No it can't. Period.
There are no 'complex equations' or patterns to solve therefore applying possible mathematical shortcuts is not possible because there are none. What part of 'random' do you folks not get?

Of course even though tBTC has no real value there are still idjits out there who will buy & sell it. When it gets bad enough with them doing it there be another reset making their stash unusable. They deserve to lose their money from doing it.

Actually this entire area is for Bitcoin only. ANY other coin is an altcoin.
DODGE is an altcoin and questions related to it should be posted in the altcoin mining areas here.
Requesting mods to move it there.

Testnet coin versions are also periodically changed when too many people mine & hold them and even worse - sell them to idjits who think they have some sort of value. Each new version make the older ones unusable.

As has been said earlier it only takes a small amount of tBTC to test software and in most cases once your testing is done you are supposed to return the tBTC to the sources you got it from which makes limits a moot point.

Um, Kano has a thread covering things regarding the pool... If you look at the 1st post you will see the list of all the worldwide nodes he runs for it. There are 2 for europe - one in Germany and one in the Netherlands.

BTW: 155ms latency is *not* bad. Not great either but not bad.

  Um how about reading the existing thread about it? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5355470.0
That thread will have ALL the answers you need....

Bullshit.

Only a few years ago eff was 30-40w/T, now is less than 20w/T That is hardly 'little' progress. Miner efficiency is fixed by the chip node size used and that is already at the bleeding edge.

@OP
Sorry to say that yes it looks like it was a scam.
The lesson that you have hopefully learned is that you NEVER EVER invest more than you are comfortable with losing.
Does not matter if it is government issued bonds, stocks or as in this case, crypto, the same rule applies.

In post #40 of that thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5085231.msg48823226#msg48823226 Philipma used
More Options  --avalon9-voltage-level -2 --avalon9-voltage-level-offset -2
to hash at 18.7 THs pulling 1,700w

A list of all the settings I used for the A741, A841, and A921 are here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5085231.msg49168363#msg49168363  For all of the A9 setting I used the max temp was under 96C

No idea what the 920P is though I do see several for sale. AFAIK the 1st (and only) A9xx that Canaan released was the A921. The 920P I'm seeing specs a slightly lower hashrate than the 921 so perhaps it was their attempt to reign in the A921's hunger for power?

@BizMax - the A920 does not run FMS. It uses a modified cgminer same as the A6xx-A8xx did.
@OP - 115 deg is WAY too hot. I ran A921's and yes while they do run hotter than most miners, 115 is really pushing them. I played with Vcore and speed to keep them below 100.
ref https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5085231.msg48770866#msg48770866 and the posts around there for settings to play with.

It comes from being the equation determined in the early 1800's for converting watts to BTU... Just Google it, "convert watts to BTU"...

BTU is the standard unit used to measure energy needed to produce a temperature change. You will find that all fuels have a spec of how many BTU per-unit of volume or weight it produces when burned. The other common unit of energy is the Calorie though that is more for chemical reactions and not heating/cooling.

It doesn't help that *all* flexible tubing allows water vapor to diffuse through the wall leading to coolant loss with no visual evidence of leaks or 'sweating'.. The material used makes the difference between almost no significant loss per year to 'oh crap!' in the same time. Norprene has the lowest diffusion rate.

Good article about mounting pump/radiator and touches on the tubing used to reduce loss: https://www.cclonline.com/article/2005/Guide/Water-Cooling-Kits/AiO-Water-Cooling-Best-Setup-Don-t-Get-It-Wrong-/

Quite true but nonetheless the system MUST have a small amount of air in it to allow for thermal expansion as the fluid gets hot. On the Intel liquid CPU cooler (a sealed system much like the BFL setup) that I use on my Render Beast the radiator is about 7/8 maybe 9/10 full and I'd guess the same should hold true for the BFL coolers. The radiator should be mounted so its outlet going to the pump inlet is on the bottom and fluid return on top so that air pocket is not circulated through the system.

Unless you are running small USB stick miner just leave suggested diff alone. The pool and miners work together to quickly assign the best value. The diff target is aimed at the pool & miner working at 18 shares per-minute.

Mainly to track BTC going in & out of your wallets/accounts so you can establish a Cost Basis used to determine the Capital Gains tax due.
eg you bought coins at X price and sold/spent some at Y price. If Y is larger than X you owe tax on it = to the Gain in value. Conversely if Y is lower than X you get a tax credit for the Loss in value.

When coins are obtained by mining is where things get more complicated, for them your Cost Basis would be what it cost you to mine them and what their value was when mined. Assuming you are setup as a business then things like your electric bill, building expenses, cost of the miners, etc. are all business expenses that can be written off.

Thing is, any decent exchange will let you download your complete Tx history as a .cvs file that ya can import into a spreadsheet and do the same thing with just a little effort...

Riiiiggghhhtttt...
Once again everything old is new again. The idea was proven to work decades ago.

The technology required aside, one big issue with it is this:
With many folks already (wrongly) raising hell about about the low power RF emissions from cell towers, what makes the researchers think that beaming megawatts of RF energy down to Earth from space is a good, safe idea and that it would be accepted by the public?

I will fuckinguarantee it won't be and in this case the rabble rousers would be right.

The simplest way to see in real time what the buy/sell amounts available and their pricing is to just use a site like https://bitcoinity.org/markets/coinbase/USD
Pick your local currency and exchange, in this case Coinbase and USD, and it is all displayed...

Lose the "according to <random utube video>" and learn how Bitcoin works... The is no 'according to', it is straight math.

On average a block is found every 10 min meaning (on average) 144 blocks per-day are found. Current reward is 6.25BTC so yes that is 900 new BTC per-day being minted. In April the Reward drops to 3.125BTC making a daily total of 450BTC per day so no new news here... Note that fees attached to the block reward are not included in the calculation. Why? Because the fees are paid using already minted coin.

As for 'demand exceeds supply', um, that is where the perceived value of BTC or for that matter, any currency or other thing of value, comes from... Even now, the supply is just fine. At it's current exchange rates there are few things I can or would care to buy that costs more than a small fraction of what 1BTC is worth...

Kano has made his opinion of Stratum v2 well known and safe to say it will be a mighty cold day in hell before he uses it. As for how he determines if the miner is running a hacked version of cgminer (which are quickly kicked off) vs accepted OEM, Braiins, BFGminer or Bitfury firmware - trade secret...  

Post about it in the Gekko channel on Kano's discord site. Sidehack hangs out quite a bit there as does the guy Sidehack worked with for the Smarthub.