Why are you complaining for 1 day? DO you know how long international wire transfers take? WEEKS.

Signature campaigns pay minuscule amounts, do you wan't him to spend half of the payment in transaction fees? OF COURSE i would use the lowest fee (1 Sat/B), this usually takes about ONE HOUR, and rarely several hours.

Yes, in theory campaign managers could use Lightning Network, given that the payments are frequent and often, it makes a perfect use of it. Unfortunately, Lightning Network wallets are still rare. Perhaps when the likes of Electrum finally add it, but even LN has had changes lately so i still don't know when this would ever get critical mass use (if ever).

You mention ripple but that is the case of everybody else, due to lack of use among other things. Except perhaps ethereum, because their blockchain is used for a gazillion things not eth (all those tokens and smart contracts, etc). Go ahead and send 1 dogecoin while paying the lowest fee and see how long it takes, its probably faster than ripple...

Bitcoin transactions are perfect for most uses. I always use the lowest fee, i even bought something once online that way, and got it faster than ever compared to using the traditional wire transfer fiat method, that usually takes at least 1 day for the seller to confirm, while with bitcoin 1 hour later he got it confirmed AND, no stupid bank working times (which in this country suck).

Its regulated in theory, and you are supposed to use a State approved exchange (which nobody does). I suppose the idea is that these exchanges are taxed.

Petro is separate, completely government controlled. You can sell your crypto for Petros, and they do require KYC.

You say we use Petro but that is not true, almost no one uses crypto of any sort, very rarely you see a shop or two accept bitcoin, dash or ethereum, but that's like 1 in a million.

The reason for hyperinflation is the old fashioned State abuse and manipulation of the currency. "Printing like there is no tomorrow" basically, and blaming anybody else, especially the "Evil American Empire", because that's the preferred rhetoric here (and yes, they use those words literally, to refer to the USA).

Truth of the matter is they ran out of money to keep paying wages and such and resorted to this. Sounds idiotic? It is. It became apparent in 2014, everyone warned Maduro but he didn't care and did it anyway. Not unlike Mugabe, with identical results. Some people act like that after they taste power, and they think they can control human nature by force, including the market, which they believe shouldn't be free but State controlled.

In the middle of this someone sold them the idea to make a token as a means to catch money, as many countries were refusing to give any more loans due to Venezuela being unable to pay back with anything but oil, and that production has reduced to a third of what it used to be a couple of decades ago (again, serious mismanagement). They did in fact manage to catch some money, which was wasted and probably used to fill their pockets as usual, the country is worse than ever, and Petro did nothing. You cannot compare it with Bitcoin, which indeed some people use for survival.

Bitcoin is not illegal and never was, not even before the gov got involved, but like in Ukraine authorities here abused the lack of legislation to extort, kidnap and ransom miners. Things changed a bit in the last two years but also this year the electric grid collapsed due to dire lack of maintenance and mass quitting of underpaid workers (and its a "State Socialist company", go figure).

And yes, there are rumors some of the gov people actually mine themselves, they have shown "someone's" mining farm before on State TV. With most of the country having frequent (and in many places long) blackouts, brownouts, and several short interruptions, pretty much guaranteed to burn anything you plug without some sort of delay line conditioning protection.

Then i guess its my mistake interpreting the ascii art. If its just 3 walls then all is fine. I understand the middle wall perfectly, but the art made it look like there were two walls before and after that, so it doesn't matter then.

Some heat re-flow can actually be useful to reduce humidity, but that's not your case here.

Many people in this forum are probably unfamiliar with this, but my country certainly is. I HOPE you can get the law approved and authorities respect them, to stop the extorting, and all the garbage that brings (corruption, organized crime, etc).

Taxing can probably be done to physical things within the country, such as to asic mining equipment import or mining sites.

Government records on blockchain is a good idea, as long as they do it right: decentralized. To have true decentralization you need to somehow incentivize the people into running public nodes. If all you do is put the records in few nodes running in a single gov. datacenter, you are doing almost nothing to increase security.

Simply using a blockchain isn't good enough, don't believe the hype.

You could leave instructions in a secure place (ie. bank vault) in case of emergencies, and only instruct them to check that in such a situation, but without they actually knowing what it is in there, and certainly not having access to the actual seeds / passwords etc. Because if they do, chances of "mistakes" increase.

Unrelated to your real savings (and secret instructions), teach them how to make and handle their own offline wallets. So they get familiar with the process...

Since you already spilled the beans you probably either have to move those coins and redo it again, or hope no one makes a mistake, because i wouldn't be surprised to see all your savings phished out. Believe me, i saw it happen already, once its gone, its gone. Don't be careless with this.

It is possible, but whats questionable is the time it would take. There is a chance that this price might be reached again at the halving bull run, if not, then maybe some years later.

Currently December means nothing, it is the halving the most significant Bitcoin event that matters, and that is expected to be in May. Historically there is a little fluctuation before the Chinese New Year, in theory they sell to get money to travel home etc, or so goes the tale. I doubt the Chinese whales need that.

Invest money you don't need, and then wait it out (aka. hold).

I don't have to be "a Veteran hedge fund CEO" to state the obvious, in fact i could swear i have said so here one way or the other.

Never sell, basically, except what you must absolutely need for daily needs. That's what someone who went 100% Bitcoin should do. Oh, but if you still have a source of income in fiat, then use that for your daily needs and leave the bitcoins alone.

Those who went in for the trading, even more should already know not to sell for a price under what they bought. And especially, don't act on impulse or fear.

This is not Bitcoin adoption but altcoin adoption, It is useless if they only use their own coin within their apps.

Why not have each company issue their own altcoin then? Exchanging will be lots of fun!

An ATM is useless here, and as i found online, the only one exists in a border city, perhaps using foreign currency. My country leading Localbitcoin transactions isn't a coincidence, even their commission fee is a bit too high for daily use (ie. under 1 USD purchases), but the typical rates used by ATMs are unacceptable.

AND, it is physically unfeasible, as a single transaction would either empty or fill the ATM's safebox. Banknotes become paperweight in hyperinflation and you'd need a box of those to buy a simple thing, not even purchasing an appliance but perhaps a meal in a restaurant, or drinks in a bar...

Yes, i like how they project the BTC logo to the masses, but perhaps a sign would be cheaper and more effective (ie. with the shop qrcode of the owner's Bitcoin address).

Or they could do more sponsoring sports team thing.

If "crashing" isn't the right word (it isn't), why did you use it? It went from 10k into 8k, so a mere 20%.

September a bad month? Then it means the Chinese still have a strong position in the market. It is them that keep following those superstitious beliefs.

Over-expectancy of Bakkt or actually executing the plan as intended? Futures is about betting against bitcoin and they clearly want to get the ball rolling, but the trend will reverse, and then...

Indeed it started the year at around 3k, so its doing great.

Atheism and agnosticism are very different. You could say Atheism is a religion, as it brings its own dogma and faith (in non believing) while the agnostics choose a more humble open minded posture.

Modern china... still tends to follow a lot of old customs and silly practices, some dating to their traditional religions. They also influenced their neighbors who tend to do the same to this day, even in the most christian Asian country of Korea...

Which one? agetty?

The Moldau (Wiener Symphoniker) Friedrich Smetana...

Do you have any plans to start a signature campaign promotion? Would be nice to have pools do this as well.

This is just my guess, but i think it occurs physically, not logically. By having one weaker than the other, it creates the difference. The controller is probably just sending the same thing, if you send 80% to a 4k, this results in 3.2k, but to a 6k fan it is 4.8k. Think Chinese way, cheap, make it cheaper. Control them separately? no way, that's double the effort and costs (and remember the controller actually has more, you can solder the plugs back and they all work), plug any two fans in any position and the firmware is happy You can probably use more than two, but i have no idea what is the current load limit of the poor thing.

With both being 6k but one with thinner blades than the other, i guess you get the same result with numbers looking prettier. Main reason to do that would be to save some cents with the cheaper fan motor.

I wonder how is that done with S17 4 fan configuration... Two strong and two weak?

You get negative pressure as long as your exhaust wants to move more cfm than your intake, however you do that doesn't matter. What happens if you get equal pressure? Probably nothing bad, you just are using a more expensive (and noisier) fan in the intake.

But be my guest and experiment swapping the plugs, i doubt you'll notice any difference except in the web UI fan number.

If it works with bOS the problem is not in hardware. Are you able to install bOS into nand and boot to it without the sd card? If not, you might have a damaged nand in the controller, so test that too. If it works, then you are doing the procedure to flash the T9+ firmware from Bitmain wrong.

That setting wasn't the most optimal, 85W/T, but the idea was simply to lower the power and noise, which is what op wants. You can find a more optimal config, or an even lower power consumption at even worse efficiency that lets the boards some hashing instead of "idling" in "consume a lot" mode...

Or a poor man's sleep mode.

Yes because normally one is slower than the other (ie 4k vs 6k rpm). But you could just use two 6k fans and it won't mind. Connector position is really unimportant.

So then you just need it above 20% to prevent static build up, good to know.

Yes it runs circles inside the hot room, thus creating pressure against the (asic miner) fans. This is what i meant with my post. To understand "pressure", just put some obstacle near the exhaust fan of one unit, such as your hands, and watch the temps.

In my opinion, there should be only fans in the inner wall (no vents), and the outer wall better have lots of vents (or big enough) so the air can go easily.

And yes I'm only referring to the exhaust part. Intake is probably fine. Funny you didn't just mirror that, a vent is not a cheaper fan, it lets some air go in the opposite direction...

Oh and BTW, this hot room try to make it walk-able, you'll find it very useful for some unrelated things later. Think, giant clothes dryer Just don't abuse it and create unwanted pressure lol.

Well this is the way it should be. Most altcoins are redundant and unnecessary, and several are actually a risk to mess with. Therefore logically the market prefers bitcoin, because none of the alternatives has shown or proven to do better, if anything, quite the opposite.