It's essentially the same thing besides a few features anyways. This kind of scam happens even on sites like eBay where people post a cheap item or rare item and delist it as soon as it sells. All the methods he offered would have no way of reversing, big red flag.

Why would you pay with bitcoin on aliexpress without escrow or protection of any sort as you did not use valid Alibaba payment methods? No matter how much trust the seller may have they can just take the money and you can't really do anything about it.

Is it that difficult to transfer BTC to PayPal or bank transfer?

Miners switching to BCH finally made their impact. Will be interesting to see what will happen after BCH gets its needed difficulty adjustment and profitability on the chain drops, likely people switching back to BTC.

And not only that, but fud machines are up at full speed: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2110454.0

Jihan and his buddies are probably sweating buckets right now trying to keep their chain up and looking better than BTC

I haven't seen any retailers or even people accepting BCH, so I'd say no. Remember that there is money behind all of this and that's about the only thing keeping BCH afloat. Once another difficulty adjustment comes in and it's not as profitable as BTC, even hashrate on the chain will go down.

Software is my biggest worry with this thing as we'd likely need new drivers and such to take advantage of all the ports but hey, at least this will help save a bit of money on motherboards, memory and storage. Hopefully these won't be price gouged when they come out. I love the no-frills design on it.

Interestingly enough a tweet says Bitmain has or will plan to move 170PH of hashing power to BCH. It won't be the longest chain as it still won't have the most cumulative POW, so don't worry about it too much.

This was recently fixed and there's no real proof of it ever being used if I am correct. Antbleed was a sort of loophole that could allow Bitmain to essentially take over miners which was quickly patched, you could try a firmware update but make sure you do everything correctly or you could brick your miner.

GPU-z could be incorrect. If you aren't sure contacting the manufacturer is a good place to start most of the time, they should be the ones who know most about the cards. Dual bios cards are usually pretty hard to completely brick, so you can try with two cards and see if results are consistent and do more if needed.

They never really did, likely they are cutting more corners and putting higher production on their L3+ and D3 miners as there's more demand for them. Big reason why I don't like buying anything from them these days.

I'm not sure, but the pricing on those is massive (1mln USD +) and they haven't answered many questions about the miner up to now if I am correct. You can only really get chips from them direct, and even then only a few people have gotten those chips, one person is Sidehack who plans on making a few miners based off of those chips.

Yep, Avalon also uses a RPI for controllers but they do provide a nice simple guide on how to setup a RPI for mining yourself. Avalons are pretty much always available and they ship pretty quickly, quality is also much better than from Bitmain. Only difference is less hashrate and slightly worse efficiency.

If it's a small increase it's probably not even worth it for Bitmain to create a new optimized chip at all with their low electrical rates and all. They're likely branching into LTC and X11 just to keep people interested in their brand.

Some people just have a hate boner for Bitcoin and the top dog. Can't change that no matter how much reasoning you give, obviously miners will follow the money and some of them have indeed switched. I haven't done that yet and I probably never will.

I've seen their store on eBay selling these and they look just fine but be warned it's likely pretty loud with those three tiny fans on the backside if that's an issue for you. All in all it's still better than most computer PSUs or Bitmain PSUs.

It's all behind money pumping it up. Obviously BCH is not stable at this price and when the money supporting it goes away, then the coin will fall right back down. The only good long term charts I've seen for BCH is on CoinMarketCap and you can see the recent pump real well from there. Miners follow the money and they will go pretty much anywhere; they do not have any motives except to maximise profits, a big reason why this whole blockscaling fiasco is even happening.

Use one of those password generator apps/software to make a complex password and use it whenever you need to login on a site. Works for me and I have never gotten any accounts breached yet on most sites.

Completely unrelated to Bitcoin mining in every possible way, please move this to Altcoin mining. How are temperatures, and are these the P106 cards with no video output?

I pay about .065$/kW in NW Pennsylvania in the US. The weather's nice and cool in the winter as well, great weather for mining. Never gets too hot most of the time either, compared to SC where I had to pay .10$/kW and deal with 100 degree temps during the summer.

I'm surprised BCH is still holding up so well. Will be interesting to see what happens after all of this drama is over and when it isn't being pumped to stay relevant I hope for more opportunities for free coin in the future (assuming price won't crash).