There's really nothing wrong with making a clone of Bustabit in my eyes if nothing is violated, like the GPL license if you're going with the open-source version. The OP is free to do what he wants, and most Bustabit clones I've seen are relatively successful; crash is actually one of the games I personally enjoy playing, and it's not nearly as common as other games like roulette or dice. Also couldn't hurt if OP plans on porting the game to another cryptocurrency if that's what he/she plans on doing.

I would strongly advise you avoid anything related to cloudmining. There's plenty of evidence that points to most cloudmining schemes being illegitimate, and there's also been events in the past where cloudmining sites have run off with their user's money, and in the case of this one, they're claiming that this is a lifetime contract- Genesis mining also tried to sell 'lifetime' contracts, and they forced users to upgrade to a new plan, or the users wouldn't get their payouts. An SSL license also shouldn't be something any site should be advertising at this moment in time; nearly all the sites I visit have SSL licenses, and they aren't terribly difficult to obtain if you're running a website.

If you start out with a weaker rig, you’ll be making less after breaking even, but at the same time, you’re risking more money by buying stronger GPUs. A lot of people are starting to let go of their rigs in bulk or selling GPUs at a good discount in bulk at the moment- I would consider looking on eBay or a similar site for GPUs and miscellaneous parts, or even Computer Hardware in this forum. Make sure you are using escrow if you’re proceeding with the latter option.

Currency Exchange in this subforum or a P2P selling site like LocalBitcoins are much better alternatives that I have used in the past.

Just make sure you're dealing with a reputable user if going through the LocalBitcoins route, and try to not fall for obvious scams. Account sales do happen on LocalBitcoins, and I suggest doing research on the account of whoever's selling you coins on that site. A common sign of a sold or compromised account is no activity in several months- this isn't to say that all accounts that have been inactive are compromised, but it's something I have observed.

It's a shame you guys don't plan on making any smaller form-factor miners, but I am glad Spondoolies is back in the mining game again! I remember the SP20 was one of my favorite SHA256 miners I ever owned, and the last one I have left after selling off most of my ASICs.

I can't wait to see the actual clip of this miner hashing, was going to ask about noise levels but this thing's definitely made to be in a datacenter environment considering the rack design. What server form factor is this miner, also?

It's taken a bit of time, and people are still missing earnings, but I too agree that it's certainly nice that Nicehash has gone through with their promise of returning all user funds. I personally don't use their service anymore, but this is a good change from crypto sites simply having funds stolen and never returning customer funds.

As for the matter of whether or not Nicehash will be able to return all stolen funds, I believe that it's very possible they can, through taking some of the fees on the platform and saving them towards reimbursing stolen funds. They're a big enough platform at the moment.

That's always good to hear, I hate when perfectly good threads that are a great resource to the community stop being updated all of a sudden. Thanks for keeping up with this thread.

The lack of details also worries me with the OP of that thread's problem, seems to me on a second inspection it might just be a problem that popped up out of the blue and was a one-time thing. I haven't seen anyone else report problems with the site yet though, it's a real shame to leave people on the fence on things like this.

I'll post here in the future if I notice any activity around these parts about mixers/tumblers, and if anything comes out of this case.

Skin deposits and withdrawals don't seem like a very viable option of transfer to me at the moment, with Valve making trades take so long and all. I have a pretty substantial amount of skins in my inventory, but I haven't cashed them out simply because it takes a week to trade items off, and it usually takes that long on a site like Bitskins for your item to sell, unless you're selling at a heavy discount.

WhiffCity servers in the US have a game mode called Executes (made by splewis) that I especially enjoy, as it helps me entry frag realistically and practice my aim and strats outside a scrimmage environment. I'd really like to see you add this game mode if possible, as this, retakes and FFA DM are really the only community servers I play, and it's easily my favorite out of the three.

I also agree with the statement about implementing 128 tick. I haven't played on a 64 tick server in years as the hit registration on those servers are bad, and movement and grenade trajectories are also altered at 64 tick. Plus, most competitive game servers (ESEA PUGs, etc) also run 128 tick, and it'd be a good advertising point on top of all that.

Read up on trading a bit online, then try to gain experience in trading through small amounts of money at first and/or utilizing demo trading accounts on exchanges that support it to figure it all out. If you just go straight in with all you can afford, you may as well be gambling. Trading takes time and experience to learn, and even then things can become tough. You won't learn how to trade in a day like some people have claimed to do, but you'll get there if you have persistence and the drive to actually learn how to trade.

You can only learn so much from reading, which is why I encourage everyone I know who is interested in trading cryptocurrency to start out with a small amount or trade on an exchange demo account. I know nobody who's ever been perfect at anything the first time, and if anything, you gain more knowledge making mistakes, but only if you end up correcting them.

I have to disagree with your statement about not activating 2FA, however. Most people I've observed have had a hard time with 2FA upon losing or changing phones, but 2FA has saved me many, many times from people hacking my accounts through bruteforcing the passwords. If you write down your recovery key for your 2FA account, it is a very good and viable way to further secure your trading accounts.

A system to verify if a roll or game was legitimate is a top priority for me, among others like support speed, site navigability, speed, and deposit times. I'm okay with registration and all, as I often clear my cookies and I don't remember or copy down those darn login URLs often.

Multiple coins available to be deposited is another one high up on my list of things to look for in an online casino. Should another spam attack happen, I don't want to be paying several dollars to get a transaction processed quickly. Things are much calmer now, but it's good to prepare for the future.

I hardly trust casino review sites anymore and I mostly just look at forum posts here instead. I know most reviews are paid for by the casinos themselves and are usually very positively biased; I no longer trust such review sites.

There's plenty of sellers in the Digital Goods section that sell AWS and DigitalOcean gift cards and vouchers for pretty cheap, and I've used both services before as a result. Both are great services if you're looking to go the route of a VPS, DigitalOcean doesn't allow mining on their VPSes and will ban/suspend accounts for doing so IIRC, but besides that I've never encountered an issue with either service.

How does this relate to mining at all? Stop spamming the forums.

I assume the process of mining locally is the same as solomining, meaning you will probably be able to mine through solomining instructions like the ones linked here (compability link = http://www.bitcoin-en.com/solo-mine-bitcoin.html). Again, I haven't mined solo in a long time nor mined my own crypto as I have never made one, but this should work.

Not sure if this thread's still being actively updated, but one tumbler/mixer that should be added to the avoid list is the Dream Market Tumbler. The reference thread's linked above, seems OP currently has an unresolved issue with the site and the site's refusing to give the OP back his $400 he tumbled. This isn't a terribly detailed report, but the site should be considered untrustworthy until something happens and the issue the OP in that thread with Dream Market's tumbler has been resolved.

Interesting project. I play CS at a semi-pro level and I would've checked these servers out, but all of the servers are seemingly located in Germany where I'd get 100+ ping (I'm in the US), and I am wary about depositing funds to a new site where my funds could possibly be stolen. Cheaters could also be an issue, as even in the ESEA and CEVO leagues there are cheaters that are still undetected as their cheat configs make things almost invisible to the human eye. Still, I've never seen anything like this before. Good luck with your site.

I still have a few alts I hold that I use for depositing and withdrawing for gambling, but the fees incurred through exchanging one coin to another just isn't worth it for me anymore, so I just transact straight from my BTC wallets for gambling at the moment. Should fees get higher again, I'll definitely consider alts again, but it's not necessary at the moment. I don't save anything using alts, and my money's completely in BTC already.

I just tried using Blockchain's Unconfirmed TXes application, and my phone seems to automatically add /BTC/tx/ after the Blockchain's domain. Not sure why that's happening to both your devices, but it's been working his way on both my desktop and mobile device, could be they just fixed it.

I absolutely agree with what's been said here. I wouldn't trust just any member here for such a service, and you're basically a new member offering such a service here. I doubt many people are going to sign up for this syndicate with you having such little forum rep, and I am personally very suspicious about this, especially when no escrow is offered here.

The age of a member absolutely does dictate how reputable that person is to me. I value someone who has been on this forum for a while and has a decent transaction and reputation history over someone like you who is claiming to provide documents to prove legitimacy. There's just too much scamming going around here.

I've used it in the past with simply minor issues, but that was about a year ago, and I had only made a few transactions on the site at the time. Many people here report coins being locked on the exchange, unwithdrawable, long maintenance, and things sometimes simply fail to work on the exchange. Besides that, the site's not the greatest looking IMO (they haven't changed one bit since I found out about them in late 2014) and there's really no reason to use the exchange when it's this unreliable. I chose to take all funds out of the site a while back because I didn't want to deal with the potential issues that could've come if I didn't, and I've been trading on Binance since then. Never had any problems there yet.

Bitify is decent, but there's just so many sellers on there nowadays (especially for digital products) that it'll be a bit difficult to sell your products at the beginning. It's a decent marketplace for both the seller and buyer overall, and I've also used it for over 20 transactions on different accounts.

I have also found that Rocketr is popular on various other communities online for selling products. It's a lesser-used alternative to Selly.GG, and it's just as good for processing crypto transactions and the like. Also very user-friendly. They also accept payment via PayPal if you wish to take that as payment, and for the most part accepting payment via PayPal is safe as PayPal doesn't offer buyer protection for digital items AFAIK. I did research on this a few days back, and I haven't seen anyone report get burned accepting PayPal on Rocketr.