Short-term gains can be achieved but they're only in the short term as house edge is always in play (which I assume everyone gambling knows well), and you're getting less than one dollar back per dollar spent on a casino in the long term. I mostly just rely on luck, as I've tried various strategies in the past and none of them have succeeded much. I do bet occasionally, and I'm slightly profitable in betting on eSports matches (specifically CS:GO), but besides that I mostly play games like dice or roulette, etc.

From reading on this thread, it seems like they do request KYC eventually once you reach a certain transaction volume on their account, if you're okay with that.

Remitano's Bitcointalk account seems to be negged by a DT member for an attempted account sale, and on top of that there's also negative trust reports of the site running away with money. Also seems like there's unresolved complaints about locked accounts and bad support on their announcement thread, which makes me a bit skeptical about the site. I personally wouldn't use it if there's issues of this caliber present.

Reships/package forwarders are always an option if sites don't ship to you. It'll cost you a bit of money for shipping, of course. You should also be ready to provide documentation in the form of a drivers license or an ID card if you choose to go with this route, as reshippers are currently trying to crack down on reshipping fraud, and GPUs are rather valuable items.

Many reship services don't go to Iran, but I did find that Reship.com delivers to Iran. I know from experience that they're not the cheapest service while I lived outside the US, but looking around should yield cheaper options if there are any.

Yep, really doesn't take a lot to understand mining. Any ordinary Joe can understand the basics of mining, but with a CompTIA certification you're likely better off than the average starter.

It's absolutely okay to use calculators- everyone does sometimes for an approximation of break-even time, etc, but don't think that they're absolute by any means.

With $400, I would suggest looking at a GPU like the 1070, a decent motherboard, and perhaps 4GB of RAM and booting off a cheap, low capacity SSD or USB. The 1070s come for relatively cheap nowadays- heck, I just found one used for $250 + ~$12 shipping on eBay here.

As for mining less mainstream coins, they usually use more well-known algorithms so you can usually use a guide for mining another more popular coin if that other coin happens to use the same algorithm. Using a search engine like Google's extremely helpful too if you ever get stuck on how to do something like flashing a bios for a GPU, etc.

Could be that OP's Reddit username was similar to his Nicehash username, and they were somehow able to track his IP down from there.

VPN or Socks5 proxy's always an option if you want to continue mining at Nicehash in the future. There are a few sellers in the Digital Goods section selling accounts for pretty cheap IIRC if you're looking for a VPN. IP bans really aren't that bad (VPN shouldn't affect mining performance much), but it's still shitty that Nicehash decided to ban you off something that minor.

Prices are currently dropping nicely on most 10 series cards, especially cards above the 1070 (1080, 1080ti etc) as the 11th generation release is coming ever closer. I got a $299 refurb 1080 from EVGA (can't hurt at that price) just yesterday while browsing the r/buildapcsales (sort the posts by new) subreddit- that's where I find most good deals for parts like GPU. Prices really aren't too bad right now as almost all cards are below MSRP if you're looking in the right places.

Besides all of this, from what I've seen looking at both sites, Shapeshift provides slightly better rates at the moment for certain pairs like ETH/BTC even with their quick swap system. Makes basically no sense to use Changenow anyways if they're requiring KYC occasionally, as Shapeshift has no such requirement. I fail to see why anyone would use a coin swap site with KYC over one with slightly better rates and no KYC. Why swap services if the current one is just fine?

Here's another autobuy site that nobody has mentioned yet- NPCVend

The site is mostly used by members of the forum MPGH, but it's perfect as the site allows for both buyer and seller protection, and there's even a password required to view your purchased product after you pay for it; it's a bit more security than on any autobuy site I've ever seen for the user.

I can confirm Superbru is working as well- I assume you're using a mobile device for browsing on Superbru (which I often do too), and I don't have a solution for the ads on mobile, but if you're on desktop a simple Chrome extension like Adblock Plus works to prevent popups and ads- I didn't even notice the ads until I began browsing on my mobile device. I know many here don't like third-party chrome apps, especially after a recent MEW chrome extension hack, but it's absolutely essential for me.

AdBlock Plus also has a mobile adblock browser app, but I haven't used it before so I can't speak of its effectiveness, but if you wish to try it out, it should be on the front page here.

Rocketr's truly the only big alternative I can think of that's widely used besides Selly- great for the customer and very easy to handle as a seller as well. Link to Rocketr here.

I have heard Sellfy mentioned before, but I have no experience using it as a seller or customer. I've mostly dealt with just Selly and Rocketr, but Sellfy's another one to look at for sure.

This is true on Bitcointalk (especially threads with Selly links in Digital Goods), but on other forums I've bought plenty of products through autobuys like Selly and Rocketr, and I've hardly been scammed. It's unfair to assume OP's planning on scamming as well, but I do understand where you're coming from with the scammer statement.

I'd agree with taking the 1920X- there's a 'hype premium' on the 2990WX right now on top of all of that, and you're getting very nice bang for your buck buying a 1920X over the 2990WX. First gen threadripper prices (and Ryzen 1st Gen overall) have dipped a lot recently, and there's even 1920Xs for $319 on eBay right now from the Newegg store account (skip the $404)- eBay Link

Besides all that, this is a video of a recorded video (see bottom left for the first three seconds). The quality is horrible, and even if an operation shows proof of their hardware existing, there's no telling if they'll run off with your money or not, and that's extremely likely with cloudmining. I hope people don't continue to fall for these scams, but there are always people that don't browse here that don't understand these cloudmining companies are scams.

Also, a camera pointed at a monitor of livechat? Pretty shit innovation if you ask me, nobody's done it because it's not a good idea.

Shorting through margin is always a viable option (trading on margin, leveraged), but I prefer going simple and buying the dip like most people have commented here. There's no guarantee that you're going to make money buying the dip, as the market's been going down since December last year, and many people have lost money since then, but there's always a way to make money no matter where the market is going.

Always practice good trading habits as well. If you're just going all in all over the place, you might as well be gambling. If you lack experience, some exchanges offer simulated trading where you can hone your skills.

I've also noticed that some lesser-known crypto sites on trustpilot can have manipulated trustpilot reviews, and half the time I've found it's simply not good and/or a site I'm investigating isn't even on the website or has no reviews. Forum posts and Reddit are usually much more reliable in my experience. Reddit's helped me a lot in finding site reviews for basically anything from crypto to computer hardware and furniture. Bitcointalk's good as long as you use Google or another search engine, as it's not exactly a secret that the search function here is terrible.

I've used this method in the past and busted, but gambling's still luck in the end no matter what method you use, so I could have just been extremely unlucky (but mathematically you're guaranteed to lose eventually).

I do like the fact that this guide does at least a brief introduction to house edge and RTP, as I often see people just assuming you're guaranteed to win with some methods (which obviously can't happen), and AFAIK the math is correct. Good balance of understandability and detail, especially the analogy to betting on a favorite.

In the end, I tend to stray away from methods and just play what I feel is fun. It's inevitable that you'll lose in gambling, and having fun with what you have is more fun than executing a boring method for something like roulette and losing.

Yep, half the crypto casino review sites I've seen and worked with (I won't name any, but I have written reviews for some a few years back) have had some sort of relationship with the casino being reviewed where they get compensation, usually in the form of crypto for a completed review, but even still some sites are at least a bit honest about the casinos (even though obviously the reviews are mainly putting a positive light on the casinos).

For the website itself, I think perhaps a theme with borders and a pattern different than just white would look good on the site. I'm browsing through the site on Chrome, and it seems most of it is plain text with no HTML markup or anything of the sort. Makes things a bit diffcult to read as nothing really stands out, though I do see links are bolded and in blue.

If the guy owns hardware though, why would he mine through a browser when using actual mining software for algos like CryptoNight is likely more optimized and likely more profitable? Besides that, OP hasn't mentioned anything about owning websites yet, and the coin you linked seems very website-oriented.

I second going with XMR. It's been good in the past for mining with CPUs and it's still generally a good choice.

Seems like 11 people have made picks so far for the first match and we're currently at 16 participants. Nice to see so much hype on this thread right now, can't wait to see how things turn out. I expect I won't make it too high in the leaderboards, but I'll try my best and this'll be fun for sure.

First off, you linked the website wrong. Text goes between the (remove the dot) [u.rl=http://insert, and the link is supposed to be behind the front URL insert with an equals sign, like [U.RL=website.com]Somethingsomething] insert, and the link is supposed to be behind the front URL insert with an equals sign, like [U.rl=http://website.com]Somethingsomething[/URL]. It should look like this in the end.

Second, I've done a quick search and there's no information on the site except that it's supposedly 'tested' by AsicMinerValue, that's known to make fishy or outright scam sites 'tested'. They don't accept any form of escrow either, so you have no buyer protection, and they only accept cryptocurrency or bank transfers, which are irreversible transfers. I wouldn't buy at the site.

Agreed with yogg's statement with formatting in the forum. You can't do bold text in thread titles, so I would suggest removing that. Also looks like you forgot to add a beginning to color and size.

Here's a short guide to formatting that's included in the 'Help' tab under News or Total time logged in. This should help out with your ANN.

As for the site, the tiny 0.03 (0.022 for this current round at the moment) ETH jackpot isn't exactly appealing to any potential gambler as that's essentially spare change, and we don't have any proof that this site is legit as BTCevo mentioned.