Bitcoin is doing fine against all metals and markets other than gold.

As a miner I am going to get a 15% boost in 2 days when difficulty adjusts.

When that happens it will become a clear 2nd best in holding value.

Basically at the moment markets and metals are down 30-40%   gold is down 10%  since feb  20-24

btc is down 32%  once the diff adjusts by 15% for miners Btc will be looking good.

my 2ph will be like 2.3 ph over night.

Nope I think plenty of big farms will fold if they have not already switched to s17 or s17pro.

If they switched to s17 or s17 pro  they are not going to buy these. But I am wrong a lot.  Maybe I will be wrong here.

And you think they will flood the market with them.

No way  they simply won't sell well at all.

The s17 pros on low speed do 35-36 watts a th.

these claim to do 29 watts a th with only 1 speed.

all the 1 speed s17+, s17e ,t17e, t17+  ran poorly.  Only morons will buy this gear.  It is going to sit and not sell well.

this list needs to be checked   there is an issue with 94  Bacchu has it not cryptobaboon  fixed

Cryptobaboon  needs to pick again.  done

note 53 is picked by a newbie  I will let op handle that pick

I want 62  philipma1957


looks like 16,18,30,34,35,43,46,47,53,57,59,60,65,70,71,72,74,,78,79,,86,92,93,

I see only 1 speed for the pro thus I consider these to be shit gear.

The 17e was well over rated watts
The 17+  breaks a lot.

At 2900 for a one speed unit I won't be buying any of the gear.

Never mind 2900 price for May 30 shipping.

and we are at -15.2%

309 blocks off pace

our 2ph  will get a boost equivalent to 300th of new gear.

we could use this.  price has flattened around 6k.

"gold is at        1526    down from 1682   on feb 24 .............................................................. - 9.27% drop
silver is at      12.88   down from 18.87  on feb 24 ..............................................................  - 31.75% drop
platinum is at   637    down from  975    on feb 24 ..............................................................  - 34.67% drop

dow jones is at 19173 down from 29,219 on feb 20  and from 27,960 on feb 24 ....................... -34.38% or -31.43%  depends on date used

btc is at  6275  down from  9588 on feb 24 .......................................................................... -34.56% drop  but  miners will be getting a 15% boost in 2 days  so for miners the 34.56% drop  will reduce to 24.73%"  source was yahoo search results for prices

making it better then silver, platinum and the dow jones, but worse then gold.

I think this trend will hold over the coming months.

PLEASE NOTE ALL THE WEALTH STORES OTHER THEN GOLD DROPPED 31-35%

with BTC  this is going to be mitigated via diff adjustment.

Please understand this is all new territory for us. Worldwide.

I guess if a lot of meteors a really large amount of them struck all over the planet causing damage everywhere it would match this.
Of course that example would mean they were big and all over the place but not too big as to kill us all. ie a world wide issue.
This disaster is bad, but if the illness spread like it does and had a really high kill rate say 35% it would have truly been fucked up.

MY state of New Jersey is up to 1914  a solid third place number
MY birth state of New York is up to 16,887  first place.

"Top five states

New York......      16,887
Washington ......   1,996
New Jersey........   1,914
California..........   1,468
Illinois.............    1,049

OF NOTE:

Texas ............   334 "    SEEMS TOO LOW  note sourced from cnn statpage on internet.

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ON A PERSONAL  note:  whatever  my wife and I got back around dec 25- Jan 16  seems to have left me entirely and my wife still has some coughing .

We are not going to the Lung doctor for her this week  due to corona-v fears doctor asked us to self isolate.

I take her temp 3 times a day
I take her blood O2 levels 3 times a day

her temps are good
her O2 levels  are hitting 96,97,98    vs  92,93,94
mine are also better.

Finally  my wife's first cousin is a nurse on Long Island, New York.  she is over 60   she is recovering from corona-v  her husband is  still sick from corona-v.

So to all be careful especially if you are a smoker or a vaper as  a link  to vaping and getting really sick from corona-v seems to be happening. At any age.

I gave a merit to you for being a persistent person.

I believe this is the first one you ever earned

The others were airdropped to you.

I also gave him a trust.

USA fifty states 50 sets of rules.  My state New Jersey has shut down a lot but not all stores.

I stocked my house 🏡.

Toilet paper
paper towel 🧻

eggs
cheeses
frozen veggies.
potatoes
sweet potatoes
i have air filters
i have water filters
i have some vodka
i have some rye
i have a generator that uses propane
i have propane
i have soap.

many stores are shut.
gas stations
super markets
drug stores are open.

and we are still running busses 🚎 and trains 🚞

my issue with the chinese numbers are not that 80,000 got sick .  the death 💀 rate seems very low compared to Italy death rate. not sure how this can be so different.

Back to difficulty. I am sitting in my house mining as I type. This seems to mean pow coins will come back better then many may think.

I see a second smaller drop in diff. then flatness for two months.

assuming all out brilliant world leaders don’t do something clever.  note 📝 sarcasm to the max.

 it has a real value as an electrical space heater.

you are simply spouting nonsense to drive the price down hoping to buy some cheaply.

Yeah if you look at Chinese numbers and Italy numbers something is wrong.
So
A) china is lying
B) italy is lying
C) China has great medical
D) italy has terrible medical

E) China has a vaccine and vaccinated most of the people in china thus they have great numbers

F)  something I missed.

Not liking letter e very much.

Below needs research.

Oh trump's import tariff war is a very likely cause of mask shortages in the USA.
As companies may have been doing multiple small orders to beat the 25% tax.

I order miners one at at time to beat trump tax legally.  I wonder if people did smaller mask orders  last year to beat the trump tax.

Anyone want to research if masks were subject to import taxes.

What does this translate to diff wise.  a 13-14% drop in 3 days.  I predict a 5-7% drop next jump

if prices stay in 5000-6500 range.

damn that is some real insight. nice.

much as the who once sang.  “ meet the new boss same as the old boss”

when I bring  the s9's off line and start to build them into one and two board space heaters for next winter I will test on solo.ckpool.org

It won't be enough hash  to guarantee hitting a block  , but it could indeed hit one.  While I control 2ph  it would take 13 months to hit a block with it if I have average luck.  So I simply can not run  for 13 months.  Test net is just that test net.  Since diff is lower on test net hitting blocks with a low difficulty proof that you can hit a low diff no more than that.

running a fan at 70 or 75 or 80 or 85 or 90 percent static setting is far better then auto tuning a fan.

100% setting is stupid as it burns up and does not cool much better then 90%

auto tuning also kills them.

I try to set fans to 70 and track temps if needed bump to 75. and up to 90 if needed.

Antminer gear  can sometimes use a lower fan  even a 4000 rpm set to 90% may work depends on what miner you are using.

all s9's will run with a 4700 rpm model set to 85% static.

now it may be you set a really high freq and are burning up with that fan but the miner will try to run.

When it checks the fans for speed to determine you have working fans it looks for the fans to get up to 4000 rpm or higher  at 100% .

this is a slower lower energy fan

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Delta-AFC1212DE-Brushless-DC-12V-Dell-D8794-120mm-case-fan/303520377433?

the gear will run on a low speed setting with this fan. I use it to make one and 2 board space heating s9's

do not get any fan weaker than this.

also have a good understanding OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING IF YOU GO THE LOWER WEAKER FAN ROUTE.

ie don't think an s9 will do 3 boards at 15th with these fans.

Keep posting  I gave you a merit as I know you from  offord scott.

a few more posts you will no longer be a newbie.


and if you want me to help start you here I can escrow a sale or 2 for you.

Well


a drop in hash of 15%  a drop in price to 6073

means  diff may have caught up or not.  It depends on what you think this coin is really worth.

But give me a choice of  1,000,000 in BTC at 6073   vs 1,000,000 in princess cruise line stock.  I would pick  the BTC

So the real issue for btc price is how the big boys think it protects  their wealth.

There are so many bad business models subject to interruption  from a pandemic.

BTC  is not  that subject to a pandemic based interruption.

My 2ph 11gh mine can be run by 1 person alone and self isolated  it earns about 1 btc a month.

random pick please

@ kryme pick a random

Thanks for the laugh 😂 .

well lets face it.  first off none of us know if this will be a 1918/1919 spanish flu pandemic or worse.

Things become complex if the kill rate gets really high.  No matter what country you live in or what side you are on left right capitalist socialist no one likes friends and loved ones dying off.

So you get multiple levels of :

2 billion ill 40 million dead

all the way down to

10 million ill 100000 dead.

and anything in-between.

For me to say  I know how bad the illness will be I have no real clue.

For me to say maybe me and my wife already caught it around new years eve due to the 10 boxes of miners that came to the house from dec 6 to jan 6 Maybe.

Packages were in china   and then in my house in under 36 hours a few times.

For me to argue right now the world has no known antibody test for us to take and this costs all of us $$$ is true.

For instance lets say me and my wife had it along with 100000 others in New Jersey USA  that is 100,000 people that should not be told to stay home.

Yet  no one mentions an antibody test being developed why?  The value of this test is huge.

To be clear this is for infected unknowns that got better.   If 1 billion people are like this all of them do not need a quarantine. This should be talked about all over the world.

I can bes tested to see if I had the measles and lots of other viruses why not this one.  Do you live in China did you get sick in Nov or Dec and get better on your own?  If so and it was corona-v no quarantine needed for you.

This is a big deal yet not much time is spent on this discussion .

We will soon see what is up with the world wide quarantines it may turn out to be not so bad .  I hope so.  Then back to mining and wondering about the difficulty

I personally won't be getting 40ph my bad I should have been more clear.