It is happening on several exchanges I dealt with: worst offenders are binance, and also bad enough: xwallet and potentially cryptopedia.
I understand KYC is important but lot of times, the login fails to work at one point and restoring password is incredibly difficult or impossible as these exhanges refuse to unlock citing KYC, security after going through their standard verification process and asking for more.

Binance asked me to send me a VIDEO of myself after going through extensive verification to restore my password that stopped working after taking several weeks back and forth e-mail with their cust. service. I cited privacy concern and whether their next stage of their verification will be a the video of my dicks or some private part and they stopped responding.

Cryptopedia went bust however recent e-mail had some obstruction instruction to do a claim and some web url that does not work. Contacting their cust. service replied with half-baked answers. Then disclaimer says if you dont claim within blah blah blah date, you forfeit your fund.

Xwallet also sent me a refusal to unlock after went through all of their password restoration verification process.

This is getting unwieldy.

i was using several rigs to mine etherium for last few years but suddenly all stopped. I havent checked back yet but just wanted to check here since POS is started, did POW stopped yet? If so, I dont wanna waste time troubleshooting. If not stopped (pow), when it is going to be stopped?

I just heard eth staking started. Does that mean gpu mining will cease soon? If so, when? Any intel?

I do a lot of stock option trading and few years back used deribit for bitcoin option trading. Although it is not most convenient, it was possible to make a trade on deribit using option features as a hedge. Now, few years later, I tried to do the same but they no longer allows US resident.

Any other trading platform for options? Be reminded it is not actually buying selling bitcoin, it is rather derivative called option contract.

THanks.,

Dont talk me into coinbase,. I had horrible experience and heard and keep hearing from other about coinbase's terrible experience. It does not matter how popular they are or whether they charge less or nothing for fee.

I have been using gemini for while as it has been quite convenient. There has been lot of frustrating issues lately however I will focus on the fee.
I think last time I bought and sold bitcoin, they charged me 30$ fee!!! Actual blockchain mining fee was less then few cents. Haha. way to make money huh?

Any better platform?
I hate paypal so probably not  going to use.
I am looking into Square's CashApp.

Anything better let me know.
My priority:
- easy and convenience of use, bug-free feature
- reasonable fee

Current price 15726$, phenomenal, but I am wondering what is causing this run-up?
paypal? That is too distance past. Today is 11/5/2020.
Any intel on this?

openbazaar identity:
ob://QmccxfFg2y4ZgATMqqnAR32n93UoNyrHMuuerjD2ev9TUr/store
he seem to have website:
https//www.buyandnow.com
Address was somewhere near san francisco daly city area.

Before I make a large purchase costing hundreds, I decided small item like 20+$ headphone from this guy to see how smoothly the transaction goes and how reliably disputes are resolved.
Oh boy, I think openbazaar has long way to go in this respect.

Received the headphone, it is different than pictured and it is broken. I opened dispute but yet to hear from moderator after several weeks.
I immediately send message to this seller but he responds with taking pic and send it to him?
Hah!!! For 20$ I have to bother with taking and sending pic so that he believes in me !! Unless I do that he will not honor or believe my words!!
Just be aware of this scammers on the openbazaar. It is nice platform but not as robust feedback and dispute resolution mechanism as other platform like ebay and amazon and scammers like this will take advantage of you!

I just wanted from one of my coinomi wallet to another the ETH to ETC address. Stupid me!!! 
I tried to recover using this advice on reddit but it still did not work.
I did not create the ETH wallet using BIP32 phrase same as destination ETC.

Any other advice?

https://www.reddit.com/r/COINOMI/comments/8esy22/sent_eth_to_etc_address/


The thread is closed on Reddit so I can not put anything.

If I were using exodus, there seems sweep feature available however I am not sure if it is possibel to transfer coinomi wallet to exodus using its 12-word phrase. I am going to try that now.

https://support.exodus.io/article/156-ive-sent-eth-to-my-etc-address

ethermine miner is showing following error, used to work just fine:

  ℹ  15:36:34|ethminer  Found suitable OpenCL device [ GeForce GTX 1080 ] with 8508145664  bytes of GPU memory
  ℹ  15:36:34|ethminer  Connecting to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:36:34|stratum   Connected to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:36:34|stratum   Starting farm
 cl  15:36:34|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:36:34|stratum   Subscribed to stratum server
  ✘  15:36:34|stratum   Read response failed: End of file
  ℹ  15:36:34|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:36:37|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:36:37|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:36:37|stratum   Connected to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:36:37|stratum   Subscribed to stratum server
  ✘  15:36:37|stratum   Read response failed: End of file
  ℹ  15:36:37|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:36:40|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:36:40|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:36:40|stratum   Connected to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:36:40|stratum   Subscribed to stratum server
  ✘  15:36:40|stratum   Read response failed: End of file
  ℹ  15:36:40|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:36:43|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:36:43|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:36:43|stratum   Connected to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:36:43|stratum   Subscribed to stratum server
  ✘  15:36:43|stratum   Read response failed: End of file
  ℹ  15:36:43|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:36:46|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:36:46|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us1.ethermine.org:us1.ethermine.org
Could not resolve host us1.ethermine.org:us1.ethermine.org, Service not found  ℹ  15:36:46|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:36:49|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:36:49|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us1.ethermine.org:us1.ethermine.org
Could not resolve host us1.ethermine.org:us1.ethermine.org, Service not found  ℹ  15:36:49|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:36:52|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:36:52|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us1.ethermine.org:us1.ethermine.org
Could not resolve host us1.ethermine.org:us1.ethermine.org, Service not found  ℹ  15:36:52|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:36:55|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:36:55|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us1.ethermine.org:us1.ethermine.org
Could not resolve host us1.ethermine.org:us1.ethermine.org, Service not found  ℹ  15:36:55|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:36:58|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:36:58|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:36:58|stratum   Connected to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:36:58|stratum   Subscribed to stratum server
  ✘  15:36:59|stratum   Read response failed: End of file
  ℹ  15:36:59|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:37:01|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:37:02|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:37:02|stratum   Connected to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:37:02|stratum   Subscribed to stratum server
  ✘  15:37:02|stratum   Read response failed: End of file
  ℹ  15:37:02|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:37:04|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:37:05|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:37:05|stratum   Connected to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:37:05|stratum   Subscribed to stratum server
  ✘  15:37:05|stratum   Read response failed: End of file
  ℹ  15:37:05|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:37:07|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:37:08|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:37:08|stratum   Connected to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
  ℹ  15:37:08|stratum   Subscribed to stratum server
  ✘  15:37:08|stratum   Read response failed: End of file
  ℹ  15:37:08|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
 cl  15:37:10|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  15:37:11|stratum   Connecting to stratum server us1.ethermine.org:us1.ethermine.org
Could not resolve host us1.ethermine.org:us1.ethermine.org, Service not found  ℹ  15:37:11|stratum   Reconnecting in 3 seconds...

and I used us2 west server:

Asia   Europe   US East   US West
us1.ethermine.org
us2.ethermine.org
Stratum Port   4444

Has anyone done it or is there a better, cheaper alternative?

https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/tesla-powerwall-2-game-changer-in-home-energy-storage-14-kwh-inverter-5500/#:~:text=Operating%20Temperature%20Range%3A%20–20°,%3A%20122%20kg%20(269%20lbs)

I chose powerwall 2 since tesla is popular however pricing adn spec were hard to find with tesla and other vendor's storage product.

in a fictitional scenario with 1 miner + 5 1080 gtx each running at 120W (180W max) the total power consumed is 600W + ~100W (for board and cpu).
total of 700W. In one day, it can consume 16800W or 16.8KWh of energy.

The max unit storage of Powerwall 2 is 14Kwh. It appears one full powerwall can barely power 1 miner with 5 1080gtx. Obviously it does not take into account that solar panel during day will or could or partially supply power directly to miner, reducing 24 hrs.

For me, paradise is settle in a coastal ranch house ~1200sq. ft with powerwall with 4-5 miners each having may be 1080gtx.
I havent done detailed calculation but powerwall claims single unit can satisfy all your household needs although it does not quite justify mining power obviously. Has anyone done that?

two topics here:
1. I have been using openbazaar quite some time now, it has markedly improved over the year but still seems not very wildly popular. Some interface seems not intuitive but not hard either, pretty stable. It is no match for ebay where it offers full fledged features but ebya teams up with paypal and paypal is cocksucker.
My biggest grip over openbazaar is not being able to import one profile into another. It seems you can still get the openbazaar wallet's 12 word security key and import into other wallets but not otherway around? (Has anyone differs from me on this one?). There seems no way to create login and use it credentials to login from multiple computers? As a result, I ended up having several accounts on each of my laptop, desktop etc.,
Selection of itesm on the openbazaar seems somewhat limited of course given the popular but not too terribly either.

2. Is there alternative marketplace? Darknet? I am not interested in at all any illegal stuff like the ones happened back in year where it was selling weeds and other stuff etc,m not interested in it, but being able to buy sell on openmarketplace a legitimate item using crypto seems really in demand.

Share ur opinions pls.

I looked at statistics, the usage went up around last half 2019 then tapered off. looks like not that terrribly popular although not died.
IT seems stagnated. Are there benefits starting to weigh in?
I wonder if major wallets are supporting or starting to support LN?

along with djia sp500 nasdaq, normally crypto should go up sharply as save haven but not this time!! What is happening??? I had few holdings and about 33% of peak when it has surpassed 10k$!!

I just heard sometimes during 2020 (likely mid-2020), eth2.0 is going for POS from POW. That means, my mining with gpu will be busted. Although there are couple of gpu minable coin aavailable from whattomine, I am thinking to switch to ETC. Is anything heard from ETC of switching to PoS. My understand is that ETC has much lesser market share and support, thus less resource considering immense technical challenge of going PoS. So the only possibility of ETC, if it has any chance of POS, is ETC hitch a ride by borrowing the technology from ETH. Any input?

I have about still 20+ GPUs left after crypto bust after managed to sell some. With better cards coming out, the chances of selling the rest is getting increasingly slim. I wanna find some other usage than cryptomining.

Has anyone explored this path? One thing I am really interested is in GPU rental for AI machine learning. I think there could be some usage.
It appears there are some businesses that enables to do but it does not seem widespread. Nevertheless I would like to explore.

Here is one example site. https://vast.ai/hosting/?fbclid=IwAR3OD2_a3ck9lcuMMCfxXg3RLKroD2VTZ3Wva1yjc2-tZj3KHVHjJbQu680
I have found several more but I did not pursue being some time ago.

The problem with my current system is that the mining boards I have is H81 BTC PRO with older Intel CPU that does not support AVX instructions. I am thinking about what I can do upgrade to motherboard + cpu combination that supports AVX (AI ML) as well as being able to accomodate 4-8 GPUs on single board.

I have been disengaged for some time except I had few miners mining eth. I used to mine zcash but difficulty has increased drasticaly. Most problem was ASIC miner bitmain has been centralizing the altcoin mining. From what I know bitmain itself is in deep trouble nowadays. Is difficulty increasing or decreasing nowadays?

I am trying to sell several of the GTX1080 purchased a year ago aroud range of 350-400$. Do you think these justify these prices? Newer AMD XT5700 and RTX2070 are out, I am not sure those are better mining alternatives than GTX1080? Do i expect gtx1080s to go lower in values in coming months? Thanks.,

I mined couple of MONACOIN earlier last year. Now monacoin went up crazy, I wanna sell it before it falls down. The few exchanges available and listed on coinmarketcap, bitbank, upbit and bittrex etc.,
I had difficulty with bittrex, upbit appears korean based and does not list USA in the registration. I think bitbank.cc is japanese based and also had difficulty registering. Oh god how I am supposed to transact my monacoin?

I am getting rid of about 10-14 GPU mostly gtx1080s ROG STRIXs as my venture all flopped causing huge loss in rentals and electricity. I am getting rid of them at about 350-400$ a piece on online auction. I bought in the range of about 450-800$. Haha. Any chance it could go up?

Here is my thoughts
Downtrend factors in price are:
- RTXs are out that offer more power although not too much powerful with gimmicks i.e. AI tensor which does not really offer much adv. in terms of mining as well as ray tracing. So as far as GPU mining concerned,  GTX-s will be favourite.
-Down the road, more and more powerful GPU will come out, reducing the GTX lines even further irrelevant.

Uptrends:
- Sooner or latter excess inventory is going to dry out. May cause some lift in prices.
- Some coins (eth) appears to have difficulty substantially reduced some coins (zcash) has difficulty went up so much GPU mining probably will not make sense. I am not sure of overall trends of popular coins and how it is favoring the GPU-s. I am aware eth and other coins will eventually transition to POS mining from POW making it further irrelevant.

With all those factors combined, should I get rid of them ASAP? Or hold it in hopes of gathering some value? I also sort of interested in doing AI, tensorflow, caffe deep learning rental my GPUs but there is no infrastructure as it is mostly done in enterprise servers not through gaming. I did hear about some vendors offering cloud like deep learning rental of GPU-s.

Thanks.