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More About the BTC Robot Automated Bitcoin Trading Robot

16, Feb 2014

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Three days have passed already since we have started testing out the BTC Robot automated Bitcoin trading robot, so it is time to report how things are progressing so far. Nothing much has happened since we’ve started using the software for automated trading, though we suspect that the reason for that is the current BTC market situation and the way that the trading bot operates. The fact that MtGox and Bitstamp – two of the largest BTC exchanges are currently not allowing Bitcoin withdraws due to possible vulnerability in the BTC transactions has created some chaos on the market and the exchange rate is going mostly down as a result. Even though the BTC Robot actually trades on the BTC-e exchange that has not suspended any of its operations regarding BTC withdraws or deposits and the BTC/USD exchange rate is fluctuating the robot is not executing trades on it. Even considering the fact that we’ve set the Aggressive trading option that should be more active on executing trades with a bit higher risk, but also with supposedly higher profit on success there are no trades because of the weird situation on the market. Hopefully things will get better soon and the trade bot will be able to trade properly soon, or the authors will implement a different trading strategy that will be effective even at the current market situation.

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What you cannot normally learn before you purchase the BTC Robot automated Bitcoin trading robot is the trading strategy it relies on. Normally these automated trading solutions rely on some sort of market indicators such as EMA to “know” when to buy and sell to generate you profit. This solution however relies on a slightly different market indicator, it compares the current price at MtGox and compares it to the exchange rate at BTC-e to decide if it should buy or sell. The software uses three different indicators to make its decisions and they have different values for each of the preset modes you can choose from – Conservative, Medium and Aggressive mode or use your own custom settings. Below you can find the default trading settings for the three modes and in the Custom mode you can change them as you wish in order to get better results – less risk and profitability or higher risk and profitability.

Conservative:
Rmin = 0.09
Rmax = 0.12
R step = 0.01

Medium:
Rmin = -0.01
Rmax = 0.11
R step = 0.012

Aggressive:
Rmin = -0.01
Rmax = 0.11
R step = 0.02

One more important thing to note, especially if you are getting the Silver Plane where you get the BTC Robot as a downloadable software to install on your own computer as we did, instead of a version of the bot preinstalled in the cloud. You can only install the trading software on one computer as it does not checks, so do not install it on a laptop at work for example just to test it first – go directly to a dedicated computer that can be online 24/7 at your home. We have contacted the support to see if we can move the software to another computer as now we have to keep online a laptop that we installed it for a quick test running and on all the time, so this is just a bit of inconvenience, though the support helped us resolve the issue and the software has been moved on another system. Going for a cloud-based service with the other two plans will probably be much easier and problem free solution, so you better consider these.

– Check out our initial thoughts about the BTC Robot automated Bitcoin trading robot here

More About the Scryptcc Scrypt Cloud Mining Service

15, Feb 2014

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After our initial excitement about the scryptcc cloud mining service where you can purchase scrypt KHS that will immediately start mining for you we can now share some more of our experience with the service. We have been using it already for almost half a day and it seems to be working very well so far, we’ve made a second BTC deposit and as soon as we got the third confirmation the Bitcoins were available for trading and purchasing KHS on the exchange. So we have increased our hashrate to 232 KHS for testing the service. Our initial 68 KHS were purchased with an exchange rate for 1 KHS of 0.00144390 BTC, but at the moment there is a slight decrease and you can purchase 1 KHS scrypt cloud mining hashrate for 0.00144360 BTC.

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The income mining calculator over at scryptcc says that the return of investment will be something in between 90 and 180 days, the profitability of the mined altcoins probably changes often and that affects the earnings in each 10 minute session and thus the Break Even time is affected as well. However that will be true if you only purchase hashrate for mining on the long run, if you also start trading the hasrate on the exchange once there are more trades happening there as currently people are mostly buying as the service is new and there is big availability of KHS for sale. The chances are however the exchange rate will start to increase due to increase in the user interest and the price will probably start to grow. This gives you the chance to not only mine for profit, but also trade for some extra profit thus decreasing the ROI time.

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So far our profit from mining with the purchased Scrypt cloud mining hashrate is about 0.00072291 BTC for about half a day, though we started with just 68 KHS and then increased our hasrate to 232 KHS at a later time. The mined profit comes in steadily and is available to you every 10 minutes, so you can trade what you have mined for more KHS or withdraw it if you wish, though for now we are reinvesting the mined BTC into more hashrate. We are still very positive about this Scrypt cloud mining service as it really has a lot of potential, so you should give it a try if you are interested. One thing that we are missing at the moment however is the ability to deposit LTC and trade for KHS (as an extra to the available BTC support) with them and also to choose if you want to get your mined earnings in LTC or BTC, after all we are talking about Scrypt mining here, so LTC support is a must have feature and hopefully we are going to see it added soon.

– For more information and to try out the scryptcc cloud mining service yourself…

Scryptcc Scrypt Cloud Mining Service, Buy KHS And Start Mining Now

15, Feb 2014

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Scryptcc is a new Scrypt-based Cloud Mining Service where you can purchase KHS and they will start mining alternative crypto currencies for you in the cloud right away. This service is really new and very similar to what CEX.io is for Bitcoin cloud mining, however here you re purchasing Scrypt processing power and not SHA-256 like with CEX. It seems that the service is just a few days old and although there is some polishing that needs to be made it seems fully operational and working with thousands of KHS already available for purchase. scryptcc offers both cloud mining and exchange for trading KHS, just like you can do on CEX.io with GHS and BTC.

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In this exchange you can purchase KHS for scrypt-based cloud mining in a private pool, and the earnings you get are also calculated in BTC. There is no detailed information yet or ability to control what alternative crypto currencies the pool mines for you, but it should mine based on profitability such as DOGE or LTC for example (in the future there should be an option for the user to choose specific coin to be mined). The current lowest exchange rate for a 1 KHS is 0.00144390 BTC and according to the calculator that the service provides for checking your profitability you should be able to get a return of investment for about 180 days or half a year if you purchase KHS at that price. The good thing about Scrypt mining is that there are not yet serious ASIC devices on the market and there are already a lot of alternative cryptos to mine, so longer term investment in Scrypt could mining seems more reasonable than in SHA-256 cloud mining power.

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We just started testing the scryptcc cloud based Scrypt mining service by purchasing a few KHS to test with, so we’ll keep you updated to what is happening and how things are going. Hopefully we are seeing something that will give some good alternative options for people that want to have access to higher Scrypt hashrate without having to deal directly with the hardware themselves. After you transfer some BTC to the service (only 3 network confirmations are required), you can purchase some Scrypt cloud hashrate on the exchange and the KHS you purchase are credited to your account and should start earning mining rewards every 10 minutes shortly. We just got our first small mining reward in BTC as you can see on the screenshot above that we reinvested into KHS. So we advice you to give the service a try with some small amount at first to see for yourself how things will be going as we decided to do. Have in mind that the service is still in Beta, so there could be some hiccups at first, but these will probably be dealt with quickly.

– For more information and to try out the scryptcc cloud mining service yourself…


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