It is real. Look up in daytime, see that ball of light? Its a "floating nuclear fusion reactor". You can even tap a bit of that free energy using something called "Solar Panels".

Now do not expect to generate enough light to power another panel from the energy obtained in the first one...

Humans are seriously trying to make fusion power generators, but its been proven tricky due to, more or less, the same thing. How much energy you need to power the lasers that ignite the plasma that contain the material while the fusion occurs and tap enough energy from that to feed the lasers continually without needing to add external power (it takes more than what it produces).

Various countries are investing a lot of resources in this research, we are getting there. But no it won't be your little video, whatever that even is. If this is ever achieved, the whole economy will reshape in a completely new reality where fossil fuels drop in value to nearly zero (no demand). Well there are still some other chemical applications but it won't be nowhere near as much as with the current oil driven society.

When this occurs, some things will change, whenever big corps are ready or not, once done there is no turning back. Like Bitcoin...

DNS resolution has nothing to do with DOS attacks. Its simply hiding your dns requests from your ISP and other middleman, the site you connect to still gets your IP. Are you not confused with Tor? This is not the same thing.

And yes, browsers seem to be integrating this, and you can already manually change your DNS to use the safer ones.

The controversy is that DNS resolution was managed by ISPs or local network admins and this new trend is removing that entirely.

Oh and Cloudflare is one of those offering "public" (secure) dns resolution services. Rest assured, only them will collect your resolution history, not your ISP or your government.

If you are on Linux (many OSes supported), you can do this in the OS level using dnscrypt-proxy and cherry pick the type of servers you trust. It can serve your LAN and it caches too, very nice.

Not if you balance. Rather than going the highest of everything, think of power use. Do you really need an I9 i7 when most games work the same with the i3? Guess which takes less power. Less power = less heat.

Screen resolution. More pixels, need more powerful 3d gpus. So "Less (pixels) is more (fps)".

A rotating hard drive gives you plenty of space, but it also consumes more energy to keep the discs spinning (which is very bad if a sudden vibration comes, it might make the delicate needle scratch the thing).

For the gpu i would careful pick the model known to be the most power efficient given an adequate range (in balance with the chosen screen resolution, no need to go with the highest end gpu with a 1366x768 screen or so...

Apple is overpriced garbage, plagued with design issues and whatnot. Its os is not even relevant to gamers.

As alternative, you could go for a very small "desktop", ie. a mini-itx case. But you would still need to carry your own keyboard mouse and monitor, unless you expect those at destination. And of course no batteries.

I doubt it. Hybrids are a transitional thing, and i don't expect them to last long. Once electrics reach critical mass, source of fossil fuels will be very hard to come by. A hybrid is a poor fossil fuel burner, and a poor electric, it is inefficient in both camps, so its not meant to be.

Sure it makes your fuel last longer, but that will be moot when you don't have gas stations anymore. Yet, you can find a power plug everywhere, even a lame 110v receptacle can charge a car in a day or two. The way things are coming, you will find high powered plugs in most parking places and garages, so this will become less and less of an issue.

Incidentally, any knowledge you gained with electricity while dealing with Bitcoin mining, happens to be useful here as well. 480v in your garage? Yup. Charging the cars overnight will become the norm and it never hurts to plan ahead and have your parking place ready.

Think of the time you will save, never going to a gas station again, especially daily commuters.

The hydro had the outdated premise of "what if i don't have a power plug around", assuming availability of gas stations. So i could tell you, now, go develop these pictures i got on film. You will pause thinking where you can do that anymore... Same thing.

And, since the car has to carry both kinds of engine, making it more heavy, and with less space for carry fuel/batteries, the complexity is even higher than a regular gasoline guzzler.

This is false, it is efficient and secure enough the way it is. Bitcoin is never switching to PoS as your concerns comes from a false premise. Bitcoin mining will become unprofitable, and there will be less and less miners due to its economic development, which is as intended: to slowdown mining overtime.

Coin creation is set in code, regardless of network hashrate. Bitcoin doesn't really care if you spend too much or too little energy to mine it, or if there are millions or a few hundred, it will work fine just the same.

Bitcoin's PoW is proven to work and is here to stay. Furthermore, it is yet to be challenged by any altcoin, PoS or not.

I think the more correct test would be to run two identical mining gear against the two pools in parallel, that is, no hopping of those two.

If you have a large group of miners, then you "could" hop those based on that information. Add more miners/pools to evaluate more in real time, and stats will improve over time. A year evaluation is far more valuable than a month, and a day is nearly worthless.

Usually once you find a pool good enough, it tends to remain that way making hopping unnecessary and in fact a waste of hashing time.

Ideally you could just run cgminer's balance mode and dedicate a single unit to this task (and permanently evaluate all the pools you want from it), but i don't know how harmful this switching is. From experience, I'd say its harmful without #xnsub, it wastes too much time switching and the hashrate is impacted significantly. So, multiple (identical) units pointed different pools would be best to have those pools profits properly checked realtime.

Well not if you count that passive cooled miner presented in this forum, or the bm chips on a usb stick (and its larger brother).

Another solution could be immersion, which might give you more flexibility to cool the liquid (or tank if Novec).

Hint about fans: The smaller, the louder. A big slow moving fan can move about the same amount of air than a small faster moving fan.

If you want to quiet down things, you must go bigger. This is why the R4 is a bit larger than an S9, despite using just two hashboards. Its slow moving but large scrolling fan is the trick.

I keep the opinion that if you reverse engineer the R4 case design, you could make a custom case using the same principle for S9 hash boards. They are not shaped THAT different (perhaps filling the missing sink fans and reorienting them for vertical airflow is needed).

First thing you notice is the R4 does not move the air horizontally (sideways), but vertically (upwards), while keeping the hashboards in the same relative position. This does not work well in a warehouse (unless at the top of the racks or something).

All that is needed is a custom case, and a similar scrolling fan. You could reuse the boards and controllers from S9s.


      S9                  R4
  ___________         ___________
f|           |f    ^ |           | ^
a| >>>air>>> |a vs | | ^^^air^^^ | |
n|___________|n    | |___________| |
   -------->          scroll fan

So the whole Jihan Wu "dismissal" was just part of the act? I guess when you own the thing you can pull things like that and more...

Looks like this is just the old fashioned competition threatening profits of big corp, or, lets play monopoly in a country that doesn't care.

I always got the impression that Pangolin was a third party (re-seller), not directly related to MicroBT. They did sold used S9s there at some point. It would be unfair to judge MicroBT based on that, i don't think one equals the other (unless it was intentionally set up to appear that way).

I also know that MicroBT has one or more ex Bitmain employees, doesn't this send a message? "Once you work with us, you may never leave, or else"? Again, this is China, none of your "freedoms" matter. Perhaps bribe your way to officials in "The Party" or be somehow connected to them works best.

Lose of competition and strengthening of the Bitmain monopoly only leads worse choice for customers. Last year MicroBT pushed Bitmain around, this was good and January had good price in mining gear; if they go, Bitmain will go back to sleep or worse, play making altcoins and whatnot...

For the case of cars this is seldom an issue, as generation doesn't necessarily need to be near the car.

It is true that Earth is constantly getting an enormous amount of light, even if some areas are cloud covered, others are not.

AND, renewable energies DO come from multiple sources. There are places where this is not needed, and perhaps a "buffer" (batteries) are good enough. But combining different sources is probably best.

Solar, Wind, Hydro, those 3 are important, there is also geo thermal, tidal, wave among others. It depends on the geographical location.

My country, for example sees A LOT of sun all year (rain doesn't last more than a day), yet none of it is harvested. It has a large dam that powers the entire country. It even has areas with strong constant winds. Heck, my country is unique in the world, as it has the only natural occurring permanent lightning (some call it the World's natural ozone generator); but i imagine you could somehow harvest that. Setting up the thing would be challenging tho, people die electrocuted from time to time in that region. I imagine robots could build something akin to the Eiffel tower there to power large battery banks.

And yet, my country will be the last to see electric cars, because while it has the cheapest electricity in the world, it also has the cheapest gasoline. Well that and the politicians than can't never have enough of ruining the country.

There are other older proposals, one involves a satellite with a (very large) solar array beaming energy down via microwave.

It can also be argued that, nuclear is natural (it IS natural occurring, just real hard to handle safely). After all the Sun is a giant fusion nuclear reactor, we are simply tapping a minuscule amount of the excess energy that impacts the surface in the form of light projected from it. Fusion powered energy is still a study in progress, but it is believed that at some point we will be able to make an artificial micro sun to power things with, its just that starting the thing and make it self sustainable, ie: generate enough energy to keep the reaction AND having a surplus we could use, is the challenge. Many countries including America are working on it, and the day its harnessed things are going to change a lot, electricity might become so abundant and cheap, it might even revive Bitcoin mining after it became long unprofitable (think half a century). Incidentally it might spell the end of a fossil fueled economy.

The way things stand, fossil fuels will deplete, while the other sources remain. It is logical to go full electric, or old fashioned (perhaps a combination: bicycles and electric. Electric assisted bicycles also count).

If you can do your daily commute under your own muscles, i don't see why not. No roof on Earth should be devoid of solar paneling, it is such a waste not to tap on that, tho things you can do now to lower your power use, but more are coming both massive and small.

Dinosaur Juice is not endless.

So your issues are with Slushpool which is separate to Braiins OS. I doubt a majority of slushpool users even know about bOS, people using it are a minority regardless of pool. There are a few advantages but most important to break from Bitmain control.

Try to discuss Slushpool things in the pools section, just because they are the same people doesn't mean one thing equals the other. Even the Stratum v2 proposal is separate, it is an optional feature i would like to see in action, Judging a priory is unscientific at best. If it doesn't work no one will use it, it doesn't change both bOS and bosminer, or slushpool for that matter.

I'm glad they brought us this (free and open source) firmware AND a cgminer replacement. bOS and their pool are separate things, funny you already think it will "screw their own pool" without waiting to see it in action. More importantly is how it would perform with other pools that decide to implement v2, as those that don't would work with v1 fine. I don't understand how it even occurs to you that this somehow might affect anything beyond the miner and the pool it connects to, at best it will just improve latency from farm to pool, then its up to the pool how fast it can broadcast and this is already outside of what this covers.

They probably identified a bottleneck and are trying to improve things. Rather than sit and brag all day how others always do things wrong, they try, they code and they deliver. The other pool operators are way too busy collecting fees to even bother writing software anymore...

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Yes i have written about it in the bOS thread. To tune you have to start lowering the voltage until it stops hashing properly. This will get you the optimal per hashboard. Then you can try higher or lower speeds, each time you have to find again the best (lowest) voltage value. Underclock tends to lower temperatures and increase efficiency, you would do well to measure power usage. This takes time and patience. Overclock requires more voltage and thermal dissipation.

But it is OK to use the default settings, just not optimal. I have an acquaintance that likes to default to 8.7v and then work from there.

Actually the presets are just rough guesstimates. Not all S9s are the same, certainly not all hashboards, not even from the same batch and model.

In my opinion, they wanted to go err in the safe side. It would be nice if they added those config options to the gui, but its not the end of the world. These are the types of settings that if you cannot bother to edit a simple text file to change, maybe you shouldn't mess with them in the first place. If it were me, i would even remove the ability to change frequencies from the web UI so be glad...

"high overclock" as you call it, is actually less efficient than a good underclock. bOS is very manual config oriented and it lets you do whatever, but you are really nitpicking here.

Most people should not be overclocking, period. 95°C seems to work fine for hundreds of units in a tropical 40°C ish ambient temp location, only a few units with buggy sensor readings need the setting changed, same as with "no sensors scan" which is an overkill choice only for very specific situations. Most people should NOT be using those.

Only your third issue looks important for consideration in my opinion, but i'm not sure much can be done about it. Perhaps reset frequencies to default if the number of hashboards change?. I don't think each hashboard has an unique ID they could use to prevent that. If there is, maybe this could be addressed.

And remember, nothing in bOS is changing until after bosminer is fully released to replace the (abandoned) cgminer, and only then would the work (hopefully) restart for new hardware and features...

Its very misleading, like those cheap tricks used by traditional media: News papers. You get a headline of something, and the content is completely different.

"And now, for something completely different..."

I have not followed this altcoin. When he says BCH, is this ABC, or SV? Or is vanilla BCH still a thing?

I seriously doubt the comment is worth the dollar he wants to give. As for magical growth, i doubt it. Everytime an altcoin launches, it plummets after a very brief peak. If it survives this plummet, i has a little chance to get this kind of growth, usually temporarily, and often from pump & dump. But this altcoin has already been a while out. I think this altcoin once reached 600 or so, zero from those that used their already bought bitcoin from that forked into this, of course people sold it and price went down again. And it seems to have remained around there. Its price might go twice or trice from what it is now, but 1000x? not gonna happen. So thing your dollar might become 3, as the best scenario. More probably it ill go 50¢. But because its "free" i guess it doesn't matter. Its just marketing, paid advertising, direct to potential clients.

Bitcoin mining is not really related to freedom. In fact you could have a place where Bitcoin is banned but mining is allowed. The miners don't need to use the bitcoin they obtain, except to buy the local fiat to keep operations running. This produces a small but constant demand on that coin helping its position in the markets.

Its a form of export, like exporting electricity, without the wires. Even the countries that hate an uncontrolled coin, would welcome this, if they are smart enough to understand it. China wants its own State crypto coin, and i wouldn't be surprised they restrict bitcoin use to the point it could only be exchanged for the gov approved coin. Or they could still ban it altogether and the miners would need to exchange for an intermediary fiat abroad first.

So no, its not what some people think. If a government actually mentions Bitcoin by name, such as Japan, then yes you can give them some benefit of doubt, but the likes of China probably fear a coin that cannot be "controlled", or its rules changed by political decision at any point later. If Petro was sign, you can expect something just like that over there, not unlike other country backed initiatives, just repeating the same fiat fiasco in digital form.

If the Chinese would have banned mining, that income would have moved to the neighbors. In fact some of those neighbors are already doing it, so they would have loved that.

This is a time limited opportunity, bitcoin mining won't be profitable forever, each day that passes this window will close until its no longer profitable to mine at any price. They would be fools to lose this chance, and after the "bitcoin rush" passes, they are left with electricity production that could be sold or used to growth their economy anyway.

And if i ever wanted to transfer 4 BTC i wouldn't bother with Lightning Network which is more suited to micro payments. Something that big should be better handled by the regular blockchain directly. You can use the lowest transfer fee just fine, the coins won't be lost, just take a few hours, maybe a day at most.

No, you are not buying coffee with 4 BTC, which is what Lightning Network is all about: small purchases.

Some error is occurring but that number is not what you think it is (don't bother searching online) this is the Process ID, in Linux when you start a program (ie. cgminer) it gets a Process ID number assigned, then after closing and reopening it gets another. All Linux process always have one of those, usually under 32768 then it goes back to nearly 1, as long as its not occupied with another process...

Are you not confusing promiscuity with polygamy? The whole point of marriage is so they don't go to other partners, and precisely avoid what you describe. Else they wouldn't bother with marriage at all.

When you are no longer pressed living for survival, you can start wondering about "beyond the immediate" issues.

You know it would be real nice if some superior sentience did in fact provoked evolution by placing a monolith :3

To become space faring, one would argue the world issues would be solved. Most popular sci-fi shows present earth "unified" (and even the aliens, they seldom stop and thing an alien world with sentience would have several countries and contradicting positions).

But it makes sense that we would need to overcome our differences, somehow, for true advancement. This is what happened in the very early history of humanity in the modern day Iraq region with the city states that formed after the constant flooding forced the people to cooperate building canals and whatnot.

But then the materialistic will tell you, life is too short to think about things you will never experience. We won't be here to see the last bitcoin minted, for example, who knows of an archive of this forum remains for future generations.

Can you overcome your immediate needs? One thing that Austrian economics teach, is that if someone is willing to, say, forego their immediate needs of working to earn a salary to eat everyday, in order to study or make something that later would easy his living, then this person will live much better later after the sacrifice than not sacrificing and remain living the same as always.

So if you catch a fish with your hands everyday, painfully and slowly, but one day you stop and think and invent a fishing rod, then later your fishing will be much easier and you may even get time for "new" things.

Some people say this space exploration stuff is nonsense when there are so many world problems to solve, for example. Why do it?

I don't have the answer for who is right and who is wrong. Perhaps exploration will bring a discovery that will benefit us all as a whole, or perhaps not. Research is like that, regardless. You can spend countless resources funding projects that end in nothing, but was it better than redirecting all those resources and feed the poor? What if you do find, say cure for Cancer or such?

Well that is quite accurate, from a physical point of view. Probably the OP meant a spiritual, beyond physical point of view. This is the very origin of religion, a level of sentience that makes you ask this question.

What happens when AI is smart enough to ask the same? 2001 explores this, HAL9000 ponders, and fears it like most living creatures, it even fights for survival, to no avail. Tho it was later turned back on, no harm done? Odyssey was a nice ship...

Ah yes, humans, well this has been discussed in offtopic, but whatever we think, we are only going to find out (or not) after the fact... Think we will return to whatever we come from? Maybe life repeats? Maybe not? How long lasts eternity when you can't feel it? Time and spaces collapse. They say the same conditions were experienced in this universe at the "big bang" singularity. How about parallel universes? You'd think we could transverse those?

This planet isn't going to exist forever, we already know that. In fact the history of humanity is minuscule compared to, say, Dinosaurs (they existed far much longer). And the history of the planet itself dwarfs life on it.

If i am to guess, they would probably issue some sort of special entry permit for these people. It is not that uncommon in borders, probably not extensive to all Spanish nationals, just those living nearby. The rest would have to do customs like all EU citizens...

What is the importance of Gibraltar at this point in time? is it justifiable to maintain it? Beyond bragging and some "UK proud" that is. Is it even sustainable? Hong Kong is a commerce hub, but Gibraltar is... some rock with an airstrip crossed by its main street (or did they finish that tunnel?).

Well i can also think of a sheep island in front of Argentina they waged a war for. But at least there they say there is some oil now... Colonies are funny things, is Gibraltar a colony? I don't even understand this "commonwealth" business...