Have you checked the VIVP ANN thread on this forum:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2110690.0

There is a list of mining pools. I see that some of them might not be functional any more, but, for example, on https://www.mining-dutch.nl/ you can mine VIVO.

By the way, I find it fascinating that the official VIVO website has no info about where a person can mine their currency. Really strange.

Why would you want to import Electrum wallet seed in Bither? You should check whether they are compatible (do they use the same standard) to begin with. Btw, I'm curious, what can you do with Bither that you cannot do with Electrum?


I'm not really familiar with Bither, but you would definitely need to check whether the standards are the same. There are two prevalent standards for HD wallets and mnemonic seed generation, BIP-39 and Electrum compliant schemes. If they are compliant, then yes, you can import the seed and you won't have to copy paste each private key manually.

I'm not really sure that is the normal rate for your hardware. I think you should be getting more, even without overclocking. My Nvidia 1080 Ti can get something like 880 MH/s with overclocking using the same ccminerAlexis78 miner for the Skein algo. Maybe you should check the ccminer version and/or try other mining software. The best tool for overclocking that I know of is MSI Afterburner.

Recently I've started using Ichimoku Cloud. It is a sort of several indicators packed into one.
It can help you recognize support or resistance levels and the approximate moments of trend reversals.
It works equally well for BUY and SELL decisions. If you choose to get into Ichimoku, here is a great
youtube video:

How to Use the Ichimoku Cloud - Technical Analysis Series

I promise you it's entirely worth your time.

Is it just me or are you also seeing something strange about the OP's post?


Which one is it? Are you buying or selling? Because if you already own some YDY, how come you want to buy your first tokens? Probably you want to buy your second tokens.

Atomic cross-chain trading (Atomic swaps is another name) is, for example, when you hold, say, BTC and I hold LTC and we decide to trade directly without a centralized exchange to serve as a mediator.

The problem is, of course, who sends the coins first. Can the sender trust the other person that they will send their coins back without cheating, or, for example, without chaning the agreed upon exchange rate.

It's fine when you trade with someone you know (like it happened recently when the creator of Litecoin successfully traded LTC for BTC, VTC, and DCR), but what about when you don't know the other person? Hence a trustless mechanism is needed.

In principle, these swaps rely on two mechanisms: either on using time locks or on using contracts.

More info: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_cross-chain_trading

First of all, what coin you are going to mine very much depends on your hardware. Not all algos are equally suited for certain classes of hardware.


That can be a risky but profitable strategy. To choose a relatively unknown but promising coin (by relatively I mean at least promising in the short run) without checking the current profitability. Once it goes up, dump the coins and make profit.

I suggest looking into X16R or X16S coins. They seem to be ASIC resistant, at least for the time being.

In "Mastering Bitcoin" Andreas Antonopoulos talks about seed derivation in a BIP-39 compatible wallet (e.g., Trezor) from a mnemonic phrase + salt.

The mnemonic (typically 12 words phrase) is derived for you automatically by the wallet. (Or you can provide it yourself as discussed in this post.) The standard allows adding some salt words at the end, and then the seed is generated. It is derived by repeatedly hashing the combination of mnemonic phrase + salt with a key stretching function called PBKDF2.

The principle is illustrated in this image [1]:


Every salt we choose to extend the initial mnemonic phrase yields a different seed, which means each time a totally different (HD) wallet is obtained with different public and private keys.

Andreas Antonopoulos mentions the possibility to use this salting procedure to create a situation with 2 wallets derived from the same mnemonic phrase. This will serve as a form of plausible deniability to help us protect our wallet in case of attack.

Here is what he says:


Now, Electrum does not follow the BIP-39 standard, but we can use more or less the same trick with Electrum as well.

Here is how I think it could work (please feel free to correct me if this guide is wrong at some point):

Step by Step Guide for Electrum

In principle, we can use one and the same computer with the same Electrum installation, but it is much better to have Electrum installed on 2 computers: computer A which can be air gapped and serve for cold storage and computer B - any other computer.

Computer A

1. Here we create the wallet that will keep the majority of our funds. It should preferably be on an air gapped computer. Verify your Electrum installation files (if you don't know how, here is a guide how to do that on Windows and LInux).  Check "Standard wallet" and click "Next"


2. Choose "Create a new seed" and click "Next"


3. For Seed type choose "Standard" and click "Next"


4. Write down the mnemonic phrase


5. Then choose Options and mark the checkbox like this:


6. Enter the passphrase you are going to extend your mnemonic with.


I think you can choose something easy to remember, it doesn't have to be a complicated password. The point here is not to increase the entropy or improve the cryptographic security. The point is to create a totally different wallet from the same initial mnemonic phrase.

7. Now confirm the seed


8. Then confirm the passphrase


9. You may encrypt the wallet if you like

At this point, it is important NOT to confuse the wallet encryption with the mnemonic seed extension from the previous steps. They are two very different things with two different purposes.

10. Now you have installed your real wallet on the air gapped computer.

Computer B

11. Go to the other computer, probably the one you use daily.

12. Rather than creating a new seed, choose "I already have a seed"


13. Enter the same mnemonic from before, but now don't click on "Options" and don't extend it with a passphrase.

14. Finish the remaining steps and again, you can encrypt this wallet too if you like.

Similar procedure can be followed for a BIP-39 type of wallet.

What have we achieved?

We have created 2 wallets from the same initial 12 words. They hold different keys and different addresses, which is easy to check.

Our real wallet with (hopefully) significant funds is extended with a passphrase.

The other, decoy wallet, is not extended at all. It may hold small amount of funds which you can afford to lose in case of attack.

Say someone (a possible attacker) came into possession of your mnemonic. After all, there's no other way but to keep this phrase on paper (or in memory which can be risky).

So, in case of attack, you can give the attacker access to your fake wallet, while your main wallet remains protected.

You can also feel more at ease, having several copies of your mnemonic at different locations, and knowing that compromising the security of your mnemonic is not the end of the world.

I would appreciate your thoughts, and especially if there's something that is not done correctly.

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Reference:

[1] https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch05.asciidoc

This can only mean one thing. The network difficulty hasn't been adjusted for the new, much lower overall hash power. Shouldn't the developers have considered this fact before the hard fork? They could have roughly estimated the new hash power and reduced the difficulty accordingly. 

Do you know what percentage of the network has moved to the new mining software? I imagine the hashrate must be low currently, so it has to be beneficial for people who mine cryptonight to move to your coin. Can you share some insight as to how the fork was done. Specifically, to what extent was the algo changed, and is it now fully ASIC resistant.

If they can help it, the bankers and corporations won't allow the bitcoin mass adoption. The question is whether or not they can stop the wheel from turning now. And yes, they will fight it with every resource they have at their disposal. Maybe it won't be a bloodshed, but it will be a good fight, that's for sure.

It's too early for that. I think such writings will follow, once mainstream adoption has become certain.

I get your point, but for me, it all comes down to where you put your trust in. I personally value BTC much much higher than USD.
To me, it only makes sense to trade vs BTC. Bitcoin is my reference point, because it is ultimately the currency I would like to keep.
As for being technically outdated, I have to disagree. When billions of dollars are at stake, you need no fancy untested technologies.
You need a stable, tested code, a code backed up by excellent developers that has endured the test of time.
Otherwise things like the Ethereum DAO hack or similar hacks are just around the corner.

That's what I find the most irritating with some bounty campaigns out there. It is completely fine and acceptable to clearly say up front that KYC is required for all participants in their campaigns. People who care about their privacy and anonymity may choose to leave. But to ask for KYC afterward, that's totally unacceptable. For me, my privacy is way too valuable to trade it for any bounty, payment, or reward.

Yes, and another thing: with Nacehash and his GPU, it would take something like eternity to cross the payout threshold, which is pretty hefty (if they haven't reduced it in the meantime). So yes, Whattomine is a way to go.

If you are looking for instant crypto-to-crypto exchanges, neither shapeshift nor changelly are really instant. I've had some experience with shapeshift in the past. You may have to wait several hours or more, depending on the current circumstances. I don't know what the situation is now, but there were times when a single transaction could take days to be realized.

It's possible to mine part time, but don't expect huge profits.


With your GPU, you might want to try mining Equihash or Lyra2v2 coins.


Exactly. It probably makes no sense to mine using your CPU. Use your GPU.


No, you won't earn much. It also depends on the price of electricity you would have to pay in your country.


Go to http://whattomine.com/ and enter your graphic card. It will give you some ideas what coins to mine and go from there.
In general, you would have to (i) install the right software for the chosen algo and (ii) join a pool.

Be careful with masternode coins in general, but especially when they promise huge ROI. Many masternode coins try to attract new investors by promising insane returns, but soon enough they find themselves on a downward spiral. So even though you migh see some ROI initially, that period might be followed by a huge depreciation of value. Dash is probably the most stable masternode coin, but the requirement is to have a minimum of 1000 coins for a MN.

I guess you mean Dash, not Sah.

If I had to choose, I would choose Monero. In short, comparing the privacy features:

Monero: ring signatures + confidential transactions + stealth addresses + privacy by default
Zcash: zk-SNARKs (privacy is optional)
Dash:  CoinJoin method
PivX: architecture similar to Dash, uses Zerocoin method

This topic was already discussed on the forum, for example, check out this great post.

I can't help myself but laugh at this statement. I don't think people are aware what they are doing when comparing bitcoin to these quasi-coins.
I mean, EOS doesn't even have a mainnet yet. How can it possibly rank higher than Bitcoin and compare with its fully functional 9+ year old mainnet??

As it is usually the case with technical analysis, you shouldn't use just this one indicator to make a final decision.
You should use several indicators in conjunction before making a move.

As for triple bottoms, you have to make sure that (i) there is a bearish trend before the occurrence of the triple bottom
pattern, (ii) there is a drop in volume indicating that the bears are losing strength, and (iii) the three oscillations should be of
roughly equal intensity. 

More info on these three conditions: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/triplebottom.asp

To summarize, use this signal together with other signals, like divergences, Ichimoku cloud crossings, and others.