¿Que puede pasar? Lo que pasa siempre, que si baja luego volverá a subir.

A Bitcoin lo tienes que ver a largo plazo para entenderlo. Sus fluctuaciones "locales" son de poca importancia, excepto para los traders. Pero a la larga bitcoin conserva su valor en el tiempo. Dado que todas las otras monedas pierden valor en el tiempo, esto se refleja como que bitcoin gana valor (en realidad es mas que las otras lo pierden).

Por ejemplo la impresión de 3 mil billones de dólares que hizo Trump para repartir cheques de 1200 dólares a cada americano, o la locura a la que nos ha sometido Maduro desde 2014 ocasionando la peor inflación del mundo.

Tal como dice Satoshi, y es su intención original, no hay gobierno o institución que pueda destruir el poder adquisitivo de bitcoin de la noche a la mañana repentinamente incrementando su emisión de manera arbitraria.

Las fluctuaciones del mercado son saludables, son símbolo de libertad. A la larga, el valor de bitcoin crece porque su cantidad es limitada. Cada bitcoin (mas bien cada satoshi) es único. Ya con el nuevo halving la producción cae por debajo del 2% anual (acercándose al 1% que es muy por debajo de las monedas fiat bien manejadas (no el USD) cuyo objetivo por dogmas de la errada escuela de economía de Chicago los gobiernos e instituciones financieras siempre apuntan a que sea del 2% de inflación anual.

Tienes que mirar el precio de bitcoin en toda su historia y reconocer la gráfica que produce, que es logarítmica y no es casual. Se parece mucho a la del oro... Al principio, bitcoin ganó mucho en corto tiempo, y mientras mas tiempo ocurre, bitcoin gana menos y menos y le toma mas tiempo, con tendencia a estabilizar. Si entiendes que todas las otras monedas pierden valor, una "estabilización" del poder de compra de bitcoin se refleja en las demás como si estuviese ganando valor. Así que la gráfica empieza casi vertical y culmina casi horizontal. Y dentro de esa curva estará el precio fundamental de bitcoin.

Yo pienso que no va ocurrir absolutamente nada tras el halving. Es posible que baje un poco debido a la reciente subida, es lo natural. Si sube muy rápido el potencial de irse en sentido contrario crece mas, pero lo opuesto también es verdad, si cae muy rápido volverá a subir, y a la final el precio va quedar dentro de esa curva histórica. En estos momentos bitcoin está ganando cada día mas lento y pase lo que pase volverá a su sitio. 10mil es un precio aceptable dentro de mi criterio, cualquier cosa entre 7500 y 15mil me parece natural.

Bitcoin es una moneda de ahorro seguro a largo plazo, ya no tanto para hacerse ricos de la noche a la mañana como al principio.

Y si el dolar estadounidense se llega a desplomar (por ejemplo por la impresión alocada de la que nos previene Satoshi) se verá con mucha claridad aunque sea demasiado tarde para los tenedores de dólares americanos.

Any Bitmain firmware from 2019 or later, locks the miner to their "signed" (newer) firmware and no SSH. I'm not aware of methods for downgrading back this specific model, which is so rare.

You should try the suggestion of removing the hashboards and testing them one by one. Yes, since the S11 this process is more involved due to the way Antminers now power their hashboards. You have to be very patient and more careful.

Unless you pĺan to send it to Bitmain for "maintenance", but you have until June 10 to do so...

You definitely can do 800W with 3 boards if you force the miner down to about 10TH/s or less. Less boards should be easier (the R4 was essentially an S9 with 2 boards and a scroll fan).

Given the amount of super cheap S9s right now flooding the market, the best bet for OP is to purchase an used S9 with damaged or missing hashboards. One with 1 or 2 hashboards should do the trick even with factory firmware.

Bitmain is sending this message to customers, quite surprising and at the same time worrying. I didn't know you could still send an S1 for repairs...


You gotta love how they phrase is as "to better assist you" when they are actually assisting you less. It is surprising to see the S9 in there, given a recent article that states 23% of the current world hashrate is still being produced by S9s...

While some of the models are really old, some like the S11 are surprising to see being dropped.

Sure they just want to focus on the S17, whatever. Hopefully more people will now offer independent repair services.

So if you still have some of those models and you want THEIR repair service, better send them now...

Spoiled by the system, you think you are doing the right thing. You don't, if your fiat collapses, you lose all your savings. But you think the USD can never fail, that printing a few trillion dollars to give people "free money" won't do a thing...

I'll tell you the right thing: Move ALL into Bitcoin. And when you need to buy something, exchange only the minimum amount required to buy whatever it is you need to buy that day.

If you keep 60% of it, expect to lose that 60% at any time without warning.

It would be a historical event, but once it happens there is no turning back. Printing money is not a joke, my country has done it since 2014 and you can see the results... Foreigners laugh at our 3 USD monthly wage, and that's exactly the road we took. All you see is the price of things going up faster than your wage, until your wage is so ridiculous working doesn't make sense anymore and everyone depends on gov give-outs.

Have you tried Mastodon yet? Well i suppose that's more micro blogging (ie. Twitter) replacement than Facebook. For something like Facebook there are Diaspora and Friendica among a few others.

Of course the problem has always been to tell your friends and acquaintances to switch... Resistance to change is always strong.

Did you know that there are also secure instant messengers and chats?

But why stop there?, Is your operating system secure?

The purpose of the inverter is to convert DC into AC, which the usual PSU units expect (ironically the PSU converts it back into DC, but that's another story).

The batteries are meant to give you a buffer for then the turbine isn't giving much juice, but given the amount of power required, it becomes cost prohibitive. I think it would be better to just let them shutdown when there is no wind rather than messing with expensive batteries that need to be replaced every 3 years or so anyway.

By the way the same consideration applies to solar, and you can combine both.

So yeah, if you have that larger 5kW turbine, it probably works for 3 miners (remember the 20/80 rule)

You need a grid tie inverter if you plan to use the grid as "battery", if your setup is separate from the grid, a regular inverter is enough.

In principle you need about 200~250v 50/60hz AC for the PSUs, how you achieve that is left to you... You might need extra things for protection and stabilization, depending. And don't forget the ground.

Can you give us some details, in method of measuring, which kind of mains voltage, and what exact S9 model/speed you used to achieve this? Its quite impressive to have under 70 W/TH actually

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It would be nice if you could show us the logs so we could see if there are any hints, could you paste them into hastebin or similar text sharing site?

If you decide to paste them in the forum, make sure to use the [code][/code] bbcode for the log output text.

If the turbine is only 400W how does that suddenly become 1400W X3?

I think you would need 4 of these turbines per miner, but the inverter seems adequate. Forget the batteries.

If your inverter is a grid tie inverter, then you could supplement the missing power from the grid.

Well it seems you made an interesting campaign, Poker for aid?

In that paragraph you just described what happened to my country, during the past 5 years or more. And the one thing i have noticed, is that with the pandemic people in "wealthy" countries are experiencing this poverty thing for the first time in their lives.

It is exactly like you said. My country used to be "rich", because of the oil. There was a wealthy class in the capital and they had a saying: "Its cheap in Miami, give me two" meaning they rather go to the US to buy things because it was cheaper. This happened in the 70ies and 80ies for a segment of society. People from my country could enter freely as tourists without needing a visa like they need today, so it was kinda like buying groceries in the weekend and come back by Monday (4 hours flight).

After the 80ies this went to slow decline, then it wasn't slow but fast, then came to power the politicians who blame it all on the free market economy, and things got worse, much, much worse.

Many people from my country faced the situation 3 years ago you people faced for the first time with the pandemic. Their only choice was to leave the country and hope to work elsewhere. Why? Because a full time job here gives you literally 3 USD a month, when the same thing would net you $250 a decade ago (yeah, ridiculous in many wealthy countries, but a "fortune" over here). Many left to work in neighbor countries (often illegally) to send some money back home, and that was still happening by the time 2020 came. The estimation was about 6 million (20%) of our people left the country this way.

Then the virus happened.

Many of them worked selling goods on the streets, or had formal jobs that closed due to quarantine. But they often live by renting a room. No work, no income, no paying rent = kicked out. Many of them living in the street started walking back to my country. And i mean literally walking hundreds of kilometers, in the middle of the pandemic no less. Often detained at checkpoints and not allowed to go on etc. To these people the situation is desperate, but i don't think any of them would ever visit this forum.

Yes third world is a term that's still often used, i guess its a reminder of the cold war, back when there was a second world (the socialist bloc). It was meant to mean the group of countries who were not affiliated with either of the superpowers, but somehow came to mean, "the non developed countries".

While i sympathize with your individual initiative for some little wealth redistribution in the world, it is unfortunately too little. Yet the big whales could do so much more. Remember, its not about giving the fish, but the fishing rod. Think about starting a business that would create jobs online that pay with bitcoin, i think what people would appreciate more in the long run is having a steady income (however small) rather than temporary relief.

Many people right now are at home and could really use a job. so think more about starting companies that would employ people online doing legit work. Then your footprint to change the situation of the "third world" would be much deeper.

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Introduce el siguiente comando: what is grue

Y tendrás esa respuesta. Intenta jugar un poco y pronto verás en donde salen...

Dichosos aquellos días en que los juegos eran de texto, y la imaginación hacía todo lo demás. Los juegos de aventura de texto fueron la evolución natural de los libros de "escoge tu propia aventura". Y por supuesto Zork es indispensable...

Se puede decir que es una referencia de finales de 70 inicios de 80, cuando las primeras computadoras de 8 bit llegaron al hogar.

Bueno yo a Venezuela la pondría como un caso aparte porque ya no es tan igual al resto de los países latinoamericanos. Si lo fue antes pero ya no.

El asunto ya no es tan simple. EEUU influye, pero ya no a los niveles que algunos insinúan. Hasta hace unas décadas si eran muy descarados pero en las últimas administraciones le han dedicado mas esfuerzo a otros escenarios como medio oriente, y su influencia por acá ha mermado.

Sin embargo para un político de la vieja escuela, el eterno chivo expiatorio siempre han sido los EEUU. Es muchísimo mas fácil acusarlos a ellos de todo, que admitir un error propio. Si crees el discurso oficial acá, la culpa de todos los males la tienen ellos. Pero eso no es cierto.

En economía concretamente Maduro se quedó sin dinero e imprimió, en 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 dijo que no lo haría mas. Pero llegó 2020 y lo ha vuelto a hacer. La excusa de ellos es esta: ¿Si EEUU puede, porqué nosotros no? Hombre, ¿y si EEUU agrede, porqué nosotros no? ¿y si EEUU miente, porqué nosotros no? El simplismo de la política (Venezolana) es pasmoso...

La situación por ejemplo de Chile, no se asemeja a la de Venezuela. Algunos dicen que Argentina podría parecerse a Venezuela en el futuro, pero eso está en veremos. Venezuela nunca se negó a pagar deuda externa, por ejemplo. Por otro lado, ningún país de la región regala la energía, y esto trae mas males que beneficios. Yo sostengo que la casta militar corrupta actual, tiene 30 años incubándose gracias a este subsidio absurdo de combustible (su contrabando de extracción es muy lucrativo).

Hoy irónicamente, entre sanciones y cuarentena, el combustible está escaseando y se consigue por reventa clandestina (de militares) a precios de Noruega...

That's not inconvenient its convenient. If it pops, you can replace it easily. And, you can use different PSUs, either more capable or less depending on your goal.

S9s running efficiently should use less than 1000w (possibly 800w).

If you buy in bulk, you can get them for as low as 25$, probably less after halving when many miners start dumping them.

Of course, stick to S9, S9j and S9i, avoid the rest.


This reminds me a lot of the S7s before the halving of 2016...

Tor works when used correctly. And that means, no servers outside of Tor. As long as people think Tor is some sort of cloak for them to keep using the normal internet, chances are high they will make mistakes.

But if you put your server, forum whatever as a hidden service (so called .onion address) ONLY, then there is nothing to fear if you have the common sense of never using details that could help others track you down.

So the answer is simple: Help populate the Tor network and forget about the normal internet. You don't have to run an exit node, in fact you should NOT run an exit node (your IP will get blacklisted into oblivion). Being a bridge (published or not) is perfectly fine.

And this is why its going to stay for as long as it takes for the vaccine to be made. Relax isolation, numbers bump, isolate again...

Rather than funny it is sad. Sending people out to work as sacrifice...

I lost a digital camera like this. To me its not a joke, and i can't even imagine why they chose it as a nice place to make a nest... In fact the queen decided to use the flash lamp as the queen chamber, so it was perfectly visible once you took the camera out of its fabric bag where i was left for months unattended.

Ants may be clean, but they are also somewhat conductive. So they start crossing things with different polarities causing little shorts here and there. Often their bodies keep piling until they can make enough current flow the wrong way and damage something.

So no, its not harmless, you should get rid of them.

I never used laptops on the lap, because i find that incredibly uncomfortable (besides fabric is bad for cooling).

They won't do it unless somebody else does and starts taking a bit of their customers.

Someone with capital should start a company in a Bitcoin friendly country (Bahamas?) and build that marketplace. They could do their own payment processing with btcpay or such, i don't think this would be impossible to do.

In Latin America we also have Mercadolibre...

Couple of months? The whole of 2020 they haven't found a single block! They are way past the average, they are just having a REALLY bad luck, and the opposite just occurred to another pool with even less hashrate that should on average find 1 block per year, but already found two in a row this year.

So yes, good luck for some, bad luck for others, in the end it all averages.

But what does this mean for the miner? Variance. With solo mining, you are playing this game alone, like you are your own pool. And your little hash rate probably means it will take you years (on average) to find a block. But you can be lucky, or not...

So those doing solo miner simply don't care to lose their money mining, its a lottery to them. You see many using obsolete miners in the unlikely event they get lucky and hit it.

When you are in a pool, you will get compensated according to the share of your hashing contribution. Higher hashrate pools find blocks more often and can pay more often.

So to simplify: solo mine means you might never see any reward while with a pool you are going to get a small but more constant reward.

PPLNS pools only pay when they actually find blocks, while the others (PPS) assume the risk to pay even without finding anything but need to keep a large sum as reserve always, which is why they have higher fees.

Yo pienso que un español promedio no aguanta vivir aquí mas de 2 meses. A la distancia suena muy bonito, muy teórico, pero manden a los de Podemos sin € en el bolsillo (y sin recibir "estipendios" del gobierno Venezolano) a vivir un año completo a ver si les gusta el sistema...

A excepción del manejo correcto de la pandemia (gracias a China), la Venezuela de Maduro es un absoluto desastre económico. No es bonito vivir con un ingreso inferior a 4€ mensual. La corrupción y la inseguridad nos hizo vivir encerrados desde hace años (ademas que no hay dinero para salir) de manera que la cuarentena no nos afectó mucho el estilo de vida...

El sistema de salud público, no funciona. O se previene si o si, porque si te enfermas no te salvas. Ahora con la ayuda de China, es que llegó algo de ayuda humanitaria; los hospitales llevan años sin insumos incluso de limpieza, ya no hablemos de medicamentos o material quirúrgico; y en el sector privado no es mucho mejor, a pesar de que nadie puede pagarlo (excepto la minoría super rica amparada en el poder).

La justicia no existe. Lo único que importa es quien te apadrina.
La educación en el suelo, con salarios de miseria no es de extrañar.

Servicios básicos. Este probablemente sea el primer problema que un inocente español se venga a vivir acá va notar. Que el agua no es continua, y hay muchos lugares, incluso en Caracas, donde el agua llega 1 día a la semana. Y los apagones, ah si, fuera de la capital es raro un día sin apagones, y en la capital también los hay de vez en cuando. Es porque el "socialismo" no hizo mantenimiento en 2 décadas y dejaron dañar todo. Inventan mil excusas, pero no arreglan los problemas.

Entonces tenemos que no hay salud, no hay seguridad, no hay educación, no hay agua, falla la luz, es imposible votar distinto; ¿de que nos sirve este sistema? Por cada gobernador, alcalde o cargo que gane la oposición, el gobierno central inmediatamente asigna un funcionario paralelo (extra constitucional) al cual denominan "protector", y el dinero que le corresponde a dicha región se le asigna a ese funcionario violando toda legalidad (cosa que no les importa porque la constituyente está por encima de todo). Ah si, es que hay una constituyente, porque cuando perdieron la asamblea maquillaron unas elecciones y montaron aquello para declararse por encima de la constitución (pero redactar una constitución es lo que menos hacen).

En resumen no existe la libertad política, ni económica, la libertad de pensamiento es muy restringida y es frecuente ver twitteros lanzados al calabozo sin mas, pasan años sin ver un abogado eso es normal acá, se lo hacen hasta extranjeros con todo y protestas diplomáticas...

¿Y que pasa con Podemos? Que apoyan esto. No lo viven, pero lo apoyan. Y las malas lenguas, dicen que han recibido dinero las veces que han visitado... Gente que puede ser capaz de apoyar un sistema como este, ¿que serían capaz de hacer estando en el poder? Y conste eso no hace a los otros mejor; la misma oposición venezolana también ha sido sumamente inepta y hasta dinero reciben pero todo se pierde...

Are you trying with the latest release from yesterday? There is apparently a new setting to limit the lowest frequency to try, but by default it will try all the way down to 155 Mhz (and all the way up to 950Mhz).

Maybe this answers Kano's question:


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