This is crazy.

About time to wake people up from the ICO fever.

Contacted EVGA and they do not have 8+8 cables in any form (like 6+2 + 6+2).

Only 8+6.

So there's some misunderstanding here.

When we're talking about 8 or 6-pin cables we're talking about the usable end which you can plug into the cards. The 8-pin end you plug into the PSU doesn't matter.

Unless you have a legacy account - which allows for 1337 BTC withdrawals per day without any information like name.

The moment that stops will be the moment I'll stop using Bittrex.

I don't believe you. Why not just use 2FA instead of this nonsense then? Unless you use a unique, otherwise unused email, with a unique password, it's a useless excercise.

You have to have your email hacked to allow the hacker to recover your poloniex password and do the deed.

Holding is just basically not selling your coins, long term investing.

Staking is when you have any amount of coins in your wallet which you're running 0-24h and get rewarded for it for currently ~2 PIVX per staking reward. The frequency of these rewards depends on the amount of PIVX you have in your wallet. If you close the wallet or turn off your computer you stop staking (and stop getting rewards).

Masternodes are very similar but they have to have a set amount of PIVX but since they're not just simple nodes (=running wallets) they earn a bit more than staking.

Masternodes are usually hosted on servers designed just for this purpose so that you don't have to run your computer 0-24h. You just run your local wallet to control the remote masternode. You can (and should) run masternodes safely, meaning that if the server were to get hacked you don't lose your coins.

As far as I know you can't stake coins like that remotely so it would be risky to stake them on a remote server so people tend to stake on their own computer or an old laptop running 0-24h, etc.

I hold because I can afford to hold exactly because I made some nice profits... from holding while everyone else was dumping for a few slices of pizzas worth of profits.

And even then I still missed out on a few dozen Bitcoins on stuff like DGB and Verge - because I didn't hold long enough.

But I'm not complaining, you can't win them all.

If anything, your mindset is what I find funny. Your famous US arrogance that some people over the pond have is seeping right through.

If you have a properly safe password and don't have a keylogger or session stealer you're fine.

AFAIK polo still requires you to click on a confirmation through an email link in case of a withdrawal so in order for anyone to get their funds stolen they would have to have both their Polo and their email compromised.

Lawsuit...   

I was never excited about any ICO whatsoever and I just can't wait for the next iteration of the usual "ripping of newbies of crypto scheme" that comes after ICOs as it became more than boring.

I would love it so much if that was the case.

A few years ago when threads of wallet builders premined scam coins could be reported and consequently removed was a thing, I see no reason it shouldn't happen with tokens under other coins (Eth/Waves).

But times have changed so I remain skeptical if we're ever going to see such "coins" separated from "real" coins.

One could hope though.

The great thing about PIVX is that anyone can submit proposals to the network and PIVX owners can vote on said proposals and so far every winning proposal have been developed by the dev team. So, in essence you could propose to eliminate the inflation but chances are it won't be voted in - at this time. Or, who knows.

And yes, masternodes are very simplistically speaking are like staking wallets but with more rewards than simple staking wallets. But then again, you can only have 10000 PIVX per masternode (no more, no less) unlike staking, where you can stake any number of coins.

Please....

Lawsuit because of stupid people?

People who gamble with ICOs are asking to get ripped off,
people who download all kinds of crap wallets/miners are asking to get hacked and
people who refuse to use 2FA are asking to get hacked - simple as that.

You can learn from other people's mistakes or you can learn the hard way. I learnt the hard way but I didn't blame the exchange, I blamed myself.

Like many other, Poloniex provides a simple service, it's like a tool. Educate people how to use said tools instead of blaming the tool itself.

Do you really think that people who are not using 2FA are making the necessary steps not to be hacked otherwise? Be it password security, antivirus, etc. They are all likely oblivious to all of this and you should educate them instead of blaming exchanges or other services.

5% yearly is nothing in crypto. Most coins swing that much in a day.

And even without fluctuations the 5% inflation would be offset by 5% more investors and it's safe to say that investors are growing much faster than that.

Removing the monitor cable from the card does nothing, you want to use another GPU (like onboard) as your primary GPU if you want the maximum performance from the mining card. In that case plugging a monitor into the mining card does nothing - no picture as it's not the primary monitor.

But the difference is negligible.

Doesn't matter much. Active monitors have a bit less memory because windows is loaded into it to which used to be a problem when you needed all the memory you could get (Scrypt-Jane).

Now that doesn't matter and you probably won't notice the tiny slowdown, stuff will just get laggy.

I really wish I could setup keywords by which woulc be exception to email notifications. I mean not getting an email notification every time some dumbass is announcing or advertising another retarded 'ICO' would cut all the emails in at least half.

Sure, duct tape is one of my biggest friends, but then again I wouldn't use that for critical projects...

Unplug it first?

I would guess hiding Burst mining is much easier than CPU or GPU mining.

You only notice that you don't have much free space (depending on how much space is being used, likely not all of them) while CPU/GPU mining causes lags and fan noise due to heat so it's easier to notice.

And I'd guess you could Burst mine even on stuff like Raspberry PIs or even smartphones without their owner easily noticing them.

Arbitrage.

Difference in prices between exchanges can be used to turn a profit; buy on the exchange where stuff is cheaper and sell them on another where prices are higher.

So it's caused by traders (and bots).

The pool owner said that user had connections from 15k IPs.

It's without a doubt a botnet.