Everything is already here for Crypto gambling to become big- we just need some sort of spark to set it off. I wouldn't say it's exactly easy to dodge the law, but in the convenience aspect of things, crypto is definitely ahead, especially when you don't need to wait days or hours for your transaction to be deposited with fiat.

Here's also a tweet detailing a few things about the GMO miner I found on r/Bitcoin a couple minutes ago. 24TH/1950W so about 80W/TH, but the miner costs $1999 and ships by the end of October, though sales start in June. I'd still personally take the S9i at its reduced price for a much lower $/TH cost sacrificing just a bit of efficiency, but nice to see that GMO has something working out the board that beats Bitmain for now.

I generally try to sell my items to people that are somewhat trusted and at least Full Member in rank and always use a trusted escrow in my transactions. Haven't really had many issues since, though I have conducted all my trades on Bitcointalk and not on other places like Craigslist that you listed. A simple picture of the miner with your name and date that you posted the sales thread in conjunction with a pool stats screenshot or miner status screenshot was always enough for me to prove that the miner indeed existed.

I definitely would not recommend it right now with difficulty continuing to rise, coin prices going mostly down and the aforementioned 12+ month period to break even. If you're looking to mine, I would wait a bit to see if things change, as GPU mining and mining in general is very risky right now.

There's not much of an indication how good the new nVidia cards will be for mining, but if anything FPGAs are going to continue to encroach on GPU mining too, and that's yet something else working against GPU mining at the moment.

It's good to have, and I definitely look for it in a casino, but it doesn't make or break a casino for me. Usually, the email support of a site is good enough and I have no issue with waiting a little bit for my issues on a site to be resolved. I know of several online casinos that don't have live support but do have quick email support, and it's good enough for me personally. If the site is reputable and has fun games that I enjoy playing, I can wait for issues to be resolved.

If you're going to invest in anything mining-related, buy the actual hardware and skip cloudmining or anything that claims to offer mining online, unless it's hosting and you have full control to the miners and the host is trusted. Even legitimate cloudmining sites like Hashnest often have issues related to rewarding and withdrawals.

 Mining today overall really isn't even worth the work to get the miners if you're not investing in multiple machines as profitability is very low as of right now.

It's been around since 2014, and it's a pretty big name in ETH mining now, especially with a 300+ page Bitcointalk thread (making newbies use it despite the devfee). SGminer's much less popular but I do also agree that it is a good ETH miner, especially with the fact that the miner doesn't have a fee like Claymore. I don't mine ETH anymore, but the no devfee alone might make me use it if I ever do go back to ETH.

I personally prefer to use alts for smaller transactions when gambling and BTC for larger ones, as my transactions confirm quicker with alts, and conversion fees are too high for big transactions so I just use BTC for depositing money on online casinos. Payment flexibility's incredibly important to a casino, and it isn't difficult to implement. This should be a top priority for a beginning casino to implement, after basic functions like the games themselves.

Any 'top' list for any subject will always be opinionated- it's impossible to make a top chart for anything in most cases unless there's very few contenders and there's a very clear advantage of one over another. In this case, if you're looking for a sportsbook to use, there is justification for every sportsbook's rating, and you combine that with your own opinion and research to make a decision on which one to use.

They're usually much quicker for repairs than shipping miners to Bitmain, and they're great for out-of-service warranty. Pricing for repairs depends on what parts need repair. I have miners hosted by them, and miner uptime is almost 99% with them. Here's their Bitcointalk account, and here's a short thread created by them.

I've also used Bitblender in the past (and I wore their signature for a bit over a year), but the site is simple, easy to use and is just as trusted as any other BTC mixer out there. They've been around since early 2014, but make sure you go to their onion site (http://bitblendervrfkzr.onion/) instead of a scam site like the following: https://bitblender. me/. Bitblender only operates their main onion site and an informational site that can be found here.

The official Bitblender thread can be found here.

Works for my local craigslist too, seems to be available for all craigslist areas now and there's surprisingly quite a lot of items up already in my area that all support cryptocurrency as payment. Nice to see that even though the price of BTC is going down, there's still lots of adoption happening right now. There's tons of vehicles and even miners on sale locally, very nice! I'll be monitoring the listing activity in my area for items accepting crypto payment and seeing if they continue to go up- they probably will.

Fees are irrelevant for the most part when you're picking an exchange to use unless the fees are unusually high- and if you're trading, fees should not be a substantial issue anyways. They don't amount to much in the long run if you're actively using an exchange to trade for a profit; most exchanges that you will find with extremely low fees have tiny or no volume.

What sort of power draw at the wall are you getting with your OC at 600 MHz? Nice to see temps so low, but it makes sense considering the miner draws just about 270W stock at 220v and they didn't have to use two full size loud fans to cool the thing.

In theory, the new BIP70 payment URLs should be efficient and protect you from sending your coins to an unwanted address (clipboard-replacing malware should be visible as BIP70 enables wallets to display the SSL certificate and domain name of whoever you are sending your coins to, so you'll easily be able to spot such malware), but there's a whole lot of opposition to the BIP. Bitpay likely doesn't mean to do anything too bad with implementing the BIP, and they're likely legitimately trying to stop MITM attacks that can happen if your computer is infected with an aforementioned clipboard malware, but as I also said before, many wallets are strongly opposed to it and just plainly say they will not implement it into their wallets (an example being Samourai Wallet).

I still wish they would at least not force BIP70 URLs for payment and allow us to use the good ol' address and amount system they used to have, but I guess that's just how Bitpay wants to do things. I've been encouraging merchants to start using alternatives to Bitpay such as BTCPay, and though I have had little success, it doesn't take a lot of time to just send a message about it, and competition is great in an area of Bitcoin where there's little competition and single companies are allowed to push through things like forced BIP70 with little to no resistance. If everybody could do the same and at least spread the news about alternative payment gateways, perhaps a bit of competition from alternative payment gateways could encourage Bitpay to re-enable their old payment system.

OP is a newbie so he's actually not capable of linking images on his own. I'll try doing so here; the only way to circumvent this as a newbie is to buy a Copper membership IIRC, which can be done here.

More details about Copper membership can be found in this thread.
 

I myself actually managed to gamble several thousand USD through dice and CS:GO match betting that I saved over the course of several months- I started small with a few hundred in dice, tried to get more back through match betting, and initially made some more money before I put thousands on matches and lost match after match. I stopped shortly after and managed to stop myself from gambling any more of my money, and I only occasionally gamble now. It's okay in moderation, but gambling's definitely easy to become addicted to. I just put away a few dollars a week to gamble nowadays.

It really doesnt take a whole lot of knowledge to start a simple rig. The mining process isn't incredibly diffcult to understand, and the same goes for configuring miners- with Google, the whole internet, and this part of the forums to work with, you can easily learn about configuration and almost anything about mining in a few days or even less. Hell if you're really lazy, you can just download one-click software and mine with Nicehash, etc, and you hardly need to know anything except getting a rig to boot and/or GPU modding and tweaking.

The big thing that is threatening GPU mining right now is FPGAs, ASICs and a depression in overall coin prices and rising difficulty- this is bringing the break-even time of many cards to near one year or more at $0.10/kWh electrical costs.

Mining profitability has decreased all over the board, and GPUs are starting to become threatened by FPGAs, but I would still recommend buying a GPU over any ASICs- they’re almost 99% of the time quieter than ASICs (some, like the Antminer series, comparable to vacuum cleaners in noise), and you’re more flexible with mining as you can hash more than just one algo.

Bitmain miner prices have dropped, but keep in mind the difficulty on most Bitmain-mined chains have also nearly doubled or more in just a few months.

Nicehash does have somewhat substantial fees (which is a tradeoff of using one-button mining software), so it may be wise to simply go on Whattomine or another mining calculator and pick a coin that is stable and also profitable if you want to cut down on fees a bit. Most pools have at least basic instructions on how to mine on their pool, so if you’re unsure how to actually mine, find a pool that mines your desired coin and find a ‘help’ tab or something of the sort.