I don't consider it off topic frankly. I don't buy into the whole disputed territory issue, but people can and will consider it in deciding whether to buy miners from them, especially given the pay 40-100% in advance and buyer assumes all risks business model. I think I'd want to know whether I am assuming the risk that their factory gets blown up or their business gets hit by some kind of boycott before sending my money (if I didn't think they were overpriced).

I've been looking into the SD corruption issue and it does appear to be some kind of hardware problem with the beagle bone and possibly certain types of SD cards.

It does not appear to be filesystem corruption. As far as I can tell there is nothing in the image that is writing to the card other than config changes, and the filesystem is mounted sync so these should always happen right away when you make the change.

I think it will be necessary to have extra SD cards on hand for repairs. Maybe someone will figure out a make and model of SD card that doesn't fail this way.

You're being repetitive now. I asked you what you have to back up your claim that the coin was out in the public. Wayback machine doesn't support your claim. We already established that before you started going on all bold on us.

What does support your claim that this coin was out in public for 2+  years?

When the domain name was created doesn't tell us anything about what was actually on the site or when. Wayback offers us an independent third part verification of what was on the site a few months ago, but nothing earlier. Do you have something?

I certainly agree with your last sentence. CEX is hugely overpriced.

Looks like these have a shutdown in /sbin.

Try "shutdown -h -n now"

Ah, okay, different password.

It seems like sync and halt in the shell might help, but I can't seem to ssh into it the way I can into the S1s. Is there a trick to it?

How you get from A+B+C+D to "is absolutely legit" is a complete mystery.

The best you can conclude here is that it might be legit.

People with 6 day old accounts showing up and posting this makes them look shady, if they didn't already.

Is there any way of powering down that reduces the risk of corrupting the SD, or just pull the plug and pray?

Yeah, they need to improve the case design so it can withstand shipping without boards coming apart and cables coming loose.

These problems are too common to be attributed to "mishandling" during shipment. It is a design flaw. They need brackets and probably better connectors on the cables.

That said, no problems here.

It's interesting though. RAM is not that much slower than L3 cache,^* and in fact this algorithm runs faster with two instances per core (with hyperthreading), suggesting that cache doesn't really matter here.

^* RAM = 60 cycles, L3 unshared - 40 cycles. See page 22 at https://software.intel.com/sites/products/collateral/hpc/vtune/performance_analysis_guide.pdf

Wait, where did I say that all coins should use this method?

I don't believe that at all. I view it as an alternative for getting a coin into a wide number of hands in a stable way. That's very useful for bootstrapping, especially for pure proof-of-stake coins which don't really have any proven methods of doing this.

If you want to create e new coin and use a different method go right ahead  (now or in 2020).

But I don't view it as "unfair" to launch a coin using this method either. New coin creators can do whatever the hell they want.

BTW, I assure you I am not Satoshi Nakamoto. I have a few BTC but if and when I launch a coin this way, it will be for the above reasons, not because I have a "huge" stake in BTC and want to grab most of the new coins.

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Worst than that. The site not only needs to upgrade their software, but also replace their private key and and get a new certificate issued. Many sites are never going to do this (or they will just get a new certificate without creating a new private key, which does not close the hole).

Don't expect anything on the internet to be secure any time soon, if ever. Be careful, especially with coins.

Everyone had an equal chance to get BTC.

But wait, you say, what about all the people that didn't know about it back in 2010?

Well, I say what about the people who show up in 2020 and didn't know about your amazing new alt in 2014?  

This never ends.

Ultimately the market will decide. I think treating new cryptos as spin offs from btc (which is most certainly what they are, objectively speaking) is likely to become a dominant distribution model, and like every single conceivable distribution model there will always be people who say it isn't fair. That can't be a disqualifier or there would be no distribution.

Fair doesn't exist. Fair means you get what you want, someone else doesn't, so to him its unfair.

The method I proposed provides a the widest practical method of distribution in the universe of crypto coins.

I'm not sure about that. i looked in wayback and most of the sites are only a few months old. Maybe I missed something, or wayback did.

Not at the moment but the situation may arise. How large are you prepared to trade?

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