Quick question you guys...

will AWESOME MINER performance suffer if i mine it within a Virtual Machine?

I've got a powerful windows PC (1080ti) for gaming and work that i also want to use for mining but want to contain miners in Virtual Machine , installed w/ same, Win10 x64

Will Awesome Miner be less efficient? and by how many % on rough estimate?

and while we're at it, is this the same on all miners perhaps?

Awesome. thanks man.

So i just bought some tokens today (ICO) using my EXODUS wallet because PILLAR said i could!
http://i.imgur.com/3KCmvlC.jpg

But now people are saying i can't use EXODUS.. this is confusing.

Sent ETH already, left my Exodus wallet... 

How to resolve?

darn, i was asleep when email came in. twas 1AM in my time.. totally prepped my eths for the presale and boom, missed the bus. what am i supposed to do, not sleep?! lol
oh well.

.... looks like Litecoin is showing some promising future..

I might grab a short cloud mining contract to mine and hold....

and yes I'd love to put together a mining rig, but by the looks of the current supply , it's so difficult to find proper GPUs for mining at the moment and the prices for RX 470 and 480's have increased ridiculously..

I'm patient, i could wait, but at the way things are going now I feel i need to make a move within the next 2 weeks or get left behind even further ..

hmmm.. fun time we're living in.... 

Thanks for your inputs mate. I do agree to some extent, but i think you missed my point. Im not going to expect to earn from mining activities anymore, it's pretty clear to me and my research that that is a lottery, not a business. My goal here is to mine for a while and gather some coins to hold. My question is really, perhaps there are still uses to cloud mining for "quick mine and hold" operation only, as opposed to putting together a mining rig (which will cost me some valuable time due to the shortages) . anyway just playing with the idea.. but i definitely agree with you, cloud mining for ROI and profit (like running a business) is really stupid given the numbers.

Quick story.. was one of the an early miners back when bitcoin was still a shitcoin, got tired, left the game... only recently regretting it but hey, not too late to get back into the game right?

So, spent the last week researching and getting myself updated... things i learned so far...

Mining with a powerful Gaming rig and 1 or 2 GPUs ain't gonna cut it much these days... and one must either get an ASIC machine or setup a serious GPU mining machine (dedicated) .... like i said, i was one of the early miners who just let an idle PC run all night to mine... and also contribute to SETI cloud computing.. anyway...  Trying to find hardware is a b*tch right now, and prices are bloated due to the mining rush, I think.

Unfortunately, I also learned that CLOUD MINING is a NO GO, mostly scams, or legit but setup to barely make a client profit, if any at all. And personally, I always felt that. Why the heck would companies sell hash power promising customers they can earn, when they can use it to make their own money. If i had a mining farm, i would not rent out hash power, I would use it for myself and mine like crazy!

So that leaves me with 2 options, to which I plan to take both options

OPTION A: Save myself some time and just buy some coins now and hope for the next bull rush..
OPTION B: Sign up for the most legit cloud mining out there to mine some promising shit coins for a few months, collect, and let sleep, and hope next year they make up for something.

So my question to you guys is OPTION B... because after reading a lot about cloud mining, I really can't see myself ROIng fast enough or and earning much on BTC or ETHERs anymore, so what do you guys think about running cloud mining for a while just to collect some cheap, low difficulty, coins now and just save it for later?


Thoughts and tips, are appreciated.

BC