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21  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: Whole GPU Mining Rigs // Individual Hardware // Turn-key Hosting on: September 10, 2018, 03:16:55 PM
Yes, very helpful staff and will be doing business with them soon.

Thank you. We are looking forward to it HardwareCollector!
22  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: PhoenixMiner 3.0c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Windows) on: September 10, 2018, 02:53:00 PM
PhoenixMiner 3.5b works stable for my only 2x Sapphire RX580 Nitro+ rig but I don't see any change on my GPUs power draw when using new green kernels.
I get same hashrate (30.3MH) with same GPU only power draw in GPU-Z sensors tab (90W for every card) when using new kernels.


Never use GPU-Z for power measurements, hardware watt meter is the only sure way. Everything else is just software estimate
that is often pretty wrong

Theyre not expensive, either:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/AC-power-meter-220v-digital-wattmeter-energy-monitor-electricity-consumption-KI/153101520651?hash=item23a58fcf0b:m:mAjCDfztrd1tW9iDnDvS1xw


We have found even some plug-in watt meters are not accurate and can easily become uncalibrated.

Depending on your voltage you can find a cheap metered PDU that will tell you your amperage draw for under $150.
23  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: Whole GPU Mining Rigs // Individual Hardware // Turn-key Hosting on: September 06, 2018, 02:45:25 PM
I ordered one of the power supplies and did a review, you can find the link here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5005497.0

Thank you for the awesome detailed review kingcolex!  Grin
24  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do you think blockchain can benefit healthcare? on: September 02, 2018, 11:58:09 PM
The most significant benefit the blockchain could offer healthcare is security. Under blockchain, even a doctor would require multiple authorized “signatures” or permissions from other parts of a network to access patient records. So the patient's healthcare records are protected from  and the patients would be rest at mind.

Nice, this was more along the lines of what I was thinking as well. I do not think some people realize the danger of leaked patient medical information!
25  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do you think blockchain can benefit healthcare? on: August 28, 2018, 03:27:03 PM
Great replies, the use for blockchain in the healthcare industry is definitely there.

What are some ICO's or startups that are working with the healthcare industry and blockchain?
26  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: Whole GPU Mining Rigs // Individual Hardware // Turn-key Hosting on: August 28, 2018, 03:23:48 PM
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27  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bill Cosby buys 750 BTC on: August 27, 2018, 07:23:31 PM
It is always wise to diversify your assets and the cryptocurrency are bringing another great investment opportunity, maybe even the best one so far as it is not seizable.
Not seizable? Ask Ross ulbricht about that, he had 144,000 Bitcoin seized alone.

Grin I was just going to say lol!

Anything with value can be seized IMO.
28  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What will happen with Bitcoin if it never scales? on: August 27, 2018, 05:12:44 PM
Altcoin is a development of Bitcoin based on Blockchain technology. I think we should not stop there, someone will make Bitcoin change and establish its position with the world. The development of technology will not stop, I still hope Bitcoin will go further in the future.

This is also my take on it. Bitcoin was the seed, now it is growing and the roots are taking hold. The stock is growing and the branches are developing, these branches are altcoins. What will be the leaves? What will be the blossomed flower?
29  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bill Cosby buys 750 BTC on: August 27, 2018, 05:10:50 PM
I think this is a great use-case of using cryptocurrency to secure and multiply your money. Very interesting when celebrities dabble in large amounts of crypto.
This is not the case here. Bill is trying to hide his money from the justice, his wife and probably the other girls eyes. Bill can even switch his fortune to Bitcoin and move to Russia if he wants then convert it to Rubble. Smart Bill, be like Bill..

Ah I see. Well in that case, I see this sparking further regulation.
30  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bill Cosby buys 750 BTC on: August 27, 2018, 04:55:27 PM
I think this is a great use-case of using cryptocurrency to secure and multiply your money. Very interesting when celebrities dabble in large amounts of crypto.

This is a clear indicator that many people out there of course still believe that there is a big future for cryptocurrency, or in this case more specifically Bitcoin.
31  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do you think blockchain can benefit healthcare? on: August 27, 2018, 03:57:22 PM
the issue about blockchain is that some believe EVERYONE has to by law verify data.
at the moment there are only 10k nodes verifying bitcoin. yet millions of users.

so lets go with the concept of not needing millions of verifiers, but just a number of strategically separate verifiers
now lets take healthcare

who actually NEEDS to vrify the data. vs who needs to just be able to viw their own records

imagine a blockchain which has a multisig requiring 3 signatures per record.
a general practioner. a specialist and a labtech. this way a record wont get locked into a mempool without it being seen by validators.
then when forming a block of test results. each ward/department of a hospital then validates the block to insure each test result conforms to certain rules.

it does not actually require every hospital around the world to receive, verify and store every record of every hospital. all it needs is just enough equally distant participants to be involved to ensure no single point of failure

for instance most patients records of a town in america dont need to travel to japan or china. so records just need to be verifid by a lab technician departmnt, a specialist department and a GP. (thats 3 separate buildings) then because of locality. it can have 5 randomly chosen hospitals that are picked within state or county to double check. and have a few out of state, again for emphasis doesnt ned all world hospitals holding the same data

again dont think about it needing to have millions of verifiers for every piece of data uniformically.
there could be a state ledger of xxxthousand patients and another state ledger of anothr xxx thousand patents.

as for any concern still about data storage risks. each departnmt does not actually need to hold the entire blockchain. imagine it like each node only producing a UTXO database of transactions that node(department) is involved in.

..
think about it. in the US there are 320mill population and 5500 hospitals.. thats only <60k patients per hospital(chain)

people do not get tests every 10 minutes. so say they have on average 2 tests a year. thats only 120k record updates needed every year on average

now if the main hospital chain is just full of TXID's thats only a blockchain growth of 3.84mb a year.
meaning a hospital could easily store that blockchain. along with 5500 other blockchains of TXID's without having to stor all patint records.

and each department having just 120k records a year (lets say 500bytes per record) 60mb a year growth. can easily store its own patient data for easy access but also data or nearby hospital departmnts or randomly selected hospital departmnts to keep things distributed to avoid the single point of failure problem.

as i said. 60mb growth per hospital a year..
bitcoin grows at ~200mb a DAY. which is 73gb a year
so a department could store upto 1000 other department ledgers and not be any issues of 'scale' that bitcoin has been fudded about
By far the most in-depth response yet! Thanks for the contribution franky.

To extend on your thoughts, would there be a better use-case for a different blockchain rather than Bitcoin's?
32  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do you think blockchain can benefit healthcare? on: August 26, 2018, 08:41:13 PM
A great use case that I can think of right of the bat, is protection of patient data, making it immutable once stored.

i guess the real important question is, what is wrong with current way of storing and protecting patient data? we have been using it for years and there is no problems with it which means there is no need for any change. it is basically a the database, and we don't need to change this database from its current form to a new database form called blockchain.

Obviously, we're now in a blockchain craze that everything in our environment needed to be use the blockchain claiming it will be economical and sustainable in the long run which is not at the first place.

Not just because this is what the technology dictates it shouldn't be necessary to do so considering this is a health issues that everyone thinks needed a privacy.
I think it boils down to the protection of consumer data. For example, 1.5 million health records were stolen in Singapore:

https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2018/07/20/15-million-health-records-stolen-in-unprecedented-cyberattack-in-singapore
33  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do you think blockchain can benefit healthcare? on: August 24, 2018, 11:00:20 PM
To answer your first question, I have no seen any current examples of blockchain application in healthcare. This article nails some stuff that is helps with, I just got some good stuff from it:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/deloitte-3-ways-blockchain-might-improve-hospital-operations-by-2027.html
Yes like I said there are articles and fancy media coverage but the industry isn't just ready yet.

Replying to your second quote, patient data can be immutable and still be updated. Redundancy is always a great thing, and so is record keeping, and that is what this would involve. If the patients data needs to be updated, the new data will be stored, thus still having the old record accessible and unchanged.
That makes sense! But again the authority who is allowed to change the data must be verifiable publicly otherwise false data could also be updated.It isn't easy as it sounds to be honest.
Very true, not much is easy when talking about the healthcare industry...

But as blockchain adoption grows, many of these industries will benefit even in a minor way.
34  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do you think blockchain can benefit healthcare? on: August 24, 2018, 10:22:49 PM
So with blockchain technology growing and adoption coming quickly, we are obviously going to see large industries like healthcare, banking, and law enforcement begin to utilize the strengths of blockchain.
Can you quote any real-life examples of the same? There are a lot of news and media coverage but have you ever come across a real-life hospital putting any of their processes on blockchain yet?

Curious your thoughts on how blockchain could benefit the healthcare industry and why.
A great use case that I can think of right of the bat, is protection of patient data, making it immutable once stored.
Patient data should be mutable man! What if the patient suffered a condition in the past that he doesn't suffer anymore? The data should be updated. Yes, we don't have to replace the previous record but definitely, need to update it.
To answer your first question, I have no seen any current examples of blockchain application in healthcare. This article nails some stuff that is helps with, I just got some good stuff from it:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/deloitte-3-ways-blockchain-might-improve-hospital-operations-by-2027.html

Replying to your second quote, patient data can be immutable and still be updated. Redundancy is always a great thing, and so is record keeping, and that is what this would involve. If the patients data needs to be updated, the new data will be stored, thus still having the old record accessible and unchanged.
35  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Reading Whitepapers on: August 24, 2018, 09:46:38 PM
They are really true sources of information but when I make a plagiarism check I observe strong prevalence amongst each other. It might be funny but using plag. checker can give you a shallow however decent idea about the project's foundation.
What plagiarism checker tool do you use? Sounds like a useful tool.
36  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: EOS on: August 24, 2018, 09:44:58 PM
Well the main point of EOS is faster and cheaper transactions with a developer and token ecosystem like that of ETH. It is a indeed a competitor to ETH, until ETH can scale to at least hundreds of transactions per second. But the main selling point of EOS is actually not the tech or community or idea, but the guy behind it. People have actually bet on Dan Larimer who has in past launched successful projects like Bitshares and Steem.

So overall, I think EOS is worth investing in. It was the biggest ICO till date and if you look just investment wise, then I think currently the entry point is good. As for how usable EOS is, then we'll have to wait for a while.
Quality reply. Dan Larimer has definitely struck success already with Bitshares and Steemit.

Here is his Steemit introduction from a couple years back:
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@dantheman/daniel-larimer--co-founder-of-bitshares-steemit
37  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: California may allow campaigners to accept digital currency donations on: August 24, 2018, 09:29:06 PM
I just found this on FEC.gov:

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/bitcoin-contributions/
38  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Reading Whitepapers on: August 24, 2018, 09:27:32 PM
I've read just a few dozens of WPs since I'm in crypto, just briefly checked other. There are not a lot of good WPs, actually
I totally agree. A lot of crypto-projects out there use cookie-cutter whitepapers.

Always very entertaining to see a project provide a very technical, informative, but easy to read whitepaper.
39  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: California may allow campaigners to accept digital currency donations on: August 24, 2018, 09:25:12 PM
It is definitely something that needs to be allowed for campaigners.

Money is money, value is value, am I right?  Cheesy

Austin Petersen, a US Senate candidate was forced to return a $130,000 Bitcoin donation he received during his campaign due to federal regulations for campaign contributions.

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Notably, this wasn’t the first time that Petersen has been forced to return a large bitcoin donation. He told CCN that his campaign has twice been forced to refuse donations of approximately $250,000 for exceeding the FEC limit on individual campaign contributions.
Source: https://www.ccn.com/crypto-loving-us-senate-candidate-forced-to-return-130000-bitcoin-donation/
40  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / How do you think blockchain can benefit healthcare? on: August 24, 2018, 09:14:21 PM
So with blockchain technology growing and adoption coming quickly, we are obviously going to see large industries like healthcare, banking, and law enforcement begin to utilize the strengths of blockchain.

Curious your thoughts on how blockchain could benefit the healthcare industry and why.

A great use case that I can think of right of the bat, is protection of patient data, making it immutable once stored.
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