Samsung is the best

Micron is the worst.

It definitely matters, but not a ton.  1 or 2 Mh/s if you bios mod them correctly for ETH.

Samsung cards are way better for Cryptonite, at least in my experience.

Ethereum is super overrated.  

Ethereum is a platform that other applications and services can use, primarily through smart contracts.  Ethereum has been very aggressive with it's development and has not done a great job of creating a secure environment (see MultiSig contract bug).  Eth also doesn't really scale well (see Cryptokitties).   Ethereum is also too centralized and have set a precedent that it is not immutable (see DAO hack), which is a fairly large problem for a trustless cryptocurrency system.  Ethereum is also probably not centralized enough in that real business enterprises (not startups but established companies) are not going to want to build on top of it.

The larger problem with these smart contracts is that they are very difficult to secure, and many people attempting to write them write it in a way that gets exploited.  Devs have too much freedom in smart contracts, and can too easily hang themselves with imperfect code.
  
So what is ether, really? If Ethereum is a platform for other applications to ride on top of using smart contracts, than Ether is just a way to fund smart contracts that don't really work all that well.

Bitcoin >>>> Ethereum

Because there are millions of idiot suckers who buy and mine pre-mined scam coins and just dump money to these shitcoin-producting scammer devs.

There is a sucker born every minute, and a lot of devs are taking advantage of it because those suckers don't know a fair launch when they see one.

The devs premine a bunch and then dump it once it gets on an exchange.

The ANN thread is just full of complete shit.

When have altcoins ever been stable?

Actually he's right...  You shouldn't be laughing at him as if you actually know what you're talkign about.

If you want to hit it big you have to find coins to mine before the masses drive up the difficulty.  Most people look at what to mine, so once the coin is listed there difficulty goes way up.  

It's hard to find new ones that are actually worth mining because most of the are crap and the ones that aren't have a lot of people on them early (like ETN), but finding new coins and mining early is a very viable strategy.

Maybe the person confidently answering the questions of others that mining software is flagged because web sites use javascript to mine shouldn't be going around calling others "fucking idiot"?  You apparently do wonder why it is flagged because you thought it was because of web sites mining.

It's really frustrating seeing so many "answers" on this forum being bad information.

No... Difficulty is up.

You can simply look this information up.  Every block explorer will have difficulty and hash rate.

Yes, you can sell straight up turds for a profit in this market

Just make sure you are dumping before the premine dumps on most of those.

 

Yes they are.  If difficulty goes up, renting NiceHash is less valuable to the buyer so the price to rent hash power goes down.

Simple economics.

No they aren't... and BTC is not going up either.

Difficulty is going up though.

This is not a good idea.  If difficulty keeps going up you will never ROI.

Probably better to just buy and HODL.  That's been the best way to do things in crypto so far, in hindsight.

I would have 2x the coins if I bought coins instead of mining gear.

They keep pushing it back because they don't have it solved, and from the look of it are far from having it solved.  Not that that ETH team wouldn't release something before it's ready...   

I doubt that it will even happen this year, if ever.  

Even if it does, it will create a PoW ETH hard fork as many don't believe PoS is sufficient.  It's open source software, so the Difficulty Bomb can just be removed or delayed forever.  It's not much of a Difficulty "Bomb" since they already delayed it once (twice?).

Nvidia card algo difficulty seems to be on the rise - I noticed that all of the normal coins I mine are producing quite a bit fewer rewards.  I added another 1080 ti to my rig and I'm still getting less than I got a few weeks ago.

It must be that the mining craze and insane demand for 1070/1070ti/1080ti cards is having a real impact on mining difficulty.

Semux has anonymous devs...

I'm getting 28+ if I go up to 150+ watts I guess too.  The cards hash fine, they just don't have a good Mhs/Watt for Dagger compared to my other cards.

They use too much power and don't come with additional hash power to compensate.  Better for Cryptonight than Dagger for sure.

I also have a RoG Strix 1080 ti and it overclocks for shit compared to some other high end brands.  I guess they probably bin the Posieden for their best silicon.

This looks better than all of the 15-20% premine masternode coin scams I've looked at today.

15% premine?  Not a chance

If there is no premine or ICO, how you can sell a Masternode?

"There is no premine guys but we can totally sell you a MN"

Sounds pretty scammy.  Use your marketing skills to explain to us how this isn't a scam.

No.