I have a Zotac 1080Ti Amp! Extreme I might be willing to part with for 550+shipping. Bought it in the beginning of 2018, it mined for a couple of months and then was used in my workhorse PC for the rest of the time doing games and rendering.

That's a variation of infamous "nigerian letters" which have been around for... well, as long as I remember LOL

Not really. Replace "BTC" with "stocks", "paypal" ot anything else and you'll realize you've seen it all before.

Highly depends on your power cost. Even with the lowest rates you will see times when you mine for few cents daily or even at loss.

Almost every day I read a topic of someone been scammed out of money. Well, this is a course of life and scams will exist as long as exists human race. What makes me laugh though is methods scammers use lately. Nothing inventive, not even an attempt to make it look legit. "Successful trader will make you 50% in an hour". "BTC refund department". "BTC doubler". And dozens of others so obvious one has to be a newborn baby to fall for. I wouldn't be surprised if  soon there will be messages from "BTC Support Department" or anything along these lines. How can anyone sane fall for this?

I received a call from my "bank support line" a while ago. Now these people were real con artists, they had all my data, used correct chat scripts etc. It all sounded so legit I almost missed the moment they asked me for SMS confirmation code, at which point I realized it's a scam. Not being sympathetic to these guys but at least they were highly professional and inventive scammers, unlike those I mentioned above.

Scamming methods never really change over decades. Spam emails with "unique dick enlargement investment opportunities, account "confirmation" emails, SMS with links in them, now it's all types of social media. While our ISPs are now very efficient at filtering out email spam social media and messengers don't have this option (well, unless you block messages from unknown contacts). Daily I receive 20-30 of these in Telegram, Discord and few other platforms I use. Why bother replying to these, just block and remove with couple of clicks and move on.

Looking at rates in most countries I realize Thailand isn't that bad with $0.13-0.15/KwH. I'm thinking of solar panels but still can't convince myself it's worth doing in a rented house.

Your rig stops mining, you spend half a day sorting it out and there goes your payment.

Stop complaining mate, where I am they want over $2000 for these now. I guess we can do some scalping business  

Prices are complete nuts.

FWIW I came across some information that only non-original cards will have LHR chips, reference cards madу by Nvidia will have old GPU chips with no limitations. Haven't seen any proof to that though.

By no means mining can be considered as a passive income, especially when you have more than just one or two rigs. Monitoring, maintenance, security, power issues... It all takes time and effort. And to answer your other question - no, it's not a good time buying cards now, prices are insane and profits are in decline. Rewards vary all the time due to few factors - block reward, network hashrate, exchange rate etc.

I wouldn't call it a recovery. IMO it'll go to 25-28k mark before stabilizing there.

Did anyone mention his late agenda regarding "green" mining etc in the US? Given that this guy is one of the largest manufacturers in solar power equipment I find it hard to believe he won't try to push his "green" stuff to miners, while lobbying legislation supporting it.

I don't think so. First, AMD cards suck on most algos, so strike them out, what's the percentage of those mining eth use red ones, I guess more than half. Second, have you ever tried to compare combined hash rate of other coins with eth?

And why would they all of a sudden become unprofitable? Care to explain yourself?

What we think is irrelevant, people still do weird things


I'd take that with a grain of salt. Asians love to show off, so when someone buys gold here first they usually make sure everyone sees them wearing it but next day things change and they sell it back to use the cash. Strategic planning isn't a strong thing here either.

Whenever I see posts like that about israelis I'm always tempted to ask who in OP's opinion is more evil, jews, shia or sunni.

It is also a fact that 100% of people who ever ate carrots eventually died. Avoid carrots at all cost.

If you have just a little you wouldn't care about inflation. If you have more, then gold is still considered as the best investment by majority of people, especially in Asia, where it's common to buy it when you have extra cash and sell it whenever you need. Absolutely no paperwork is required. Unfortunately crypto can't take that place due to its volatility, you can only consider it as a long term investment.

True that, but sometimes alts can really, really surprise you. I bought some BNB when it just came out (I think I got a few as an airdrop too), and that was a very pleasant surprise. Same with few tokens I've decided to keep since ICO hype. Of course majority just went to hell but the remaining ones covered the rest and brought nice profits.