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You can't be sure that whatever funds you receive from anyone are safe until rougly 180 days after you've received the funds, so make sure you're doing transactions with trusted members and sites whenever possible to ensure you're minimizing the risk of someone disputing a transaction.
I tend to do transactions from BTC to PP on this site. It's fast and easy, and rates are decent if you trade with the right people. I haven't really had significant uses yet trading on these forums, and I don't expect to find any in the future.
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The most odd part about all of this is that the XBTFreelancer Twitter account seems to still be tweeting about potential offers even while their entire platform is down. Seems like most things they tweet about are automated; If I were them, I'd consider at least stopping these tweets during the time the site is down, and providing updates to the situation. Doesn't seem like they're too dedicated to that at the moment to me.
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Yep, some ops do claim to own miners and some actually do, while others don't. By investing in a cloudmining contract, you're effectively offsetting the risk taken by the mining provider to you, from them buying miners and mining with them. Only the service provider actually gains from this in the end, and if you do manage to get your money out of one of these schemes, you're getting the short end of the stick.
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I, too, have only mainly seen P2SH addresses (3 prefix), and I don't recall ever seeing a native SegWit address on any gambling sites recently, nor really any ecommerce sites now that I think about it.
Fees for withdrawal may have dropped somewhat from what they were at the height of the spam attack, but I haven't noticed a significant decrease in withdrawal fees either. I don't have a problem with withdrawal on most sites though, and I started lowering the amount of withdrawals I made during the spam attacks to lower whatever fees were charged then. I still support SegWit even with fees where they are right now, though.
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This is why I tend to shy away from games like dice and roulette. Some people may try strategies to make things a bit more interesting, but they will never work due to house edge in play, and there's really nothing fun about the games themselves to me, which is also a big factor to why I enjoy eSports betting. I watch the matches, I learn new strategies from the streams from analyzing players, and this helps me with predicting winners.
Unless a game has technical flaws and isn't implemented correctly somehow, strategies such as martingale will never work.
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PayPal doesn't own eBay anymore but they still work together pretty tightly, though they're slowly cutting ties with each other.
I absolutely agree with 1Referee's statement about OpenBazaar not advertising themselves a whole lot- I only recently heard about them from this forum and one cryptocurrency subreddit I was browsing a few months back. Additionally, I honestly don't think Openbazaar is too difficult to navigate for a newbie. It's really just the small inconvenience of having to install software to view the marketplace that turns most people away.
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To be completely honest, it's really not even worth mining on most CPUs even if you do have a cheap or free electrical rate. You're just not making a whole lot on most CPU-based algorithms, even with high core-count chips like with Ryzen or older Opteron and Xeon processors, and I'd suggest saving for a GPU or ASIC for the future if you don't already have the money. You're making more by mining with a GPU, and a 470 (which can now be found around $120) will do the job just fine. If you're looking for the most easy way to mine and you don't care about fees or anything like that, Nicehash is a foolproof program you can run on any machine capable of mining that will get the job done. You just click a few clearly labeled buttons, and you're off. Nicehash may not be the greatest, but it does the job. |
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I like eBay, but you get charged a pretty hefty premium for buying ASICs most of the time compared to buying direct or from this forum, especially when the market's going upwards. That brings me to another point- in Computer Hardware, it's possible to buy all kinds of computer parts and ASICs. I've done lots of deals there, and you'll be safe as long as you use a trusted escrow while purchasing miners. I often find great deals for miners and parts there, and the only potential downside is that most sellers only accept BTC or alts as payment. From what i've noticed, and I shouldn't be saying this because this is what I'm planning on doing, you can get miners pretty cheap if you buy them in multiples. 1 miner on it's own might sell for £550 in an auction, ten miners together recently sold on there for only £4100 which is a massive discount on what it could be and 10 antminter S9s for £4100 which were seven months old in my mind is a bargain. You can afford for two miners to fail at that price. There looks to be other miners like the dragonmint which look promising (providing they actually work as advertised)... I don't have the money to invest in multiple miners at once, but from the few bulk listings I've seen on eBay, your observations seem correct. Only thing is I don't see a lot of bulk sales on eBay for miners in the US, but that may just be me not filtering through single-miner and spam listings enough. As for the Dragonmints (at least for the T1s), they seem reasonably reliable according to this thread, and MyRig's offering repair and servicing for them. I've used MyRig for repairs in the past, and they've always done their job quick, and I had around 99.7% uptime for the hosted S7 I had with them a while back that mined with Kano's pool. One downside with the T1s is that they only work on pools supporting Asicboost, such as Slushpool, Ckpool and Bitminter, so you're limited on the number of pools you can use. Other than that, they're a decent alternative to Bitmain miners. |
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I like eBay, but you get charged a pretty hefty premium for buying ASICs most of the time compared to buying direct or from this forum, especially when the market's going upwards. That brings me to another point- in Computer Hardware, it's possible to buy all kinds of computer parts and ASICs. I've done lots of deals there, and you'll be safe as long as you use a trusted escrow while purchasing miners. I often find great deals for miners and parts there, and the only potential downside is that most sellers only accept BTC or alts as payment. |
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I can only infer it's IPO related, really the only thing that comes to my mind. I don't want to send them my passport either (though it's a Chinese ID) as of yet, and I hate seeing KYC popping up everywhere in crypto. Here's the email that was sent to me in code, for better formatting and reading: Dear customer,
Thank you for choosing Bitmain!
Our official website https://www.bitmain.com/ will launch the Real-name Authentication on 24/08/2018 00:00 (UTC/GMT +8). Kindly complete the authentication as soon as possible, otherwise purchasing may be restricted/blocked.
1. Due to regulatory compliance requirements, some personal information including name, ID type, ID number, address information will be collected for the purposes of identity authentication. Kindly log in to our official website: https://www.bitmain.com/ -User Center for real-name authentication. The information collected is confidential and will not be disclosed by us to unauthorized third parties without your consent, except when required for the purposes of meeting government, legal or other regulatory requirements.
2. Customers are kindly reminded to provide accurate and truthful information for authentication and not to provide data which is false, or which belongs to third parties. Authentication information may not be modified after the authentication is confirmed.
3. The authentication process will be carried out immediately upon receipt of said personal information, and we will notify you of the authentication result by mail. Our purchase limit structure for the authentication is as follows:
Visit Tweet linked above for the chart. Difficult to format here.
During the transition period（Aug 24th— Sep 24th）, customers who registered our official website before Aug 24th can purchase up to 1 million RMB from our domestic website and up to 150,000 US dollars from our English website；After Sep 24th, the purchase authority will be consistent with the above table based on the authentication results.
4. Revocation of our authorization to collect your personal information is accepted. To do so, please email us at kyc@bitmain.com . Upon receipt of such revocation requests, we will no longer collect your information, and any personal information held by us will be deleted from our system in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Please do note that should the revocation be done, you will not be able to purchase any more through https://www.bitmain.com/. Should you wish to purchase from us again in the future, you will need to go through the authentication process again.
Thank you for your kind attention and please do not hesitate to contact us in case of any clarifications required.
Best regards
Bitmain |
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Most sites also hire cheap and shoddy writers just so they can get paid by whoever's sponsoring their articles with minimum effort. I often see this happening with half-assed articles that only show a part of the story (sometimes even on larger crypto news outlets!) and look like they took five minutes to research; it sucks, but almost all articles nowadays are crap and simply just well SEO optimized for clicks and views. It truly pays to do your own research with crypto, and this is also why I enjoy browsing this site and Reddit more to find news about crypto. You get real information most of the time here.
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Volatility could mean either profit and success, and nobody's going to simply give you instructions on what coins to invest in- that's where expertise and learning comes in. Sure, there is definitely luck in picking a coin, but if you do research and don't invest in shitcoins that are clearly poorly made or have little potential, you have a good chance to turn a profit.
Always remember to never invest more than you can afford to lose. You're not completely gambling here, but with the bear market we're currently in, it's easy to lose a portion of your money while trading in just a few hours.
I typically go for longer-term trading, as it's always been my strong point, and I try to stay away from short-term altcoin trading. However, if you're executing your strategies correctly, there is profit to be found.
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They absolutely do, and the bigger ones like Nitrogensports and Fortunejack likely make quite a bit, as these sites have started large signature campaigns costing them thousands of dollars per week in the past for advertising purposes, and they still advertise on many crypto sites, which would take a good amount of money to do.
High betting volume on bigger sites plus house edge means they're raking in the money.
As for starting a new site, it'll be extremely difficult as there's just so many sites out there that aren't terribly active or receiving lots of traffic. You'd need to stand out one way or another, such as in games or support speed/site layout for a site to be successful. It's not impossible, but it's just difficult nowadays. You'd also need financing for a decent bankroll to begin, and there's been lots of discussion regarding how big your bankroll should be for a starting casino (there's no definitive number).
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If you're using a reshipping service like UsGoBuy or Reship.com, etc, be prepared to go through identification if needed and you'll be fine. Reshippers usually do this for higher-value orders from bigger retailers to prevent reshipping fraud, and it can be a bit of a hassle if you're not prepared for it.
As for what's cheapest and works best, I have found MyUS and Shipito have been the best. Still costs a bit to ship to a few countries, but you'll generally still save over buying in your own country if you happen to have inflated prices.
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This is exactly what I do with gambling- I go out with a set amount of money and nothing else, so I can't possibly spend too much. I have good self-control besides that, and I've never gambled more than I could ever afford to lose. The subreddits Fatanut listed are good, and I've personally browsed the latter one ( r/getdisciplined), but if you're having a hard time reading the articles, there is an option to switch to old Reddit in the top right. Nobody I know likes the new interface as it's slightly more difficult to skim and read, and it's also slightly more demanding on your CPU than the old interface. |
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My rigs are now mostly comprised of FE GPUs, and for those I will take compressed air and blow the dust off of not only the fan, but I also take the cover off the GPU and blow out the fins inside. I do this every month or two, and my temps are great, even in a room that's not too well-ventilated in the summer. If you're buying compressed air cans, try ordering in larger amounts. If you're buying only a few cans at a time, you're paying a premium. It's more cost-effective long-term to just buy several at once. Some people also use electric dusters to remove dust, but I've never used one due to some people talking about damage to parts from such devices. Here's a listing on Amazon that seems to have decent reviews. |
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The weirdest part of this to me is that the website's called AIMiner, but this has nothing to do with mining at all- might just be a repurposed domain name. I've never heard of this trading bot, and I wouldn't suggest using it as a result. If you're trying to get a legitimate trading bot for automated trading, Gunbot is a decent option, but be aware that prices start from around 0.025 BTC for one exchange from an authorized dealer IIRC. If you go down this route, you'll also need to learn how to configure your license of Gunbot- more info in the thread linked above (click on Gunbot). |
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The site seems almost too simple to the point that players will start asking questions. There's no FAQ like veleten stated, and no provably fair mechanism on the site either, so players can't know if the game is legit or not. I'd suggest adding such mechanisms to the game and then relaunching it, as nobody wants to play on a game that isn't verifiably legit.
NAN of Undefined is likely just a site error. I also experienced this while staying on the page for a few minutes, but it should display __ of 25 spots remaining. I get 16 of 25 when refreshing the page.
I don't have Metamask installed, and I'm not getting any error message upon visiting the site and I also don't have an adblocker on.
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I definitely agree PoW isn't going anywhere in the near future, as PoS just isn't going to cut it for completely replacing PoW- it's got too many issues as of now, and I'm not saying there aren't better proof systems out there, but PoW is currently the best option.
Assuming you're using an S9, you have electrical costs of around $0.02/kWh- you're still better off than most people are with SHA256, and profitability dropping is just a part of mining. It's unfortunate that you're not making more with your SHA256 ASIC, but PoW's working just fine.
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Been looking for something like Purse for a while that didn't have as long of a wait for a tiny discount, what's the maximum amount that can be ordered? I may need your service for a few products, but it depends how much the total order amount can be.
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