Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I'd be living in a beach house in Thailand now if I knew what I know now

congrats man, I probably dint take too much notice of your post especially as I am not keen mining alt coins, but in terms of "buying" coins perhaps I should have gave it more attention. I have always seem alt coins as a riskier purchase as I dont think they will be long term as steady as bitcoin, but they definitely do have larger growth spurts as you have benefited from.

Feel free to give us other tips in here, as other new coins might pop up, I may purchase some alt coins based on those tips.

In reply to a post by astateoftrance:

So are you saying you have got £30k+ from Solaris?!

Not getting into cryptocurrencies has been a big regret having been a pc builder/gamer since the 90's, feel I should have been on the ball and got into it at the beginning. Oh well.

I couldn't give you the exact number but due to the Bitcoin recent "crash" it would be closer to £20k than £30k as I sold a few at prices leading upto the peak price (still got some coins left as well).

It's definately not to late to get into cryptocurrencies even now, More coins are added every day and loads can be mined with GPU and then you can hold them hoping it will go up or sold for profit.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

congrats man, I probably dint take too much notice of your post especially as I am not keen mining alt coins, but in terms of "buying" coins perhaps I should have gave it more attention. I have always seem alt coins as a riskier purchase as I dont think they will be long term as steady as bitcoin, but they definitely do have larger growth spurts as you have benefited from.

Feel free to give us other tips in here, as other new coins might pop up, I may purchase some alt coins based on those tips.

Pretty much any coin that can become a masternode has gone really well if you look at them and any that give privacy like Monero etc have flown up so when I saw Solaris had masternode and was getting privacy added I got in.

IMO one of the if not the best way to profit is to mine your way to a masternode as they then basically mine coins for free which you then profit from.

http://mnrank.com/
https://masternodes.pro/
http://masternodesjungle.com/

Just to name a few sites which show masternode ROI (obviously this depends on the price staying the same etc)

I'm not saying to buy the coins etc but if you look into the prices of them most of them would of gone up from what I've seen.

I've spent a fair bit getting some parts for some more mining PCs and I'm going to mine my way to a few more masternodes with them.

If you can start mining on a coin that is going to be a masternode coin though you can rake it in as the less masternodes the more coins you get and obviously there wont be many at the start (If you look at the sites above there are coins that have a ROI in the 1000's to begin with)

Nice

I will look into it then. Is there anything you can mine with a 1050ti which is worthwhile ? or is it too low spec.

Edited by astateoftrance (Fri 19-Jan-18 09:09:42)

In reply to a post by astateoftrance:

Is there anything you can mine with a 1050ti which is worthwhile ? or is it too low spec.

A long shot, but it might just work...

It would be a lot more fun at least

Mining Ethereum is around 65p a day from what Ive seen so not great although not too bad TBH since it's quite a cheap card.

the eth crash didnt last long.

was sitting at 1200usd for days.
nanopool sent 0.1 eth out when it dropped to 850usd, I was expecting it to be a proper crash down to at least 600usd, so I sold it there and then, within 24 hours was back over 1000usd.

I think the crashes are manipulated meaning the manipulaters will buy again to start another growth spurt. So next time it dips I wont sell.

What was interesting is on my phone I got an app where I am graphing 6 alt coins, and bitcoin and ETH.

When it mini crashed, all the alt coins and bitcoin crashed as well with almost the same exact pattern on the graph.

Edited by Chrysalis (Sun 21-Jan-18 18:13:26)