Quote from: philipma1957 on December 31, 2017, 04:32:07 PM

Quote from: dragonmike on December 31, 2017, 02:15:11 PM

Meanwhile we're at 154 pages on this thread, heh! Might be time to think about the "Seventh altcoin thread"? Cheesy

I'm so annoyed I have literally ran out of space in my house. Mining is obviously going very, very strong currently and I can't see it ending any time soon (as opposed to 2014...). New paradigm?

New Years day will be thread 7

Not sure what to think about 2018.

way way way better then 2017 ?
way way way worse then 2017 ?
somewhere in the middle of that ?

I am mining for now.

Happy to report nicehash paid my 0.1 for this account's current mining.

https://www.nicehash.com/miner/16yLHLoeyuCLPMXkVpC3gyrRYvwRGwjKJr

I tend to think '18 will be a good year for mining and crypto in general... maybe not to the degree of increases we saw in '17 but after all, many coins enjoyed 100x explosions this year so very hard to duplicate that. I don't think we will see a sustained slump... maybe your various corrections after big rising periods... but one major thing crypto did in '17 was show its resiliency! So many things happened that could have severely hurt the market (China crackdown, hacks, forks, etc), but for every dip, BTC and most alts came back even stronger!

One cheap alt i bought into lately in KIN... that's the native token used by the KIK messenger app. For a long time it was hovering at 1/100th of a penny per coin but is starting what will likely be a nice upward trend. Seems to me that with such a huge user base, this coin is likely to enjoy huge gains in '18 but time will tell. Also looking into BitBean a bit, which is a POS coin. I originally bought in cuz it was cheap (before I knew it was POS) but it looks like it pays out about 4-5% per month if staking, so need to look into that more.

Probably the other big good thing going right now that maybe not everyone knows about is BURST. I have actually been very critical of it most of the year... mainly due to some bad players that heavily influence that community... but this recent price bump (up to .075 at one point but now seems pretty stable at .05) has gotten me re-invigorated. if it even holds 5 cents it will be very profitable. I had about 60TB mining it but just got 50TB more in HDDs. The one crappy thing is that it takes forever to properly plot those HDDs. Took me almost 3 days to plot my first new 8TB drive. But, even at the 5 cent mark, it's about 2-3 months to fully ROI cost of 8 or 6 TB drives, so to me, really a no-brainer.

Good luck to everyone in the new year!