Miners do not simply get permanently shut down forever. Nobody leaves machines that make money sitting offline, they'll either be sold and continue hashing again or a farm will shut down temporarily and be moved to another place. Difficulty's swung drastically in the past few months and there have been some instances where difficulty drops may have been attributed to mining farms being moved, etc.

Chances are by the time 8GB no longer works for mining ETH will have finally switched to some sort of POS or whatever 8GB mining cards are available now like the 580 will be obsolete. 4GB is really just fine for mining right now.

Seems like they are OOS now. I appreciate your effort to distribute more units to members of the forum. Sad that BTC and most crypto had to drop right as these went on sale, though.

Mostly people with weak hands and newer visitors to Bitcoin. Every drop in price comes from sellers like the people I mentioned previously, nothing new. Just HODL and relax.

I completely agree with this. I try to combine all my TXes into one when fees drop below ~100 sats per byte or lower nowadays and it's a small price to pay for what it does. There's no reason not to sweep TXes.

At least BCC finally collapsed. It was getting annoying with even YouTube ads about it everywhere and misinformed people investing in it. I guess there was a small positive side to this after all.

sub 10k on Finex. We all knew it was coming.

Availability is a big factor too and in many places the 1080 is OOS or priced ridiculously higher than the 1070ti/1070. Mining right now is really just what you can get at a price as close to MSRP as possible.

I live pretty close to a Micro Center and if you get there slightly before they start distributing the GPUs you can snag 1070s/1080s for MSRP. The only problem is a lot of people are in line for them, and I mean A LOT. Otherwise, the shelves there are just devoid of GPUs.

Scrypt? You're going to make pennies a month mining with any non-ASIC device on a Scrypt coin. GTX 1050s do pretty well in most algos if you can find them at near MSRP and you'll be able to make reasonable ROI with them. There's not really many choices for cards at that price point anymore, especially with GPU prices rising once again. Pretty much any modern GPU will work at the right price. It just depends what you're able to get used.

If you're looking to accumulate just a few coins buying them straight up may also be a good idea. Foolproof and easy.

The 1070 Ti should do better than the 1070s in most algorithms and it's the better deal if your retailer actually ships the GPU. Most 1070tis are OOS in the US and even at that price they'd be gobbled up real quick. There's no big issues with the 1070ti mining AFAIK, and even if there were any you should be able to return the GPU without much issue.

It's probably his electrical cost. At best, you're making $250 / month on Nicehash and you're getting ~$80 deducted as electrical cost at $0.10/kWh. That'd be near 3-4c/kWh though, much lower than the 10c average residential in the US.

CoinMarketCap.com is your best friend here.

Gate.io seems to have a DOGE/BTC and /USDT pair but not sure about signups and fees. Cryptopia is pretty much the same as Yobit in my experience with high fees and wallets permanently under maintenance, etc. What happens when you try to verify on Bitfinex? Did you submit the right info, etc? They've been behind on everything recently with a surge in signups, contacting support could help out a bit too even though help may be delayed.

MSI Afterburner is what I have used and is what most people use for under and overvolting/clocking. Pretty much standard for gamers and miners. Searching online some more should show you some baselines for these modifications. You can also do em yourself by dropping a couple volts or increasing clock by a set amount and then benchmarking the GPU. If it runs, continue to lower, if it doesn't, raise the voltage and make sure it's stable.

I wonder if MyRig would offer hosting for the DragonMint miner when and if they start to be sold. They've done that for most of the miners they sold and I'd probably be down for a unit or two if hosting is available.

They've got their own reasons for having higher withdrawal fees than other exchanges. As long as people continue using their platform they'll probably keep it the same. There's hundreds of other exchanges that have DOGE pairs out there, there is definitely an exchange that has lower fees than Yobit and works.

The 1070 ti should be your best bet. Specific prices would help out a lot though. What sort of price difference are we talking about here? If they're ~$50US apart they should be fine. If the GPUs themselves are already high over MSRP then things get unclear. We NEED a solid price here to determine if these are profitable at all.

Pretty much all legitimate colocations I know of right now are fully booked and have no remaining space left. Considering the fact that you are trusting machines that are worth thousands of dollars with colocation owners, don't just accept an offer from any forum member. Always make sure they're legitimate and have good trust St the least, as anyone can run away with your miners if you send em to them.

Considering BTC withdrawal fees on most all exchanges right now are near or above $10-20, that's not bad.

YoBit has always had higher fees than most exchanges I've used. If you have an issue with it, just withdraw your coins and don't come back.

The question you should really be asking is just what alt is most profitable for CPU mining right now. Guessing future price and growth is something entirely different and it requires research outside of just clicking a couple buttons on a calculator.

XMR should be the most profitable CPU-mineable alt right now. Has been XMR for a long time, probably won't change.

I'm disappointed AMD doesn't massively ramp up production to meet the mining demand like they did in 2013 but I understand at the same time they might have the same problem of demand dying down for a short time and having cards that don't sell in the meanwhile. Component prices all across the board are rising, not just GPU prices, too. It's not a great time to be a PC gamer.