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legendary
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Here is another great post from RegulusHr about mining.
Link from original post: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.31914563

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Just wanted to write how ccminer/enemy-1.03 is much better when mining x16r algo then other options when I saw it is included in new version of cryptoguiminer. I am still testing it for now but it reports average hashrate of 46MH/s on pool page (average in 12 hours, 5xGTX1070) which is in line with declared values on https://cryptoguiminer.com, the miner itself shows hashrate of 47-52MH/s. Pool always reports little less, so I am happy with results.

When you notice that your miner has lower hashrate then declared, first check mining software. You can check what other miners use on pool pages which can help a lot.
https://cryptopool.party/site/miners

@Z.X. has made a good point that in case when you often switch the coin you are mining you end up with small amount of coins on multiple exchanges. I decided to solve this by mining coins from same exchanges instead the most feasible one at that moment.  
Exchanges have exit fees which can significantly change the total feasibility of mining. Ie. Crypto bridge has exit fee of 0.0010 BTC, which means that my machine needs whole day of work just to cover that exit fee.
legendary
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It's great to see that so many bans are removed, some even just in a few hours but here, user RegulusHR still waiting that someone answer his ban appeal almost half year!
I think that we already many times explained very well why ban for RegulusHR should be removed and it will be great that admins finally review this case.

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So now, theymos had made another update with ban appeals and ban methods. As to what I have read from the inputs of other users stating that there is no permban already but there are consequencies.

This is somehow a good way to prevent the going down numbers of users that are active in the forum. Imagine if there are 5K bans per day or per month then how many active users will stay? This will diminished the users ideas and inputs for the betterment of cryptocurrency in the future because we need everyone here in the forum to contribute meaningfully and help enlighten other users especially to the newbies or new comers.

I admire theymos now taking another step for the good of forum. Removing permban and replacing it to punishements for the offenses will make a user to still participate in the forum removing some of its features like wearing signature for about some time.

 I suggest to make it this way on the time frame for one that cannot wear signature.

6 months for the first offense
1 year for the second offense
1 1/2 year for the third offense
then permban for the 4th offense.


This I think could be good for forum. If this could be done with RegulusHR case. He could be here but not allowing to wear signature but think that its long period for this. It could be 3, 6 and 12 months as final then permaban with some list of tracking users on this list.
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This is one more post where RegulusHR helped members of our local forum.

He made analysis of ICO for company that would make automated KYC.

Original thread can be found here.

Following is my translation of that post:

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Idea behind project:
Truewho will be online identity confirmation service. Idea is to avoid doing KYC procedure on every exchange or project for which you are interested. Truewho service will guarantee with their reputation for truthfullness of data you have given to exchange / project and guarantee protection of your personal information. Idea seems very good to me, and team of Electroneum ponders to provide same or similar service, so probably there will be competition.

Token economy:
Nominal value of token is 1 WHO = $0,2
In whitepaper they didn't wrote how big is hard cap and soft cap. On their Telegram channel they answered me that soft cap is 2 million dollars, and hard cap is 60 million dollars. According to my calculation if they sell all tokens that are allocated for sale, hard cap should be 80 million dollars. In presale they give 50% bonus, while in ICO bonus is 5% and drops to zero when they sell half of the tokens.
At the moment presale is active for which they allocated 2 million dollars worth of tokens.

Presale is active from 15.09. until all the tokens are sold or 19.10.2018.
ICO starts 19.10.2018. until 21.1.2019.

Project will make income by selling user verification services to various companies. They also plan to make income from users if they want to share access to their personal information to third party, but third party is not willing to pay for it.

Bounty:
Details of bounty campaign are not yet published, but they will be soon. They start with marketing campaign starting October.
For now you can earn some tokens with registration and passing KYC on their webpage.


Team:
I found out for this project because I follow the news about Dropil project, and first five people behind Truewho are the same people like in Dropil. Dropil is good project with stabile price of the token even in bear market and I have good opinion about the team. The idea is that Dropil will be first user of Truewho services. Difference between Dropil and Truewho is that Dropil is ERC20 token and Truewho is Stellar platform token. Team promises that you wil get activated Stellar address with enough XLM to cover the expenses of large number of transactions. Truewho company is registered on Malta 04.07.2018. The reason why Malta is chosen is because of EU directive of personal data protection, and the founders are from USA.

Impression:
The core of project is user database, and initial webpage is open and the database is starting to fill. Until the start of ICO they plan to have working solution. Everything is still in early phase, they are at the beginning, and they focus on web page optimisation.
2 million soft cap is in my opinion more then enougt for project to start. For this type of project the marketing and contact with potential clients are essence. That is why there is so big difference between soft cap and hard cap. I don't see other reason why would they need 60 million dollars.

Conclusion:
Idea behind this project is good and it comes in the right time, because there is KYC flood coming. In the end fate of this project will depend on marketing, and if the project builds reputation I believe that a lot of teams will let Truewho to take care of KYC, not only in crypto world.
Negative side is extremely high hard cap.

Links:
Web page: https://truwho.com/
Telegram: https://t.me/truwho
ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5039376.new#new
Bounty thread: -
legendary
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I saw the new ban wave and it seems that it actually brought something good with it as well.

Global mods were given the ability to ban signatures only yesterday. Do you think we can get through all the appeals in one day? Be patient.

Some members already received their accounts back with signature ban so I will use this news to bump the case of RegulusHR once more.

We have demonstrated a strong case for reducing his punishment so please go through this thread as well. He is worthy of a ban removal in the eyes of all local board members.
legendary
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Here is original post from RegulusHR: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.48630307

My translation is below:

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It's true that cards convert almost all 100% of the current into the heat but it does not make sense to use it primarily for heating. This with a quartz heater of less power is subjective because the same curret directly converts to the heat and by me are totally unprofitable devices except for handy heating.
In the first and second case you turn your electricity into heat in a ratio of 1 to 1 which means for 1kWh of electricity you get 1kWh of heat energy at a temperature of 50-90 ° C..
Heat pumps are devices which best exploit electricity for heating with a factor of 2 to 3.5, which would mean that for 1 kWh of electricity you get 2 to 3.5 kWh of heat energy where the outlet temperature is about 40-50 ° C.
Therefore, heat pumps should be used for heating to electricity. The most famous heat pumps are air conditioners so if you have a new inverter air conditioner which can heat up while the outside temperature is approx. -5 ° C then there is no more cost-effective heating (only heating on wood is more cost-effective).
I deliberately wrote -5 ° C although manufacturers usually write -10 or -15°C but then air conditioner efficiency decreases significantly.
So, in order to avoid pretense, to buy rig for heating so that by the way some coin stay is crazy.

Very helpful and informative post from a very experienced member.
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So now, theymos had made another update with ban appeals and ban methods. As to what I have read from the inputs of other users stating that there is no permban already but there are consequencies.

This is somehow a good way to prevent the going down numbers of users that are active in the forum. Imagine if there are 5K bans per day or per month then how many active users will stay? This will diminished the users ideas and inputs for the betterment of cryptocurrency in the future because we need everyone here in the forum to contribute meaningfully and help enlighten other users especially to the newbies or new comers.

I admire theymos now taking another step for the good of forum. Removing permban and replacing it to punishements for the offenses will make a user to still participate in the forum removing some of its features like wearing signature for about some time.

 I suggest to make it this way on the time frame for one that cannot wear signature.

6 months for the first offense
1 year for the second offense
1 1/2 year for the third offense
then permban for the 4th offense.
legendary
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theres a lot of people using exactly the same sentence (and not banned for it).

Correct, a lot of people have copy pasted that same sentence, but as I see it everyone is banned. (10+accounts)

If indeed someone is left unreported, please give me a link and I will report him.

Consider this a free bump #freeRegulusHr
sr. member
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As a bonus there is a third guy with the same post which I'm now going to report:

I am loving couple of things about your project. First of all, it looks well organized and planned. Very few coins care to work within a plan. Distribution of coin is also intelligent. All the best for your project and it's success.

This is the fact that OP has been ban forever. The copied and paste post is enough already for OP to stop complaining. There are many ban users here in the forum and others had been accepted the fact already. So, I guess it will be a matter of time so that OP will going to accept the fate of his/her bitcoinalk precious account.

Theymos and moderators will not going to lift the ban OP. They are just silent because the permban was decided already.

Actually, simple google search:

https://www.google.hr/search?q=%22I+am+loving+couple+of+things+about+your+project.+First+of+all,+it+looks+well+organized+and+planned.%22&filter=0&biw=1920&bih=975

will tell you theres a lot of people using exactly the same sentence (and not banned for it). But checking most of them, you'll notice that its basically all they ever did

(making posts like that) unlike RegulusHR who made one time offense, and otherwise posted above average quality posts
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We understand the meaning of the word permanently, but the admin itself established the exception of the permanent ban if the user or users "prove" that a permanently banned user meets the requirement for an exception

There's been no policy change. redsn0w wasn't permanently banned due to several factors which made me think that permabanning him would be a net negative for the forum. Nobody is banned strictly because of "the rules"; it's always handled case-by-case, but almost always, plagiarists deserve to be permabanned.

If you think that a ban should be ended, make your case in a new topic from a "good for the forum as a whole" perspective.

This is the reason why we are translating RegulusHr's posts so all users can understand it and to prove that RegulusHr fulfills the condition for the exception of the permban
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I just had a quick look through OP's posts and found one more example of copied text, it is short (98 characters) but definitely copied as it's taken from the same topic 5 hours later.

I am loving couple of things about your project. First of all, it looks well organized and planned. Very few coins care to work within a plan. Distribution of coin is also intelligent. All the best for your project and it's success.   Cheesy

I'm loving couple of things about your project. First of all, it looks well organized and planned. When I evaluate the seriousness of a project I like to see the images of people in the team and especially the link to their Linkedin profile, it gives seriousness to the whole project.

I think it's a very good move that you conditioned participation in the airdrop with writing a constructive comment or question.



As a bonus there is a third guy with the same post which I'm now going to report:

I am loving couple of things about your project. First of all, it looks well organized and planned. Very few coins care to work within a plan. Distribution of coin is also intelligent. All the best for your project and it's success.

This is the fact that OP has been ban forever. The copied and paste post is enough already for OP to stop complaining. There are many ban users here in the forum and others had been accepted the fact already. So, I guess it will be a matter of time so that OP will going to accept the fate of his/her bitcoinalk precious account.

Theymos and moderators will not going to lift the ban OP. They are just silent because the permban was decided already.
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Here is another post written by Regulus for the Croatian local board.
Original post in Croatian:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/iskustvo-kupovine-informatike-opreme-za-bitcoine-u-hrvatskoj-2518444


Experience with purchasing IT equipment with Bitcoins in Croatia

I decided to test and see how paying with bitcoins works in Croatia. I was mostly interested to find out how much the purchase would eventually cost when compared to paying with cash. I believe my experience will be interesting to other forum users as well.

Two shops that are selling IT equipment in Croatia accept BTC, namely UZI Shop and Futura Informatička Tehnologija. Considering that Uzi offers a two year warranty on graphic cards, I decided to make my purchase in Futura.
I decided to buy GTX1070 Inno3D GeForce GTX 1070 iChill X4.

The price when paying with cash was 3699,00 Kn. If you choose to pay with BTC the price increases to 3822.26 Kn which is a price increase of 3.3%.
After accepting the terms and conditions, the site redirects you to Bitpay where you can see how much BTC you need to pay (in my case it was 0.055687 BTC) and what is the current BTC rate. You have 15 minutes to finalize the transaction, when the transaction is executed you still need to wait for the transaction to be included in one of the next blocks and then the payment is considered to have been completed. In the window that opens, there are two possibilities to make the payment. One is via a QR Code, and in the other you can manually fill in the amount and BTC address where the bitcoins need to be sent.
The graphics card was delivered to my home address by a courier service the very next day.

This is how a successful transaction looks like:
https://imgur.com/a/Z3Hd7

When you multiply the BTC value (on Bitpays page) in Kunas with the amount of BTC you need to pay, the total cost for the graphics card is 3838.84Kn, a bit more than what is shown on Futura’s site. It is probably due to an additional fee payable to Bitpay.
At the time of the transaction, the BTC rate at https://coinmarketcap.com was $ 11,020.00
On 29.11.2017. the exchange rate of the US dollar was 6,360000 Kn according to HNB.
In addition to that, I also paid a network fee of 0.00089262 BTC or $ 9.84 or 62.58 Kn.
When multiplying all the numbers it turns out that the card cost me:
0.05657962 BTC
$ 623.51 (0.05657962 x 11020.00)
3965.52 Kn (623.51 x 6.36)
sr. member
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The problem here is that many members believe that the Croatian board is standing up for Regulus because they want their merit source back or the milking cow

I have not read the comments, but it's safe to assume that many members have this conspiracy theory occupying a huge part of their brains, the theory however is not completely invalid.

anyhow, it is almost certain that if this member is to be un-banned, there is probably less than 0.00001% chance for him becoming a merit source again, so if this is the only reason why his community are standing up for him( which i doubt), then i suggest one of them should apply for merit source already.



Does anybody think seriously that local members still supporting RegulusHR here, even 4 months after he received permaban, because they are hoping that he will again become merit source?
Seriously?

To everyone who thinks that milking merit is the motivation behind this ban appeal I have only one thing to say - it says more about you then us.
Not everyone is motivated on greed and I would like that anyone who participates on this topic acknowledge this.

If his permaban will be removed, what will be only second or third such case in the history of this forum, he will be lucky if will be allowed to write posts here or to have signature without any restrictions.
Don't you think that there is another reason that is much more likely and logical for such great support for RegulusHr, support that is unrecorded in the history of this forum?

There is more then enough evidence to prove that RegulusHR is great asset to this community as well as human being. It is so weird that staff members stay silent for so long??

legendary
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The problem here is that many members believe that the Croatian board is standing up for Regulus because they want their merit source back or the milking cow

I have not read the comments, but it's safe to assume that many members have this conspiracy theory occupying a huge part of their brains, the theory however is not completely invalid.

anyhow, it is almost certain that if this member is to be un-banned, there is probably less than 0.00001% chance for him becoming a merit source again, so if this is the only reason why his community are standing up for him( which i doubt), then i suggest one of them should apply for merit source already.



I already applied and become merit source in January (just a few days before RegulusHr received permaban), so we don't have problem with that.
In fact, I created topic in the local section where all local members can report good quality posts and if such posts pass my judgment, I give merit.
So, in our local community we have merit source and this is not issue any more.
I would like to ask something.
Does anybody think seriously that local members still supporting RegulusHR here, even 4 months after he received permaban, because they are hoping that he will again become merit source?
Seriously?
If his permaban will be removed, what will be only second or third such case in the history of this forum, he will be lucky if will be allowed to write posts here or to have signature without any restrictions.
Don't you think that there is another reason that is much more likely and logical for such great support for RegulusHr, support that is unrecorded in the history of this forum?
By reading translations of his posts, prepared by local members, and reading how much these posts meant to many young members of our community, I think that all neutral members on this forum can understand importance of RegulusHr for this forum.
Based on that, and based on the condition established by the admin for the exception from permaban, "good for the forum as a whole" we ask for removal of his permaban.

We will not give up from RegulusHR and will continue this campaign how long it takes, 2 more months, 6 months, 1 year or more, doesn't matter.
The only thing we are looking for and expecting is to have someone finally review this case and decides fairly and in accordance with all the facts.
I think that we don't ask to much here.
Don't you think so?



legendary
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The problem here is that many members believe that the Croatian board is standing up for Regulus because they want their merit source back or the milking cow

I have not read the comments, but it's safe to assume that many members have this conspiracy theory occupying a huge part of their brains, the theory however is not completely invalid.

anyhow, it is almost certain that if this member is to be un-banned, there is probably less than 0.00001% chance for him becoming a merit source again, so if this is the only reason why his community are standing up for him( which i doubt), then i suggest one of them should apply for merit source already.

legendary
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The problem here is that many members believe that the Croatian board is standing up for Regulus because they want their merit source back or the milking cow, how it was referred to in one of the posts. In reality Regulus will never be a merit source again, it is not likely to happen and nobody in the Croatian board expects that. if he is forgiven he will also probably receive a signature ban as well and he said he is OK with that.

Many people know Regulus in real life and got to meet him when he organised a meeting for the local community a while ago. He has a lot of support but unfortunately that support comes only from the members belonging to the same sub board. 

mikeywith seems to be the only neutral member who took a look at Regulus's posts and agrees with the Croatian community. Would be good if some other neutral members could browse through his posts the way mikey did and post here what they find.
legendary
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I have not been around for so long, but this got to be one of the most interesting ban appeal topics, judging by the amount of work these members are putting , they must have missed the banned user really bad, it makes me think , if i was ever banned for whatever reason, will anybody really give a fuck ? Grin probably not. Roll Eyes

i did comment on this case last month, i skimmed again through the banned member's posts and I still think he is worthy of an exception, I am not sure if there have been any successful ban appeals that were caused by plagiarism, but if there is , then I think this guy has a good chance.

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Original post by RegulusHr:
Multisignature address and wallet

My translation of linked post:
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💰💰 Multisignature address and wallet 💰💰

Discussion regarding forum security has triggered my memory (read something a long time ago) and made me research into one of BTC address features which is the possibility of BTC transaction to be signed with multiple private keys.
The idea is that there are multiple private keys for one public address. The keys don't have to be on same device or even in possession of the same person and to execute the transaction you need multiple signatures. You can find more details here

There is a lot of combinations, ie. you can create 3 private keys and configure it that 2 of them are enough to execute transaction. You can have one key on computer wallet, second on mobile phone and third on USB stick (or Ledger Nano). Since you would probably use computer key most often, the second key on mobile phone is actually working like personal 2FA authentication.

It is not probable that some hacker will succeed to gain 2 of your keys at the same time because he would need get into two of your devices. If you can't access one of your devices you can still use your assets immediately (you can also make backups of all your keys).
List of wallets which can use multisignature addresses with short descriptions you can findhere.

Personally I like Electrum because it is wallet available on multiple platforms, has portable version (USB stick) and I already have it installed on my computer. There is also a tutorial on how to create Multisignature wallet with Electrum.

If some of you have experience with multisignature addresses please share it with us here.

I chose this post as my contribution because it was a trigger for me to experiment a bit with multisig wallets. I heard about them before but didn't started deep research/using them before reading Regulus post in Croatian section.
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Original post by RegulusHr: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.36747904

English translation:

First crypto currency exchange opened in Croatia

I don’t know if you saw this announcement but it could be very interesting, especially for those who like to talk to someone and get their opinion before buying/selling crypto currencies.
Their commission fee is 5% when trading with fiat.
My question is do they ask for ID verification? Does anyone have any experience with them? I hope that someone from Split will go and try their services and write about their impressions.

http://www.poslovni.hr/tehnologija/hrvatska-dobila-svoju-prvu-fizicku-mjenjacnicu-kriptovaluta-raste-broj-zaposlenih-340656
http://bitcoin-store.hr/#/
https://crobitcoin.com/ducan-za-kriptovalute-otvoren-u-splitu/
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Here is my translation of this original post:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.33165145

My translation:

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Encouraged by the great interest for Airdrops and Bounty Campaigns, I have decided to write this post to briefly describe the strategy and my own experience on what to do after you get your first tokens.
I think the text is relevant for tokens up to $ 100-150. Later, I'll explain why.
As the majority of today's tokens are based on the Ethereum platform (these tokens are mostly called ERC20 Tokens) I've adapted the text to explain the trading with these tokens. In the text I will not describe how to trade with tokens on EtherDelta, cause there are a lot of tutorials on Youtube, the same thing applies for  the MetaMask, wich I strongly recommend to use.
It can be that I will turn attention on some details that was difficult to find.
After signing up for tokens to be airdropped or by doing a Bounty campaign, after a month two, your first token is deployed to your address. The first thing that you whant to know is the value of the token.
To check if the tokens has arrived on your address and what value they have I reccomand to use ethplorer.io, here you can see chronologically all the tokens you got, cause in a month or two, if you was diligent iun your work, the list can become crowded. If the tokens are officially listed elsewhere, you will immediately see their value. If the tokens are not yet officially listed their value can be checked on EtherDelta. To do this you will need a contract address, a token symbol, and a number of decimal places. All those contract details can be found on ethplorer.io.
Since EtherDelta is not quite a user friendly interface, I have just recently discovered where to enter the contract information that interests me and is not officially listed. In the upper left corner you have a drop-down list with all officially listed tokens and on the bottom you have an option where  to insert the data on your token ("Other").
There is another web site, DeltaBalances, where you could directly see the token value (this option is no longer working), this site can be used to see what tokens has been distributed to your address, and by clicking on the token itself you can see the available markets where those tokens can be traded, like EtherDelta or Fork Delta, without the need to insert manually the information under "Other" on EtherDelta.
DeltaBalances also shows some tokens that are assigned to each ETH address, but they worth nothing, so just ignore them.
Here you can see for example a comparative token list on the same ETH address on ethplorer.io and DeltaBalances, notice that only the RBL tokens are transferred to the address.
When you should sell the recived tokens?
The tokens who are connected to one successful project will have a low value after the distribution of the airdrop or/and bounty prizes to the partecipants. You have to wait a n exchange listing where the increase of the trading volume should positive affect the increas in value too. If your plan is to sell tokens immediately, do it as soon as possible than, the brst time sould be the first day after the listing, you are trying to catch here an investor who has missed the  ICO, for example. The only good thing about selling such a quick sale is that you will get some money from those tokens that will eventually collapse because, as a rule, in those first days you still don't know his destiny.
If you decide to hold, then wait until the token is listed on some exchange with a bigger trading volume. Keep yourself informed, read all the information provided by a team working on a token that you are trading with.

Why trade on EtherDelta or ForkDelta?
For those who don't  know ForkDelta is an EtherDelta clone and both sites use the same trading agreement. But there is one difference. The sale of the token that is made on EtherDel will also be seen on ForkDelti while the reverse is not valid. That's why is good to create dals on EtherDelta and watch the market situation on ForkDelta.
At the beginning I've mentioned that this text is good for tokens with a value up to $ 100. The main reason for this because of  the exchange exit fees. If you want to withdraw BTC or ETH from the exchange, you can be chargerd ~5-10$, which sometimes exceeds the token value itself. The fees you have to pay on EtherDelta are the network charge for the token transfer (between $ 0.01 and $ 0.15), exchange access fee (0.3% of the token value), and a network fee for withdrawing ETH from the exchange. As a rule, if you are willing to wait twenty minutes for the transaction to run, both transactions will be under $ 0.20. You can merge multiple tokens into one transaction and save even more on fees.
The fee on EtherDelta can be marked as only 0.3%, that is negligible at all.

To optimize the transaction speed and the price of the tx itself use Ethgasstation. After a few transactions you will already be practicing and getting the feeling of how low you can go with Gas to make it all going reasonably fast. I usually use SafeLow + 20% of Gas price, and in such cases I go to 90% SafeLow.
Edit 7.5.18. If you have put too low gas price

It's a very detailed manual on Croatian, what to do when you get the first tokens, that can help every ICO investor, bounty hunter or newbie
Sharing his own experience, RegulusHR, helped a lot of local board users

Best regards,
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