Absolutely agree with the looks, and there's hardly any distinction between the text that indicates the text can be clicked. I would suggest adding a box around clickable text to make the site easier to navigate.

 Translations from Chinese to English are decent on the site, but I wouldn't gamble on a site that looks like it took five minutes to make either. Seems like an interesting game to me, but the website just looks way too cheaply made.

Nope. You won't be making much mining on a laptop as most laptops, even gaming laptops, aren't built to dissipate the 24/7 heat that comes as a result of mining, and component failures can come as a consequence of that. Keep using your laptop for work, gaming or browsing the web, and keep away from mining on them. Some laptops can dissipate heat whilst they run full steam ahead, but it's still a waste of your time, and you're better off not mining on a laptop.

If you want to mine, save money and buy an ASIC, FPGA or GPU, and build a true mining rig. There's risk involved, but it's still less than the risk of breaking a perfectly good laptop for a few dollars or less of mining revenue.

Absolutely, and buying Pascal or even Polaris is a better deal for gaming than these Turing cards right now with the prices that last-gen cards are going for right now. I've seen lots of 1080Tis go used for under $600 and even $550 on eBay, like from this listing. 1070s can be found used for near or under $250, and the ti variants for a bit more.

Communities for online casinos are important for me, but not as much as the actual gambling experience itself and other things like support speed, etc- communities come second for me.

Some gambling communities are actually pretty interesting, and I enjoy reading and talking on them. For example, Fortunejack has a discord channel where you can talk about more than just gambling, but investments in altcoins, mining, trading, and even memes. I like going to such places in my free time, just like how I browse Reddit and this forum.

I've experienced a more specific version of this on online CS:GO skin gambling sites, where some sites used to seemingly guarantee a coinflip win if it was your first bet on their site (people began exploiting this and many sites changed this), but I've got no idea about cryptocurrency-based casinos. I'd assume nothing like this exists on most casinos, but there's really no practical way to test if this is true.

I'm pretty deep into eSports betting, and the first few times that I started gambling on CS:GO matches, I was up a few hundred dollars from a starting amount of just $100. I cashed that out immediately and started again with a similar amount and lost all of it eventually, but that's about the extent of my beginner's luck. I'm still positive in bets to this day.

That's unfortunate, but I have to say I've also posted there in the past and I also mostly stopped because moderation started getting a bit excessive from frodocooper. I suppose it's slightly better than when there was little moderation previously, but most people who browse there also read this subforum too. Don't want to get too deep into Meta discussion here though.

I have to say I really like your way of reviewing miners, much better than the simple pictures-and-words guides that were common on this forum in the past. I'll definitely be watching more of your videos in the future.

Yep, the way the interface works through the web reminds me of the 'ol Spondoolies web miner interface from a while back- hopefully there's a way to login to the miner locally, or the page can be downloaded/something of the sort in case Asicminer's site ever goes down or the company goes down. The liquid cooling seems like a bit of a hassle to buy initially if you don't already have liquid or distilled water on hand, but nice to see that it works well, and ASICminer actually has working miners.

Have you considered posting this in the Bitcoin Hardware section, considering this thing's also capable of BTC mining? I'm sure the folks over there also have some things to say about this thing, considering the last time I've been there people were extremely skeptical about ASICminer as a whole.

We don't even know the exact mining performance of these cards yet, and I'm willing to bet that it's more cost-effective to pick up cheaper Pascal and Polaris cards for mining over these. I can't see many people mining with these even at retail pricing when Pascal is still available for cheap at the moment anyways. They may very well just keep the warranty similar to what it was for Pascal.

Blockchain shouldn't be considered for use beyond a hot wallet for daily purchases, and even then I would suggest against holding more than you can afford to lose on there. Earlier this year, my Blockchain wallet was cracked by hackers and all funds were drained, though I only used the wallet as a hot wallet and I transferred all my funds to a Ledger a few months prior, and my password wasn't the longest. Even if you have an extremely long password that you don't use on any other website, and you're browsing the site from a secure computer, do not use it as even medium-term storage. Even though it's not the most secure medium of storage, it's still okay if you're trying to scan QR codes from a monitor or a location on-the-go to use funds.

Electrum's fine to use as long as you take the right precautions to ensure security, such as using an airgapped, fresh computer.

Also, always remember to save your generated seed or private key securely, so you don't have one point of failure in case you lose your main storage device. I have heard of people using bank safe deposit boxes and home safes to save a backup, and this is absolutely a precaution you should take if you're storing a significant amount of funds. You are your own bank after all-never cut corners. It's always best to be too prepared than too little.

Absolutely agree with this. At current rates, assuming this mining calculator is correct, current mining revenue daily per TH is around $0.25, and maintenance fees are $0.14 daily, so that makes current (8/20/18) revenue ~$0.11. A stagnation in price or difficulty going up without BTC prices going up will be catastrophic for this new plan, considering current yearly revenue per TH is just $40.15 after electrical costs, and the upgrade is $180, and that's at current difficulty and costs (difficulty will almost certainly rise).

There's just so much risk involved here with difficulty and if the bear market holds that upgrading is just throwing money away/gambling at this point.

That's bullshit, and if anything, payout rates could fall under maintenance costs again in the future, making the contracts once again worthless. If you're already invested in the site, I would say just leave at this point- not worth continuing to pay for hashrate and then potentially not making the money back on that. I'm definitely bookmarking this page, as this serves as a great example as to why you should never, under no circumstances, invest in cloudmining.

Crypto prices are like predicting lottery numbers- nobody really knows what it's going to be until it happens.

Positive and negative news about the BTC ETF seems to be affecting prices quite a bit, though, and any information on that at all will likely cause prices to go either up or down; seems like that's the main thing most people are watching right now. I could see prices potentially dropping near $5300-5500 if negative information about the ETF surfaces, but as many have already stated, there's plenty of support from buyers at the $6000 range we're near right now.

It's easy to execute, and I also personally do this. Just be ready to hold coins for some time, or, if you have weak hands, sell at a loss if things don't go as expected and prices go down- people have been trying to buy low and sell high for months, and many have been burned in the process as prices have been sliding down towards $6k in the last few months.

As for a potential exchange to easily transfer coins, Binance is a decent option if you're not going over 2BTC in daily volume- you won't have to verify yourself if you're under that threshold. Some people have reported having to verify randomly, though, so be ready for verification if needed.

I agree with your statement. From what I have read in the Bitclub thread linked here in February, one user's gotten a 9.6% return rate in seven months, and that's likely subject to change with difficulty adjustments- certainly not good if you ever want to see all of your money again without having to lure more people into this scam. The entire thing's really just a crypto MLM. Just more proof that cloudmining's a terrible idea...

Yep, most BTMs don't require any form of verification, such as an ID, for smaller transactions (there's a BTM near me selling up to $1500 w/o verification), but some state 'SMS' on
coinatmradar, so bring a phone with you that is capable of receiving texts if you do choose to go to a BTM. I've never gone to one due to the fees on most BTMs (10-15% near me), but it is a viable option if you're not willing to verify and you're not 18.

LBC's always a good option, like OP mentioned, but make sure you're transacting in a 'safe zone'- some cities' police departments have set up such zones, or try to transact in a public area/store. There's always a chance you're going to be robbed when dealing IRL, so make sure if you choose to do so you're as safe as possible. Craigslist 'safe transacting' guides work well for LBC.

If anything ever sounds too good to be true, it most likely is, and this applies to Bitclub network. The thread linked by jhenfelipe basically summarizes the entire thing, and cloudmining as a whole is terrible idea. Consider other more legitimate options to make money, such as investing in physical hardware and mining, or even trading. There's no way anyone can make sure a cloudmining company's legit, and the operators run away with the funds all the time.

It's likely because they actually use funds deposited to their site to invest in miners, but don't return significant amounts of earnings to their customers. Just because a cloudmining company claims to own hashrate doesn't mean they're legitimate.

OP stated that he got limited online and that doesn't happen with local betting and that online bookies don't have the same offers. I agree with the splitting and betting through multiple sites statement, but I personally think this is much more inconvenient than just using multiple sites.

Very few legitimate people on these forums will help with services like this, especially with something this specific, but good luck and filter through obvious scammers.

Hello Bitcointalk! Today, I'm selling a 32GB kit of Corsair LPX DDR4, two 16GB sticks at 2666MHz, CL16 (16-18-18-35) timing, sealed box. Exact model number: CMK32GX4M2A2666C16, every review I've seen for this model says it's great for OC to 3000-3200MHz.

Reason why I'm selling this is because I decided to stick to my DDR3 system in the end, and I realized I had no need for 32GB of DDR4, even if I were to use a DDR4 system. Considered selling via eBay for the first time in years, but then I realized I was probably going to get screwed out of my money that way- plus, I'd rather have BTC!

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Final price is $275 in BTC, I will only ship to locations in the USA. Please send me your ZIP code for an estimation of shipping costs. I only take payments in Bitcoin. Escrow can be used, but you, the buyer, will pay for the fees. I will send you tracking as soon as I can send the package out.

Binance doesn't require KYC under volumes of under 2BTC/day or something similar IIRC, but I've also heard of people randomly being requested to do KYC on the site even though they were never near whatever threshold was set for KYC. I've never had an issue with them, but make sure you enable all methods of security, like 2FA, when making your account.

I'm not sure about other exchanges nowadays as I primarily use just Binance and Decentralized Exchanges (DEXes) for trading nowadays, but most major exchanges require KYC upfront before you can even start depositing funds or trading IIRC.

Browser miners tend to be inefficient compared to dedicated mining software and generally not worth the effort you put in setting one up. You'll be earning pennies a month after electrical costs, and that's if you happen to be using a modern processor, and it isn't power hungry.

I'm not completely sure about browser miners, but most CPU miners allow you to adjust the number of threads/cores you use while mining, so it may be possible to mine on a select number of threads so you aren't left with an unusable PC. Still isn't really worth it in the end IMO, as you won't be making a lot mining through your browser, even if the coin you're mining jumps in price.

If you're truly interested in mining, I suggest saving money for a basic GPU rig or ASIC, and then buying one and setting it up. It'll be more worthwhile than browser mining, but if you go with this route, recognize the risk you are taking by buying mining rigs. There's no guarantee you'll make a profit, let alone break even.