I think Hillary Clinton tried that.  

I had the same thing happen with my 13.0 TH earlier this year.  It took about 2 days before all the kinks were worked out of it, login issues and faults. Glad it's up!

Always nice! 

Have you seen this article on BIP148 signalling starting August 1?   
https://news.btc.com/m/4510?id=4510&v=2&fromapp=0

Makes me think about mining LiteCoin.

Truth.

Ah, yes.  I missed that BIP101 comment and did not understand your reference to aliens at the time.  It did make me picture a first encounter w/ ET as a financial one. Now it makes sense  

It's so complicated.  I think the idea of a linear and gradual block growth with each block may better address concerns over fast movement with a stepped change.  Then again ... I don't really know much - except about bicycle transportation planning

Bitcoin is a $15 Billion ... industry.  Maybe it'd be a better idea to experiment some with the silver highway called Litecoin.  That seems like a nice proving ground. I hear they are voting on SegWit. That's only a $200 Million industry with ASICs and is trading at like $4.  I just transferred some BTC to LTC for my first time, ever.  Nervous time for all.  

DASH seems to have good governance policies. It's sustaining, in theory, but with the profits spread I think it will lead to a miner cap and an overabundance of full nodes.  A lot of insecure full nodes is where I see vulnerabilities, but that's how bitcoin started.  I'll keep watching it and may buy some if the price comes down because I like their mission and focus on the end user.

Lots of blocks!  Always a good thing, especially with the price of bitcoin  

I think it's becoming clear it's not an ETF rejection, but the   fork   discussions.  I've been thinking on this post:


I agree. Is it possible to signal BIP101? It's an interesting proposal by Gavin Andresen: "I really don't care what the rule is. I just like predictable rules.  I like knowing what the block size is going to be like on Feb 15, 2022."

Where he received the project directly from Satoshi (or is Satoshi, right), perhaps it's worth a look?

Happy mining!

EDIT: He encourages not mining blocks with the current version.

Sweet!  I may give that a shot because I am thinking about cashing in my 401k and moving to the tropics - where mining isn't an option because of inconsistant electricity, at best.

Cool.  I've been looking at the datacenter option, but I only have two miners. My local co-location center wants $800 per month for a 1/2 rack, plus 9c kw/h.  I would need to have more miners.  I've looked at the firm out of Seattle, but am not sure about sending my expensive computers to a datacenter in another state.

Interesting approach for the medium and long term.

Valid point.  They are expressing their right to say how they feel: "BU".  I still think they are a great company! I just do not want to see a fork. It  would simply be full of problems.


Right now. It is only signaling.  "Sources" say that they are moving the public 51% threat to a more realistic signaling of 75% for BU over a sustained period. Once a change was decided, there would be two weeks before the change actually took place. 

I think BU is the better solution for scaling (which I think BTC should do) and keeping transactions on chain.  We just don't need to see a fork.


I am considering ETH (not ETC, speaking of forks).

It basically means that you can turn the "21 Billion Bitcoins EVER" to 42 Billion.  If that happens, then there goes the gold comparison and everyone will question the entire value.  It's not that it would be value-less, but the value could take years to recover with transactions showing on both chains.  


That's obvious, but do you think some of the larger Chinese corporations would try to deflate the price (and entire BTC economy) for perceived competitive advantage in the long?  Why would anybody want to move away ...?



That's my plan. I'd like to start mining some AltCoins now but don't know much about any but ETH.



Good info.  I agree.  There will be a lot of pressure on pools and miners supporting those pools to either switch or 'cause' the fork.  I just want Bitcoin to keep working.  Transactions backlog every-so-often, but I don't think it's time for changes.  

I own a couple S9s.  I am super happy with them.  However, BTC I DO NOT WANT TO SEE A FORK!!!! BTC Antpool's unannounced adoption of BU may force a hard fork, effectively creating two block chains with the "real" bitcoin.  If that happens then BTC will likely head into a downward trend.  BITMAIN, a company which I support and mined at until the BU adoption, likely sees gains in the long-term and puts them at a competitive advantage if the price drops because of lower priced electricity.  

If you can split Bitcoin, then what value does it have?  There is only 21 million Bitcoin.  If we hard fork, there becomes 42 million.  What prevents another split in the future?  The fact that BTC will not be duplicated is where it has value.  If it can - and would likely - show up on two separate chains (1MB and 8MB), then nobody will want it until all of the double transactions are worked into the BTC or XBC.

I, personally, like a larger block size but not unless we get the SegWit people to adopt it as well. There must be consensus in any changes for bitcoin to remain bitcoin.  There is not consensus.

Where do you run yours?

My understanding is 8MB.


I can see that.  I guess it seems like something needs to be done about scaling.  Bitcoin is not scale-able with current tx/sec capabilities.  I don't know much, but when I'm getting lunch at a food cart I do not want to wait for confirmation before they start making my veggie burrito sin queso.

My layman mind looks at SegWit as leaving the blockchain, moving away from decentralization, and the status-quo can lead to high fees.  Unconfirmed txns are down now, but were up to 70,000 at one point.

EDIT: I am concerned about the possibility of a fork in BTc.

The Bose noise canceling headphones work amazingly well ...

So what about a switch to BU?  Wouldn't increasing the blocksize allow more transactions and, thus, more fees? 

That looks cool, but I bet you are right as there are many different types of fluids and you need to contact them for pricing.  It seems like you would take the cards out of the S9s because you would not want the fans and the case would not be needed, expect for the control board.  

Edit: I wonder if one could simply take off the fans and submerge only the ASIC portion, leaving the top of the case exposed  


Yeah.  I've seen that.  It's not for me at this point.  I'm thinking I may build a sound proof room with a dedicated main ... after getting a few more.

Hey all,

The acoustic foam works okay.  I've been looking at generator boxes, but they are a bit of money and I am not sure how they will work.  I have shaped the acoustic foam into a "Z" shape for air flow from below and exhaust up. 

The thing the works the best is Bose Quiet Comfort 35.  I can turn on Netflix and not hear a thing! 

If I go larger, I will need to look at colocating or building an actual soundproof room in the unfinished basement - though that will lead to ventilation needs.  ¡Ya veremos!

Any ideas to quiet bitcoin machine noise?

Yup.  I just so happen to have started a thread on the exact topic.

Thanks for adding some tips.  Please, let us know how they work out.  My understanding is that they run hotter and do not have the same efficiencies as other PSUs, which is odd because servers are extremely common.

I ended up going with an EVGA 1600W T2 for each of my miners.  They are plugged into their own 120v circuit and have been running great for a while.  I found another outlet that was on a solo circuit.  I guess that's the nice thing about unfinished basements.  As for the noise ...  I ended up getting acoustic foam, which helped, and high end noise-canceling headphones to provide a complete escape.  Diggin' the 13 and 13.5 - along with the high BTC prices.