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Coins are divisible by 8 decimal places. You could buy a fraction of one cent worth of BTC if you wanted. It's not practical to use though if you buy less than what the typical transaction fees are currently, but if you just buy it as an investment, you can leave it on Coinbase and sell it...

Braindead simple way is sign up at Coinbase, submit to the anal probe, and buy coins easily with their otherwise very simple and painless UX. If you don't buy a lot, you can just keep it there and not fuss with wallets. They've never been hacked and professional exchanges have learned to keep...

Security from hackers & break-ins, security from fire/disaster, and ensuring your heirs get it. Pick two and it's easily solved. Security of all three at once is hard. I've been pondering this for weeks now. This is why Coinbase is launching a service just for rich people.

I need to do this too. Some ideas: Passwords/seeds/2FAs in a VeraCrypt container using a password you won't forget on a USB thumb drive and give it to a relative or a very close friend. You can also use PaperBack and give them a piece of paper instead. Encrypted containers allow you do use...

Not to sound like a know-it-all here, but since we're all ex-EQ loving gamer pals I want to share what I've done recently to secure what recently became 'I need to make sure this is safe' levels of money. I bought a MSI Desktop Computer Cubi N-049US Pentium N3710 (1.60 GHz) 4 GB DDR3L 500 GB...

Bitcoin volatility will match major fiat currencies by 2019 One of the reasons why futures is a big deal is that they will further reduce volatility. Granted 2017 was a wild year. Hoarding doesn't seem to stop fiat from working: Richest 1% now owns half the world's wealth

I don't disagree, but 'relatively' is the key word in that sentence. Ask Eliot Spitzer about that 'little' interference. The entire globe is going down the road of outlawing cash, because when the government can't monitor everybody's transactions, that's super bad and only terrorists want...

Electrum

Bittrex, without any warning, turned off withdrawals on accounts that did not submit KYC then demanded photocopies of drivers licenses and photos of clients to allow them to get their money out. This is extremely shady if not outright theft because many people are unwilling to do this. They...

For US persons, Coinbase is probably the best option. There's always localbitcoins.com if you hate KYC. My personal recommendation is to hold a majority in BTC with less than 50% alts. BTC is the safest bet, but probably won't get you the best returns compared to the better performing alts...

It's not 2013 anymore. BTC isn't very private at all, at least if the feds want you. Entire companies have formed JUST to scan blockchains and track payments and police agencies all over the world are using these services to catch criminals. This is why Monero was adopted by darknet markets...

Trading is much, much harder than it looks. I do a little trading, but I just wait for 'blood in the streets' before I enter into a long, and I don't do shorts. Essentially I just wait for a massive price tank that only happens every few months, and I don't use much leverage, making for a...

Buffet hates gold too. He just prefers assets that produce wealth (he uses a farm as an example) so it's no surprise that he hates bitcoin. He also stays away from technology stocks. Bitcoin is being bought by some hedge funds now. Some of the big time VCs also invest in it; Coinbase started...

Antonopoulos' videos are required viewing for anybody in this space: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJWCJCWOxBYSi5DhCieLOLQ His Mastering Bitcoin book is more for technical people. The Internet of Money book is more for the average person.

Lightning networks could kill Litecoin's only use case. However lightning is still a ways off, so for the time being Litecoin has a use. The current rise is entirely from speculation mania; you can't pay many merchants with it yet so there isn't much transaction growth. Even with unfull...

I'm still not convinced that Ethereum isn't a big scam. It's been around 3 years now and the only application I see it used for is a kitty cat trading game, and the network can't even handle it. People think some of these blockchains are legitimate because Microsoft or whatever shows interest...

Electrum for BTC and Exodus for the alts it can store. (but is also fine for BTC) For XMR and Sia I use their particular GUI clients/wallets.

If you're thinking of buying a miner, be aware of this first This Bitcoin Developer Is About to Take on the Mining Hardware Industry

Probably because I sold some yesterday

Charlie was on Glenn Beck last night, telling everybody that Litecoin was superior to Bitcoin, so that might have something to do with it.

Trader buzz is that deep pockets are accumulating for the mother of all shorts when futures launch. Even if that's true, shorts can fail, and I expect Bitcoin to recover long-term regardless, but I wouldn't bet the farm right now. Hold some dry powder and pay close attention for a sharp drop...

I paid less than $4 in fees for my VPN service on cyber Monday using Bitcoin. Also, using SegWit addresses, the fees go down to like 40 cents; but many operations are not using SegWit yet. Regardless, Bitcoin is hardly 'unusable' if fees are $10+. The use case merely changes. People think...

Just to clarify: auto deposit would require the stash open (and button press) and auto pickup would require you to run over the item on the ground, not mass-pickup the entire screen. Also adjustments to drop rates are assumed. There are many ways of doing pickup of course. My auto deposit...

I'm going to preface this post by saying that I love this game, spent money on it, it shits all over D3, it's the best ARPG out there, etc. But I would agree that this game has some significant QoL issues regarding inventory. My wish list would be: * currency auto-pickup (PLEASE) * auto...

Well executed. Honestly I had thought the ring wouldn't be beaten before Luclin. Figures everything worked flawlessly up until Vulak died. A nice advantage to emus is that this kind of thing can be easily and quickly rectified.

The class is called 'tank'? Really? Announcing Torrid MMORPG. I will have the following classes available: Tank, Caster DPS, Physical Ranged DPS, Healer, Melee DPS. Lifetime subs only $25.

If you buy on Newegg, make sure you check combo deals. I was going to get a B350 Tomahawk, but saw a combo deal for a ASRock Killer X370 board with the PSU I was getting. 18 bucks off a $145 board that also had a $10 rebate = $117 for a X370 board. Also picked out my RAM. RAM cost me...

I didn't realize the 1600 came with a spire. Thought it came with a worse cooler. I guess I'll just make a judgement call on any sales I see in the next few weeks as to which Ryzen I get. Really wish I had done that 1700 $250 sale. Several coins are desktop minable: Ethereum, Monero...

A lot of sticks won't run at their rated speeds because AM4 mobo manufacturers had to rush a release. Supposedly a May microcode update will resolve this. There aren't many 16 gig sticks on QVL lists from what I can see, either. Samsung B-Die seems to work the best but all the sticks that I...

I'm also deciding between a 1600X + cooler vs 1700 w/ spire. AMD vs Intel right now is a no-brainer because I use my computer as a computer and not a console. Only reason I didn't get a 1700something by now is because I still can't figure out what RAM to buy. 32 gigs is required for me and...

That was from an Al'Kabor log, so it's PoP era. I was able to determine that the PvP spell scaling reduced spells down to 62% at higher levels in that era, so that's already mitigated down to 62% of normal. Emus can easily modify extreme edge case imbalances of course.

PvP in PoP: [Tue Aug 20 23:22:22 2013] An unholy aura envelops Exos. [Tue Aug 20 23:22:23 2013] You writhe in the grip of agony. You have taken 4896 points of damage. [Tue Aug 20 23:22:23 2013] You have been knocked unconscious! [Tue Aug 20 23:22:23 2013] You have been slain by Exos!

Daybreak's server allows boxing. I can't be the only person with 3 computers on his desk.

We have at least 3 raiding guilds last I checked. Alt key sticking and environmental sound volume will be fixed in a future client release. Secrets and Haynar have done some amazing client hacks but it's not ready for users yet. HotKeyNet can be used until then to avoid key sticking. Some of...

What a respectful question. I'll entertain you however. TAKP will be around for years to come. It doesn't matter how many people play it. Our population is still kind of low because the team made some bad decisions. Notably: open sourcing it without a release delay and instituting a 3 box...

Regarding database accuracy: Project EQ has seen significant improvements of late because they've been importing TAKP data. Remember that half of TAKP's staff is also PEQ staff, so sharing content between projects is frictionless. I'm in charge of TAKP's NPC stats and I haven't been involved...

Newegg has the k70 for $85 right now. Slickdeals forum gives it 5 thumbs, so I guess that's a sale. Will grab one of those myself unless I see something more interesting.

They are instanced on Progression servers only. You walk up to a kedge fish-man NPC in an adjacent zone and talk to him to make an instance, which he teleports you into. So there are kedge-men all over the place on TLPs. More specifically, what they did to raid bosses to make them not fall...

I can offer you some finer details. (these are just quickly off the top of my head) * AC was hardcapped until PoP, so it's softcapped on TLPs. The overcap returns are also more forgiving than PoP era returns. Certain loot like Vulak and AoW loot was given ridiculous amounts of AC with the...

Yeah, nothing. Except I told them how to fix slows which were using a completely wrong function. I told them how to fix partial spell resists. I told them how to calculate NPC double attack and dual wield rates. I outlined most of EQ's hate mechanics including how to calculate hate per spell...