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Hello. Trying to build my first rig but I cannot get Windows 10 to detect the third GPU. I swapped everything out to make sure all the GPUS and risers are working. Reinstalled the driver. WIN 10 installed in UEFI mode. PSU is more than adequate. Molex connectors are connected to the motherboard.
I set up BIOS on the biostar TB250-BTC motherboard by (1) disabling intelvmx (2) enabling miner mode (3) tolud set to 3.5 (4) PCI-e set to gen 1.
What have I overlooked? Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.
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That's not an article. It's a paid press release written by a QRK pumper. It even says at the bottom "The Wall Street Journal news department was not involved in the creation of this content."
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I doubt the majority of people even understand decimals enough to differentiate between .1 and .01.
That bitcoin is irreversible probably won't sit well with most regular people either.
IMO probably only a small segment of the population will end up utilizing cryptos but among those few it is still revolutionary with endless possibilities.
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I think it's pretty obvious that all value is subjective so I do find it pretty yawn-worthy when he goes on about "intrinsic value", nor do any of his other arguments against crypto-currencies pass the smell test.
However I don't believe his investment strategies are the sole reason for his animosity toward BTC. A lot of it probably has to do with generational differences. People who didn't grow up with the internet live in a different world than those who did. To me, crpytos are the logical next step and it's easy to envision the possibilities. But all he sees is something he doesn't really understand and probably feels he has no hope of ever understanding.
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Well they refunded the BTC. In order to get a response, all I had to do was post on several BTC related forums and chat, contact the founders on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, and file a complaint with the government.
What a company. Now hopefully I am able to successfully transfer the coins out (doubtful).
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Coinbase has forced me to file a complaint against them with the SEC. The $679 they owe me never showed up in my bank account and they have been completely unresponsive to my inquiries. I advise anyone reading this not to do business with them.
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Well I submitted a complaint to the SEC. Hopefully that gets their attention.
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Still no one is picking up. I urge anyone reading this to avoid coinbase as at the very least they are incompetent if not outright criminals.
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Fwiw, I had a similar experience with coinbase and they fixed it. I went through their "level 1" buying experience and had to wait a week for my coins. After a week, when the price had risen 20%, they canceled my order for fraud purposes.
But support did reply in two days to my angry response and they fulfilled the original order. So there is hope.
] Yes once they canceled a small order on me for "fraud" reasons (or much more likely because BTC had gone up) and they reinstated it after an angry email. But that is not the problem now. The problem is that I cashed out nearly $700 of BTC with them and the money was supposed to be in my checking account but never showed up despite them taking my BTC. And they have not responded to my emails regarding this. I tried the above phone number just now and no one answered and voicemail box was full. It's still early in CA though so I'll try again. I will never use coinbase again after this experience and if I do not get the money I'm owed soon I will make it my business to let the BTC community know about their terrible business practices/scam in every manner possible. |
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Yes, it definitely says "will arrive" by today, which I stupidly took for granted as I really need the money asap to pay a freaken fine to stay out of jail  Thank you so much for the contact info! I will give them a call if it doesn't show up tommorow. |
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Thanks for the reply. It's just that it said "Your money WILL arrive BY TODAY". Not "sometime in the next few days". I guess I have no choice but to see if it shows up tomorrow.
When I first started having problems with the transfers a couple of weeks ago some guy named "Olaf", who appears to be the only customer service rep who works there, replied to me a couple of times. Since then nothing despite the transfer problem never being fixed and now this cash out issue.
If they are unable to handle their current responsibilities they should stop taking on new customers.
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I was supposed to receive nearly $700 in my checking account today for selling BTC to coinbase, but it never showed up.
Support has not bothered to respond to my emails.
This has happened after I have had BTC that I tried to transfer from coinbase to another wallet completely disappear on me after never even registering on the blockchain.
So are they scammers or just incompetent, or both?
Do they even have a phone number??? How about a physical address I can show up at??
Can anyone help? This has caused me to lose complete faith in cyptocurrencies in general.
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Yes, it seems like a real problem, I've used a combination of coinbase and bitinstant to get my btc, but that isn't anywhere near good enough for mass adoption. Coinbase is pretty easy to use but it takes days and they're always sold out. Bitinstant worked for me but I hear they've been having big growing pains as well.
I've read it is relatively easy to get money into Mt. Gox and that is why they got so big. BTC-e it is apparently quite difficult and expensive to get cash in.
What's that site where you can deposit cash through a bank of america...bit floor? All these options are in the U.S. though, no doubt it's even more difficult elsewhere.
I'm confident things will get easier though, there's too much money at stake for them not to.
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Well hopefully the price won't always be so volatile, but maybe the localbitcoins site serves a secondary purpose of helping to establish a "real world" bitcoin community. I haven't used it though; I'm wary of scammers and there are easier ways to get the coins, but maybe someday.
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(Relatively) early bitcoin adapters are contributing to society by risking assets for an idea that could potentially revolutionize economics for the better.
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But nobody quotes in satoshi's. everyone quotes in bitcoin (the whole unit) of which there is only 21m. If everyone was quoting in satoshi's then 1usd = 0.00000266 doesn't sound very over priced does it.
I'm just saying the high valuation caused from quoting in bitcoin whole units makes it SOUND over valued.
Agreed, there is certainly a psychological factor to it, which is why as someone who only got into this recently I purchased litecoins more heavily. Yes, BTC is divisible to the 8th digit or whatever, but IMO most non mathematically-inclined people are not instinctively comfortable with dealing in fractions. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant minority (or greater) doesn't understand the different between .1 and .01. edit: Then again, as time passes and payment systems such as BTC debit cards and smart phone apps are developed and popularized, this problem with perception might work itself out. |
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Honestly I don't believe in this whole "government hates bitcoin" thing. People say that without any evidence whatsoever. Nobody in government has ever demonstrated hostility to bitcoin, in fact the new regulations seem to imply they are perfectly fine with it as long as you don't launder money and you remember to pay your capital gains.
They really don't have any reason to want to kill bitcoin. They make the same amount in taxes either way, since you have to pay capital gains, and you have to pay them in your country's currency.
They could actually generate quite a bit more revenue, in fact, if they jumped into the bitcoin market themselves.
Also keep in mind that a lot of VC's in Silicon Valley are jumping head first into bitcoin-related companies, which they would absolutely not do if there was any question about the legality or any possibility the government is about to kill it. VC's get a lot of legal advice before investing in ideas.
IMO the U.S. government has plenty to lose from widescale adoption of bitcoin. People buying gold and other tangibles directly with BTC aren't paying tax on their gains. More importantly in the coming years it is inevitable that the dollar will continue to lose value. The national debt is what, $15+ trillion? Trillion+ dollar deficits have become the norm. There is another tens of trillions in unfunded or underfunded liabilities. The Fed is stuck between a rock and a hard place, with interest rates way artificially low but not being able to raise them without crashing the economy. The only way out for them is to print money and that makes cryptos a problem for them. |
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I'm not familiar with other "the government"s, but if you mean the US federal government, if they retaliate I seriously doubt it'll involve conspiracy theory tier stuff.
More likely, it'd take the form of strict regulation of exchanges, wallet services, and miners who interact with the traditional money system - the three classes of user that FinCEN has already warned may qualify as MSBs.
Couldn't a lot of those services just move to Tor and / or small financial haven countries? |
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Obviously BTC is a threat to big government and big banks, so they can't just sit idle and watch.
Legislation. Only way to kill the beast. They could try and stop it but would only drive it underground, like every other legislatively-created black market. |
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I also saw this link posted multiple times in BTC-E chat. After people pointed out the person was posting a virus, the moderator bans him for 1 HOUR. I think BTC-E must be getting kickbacks from this or something. I have seen people banned for DAYS for the harmless act of posting in all caps. But someone blatantly attempting to steal coins from BTC-E customers is allowed to try again in 1 hour, instead of being banned forever as they should have been.
Just the fact that they have that chatbox, especially on the trading page with no obvious way to disable it, shows what an unprofessional exchange it is. BTC-e is not to be trusted IMO.
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