You can buy it even cheaper if you look at the Goods board on this forum, noting that you should be careful because there are a lot of scammers who are willing to do anything for a couple of $ profits. But the question arises as to why people even pay for Windows if we know that at least version 10 was free to upgrade, and almost fully functional even without a license.

People have to completely forget pirated software if they do not want to infect their computers, and this is especially true for those who have crypto wallets on those same computers. A possible savings of a few dollars can mean a lot more loss if you download some malware that can empty your wallet.

На мой взгляд разница существенна. В папуасиях налог "просто потому что так хочется + надо кабанчика подоить", а в цивилизованных странах запрет возникает из-за того, что либо идет покушение на то что покушаться нельзя (грубо говоря кто-то начинает нарушать законы о ценных бумагах и какие угодно любые другие под прикрытием "крипты" или других "инноваций) и это лечится запретом. Причем запрет тоже возникает не по желанию левой пятки главного папуаса а через суд (как и тест Хауи возник) чем многие мошенники вполне злоупотребляют судясь с властями годами (смешная ситуация которую в папуасиях представить сложно).

На счет ремонта и обновления могу сказать что это если и происходило то только в крупных городах вроде Алматы и Астаны. Та же Караганда, где огромные ГЭС, ГРЭС все в плачевном состоянии по сей день.

Летом 21го года к нам начало приехать много иностранцев и спрос на точки подключения, дешевую ээ начал расти как Доги кони после твитов Маска.
Электроэнергии в стране очень много, подключались везде и много. Осенью того же года владельцы точек прожарили тему и просили с майнеров
профит шеир. На мощные машинки брали 10-30% на средние 30-50%. Дошло до абсурда, поЯвилось кучу серых майнеров, но многие пошли подавать документы чтобы получить лицензию и официальное разрешение на майнинг.
Затем перед Новым годом мне поступила информация что готовится коллапс для майнеров и их будут жестко душить сразу после Нового Года, но у нас случились "январские события" когда весь Казахстан был на грани политического переворота и интернет был отключен во всей стране.
А уже после всего этого в конце января случалась типа электроду катастрофа на границе Узбекистана и Казахстана и после этого появилось распоряжение отключать майнеров. И тут первыми пострадали те, кто подал документы на легализацию. Их сразу отрубили. Затем пошли рейды правоохранительных органов по выявлению серых майнеров. Начали рассматривать законы для майнеров с таким жестким налогообложением что майнинг становился в Кз уже не рентабельным. Все произошедшее вкупе повлияло на то, чтобы люди выходили из этого бизнеса.
Плюс у меня была инфа, что зимой 2021-2022 в Астану прилетел Скам Бэнкмен Фрид и просил 200-300 мВт у правительства. Он был готов инвестировать деньги в обновление инфраструктуры, постройку больниц и школ ради этого объема. Но насколько мне известно, его послушали и ничего не дали,
оставили эти мощности себе и распределили их между нашими манерами из числа олигархов и правительства.

The competition in BTC mining is to determine who is going to add the next block into the blockchain, not against the entry of new miners, the system is open source and permissionless, so as many miners can join without anybody's permission, you only become a strong competitor if you generate enough hashrate.
Importantly what you need in order to mine is Asics and cheap electricity, if you start small you'll not make any profit, so rather than being a solo miner without enough hashrate, it's better you join a mining pool and contribute what you can, to get revenue on your contribution.

The thing that you're referring as "dustbin energy" is actually energy generated with the garbage that's thrown as waste. The energy actually comes from the solid part of that waste when it's burned in waste-to-energy plants. When the wastes are burned a stream is produced in boiler which is then used to power a generator based turbine. You can also call the thing as biomass-generated energy and it powers the generators which in turn supply energy.

The energy generated from Volcanos is often called Geothermal energy and that comes from the heat of the Earth's crust. This type of energy often works when heat from volcanos is captured with the help of running water which in turn converts into steam, that steam is then used to spin the turbines and the electricity is generated.

The Geo-thermal energy is renewable and it could be very helpful source of energy for the miners who have access to it. The type of energy is not for all miners because it's abundant in those areas of the world where volcanos exist. Well, I think El Salvador's Government has taken a very nice step for the Bitcoin miners. However, I believe that the cost of mining won't reduce with such type of energy source because it could cost the government huge sums of money to create such power-plants that could capture the geothermal energy.  

The problem is even more than OP pictured, if you are getting money through mining and you are in the midst of boys, they will want to know, if they find out what you are running 24/7 they will hate and this will even make the dream of you leaving the premises happens faster.

You will be busted in no time, I was not even talking about this before, I was focusing on the electricity bill, and Bananington, there is nothing like free electricity, he is prepared to steal the electricity that someone is paying for, I am curious if OP knows the type of grid meter that's been used in the school.

If it's the old school meter it's better, because there is no measurement on the electricity consumption, only bills monthly, but if it's the new digital like the meter that people use today in different countries there will be problems fast, because they are loading money on the meter using the meter recharge card, once the loaded amount that was supposed to be managed within a month or two finished in 2 weeks, there must be some explanation.

The problem and unrest will start from there.

Use official software with money you pay for its license key is safe.

If you don't want to pay money to buy a license key, you will use cracked software with many backdoors that can infect your devices.
If you want safety and don't want to face with risk of malware, trojans from cracked softwares, you have to consider Linux operation system. It is free to download.

Linux: https://linuxmint.com/
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Hello,

I understood that Trustwallet is closed source, so it's not great. Atomic wallet has just been hacked. Ledger offers a recovery service that raises questions.

How can we be sure that our private keys have been generated securely?

Thank you

With this Atomic wallet hack, I have a lot of questions. For example, how do free wallet developers make money? It's probably a naive question, but in the end, safety also depends on the reliability of the team, and they're not going to work for free.

What is a "federal school environment" you also mentioned your dad's house, so I don't understand that.  Putting that aside I'd say:

- It's probably illegal to use free electricity (paid for the by the government / tax payers) to mine bitcoin

- Even if it's not specifically illegally, once they discover that you're mining bitcoin (especially if you get more than just one mining machine) they're likely going to make you stop and possibly charge you with theft (doesn't have to be a law specifically about bitcoin, you can't open up a business with free electricity)

- It's going to be loud, very loud.  Especially if you have more than one mining machine.   The noise is going to bother you and anyone else around the machines, you don't even have to be in the same room.  The noise comes from the fans on the front and back of the ASIC mining machines.

-  You've also got to get rid of the heat produced by the mining machine(s) so you can't just put them in your closet (unless you rig up some airduct somehow and have somewhere to get rid of that air) and even at that it's still going to be hot, especially if you have more than one mining machine.

-  The electrically wiring in your house / school (or wherever) is going to have to be large enough (the gauge of the wire, or wire size) otherwise the amps the machines draw are going to burn up the wiring (more so if you have more than one mining machine).   The breakers are also going to turn off if you pull too many amps (or more than the breaker is built for, example 20 AMPS).

- You're going to have to mine on a bitcoin mining pool so here are two mining calculators (a simple one and a more advanced one):

Simple: https://btc.com/tools/mini-mining-calculator?lang=en

example: hashrate of 14 TH/s (terahash) which is about what an Antminer s9 does (since electricity is free for your you don't need a new machine, and these are only about $100 on eBay nowadays) and you make about 0.000035 BTC every 24 hours (or about $0.09 dollars (or 90 cents)).

Advanced (although you don't really need this because it's for calculating electricity and the price of the mining machine (new machine usually): https://btc.com/tools/mining-calculator

Нет, лимит у всех разный.
Чаще всего это 5-10 кВт, но те у кого есть связи, деньги и необходимость могут провести к дому больше, за деньги разумеется.
Что касается того, что все восторгались властями Казахстана и решении развивать майнинг, легализации и тд.
Нам на голову просто упало счастье, когда Китай типа запретил майнинг. Мы реально были большой махиной и
вышли бы на первое место в мире если бы не эти тупые рвачи.
Была куча инвесторов со всего мира которые были готовы вложить куча бабла на ремонт коммуникаций,
привезти кучу оболрудования, создать рабочие места, платить огромные деньги за этот свет и плюс налоги.
И впридачу страна была бы переполнена криптой, а по итогу нихуяшечки! ничего из вышеперечисленного

I bought the other day and we have seen yet another crash since then it feels like there is so much bad news and FUD at the moment.

I feel like having a break as I am starting to feel we could go close to the lows of last year, not sure if we will go that low but could go close so thinking of waiting until we see at least another 10% drop to buy more.

How is everyone else feeling?

For several days now my friend has been asking me for some advice. Telling me that he wants to invest some of his money, telling me where to invest it. My friend works in a private company and he has saved some money from there. With that money they went into business in a four person partnership, initially he made some profit in the business then he suffered some financial loss. My friend knows that I am involved with Bitcoin. He got some ideas about Bitcoin from me. So he wants to invest money in Bitcoin. I didn't tell him anything about the risk of investing. Since he wants to invest, should I advise him to invest?

If you have been full-time into trading for one to three years, what has been the greatest sacrifice you've made to become a successful trader? And did it pay off?

Someone I know who a seven-figure trader is now made the sacrifice of moving into a shared apartment with a friend just to save money. Another person, who had previously started a logistics company, sold off his trucks and used the money for trading. Another person had to pay to be mentored. He did this because the mentor said people do not appreciate free things, and if he were not making the sacrifice of paying out of pocket, he probably would not be serious and would take it for granted. These people cited in here went on to become successful traders. It paid off.

я думаю не только в русском. и не только они. и ничего, в топах сидят. мне кажется это просто последний случай, поэтому он наиболее на слуху. пройдет время и про них забудут. или перебьют повестку новым скандалом. а вули будет продолжать рубить бабло. ну может чуть меньше из-за принципиальных, не забывших и лично пострадавших.