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3200 crashed his PC, so I had him try 2400 which was more stable. I've heard that Ryzen has trouble with higher clocks for memory, so that makes some sense.

He's set the RAM to 2400 with the correct timings and has been playing the Witcher 3 for over an hour now with no issues, thank you all for your help! @SirixtheUnicorn, you should mark the response I quoted below as the solution.

I've walked him through the BIOS and his RAM was at the correct timings, but for some reason the sticks had different frequencies, so now they're the same and we're running an AIDA64 stress test. Hopefully the GPU isn't the problem

I'm @SirixtheUnicorn's friend and I directed him to this forum. If it helps, this is his system config: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/QJbJbX

Have you tried the latest version of Claymore? Worth a shot to see if somehow that helps and the devfee for dual mining is lower too. EDIT: Realized you said "dual cards" not "dual mining" my bad. Still worth a shot though.

I'd recommend making an exclusion for Claymore in Defender to begin with, but which cards do you mine with?

You could just mine on ethermine if you don't like what you hear about nanopool. As for mining ZClassic that's completely up to you, again I'm extremely skeptical how the BTCP fork will work out.

Nope that's a joint statement with Visa. Read Energycore's post.

It's Visa's fault read the edit that I made 6 hours ago

I'll do that right now.

So first you'll have to figure out which coin you want to mine you could use a site like WhatToMine (980 Ti isn't on the list so you might need to do some digging to get the correct values) to see which one is the most profitable at the time. You should choose a coin and stick with it. You'll have to get a wallet, get mining software, and then choose a pool to mine to For example if you were to mine Ethereum I'd recommend using Exodus or MyEtherWallet if you don't want to download the blockchain. For mining software I'd recommend PhoenixMiner or ethminer for Nvidia cards. As for a pool a pretty safe bet would be ethermine or nanopool. All of them should have tutorials that should be enough to get you started, but if you need more help feel free to post again. I've also done some research on the 980 Ti when it comes to mining and it seems like you might have some trouble initially. This post on Reddit might help you if you have a low hashrate. Nicehash is really easy to set up and it's good if you aren't interested in really getting into it, but I wouldn't recommend using it because of how ownership of coins work with them, the fact that a ton of Bitcoin has been stolen from the before, and their fees. I don't see any reason not to use a card to mine on the side when you don't pay electricity. If you're not using it why not make some money with it?

Yeah you can. With a lot of mining software you can disable mining with a specific card on the fly which could be really useful in your case.

I added something similar earlier today to an edit to the original post. Check out the joint statement that Coinbase and Visa released on Coinbase's blog.

AFAIK nanopool won't do payout until you hit the minimum payout unlike how ethermine will pay you if you have at least 0.01 and it's been a week (source). With nanopool, shortly after you hit 0.05 (assuming you set it to that minimum) you'll be paid to the address that you specified. I think it might be possible to message nanopool and request a manual payout, but I haven't tried that yet.

Probably is a key phrase when it comes to the price of crypto because it changes very quickly. I watched my wallet go from $120 to $90 within a week during the recent crash.

With free electricity there's little reason not to mine when you're not gaming on the card. I'd recommend checking a website like WhatToMine to see which coin is worth it to mine and stick with that coin: right now it looks like Ethereum was a good choice. I assume you're mining with Claymore, but I'd personally recommend PhoenixMiner or just straight ethminer for Nvidia cards because I've had better results with my GTX 1060 3GB with them over Claymore. Personally I'm mining ZClassic (ZCL) with bminer because there's a hard fork of it and Bitcoin (BTC) called Bitcoin Private (BTCP) with a 1:1 ratio of BTC to BTCP and ZCL to BTCP at the time of the fork. I don't, I repeat, don't know how it's going to work out or if this is a good choice, but we'll see.

That's probably a really good idea honestly. I might use it in the future with purchases on websites I don't quite trust.

I don't see it anywhere in their sponsor list, why do you mention it?

Good luck to you and big kudos to FlatBrokeRacing for spending the time to write all of that.

Assuming you're mining to a pool like nanopool or ethermine (if at all) you'll get the ETH (Ethereum) to the wallet you specified in the settings once you reach the minimum payout. By using "ethereum money" you mean buy actual things, it's very unlikely that you'll find any place that accepts it yet, although Coinbase has PayPal-like service for paying for goods with crypto, so if you find a website using that you could do that. You can buy and sell ETH on various exchanges which you can find a list of on coinmarketcap.com, CryptoCompare and CoinGecko.

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I really want to learn how to run a pool and then create a pool for it whenever they announce it. I hope they choose an algorithm ASIC-resistant so their fans can mine it even though they really don't want us to.

My thinking is that people will keep hearing about these issues with exchanges and sites like Coinbase and will just think that's a it's a problem with crypto as a whole, which given the regulation issues it kind of is in a way.

They weren't fees. The issue is say they buy $200 worth of some crypto and then a bug charged them that amount more than once due to a bug. Please read a little more before you rant.

UPDATE: Visa is at fault! Check the edit for information. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017374/coinbase-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-ether-unauthorized-charges Coinbase being one of the most popular ways of buying cryptocurrencies it makes crytpo look bad and puts a huge stain on their reputation. Hopefully anyone that had bought coins with Coinbase after learning about crypto in their Mining Adventure series and on the WAN Show didn't get affected by this issue. Personally I know a lot of people who've used Coinbase and I think that most people who are just getting into it would use Coinbase given how much people recommend using their service. If it happens a third time I'm sure they'll be seeing people looking for alternatives even more than they are now. It's a fantastic that they're refunding people, however I feel like the damage done will cause many to want more than a refund for their troubles. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-15/coinbase-says-customers-who-got-wrongly-charged-will-get-refunds I feel like there should've been some sort of fail safe to make sure this sort of thing wouldn't happen. It reminds me of how Luke had been talking about how they weren't going to handle credit card transactions themselves (although I don't know how accurate that is now) and would use services like Stripe or PayPal to handle them instead. EDIT: Coinbase had originally stated that it was Visa's fault, then Visa claimed they weren't at fault, and then this joint statement came out on Coinbase's blog: https://blog.coinbase.com/joint-statement-from-visa-and-worldpay-for-coinbase-customers-9a6f2ff5f3b3 So apparently Coinbase was not at fault for this which is great news! Hopefully Visa and their issuing banks don't make this sort of mistake again in the future.