Python by its nature is open source, its usually distributed as .py, and even the compiled .pyc files are decompilable. The seller would have to go through additional measures to obfuscate the code.

Panic selling is a rookie mistake, admittedly one that I've fell for when starting out. Unless the coin is known to be pumped up for a dump artificially or there's a sudden change of plans (premine being sold off, major vulnerability found, etc.), dips can mostly be ignored, as more often than not the market corrects itself and mining difficulty increases pay off in the long run.

If anything, especially with larger coins, buying the dip is the way to go.


"Don't invest what you can't afford to lose"

Here's a comprehensive list of how different GTX 1070 perform http://miningcamp.info/posts/24-test-vseh-gtx-1070-v-maininge-zcash-i-ethereum.html. Note that during the tests all over the cards were overclocked, running at 111% powerlimit and 100% fan speed. In summary, Palit cards really seem to be the highest performers, especially considering the price, and the Inno3D card is ill suited for mining due to the heatsink cooling neither the memory or the VRMs.

It depends on the field and what goals a person has, but, at least in regards to technology, work experience, involvement in projects and a solid portfolio are regarded higher than just a degree. Government and large corporation jobs might place importance on having a degree, but more often than not it's done for superficial and arbitrary reasons.

It's not controversial in the traditional sense of the word, as in hardly anyone objects to it being used, with the exception of those who think its growth is unsustainable either in value or scaling. It did get some notoriety from use in illegal markets and ransomware over the time, then again, it creates more exposure and it's not something that couldn't be done through conventional means.

Governments have had a hard time catching up and dealing with the decentralized and anonymous nature of it, which has led to some premature bans. However, it's absurd to attempt to regulate and enforce the use of private keys in encryption algorithms. At that point the controversy should be about government overreach and not Bitcoin or cryptocurrency in general.

Yet another act of "cultural enrichment" perpetrated by the peaceful "refugees". Nothing too dissimilar from what's happening in the rest of Western European nations. At least this incident got some media exposure, where as there are countless cases of migrant child abuse that get swept under the rug, only to be talked about years later.

The criminals should be repatriated or at least get punished to the fullest extent of the law, but also the politicians, who impose the importation of culturally incompatible "guests" against the will of the host society, should be held accountable for their actions.

In your CPU screenshots you appear to be running on all 4 threads, while in the GPU screenshots you appear to be running correctly on only 3 threads, since you have 6MB of L3 cache and Monero requires 2MB per instance, you should only mine in the latter configuration.

Nothing wrong with mining on free electricity and hardware you already have, since it's pure profit. I'd suggest diversifying your portfolio a bit with other CryptoNight currencies, such as SUMO, KRB and already mention ETN. There are ways to marginally optimize your setup by compiling the miners for your own architecture and overclocking your components, but it's not worth it if you're not familiar with stability issues involved.

Getting GTX 1060's is a solid option as well, but in that case you should be at least mining Ethereum or looking into dual mining Ethereum.

CS:GO and Minecraft aren't graphically demanding games to begin with, so even an used R7 260X or a GTX 750 Ti suffice for an average of 120+ FPS. But in general, given the budget, a GTX 1050 Ti should be more than enough for the use-case scenario.

Given most news organizations are openly pushing agendas and use dubious sources to the point where even opinion pieces get presented as news, there's no good reason to even take note of what's being reported. Of course, it's not entirely fabricated, but it doesn't take much to misinform by omission of facts or unbased speculation. Suggesting that one should instead use multiple news sources to piece together what's really happening is absurd, as that's what journalists should be doing in the first place.

As it's already pointed out by the news articles, the attackers were simply inserting the CoinHive script into the webpages, probably with a man-in-the-middle attack, which is something trivial enough for any website to do. A decent browser extension for it will do the trick, but you might also want to disable Javascript or switch to a privacy-oriented browser if you're really worried about it.

A sure way to check if your system is being exploited for mining is to keep an eye on your system resources and temperatures - Task manager for CPU usage and GPU monitoring depends on your hardware and operating system, although the latter doesn't matter for most laptops.

Since 750Ti is missing its Skunkhash values, I'd like to note that it gets 5056 kH/s (5.0 Mh/s) on average and reports 28/46W usage on stock clockspeeds using CCMiner 2.2.3 (GV-N75TOC-2GI).

Hope that helps, other than that the site is really useful.