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I am going to be attempting an experiment. I am going to be taking a laptop of 1994 vintage, and having set up Windows 95 and office 95, any college work that only requires research and not projects I am doing to attempt to do much of the research out of books (getting some from the internet if needed and manually typing in the reference) I am going to document this heavily and release it as a video on the study of yesteryear, accepting donations for the video when it is completed, it will be to show study before the internet became mainstream. A fun project! (office 95 and 97 files open just fine in modern versions of office, and turn it in also recognizes office 95 files)
Yes, i can transfer my work to my more modern machines with a USB floppy drive, windows 10 did recognize it would you believe!
System specs:
Processor: 486SX 66 MHz (with math co processor, for those who don't know it was used for floating point arethemetic, READ: Games such as quake or rendering of any kind, yes i am a 22 year old who understands what a math co processor is, my first laptop when young was given to me lacked this and i could not play quake and asked my uncle to obtain one, which he did) The 486DX included the math co processor, floating point math is predominantly done by GPUs these days but the CPU still needs the ability to do it with most apps!
RAM: 8MB
HDD: 320MB
VGA: 256 Colour STN display - 512k of video memory
OS: Windows 95
Drives: floppy drive
Ports: Serial, Parallel, PCMCIA, PS/2 (no USB ports)
Fun fun fun.. The 386/486 processor instructions are still widely used today in applications like steam, x86, 32 bit. x64 is slowly replacing it but is still nowhere near there.
Obviously, i will have to do some editing of work on modern machines to insert images or for other project work such as web design and project management which requires a more modern machine, otherwise i wouldn't get it done! As i am doing written work on this thing as part of the experiment, same religious backup routine to my modern machines daily applies! You might see me with books in class when studying from them for this reason, as i am trying to replicate the lack of internet access for most students in the early 90s, only for those assignments where it can be done
This might be an interesting video to promote.
I will ask a small tip to view it but will release a trailer, this is to show in the modern world an attempt to study from the early 90s using early 90s computing hardware. I will document the installing of windows 95 even on floppy disks. To install office 97 i am going to borrow a PCMCIA CD drive unless someone has any version of office on floppy disks they would like to sell me for this purpose!
The laptop I will use is a canon BC 120 laptop with a built in printer. It is a vintage one. I am partially doing this to break my online forum addiction and partially to get back into my other hobbies a bit more! I may break out the dial up modem card and set up a dial up server on my home PC so i can use it for free from UK landlines with the bundle as I have two landlines installed at my house routing through my broadband.
This will be an interesting project...
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What size are they? as in physical size? 2.5 or 3.5? I may consider cracking one open as i need to put another in a laptop
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Event Horizon was good, I also enjoyed mirrors.
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I am unsure, but you should always save the 2FA key on paper as I do so you can resetup the accounts on a new phone without the hassle. Good lad for using 2FA, always do it.
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I admitted this to my partner, but reading forums has become somewhat of an addiction. To the point where i get agitated if i cant check it... It has distracted me from college work and my other hobbies. This is not to say I am quitting, but to evaluate your own hobby and how much time you put in.
I am lucky and use due diligence not to become addicted into things such as gambling, drinking or anything else (i do not drink whatsoever even), we have a family history of gambling, and avoiding this I have done well and actually can gamble for fun responsibly now and then, even after a big win on roulette from £10, i never rebet it, nor did i rebet a £100 loss a year ago as i treat what i put in there as fun... But addiction to online forums partially fuelled by the cold temperatures outside partially due to the need for instant gratification (works on the dopamine system).
For me, my addiction is 'information' specifically, new information on whatever subject i like.
I hold BTC and LTC, but i feel that I spend way too much time on bitcointalk. I am going to reduce my logins to 1 or 2 a day just to check PMs and update people on any services I am offering, etc etc and using the time to improve my business services and other hobbies as i do offer Bitcoin services and have clients. I am quite spiritual and this is why i think I have realized it became an addiction, as i spent less time meditating and doing spiritual work than I did on the forum, and its also affected my college work, luckily we are nowhere near deadlines.
This is not me leaving or any attention seeking of any kind, just that I have acknowledged the forum has become an addiction as acknowledging an addiction is the best step to overcoming it. My boyfriend who is pagan like me is supportive and I am glad about that, it has somewhat made me quite withdrawn over the winter, but onwards and upwards as they say.
If any of you think you spend too much time, then this may be a wake up call to you too to see if you can improve your situation somewhat. I will still run competitions and work on my Bitcoin services, but will spend less time on actual forums. There is more to life than Bitcoin, and the cyber world!
Love and light to you all!
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No plans for an exchange I am afraid! It was intended to be a bullshit coin, so trading must be done between people, rather than an exchange. No quick pump/dump profit here although someone who mined 1k coins with his GPU has 1/420 of the total supply.
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ATTENTION! That's right the developer did a runner for a while. Just like many crapcoins. I see the chain is kinda alive, at least i got a peer when i loaded my wallet up. As the seed node ran out with walletbuilder i will point the seed node domain to this coin. There will be no source or exchange, after all, it is a bullshit coin!
I hold only 33 BST as the 'dev'. Fairly launched but i as the developer offer no further software support other than a seed node, and a giggle in the forums! As most crapcoin devs can do nothing more than the initial code fork, most can't even code! (I am better at hardware than software myself, can fix loads of broken SMD components on a laptop, but like fuck can i code well!
If you guys wish to trade the coin, feel free to do it personally, that was the whole idea! I won't try and polish a turd by making the coin any better! A bull turd is still a turd, just an awesome one.
Sorry for all the bullshit guys.
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My opinion is Litecoin. Why? Litecoin has development, solid stable and secure chain, etc. No, I am not a litecoin bagholder nor am i attempting to pump the coin here. I was accused of that last year when i held no litecoins. I do feel sorry for the people who invested at it's peak, no one expected that nor had they planned on that...
Diff is ever rising, though!
My crypto portfolio includes:
BTC, ETH, ETC, LTC, DASH, Monero, UNO, etc.
However a few investment rules.
1. Do not take investment advice on Bitcointalk. Even my advice is just my opinion based on my research.
2. Use your own due diligance ffs and if it seems too good to be true, it probably is!
3. Do not follow the herd off the cliff.
4. Have fun
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MPOS preferred, bounty was £100 GBP, in BTC, LTC, DOGE, or any other currency of your choice. Jacob  |
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I am offering my service to host altcoin nodes on my servers. This would be an ideal service for seed nodes (updating seed node IP addresses), etc. I am doing this at a low cost, of 0.1 BTC / year / coin (0.2 BTC/year if blockchain size is greater than 2GB, 0.4 BTC a year if the blockchain is greater than 20GB). (Payable in BTC, LTC, DOGE, ETH, ETC, UNO, ZCash, DASH).
If you have a coin you wish to see live or if you wish to have your own altcoin seed node hosted, then drop me a message and we can work something out. I am willing to set up the node, let it sync and you can verify it works before payment is sent to me. The year contract starts from the day payment is received and confirmed.
There are a few coins which will be excluded from this service. This includes:
Coins with a premine greater than 1%.
Coins that have been verified to be scams.
Coins where the developers are making obvious attempts to pump their coin with no innovation what so ever.
An example of a coin i will accept: HODLCoin, good innovation weather or not I agree with the current development path of locking up new blocks.
An example of a coin i would reject: Bytecoin, insane premine, BULLS, insane premine.
Joke coins are accepted, and welcomed, such as SHT, URO, etc.
Weather or not I agree with decisions on the coins development will not affect my node hosting service or willingness to host a node, for example i will eagerly host a HODLCoin node if the developers or users would like, even though i disagreed with the hard fork. Provided there are no outright attempts to scam people, i will not have a problem. If your coin (as a developer) is later found to be a scam coin, for example where the developers did a runner after manipulating the market, etc then the coin will be delisted, and no refund will be given, although i will put it to the vote on multiple forums after finding a coin to be a potential scam, in interest of fairness. If the coin node hosting was paid by a user rather than a developer, in fairness to the user who supported the coin the coin node will remain active for the duration of their contract, as the coins users would not be at fault.
The above is because I am against premined shitcoins!
If anyone is interested, drop me a line! If the chain is not moving, I am happy to do 'setgenerate true' on the node to mine and move the chain along. The servers are on 1Gbps connections, and each coin node will be allocated 100 - 300mbps each. In the event of a 'hard fork' of the coin, i will upgrade the software at no extra fee provided i am given notice personally, because i will not keep track of bitcointalk posts and announcement on all the coins!
If they are seed nodes, no need to add them to your config. If you are a mining pool or solo miner for a coin you would benefit from adding supernode relays or seed nodes into your coinconf.conf file, using addnode=hostname/ip, to allow faster block propagation and to reduce orphans.
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Currently Hosted Nodes:
Coin Name - Hostname/IP - Node Type - Renewal Date - Address Type - Address
HODLCoin - europe.hodlcoin.com - Seed Node - Renewal Date 25/01/2018 - HODL: HSjd8vCJbUMS9WNTsEVAiBEgYNkd9czwXC
UNO - uno.node-hosting.online - Multi - Renewal Date 27/01/2018 - BTC: 3HTGfJGJiaKYWRtVLH67EGHWBa9EGrPLph
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We also accept donations at our donation \ hot wallet address: 1NodeHoGC5u7Fh3XYU1ThJj7aL1pHh42wm
If you wish to validate identity of me on this forum at any point, ensure I sign an message from the donation \ hot wallet address.
Each coin will be assigned a unique address for it's payment, this address will remain unchanged and can be used for future renewals. As transactions are public on the blockchain they will be listed next to the currently hosted nodes. Front end website coming soon.
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it happened to me, if you put a refund address they will simply return it automatically if not then contact them with TX IDs etc and they will return it for you, they did with me
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What if it showed 1k USD less than the balance? A bug like that is still a bug and should be fixed. We all know they reused R values exposing private keys in the past which took long enough to fix. I wont use an online wallet anyway, i prefer my ledger.
So i wouldnt just dismiss him, what if it is to do with larger sums of money as if it can happen with a small sum it can certainly happen with a larger sum.
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I have been trying to set up a pool for a couple of days but I am struggling for time, I am willing to pay someone a bounty to set up a Litecoin pool on my server, will give SSH access and will pay upon completion, happy to use psychoticboy as escrow, will pay upon completion. The pool would be set up with a 1% fee to a reward address i specify with the latest Litecoin daemon (signalling segwit) support compiled. I am able to manage the pool once set up and we plan to host promotions.
Thank you!
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sounds like he double spent the coins...
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did he double-spend the TX? sounds to me like he did. Where he sent it, actually sent it but then double spent the same coins with a higher fee elsewhere so yours wouldn't confirm then get dropped from mempool. Always wait for at least 1 confirmation before sending any goods. I sold a titan to someone in person and we had a chat while pending confirmation.
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ebay buyers will often pay much more than what they are worth, but hey if he sold it for that price good on him XD i wouldn't pay that in a million years, hell no but he offered an item at such a price and its up to the buyer if they are happy with that said price, a simple google search would bring you to bitmain in anycase. These prices is nowhere near as crazy as someone shitting on other peoples miners and trying to sell a KNC titan (half of one) for £1600 and then refusing to budge, plus nearly £700 for a controller alone. Then BSing that he sold it!
I do find when you sell miners people on ebay will pay an insane premium half the time. I did sell my titan at what I thought was a fair price to a buyer recently although the difficulty has begun to jump much faster than I expected, but my buyer has free power so he should profit regardless.
Ebay prices are crazy for miners, the seller does also have to take into account the 10% ebay FVF fee.
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I would probably buy it at 80 : )
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Looks like haoBTC confirmed both transactions as i had another stuck transaction from my client as well, all is good! Thanks guys!
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Still unconfirmed, is it likely this transaction will be confirmed at that fee or is it likely to be flushed from mempool at some point?
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