From some old posts I've read r0ach and proudcunt as "master" shorters sold between $200 and $600 firmly believing the price will fall down to $200 again. And this continues until today, which of course is insanity. As for gembitz, he is a bit different. Although he became famous with his 'weee' at each dip, recently he post hodlers memes, so I guess we can count him as  a hodler. A bit bipolar and strange for sure, but still a hodler... for now.

Well, no hodler will sell under yesterday's price after we've had a new AYH today, that's for sure. The weakest hands are of course the high leverage traders. They are like scaridy cats - with each small dip they have to sell in order to cut their losses. Is this strategy going to work for them? Of course, no. Sometimes such plankton swims here and persuades us that this is the way of earning big money. In their view $100 high risk leverage trading gain is way better than say buying a cruise ship by just hodling several years. This leads to insanity of course. r0ach and proudcunt are exhibit A for that. They wake up each morning thinking they are kettles and go to bed dreaming of prices like $200.

I don't understand what my problem has to do with -daglim. I have 8 Gb Hawaii cards, all of them are working fine with Claymore under linux. But 1/4 of them do not hash under Phoenix miner. The other 3/4 are hashing at 30 Mh/s, the same as with Claymore (who is not supporting any more his miner, and all cards will stop working after epoch 385, no matter their VRAM). I think the problem is that somehow the miner thinks their VRAM is 4Gb, since the dag is not generated for these cards and sometimes at the start (at least the first run of the miner) it shows 4Gb for them, but after a reboot - the correct 8Gb. But even if it shows 8Gb it won't hash. I think the miner has some wrong cache that needs to be cleared regarding some previous information of 4Gb.  Claymore also falsely recognizes them at the first run as 4Gb, but after a reboot it recognizes them as 8Gb and starts hashing with them.

P.S. All other Polaris rigs are with Phoenix and they work perfect. I even have some rarely seen 6GB 280x's (Tahiti) which hash with 26 Mh/s under linux

Since I have to switch from Claymore to Phoenix for my old 390's rigs, I have the following strange problem. The miner recognizes some of my 8Gb Hawaii cards as 4Gb and it won't hash of course. No matter how many restarts I make, this doesn't change. The strange thing is that sometimes the log shows I have 4Gb card, and sometimes 8Gb. Still the DAG is not generated in all cases.

I use both OS for my rigs, but I'm talking about Windows. Since I use the card for gaming as well, I don't want to mod the bios.

Is there a possibility for -rxboost and -strap parameters for amd polaris cards in some new version of the miner for ethereum?

What I can get for rx 580 8Gb is max 28.1 Mh with -straps 3 -rxboost 100. While on Claymore I get 32.1 Mh with -strap 1 -rxboost 30. What are the best settings for these cards (without bios modding), so that I achieve this speed?

Edit. I see now that -straps is for Vega only. I hope soon there will be for Polaris as well.

I wonder why proudcunt is a no show here after his laughable posts "not going above 200, 1K, 10K ever again - proved by math and science". I guess proudcunt will show next year with a similar post: "not going above 100K ever again - proved by math and science" 

It never ceases to amaze me how the daily traders always find a way to lose money. The other day they sold with 10% loss, today with 6%. Don't they see the big picture? Normal people are buying and withdrawing from exchanges. The charts from various sites (glassnodes, CQ, etc.) show that the supply is down with another 100K BTC in the last 3 days. This shows how much confidence people have in BTC, despite the AYH's which rain every other day. What is the consequence, the price going up or down? (A question for imbeciles, but they are at this level of evolution - somewhere between monkeys and primates.)

This is one of those pinch me if I'm awake moments. After so much suffering throughout the last 3 years, the price hit $16K during the night. Currently it is stabilizing around $15.6K, which is better than going straight to $17K. On a more personal layer, I've contemplated for a year about a similar scenario. Don't judge me, but I've sold 1.6% of my stash for the first time after the 2017 crash.

The reasons are multiple. First, I'd drained both my credit cards to buy in $3K area in 2018. Second, I'd taken a loan to buy in March increasing my stash by 5%. I was too confident that $7K was a good price and the covid pandemic wouldn't affect the price. Hours later the price fell below $4K. So I basically was in mindrust's situation. But I decided to wait to see what will happen in 1 year. Now I have >3x profit from my loans.

I look upon this more like a variation of a long position with borrowed funds from the bank, but a hodler style. I'm not a trader, and never will be. In the mean time several devices went almost out of order and wait in line for a replacement - my phone, tablet, washing machine and tv. There are always expenses for the car as well. So my decision is completely justified and I am feeling good about it. This is a small reward for all the nerves and stress for both me and my father. Now he is shocked in a good way that all my predictions for the price shooting upward were correct. And he is congratulating me for the nerves and cold blooded hodling.

And finally, currently the fiat equivalent is more than enough for the main goal which I set for myself in 2017. In terms of fiat the difference is more than 5x. What will happen in 2021 is another story. I expect some remarkable highs which will tempt me to cash out and quit my job. Hopefully, I will keep most of my stash and sell only what I really need. I really love my job, but sometimes it is ridiculous to dress up, drive to work, check the price and see that during the drive I've earned the equivalent of my salary for many years of work. Not a great stimulus for work, but I don't complain

3 more days like this and we will have a new ATH.

The sell clearly came from one guy rage selling 280BTC on Bitstamp for $4.2 mil losing $400K on the way down. Bob, is that you?

I really hope mindrust is alive and well. Given the current price, I doubt for the latter, but anyway. He was stubborn and self-complacently not listening to us telling him to rebuy immediately even with a small loss. His words may looked very strong to him, but they were all a bubble which popped immediately. Let this be a lesson for all pannic sellers.

Anoter ATH (not yet) AYH $14236 14 277 Bitstamp. We all know, this is just the beginning of the new bull run, right? Which reminds me to share something I did in Dec 2017. After I've read much about the effect of the manipulations with derivatives, I decided to cash out half of my bitcoins at $14K, you know, just in case. The decision was right, but not the timing. Several hours later the price shoot up by more than 30%. I just couldn't believe how the market has turned against me (again for the 3rd time that year). If I were passive, now I should've had twice the coins I have now. Well, mistakes of the growth, watcha gonna do. So I gave up my plan to sell to rebuy back with profit my bitcoins. I just was so frustrated, I couldn't think soberly, I thought that the price will never go below $14K again. So I rebought at higher price. This was my last 'protection' against falls. Unless I am completely satisfied with the price, I won't sell anything. The emotions are just too much to handle. So I am patiently waiting for $100K-140K, when may be I will sell some small part just to buy some more expensive things that need to be replaced.

Let me share a curios and a little unpleasant story. In my country, a large part of the population ID's expires this year. The government has decided to extend this period by another year due to the covid crisis and to avoid crowds. So far so good. But I started receiving letters from all crypto exchanges that my ID has expired. And now I have to write letters to the support, to explain myself to them to give me access to my accounts. I do not currently have access to any exchange and I have to wait days, probably weeks for this issue to be resovled. This sucks.

Good morning WO gang! A few seconds ago BTC improved the 2 year and now is going after $14K! Only 20 bucks to go

Edit. And it's done: $14K guys and gals!!!! Weeee!

Observing $13 600 and rising. Shorts are not safe. $14K incoming  

Today AMD announced new cards 7nm navi 2. I expect 6800 xt to be the best for mining with price starting from $550. The navi 1 radeon vii was a beast with around 100 Mh, so I guess something like 150 Mh for 250 W. It is comparable with the asic miners, so for the next year this will be the card to go for mining.