He didn't regulate crypto with a "heavy hand" during his first term as President. Did he? At the time, the SEC chairman was Jay Clayton and under his leadership, the agency treated crypto lightly. There were no claims of "unregistered securities" nor prosecution of crypto exchanges. The current administration has done more harm than good to the entire crypto/Blockchain industry. Several companies/exchanges/firms left the US due to harsh regulations. Even the Tornado.Cash mixer was sanctioned by the US under Biden's leadership. Not to mention, the government went after Samourai wallet due to concerns of money laundering (especially when it made use of a non-custodial mixing technique).

Actions speak more than words. And Biden has shown Americans that he dislikes crypto. Voters know which candidate to choose during Election Day. Maybe Trump's promises will take him back to the White House? Only time will tell. Hopefully, crypto remains legal in America forever.  

I would put together an even better combination - Hunter, Trump, Bankman and Do Kwon in a prison cell. Considering that Trump has suddenly taken a liking to Bitcoin, he could learn a thing or two from Bankman&Do Kwon, and Hunter could supply them with drugs to pass the time while they enjoy their prison days

Well, $195 isn't cheap where it came from; China, plus it's second-hand.

Also, those Julongfengbao 2000W/2500W PSU are (were) being sold for something less than $40 brand new.
For that price-range, don't count on the label's ratings including the 80+ Platinum sticker.

The good news is: those are "well-tested" for years and from the looks of the sample images, haven't caused fire... yet.

I respect your opinion too but I simply don't understand why you advocate it when there are so many cons. It's simple, if Bitcoin transaction fees will remain high, people won't use it. The less people use Bitcoin, the less there will be a need of it as a payment method which leads to less adoption. Less activity will result in the death of Bitcoin as a payment method, at least. Less activity on Bitcoin will also promote alternative cryptocurrencies and I won't be surprised if any altcoin will take the first place on the market.
If block size won't increase, there will be no space for new customers who want to make Bitcoin transactions daily and there are billions of people on earth. 600K daily transactions that we see on Blockchain, is really nothing for such a big population. Block size limit is the limit of how many people will be able to use Bitcoin. If we want massive adoption in forms of payment and protection from DDOS, a new model is necessary. At the moment, a slight block size increase is necessary, we can't have 1 MB or 4 MB block size in 2024, the technology has advanced, RAM, CPU, GPU, SSD, everything is significantly more powerful than in 2009 and significantly affordable.

To be honest, I don't understand why should I use a 2nd layer solution. If anyone has to use 2nd layer (I don't mean LN exactly), it's ordinals and runes spammers. Normal users, who want to use Bitcoin as a p2p payment method, should be able to use Bitcoin as it is without 2nd and 3rd layers.

That's what I think, it became a too dirty deal. I even think that ordinals and runes creators work with big mining pools to artificially increase the transaction fee. The scheme should be this: Some people inscribe ordinals and runes, pay extremely high transaction fees (then get all the fees back from pools), increase the transaction fee for everyone, they scam people with dumb ape and other JPEGs and that's all. They make money from creating and selling tons of ordinals, miners make money from increased transaction fees. I have no other explanation because I have seen many posts when NFT creators where crying for increased ETH transaction fees and now they want to pay thousands of dollars on Bitcoin blockchain? Doesn't make sense.

just to confirm does it work on 140W mode?

is this the power adapter?
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-165w-usb-c-gan-ac-adapter/apd/450-bbwr/pc-accessories

Hrm. Okay, so you mean something that already has all that put together? Like this?
Mining case:

And this?
Server PSU:
[url=https://www.ebay.com/itm/404999328406?

 I'm literally looking for deals every single day on computer parts - it's part of my long term upgrade plan.
Saw this deal yesterday - still available

 https://us-store.msi.com/m240



 

The high was $71,949.

There is no need to use some other exchange or price measurement on purpose since you already know that "we" (not even royal) use Bitstamp in these here parts.


I'll believe it when I see it.... meaning the part about going to prison.  Yes, he deserves such a thing, especially for abusing the justice system so much with forgeries and even knowingly false testimony.. yet one can wonder why such a thing has been going on for so long.. 8 years or so.. depending upon which forgeries, and depending on if it was done in front of a court of law or merely in the non-court of law context.

Mempool is now a pump and dump scheme LOL

https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/difficulty-estimator

Latest Block:   847359  (4 minutes ago)

Current Pace:   104.8618%  (640 / 610.33 expected, 29.67 ahead)

Previous Difficulty:   84381461788831.34                            
Current Difficulty:   83716654861184.52                            
Next Difficulty:   between 85882592570356 and 87865271547709
Next Difficulty Change:   between +2.5872% and +4.9555%
Previous Retarget:   last Thursday at 4:58 AM  (-0.7879%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   June 19, 2024 at 1:24 PM  (in 9d 2h 42m 1s)
Next Retarget (latest):   June 19, 2024 at 8:39 PM  (in 9d 9h 57m 28s)
Projected Epoch Length:   between 13d 8h 25m 17s and 13d 15h 40m 44s

For the heat issues, do you mean that whatever the solution I come up with, with 7kW of power, the miner(s) will generate too much heat ? In the worst case, I could turn off the miner(s) 2 months a year (from 86.000°F to 95.000°F at most in the summer).

I'm looking to your build but the DB level is still the main issue. I'm really looking the most silent setup, even at the cost at some efficiency (but still enough to be the most profitable).

Thank you again !