Dell stopped accepting Bitcoin a few days ago, so that one is out. Newegg and overstock are the only big ones left and overstock is full of overpriced shit that you can find for far less on Newegg.

It is definitely difficulty, we all know that there is an extreme shortage on everything right now. As the 400 and 500 series cards are sold out, the shortage is moving to Nvidia 1060/1070/1080 cards (they are all going for more than they did a few months ago) now and difficulty continues to rise. It's probably going to go down even more. Coin prices have also gone down although that is normally not going to impact profit very much

I appreciate your compliment. While I understand some people like the "fun" of day trading, it's time consuming and frustrating, and I personally like to just HODL to keep track of Bitcoin's progress. It has also been quite profitable for me, as I held starting from the doldrums of 2015 all the way to today. Sure didn't lose anything yet.

That excitement has always been there ever since the UASF was announced. As for moving sideways, there was hardly anything in 2015. Price was sideways the entire time or down that year. I think our situation is great compared to that uneventful year where BTC hit less than 200 on some exchanges.

Nice to see you fixed it! For such an old miner I'm sure most people would prefer to not buy a new pair of fans as it sets back ROI and profits, but whatever you need for sound. The default fans are not so bad if you turn down the percentage, I put one in my basement and I can barely hear a humming noise in my living room.

AFAIK the miner beeps and does it start. It doesn't work if the fans are below a certain RPM sadly, a reason why the miner is not really that great for home mining. It doesn't even start with one fan, which I have tested. To compensate, putting the miner in a room with fans at 20-25% and a low ambient temperature should give you decent temperatures and good hashrate. If it runs too hot, underclock.

Whoever buys this is stupid. For all we know, they could've just replaced the IO on the GPU and renamed it a mining card. No IO at all kills resale as well. There's practically no point in buying these.

Doesn't mean it can still cause panic and cause people to switch algos. It'll go down over time anyways and eventually we'll see people switching over to ZEC anyways, as well as other cryptocurrencies.

It'll probably increase as some eth miners likely saw the hashrate drop articles and panicked, switching to Zcash. It'll likely continue as ETH becomes less and less viable to mine on.

It's probably why the exchange is higher than other exchanges. Not sure why people don't sell as much there though if prices are indeed higher.

28NM is also a matured process making production easier than 16/14nm, possibly lowering costs. Unless there's a serious competitor that comes out for this ASIC, it will do fine. Remember Bitmain started at around .78W/GH at 28nm with the S3 and dropped to .25W/GH at 28nm with the S7.

Why pay almost 500 for a GTX 1060 when I can buy one on Newegg for just around 280 with 6GB DDR5? I know this specific model is sold out but why pay more (especially if you were a miner)? Hell I could get a 480/580 for that much.

It'd take some serious failure on ETH and/or all tokens being disabled or leaving. I don't see ETH plummeting to zero, but short term there will definitely be a drop; the transaction backlog is causing huge problems downstream, one reason why the token system is flawed.

Powered on an underclocked S7 and pointed it to Kano! Let's see if it hits a block soon Running at just 63C at 25% fans in my basement, quiet enough that it won't roar and make my house shake.

And so it begins. All we needed was a pin and the entire ETH bubble begins to pop. ETH will likely go down much further than it has already until this congestion problem is solved, possibly 250 or less.

eBay sellers face the chance that the buyer can mine and file a scam report and get a refund as well as a free miner. One reason why miners there are often ridiculously overpriced. You could definitely get one for $6000, you'd need to wait for someone to sell though.

Bitfury's miners are pretty damn expensive, though, and nobody really knows if they have even built any yet to sell. The traditional approach is to go to Bitmain and ask for a quantity discount and buy from them, but you can also see what Btifury has to offer.

(In response to Unacceptable) You're probably thinking about Hotmine and their blades that they sell.

ICOs will collapse at some point in time and it will devastate crypto when it does. While I have made some nice profit especially on coins like Iconomi which pumped to near 0.002BTC per token, ICOs are being utilized on even the shittiest coins and there are already scam ICOs being created. Only gamble what you can afford to lose.

If the Ether devs don't fix this congestion the price will continue to plummet. Not like a centralized project like Ether was going too far anyways. While I realise keeping coins on exchange often means quicker withdrawals and cash out, it also means your chance of losing coins is higher. I'd rather keep a few coins that lost some value than none at all.

Even if there were such a pool, it'd be on BTC most of the time and its hashrate overall would be absolutely tiny. I haven't yet heard of such a pool that has substantial hashrate and does this. You'd be better off just mining pure BTC on a pool like Kano.