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6181  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin is currently trading below $10,000. Why? on: August 17, 2019, 02:40:01 AM
The sell off a couple days ago was pretty intense and it basically reminded me of the Bitconnect ponzi which put us in the nasty 2018 bear market. I remember that Bitcoin peaked at $20K and then later the Ponzi was revealed and all the markets have started to crash and even till this day haven't recovered.

From what I heard, most of the investors in this Plus token were regular working joes in China who attended a conference and told them how to buy BTC with ATMs or with Chinese Bitcoin exchanges and might have lead to the rally we had in April till June. I have no idea if this is true however.

The money hopefully gets frozen by police and returned to the investors.
6182  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Suggestions for a newby with free electricity! on: August 17, 2019, 02:28:39 AM
If you decide to go the GPU route then go for some old RX 470 or RX 570 GPUs which are dirt cheap now second hand on craiglists or eBay.

You can buy them for like $75 and in a year or so probably get back the entire $75 or at least $50 or so, so it's the safest route if you decide mining is not for you.

ASICS are easier to manage but keep in mind that they can go down in value very quickly if the markets turn and become doorstops.
6183  Economy / Gambling / Re: Primedice.com | Creators of Dicing 🎲 | 29 Billion Bets | 112+ BTC Jackpot! on: August 15, 2019, 08:50:35 AM
Played here back in the day before I took a break from most online casinos.
Came back, account removed that or the details I had from a few years ago were written down wrong.
Either way, setup a new account this morning, played for a while and still had fun.
If you still want to recover your old account you can contact their customer support and they will help you in regaining your old account, you have to remember you old deposit address and  if you have enabled 2 FA they might help you in recovering your account, they helped me in regaining my account when i had the same issue sometime back.

Did you have a balance on your account? I am assuming you did.

I had an old PD account which had a very high rank due to a large BTC rollover amount probably from 2015 or 2016 or so. And basically I upgraded my phone, didn't realise that Google Authenticator doesn't actually include the keys when you do a restore on the phone and ended up losing the 2FA. Don't remember if I linked an email.

However when I contacted support, they basically said that since there are no funds in the account the standard protocol is just to let the user create a new account. Which I ended up doing because there was no way to recover that 2FA code.
6184  Economy / Gambling / Re: Stake.com | The Most Popular Bitcoin Casino | V2 & New games out now! 👽 on: August 15, 2019, 08:40:28 AM
I think if you are risking too much money on contrary you should play with higher odds of winning, like if you can do you should go for 1.

1 instead of 2.02 because you are risking way too much already and there is no point of risking it even more, if you do x4 there is a bigger chance of losing all of it and we don't know how rich that person is, maybe he has 10+ million dollars, then yeah he wouldn't mind but maybe he has like 50 thousand dollars total and betting 8 thousand of it, in which case he should not make those type of bets but there are gambling addicts so lets assume they do, the clearest choice would be the high odds of winning so you can at least not lose your money (not even focus on how much you would win, it is more about how you are not losing) but that is my thought of course, everyone has their own.

This isn't always an effective strategy. Sure you can go and bet with a 90-10 odds of winning but what happens when somewhere in the first 5 rolls you end up with a loser, then you lost basically 10x of your base bet. Since the bets are completely indepedant statistically, I don't think the higher or lower the odds make a difference unless you are betting 1 BTC and are using the 9900x bet odds.

Gambling addicts aren't the people who bet a large BTC amount or people who bet with higher odds. Most gambling addicts basically bet small amounts like $50 or $100 or so and they usually try and go for the quickest wins and that is generally betting on 50/50. However due to greed, even if they win a large amount they usually end up betting it all until they end up losing everything. A whale is different because they got lots of money and greed and fear isnt a factor in their bets.
6185  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin faces more decreases on: August 15, 2019, 06:16:10 AM
Yes the selling is still advancing and everything across the board is in the deep red. Some alts are down 10% relative to BTC and BTC is down itself also 10% so its getting pretty bad.

The $10K which we assumed would be decent support basically broke like butter and the sell-off went further. I am assuming this is due to that Chinese Ponzi where they were sending funds to various exchanges and selling their Bitcoins and Ethereum. Reminds me of the BitConnect event which is what caused BTC to peak at $20K and go down to $3K a year later. Hopefully this won't be the same situation this time.
6186  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Every time I sell Bitcoin pumps... Has BTC been good or bad for You??? on: August 15, 2019, 06:08:18 AM
You can't always sell the top or buy the bottom. The people that claim they can are either extremely lucky or they are lying. I've also sold BTC way too early this year and originally assumed that $4000 would be resistance since it was the weekly high and where price stalled in Jan and Feb 2019. Then I assumed $6000 would be resistance since its where the previous strong support of 2018 was, I assumed it would be strong resistance and it wasn't.

Same with the $10000 psychological number, I assumed that most people will sell before $10K since its a nice round number and also $9950 or so was the weekly resistance from May 2018, and again price kept going higher and higher. So don't beat yourself up.
6187  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What are Virgin Bitcoins on: August 14, 2019, 03:59:19 PM
Virgin bitcoins are basically coins which are straightly mined and come from the Coinbase transaction. They basically have no outputs because they were freshly minted.

In my opinion you can't really safely buy any Virgin bitcoins, reason why is because the original miner would need to send you the private key and there is no guarantee that in the near future that seller won't just move the coins right after sale.

These days as soon as a block is found the miner reward is sent directly to a pool and its spread across thousands of addresses so these days its rare to mint a true virgin bitcoin like the people did back in 2009-2011.
6188  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][$MUSIC] Musicoin Blockchain Upgrades to V3.0(“Quantitative Tightening 🎸 on: August 14, 2019, 03:55:17 PM
Can any of the current devs chime in and let us know what is going on with the project? I am assuming there is some Discord or Telegram channel that most people communicate on and the reason why this thread is so dead.

What is going on with that MUSIC speaker that they released? Was it ever on sale?

What is the future roadmap for this coin, not only in terms of developement but any planned exchanged? I am assuming the devs raised some funds and can use it for marketing and maybe exchange listings.

Please let us know what is going on...
6189  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v14.7 (Windows/Linux) on: August 14, 2019, 03:52:43 PM
I have 12 Radeon VII's and switched from v12 to v14.7 and really see no difference.  What am I missing?

The way that the Daggerhashimoto algo is designed it doesn't really matter what software you use, you will most likely get the same speed. Basically from the original ethminer included in the Ethereum github package to the advanced Claymore ETH miner software the actual miner speed is identical. Its just the way they designed the algo from the ground up.

The only difference is that ethminer was extremely buggy, basically from what I recall all my R9 280X rigs crashed every single time there was a DAG change. When claymore was released it fixed that and it also was more stable. And it had more features such as Claymore remote monitoring and Dual mining capability.

So in general the updates are mostly for stability and features instead of actual speed ups for GPUs.
6190  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What is better? Using one storage option or using several methods? - Bitcoin. on: August 14, 2019, 08:10:51 AM
If you are storing your coins properly and have backups of your private keys, wallet.dat files, word nmonimcs and you've tested this method a few times and could regenerate your wallet from a hard drive crash then you shouldn't have to keep your bitcoins split up.

Like you said, don't keep it on an online wallet but if you got a safe electrum running offline in cold storage or if you print a paper wallet then splitting it up doesn't make sense.

Only reason to split them up would be if you wanted to sell it in smaller fractions instead of having to keep creating new paper wallets after every transaction. Say you wanted to sell 10% of your bitcoins every quarter, then just make 10 paper wallets and this way when you send 10% of your wallet you don't need to create a new paper wallet right after since the coins were moved and rendered that paper wallet useless.
6191  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What if you received Bitcoin from this wallet on: August 14, 2019, 08:07:03 AM
That might be really scary and exciting in the same time. Because well, it's such a big amount of money, and if i were tempted, then i might be quickly exchange them all to cash and be rich lol.
But then my private information is known already, so i won't bother to risk my life, and i will feel bad for those whose bitcoin got stolen so i prefer to give those btc back really soon. I think if i kept it in my wallet then the hackers will try to hack into my wallet and get their btc and i don't want my wallet to be hacked.
Anyway the suggestion to use more than one wallet is fine but i don't really feel like needing it but maybe i will reconsider it for safety reasons.

Really don't understand what you are trying to say. Why would a hacker send you some Bitcoins and then that hacker would hack your bitcoin wallet on your computer to steal them back to himself. Why even send you the stolen coins in the first place.

And exchanging them to cash and being rich is not that easy since those coins are tained and you can't just send them to your Coinbase account and wonder why they cancelled your withdraw to your bank account.
6192  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: New to mining help please on: August 14, 2019, 08:00:28 AM
Ugh! I can't get the what to Mine calculator to work right, when I try to put in the card I want it resets it back to default after I hit calculate.  And the 3 480 card in the red box how do you get rid of those it always sets back to 3?

You click the red box again and it will let you manually play with the entries. Basically you put in how many of a specific GPU you own, so if you got 1 1660Ti then you put a 1 to the left of it and click the "1660 Ti" box and it will appear green. Why its green instead of red is because Red is AMD and Green are Nvidia GPUs. Then all the hashrates and profits and different coins will show up under. Also put in your power costs, if you don't know then put in like 0.10$ which is the household average in alot of places.

So for the 1660 Ti with 10 cent power you will make about 0.23$ a day mining Ethereum. With a RX 470 4GB you will make about $0.18 a day but keep in mind that the used RX 470 is much much cheaper than the 1660 Ti even though it uses more power.
6193  Economy / Speculation / Re: Why $13,000 was unsustainable. on: August 14, 2019, 07:52:48 AM
The $13K price really has nothing to do with it, I think its more of the fast run-up and blow off top that happened. I think when people keep seeing Bitcoin gain 10% day after day and after day and then they get a 20% day they assume that eventually its going to drop before heading higher and people close their positions and get to re-buy later.

If Bitcoin travelled very slowly to $13K and more conservatiately then it might of broke above the $14K by now. But these fast and sharp moves are never good because it means short covering and FOMO settling in and its never good for the long term.
6194  Economy / Gambling / Re: How i can connect faucets? on: August 14, 2019, 07:46:01 AM
A few years back before maybe the 2017 FOMO rally there were many people that actually did do faucet farming, however they didn't need cellphones for that they just needed a desktop.

I remember PrimeDice a few years back had a large faucet, it was like 2000 Sats and if you wagered alot of BTC then you moved up a few levels and maybe got a 3000 or 4000 Sat faucet. There was a small time-delay and captcha but it was pretty easy to turn that 2000 Sats into the min withdraw.

Obviously people started to abuse this method in 2017 and they had to lower the faucets and eventually remove it since it became too much work to keep having to deny withdraws from people who never made a single deposit.

6195  Economy / Gambling / Re: 💰TrustDice - We've listed USDT 💰Time to bet with USDT :) on: August 14, 2019, 07:30:20 AM
How do you give out usdt on claims and allow people to deposit usdt to eventually gamble with it? Isn't usdt basically usd itself?

Wouldn't that make your website a fiat gambling place as well? Shouldn't that have different type of legal issues with it? I mean you would have to have a license that would guarantee the safety of the money we are giving based on the nation you are in for something like usd gambling, its very rare and very difficult to achieve.

Crypto is one thing because not all countries see it as "money" just yet and any "gaming" license you have would be enough, like the slot games on mobile where you play to have fun with fake money but than you end up spending real money to get more fake money so you are basically still gambling with real money in the end, that works for crypto however as soon as you put USDT in there thing must have changed.

This is a great point. Perhaps, they overlooked the legal implications  Undecided But I agree with you that as soon as you start gambling with USDT which is a stable coin easily convertible into USD is automatically raising red flags because its not longer true crypto gambling but gambling with 'real money' as majority of the society interprets it. So it would be interesting to see the team's take on this  Huh

Tether is still considered a Crypto currency. Its basically running on the Bitcoin blockchain and just uses the Omni layer. Fiat is completely different because with Fiat you need to actually deposit funds from like a credit card or a debit card from your bank card.

The reason why more gambling sites need Tether is due to the crazy volatility of Bitcoin. Because someone can buy Bitcoin at $13800 like in June and basically now be sitting at a 33% loss, and if they just used Tether they would of still had their original cash position.

Sure its good when you buy bitcoin to gamble, and bitcoin goes up, and you pretty much made money by doing nothing but keep in mind that there is a 50/50 chance that it can also go down and cause losses.
6196  Economy / Exchanges / Re: best exchange to buy AND sell on: August 14, 2019, 07:25:35 AM
Well if you are buying Bitcoin at $10000 and selling for 2% profit at $10200, then you are mostly trading. If so you should just use a futures derivates exchange like Bitmex. If you use limit orders then they actually pay you the trading fees, and if you do a maker trade then its only 0.075%, its the lowest in the industry.

However this assumes you already own Bitcoin because on Bitmex you can only deposit and withdraw bitcoins and not fiat. If you are only fiat now, then you need to register with some exchange and do KYC and after you buy the bitcoins you can send it to a futures exchange and trade with it.
6197  Economy / Speculation / Re: IS LONGS/SHORTS RULING THE MARKET PRICE? on: August 13, 2019, 08:34:09 AM
The Long/Short ratios on Bitmex actually aren't a real ratio. Its just a calculation of all the posted positions when someone inputs a command in the trollbox. Its a useless indicator because when the market is bullish, there are usually only bullish people posting their gains and same for vice versa. Usually people don't post a loss since it makes them look bad.

Also Bitmex is a futures exchange so there is 1 buyer and 1 seller and the contracts are fully balanced. So if there are $1 billion open interest right now then $1 billion amount of longs and $1 billion amount is shorts. It will always be balanced.
6198  Economy / Gambling / Re: Stake.com | The Most Popular Bitcoin Casino | V2 & New games out now! 👽 on: August 13, 2019, 08:29:31 AM
What that guy is asking doesn't make much sense in my opinion. Sure you can win 2x as much when you put lower odds but your chances of losing your money is also increased by 2x.

No whale is going to deposit 10 BTC and bet on 9900x when its most likely going to be a sure loss. Sure its possible somewhere within 10000 rolls but it doesn't make sense to roll such a large amount when the outcome is going to be most likely negative.

This would be like Warren Buffet putting all his money into 1 penny stock. Sure he would be ultra rich if that penny stock was successful but most likely it would just be a loss.
6199  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: r9 280x eth mining on: August 13, 2019, 08:25:45 AM
Guys anyone knows how to set the DPM on HiveOS for r9 290/390 GPUs? I have overclocked the cards from bios but the OS doesn't pick the highest GPU frequency. I tried with the wolfamdctrl command but it says: Specified core state does not exist. Is it ok to modify again the bios with the same frequency on all states and the same voltage to bypass the bug from the HiveOS? or the card will get damaged?


If the Hawaii is similiar to the Tahiti's then the reason why you aren't getting the highest GPU frequency is because the DPM states need to go from the lowest to highest in frequency. They need to be in order like 300Mhz,500Mhz,800Mhz, 947Mhz, 1000Mhz, 1050Mhz, etc. You can't do something like 300Mhz, 500Mhz, 800Mhz, 1000Mhz, 1050Mhz, 947Mhz, because you will run into issues that way.

What software are you using to modify your BIOS?

I remember with the Hawaii GPUs, I didn't have issues with the clockrates but I had issues with the fan speeds. I could never get them to automatically set but had to manually set the fan speeds because modifying the bios didn't do anything.
HiveOS won't spin up the fans on my Hawaii cards, but SMOS is working with it, so I very much suggest SMOS over HiveOS for GCN1 and GCN2 cards. I personally used Hawaii Bios Editor to change clocks/volts/fan curve on my 290s, and also a hex editor to change memory straps a little, but I changed when they change over rather than copying lower tier up (I was doing it for benchmarking purposes with firestrike, not mining.). I use VBE7, anorak's tools, and a hex editor for my 7850, I believe it works on the GCN1 refreshes too, I'd have to grab a vbios off of techpowerup to check if it handles it right.
edit: also to change DPM on a per-card basis on SMOS, you need to use ssh and unless you want to su to root, make a .sh file containing something like "echo "7" > /sys/class/drm/card1/device/pp_dpm_sclk " that will set a DPM level of 7 to the second card in the system,as the first card is card0. needs to be a .sh file run with sudo because the ">" happens to break sudo, applying to echo but not opening of the "file" so it can't write to it, while making it a .sh file to run has sudo apply to everything in it. I currently don't have a refresh of the GCN1 cards to test how their powerplay settings are in vbios. my 7850 doesn't seem to really have a full DPM profile in the vbios and I can only set maximums, which it runs at by default so I don't know how 270(x) or 280(x)s would behave in that regard. Also, sorry if I ramble a bit too much.

When you change the memory stripe, did you actually see the performance increase? I changed memory frequency from 1125 to 1250MHz, do not see any hash rate increase.
If you were trying to change memory freq. on GCN1 cards, some of them have driver-capped frequencies, but upping core frequency on my 7850 with some timing improvements got me more on ethash than just one or the other. My R9 290s were mostly core limited on ethash so didn't bother with OCing memory, but I did see some small improvements on I believe cryptonight variants with tightened timings. Maybe c29 too, not sure about that one.

Yes he is pretty much spot on... at least with the Daggerhash algo which is for Ethereum mining.

The R9 290 from what I recall didn't make any speed increases by changing the memory clock or even strapping the memory. I remember I had bad luck with trying to strap those. Because a little change would cause the entire system to hang and you had to pretty much do a cold power cycle. So I just left it the way it was.

Changing the memory had little effect... all it did was cause freezing with no advantages. The only way to get faster speeds was the actual engine core. But you couldn't go too much because it would eat 300 Watts of power.
6200  Economy / Gambling / Re: 💰TrustDice - We've listed USDT 💰Time to bet with USDT :) on: August 12, 2019, 09:05:46 AM
Guys, we have added USDT coin. Everyone is welcome to bet with USDT!



From what I can tell you are probably the only gambling site that has added tether. I actually suggested to most of the top casinos out there to add USDT since Bitcoin is too volatile and most didn't want to do it for regulation reasons. So I am surprised that a casino finally came out and added tether as a deposit method.

Which network do you run the tether crypto? Do you run it on the OMNI network which is piggybacked on the bitcoin network, or the ETH network or the new Tron network? I think the majority is still on OMNI however many are switching over to ETH due to cheaper fees.

Either way good luck to you and hope this generates much popularity of your site.
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