Hey Thanks ! . Yeah I see that now .

Any one knows when freebitco.in is going to make the 1:1 Bitcoin Golds out of the fork available for withdrawal to their customers ??

According to their site -
"we shall support withdrawals of all hard fork coins as long as they are viable - ie. have wallet support, a working blockchain and straightforward redemption policies."

As of today ,  BTG has a wallet support and  their blockchains are running smooth. Not sure why the delay in making the equivalent BTG available - for those who has BTC in their accounts in freebitco.in

So the BTG gold mining ecosystem is up .
https://bitcoingold.org/mine-bitcoin-gold-pool/

Is this pool working ? The site itself is down -

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Completely agree. I sometimes buy from cex.io even though I have to give the 3.5% to them. Atleast they have a transparent rule on how they price the current buying price. Indian bit coin operators are just a bad name for bitcoin itself.

Anyone using any advertising networks on their faucet / sites to earn in BTC ? ( like a-ads etc ? ) Want to know the feed back from these sites and to know which one give better PPC /PPV / CPM .
P.S: I have been using a-ads for quite some time - wanted to know if there are any alternates for it

Thanks

Since I received a few requests to explain this part - here is the long explanation to this . Here's a preview of what I did .

If you are comfortable with linear regression and you want to do it yourselves , you can just go to your a-ads site ,
get the data in this format for existing data  :

earnings = x1* impressions + X2*as_unit_clicks + X3*affiliate_clicks + Error

Error = the error tolerance ( because of other parameters that are not used in the equation - like quality_of_site )
Note: if you donot have any affiliate_clicks, over a few months of data , this give pretty much accurate results .

Compare it with earnings from a ad-units before last month and then with one in this month. This will give you the two different equations, with two different payout schemes .

Note: To get your linear equation , you can use any tool ( python, R ) or even you can use any online linear regression calculating sites .

Happy to help anyone further - as usual, PM me.

Not sure about this . Maybe you should raise a support ticket for this . I am a publisher myself and was trying to figure out about a-ads reading in their blog and watching their payouts to my faucet site

It could be  because of few reasons, which I gathered after analyzing it myself. I have a few sites which have been affected because of the "low pay out" of late. These are just hypothesis that I can make :
1. Prices of BTC has gone up so the net dollar amount still remains almost the same.

2.They had a few technical meltdowns in the last few months

• Nov 7th and on ( read these : http://blog.anonymousads.com/2017/11/november-7th-statistics-aggregation.html
• Late last month http://blog.anonymousads.com/2017/10/october-24th-accounting-database.html
• Early July -  http://blog.anonymousads.com/2017/07/2017-07-05-incident-report.html

with some "unknown amount" of losses from their accounts.
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3.  Not enough paying advertisers , so they are using the space with low return affiliate ads ( mostly their own ads )
You must have seen these messages in your ad units . "Since there are not enough paying advertisers for this ad unit, 78% of traffic is used to display affiliate ads."

Any other reasons - I don't know  - I have build a liner regression model to even estimate the payout estimate - and I clearly see that they have changed their payout structure.  Feel free to PM me to know about this . ( Not sure if its okay to publish the structure - or even that , the model i estimate is anywhere close to correct )

Segwit 2x is NOT about BTC gold.
BTC gold fork happened on 23rd October . And they could immediately encash it post fork in select exchanges and made a good profit out of it.

Yes. The prices of ge force gtx 1070 ( SC version )went up by around +$70 in the last 6 months ( currently its selling for around $430 on amazon.com)



What

Well .. It had to fall ! $6735 as of writing . Fall of around 10% over the last 24 hrs. This should continue ! ( Go Bears  !! )

So they cancelled the hard fork. Now the BTC prices should see some downward slope ??

"Advocates for a bitcoin hard fork have now decided to cancel plans for the so-called SegWit2x fork. The bitcoin blockchain was supposed to split into two blockchains in roughly 8 days."

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/segwit2x-backers-cancel-plans-for-bitcoin-hard-fork/

I got my gtx1070 from someone in the US ( via Amazon) . If you can source it from there and 'smuggle' it to india , you could save upwards or around Rs.10K/-  If you are okay with paying the delta , there are suppliers on amazon who do sell at those rates.
One question though - if you are into mining - Why specifically Nvidia ?

Interesting .
How do you generate the Buy/ Sell signals ? At what percentage fall would you consider to go LONG?
Pm-ed you.

Why do you necessarily have to buy from India ? You can use your credit card and buy off sites like cex.io  ( 3.5% markup on currency conversion will be charged by your credit card company if you are having one issued in India )

Did some looking around and these are the sites/exchanges that support BTG (Bticoin gold ) . Btw , the current value as of writing is around $140 ( and falling )

• Bitfinex
  HitBTC
  Binance
  YoBit
  Exrates
  Gate.io
  Bleutrade
  Braziliex
  BitFlip

Freebitco.in will allow you to withdraw BTG once they have figured out  ( So if you have some BTC there - you will get equivalent ( 1:1 ) counts of BTG ( equivalent to the amount of BTC you had at the time of fork )

Official press release from poloniex on BTG :
https://poloniex.com/press-releases/2017.10.24-Notice-About-Bitcoin-Gold/

I saw this on the Unocoin site (news release dated Oct 18th) regarding  the Segwit2x fork .

https://blog.unocoin.com/unocoins-stance-on-the-upcoming-segwit2x-fork-6708bf90b1f9

I don't see anything about the BTG fork as yet on any of the Indian sites. Still looking for a list of wallets/sites/exchanges that have explicitly mentioned support for the BTG fork.

Does any one know which of the exchanges have promised to give the depositors a 1:1 coin for the BTCs that they hold in the exchange wallets ? (Since crypto exchanges control the private keys and not the people who have deposited their money there, they are not legally bound to give the holders a share of the BTG coins )

Do you know if i hold my BTC in wallets by zebpay/uno coin, they might issue a 1:1 BTG for every BTC ?

Hi,
Not sure if this is discussed here - But wanted to check if there are any long term effects on the GPU/CPU/ Motherboard if I keep the PC running for mining - without breaks . I stop the mining process once in a day and give a break for 30 minutes . I have attached an additional fan ( in total there are 3 fans in the setup)

Here are the CPU/GPU temperatures on a normal day -

+- ASUS PRIME Z270-P (/mainboard)
+- Intel Core i7-6700K (/intelcpu/0)
|  +- CPU Core #1    :     45 (/intelcpu/0/temperature/0)
|  +- CPU Core #2    :     54 (/intelcpu/0/temperature/1)
|  +- CPU Core #3    :     49 (/intelcpu/0/temperature/2)
|  +- CPU Core #4    :     55 (/intelcpu/0/temperature/3) 
+- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (/nvidiagpu/0)
+- GPU Core       :   63 (/nvidiagpu/0/temperature/0)  - Goes to 73
GPU Fan : 1246 RPM

In addition, the CPU is cooled by a copper tubed ( coolermaster hyper 212) and the Graphics card ( EVGA geforce 1070 ) comes with twin fans.
The temperatures in CPU goes upto  80 sometimes and the GPU goes to 70 sometimes.


Wanted to know if the components will burn out / wear out faster than the usual lifespan if I keep it as a dedicated machine for mining 24/7

Any pointers are appreciated.