At mempool.space , we can find that these days, the network hashrate increased, the next difficulty is predicted to increase about 10%. After halving, what is the motivation to let more and more power to come into mining BTC?
The motivation? To make money. More efficient gear will get you more hashrate for the same power costs while also driving up the difficulty. That is how the system works. Some miners with older gear that is less efficient or miners with more expensive power will drop off. Will others take their place is the question. And that will not be known for a while. Also, there are people with deep pockets who are speculating. Loosing some money today thinking that BTC will 2x in price will also keep people mining or bing in new miners. -Dave |
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I don't remember the address.
I remember the amount on 2 addresses used to fund it.
Can you work it another way? Did you send them from a wallet you control? If so can you narrow down the info from there? The annoying part: to try anything, takes me several manual actions on an air-gapped system. I can't quickly test a lot of options.
And I wasn't dumb enough to use a large amount, but I'd still like to find it back. I won't lose sleep over the amount...
If it's an amount you don't mind loosing then stop worrying about using an air gapped system that is taking you more time and effort. You are more likely to make a mistake and miss the fact they yes you did find the addresses & keys. Other then to see if you could was there another reason for this? Perhaps something else that may help you remember. i.e. I was annoyed at DaveF when I did this so I vanitygenned 1FuckDave as one of the addresses? -Dave |
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If mining is declared illegal in a country by the government majorly due to the large electricity requirements and then a miner decides to go off-grid and generate their own electricity through alternate means to continue mining, will it be a crime to the government when this individual is not using the electricity they supply for his mining activity?
Try it and let us know. :-) Seriously, it would probably depend on how you did it. Setting up your own power plant and getting coal / oil / natural gas / whatever to run it means that there is that much less of said resource for the rest of the country to use and would drive those prices up. Go out and buy a few acres of solar panels, probably not as big a deal. The question really is, why bother, flipping off the government never ends well. -Dave |
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How about we all leave him negative feedback and a couple of trust flags and then wait for the inevitable threats to happen. That should get him a nice ban.
But for the most part it's probably not worth it because tomorrow we will have unlimitedmoneygenerator2 show up with the same thing again.
-Dave
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Got my decks this morning, look great. Will post more pictures later but here is a quick shot of my ego / vanity deck.  Thanks for making these. -Dave |
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The OP has not come back, but remember in years past there were a lot of oddball things that people did in the way they gave out keys. Read this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5231305.msg62449495#msg62449495 and my reply to it just below it. This is an ASN.1 key: 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 That some people (who knows why) also used to use. So never underestimate the ability of people to create a complicated mess for no good reason. -Dave |
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The topic looks more like a speculation one than a discussion to be fair. The topic headline looks more like a clickbait to be fair than an actual discussion.
That is because it is.
I am not denying the fact that Bitcoin ETF is the singular effect that helped Bitcoin break it's ATH before the halving. This price surge will be the first in the history of Bitcoin price that happened before an organic bull run happened. By organic bull run I meant a demand created naturally due to halving. I am loving it and all those who have been diamond hands or those doing DCA.
There are / were other factors at play too. There are / were a lot of other things that made people look at other assets for investments then traditional ones. I will still not believe in charts as mostly they are incorrect with Bitcoin prediction. I prefer news over charts as that is how Bitcoin has been surviving over all odds till now.
Glassnode talks out their ass. They act like they know everything and it has been proven many times that they are wrong. They see a bunch of BTC "leave" an exchange and tell everyone it's outflow. A few weeks later it is found out that they moved the BTC to what was at the time an unknown cold storage address that still belonged to the exhcnage.... -Dave |
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https://www.miningrigrentals.com/I have been using them on and off for years with no issues. Keep in mind unless you are solo mining and get lucky it's just about impossible to make any BTC when you are renting. Margins are so thin that their fees will be more then your profits. -Dave
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For the Brains OS do I need to install on a SD card or can I just flash over?
I have nothing in my pools yet as I couldn't get the green LED status
Kenny
Use an SD. With nothing in the pools it will not work just put in any pool that you want and see if that helps. I don't know on the S9i but I know on other miners having the pools blank will cause other things to not work even if everything else is good. It will also cause issues if there are characters in the pool name that it does not understand. Did a copy & paste once with one of these characters ß in it and although the pool web page did not display it, it was there and it was causing problems for me. EDIT: posted after the OP got it working but keeping this here to keep the oddball character info available for search engines. -Dave |
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What do you see when you go to the pools in the web control of the miner? As as test try another firmware: Go to https://braiins.com/os/plus/download Download the firmware for the S9i (you have to scroll down) and follow the guide to install it. This will help to determine if it's hardware or the firmware. Also when posting logs use the code tags makes it easier for others to scroll through. [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.14.0-xilinx-ga36f3af-dirty (lzq@ubuntu) (gcc version 4.8.3 20140320 (prerelease) (Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05-23) ) #90 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 20 15:01:47 CST 2019
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc090] revision 0 (ARMv7), cr=18c5387d
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine model: Xilinx Zynq
[ 0.000000] cma: CMA: reserved 128 MiB at 16800000
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 126976
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c075a640, node_mem_map debd8000
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 992 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 126976 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 8 pages/cpu @debc1000 s9344 r8192 d15232 u32768
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s9344 r8192 d15232 u32768 alloc=8*4096
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc:
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1
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 125984
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: noinitrd mem=496M console=ttyPS0,115200 root=ubi0:rootfs ubi.mtd=1 rootfstype=ubifs rw rootwait
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 364252K/507904K available (5094K kernel code, 292K rwdata, 1948K rodata, 209K init, 259K bss, 143652K reserved, 0K highmem)
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xdf800000 - 0xff000000 ( 504 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdf000000 ( 496 MB)
[ 0.000000] pkmap : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000 ( 2 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000 ( 14 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc06e8cf4 (7044 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc06e9000 - 0xc071d480 ( 210 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc071e000 - 0xc0767058 ( 293 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc0767064 - 0xc07a7d64 ( 260 kB)
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] Dump stacks of tasks blocking RCU-preempt GP.
[ 0.000000] RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=4 to nr_cpu_ids=2.
[ 0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=2
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
[ 0.000000] ps7-slcr mapped to df802000
[ 0.000000] zynq_clock_init: clkc starts at df802100
[ 0.000000] Zynq clock init
[ 0.000015] sched_clock: 64 bits at 333MHz, resolution 3ns, wraps every 3298534883328ns
[ 0.000295] ps7-ttc #0 at df804000, irq=43
[ 0.000594] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 0.000622] Calibrating delay loop... 1325.46 BogoMIPS (lpj=6627328)
[ 0.040199] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.040408] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.040426] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.042612] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.042926] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[ 0.042981] Setting up static identity map for 0x4d3ec0 - 0x4d3f18
[ 0.043200] L310 cache controller enabled
[ 0.043218] l2x0: 8 ways, CACHE_ID 0x410000c8, AUX_CTRL 0x72760000, Cache size: 512 kB
[ 0.120991] CPU1: Booted secondary processor
[ 0.210220] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
[ 0.210352] Brought up 2 CPUs
[ 0.210371] SMP: Total of 2 processors activated.
[ 0.210379] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[ 0.211036] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.213478] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 30 variant 9 rev 4
[ 0.214672] regulator-dummy: no parameters
[ 0.221583] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.223743] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.226020] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.226033] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.233433] syscon f8000000.ps7-slcr: regmap [mem 0xf8000000-0xf8000fff] registered
[ 0.234955] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 1 watchpoint registers.
[ 0.234969] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 4 bytes.
[ 0.235074] zynq-ocm f800c000.ps7-ocmc: ZYNQ OCM pool: 256 KiB @ 0xdf880000
[ 0.257522] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.258881] vgaarb: loaded
[ 0.259568] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.260460] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.260631] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.260859] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.261399] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[ 0.261557] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 0.261813] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[ 0.261825] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[ 0.261956] PTP clock support registered
[ 0.262307] EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
[ 0.263359] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Initialized.
[ 0.266115] DMA-API: preallocated 4096 debug entries
[ 0.266129] DMA-API: debugging enabled by kernel config
[ 0.266199] Switched to clocksource arm_global_timer
[ 0.286051] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.287080] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.287138] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.287223] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[ 0.287268] TCP: reno registered
[ 0.287284] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.287314] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.287967] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.288365] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 0.288377] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 0.288385] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 0.288393] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 0.288406] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 64
[ 0.288833] hw perfevents: enabled with ARMv7 Cortex-A9 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[ 0.290819] futex hash table entries: 512 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.292839] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) Š 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.293039] msgmni has been set to 967
[ 0.293810] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.293823] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 0.293865] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 0.304690] dma-pl330 f8003000.ps7-dma: Loaded driver for PL330 DMAC-2364208
[ 0.304710] dma-pl330 f8003000.ps7-dma: DBUFF-128x8bytes Num_Chans-8 Num_Peri-4 Num_Events-16
[ 0.426801] e0001000.serial: ttyPS0 at MMIO 0xe0001000 (irq = 82, base_baud = 3124999) is a xuartps
[ 0.995027] console [ttyPS0] enabled
[ 0.999288] xdevcfg f8007000.ps7-dev-cfg: ioremap 0xf8007000 to df866000
[ 1.006938] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 1.024009] brd: module loaded
[ 1.033383] loop: module loaded
[ 1.042792] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 2.3.2-k
[ 1.048620] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2013 Intel Corporation.
[ 1.056464] libphy: XEMACPS mii bus: probed
[ 1.060831] ------------- phy_id = 0x3625e62
[ 1.065534] xemacps e000b000.ps7-ethernet: pdev->id -1, baseaddr 0xe000b000, irq 54
[ 1.074185] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 1.080844] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[ 1.088216] zynq-dr e0002000.ps7-usb: Unable to init USB phy, missing?
[ 1.095029] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 1.101958] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 1.108062] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 1.114940] zynq-edac f8006000.ps7-ddrc: ecc not enabled
[ 1.120466] cpufreq_cpu0: failed to get cpu0 regulator: -19
[ 1.126369] Xilinx Zynq CpuIdle Driver started
[ 1.131215] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 1.137354] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 1.141650] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 1.148464] mmc0: no vqmmc regulator found
[ 1.152477] mmc0: no vmmc regulator found
[ 1.196244] mmc0: SDHCI controller on e0100000.ps7-sdio [e0100000.ps7-sdio] using ADMA
[ 1.204933] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 1.210444] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 1.215174] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0x2c, Chip ID: 0xda
[ 1.221475] nand: Micron MT29F2G08ABAEAWP
[ 1.225441] nand: 256MiB, SLC, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
[ 1.231378] Bad block table found at page 131008, version 0x01
[ 1.237598] Bad block table found at page 130944, version 0x01
[ 1.243648] 3 ofpart partitions found on MTD device pl353-nand
[ 1.249431] Creating 3 MTD partitions on "pl353-nand":
[ 1.254522] 0x000000000000-0x000002000000 : "BOOT.bin-env-dts-kernel"
[ 1.262568] 0x000002000000-0x00000b000000 : "angstram-rootfs"
[ 1.269879] 0x00000b000000-0x000010000000 : "upgrade-rootfs"
[ 1.278605] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (7739 buckets, 30956 max)
[ 1.285126] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 1.290445] TCP: cubic registered
[ 1.293675] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.298406] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[ 1.304287] regulator-dummy: disabling
[ 1.308662] UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
[ 1.696728] UBI: scanning is finished
[ 1.708526] UBI: attached mtd1 (name "angstram-rootfs", size 144 MiB) to ubi0
[ 1.715583] UBI: PEB size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB), LEB size: 126976 bytes
[ 1.722379] UBI: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048/2048, sub-page size 2048
[ 1.729056] UBI: VID header offset: 2048 (aligned 2048), data offset: 4096
[ 1.735893] UBI: good PEBs: 1152, bad PEBs: 0, corrupted PEBs: 0
[ 1.741903] UBI: user volume: 1, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128
[ 1.749014] UBI: max/mean erase counter: 1/0, WL threshold: 4096, image sequence number: 1810974339
[ 1.758044] UBI: available PEBs: 0, total reserved PEBs: 1152, PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 40
[ 1.767260] UBI: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 1085
[ 1.767265] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[ 1.771219] ALSA device list:
[ 1.771222] No soundcards found.
[ 1.788008] UBIFS: background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" started, PID 1087
[ 1.926947] UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "rootfs"
[ 1.932874] UBIFS: LEB size: 126976 bytes (124 KiB), min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048 bytes/2048 bytes
[ 1.942013] UBIFS: FS size: 128626688 bytes (122 MiB, 1013 LEBs), journal size 9023488 bytes (8 MiB, 72 LEBs)
[ 1.951891] UBIFS: reserved for root: 0 bytes (0 KiB)
[ 1.956930] UBIFS: media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0), UUID CD72815F-9A94-46DF-B863-9F8D20C2D637, small LPT model
[ 1.977562] VFS: Mounted root (ubifs filesystem) on device 0:11.
[ 2.047033] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 2.050148] Freeing unused kernel memory: 208K (c06e9000 - c071d000)
[ 3.144378] random: dd urandom read with 0 bits of entropy available
[ 3.756249]
[ 3.756249] bcm54xx_config_init
[ 4.826237]
[ 4.826237] bcm54xx_config_init
[ 8.827065] xemacps e000b000.ps7-ethernet: Set clk to 124999998 Hz
[ 8.833167] xemacps e000b000.ps7-ethernet: link up (1000/FULL)
[ 26.415375] In axi fpga driver!
[ 26.418476] request_mem_region OK!
[ 26.421831] AXI fpga dev virtual address is 0xdf9fc000
[ 26.426972] *base_vir_addr = 0xc51e
[ 26.444750] In fpga mem driver!
[ 26.447850] request_mem_region OK!
[ 26.451385] fpga mem virtual address is 0xe2000000
[ 27.226223]
[ 27.226223] bcm54xx_config_init
[ 28.316247]
[ 28.316247] bcm54xx_config_init
[ 32.317063] xemacps e000b000.ps7-ethernet: Set clk to 124999998 Hz
[ 32.323164] xemacps e000b000.ps7-ethernet: link up (1000/FULL)
main.c:13992: log_level = 4
main.c:14019: This is XILINX board. Totalram: 507424768
main.c:14031: Detect 512MB control board of XILINX
driver-bitmain.c:1776: mmap axi_fpga_addr = 0xb6feb000
driver-bitmain.c:1781: axi_fpga_addr data = 0xc51e
driver-bitmain.c:1797: mmap fpga_mem_addr = 0xb5de4000
driver-bitmain.c:994: forceFreq=-1 forceFlag=0
driver-bitmain.c:1696: min work minertest[0]:912
main.c:8570: DETECT HW version=0000c51e
main.c:14064: miner ID : 804cb4464e10481c
main.c:14089: Miner Type = S9
main.c:14101: AsicType = 1387
main.c:14104: real AsicNum = 63
main.c:14197: use critical mode to search freq...
driver-bitmain.c:1876: get PLUG ON=0x000000e0
driver-bitmain.c:1946: Find hashboard on Chain[5]
driver-bitmain.c:1946: Find hashboard on Chain[6]
driver-bitmain.c:1946: Find hashboard on Chain[7]
main.c:2282: Check chain[5] PIC fw version=0x03
main.c:2282: Check chain[6] PIC fw version=0x03
main.c:2282: Check chain[7] PIC fw version=0x03
main.c:8940: read pic freq and badcore num...
main.c:8961: chain[5]: [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255]
main.c:9003: has freq in PIC, will disable freq setting.
main.c:9099: chain[5] has freq in PIC and will jump over...
main.c:9103: Chain[5] has core num in PIC
main.c:9113: Chain[5] ASIC[45] has core num=2
main.c:9113: Chain[5] ASIC[47] has core num=1
main.c:2282: Check chain[5] PIC fw version=0x03
main.c:8940: read pic freq and badcore num...
main.c:8961: chain[6]: [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255]
main.c:9003: has freq in PIC, will disable freq setting.
main.c:9099: chain[6] has freq in PIC and will jump over...
main.c:9103: Chain[6] has core num in PIC
main.c:2282: Check chain[6] PIC fw version=0x03
main.c:8940: read pic freq and badcore num...
main.c:8961: chain[7]: [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255]
main.c:9003: has freq in PIC, will disable freq setting.
main.c:9099: chain[7] has freq in PIC and will jump over...
main.c:9103: Chain[7] has core num in PIC
main.c:2282: Check chain[7] PIC fw version=0x03
main.c:9183: get PIC voltage=57 on chain[5], value=910
main.c:9183: get PIC voltage=57 on chain[6], value=910
main.c:9183: get PIC voltage=57 on chain[7], value=910
main.c:9349: chain[5] temp offset record: 62,0,0,0,0,0,35,28
main.c:9366: chain[5] temp chip I2C addr=0x98
main.c:9372: chain[5] has no middle temp, use special fix mode.
main.c:9349: chain[6] temp offset record: 62,0,0,0,0,0,35,28
main.c:9366: chain[6] temp chip I2C addr=0x98
main.c:9372: chain[6] has no middle temp, use special fix mode.
main.c:9349: chain[7] temp offset record: 62,0,0,0,0,0,35,28
main.c:9366: chain[7] temp chip I2C addr=0x98
main.c:9372: chain[7] has no middle temp, use special fix mode.
main.c:13956: total_exist_chain_num = 3
board_frq_tuning.c:628: single_board_frq_tuning enter
board_frq_tuning.c:629: min_rate, des_rate, fix_volt:13800, 14000, 880
board_frq_tuning.c:254: force_freq not set, don't need tuning
main.c:14645: restart Miner chance num=2
main.c:14685: waiting for receive_func to exit!
main.c:14699: waiting for pic heart to exit!
main.c:13927: bmminer not found= 1950 root 0:00 grep bmminer
main.c:14758: bmminer not found, restart bmminer ...
driver-btm-c5.c:12285:bitmain_c5_init: This is user mode for mining
driver-btm-c5.c:12334:bitmain_c5_init: Detect 512MB control board of XILINX
driver-btm-c5.c:12355:bitmain_c5_init: Miner Type = S9
driver-btm-c5.c:12366:bitmain_c5_init: Miner compile time: Tue Jul 30 20:56:46 CST 2019 type: Antminer S9i
mp_test_fw.c:64:check_pool_worker: No valid pools, please configure them first! |
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Can you picture the backlash that would happen in Texas with their poor electrical grid, if one of their large miners that was supposed to shut down during high power use days and didn't wand wound up causing a blackout.
Maybe I'm stupid but given that Texas has access to much larger finances than Venezuela, why don't their politicians just lobby Congress and Biden's administration to get money to upgrade their grid? Surely if it's costing them money in lost productivity, they'll do something about it I think. Because unlike the other 48 connected states (Alaska & Hawaii are on their own) Texas want's to have their power grid separate from the rest of the US so they can do what they want. Which is why their grid is in such bad shape. They have had issues during bad weather where people died https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis and yet they still refuse to upgrade or even think about raising their prices to cover the cost to drag their power situation into this century. In 2012 when NY got hit with super storm Sandy after finding out how fucked the grid was billions of dollars were spent to fix it. -Dave |
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Just learned there's a issue with my ISP. Basically i can't do what i want if i don't pay. Perfect  I suppose running Bitcoin Core without port 8333 is useless for the network, is it? Name and shame the ISP. This way the next person who has this same issue will know it's not them it's their ISP. Assuming they search the forum for the ISP name and / or one of us remembers this thread. -Dave |
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So a country that is having problems getting power to it's people asked large miners to stop mining because it was hurting it's citizens and when they did not they shut down the company and took it's assets.
Good for them.
Can you picture the backlash that would happen in Texas with their poor electrical grid, if one of their large miners that was supposed to shut down during high power use days and didn't wand wound up causing a blackout.
-Dave
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And then they get sued into oblivion for breaching their fiduciary duty to their large mining clients by causing a massive price drop in BTC and then everyone stops mining there and then.......
It's happened before and will happen again, not worth worrying about.
F2 pool was large got close to 50% an people left.
IIRC there was another pool around that same time that (ghash? it's been a while don't remember) got a little to large for people and miners moved.
-Dave
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...Sentimentality never had its place in this industry, and everytime someone tries to bank on this concept they fail horribly....
Sentimentality has never had a place in ANY industry. Period. Full Stop. You can make some money off of other peoples sentimentality and sell things to them based on that. But long term it will not work. And no business should ever base itself on it.' -Dave |
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Reviews of Odroid H4 are starting to appear[1] (H4 Plus vs H4 Ultra). It seems that the Ultra reaches high temperatures (around 60ēC) and since it doesn't have holes to mount a fan, but this could be surpassed by mounting the fan in the case (although it is not optimal). The section where he played an emulated game in there (God of War 2) wasn't that great as well, but that could had to do with some configurations. H4 Plus ended up being the chosen winner for his review (considering that is cheaper, low powered consumption, less heat), so it's a case that the pricier may not be the best overall. Price wise, the H4 Plus in Europe is hovering around 180 [2] and this is just the board. Considering charger, memory (16GB) and SSD (1TB) it goes up to ~ 380 and it would still need a case. The Beelink Mini S12 Pro can be found for 200 in Europe right now + a 1TB nvme stick for around ~ 60 , so the price difference ends up being more than 120 considering that we are missing a case. As it stands currently, it ends up being a better alternative (price wise) between the two.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmBaTZ9S114[2] https://www.odroid.nl/odroid-h4-series/Odroid-H4-PlusAssuming the Beelink is the same one that Amazon is selling here in the US after getting the 1TB drive you now have the old 512GB that you can sell dropping the price even more. Still, the H4 is a neat product, will probably pick one up if the price drops since it's going to probably get played with and tested and put in a cabinet and forgotten about...... -Dave |
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If VIA or Braiins does not find a block for a week I really don't care. I got paid less.
-Dave
Corrected your line. To this day I have yet to understand why most miners have zero understanding of the word 'variance' I guess the correct word would be short-sighted. Variance means UP and DOWN. So you are not getting paid less on non-PPS, you are getting paid, varying above and below a higher amount, with an expected higher return. Just like every business on the planet - some higher and some lower times/seasons. And to state the obvious, that is exactly how bitcoin works - no matter how big or small the pool is - blocks are random with variance - an expected average time. Since you compared it to something that is not even comparable, I'll use the same faulty comparison: Or even as employees in any good company, your wage depends on how the company performs (and how you perform) The last PPLNS block your pool found was back in January. How much BTC are people mining there not going to make vs mining @ a PPS pool because the next block you find is happening after the 1/2ing although they make less per share they still got all their PPS shares until the 1/2ing paid at a higher rate. And some unknown time in the future when you may find a block they will get a higher % of 3.125+fees. 4 Years ago at the last 1/2ing how much BTC did people loose because they were mining at your pool for months with no block. Yes after that you had a good bit of luck which has now been followed by some really bad luck. There is a thing as opportunity cost of money. A large PPLNS pool with less variance overcomes that, a smaller one like Ocean or yours does not. As Phil said a bad month and he could be into pocket for thousands, 2 months and he is in for even more. Others are in the same boat. Had they been using a PPS pool in that scenario there could be enough BTC coming in to buy another miner. The flip side of that is that mining in a PPLNS pool might have generated more BTC. The risk / reward varies for person to person. Using the 'Or even as employees in any good company, your wage depends on how the company performs (and how you perform)' statement that you made: in some jobs you don't care how the company does you are a drone stocking shelves or answering calls or whatever. No bonus, no stock options, just that paycheck at the end of the week. That is PPS. If the company implodes on Friday in a couple of days you are at the next job being a drone stocking shelves or whatever. Making more or less what you did before with no real loss. If you are higher up you get bonuses or stock options or whatever that is PPLNS. But if the company implodes you don't get that bonus at the end of the year because the company is gone and your stock options are now worthless. -Dave |
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