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Why I don't buy Crypto anymore
How to disable one GPU mining (-di command)
Finally got around to setting up the Octominer I won in last year's contest held here
This Capacitor was on my GTX 1070 and one is broken. Any one have an idea what the capacity is so I can purchase a replacement? :)

Posted: 03 Jul 2019 10:53 AM PDT

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Posted: 04 Jul 2019 07:59 AM PDT

Okay, it'll be a long post, so get ready. Been lurking here for a while and finally decided to post my thoughts.

I started working with crypto in 2017 after being curios for a couple of years. What I learned is that with further adoption still only a few people know about mining. Even I thought of mining as something so complex and impossible to understand that I didn't even try to get into it. I bought something like $200 of btc and tried trading to see how it essentially worked. I got me some alts but mainly traded bitcoin. In retrospective, I was pretty dumb and lost a bunch. Didn't fully understand the market and couldn't get profit neither when shorting or longing (also lost like a hunnid on margin trading). I then just kinda forgot about it for some time

Then a couple colleagues explained to me what mining actually is after i told them I was curios about crypto. I started doing research and found out that it's pretty easy even for a beginner. Of course you need proper tech (especially a good gpu) and at least some tech background, but it's nothing to be scared of. I learned more from Youtube this video from 3blue1brown but there are many others you can find, just search blockchain) and my friend answered other stupid questions I've had about mining.

So what exactly is my point? I think that many cryptoenthusiasts tend to forget about mining while caring too much for trading. I mean, look at it this way:

-You stay anonymous because you don't have to directly exchange dollars for btc

-You don't support the big players and do your own thing which makes it all more decentralized in the end

-you have financial independence (no need to pay for fees/gas/currency conversion)

And it's also cheaper. I found out that if you spend a 15 hundred on your own beginner rig, you'll get a stable and resellable profit machine. It's good to know what you're doing but thereare communities like reddit who would help you

Here's a post on /r/moneromining on mining vs buying crypto

Also a good read about different cases when buying and mining

It's also a great way to escape scammers cos as I said you don't have to deal with shady people who can easily steal your money which is pretty bad especially if crypto is outlawed in your country. It's safer than exchanges (as we all know judging by how many scams there were with fraudulent exchanges).

If you have a good rig you really invested in you can always resell it or use its' power for yourself (video/photo/music production or just playing games on it).

Buying crypto doesn't help this industry as mining and developing new solutions does. Many people buy and hodl while hoping for a bright future or try to trade while losing money every day.

And last but not least: It doesn't require your attention every minute of the day. It's more useful than holding because you continue to actively make money but it's much less stressful than trading.

You can try mining on your pc rn because you only need a good pool. I started with Nicehash (pretty good marketplace but cloudmining is not my thing) and Minergate (dead simple when it comes to mining). Bitcoin is not really profitable so maybe try Ripple or Monero, depending on your setup. Mind the heating issues (get a fan) and electricity costs. If you have any questions you can ask around here or pm me

TL;DR:

Mining is better when it comes to anonymity and making stable money in the long run. It's safer and there's less chance you get scammed. See my examples above

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How to disable one GPU mining (-di command)

Posted: 04 Jul 2019 05:29 AM PDT

I'm using claymore miner with 2 Rx 580. I'm using my integrated GPU and every time I restart the miner I have to press 0 to disable it otherwise it would crash for errors

I know there's the disable command "-di 0" that must be added in the .bat file but where exactly? It doesn't work

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Finally got around to setting up the Octominer I won in last year's contest held here

Posted: 03 Jul 2019 06:05 PM PDT