Obama was good for non-Americans, but he was a disaster for the American economy. His socialist policies wrecked the stock market
Whoever told you that is a lying liar. Dow Jones growth for last 4 presidents by months in office:  https://www.macrotrends.net/2481/stock-market-performance-by-presidentPretty crazy considering everything the president has said about the market huh? All that graph says is that Money Printer went Brrr during certain periods. If you have the Fed go reckless and print tons of paper money with nothing to back it of course people are going to shovel it into stocks. PE ratios going up 2 to 3x what they were in the past doesn't mean economic growth, it means exuberance with no basis in reality. The measure of success from an economic engine is GDP and quality of life. Quality of Life is very hard to measure. GDP is much more calculable. |
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I think OP was referring to running in a Windows environment for his first mention of the rigs stopping. Linux will be able to continue on for a few more Epochs than Window due to less overhead loaded onto the card but that's only buying a few weeks. The end of the 4GB card is nigh. Raven is about to get a huge dump of cards unless ETC can implement their DAG update before then.
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The reason why people are falling for this scam is because most of the time its posted by a user who is NOT a newbie. They got some rank and makes people feel comfortable and they download the virus.
The accounts that post this virus is usually some account where they re-used their username and password from somewhere else and they don't change the password to cause a flag.
Lately I noticed the mods quickly delete the posts and usually someone requotes the post and says its a virus and to avoid downloading. However I am wondering how much longer this will go on for.
You know what's sad is that Windows Defender will manage to block pretty much every miner you put on your PC. Malwarebytes will do the same thing. Neither of these programs will give you a decent warning about a fake Github link, at least not until somebody like Google has pinged it as a bad actor and that can take ages. Crypto is still not popular enough that there isn't a "ignore mining software" option of most Antivirus... guess it doesn't fit with their agenda. |
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It seems like USA and UK has the most restricted countries for the casinos. I don't know about their national policies but it seems hard to pass to those policies. Here in my country, I don't know they they restrict any casino since they could just put their hand to it and get tax out of it. It's just a matter of regulation and licensure right? or a lot complicated than these countries?
Same as Germany and Netherlands mate since those 4 are the most mentioned countries added are UK territories also. VPNs can reasonably be used for security purposes but using to violate the TOS of a hosting casino allows the online casino to follow their government's protocol for closing accounts and sometimes seizure of assets.
But will the Gambling sites concern about this ?i don't think so because the more players enters their sites is the more income they got. so why bother about the VPN usage from each countries. Imagine winning a nice jackpot only to have the hosting casino ask you for ID for tax filings. You can kiss your winnings goodbye. Plan accordingly.
Well this is why we must be responsible in using casino sites,or much better to play in Real life for more safer gambling habits. Typically governments will give gambling establishments some leeway if they've shown they've made reasonable attempts to keep unauthorized people from accessing their site. If the casino clearly presents which people can use the site and also actively bans users from restricted countries and still somebody manages to use their site, they're usually off the hook from government prosecution. A casino failing to do so cannot plead ignorance of the law since ignorance is not a valid excuse in most courts of law (sure it works for the rich and powerful, but not average business or lay person). So no casino should be letting a wider audience use their platform at the expense of possible criminal charges and possible loss of operations - at least not a sane one. |
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Nobody in the thread has thus far mentioned that Elon was fundamental to Paypal's success. Seeing as how for the mass public crypto can be used similar to Paypal (leaving all the mining, decentralization, POS/POW off the table), I think somebody knows Elon would be OK with it. Nevada is also one of the most pro-crypto states in the US, much more so than anti-crypto California just next door. I doubt the man behind Neuralink is not at least abreast of where major crypto projects are at the moment. Imagine a currency tied to your brain  |
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Make a mnemonic word seed and then store 1/2 or 1/3 of the 12 word or 24 word phrase in different locations.
That's actually a bad idea. If you want to spread the mnemonic, use some secret sharing scheme. These allow you to create redundant backups of data/information which does not leak any information about the actual data if less than the required amount of shares (N-1) are obtained. A 5 out of 6 scheme would then leak no information about the mnemonic. If you compare it to your approach, 5 from 6 shares would be enough to bruteforce the remaining words. There were a couple of good seed wallets that used x of n for recovery like Armory which I used in the past. Unfortunately it looks like that wallet is no longer maintained. It seems you're more versed with current wallets - do you know of any wallet that does this well? If somebody acquires 5/6ths of my mneumonic that means they're probably torturing me inside some basement in a foreign country at which point I don't really care about money. For somebody living in a town of 100 people perhaps this is a bad idea, but for myself living in Southern California it works well. |
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Make a mnemonic word seed and then store 1/2 or 1/3 of the 12 word or 24 word phrase in different locations. Most thieves wouldn't even bother with 4 or 6 random words. Those who obtain said words would need to know the location of other seed sites. If you spread them out online and in real world environments it would become a daunting task for most thieves. Storing them around the world also allows for redundancy in case one site burns down.
This would be so troublesome to store around the world. First you'd have to own secure locations in different countries which is already an enormous problem for most people. For instance, I don't know anyone outside the and don't own any properties EU. Even relatively rich people don't own properties on different continents. Imagine that you're out of money and need to move your coins and you have to spend a couple days travelling to the locations of all your phrases. This is an example of how you can go too far with security. If you're afraid of a fire, just use a metal plate or a fireproof safe. Obviously the intercontinental approach is for those who have the assets to actually "flee" their current country. There's no point of doing such theatrics for $128 USD worth of crypto. I was referring to a scaled approach. If you have a small nestegg, save a fourth of the seed with a couple of friends and then the rest with family members. They don't need to be spread any further than across town. There are even x of n wallets that do this for you. The level of paranoia should be commensurate with the risk one is faced with and the value of possible loss. Some people need armored cars and bodyguards. Some people just need to make sure they lock their doors and windows at night. |
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The problem is the Venezuela government has really brought any idea of self sufficiency to a halt. Look at that youtube video link i posted above. Farmers have stopped farming because they lose money trying to farm. The government spent so much money distributing "care packages" to the public that the public lost the ability to care for themselves. Their economy is dead just like a dried up water pump -it needs to be primed. They can restart that with their tourism since they still have some infrastructure from before (737s can still land at the main airport). If they continue to rely on their internal government to fix the problem they will never get their economic engine rolling. UAE was able to transition off oil reliance, Venezuela should be able to as well - they just need to be willing to interact with other countries.
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China has tiered government. The bottom strata are effectively communist - the country's wealth is spread to help the greatest number of people. Massive projects like 3 Gorges. If you happen to be an outlier too bad for you. The good of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
The middle strata are the ones who think they can do capitalism. I run into quite a few of these people's kids every day because they're driving Ferrari's and Lambos here in Southern California attending public school in the US because California bends over backwards for out of country money (specifically China).
The top layer are the CCP who are the billionaires and basically run the country in an oligarchy. They are allowed to keep their wealth as long as they don't step out of line. Stepping out of line results in an excommunication.
I was in Shanghai last year right before Covid was announced. The power substation my wife's grandfather built no longer bears his name and his plaque was taken down (he defected with Chiang Kai Shek). Individualism is not respected in that country.
That is an amazing first person account @DrG. Especially about the power substation. Must be some 50-60 years back that someone from the west had to come in and build a substation. Since then, China has really come a long way to have become self sufficient in most heavy engineering capability. I actually feel pretty envious because one thing for sure is that the centralized governance allows way more control and much better focus in delivering infrastructure and improving capabilities as a nation. In a democracy like India, there are a hundred conflicting interests from labor reforms, land acquisition issues, native people's rights to land and its resources etc etc. What I have seen from my experience with the Chinese workers is that they are unquestioningly devoted to their task. There is always a visible supervisor kind of person and nobody dares take their hands or eyes off the work. Compare them with Indian workers who are basically kings of their own whims. When they feel like they have to deliver, they will mountains. Yet, as a supervisor, if you over-stretch your authority and make them feel less than good, the work will suffer. China's purpose driven work ethic is both a blessing and a curse. They're able to get the job done at breakneck speeds and with incredible efficiency, but along the way they do not expand the knowledge base considerably. Compare that to the US and India where people tend to be much more creative. Elon Musk is a good example of people who fail repeatedly but learn along the way with his Falcon 9 rocket - each time learning how to improve and willing to take risks and not using conventional models (like the circus that is Tesla). When China becomes #1 who can they continue stealing from? Eventually they will need to have ideas grow in-house or at least make friends with idea creators in US, India, Germany and so forth. Right now China is very welcoming to certain Western companies if they see they can glean some creativity to their own internal human resource. Anything they can already do in-house they have no desire for outside companies to come in. |
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Newegg isn't even sending me "In-stock" notifications. If people are able to get 6900XT before 3080s doesn't that mean that AMD effectively launched before nVidia  Moore's Law Is Dead is stating that AMD has put 5700XT production on hold to get 6900XT out the door. I think my chances are better with AMD (seeing as how most casuals only want nVidia - for GPU anyways). |
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Looking at Moore's Law is Dead video, it seems the 6900XT will basically be double the 5700XT. So I would imagine double the processing units. The bus should be wider by 64 bits at the minimum and it will have 16GB of memory, but it probably won't be GDDR6x nor will it be HBM2. So before tweaks it would probably run 100-110MH/s and with best optimizations after a month or 2 perhaps 120MH/s if pushed on a card with excellent cooling. The revised architecture should help decrease wattage but on a card that "big" you'll still need a massive cooler, so I would guess $800+ for a decent card. According to his sources 5700XT is currently stopped in production for this big Navi. |
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There are 10 users in this thread spamming about MASS. If you check the time zone for each user they are all the same. Most of their posts are all about MASS with poor English (4 of them keep using the phrase "surly" for surely). All the accounts were created within 30 days of each other. It may be harmless shilling, but none the less it is forum spam. Please refrain from constantly spamming about MASS.
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VPNs can reasonably be used for security purposes but using to violate the TOS of a hosting casino allows the online casino to follow their government's protocol for closing accounts and sometimes seizure of assets.
Imagine winning a nice jackpot only to have the hosting casino ask you for ID for tax filings. You can kiss your winnings goodbye. Plan accordingly.
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it always starts like that for me, but later I pick up the chip and go to the end, it's not worth it, it's like a disease. I realized that I would never be satisfied, and when I decide to either lose everything or take it will never be enough to take to get up, it’s a little confusing but that’s the way it is.
I start with the goal of a young chip, but I will not stop, simply impossible.
I am having similar problems when gambling. The main problem I notice is that I just don't value small winnings as much, my target in gambling is always to go for the big winnings. So I tend to play too long as usually just lose all the previous winnings from the day. It would be awesome to become a high roller one day. I love to watch documentaries about high rollers and their interaction with casinos. Getting free suites, dinners, concert tickets is such a cool lifestyle. There are so many goodies for the VIPs at a casino which all of us standard gamblers will never experience. High rollers are really lucky for such a life. Sometimes it just looks good on the outside - the whole grass is greener on the otherside thing. I bet $3k on a Blackjack hand once to make up for a losing streak and Luxor didn't bother to even comp me for a room. It was at that moment I quit gambling in Vegas (at least Luxor) because they couldn't even be gracious hosts. One of the other people in my party is a high-roller and gets invited every weekend. He has messed up marriage. I'm happy to not be comped and have a nice family  |
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China has tiered government. The bottom strata are effectively communist - the country's wealth is spread to help the greatest number of people. Massive projects like 3 Gorges. If you happen to be an outlier too bad for you. The good of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
The middle strata are the ones who think they can do capitalism. I run into quite a few of these people's kids every day because they're driving Ferrari's and Lambos here in Southern California attending public school in the US because California bends over backwards for out of country money (specifically China).
The top layer are the CCP who are the billionaires and basically run the country in an oligarchy. They are allowed to keep their wealth as long as they don't step out of line. Stepping out of line results in an excommunication.
I was in Shanghai last year right before Covid was announced. The power substation my wife's grandfather built no longer bears his name and his plaque was taken down (he defected with Chiang Kai Shek). Individualism is not respected in that country.
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Venenzuela just went overboard with it's infrastructure spending - specifically its social programs. Those are a great way to boost a 3rd world country if there's a lot of positive cash flow but one big economic downturn and you've got a massive deficit. The country can't even rely on tourism like it used to - it's just all oil and that is not favorable in the NWO thinking (despite all those elites burning barrels a day). This shows just how wonderful life is there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n7mK3dYOLw |
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Ahh, good old Warren Buffet. A man that I was told to respect when I was a child. A man that I did respect until I found out what a lying 2 faced pony soldier he was. He campaigned against the oil pipeline saying it would spill oil when the reality was that his rail lines have more oil spills than the pipeline would likely incur. He also champions curbing green house emissions but has no problem flying everywhere in a private jet.
People only listen to him because he has money and can move the market.
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He has always been and will always continue to be a sleazeball. His name was associated with some of the worst AV software that was available until Intel bought them. His whole stunts of claiming he would eat his own phallus made crypto into a 3 ring circus. If that's the kind of publicity he brought to the table, then it's great that he'll be inside a cell enjoying somebody else's phallus.
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Make a mnemonic word seed and then store 1/2 or 1/3 of the 12 word or 24 word phrase in different locations. Most thieves wouldn't even bother with 4 or 6 random words. Those who obtain said words would need to know the location of other seed sites. If you spread them out online and in real world environments it would become a daunting task for most thieves. Storing them around the world also allows for redundancy in case one site burns down.
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Hi guys, hope you are doing well today.
Wanted to know, any chance to ask Claymore to update his drvfee address? As Dwarfpool is not working anymore his mining configuration may be affecting the mining process and dropping the hashrate more than it should. I don't know if that's just me, but in my case the hashrate drops significantly everytime the rig wants to connect to his Dwarfpool mining address as the pool is not working anymore. Anyone can let him know? please.
We asked him to fix this many times in the past. I also had issues with the Dwarfpool dev fee issues. I also had other issues where it fails to mine on the dev fee pool and eventually stops mining all together because the software thinks you are trying to cheat it. Very annoying because it causes the rigs to do a full hang and require a cold restart. Last time he was active in this thread was Nov 2019, he was usually very active in the past, even when he didn't make updates. Now I think he might be retired from developement. He made crazy gains since his miner was the only decent software during the 2017 market boom and probably saved up tons of ETH and just living on an island somewhere. I supposed something like that. So, we are using an out of date software that is not being maintained and is causing problems due to the developer lack of commitment. Is he even alive? I can't believe someone could just let the golden eggs chicken and just leave. Anyway, hope he fixes the problem. Thanks for letting me know... There are plenty of other capable miners that mining as well if not better than Claymore (at least on the pool reported hashes end). Just because a miner says it's giving a high rate doesn't neccessarily mean it is performing the best. A lot of lazy miners don't bother looking to make sure the pool side is reflecting what the terminal side says. If dual mining was still viable this miner would be decent but those days have for the most part passed. Hi, thanks for your response. In my case it is not about lazy it's about knowledge. I will search for new miners then. It is a shame Claymore has this problems, it is a very good software. Any chance you could point the name of some better software you are aware of? Thanks a lot. Sorry I didn't see your response earlier. Phoenixminer seems to be a good alternative for mining under Windows environment (at least for Dagger Hashimoto). TeamRedMiner is also well supported by many pools. There are other older miners but you can expect some issues with various pools and perhaps not the best performance on newer hardware using those older miners. To find them you simply need to scroll through pages here on the forums. Be careful if searching for miners on google. That's a good way to introduce virus/trojans onto your system/network. They prey on new users who don't pay attention to unsafe links they click on. |
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