the American system is an example of how NOT to structure a healthcare funding model that puts the citizens needs first.

If you're worried about Google as a company recording your information, maybe try the Brave Browser (instead of Chrome). They are taking steps to ensure ads are blocked and your information is kept private.

If you use Chrome and Google is your main search engine, pretty sure Google will have an excellent picture of who you are as a person. If you care about that, then could be a good idea to switch Browsers, or invest in some other blocking tools like a few users have mentioned.

True I know a lot are moving more towards KYC as they are registered companies that need this information for regulatory purposes and so on.

The issue is if you're providing this information to some no name ICO, with no clear registration details, no team members listed etc.

I'd be more comfortable in being able to purchase tokens with no KYC, but only being able to use the tokens for whatever the service offer is if you've gone through the KYC process. Essentially the ICO has to turn into a business with a working product (and proper security) before you start giving them any personal information outside of a throwaway email address.

Good tip to use dog tags for your crypto seed to avoid fire or water damage.

Although getting it engraved would expose you as well to the person who engraves it for you. They could find out your public key, remember your 24 word seed that they engraved and bam you're in trouble.

Perhaps just a fire and water proof safe box with the seed written on paper would be enough in most circumstances. Keep it manual and simple but secure.

Do not give any identification documents to some random ICO to get a bounty. Identity theft is not worth the risk.

IF you really want to be involved in a project, find out more about them. For example, where are they registered? What was the team involved in before this project? What is the reason for needing KYC? They should have rock solid credentials and IT security to make me feel ok about sending any ID.

It isn't ideal, but an indirect way of stopping it is to leave not enough room on your hard drive for the update to come through (say less than a couple of gigs. Many mining rigs don't have much hard drive space).

It will try to update, then fail and ask you to uninstall/remove files to make enough space, and instead you just hit cancel and it gives up.

This is not recommended for security reasons but can be a short term fix - best bet is to update your claymore and drivers instead.

Also there are ways to just ask Windows to not update without asking your permission first as other people have said, so the above method is just in case that doesn't work for whatever weird Windows reason.

I still don't get what people are talking about with 'selling bounty token at a loss'. I mean, you got the tokens for nothing (just supporting a telegram or retweet) so anything above zero would be a gain.

Saying if you kept it the price would've been higher doesn't really count - it could also end up lower or being worth virtually nothing. I'm sure a lot of people lost out if they held from 2017 to late 2018.

I also noticed a similar issue on this forum, where people would provide a copy-paste link to a website (say a news site), but when you hover the mouse over the link, it is actually a hyperlink to a completely different website.

Always copy link and paste it to have a squiz at what it really is taking you to.

The price doesn't indicate that unfortunately! But I agree it is a great innovative project.

Just isn't enough pressure on the buy side of the equation, so thats why we're stuck with 100 bucks of volume a day, AND prices still fall. Have to come up with more buy incentives for users.

Your bro needs to become part of the hodl gang, or listen to you and buy low sell high.

Tell him to buy ETH and say it is super different from BTC to bring him round. Or you could buy for his bday some crypto, and tell him you'll keep it for him and sell once it hits the amount required to cover his losses. He might hate the present but whatever its all gain and no risk for him.

There are a few projects focusing on creating an ecosystem for accepting and providing crypto payment options with fiat on and off ramps.

Check out cryptocom's relatively new project (ticker CRO) that has nodes and methods for accepting payments for various crypto (ie. a merchant doesn't need to decide what crypto to accept or reject).

Essentially they are trying to make a replacement or new VISA type system with lower fees for merchants, which will encourage their uptake.

Cryptopia is living off the fact that it has been around for ages.

The actual exchange itself is ridiculous. Altcoin wallets I've traded with consistently have maintenance issues with cryptopia, while other exchanges are sorted within hours.

By new altcoins do you mean ICOs? Then yes, ICOs are definitely less prevalent and those that do come out often drop very soon after exchange listing.

Altcoins that are still going strong after 2017 are alot safer, but many still haven't really proven themselves or they don't have a working product.

Bitcoin isn't a bank. You can't call up a number or institution and say 'hey that guy didn't give me what I purchased so I want you to reimburse me and cancel his payment'. The onus is completely on you.

If you want something that has a reimburse centralized function, sell something through ebay instead (and deal with their 10 percent transaction fee).

If I were to use an analogy, think of it like sending an email. Once you click send and the other person receives your message, you can't 'undo' the email - it is there in their inbox and that's that.

I'm sorry you got scammed, but hopefully if you have more details of this person you can locate him yourself and try and get your money back directly.

Sprnova is easy enough to use. Plus you can mine first without needing to set up the wallet straight away.

Actually when Veil first launched they didn't have their wallet ready, so the approach of Sprnova to have an account that you can use and later withdrawal to a wallet ended up working out really well, as you could still start mining.

Eventually they wallet got sorted, and the hashpower distributed out a little bit - but most is still clinging to Sprnova probably out of habit.

Of Gambling, Forex Trading and Crypto - your best and lowest risk bet is probably crypto trading - despite what you might be told about its 'risks'.

Gambling? Most games have a slight house edge, and if you're betting on sports, politics etc - you might come out ahead only IF you have particularly nuanced understanding of what's going on.

Forex? I've looked into it as an option, and some estimates put retail investors at 96% chance of losing in the long term. Others put it more around the 75-80% which I think is more accurate.

Crypto? Well over the long term you'd definitely be ahead if you stuck with BTC from the early days. Even if you went alts, many are doing well. Even if you purchased at the peak in 2017, there is still scope for you to recover from your losses, as coin prices fluctuate drastically and there is potential for it to recover over the medium term (BTC has already jumped from $3k to over $5k USD this year). If you gambled or used forex, you'd have lost your bet or stop-loss out of your initial 'investment'.

So of everything, I think crypto trading is the way to go - but I'm biased and would say that as this is bitcointalk and a forex or gambling forum.

 

No problem, yea the app cuts out alot of the extra ads and trash that is associated with some crypto news websites.

No popups, weird banners or anything, just the actual text and pictures directly associated with the article. Also lets you click through to the source website if you prefer.

Anyone else know of any good crypto websites? Cointelegraph and Cointelligence are pretty good.

America, for now, gets away with printing money  as they are a Reserve currency. The world does business in USD and this partially ensures that their money printing  (cough quantitative easing) can continue. The currency is used by everyone. Obviously this has limits as people start using Euro and others but we haven't hit that floor on the house of cards yet.

Argentina though... well I've visited the country and it is an awesome place, but no one, except aregentina would use their currency to do business. They are putting themselves at risk of very high inflation and recession at this rate.