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Actual hashrate for video cards in 2019

The mining industry on video cards for 2018 has probably gone through the biggest changes in its entire life span, since Many popular mining algorithms previously available only for video cards have been completely supplanted by asic devices, a large number of new cryptocurrencies promoting new "asic resist" algorithms have appeared on the market, as well as new-generation video cards began to appear. Against this background, the protracted decline in the entire cryptocurrency market for the entire 2018 and the beginning of 2019 makes the life of miners with video cards, in pursuit of maximum profit and payback of their equipment, is not quite predictable and complex. If you have not yet surrendered and have not sold the entire fleet of your video cards, then this material will help you with the choice of the algorithm and software for mining, and optimists will also be able to choose the best option for purchasing and expanding their capacities. Also this material will be very useful for beginners who are just starting their way in the world of cryptocurrencies.

GRIN coin calculator, how to calculate mining profitability

In the article about the fastest miner for cryptocurrency GRIN, we already found out that the video card of the GTX1080Ti level gives around 8 USD per day. Next, we will tell you how to calculate the profitability of mining for your hashrate independently. To do this, you need to know several parameters: the network hashrate, block size, block time and your hashrate, respectively. The block size in a cryptocurrency network GRIN is known to be 60, the block time is 60 seconds or 1 minute. By simple calculations, we learn that 86400 GRIN coins are mined per day.

Reward mining types Solo, PROP, PPS, PPLNS, PPS +, SMPPS, ESMPPS, RSMPPS, CPPSRB, FPPS, HBPPS, RBPPS, PPSW, POT, BPM, Puddinpop, Eligius, Geometric, DGM, Triplemining, Score. What to choose?

For those who are already at least a little interested in mining, cryptocurrency will not be a secret that most miners for the extraction of one or another cryptocurrency are combined into pools for guaranteed reward for mining, even if you have modest computing power. The first thing that pays attention to when choosing a pool is its capacity relative to the entire network and the commission, while often omitting from the attention the remuneration system for which the pool is calculated with the miners for the solutions sent (Share). There are more than two dozen different options for implementing this function, which in pools are often indicated as an abbreviation, to which novice miners often do not pay enough attention. If you plan to do mining seriously and for a long time, then you should at least familiarize yourself with the existing types of rewards and their advantages or disadvantages.

Simple Tips for Recognizing ICO Scams

After 2017, a new progressive investment instrument appeared - primary placement of coins or ICO. Which became available to a wide range of people, than hurried to use all sorts of scammers. Over the past year, 4 new ICOs appeared each day, with 90% of this list having no success, i.e. the invested money simply disappeared without the possibility of making any claims to the creators of the ICO. By the end of 2018, the excitement around investment in the ICO had already subsided, but still remains at a fairly high level. For investors considering ICOs for investing, the main risk remains to run into projects that were originally conceived as a deception for appropriating investors' money. To define such Scam projects, you need to pay attention to 7 main features of such projects:

The best cryptocurrency exchanges in 2018

In fact, there is a huge number of sites for trading crypto currency. For example, a resourcecoinmarketcap collects trading statistics for more than 200 trading platforms, but in fact, the currency exchange is several times larger. Unfortunately, not all of them are sufficiently reliable, safe and have a sufficient volume of trades. In this article, we want to present you a selection of the best and most popular crypto-exchange exchanges in 2018. We have selected for you only reliable and easy-to-trade exchanges that are constantly evolving. Particular attention was paid to the possibility of working with fiat money (rubles, dollars, euros) and the possibilities of their input and output. If you mine the crypto currency with your hardware or cloud mining services, then in this case you also can not do without crypto-exchange exchanges for converting coined coins into rubles / dollars or into other crypto-currencies to reduce risks. It should be noted that if your goal is a one-way exchange of crypto currency or one-time purchase and sale of crypts, then perhaps you'd better look towards exchangers: for example, the service24PayBank, P2P exchange Localbitcoins.com или же telegram bot for sale and purchase of bitocans.

Forex trading with Crypto-currencies: pluses, minuses, opportunities.

When the course for bitcoins flew somewhere in the skies, right there went and HYIP. Who even participated in the creation of its crypto currency, even the French football club Paris Saint-Germain, which is still going to create its own crypto currency Fan Token. That for the most successful use of HYIP for crypto-currencies, there were forex brokers. It should be noted here that the matter is not in the talent and efficiency of their leaders, but in two objective factors:
The presence of a broad customer base, which already speculated with similar assets as currencies, indices and CFDs. By the way, if you hear the word CFD for the first time in your life - do not rush to Wikipedia - we'll talk more about this term in more detail.

Mining crypto currency on laptop (notebook computer)

To get a crypto currency, there are two ways: buying and mining, and mining crypto currency is the simplest and safest way. for mining, you can use any programmable computing device, starting from mobile phones and ending with specialized devices for mining by Asic. Recently, we have already discussed the mining of crypto currency on mobile phones, today we will focus on more powerful devices - laptops. Further, we will evaluate their performance in mining, calculate the yield and make a final conclusion on the use of laptops in the mining of crypto currency.

Mining on a mobile phone (smartphone)

Now everyone in their hands now has a smartphone, which  is comparable to full-fledged computers 5-10 years ago. Therefore, many reasonably raises the question of the appropriateness of using smartphones for the mining of cryptowl and bitcoin in particular. In this article, we will try to answer this question and discuss in detail the topic of mining on mobile devices.

ICO - the Initial Coins Offering. What it is?

With the development of technology blocking and the popularization of bitcoin, etherium and other crypto currencies in 2017, the new term initial coin offering (abbreviated ICO) literally broke into our life. In the translation of ICO ("aysio" or more correctly "Ico"), this is the primary coin offer or primary coin placement . In order not to be confused with real money, instead of the word "Coins", the rarely used term "Tokens" was used. If we turn to wikipedia, then for the term "Token" there are several meanings. In our case, Token is a sign or symbol used as a substitute for money. 

 If the terms are less clear, then we will consider in more detail the very phenomenon of ICO - from where it came from, what it is used for and what ICO is in simple terms.

Mining on GPU - detailed guide for beginners

Now, when the crypto currency is so popular that it is said everywhere: on the Internet, on TV and in other media, new information sites and Youtube channels, various analytical resources and services are constantly appearing, the number of online crypto-exchange exchanges is growing by leaps and bounds. Even governments of different countries are constantly discussing the phenomenon of crypto-currencies and block-technologies, trying to legalize the crypto currency and bring it under the legislative framework, or vice versa, considering Bitcoin a direct threat to the established banking financial system. Today the issue of mining of crypto-currencies (mining) is discussed rather widely, as one of the most interesting topics for ordinary users. Many have probably heard that Bitcoin, as well as another crypto currency, can be extracted as such, but the technical subtleties and how to start doing the crypto currency mining, what this might require and how to do it all do not know. In this material, we will try to explain in as much detail and simple as possible how the average user starts to earn crypto currency from scratch, what kind of crypto currency and on what devices it is profitable to mine in 2018, how to collect a simple mining of the farm, what equipment is best suited for this at the moment, what programs Use for extraction, where to store and how to withdraw the extracted coins.

Where and how to create a bitcoin wallet

If you have already asked yourself such a question "how to create a bitcoin purse", you have already heard about crypto-currencies and Bitcoin. Here we will not go into the technical details of the work of blockchain technology, but just look at the types of bitcoin wallets and how to install them on a computer or mobile phone. First of all, when choosing a bitcoin wallet, you need to select a reliable source for downloading the installer. One of these sites is Bitcoin.org, which presents a lot of different bitcoins of wallets, which you can install without fear for the reliability of storing your crypto currency.

Bitcoin FAQ

General questions

1. What is Bitcoin?
2. How can I get Bitcoin?
3. Can I buy cryptocurrency Bitcoin via PayPal?
4. What is the best forum for Bitcoin users?
5. How generate bitcoins?
6. How much Bitcoin released at this time?
7. Up to how many decimal places is divided into 1 Bitcoin?
8. As called Bitcoin share?
9. How decreases Bitcoin block reward?
10. Over what period of time will be created all the coins Bitcoin?
11. It will create new blocks after all the coins will be issued Bitcoin?
12. What happens if someone generate alternative chain Blockchain or other cryptocurrency make you forget about Bitcoin?