The fact that these cards are also 8GB variants is also pretty impressive, considering in the US the price for the cheapest 8GB 580s hovers at or above $250- the Aorus 8GB is $259 as I speak on Newegg, other cards lower during a deal. Note that they say the rig doesn't come with an OS, however (not a big deal to most).

I do find it a bit suspicious that the site only accepts BTC and I haven't found any information on the Domino miner company yet, searching using their website name Dominorig and also 'Domino miner'. Not calling it a scam yet though due to lack of info, but at least the miner specs seem somewhat realistic.

If you want to purchase the miner or take a look at Domino's other offerings, here is their site.

Here's another thread about CoinPot that seems to be filled with mostly negative reviews of the site and a lot of ranting, though there are some in the thread that say CoinPot works perfectly as it's supposed to as a micropayments processor.

I would advise you to stay away from CoinPot for now- mixed reviews aren't great, especially in crypto services, and at the least they don't seem to have very responsive support. Try to use faucets that don't use CoinPot as a processor for payments, and if you're ever unsure about a processor being legit, just Google if something is legit. It takes seconds to find out a site is a scam 90% of the time.

Not a lot of stores directly accept Bitcoin as of this moment, though there are sites like Newegg, which is my personal favorite even though they recently started collecting tax in my state. Bitcoin debit cards are definitely great for helping Bitcoin adoption along, and they allow you to purchase almost anything you can buy with a normal credit or debit card, but they do have limitations and KYC, etc that make them a bit difficult to use, especially for those who aren't as tech-savvy.

Lightning payments will help more vendors accept BTC in the future as well, with lower fees and quicker confirmations too. We just need to persuade more companies into accepting BTC too, and it's also a rung on the ladder of BTC possibly being used over fiat someday.

Loan amount: 0.012
Repayment amount: 0.0125
Repayment date: July 21-22
Collateral: None
BTC Address: 34gLPrrk57QLnvpUtMRc1MaqG2JjBjRj7J

It's still better than Poloniex in many ways, and I've been trading on their platform under the same IP and PC with withdrawals near 1BTC and I haven't been frozen as of yet or asked to do KYC. Decentralized exchanges are still your best bet for no verification even though they do have low volume compared to bigger exchanges- hopefully this changes in the future, because I see quite a bit of potential not yet unlocked in them.

It's a shame most of them aren't incredibly user-friendly and require users to have medium amounts of technical knowledge about crypto to use properly; if they were simpler, adoption would probably happen quicker.

Seems like a very interesting game to me- I think the 85% towards the jackpot and 9% to the devs is fair considering how small the experiment is right now. I haven't ever seen a game like this before in a crypto casino before; I'll probably try it out later today.

I also especially like how you explain the entire thing in your Medium post. Great attention to detail there, I'm not extremely skilled at working with smart contracts but it's interesting to see how the entire thing works.

As for the 1%, it goes towards the next campaign according to the Medium article in the OP. I suggest putting this on your main site as there'll likely be more people inquiring about this in the future.

I almost always avoid exchanges that use KYC and I haven't even taken a look at their exchange in ages even before they made KYC mandatory because they started turning to shit.

If you're looking for alternatives that don't require verification, Binance doesn't require verification unless you're withdrawing over 2BTC or something of the sort, and decentralized exchanges are another decent option. Both Binance and DEXes have pros and cons, but I still choose to use then because verification isn't a requirement.

You don't even need to go to a casino to play poker or use a faucet to play. There's thousands of Flash-based poker games out there that are fine if you're starting out in poker, and you can learn and hone your skills there; there's no need to go through registration and all with casinos this way. If you want to play an Android-based mobile poker game but don't want to play on a tiny phone screen, Bluestacks is an Android emulator for desktops that lets you play on a laptop or desktop monitor using your desktop or laptop CPU power, so your phone won't be heating up and using power either.

I'd suggest reading one of the many guides posted here before trying to play a flash poker game. If you don't like what's posted here, Google is your best friend (or whatever search engine you like to use).

Gambling shouldn't be considered as a way of making money in the first place and should be treated as a way of entertainment at the most. If you consider entertainment worthless, then that's your own opinion. Trading and investing can also be extremely risky, especially trading in crypto markets, and it takes lots of time and experience (and also luck!) to make a living off of it. Still better than gambling, but don't assume or let somebody tell you it's easy by any means either.

I mainly bet on sports and esports because they make matches much more interesting to watch as you actually have an interest in your team winning, for example, and it's hard to find other activities that get your heart racing the same way as in betting. It's perfectly fine if you're a responsible gambler and don't excessively spend money you can't afford into gambling, as it is with any other game.

Besides that, the platform hasn't even launched yet (though you claim it'll launch tomorrow), and most people haven't even had a chance to get to actually use the platform hands-on yet to actually determine its user-friendliness and utility. Plenty of exchanges claim to offer features that destroy others and simplicity but they fail in one way or another. The community will get to make a decision on whether this is actually better than Binance when they get to use it, most importantly. I can't even give any true thoughts and/or criticisms on the platform yet because I don't have any true access to the site yet, though I hope to be able to access it tomorrow to see if it is indeed better than Binance.

It's been about power ever since PoW was implemented, and it will increasingly be in the future if this bear market continues. I'm not even considering SHA256 ASICs anymore for the time being because of difficulty continuing upwards and the price of BTC mostly going downwards. Even with Bitmain lowering their prices regularly, the risk still outweighs the possible reward in the aging S9.

As for a possible expansion of your mining operation, I would hold off on it until coin prices rise or better gear comes out. Card prices are still pretty unreasonable for most locales, and low profitability makes buying GPUs risky still.

Another question- are you using ETHlargement for your 1080Ti? It significantly increases your hashrate for basically no cost in ETH. You're missing out on a lot if you aren't; here's the link if so.

ETHlargement indeed won't do anything to your P104s because the program was designed only to improve the performance of GDDR5 on the 1080, 1080Ti and Titan XP. From what I've researched, the program doesn't do anything with any other cards utilizing GDDR5X yet. This post includes a screenshot of a user launching ETHlargement for a P104, and it was still doing 40MH/s even with the program on. Perhaps the devs might implement support for P-series cards in the future, but it won't work at this moment.

It really depends IMO. Luck's deciding whether you win or not in every game you play, and nothing can really change that in the end, but for games like poker and sports/esports matches betting, research and work can help out. There are people who make a living off betting on game matches, and doing research on the two teams going against each other and various factors like past performance and past head-to-head results can make a difference versus flipping a coin and choosing a team based on which side the coin lands on (letting luck completely take the wheel), though luck is still a large factor even in match betting.

I personally actually have an electrical rate of $0.065/kWh, and I reside in the USA- there are many places where you can even get electricity for a bit lower than what I have.

If you're in for a gamble, you can mine lower marketcap and difficulty coins and try to make a quick buck like you mentioned before- there are indeed people who have succeeded with this method and regularly talk about it in the Altcoin Mining section, but I think it's just too risky. Your best option for mining's just to keep mining with Nicehash or mine on a pool with your own software, $0.082/kWh really isn't too bad for mining.

Nice guide, a rare find in the seas of redundant information in this subforum.

I just have a bit of a suggestion with formatting- in the beginning of your post where you talked about a guidance video on YouTube, as well as including a full link at the bottom of your post, you can also hyperlink words using [.url][/url] and also [.b][/b] (remove the .) in the center to make the linked words bold and easier to click for easier accessibility, so readers don't have to go to the bottom to see the link. I have no complaints with everything else, truly a well written guide.

I particularly like the part where you mention a paper wallet can be better than a hardware wallet for long-term storage- I personally keep my truly cold storage funds in paper wallets, and I keep my semi-hot wallet funds in hardware wallets for occasional transfer to my hot wallet. I feel some people just ignore paper wallets as a whole, even though they have significant advantages over hardware wallets in some areas.

I just took a look at the site and it actually doesn't look too bad in my opinion, but perhaps that's just because I browse sites with designs like Bitcointalk a lot  . I'll take a look at Namesilo in the future for a site, haven't heard of it before but I'll take your word for it- reviews for the site seem decent from what I've seen too, though there seems to be a bit of negative reviews for it on Trustpilot.

Edit: Apparently Namecheap's offering WhoisGuard privacy forever, free of charge (1Referee's post above). I'll still try out NameSilo just for the sake of seeing which is better through a hands-on approach, though.

I've used Namecheap for my websites and they've worked great. Haven't used any other domain registrar that accepts BTC since I started buying domains as most others I've researched seem to either be unreliable, have poor support, or are outright scams.

You can also always sell BTC for cash or a bank transfer, etc through an exchange or a P2P trading site like LocalBitcoins and use those funds to register at a regular domain registrar. A bit more effort, but you get to use some of the bigger companies to buy a domain this way. Just make sure you deal with reputed traders if you choose to go down this route.

I'm aware of that, but he does have a good transaction history on Bitify, he's been a member since 2016 and he's about as legit as some of the other people I've dealt on here since I've joined the forums. We'll see about the 180 days but I have a good feeling about this guy and I'll edit my posts here if I notice anything wrong on either Bitify or the guy's Bitcointalk profile.

Another update, did another $100 with the guy flawlessly within about two hours.

I'm willing to bet that basically any Ethash pool should work on the E3, Z9 mini only supposedly had issues because it was submitting shares extremely quickly compared to GPUs and the pool would reject shares from the miner as a result.

You're forgetting the many people who bought the E3 at $800- even with today's mining environment, the break even time at that price and $0.10/kWh electricity is still well under a year as of now and likely won't explode as much as previous algos without ASICs like X11- the E3 isn't a lot more powerful than a GPU rig and some fine-tuned GPU rigs can outperform the E3 in both power and hashrate performance, though I do agree difficulty will indeed rise and profitability will drop, although I don't think it'll be as much as algos like X11 or Blake2b in the past.

This thread was the first one about the Z9 that I found in the day it launched, just doesn't seem like it's been bumped with new info in a while.

As for the topic of glueing, 4 of the Z9 mini specs multiplied is indeed consistent with the hashrate of the Z9 and its power consumption- Bitmain probably just took the boards and threw them in a E3 case or slightly redesigned them to fit in an E3-like case. Perhaps Inno will still drop prices for their next batch of Equihash miners, who knows. They're still ahead of Bitmain even if they don't.