I think ASICs are for beginners for sure since as you said it yourself, they're much simpler/easier.

GPU mining, especially if you're mining coins manually and not through something like nicehash is more complex but earns you more if you spend the time researching coins. There's not much options for ASICs in that regard.

Nice I guess but good luck troubleshooting when the rig just hard freezes due to a faulty riser or something.

Also, it's weird how there aren't any hacks to handle a bunch of Nvidia cards only in windows.

Funny how a decentralized attack (DDoS) is killing a centralized website of a decentralized crypto...

ICOs and airdrops are just the natural evolution of premined shitcoins now with some seasoning trying to hide the stench.

We always had a bunch of premined shitcoins but now we just have more because way more people got interested in crypto this year.
They all saw how well Bitcoin did early this year and got the gold rush fever. Some started mining, some started investing but a lot just started throwing money at random coins hoping that will be the next Bitcoin, either out of stupidity/naivity or laziness. And it got to a point where ICOs are basically a form of gambling. No wonder it got banned in a couple of countries.

Also, a few years ago you would had to know how to clone a coin but now anyone and their grandmothers can create tokens.

But not everyone have money to throw at ICOs so here comes airdrops, now everyone can participate and cherish cryptos except airdrop coins are going against what crypto stands for and people don't see that; airdrops are just another form of premine (which is considered a scam for years) and are also centralized and heavily manipulated. "Devs" now can just buy a few dozen/hundred accounts and claim airdrop coins on all of them or just tell people that fuck it, we'll keep a lot of coins because reasons and people will ignore it, spam their signatures/social media/etc until everyone else starts vomiting.


Premine is not the norm though, it's just we're getting absolutely bombarded with premined scams. But hopefully we'll be turning back towards fair coins with PoW mining (which is still the only fair initial coin distribution method) especially with the rapid advances in renewable energy. But of course buying into random scams will always be easier than buying mining hardware...

Because it's only offline trading, the wallet doesn't work for days. No deposit/withdrawal possible.

Do you think Bittrex will wait days before delisting a coin that's practically doesn't work for days? They delisted coins for less.

Congrats on having your account back.

The tests were kind of useless considering we have major issues like up to 30-40% autominting instead of 10% and everyone forking left and right and just an overall unusable network for days.

I don't think pushing multiple, such mistakes is acceptable anymore for a ~$180mil marketcap coin. I know PIVX had major issues with forks in the past and it always took a long time to fix them but it's not a small garage project anymore.



With all due respect, when you have to advise all wallets and nodes to be shut down until further notice it indicates an amateurish lack of foresight and poor planning that should be below the PIVX dev team by now.

A couple generation of X11 ASICs are out for a while so GPU mining X11 is long pointless but now not just earlier generation ASICs got downgraded into doorstoppers but even the newest, current generation ASICs might not make their investments back considering some people still haven't gotten theirs and how flooded the market is.

We have Bitmain D3 (15Gh/s), PinIdea (17Gh/s), iBelink (10.8Gh/s), Baikal (0.6Gh/s), Innosilicon (30.2Gh/s) that I know of.

Because a bunch of X11 ASICs came/coming out which are kicking the difficulty to the moon:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/dash-difficulty.html

Fake.

The links are going to satoshibox, so it's asking for payment before you can download them. If I remember correctly someone said in another thread they paid for and downloaded one and it was just a regular driver. Could have been malware ridden as well.

Quite a few people click the links though:

https://bitly.com/info/2xwo0U3
https://bitly.com/info/2xq0Xd9
https://bitly.com/info/2yr3ty8

but probably only a few bought them.

Spreadcoin has plenty of issues, "sourgrapes" are not even in the top 3.

 - Georgem for starters might be an awesome dev but he's terrible at leading the project. He refuses others to help him and he wants to do everything at once and only release his evergrowing vision once it's perfect, but in the meantime...

 - Spreadcoin haven't got any wallet updates or features in years; it's as good as an abandoned coin because at this point Georgem finishing have roughly the same chance of people reviving abandoned coins.

 - One of the reasons Helium was created was exactly because of these points and since Helium is a split off the Spread chain, there was naturally heavy market manipulation from the start which just recently died with the split.


I don't think without Helium the price of Spread would have shot up as much as it did, and it probably would have slowly dwindled maybe even lower than it is now.


I still hold some Spreadcoin as I liked the project a lot in the beginning but Gerogem I think killed it a long time ago with all the broken promises and soons™ and delay. "Living" in a hugbox of hardcore fans on their own forum certainly doesn't help either. Funny, for a coin with a motto of "decentralize everything" a central power that is Georgem is the reason why the coins is where it is now...

The very first PCI-E connections before the notch do carry 12V and 3.3V (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Form_factors).

Yes, but changes like these should be opt-in, not opt-out. Feels like less decentralized where devs force changes like this to unsuspecting users. Yeah, it could have been disabled but not everyone knew about it in time and it's worded such that only exchanges should use it.

Also, despite all the testing it's still problematic (~30% autoconvert, can't send, sending takes forever) which doesn't look good.

Best case scenario I think is that you only killed the PCI-E slot on the motherboard in which you plugged that riser in backwards, along with the riser.

But I don't think the card is damaged.

I cleaned out almost all of my Bittrex balance because they're getting close to randomly force verification. My account has a legacy status (1337 BTC limit) and I have yet to give them any info, not even my name after all these years.

As far as I see it, having to give your name to trade defeats the purpose of cryptos. I'm not using cryptos to anything illegal (other than trading anonymously apparently) and I don't see much of a difference between exchanges being compromised by hackers or the US government. And I'm not even from the US.

Leave the poor guys be, they're very busy with counting the $15 million they made from their ICO.....

Mining is there to secure the network by advancing the blocks - even if they're empty.

This is nice and all but they already have pool operators involved who will likely run the premined version so blocks will be found there - which is the deciding factor here (longest chain, not node count).

If you seriously want to throw a wrench into it and remove the premine it will take much more effort than changing a line, you'd need to convince pool operators, miners, exchanges, etc.

What the fuck guys? Forced autoconverting into zPIV is very unprofessional.

And it's converted way more than 10%.

I had one and it's like a HDD with a big cache. Recently accessed small files are fast to handle but that's about it.

The SSD part in mine had issues after maybe 2 years so the drive is useless, unless I disable caching.

Not worth the money imo. Unless you need a huge amount of storage (like for mining) I'd definitely go with SSD.