How can anyone enforce this? They can buy cryptocurrencies anonymously. They can decide to hodl them anyways, without anyone knowing. All they need is some basic knowledge about privacy. They should already know how to go under the radar if they are capable of researching the subject they are covering well, and that's it.

Equihash is usually the most profitable algo for NVidia 1080 Ti.
In spite of this, your script should change from time to time to other algos. You can check on the home page of MPH which one of them is currently the most profitable for your graphic cards. Your script should in principle follow that trend.
It's hard to be sure what your problem exactly is, but I would say that something is wrong with the switching script on your side. Also, mind that the ports are different when you mine a single coin, single algo, or mutliple algos.

I never click on links like this, especially when you haven't explained:
where I'm going to land,
what kind of code that page might activate on my side, and
what kind of action this webminer is supposed to initiate on my OS.

To my mind, the single biggest problem is the level of technical knowledge required to use crypto-currencies without help from others.
Look how many people are really struggling when it comes to even the smallest problem regarding their PC.
They have no problem keeping their fiat money safe, though. But ask of them to keep their private key safe, that's a completely different story.
The single biggest problem to wide spread adoption is this lack of technical knowledge. And I don't see how we can solve it easily.

Looking at the graph's we easily forget about the long-term deflationary nature of Bitcoin as currency. This is something I learned from the brilliant lectures of Mr. Antonopoulos. Even compared to gold Bitcoin is much more deflationary (or soon will be), and as a result, it has already won as a store of value asset.

If I'm not mistaken, this is also something Mr. Antonopoulos emphasizes in his talks. Not only will they not make it legal, they will fight Bitcoin. They simply won't go down without a fight. Too much is at stake.

Speaking specifically about Bitcoin, I found this article (linked below) claiming that nearly 4 million bitcoins are already very likely to have been lost:


I don't know how much of this makes sense, to me the number is simply too high. But, who knows. Another point being made in the linked article is that people are going to be much more careful when sending bitcoins in the future, now that the value of this crypto-currency has been firmly established.  

For an inspiring overview of the long-reaching implications of using crypto-currencies in our lives and in the society in general,
I suggest that you take a look at the book "The Internet of Money" by Andreas Antonopoulos.
It is a book that changed my opinion about Bitcoin, and a must read book for anyone interested in this subject. 

CUDA 5 is not so much a problem as it is your low performance graphic cards. So, unless you want to try mining just for learning purposes, it doesn't really pay off.

If you know for sure that you have download a legit virus-free version of SgMiner, make an exclusion in your AntiVirus program by entering the full path to SgMiner to be excluded from scanning. Then it won't be deleted.

It looks to me that the owner of the Exchange was trying to put the blame for his own mistakes and bad security on the NANO's team. NANO, of course refused to comply stating:


I don't see how this can be NANO's blunder. People who use the currency are solely responsible with whom they entrust their coins. I don't see how NANO should be held responsible for the decision what wallet people prefer to use. No one can or should enforce people to use certain types of wallets vs others.

Thank you for the hint. I checked the last 10 blocks or so, and almost all of them were above 13 BTC, some above 13.5. Half a bitcoin or more on top of the block reward is not bad at all. If the price of bitcoin indeed goes up, it is not so difficult to see how the entire network could run just on transaction fees, despite the projected halving of the block reward.

Speaking of the collected transaction fees, I was wondering what the average collected transactions fees per block are. Is there a website where one can check this? It would be interesting to track this parameter over time.

This is the only option that makes sense.
Monero is a one of the top privacy coins. You use Monero if you want to keep your transaction completely anonymous.
So, you should install and use your own wallet.
Why would you use any exchange wallet if you care about privacy?

Apart from food safety in general, this concept could be even more valuable in the organic food industry. With organic food, we have to be able to trust that the whole chain of supply in terms of using only natural methods for food production and storage. This, in my mind, would be great, because currently, I have to trust my supplier blindly that the food delivered to me is organic. I have no real insurance.

NEO is the first coin that comes to mind when you mention China and crypto-currency in the same sentence. Great project and great team. The possible downside is that the Chinese government may decide to regulate NEO in some way at some point. In my opinion NEO is worth HODL-ing, but on the other hand, the market is volatile by nature and you NEVER know.

Thanks, now that I read your reply, it's very logical and it makes a lot of sense.

WTM is never very accurate. My experience, they can be off by as much as 30 percent.

This is simply not possible. The higher hash rate wins consistently. That's why people choose suprnova and similar large pools, because their rewards are consistent. A minimal hashrate pool can "only appear" to be winning for a very short period of time (because of pure luck).

Yes, the first thing to check is the white paper. It can often happen that the white paper is poorly written. This by itself speaks a lot. I also tend to look for misprints. If you find mistakes, like typos or factual mistakes, it could be a sign of a sloppy project and a red flag.

Taking a look at GitHub, if it's an open source project, is another good advice. In particular, you would want to check the number of commits of the developers team. That is, check how active they are.

And finally, check the people behind the new coin or ICO. Check their past history. Did they have any other projects in the past? How successful those project were?

I learned recently that the transaction fees in Bitcoin's early days used to be optional. They were considered something like a tip to the miners for their service. And people could have their transactions sent without them.

In addition, if I understand correctly, there used to be a rule that the older unspent transaction outputs were given some kind of priority over the newer ones.

Anyone cares to explain why and when transaction fees become mandatory. (Or are they mandatory? As far as I can tell, there is no way I could set 0 tnx fee in electrum.)

Was there a need to introduce a criterion by which miners could sort transactions in some meaningful way (that is, from highest fees to lowest)? Because miners seem to have total freedom when it comes to including transactions in the blocks they mine.

Was this really necessary, perhaps to prevent congestion? Other than that I see no reason to increase the mining reward, after all 12.5BTC seems to be high enough a reward.

It can also be EXACTLY 12.5 BTC in case an empty block is mined.

It looks like a good joke. But then again, look at Dogecoin. It was created like a joke too, now it has a marketcap of $650 million. Who knows, one can never tell what the future brings.