Hmm so this is your actual thread...

First, i really doubt the people you intend to threat with legal action are even going to read this. They probably speak Chinese anyway.

Second, your laws are not my laws. US laws are not World laws. South of Florida you have this country that happens to be the largest island in the Caribbean, they have violated US laws for more than half a century and continue to do so. I suppose you are like the owner of the expropriated American companies waiting for your American troops to act "any moment now" to recover their assets (60 years later).

Third you are getting nowhere venting your frustration here. Are you even aware of the many automated trades that are going on? You might be yelling at a computer for doing something it was programmed to do by somebody else.

So if the exchange can be used by an US citizen, they would be liable. Well i guess, that is why some exchanges discriminate US users, either forcing them to use a sister exchange, block US citizens entirely, or show them different content, in-spite of originating from the same source. Its like you are begging for them to censor some of the book transactions, so that you cannot see them and not get angry.

Are you aware that if you are scammed by, say, a Russian, there is very little you can do about it? Even if your government blocked access to those exchanges, some Americans would still find ways to evade the restrictions and use them, full knowing the risks.

The crypto space is largely unregulated worldwide, SEC can't do nothing but file your complain, hoping that, maybe someday they could somehow use it for reparation if other countries agree on common legislation. But as you should know, there are always "fiscal paradise" countries that do that precisely to attract investors and they tend to have more permissive laws, that is where those exchanges tend to register their companies.

In the meantime, you are yelling at the wind. I doubt any money you pour into legal action will ever return to you. While this is the traditional American way of doing things (sue first, settle later), it simply doesn't work that way elsewhere. For starters, the judicial system in other countries doesn't even work the way you'd expect it to. Many countries don't even have justice at all, it doesn't matter if you have the evidence and everything is in your favor, if the accused is friends to the right person, it is you who end up in prison (I'm not joking).

I know, shocking, that the world is so different when you merely cross the border, but that is a reality even YOU cannot escape from. Not even being American can help you. I know, an American was imprisoned here for 2 years on suspicion of "aiding" a political opposition protest (habeas corpus be damned)... Finally he was released and expelled, over "humanitarian" reasons, but only God knows what bribing AND diplomatic pressure had to took place for that.

Oh this reminds me, there are rumors of some governments, and high officials from some governments, being involved in crypto trading. They could be some of the whales. Can you imagine if the actual culprit of your complain is a foreign government? Good luck with suing that...

This is not a fair game, that is what you are complaining about. Unfortunately, there is little you can do, and legal threats in this forum are useless. Since you already made enough money in the past, perhaps you should now just go into holding, and let those automated traders just eat themselves. Or diversify your portfolio and invest elsewhere, where things are more regulated.

Its not fair and you might have the right to complain, but it won't do or change anything. That's the way it is.

This has little to do with adoption if anything. It might be that people are getting smarter and are using one address per transaction, as it was originally recommended by Satoshi.

As for the price, is has even less to do with it. Some online services like exchanges have also gotten smarter and provide users a new address every time they want to send funds to. While you can actually use the old addresses, the correct thing to do is use the new one for each transaction. So an active trader that is also moving funds into an exchange would also be using different ones. If they are smart, at the time of withdraw they would make sure to also use a different address, even when withdrawing from the same exchange.

Ideally, transactions and addresses would be the same number. Some people are lazy or simply don't mind, especially those that brute forced vanity addresses, maybe for donations or such.

In my country merchants very rarely take bitcoin directly, so you have to hit the exchange and sell them for the amount of the thing you want to actually buy that day. Tomorrow the price in fiat will be much higher so it only makes sense to exchange for the thing you want to buy that day only. This translates in several more transactions than, say, someone living in a country with a "solid" fiat, who can do only one large exchange for living expenses of the month (not the day) or so. And our transactions while more, are for much smaller amounts.

Price in my opinion will see an uptrend up or near the halving, then there could be a correction. But it might occur before the halving, it depends if the price moves too quickly or not. Maybe after halving (and possibly correcting, it it changed too much), price will stabilize some more towards its next 4 year march. Even if it might repeat some previous pattern, notice that the fluctuations gradually are less and less, this is the natural price maturing. It ill be even more clear after another decade.*

(*) Assuming your fiat doesn't collapse.

Definitely this. Not having to deal (waste time) with banks is incredibly pleasant, and when you have to send money to others, especially "across borders", its simply the best.

It also eases the exchanging when you travel. If adoption improves, you won't even need to exchange anymore...

I can only hope in a few years you could have a dream vacation all paid with bitcoins, from the plane ticket, to the hotel and the shops etc you visit.

Forget batteries, get a grid tie inverter and use the grid itself as "battery".

Then, get enough panels maybe 2000watts or so to power 1 S9. Of course less than that works, but you will be saving very little.

You "could" go gridless and simply let it go off at nights. Don't mess with batteries as they are not cost effective. Maybe, just maybe Tesla's powerwall or similar, but not the traditional deep cyclers, they are just not cost effective.

And given an S9 is nowadays valued for like 100$, i see little point in going out of your way for such an expense with batteries.

TL;DR: Just panels + inverter or panels + grid tie inverter. No batteries.

What are you even talking about? How can you expect bOS to do anything if the controller is off? You might as well just unplug the ribbon data cable to achieve the same thing. Your issue was completely unrelated to the firmware, it was purely a hardware mistake. If anything, its Bitmain's flaw for not considering it. For example the nvidia cards make a loud noise if the PCI-E connector is not plugged.

Well if you must use the body parts analogy, its like blaming the body for hurting itself after the head is cut off...

The firmware does not touch the hashboards, everything is in the controller (Linux ARM). Go ahead and swap controllers, see for yourself.

The hashboards do not know if there are fans or not, that is the very reason other firmware (like bOS) can use them fanless. Factory firmware knows how to shut them down somehow, then a hard reset is needed for restart, for example when it doesn't find the fans. But this (special driver command) is unknown to bOS, that's why a few pages back some people were finding solutions for the hashboards that remain hot and power consuming even when no new worker data is present; and one of the ideas was centered on using the slowest possible speed and voltage the board can take while remaining alive to have a pseudo "sleep" mode of sorts when the situation calls for it (quiet night time, generator not producing enough power, etc). But all of this is moot if the controller is not connected or powered.

I think Bitmain in the S7 days used to warn people about turning on the controller last so that it could properly see (and control) all the boards, if the controller were to go on before the hashboard, that hashboard would not be controlled, and yet use full power etc. For the S9 they did not officially supported using multiple PSUs anymore and but later they removed that wording (not like you cared tho).

So in the end its simply wind power. Nope, you can't power a fan to blow into another fan and have the electricity there be enough to power the first fan. The losses are simply too great.

But rotate a fan and light a led with it is nothing special. Indeed most (all) fans if forced to rotate they generate electricity. They might be not the most efficient generator design, as they were designed for the opposite. Kinda like a microphone can produce sound, and a speaker capture it.

All natural source energy is technically "free", you just need to know how to tap it.


Funny thing is the problem with fusion generation is precisely attempting to generate enough energy from the reactor to keep the reaction running and leave some surplus we could use, this so far has been the elusive part.

But since we have that natural fusion reactor in the sky irradiating us, "for free", we might as well just use it...

I know a certain Caribbean island where you will have a hard time finding pizza WITHOUT pineapple. I don't particularly mind, but would like variety from time to time... Its a cultural thing, like some countries all the food is spicy hot by default and you have to really go out of the way to find something not spicy...

Incidentally, certain neighbor country also likes pineapple in their hot dogs. Well first you have to learn that around here traditionally hot dogs come not only with sauce, but lettuce, powder cheese, tiny fries, sliced cabbage, avocado, etc. Now you can just imagine adding the sliced pineapple on top of it, or pineapple sauce (or both)...

I have commented about that on this thread before. The "recommendations" are meaningless, IGNORE them like they don't exist. Even the "default" settings are misleading. bOS has no way of knowing your board's best efficiency, it doesn't have any special code for calibration or an AI guessing proper settings, it is as manual as it can get.

If you don't understand this, I'm not surprised that you burned boards already. This firmware is the opposite of hand holding, it gives you full control and no protections. You CAN easily burn your hardware with it, faster than you anticipate... It is a powerful tool, but with it comes responsibility. There are even some bugs that they are addressing (like the reordering thing of the hash boards which they will remove); so "proceed at your own risk". This is a firmware for tinkerers not newbies expecting a quick replace and let it decide whatever. It is not that kind of firmware. It is certainly not tailored for overclockers, it won't protect you at all or "self guess", and the values you see are probably a result of some simple calculation that has no relation with the actual hardware involved.

You have to lower that voltage until the board stops hashing or the error rate is too high, then step a notch back and leave it there. If the board seems wants more than 9v, its time to reduce the speed, period. Every single hashboard is different, even from the same batch, even in a single unit, in addition to knowing that the middle board has poorer ventilation which you should use to your advantage by favoring the best performing board in that position and putting the less fortunate to the sides. OR do the mod to have the intake fan be farther away.

Again, because something is old, doesn't necessarily makes it bad. I also read about a passenger transport system experiment in New York if i recall correctly.

I also personally saw a pneumatic system still in use during the 80ies. A bank used it for their car "drive in" tellers, you would send and receive things like banknotes and checks with it. I seem to recall watching the same in a department store around the same time, also for moving letter sized envelopes etc. You put things inside a cylinder and then place that cylinder into the pipe where it gets sucked.

The older pneumatic system works pretty much the same way your vacuum cleaner works, things get "sucked" in the pipe, but this is not the case here.

In hyperloop the air pressure is lowered inside the pipes, but not for propulsion, it is to reduce air resistance, same thing that happens when a plane gains altitude. The "cars" have to propel by themselves in various ways, there are competing ideas including the linear induction motor. Last i checked one of the proposals the cars do levitate passively when the induction motors makes it "fly" inside. (it has wheels or skies for the stations).


By doing it the old way it would require monumentally more energy, especially given the proposed distance. I have no doubt we will soon see a commercial operating hyperloop in Qatar.

Being the longest show, this has varying levels sometimes its greatness, sometimes its repetitive and sometimes its boring.

For example, the first time they showed those weeping angels, that particular episode was very intense. Later they became more like meh.

I have also watched most of the old, 60ies to 80ies, and there also sometimes its great sometimes meh. Some characters you like and enjoy, then they get boring or they just leave and the next (companion/doctor) is annoying.

Perhaps you could say the same of the Star Trek franchise, but i guess it can't be helped with episodic shows. More recently (started with Babylon 5) sci-fi shows have become less episodic and more main (long) plot based, this is good except for the people catching them in the middle, which is less of an issue now that we are entering the streaming age and TV is becoming a thing of the past.

From the aforementioned, I vouch for The Expanse, but have yet to see the others. Sometimes i wait for the whole thing to end before starting to watch...

This model has proven to be effective, the so called "free to play" games. Carefully balanced, it can be a hit, but do it wrong and you end in a "pay to win" scenario which will probably kill your game before you know it.

The basic idea is trading time with money. One group of players, have plenty of time but no money, the other group has money but no time (because they work, duh).

In this way you try to balance your game to cater both. Grind and farm for a chance to get the very same items that could be instantly bought.

It is bad when some things are restricted to pay only, unless absolutely cosmetic, it falls in the realm of "pay to win".


So the answer to your question would be yes, but only if the game is well balanced...

Just tell them to send a Telegram. See who goes to the post office, and who types in the Russian instant messenger...

I'm sorry but i won't ever accept some things like those "challenges" that make people do idiotic things that might endanger their lives, or be seriously injured for the sake of making a viral video.

Of course there has always been generational gaps, this can't be avoided. But its a bit worse with those that did not embrace technology early, there is some people out there that barely watch TV, and never touched a computer.

There is also the culture as a whole. music, fashion, way of talking and spending time, etc.

If we are in the habit of segregating people by their decade, the millennials are 20yo and i have already read about the "alphas" (2010+) i don't know what they will call those born after 2020. It is very likely they won't get the millenials either.

Some think personal computers are going out of fashion in favor of wearable devices, and augmented reality. Just start imagining what sort of sub-culture these things will have. Think of glasses augmented reality vs people that have their face glued to a little screens vs those looking at computer monitors and those looking at tvs. Each look alien to the other.

The next century will probably look unrecognizable, in some things anyway. How did people looked at the future 100 years ago? Some predictions went hilariously wrong, and some were incredibly close.

Because politicians and bankers would lose control. You like most people think the money used in the economy actually exists "somewhere" as a whole, but it doesn't. With fiat money, this is easy to disguise and you appear to live in that illusion. With Bitcoin this is not possible, every single satoshi is accounted for in the blockchain.

Did you know banks only keep 10% (or less) of your money at any given time? I bet you didn't. You should investigate fractional reserve banking.

Truth is, Bitcoin makes things clear and transparent, unlike the way things are right now. It is in fact a cause to make the economy collapse, because the current economy is based in non-existent money. It is a gigantic ponzi scheme, banks and governments make the MLM people look like saints.

With fiat money you can't tell how much money is out there, especially in electronic fashion. You see digits and zeroes in your bank account, i think that money exists somewhere in a vault. It doesn't.

This is a shocking reality most people ignore, as long as they can go on with their lives...

Since Bitcoin removes the veil, those that scam the most have the most to lose. When this reality becomes apparent on a worldwide scale, the economy will have to change probably with the last of the crashes.

If you learn truth today, you have the chance to flee into Bitcoin (or gold whatever). Like any MLM scheme, there is not enough for everyone to withdraw (which is what causes the collapse or "pop" of the bubble), most people would not be able to cash, unless it is done slow enough to give time to banks to shrink. Usually that is not how it happens, people enter in panic and the bankrun occurs.

Now think of a worldwide bankrun. Less than 10% of the money in banks exists at any given time...

The irony is that some people say Bitcoin is the bubble "because is backed in nothing"... But Bitcoin is valuable for other reasons, while fiat money isn't. A "promise" that your fiat "could" be exchanged by "something" at the bank. In reality it is impossible, since even when "backed" nominally, they practice fractional reserve as well and in most legislation you can't actually exchange the thing, ie. USD for gold when it was "backed" in it. It was all a mountain of lies, a bubble waiting to pop. When the USD was no longer "backed" by gold in 73, they lowered the pressure a little, it was the honest thing. People should get in their heads that fiat currency is only valid as long as their governments continue to "keep the promise". But don't you ever try to make them fulfill it...

You know that politicians are liars, they say one thing and do the opposite. Honest money like Bitcoin is too dangerous for them, as their secrets would come to light. And yes, some would like to FUD people into thinking Bitcoin is "criminal's" money, when the main criminals are them. Bitcoin has its rules exposed and accepted by the community that uses it, fiat isn't. The rules for fiat cam be changed by decree, ie. when a gov decides to print "some more" to make their budget fit in, and at that moment everyone becomes poor. Do it slowly enough like the USA and most people would even think that coin is great.

But they can't control Bitcoin. Its 21 million. If the community wanted 42, the whole would need to accept this change, not a few guys in power. Everyone would need to be willing to accept a "half value" from such devaluation, something that is never consulted to people under fiat currency rule. I imagine if something like this would ever occur, it would be with a hard fork probably with some rule that everyone owning 1 would now own 2 after it takes effect (so that in theory everyone would keep the same). This is too convoluted and unnecessary anyway and will probably never be done, but its an extreme example.

Of course the true base unit is the satoshi, which every bitcoin contains 100 million of... If you express things in satoshis rather than bitcoins, it has ample space left for low value expressions, far more than the useless cents of USD and EUR.

National crypto is as useless as national fiat. This is NOT the way, the way for the future is of course embrace Bitcoin, and adopt Austrian economics. But, America will be exactly that, "the slowest animal that survives" and probably one of the last to abandon the Chicago school dogmas.

People fear the unknown, and most people did not even learn economy the way its seen by the Austrian school. The very reason you see people even on this forum scared of deflation, or pissed when their bank asks for fees.

Look, Bitcoin is deflationary money, you HAVE TO study the Austrian school, otherwise you will be eternally struggling inside your head. Simply put, the Chicago school is wrong, but is "quick", which might give you an "advantage" but you later pay the consequences...

With the Austrian way of doing things, you never get bubbles to form in the first place. You would have never had a "housing bubble", a "dot com" bubble or the crash of 29 (predicted by the Austrians in the middle of the "roaring" 20ies).

With deflation people save, and it's from these savings they might invest. With inflation people get in debt to invest...

Indeed they may audit you, but you can easily hide funds as well in undeclared wallets. Merchants could do that too. I see taxation as an uphill battle for governments. Perhaps VAT is doable, but income tax is pretty much voluntary.

You can have two wallets, one declared, one hidden. Use the hidden one for your "foreign" activities, maybe freelancing, trading etc. That's the wallet where you make most of your money, the State unable to trace it back to you. From that wallet you can send small amount to your declared wallet, and pay little tax on that. You use the declared wallet to pay bills, buy food, etc.

The other thing that might work is luxury items tax. Ie. for owning large properties or expensive cars. Since those physical objects they can easily get access to, as long as those are within national borders.

But in the end all i see is a reduction on tax income, because the State does LOSE control, which is the point of Bitcoin and the very reason it came from a cyber anarchist circle in the first place.

Perhaps the solution to a Bitcoin based reality would be along the lines of more privatization and less taxation. Since the State can't reliably tax things anymore, better get rid of it entirely. Of course, people would then need to pay for security, roads, etc directly. It might even be more fair, if you own a car you pay a tax voluntarily, kinda like owning a tv in the UK means you pay a tax for it (So we foreigners could enjoy Monty Python and Doctor Who for free )

(TL;DR) In short a form of anarcho-capitalism.

As opposed to carrying a tank full of flammable liquid fuel with an engine that is constantly igniting it in tiny portions to produce movement? I wonder if the word Pinto rings a bell to you? The few times a Tesla crashed or something nasty punctured the battery bank provoking a short circuit, people had plenty of time to leave the car. The car even stops and warns the driver and passengers to leave the car when an abnormal temperature condition with the batteries occurs.

Your talk about "spaced" and "linear" seems to be hinting to linear induction, the types where the thing is spread either in the road or train/monorail like things. Come to think of it, Elon's Hyperloop might actually be using something like that...

Obviously, "civilized" countries have plenty of mass transport options available. But we are talking America here, land of the free, everyone lives in low density suburbs too far from stations... Since the 50ies, they designed their life around cars, that was the trend back then as seen in Brasilia. But in the 60ies you also see people like Walt Disney trying a concept of a more densely populated city with a mass transit system based around linear induction (aka. people's mover). Yes, an idea being old doesn't make it wrong, but it was never realized beyond a couple of theme parks and the odd underground at some airport and the Capitol.

So what you suggest is go back to the status quo, do nothing because your idea is better but nobody does it?. 50 years passed yet nothing was done. Even Disney's project died with him, their company completely focused in "entertainment" nowadays nobody would even guess he tried that unless you bother to search his old Epcot project videos in Youtube.

Tesla cars work, and several other manufacturers are following. I don't particularly care that the AC motor was invented by Nikola Tesla a century ago, i actually liked it very much the way it works in the pre 3 models. Wheels are round, and tend to do circular motion, rather than linear...

Of course you don't have to use the wheels for traction, but that's the way things are. Short of changing all roads or simply not using cars at all. Which is just not going to happen, especially for an American company. But even the Chinese and Europeans are joining in, so the point remains. It is a step forward, made it to market and changed the world.

Oh and the cybertruck will be recognized unmistakably anywhere it goes, i say it was an astute publicity stunt he pulled there with a "pet project" that wasn't expected to exist in the first place.

This is a polygonal shape, the closest trend was the squares of the 80ies. Before and after cars have tended to be curvy, for aesthetic and aerodynamic reasons. But i guess a truck isn't expected to break mileage records, so why not. I hope its successful and useful for those lucky enough to get one. Even if it flops, it will become an object of collection just like Deloreans if only because of its shape.

Overclocking has nothing to do with that. If you want more "heating", simply add more miners. By overclocking, you are simply over-stressing the units, basically burning them out, so don't be surprised if they fail in the middle of winter...

The rule for the voltages applies identically no matter the speed you are setting. ALWAYS find the lowest voltage where the hashboard is still hashing. Each hashboard is different. Normally the voltages required for overclocking are higher than normal or underclocking, but that doesn't necessarily mean above "factory" settings. Again every hashboard is different, and a more efficient hashboard can usually take more of a beating as well.

There is no single universal setting, beyond starting points. You have to always find out the correct setting for each board; yes, manually. It is my opinion than anything beyond 9v is not good, and that prompts for lowering the speed. But its your gear, you are the one burning it...

Also if the input air is too cold while the inside is too hot, you are going to get a thermal shock. Worse, condensation and 100c means vapor, by overclocking you are getting into that dangerous zone (water + electronics = short), that is probably the very reason they won't be changing the 95°C thing.

Rule of thumb is simple: Overclock = premature death; Underclock = prolonged life; both vs "normal" settings.

Me, i would have focused in the education about making a cold wallet, and restoring it, but not using gadgets. The process of creating a wallet, writing down the seed words and securing them.

Whatever you spent in the device, would have been money spent in actual bitcoins, put in that wallet.

You see, a piece of paper with 12 words far outweighs the nano, even if you yourself don't get it.


The irony is with those gadgets, you should also be handling and protecting seed words anyway, in addition to the unneeded complexities of handling a hardware wallet, which is unsuitable for savings. Things like the Nano are meant to be a replacement for software wallets, but if your intention was savings (ie. 8 years) you should not even consider it.

One reason is you don't need/want extra passwords and mobile apps that might be useless a decade from now. The seed words in a written piece of paper will still work, long after whoever makes those nanos disappear from the market.

The only reason you should buy one of those, is because you intent on using bitcoin constantly NOW (not in the future). The whole idea is you use that instead of the computer.

Don't buy it to keep it stored, the piece of paper with the words does that job. In fact, you can cleverly hide the seed works, pick a book, and start marking words starting page n. Do that twice, in separate secure physical locations.

TL;DR: It was not the right move.

You are more than welcome to prove it by developing a product and take it to market. There is probably a gotcha lost somewhere in your idea, that hasn't gotten the attention of Tesla. If that engine is so great, why not use it? How about all the other car companies, which one is using the 32 solenoid motor?

I like competing ideas, its still inline with Elon's push to electrify the world's transportation.

While we are at it, which of them is used in the "Cybertruck"? AC or DC? Unfortunately power always comes from DC, the not so old Li-ion (and derivatives) batteries.

Nonsense.

Ssh to router, from router, ssh to miner. Done. Easy peasy, and secure. No redirections, and no exposing gear to the outside, which you should NEVER do.

If you want the WEB interface of the miner, you have various choices, you can tunnel, proxy, vnc, vpn...