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IOW this thread is about as polite, politically correct, and safe for work as a steaming pile of shit. sorry bud, its just the way it is here.

 

heck much of that describes most of us in this part of the state anyway. i guess living more or less in the sticks does have some advantages.

any tips?

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a $150 USD per 215+ coupon for the sqrl store. you can use 2 coupons per item, ie $300 toward any one item.

there are a couple more standalone miners for it planned. gpuassist is still planned afaik.

wrath of khan, sequel to star trek the motion picture
road warrior, sequel to mad max


then along came the reboot of mad max a couple years ago which blew the original away big time..

as long as it can be turned off. i like my pages static. for me, basically any movement is annoying.

yeah its kinda like looking under the sofa cushions for some loose change and finding hundred dollar bills.

they dont have to revive you. just your memories.

so 10,000 years from now some dude drops your brain into a MemoSeed Blitztractokator (tm) machine. which basically is a blender with some chemicals and nano tech tossed in. he blends your brain to a fine puree, the tech absorbs the memories, and stores them so AI can look for seed phrases. your brain goes to the compost pile. profit?

thanks, i too have not much paid attention to my eth that i mined back in the day. i just keep hearing about eth 2.0, sharding, progpow, blabla. since i just hodl eth now and not mine it anymore im out of the loop. although should be getting bag into eth soonish as i have an fpga on its way that can do it as a side bitstream.

so. anything i need to do with my old skool eth that are in my trezor/MEW? i assume not but it sure would suck if i blow it by not asking a simple question.

i used tax software (bitcoin.tax) to keep track of trades so it wasnt bad once i imported all the data from the various exchanges.

but now that i sometimes mine odd shitcoins in exchange for btc/whatever i will only use an autoconvert pool that pays in that coin i want, simply because it will be easier than trading a shitcoin at some sketchy exchange no ones ever heard of.

this.

dont beat yourself up by not buying in in the single/double digits. the price does whatever it pleases. it used to fluctuate wildly at the slightest fud/good news, now? nothing. the price just sits around and seemingly ignores the world. till it doesnt.

sure i wish i had mined or bought more (and been more careful storing them) back in 2011 when i got started. in hindsight and 20/20 rear vision i could be on a private island now. but the who point of this experiment was to see if it worked. that meant testing mining, pools, wallets, exchanges, software, selling/buying for btc, all that. and it needed people with vision (and later greed) to play with it. not just stack em all up.  stack some for the visionaries, sure. but they needed to be used.

so i played. i had no idea thenn that the value would reach what it is now today (~10-11k) let alone that ~20k ath. and i have no regrets really. i sell when needed, and ive lately sold enough to set plans in motion that hopefully carry my wife and i into a very comfortable lifestyle. could that 11k average price of been much higher if i waited to see if the price rose? sure.. maybe. and maybe it would of been lower. point is, dont try to time the market unless youre really really good at it.. but otherwise buy corn when you have extra disposable fiat, sell corn when needed. dont bother looking at the price.

of course some people have much better strategies, but this is my hodling-occasional cashout strategy. its worked fairly well for me well despite my own stupidity. ymmv.

need a bit more info as to what m2 slots are used etc. some mobos disable m2 if other ports are in use. also are or have they  been flashed?

anyway best bet for support is the sqrl acorn discord. invite below may expire in a day not sure.

go to

https://discord.gg/U5KKaG

that should link you to the fpga discord then go to #sqrl-acorn.

EDIT: try here too
https://fpga.guide/en/howto-mine-acorn/

of those of us that still have some corn from the early years i wonder how many of us still have them because of a strong deliberate HODL strategy (balls of titanium), accidentally (hey just found that old paper wallet!), laziness (secured in a way thats time consuming to spend, money is already written off so why bother) or any other reason they would care to share..

now sure many including myself have faith in the underlying tech. this is the future of storing value. so im here till this ride either plows into the ground in a spectacular face plant or moons in an equally spectacular fashion. either way being part of this experiment was worth every penny. i dont think you couldnt invent a crazier roller coaster ride if you tried.

voted #1: sex

come on if youre human its your number one thought.

if you voted 2 (bitcoin) congratulations, you are a bot. or close enough to consider yourself a near perfect copy of one.

ive managed to hodl an ok percentage of my total btc since i started mining in 2011. ive lost some, been scammed out of some, locked some up so tight i cant retrieve them (overly complicated storage schemes; i keep forgetting how stupid i am). so, oops. and early on i did sell as i (well, my wife.. had to prove to her that these majik internetz bitcornz was "real") felt the need to, mainly as "upgrades" to vacations or toys or whatever. something we normally would not splurge on. but it was always a small percent of my stash as i always figured it would go way up in value eventually.

now being more or less financially ok in the 1st place helps a lot too. why sell if you have the fiat you need for whatever at that time. so for a few years (2013-2016 maybe) i just ignored my corn. no mining, no trading. watched my stack go up to ridiculous values and drop to ridiculous values. many times. never bother selling at highs as i didnt need to. and didnt panic at lows because i had wrote that initial money for the mining rigs off pretty much right away. so might as well keep them and see what happens. after all this is (still) one heck of a grand experiment, and i want to be part of it.

of course now many years later, for various reasons (read:mostly laziness) my stack is now worth a decent amount. so now im starting to cash out and set some plans in motion. fiat does have its uses at the moment.

still mine a bit, mostly shitcoins to trade for btc. so theres always some dribbling in.

as long as you didnt put in more than you can lose you shoudnt have a problem hodling. now when that initial small amount grows to seriously life changing amounts and you still hodl, well, thats a hodlers hodler.

my bottom line stratagy: pay no attention to the current price. buy when convenient (ie extra fiat), sell when only needed (to accomplish a significant goal). with btcs general performance so far, its hard to go wrong wherever you are on the curve at the moment, as it will almost certainlky do its crazy near parabolic thing again. hopefully upwards. of course past performance does not blahblah. this whole thing could also crash to zero overnight)

it should never change. that icon is legendary, for want or a better term.

this is a drawback to most hardware wallets. occasionally an update will wipe the device, although the readme for the update will mention this. my trezor had one update like that, and they gave plenty of warning 1st.

that being said you should always verify the seed before any update on anything. thats a given. bad cable, power glitch, whatever.. things happen.

i always put aside a bit of time before a hardware wallet update. usually goes fine but you never know.

bidet user unaffected. perhaps there is edge cases where it might happen but i do not wish to dwell on such things.

meh. i treat capitol gains as a kind of income (as in money i did not have, not income according to the irs definition which seems to be concerned with wages.. but i could be wrong). its just calculated differently from regular income.

yeah it sucks and i disagree with what a lot of the tax pays for. but one entity i have no wish to get on the wrong side of is the irs. they are power like no other. they dont need any lawful reasons like probable cause to simply seize your property and money (right out of the banks and other institutions you keep your wealth in -  they use civil forfeiture and garnish wages) with no legal basis aside from "we feel like it". pretty sure there a lot of other laws they can more or less disregard at will. they have that status apparently because they are so trustworthy and never make mistakes.  /s  <-- added the /s just in case people think i am totally brainwashed into being a sheeple.

but taxes? look i will mess with cops more or less with impunity. i will even mess with the military (very carefully). ive even messed with judges (well very very carefully indeed.. judges have zero sense of humor) but the IRS?? no way. with them its by the book.. well as far as my cpa can figure it out.

it sure would fucking help though if the IRS would finally came out with some actual guidelines and rules instead of this waffling that leaves all us honest folks wondering wtf theyre doing.