This is actually my first time doing a signature campaign for IOSToken. They have very good pay for ranks from member or jr.member. I am currently being paid 5200 IOSTokens per week for my sig space , avatar and text along with 0.0016 BTC.

I have received my first payout last week (14-Apr). There are a lot of campaigns going on - but it ll only benefit everyone if people care about not-spamming the forum as much as they getting some tokens/coins.

I try to post like 3-4 posts per day, so that adds up to 28-30 per week and will go over the minimum requirement - which is 25/week. I also try to post quality content so that others may also benefit, rather than just posting something which no one will see in the mega threads or similar threads. Now, that rank depends more on 'merit' rather than forum posts or activity, it is better to post quality stuff. That will always give a positive impression when a signature campaign manager takes a look at our profile during selection process.

Found this on another thread just posted some hours ago:

https://www.ccn.com/over-and-out-savedroid-ico-makes-apparent-exit-scam/

I guess these websites recommending and rating ICO's clearly takes money from the team behind it, just like many people including youtubers promoted something like bitconnect - only to lure ignorant investors and newbies and running away with their money.

People who lose money by buying into these scams then go around saying the whole BTC and cryptocurrency are Scam.

Cryptocurrencies are regularly accused of causing “deaths in a fairly direct way” (as Bill Gates put it). A report released by The Foundation for Defense of Democracies found that less than one percent of Bitcoin is used for illegal purposes.

Bitcoin Not as Criminal as Some Might Think



Crime has existed long before Bitcoin and will continue to leverage new technologies to its own benefit.

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Cryptocurrencies are regularly accused of causing “deaths in a fairly direct way” (as Bill Gates put it). A report released by The Foundation for Defense of Democracies found that less than one percent of Bitcoin is used for illegal purposes.

Bitcoin Not as Criminal as Some Might Think



Crime has existed long before Bitcoin and will continue to leverage new technologies to its own benefit.

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We have almost 10 weeks (according to the RBI circular) until every bank stops supporting exchanges. I ve just today received a mail from Koinex that they have changed their banking partners. I still hope against all odds that something positive might happen if a very large number of people decide to take action in anyway possible. I have signed the PIL and will forward to all my cryptobuddies.

This is from another thread I have posted recently regarding something similar to RBI's action against cryptocurrency that happend in chile and how they responded by going to the court.


I hope all our Indian members will join this and show support. I would also suggest sharing the same in social media groups etc..


Link to the above mentioned discussion thread.

On March 19, chilean banks started closing bank accounts of major cryptocurrency exchanges in the country. First in the line were Itau Corpbanca and Scotiabank followed by Banco del Estado de Chile only a week later.

Now, the exchanges in question gathered to fight back, legally. According to Bloomberg report, three exchanges hit by the ban, BUDA, Orionx and CryptoMarket have jointly appealed the bank decisions, that essentially ended their platforms.

Crypto community in Chile also joined the battle and try to help the exchanges with a Twitter action under a hashtag #ChileQuiereCryptos. It is obvious that people in this Southamerican country want to have an option of trading cryptocurrencies.

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P.S. I am no expert of law, just wondering if something like this is possible in India too? If yes, Why wouldn't exchanges give it a try?

This thread was posted on June 2017 and probably the guy gave up because of all the fuzz happening around BTC in India. I have seen this 'auto-miner' being posted in many threads posted by newbies. There are already many great mining programs, whats special about your miner if you are trying to help newbies?

As far as a newbie miner is concerned, he can just download the NiceHash Miner from their official website and point their rigs, and the NiceHash miner is very user friendly and also a great integrated 'auto-mining' software and there isn't this whole one hour a day of mining time donation also.

Japanese are very smart and also well disciplined. Their govt. is positive about BTC, since they understand the true potential of BTC. No wonder people are going all-in.

Unlike countries like India - where the cheap prostituting politicians sell their own homeland for money, Japan has more integrity which always mean they will be succesful - which is very evident from the pace of their nations development.

This is of course a very positive sign for BTC and cryptocoins overall.

Received IOST tokens to my wallet, many thanks. Did not receive BTC tho (fyi).

Explorer

Edit: 16 April - Received BTC to my wallet. Thank you !! 

Yes, the classic ones 1) cloud mining 2) trading through forum without escrow

I have invested around 0.2 BTC to a cloud mining site called hasheer only to get rekt after few weeks. They ran away with around 100 BTC (may be more) from all the investors.
I traded some eth to a legendary member in this forum and got rekt, only on close inspection of his profile did I found that the account changed hands.

Bonus: I have been scammed by some stupid kid playing Counter Strike: GO. When he promised to trade me an expensive knife for the skins I had. That was another 200 USD.

Quite a bumpy road.

Innosilicon is one of the oldest when it comes to manufacturing ASICs. But they fucked up big time last year during the sale of A4 and A4+ LTC miners. I myself have ordered and paid 75% on June and the delivery was promised on September. It got postponed to Nov, Dec, Jan (since they were releasing A4+ at that time and offered upgrade) - but in effect I lost out on 4-5 months of mining when the crypto market mooned to 19+ k USD. Finally, the delivery was made late Jan 2018.

Make sure you get the miners delivered on time, in case you are ordering from Innosilicon.

The math will look good and fascinates us at times, but also consider the amount of headache if you install 100 of these to get 100 x 12 = 1.2 Gh/s (ETH). The same can be achieved with lesser number of more powerful cards.
Many people had their rigs burnt and rooms catch fire because of overheating, burnt psu power cables etc..

When looking to invest in mining, the maintenance part is as important as the initial setup. Good luck

I have enrolled for an online course at coursera.org. This course is created by Princeton University and the lectures are given by Arvind Narayanan (Princeton University) and others. I am a super noob when it comes to coding or anything related to development, but the course seems very comprehensive and interesting even for me with limited knowledge.

you can check out the link here to get all details about it and join if you wish.

Goodluck.

There was a known driver issue with running many RX 580/570s during the time it was released. I don't know if they were fixed with new drivers but anyway, you can see how to fix the driver issues by combining an old and new driver. The process is shown in video by cryptomined.

There is a lot of uncertainty about GPU mining right now after many asics have showed up for many coins including XMR which used cryptonight algo and was considered to be ASIC-resistant. XMR had to hardfork to brick all the asic and the huge amount of hashes which was brought to the network.

I wouldn't risk investing in mining (especially since you live in India) as the situation is the worst after the RBI's new regulation on cryptocurrency. Spend your money wisely, don't jump in without proper research or awareness about what is going on.

If you shift your attention from the immediate past 3-6 months chart to the last 2 years or so, you can see for yourself that BTC have gone a long way already. we are at 8000+ USD per 1 BTC which is itself extra ordinary. As you know the supply is limited to 21 million unlike fiat currency, so with more awareness and people showing interest in BTC and more organiztions adapting to the technology after realizing its true potential - I say 8k or 10k is just the beginning.

I guess they have really done their homework before sending their hashes towards mining XSH. The best thing to do is to invest time yourself trying to find potentially good cryptos which will moon in the future. I don't think you ll get a ready made answer here. Just my opinion.

You can start your search at the altcoin ANN section here

It will be helpful if you give some more information about your setup like what cards you are running and overall hardware spec. If you have moded bios or not, and also if you are mining on windows/linux or any other OS like ETHOS or Simplemining.

As a first step I would run each card alone to see if its a hardware issue with the card itself.

The altcoin ANN section which you can see here, have info about every new coins that is being released. The ANN thread typically consist of all the information about the coin so you can see whether it is mineable or not using a GPU.

but, beware that many of them serves no real purpose for anyone - they just announce a coin and offer ICO etc only to lure new investors without good knowledge or experience about cryptos. It is better to do a good amount of research before setting up your hardware to mine them. Good luck.