It actually was my main mining rig for years even after Win 10 was released. It was much more stable than Win7 and for ETH mining it was more stable that Ubuntu hence I used it on some of my rigs.

I stopped using it primarily because there are no more security updates. It was discoutuined sometime in Jan 2020. Hence with all the exploits out there, there is no point in using it anymore really. Hence had to upgrade those rigs to Win 10. Sure miss Windows XP and Windows 7.

For the last week or so you can clearly see the direct correlation to the equities market. Which is pretty much what caused the drop back in Feb-March 2020. Hence alot of BTC futures is based that its considered a risk-on asset. So basically whatever happens to the stock markets short term will project to the crypto markets.

We were in a bearish trend and it got reversed by the jpow to purchase corporate bonds. So it looks like fed will do anything to prevent the stock market from crashing and in return this prevents bitcoin from crashing at least in the short term.

Before people reply they should check the date of the original post which was at the end of 2017. Which means that most likely the OP will never reply again and he most likely got his answer. I didn't even have to look at the date in the thread I could tell just by looking at the images that it was taken years ago.

Basically most dice casinos are more or less the same. Some have higher or lower house edges and others have some nice features but overall they are all the same pretty mch. Hence why dice is always so simple.

I don't think that most casinos revenues comes from the house edge. I am pretty sure that its the people that martingale their accounts which end up with most profit for the casinos. Its basically taking advantage of peoples fear and greed. Physical offline casinos are no different.

The house edge has little difference when you got like 14 reds in a row while trying to do a 50/50 dice roll, on the 15th roll which might be a loss again usually the gambler ends up gambling their entire account and goes bust. Pretty sure a large amount of gamblers are like this.

From the activity of Bitcointalk forum gambling section I don't think there was a surge of new retail users who started to gamble. You need to understand that bitcoin gambling is a niche. One can be a gambler but they can only gamble with fiat and deposit by credit card.

Getting someone to buy crypto first and then gamble is just too much of a headache. First they need to find a Bitcoin ATM, then they need to figure out how wallets work and stuff and eventually they will get too confused and just give up. So regular online casinos that do KYC might have gotten a boost but not bitcoin casinos.

Its pretty unprofessional how their last post was on May 15th. Basically the admin was pretty active on this thread when he was trying to get it going but now most likely won't ever reply in this thread. I guess the good thing is that their support on their site at least works.

For the people that participated in the sig campaign by sdice, how many weeks was it? I remember it was suppose to start and don't remember see the sigs anywhere.

These charts at the moment don't really mean much when BTC is highly correlated with stocks, especially in a bear trend. You can plot a M5 chart of the SP500 with bitcoin and you can see they follow each other very closely.

Right now it depends what happens with the stock market which will determine the short term trend for Bitcoin. If the stock market crashes again to a new yearly low then BTC won't be breaking $10K anytime soon.

However the recovery should be pretty quick like last time.

Miners should just stick to mining and nothing else. Well they can also hodl which I guess can be considered crypto investing.

Reason why is because over the years I've known many miners who made "decent" returns on mining and then lost it all to bitcoin trading and gambling. They basically get greedy and want more and end up losing all their mining revenues. The ones that cash out from time to time and they keep a spare bit to hodl in case price goes up are usually the clear winners.

I haven't heard from any miner who ended up gambling or trading and made more BTC than they mined, most are lost.

Pretty sure he just didn't buy it for mining primarily. Most likely he is a gamer and bought a gaming laptop (jugding by the GPU included) and just wants to mine when the laptop is not in use.

I know that CPU mining on a laptop is a bad idea, but GPU mining on a gaming laptop? Might not be so bad as long as he removes the battery to prevent it from overheating and leaking and exploding.

Basically if you got any 4GB GPUs you should sell them ASAP before they completely stop working under Linux and with the 8GB as GPU0. Because there is going to be a flood of them on eBay and Craiglist and it'll be tough to sell them.

What I did was basically sell some of my 4GB RX 470 for like $80 and bought 8GB variants for $100-125 USD. Currently its the only solution to the DAG problem. Plus when all 4GB stop working plus the ASICs the difficulty should be less and more profit for your 8GB GPUs.

Honestly it can go either way. Basically its consolidating against resistance and can easily break up. Someone on twitter brought up a good point about $10K being the new $6K from 2018.

Remember $6K from 2018? We kept wicking under it and always closed above it, people kept trying to jump in short and ended up being rekt when the support kept holding. Then one day, poof and off we went to $3K.

Same with $10K now except opposite, we fail to close above $10K on the weekly and whenever we are about to break $10K, tons of bulls get in try to long the break, and end up getting wicked out on the pullback. So honestly one day out of the blue we might break $10K and never go back.

Personally I would not get a bank loan, I know many people who got into debt by maxing out their credit cards in 2018 buying GPUs only to have the markets turn a few months later. Many were mining and just making enough to only pay the interest on their credit cards, they could forget about ROI their equipment.

The ROI you got of 12 months is not guaranteed, ETH could easily lose half its value and the ROI will be double, what will you do then? If you are willing to accept this risk then go ahead with the 5700RX. Worse case scenario you can sell them to some gamers.

I think the effect was pretty much neutral. Even though people were stuck at home so out of boredom they could of gambled more, at the same time people lost their jobs and couldn't afford to gamble. Been part of Bitcointalk for the last 5-6 years or so and the only time that the gambling section or any BCT section was busy with newbies when during 2017-2018. In the past couple of months I didn't notice any new adoption to crypto or crypto gambling.

The only sector that did well in covid19 was the stock brokerages. Basically millions of people started trading for the first time with their phones and caused companies like Hertz to go up like crazy after they went bankrupt. There is a website called Robintrack which shows how many new positions were taken with a certain stocks and in the past 2 months there was like 1 million positions opened with the leadership top 10 stocks. Imagine how many it is all together with all brokerages.

I saw some photos of people gambling in casinos and many werent wearing masks at all. I think with all the protests going on and nobody getting sick and curve is still flattening people are just being careless. I don't know if you guys trade stocks but MGM and LVS went up alot in the last few days. If you bought the low of MGM at like $7 you could of sold at $23 basically 3x your money.

This is why many people think that wave 2 will come sometime in the Summer. People are just tired of staying at home and wearing masks that they just want a normal life. And all it will take is one sick person and the cycle will start again. Hopefully by then and end of year there will be some type of vaccine for this so life can return back to normal.

One thing I found with referrals is that they are easier to gain when the site is newer. When the site is a few years old already then most people in the crypto gambling community already know about it and they won't visit your referral link or they already got an account.

Only time when you can gain lots of referrals with an old gambling site is when there is retail FOMO like in 2017. Back then there was so many new people to crypto that old sites like Primedice were completely new to most people, hence why it was easier to promote them then. Right now, not much retail FOMO. Everybody is FOMO into stocks right now.

Don't try and do a double spend attack if its 0 confirmation. These days most casinos have ways to flag any deposits which might seem like they are a double attack spend. There are some casinos, I think 999dice if I recall and they basically even flag and freeze any withdraws if you make a small fee deposit and win a bet and then try and withdraw.

I am not sure how Satoshidice is however most likely if you have a new account then any type of withdraw is going to be have to be manually reviewed anyways. My advice don't try any double spends. They hurt the casino and they also hurt the industry and its basically theft.

I am giving you a merit because unlike most of the threads in the speculation sections yours actually includes a chart and you sort of know what you are talking about. I agree with most of the demand areas you drew, however keep in mind this is crypto and usually what happens if the first demand area doesn't hold then either will the other 2.

Most like it will drop further or it will form a demand area somewhere else either front-running one of the others. These supply and demand areas seem to work best in forex or stocks but in crypto there are many traps in areas such as those. There is still a chance we might retest $10000 one more time and if it doesn't break this time then most likely we will head to the $8K area again.

Even though most gaps usually fill, you need to realise some of them take a very long time to fill. Basically I have kept the CME gaps in mind when I am looking to take profit on a trade but I never take a trade just based on the fact that a gap needs to fill.

Imagine taking a long at $11500 because you assumed it would go to $11795 and you ended up having price go to the low $3K's. Is it worth it going against you that much just gain about $300? No.

Hence don't take these gap traders too seriously. Sure they will eventually fill but the question is when?

I remember you asking this a while back and got a reply which answered a completely different question. Since you don't have a concrete reply and its a jackpot win. I am assuming that there is a small odds the jackpot will be ever hit so they are not betting on it.

Most likely I don't think they have the funds. Because I told them about the satoshidice trademark and they said it was too much money to rebrand. So if they don't have a few hundreds (maybe a few K at most) then most likely they don't have $1.5 million to pay for Jackpot.

You can check their cold storage also if you follow the hot wallet always.

Most motherboards have an onboard video, unless you are gaming you should just use the onboard video card to browse/surf the web. You need to go to your BIOS and enable onboard video in your BIOS because when the motherboard detects a GPU, it automatically disables it.

Which motherboard do you have exactly?

If you don't have onboard video, then you can browse with one of the mining GPUs but you should disable them when you are browsing because you will run into crashes due to instability. Even surfing the web can cause the mining GPUs to easily crash. If using Claymore just hit "0" or "1" and it will disable the GPU.