Thanks for your reply. I'm very tempted to run my very own mining pool with a Raspberry Pi, as I want to generate some profit out of it by the pool fees. If I manage to make it a competitive mining pool, then I'm pretty sure that I can make the most out of it. I just wanted to know if it was just worth doing it, depending on the profits generated. The good thing I have, it is free electricity since I live with my parents. So, this would maximize my chances for profiting with it.

Anyways, if you happen to know what results (in terms of profit) would be expected with making your own mining pool, please let me know. 

Yes I have looked into Komodo and it has been one of those forks from ZCash that has really attracted my attention. It has so many features, including but not limited to dPoW which is very ideal, in my own opinion, to make the coin even more secure than many altcoins out there by using Bitcoin's PoW. Unfortunately, I didn't invest into it because I was broke so I missed the chance to get ICO coins early. However, as soon as it hits the exchanges, I will definitely buy some.

As for eBitz, it seemed like it was going to be a great ZCash fork, but unfortunately it just turned into another scamcoin. Luckily, you guys saved me from making a bad investment. 

Nevertheless, if you or anybody else knows, of other new and exciting ZCash forks, don't hesitate to let me know. 

Thanks for another successful payment from signature campaign. It was great! 

Thanks for the information. I had my suspicions at first, when I saw the site designed in Wordpress. Due to this fact, I limited myself from investing into this project until clarified about it. That is why, in every ICO, I take the liberty to check out about current development team, employees, among other factors before making a bad move, resulting in massive losses by then. I was scammed by many ICOs, like ZION cryptocurrency, among many others. Luckily, I've learnt a valuable lesson, and now I proceed with extreme caution.

Nevertheless, I hope that scams like these get exposed, thus preventing them from succeeding into stealing other people's money. 



Thanks for sharing your opinion. The way I see it, ZClassic may become a huge competitor against ZCash if it proves to deliver constant development, and most of all, usability. Since ZEC doesn't have an official GUI wallet release, ZClassic may take the lead by releasing a GUI wallet thus making things much easier for people who are not tech-savvy. Having user friendliness in a cryptocurrency, it is key towards making it become popular and used be the masses in the long term. 

Yeah I think so too. In a few more years, ZCash would be worthless and become like the rest of the altcoins with a very low marketcap. Unless, ZCash brings something new and exciting, that would really increase its usability and acceptance of merchants around the world, then the dream of it becoming a very popular cryptocurrency would be very distant, thus resulting into other forks taking the lead like ZClassic.

Also, if ZCash didn't have the founders reward, then I'm pretty sure that the price would always had a positive uptrend on the markets, instead of constantly declining each day.

If you take a good look at ZCash, it is just another BTC clone with the only difference of having the ability to make anonymous transactions with a Z_address which separates itself from the t_address (which stands for transparent address). In my own opinion, this should've been implemented into Bitcoin the first place, instead of making another altcoin. 

Thanks for the information. I have heard that even if you buy the Solar panels, you would still need to pay some kind of a fee in order to use it in the USA. That is why I was wondering if mining with this system, would really generate you some profit regardless of the fee, among other factors. But still, it would be pretty ideal to go towards that route since you would save a lot more money with it, thus increasing your opportunity to profit in the long term.

If I were to start with this operation, I would take the most smallest and cheapest solar panel, to see for myself how much money I would earn mining Bitcoin with it. It would only be a matter of patience, until I get the necessary equipment to get started. 

That is awesome. Since S9 are the most energy efficient BTC miners around, it definitely increases your chance to profit with it. Anyways, I'm glad to see that you are making a plenty amount of BTC per day.

As for me, I make around 0.001 BTC per day by cloud mining Dash at Genesis Mining. It is not much, but at least I'm earning something on the side. Also, I mine coins with my GPUs, but I use cloud mining more since there is no setup or maintenance of equipment required at all.

Nevertheless, I'm always looking forward to increase my chances of making profit with mining BTC or any other crypto currency. 

I'm curious to know if it is really profitable to mine BTC with solar panels at your home, and if it is worth doing it.

I know that there are many panels which are very expensive, but if energy costs reduce greatly to a point where you can make more money with your miner, then I'd be willing to do this.

One miner that I've been looking forward to use with this system, is the Antminer S9. Nevertheless, if you have any tips or advice, please let me know. 

Yeah. It will be pretty interesting to see how profitable it would be to mine Kurrent with one of those Radeon R9 GPUs. I don't think there is a mining calculator around for Kurrent yet, but just to try this, I think that I'll see the results for myself with a spare GPU I have lying around.

One thing that I'm looking forward to, is to mine Kurrent with a Baikal mini miner. Since it supports X11 algo, it should be no problem getting started with it. The only thing is the price, but if it's worth to mine with it then I'll probably get one for Xmas.

By the way, the name of "Kurrent" just reminded me of the Kurt guy from Mondo Burger that appears in the Good Burger movie. As he always says, "if you mess with Kurt, you go in the Grinder."

Looking forward for more exciting stuff from this awesome Zcoin fork.  

Thanks for sharing your opinion, mate. Would you care to share why is eBitz a scam? Just want to be sure about it, since I was considering investing into it these days. The only thing that seemed suspicious to me, was that the ICO site was all made up on Wordpress. Even when you had to login in order to participate in the ICO, everything within it was just made up with Wordpress plugins.

Nevertheless, these Zero Knowledge Proof coins need to be tested against other anonymous technologies, in order to determine which one is best for complete privacy and anonymity in transactions. Until this is proven, I'll stick up more with the tried and tested CryptoNote technology from Monero. 

Thanks for sharing this new ZCash fork! It looks very promising and might become a successful cryptocurrency in the long term. I'll have a look at it and consider whenever to invest in it this weekend. As it is aiming to go towards a popular exchange like Bittrex, it could bring good trading to it and thus make the price go all the way to the moon.

By the way, if you can give me a few pointers about it via PM to get started, don't hesitate to do so.

Nevertheless, I'm looking forward for more reviews about other Zcash clones, to put them into my list of investment consideration. 

Agree. The great majority of alt coins are just BTC clones, and some of them are even cloned from ETH, with a few only providing promising technology and good development team. If you take a good look at what's happening in crypto land right now, there have been a great number of ICOs emerging almost every day. But, it is up to debate whenever these projects may truly deliver as promised in their ICOs. That is why, if considering to invest into a new altcoin, you should first make a research about its community, development team behind it, number of premined coins, among other factors before regretting losing all your money at once.

In my case, those new altcoins that look promising, I try to invest the minimum amount possible, as if the coin then gets dumped, I wouldn't have loss to much money. Just my opinion. 

Thanks for your reply. I missed out that one, but it is nice to see another fork from ZCash around. If I were to make a debate on which Zero Knowledge Proof coin is better, I guess that it is up to whenever it gets acceptance from merchants and have real world usability in the long term. I'm hoping that if the technology becomes successful, then it could be put into good use such as trading into decentralized exchanges with it, use on decentralized marketplaces, and much more.

Nevertheless, if anyone else has any opinions or recommendations about a Zero Knowledge proof coin that could have a bright future, please let me know. In my own opinion, I see that Zcoin may take the lead in the long term. But, it will depend whenever it gets popularity over the upcoming days. 

I'm interested in setting up my own mining pool for an specific altcoin. But before I start with this task, I want to know how profitable it is to run a mining pool at home. I'm looking into using one of my Raspberry Pis to get started with it, but I'm not sure if it would be enough to handle the mining pool.

Also, if you happen to know of a good mining pool calculator that will help me calculate my profits, then feel free to share it with me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Since ZCash inception, a number of forks have emerged from it, leaving us a variety of coins that use the same technology as its predecessor, and some of them are aiming to become better than the former cryptocurrency.

Also, the original Zerocoin protocol became a reality with Zcoin lately, but it is up to debate whenever all these Zero Knowledge Proof cryptocurrencies can deliver the attention of companies, businesses, and even developers in order to apply real usability towards them, and help the technology become mainstream.

Nevertheless, I want to know which Zero Knowledge Proof coin would be your favorite, and why would you invest in it? 

Great. Thanks for the information. I just asked in the first place, because I thought that no MUE card existed yet since I was only aware that there were BTC, DOGE, and CSC ones (as the Prypto page only shows their logos). It is sad to see the losses involved into those MUE cards, but if still available around, I'm willing to buy a few of them. I'm curious to know if sometime in the future, we will get to see new cards when MUE transitions towards the new algorithm, as I would greatly buy these in order to help support MUE to my friends and family. Other than that, I will be awaiting the new algorithm release of MUE, in order to get up and running with the little project I'm working on, in order to help benefit this exciting crypto currency. 

I've never thought that ZCash would've had many forks. But in the bright side, it is good since there will always be the option to get even better features than ZCash at a lower price. So far, I have 2 forks on my list to invest into which are KURRENT and KOMODO. The features they bring are very promising, plus they can prove to become successful into the long term since there is absolutely no founder's reward involved.

I have a feeling that ZCash's price will continue to fall over the years, making it an inexpensive crypto currency with very low popularity. Unless, merchants and companies being putting ZCash up to good use, then I see a very distant future for it. That being said, it would be interesting to see some real apps developed for this one, if it gets traction someday. 

I am surprised to see the very first Zerocoin fork that implements the X11 algorithm. This is usually preferred, rather than CPU mining as there exists some X11 ASICs to mine it, as well as it is much more efficient to mine it with GPUs. Nevertheless, it is good to have a Zero Knowledge Proof crypto currency that does not implement the 20% founders reward tax when mining it.

I'm looking forward to invest deeply into this project as well as support it for the long term. 

Exactly. It will be extremely difficult for BTC to replace fiat currencies like the USD, but at least it makes it an alternative way to transact with other people in a freely and decentralized way. Maybe sometime in the future, we will get to see a new version of USD backed by the government, but this time using block chain technology which would make transactions near instant and at the same time secure.

Since it is possible to trace transactions much easier with block chain technology, than cash itself, then I think that this will be the path that the government will go towards the future. It this happens, then there would be practically no privacy at all since the government would be watching every single transaction you make, at any given point in time. Just sharing my thoughts. 

Agree. By only holding Bitcoins onto your wallet, you won't be making much difference expect to wait for the price to increase in USD. This method, prevents your Bitcoin from ever growing into the long term as they are kept statically into your wallet. That is why, it is best to spend at least a little of your BTC savings into commodities or certain services that will protect your investment in the long term, and in return make your Bitcoin grow (such as Magnr savings account, investing into Gold right from within DigixDAO, and more)

Nevertheless, in my own opinion, I think that the ideal way to go would be to save your Bitcoin, as well as invest them into valuable assets, in order to have a good financial life over the long term.