So why, having access to email, they used the writing of messages on the forum and not the theft of money or wallets?
Regarding the appeal, it doesn’t bother me anymore, I’ll just create a new account. I received a ban on the main account (Aleczar) for “just like that” and I can’t get an appeal to the ban for the past year. It is easier for you to click the "ban" button than to sort out the problem or at least explain the reason for the ban. I understand the policy of your forum, or pay or you will be banned for the slightest offense.

Thanks for the advice, I will change all passwords and wallets.

Most of the time mining is a loser's game.

There is one occasion where its better than just buying hodling and that's if you have free and electricity and bought your miners nearly for free. Even then either you'll eventually run out of miners because they'll get broken or the network difficulty will be so high you won't be making any money.

If you are after money, don't mine, Buy & Hodl.

If you want to help with the security of the network, buy a few but don't really expect any big returns.

I don't think that MicroBT is interested in the niche home mining market.

I have an 8 port switch due in next week that should be able to handle the ring loops, was only $30 on amazon.

My hope is that canaan will be able to get a firmware version to prevent the loop soon and not need to purchase any additional smart switches for the future.

Impressive but again, if he sold them at a discount, he sold them so because he knew they were illegally obtained and he had to dump them.


Yeah, as always there is a simple answer I never thought of it.
Demand and offer, if the market is flooded with large discounted items you have no chance of selling them if you don't apply the same discount, even if you deal with legit items and the others with fake ones.
Reminds me how my parents had to drop 5% of the meat price just because the shops were also selling some cheap meat injected with saltwater at some ridiculous prices.

One thing I'm curious about.
Does Amazon have any limits on how many gift cards or their value that you can use for purchases in a year on in some time frame?

Can an alternative PSU be used for the M3?
I've read different posts about the mysterious 3-pin 'Power control cable'. Is this cable necessary for the miner to work properly?

Both of these posts were deleted. When I pulled up his profile I saw this feedback left by The Pharmacist over a year ago:


Funny how that didn't seem to slow him down one bit.


If shitposting was a competition, he's definitely going for the gold. He just seems to put together the same words together in different orders, occasionally somehow misspelling a word. Its like a human imitating a bot.

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Shitcoons, bud.

Decimal Places.

How many is enough ? Is it ever enough ? (have mentioned this before - can't find the post)

Currently BTC has 8. Clearly not enough. Soon-ish 1 sat will be 1 cent.  Need to be able to chop it up less than that for micro-transactions.   

One solution, add 8 more at the next fork - but I think this is Hard-Fork territory (unless you limit the processing of these higher precision amounts to ONLY segwit) ?

But that may not last forever.. then what - another fork ?

Is there a solution we can fork that works today and always ? A scalable solution to decimal precision ?

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Current transaction validity  :
 
1) Make sure the sum of the inputs is greater than or equal to the sum of the outputs.

2) Check Input Script validity.

3) etc..


Make 2 changes.

1) Represent all numbers in their significant digit format to 16 significant digits. NOT as single satoshis, as a floating point number.

2) Make sure all inputs and outputs in any single transaction are in the same overlapping 16 significant digit range.

What does this mean ?

This means you can have a transaction that has milli-satoshis as long as the largest number in the transaction is less than 999 BTC.
You can have billi-satoshis as long as the largest number in the transaction is less than 99 BTC.

But you can go much lower.. you could be using 10^-50 units as long as all the inputs and outputs were in the same sliding scale of magnitude. All the maths is ALWAYS computed to 16 significant digits, it's just the exponent that changes.

Now there is no limit to how many decimal places you can use, BUT you can't mix a million BTC and 1x10^-50 BTC.. You would need to use multiple transactions to group together similar size outputs, until they were large enough to be mixed with larger values, or vice versa when trying to spend smaller amounts.

Issues :

1) Fees  : may have to be handled separately, like CT. The very small BTC units may represent a coloured coin or token, so although individual values may be small the overall value of the transaction may be large.

2) Fungibility : You now cannot mix outputs with values more than 10¹⁶ apart. You can't add a quadrillionth of a satoshi and 1 million BTC  in the same transaction. Can in 2 transactions. Does this matter ?
 

On 10-March-2019 I started this thread  Zero To Hero in under 4 months

Yesterday 16-July-2019 I earned another 500 merit with total of 1000 merit in less than 10 months of being active on the forum.


Other members have probably done this way faster than I did, This should clear any doubts you have about being able to gain enough merit to rank up, despite the noise, the complains and the number of people who can't even rank up to Member rank - you should know that it's pretty doable.



1- Always participate in constructive discussions:


-Pick the topics you are interested in,  most importantly the subjects you understand because you can't possibly add into a topic you don't understand.

-Don't throw a comment and then disappear, go on with the discussion, using piggy's bot will help you with mention notifications in order for you to have healthy discussions.

-Read the comments, don't simply comment on the original post because in most cases you might not be adding any value to the discussion.

by doing the above, you will most importantly get to learn new stuff, plus you will be "recognized" and that does help a lot because let's face it, unconscious mind does exist, when other members realize that you usually post quality posts , your name will somehow appear in bold and be easily recognized, for obvious reasons the exact opposite is true, post a dozen useless shit and you will most likely be ignored in the future even if you start to post quality posts - it will be way too hard for you to gain merit.


2- Answer questions/Solve problems:


The most constructive posts in my opinion are those that answer questions/solve problems, many people ask different types of questions on different boards, provide answers and you will more than likely earn a good amount of merit by doing so.

You don't always have to know the answer, you might have better "Googling"' skills than the person who asks the question, get them the answer ( don't forget the reference)


3- Spend your Smerit:

Some people "including myself" don't seem to be wanting to send merit to those who don't participate in the merit system by meriting other members, simply because we all have limited number of Smerit and most of us would like to seem them "circulate" rather than sit in your account doing nothing, you don't necessarily have to merit the members who merit you, i personally usually try to merit lower ranks to help them rank up.


4- Be friendly to others (Don't be an Asshole)


While this is not a social club and many members publicly state that they don't really care about WHO posts what, and that they will still merit members they don't like if they post something worthy of merit, that's great and all, but I am willing to bet my horse that many members don't really do that, I mean come to think about it, if someone who thinks that you are complete jerk has 10 sMerit, what are the chances of you getting any of them when there are other people he likes that have the same post quality ?

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Notice that , depending on what boards you are active in , your chances of earning merit can vary , merit sources are more active on some sections than others, but that's okay, don't force your self to post in places you don't like/understand because either ways , you will not earn merit and you will damage your post quality.