Thank you for pointing me to this, it's been a fascinating hour reading this stuff. Finally STEM (Science Translational Medicine journal) is not only cited, but has excellent information that I can somewhat read :-) Merited the hell out of the post.

Will probably spend the rest of the weekend reading this stuff. I remember hearing about the Tau replacement for U, the fact that they used it like this is a great example of how some discoveries that seem kind of pointless years ago turn out to be very handy later....

Sources say 13k people attended, did they go through that many hookers? Cite pls.

Cite data supporting this point pls.

Cite again? You're saying a whole lot of things without a whole lot of support behind it. "Someone's blog" or "a youtube video sponsored by the Russians" is not much of a source, but at least it is something. Peer reviewed scientific journals with an Impact Factor >4 would be a good start.

Um.... Ok, thank you for the cite, will read it. However deaths seem to be tracking downward at the same rate as infections, so it's a lot harder to fake deaths or have people be only a "little dead".



It's being pushed because it um...works. Vaccines are like that, they have made diseases like whooping cough and measles and rubella and other nightmares a fading memory. They made tetanus into something that is like "what?" instead of a pretty common death sentence. They make shit work, and they do work. Death rates from Coivid have fallen like a rock with vaccination (ok, and getting rid of those stupid Trump death rallies) in place.

Bitcoiners trust math and statistical probabilities. Every once in awhile a thick-head posts the "Oh I can put in a bunch of random words into a wallet and OPEN AN address which means Bitcoin is insecure". Then we have to explain that it would take more time than the heat death of the universe to randomly guess the seed for a wallet with any coin.

And every once in awhile we have to explain to people that yes statistics work, yes the vaccines are damn effective, and the number of people who will die from COVID at this bitcoin conference is a simple function of the (number of people-number of vaccinated people) times the infection factor times the 2-3% death rate. It's as basic as that.


It's fun to take some time and run these bullshit stories down to see who is promoting them and where the initial outlets are. The 50k question though is why....

Well, you get to see who had vaccines and who did not. Excellent data points.

Shutting down cheap Chinese mines is a good thing. Fewer miners is not a problem as the chain is far more secure then it reasonably should be. Likewise miners paying more to mine will weed out older mining gear thus increasing efficiency. Finally if miners need to pay more for power they are less likely to dump cheap coinz on the market and bitcoin prices go up, which is bullish.

Also note you need more than a BBB: There is a card that comes with the KNC miners which connects to the 10 pin ribbon cable from each mining cube. That card has a pretty expensive and fragile FPGA on it which interrogates all the little engines on the cubes for the work and routes only the solved block-lets to the BBB.

I have a few of those cards, but am now using them for my old Titan cubes which amazingly enough can still mine litecoin at a profit. That boggles my *mind*, a 7+ year old chunk of mining gear is still making ROI....

This could be a serious problem for Western Union.....

Ok, I now know the value of a Fujicoin.

Last week for 24 hours I threw 100mh worth of hash rate at N=11 Scrypt at the Fujicoin chain. As expected it adjusted difficulty quickly to compensate and the number of miners went from three and around 150mh total before I started to four others and 250mh. Apparently someone saw me mining and brought up some more power to compensate.

So I was mining 25% of the chain. Mined for 24 hours and got about 1,000,000 fujicoins in a wallet.

Now how much are those coins worth? Well, they need to be worth the opportunity cost I could have made to mine some other coin like Litecoin. I would have been able to mine 3 lite cents in 24 hours using the same equipment. Therefore 1,000,000fjc=.03ltc

Or 1 fjc=.03/1,000,000 litecoins.
or 1 fjc=.00000003 LTC


Given that LTC=177.72 usd, the value of 1 fjc is .00000003*177.72 or $.0000053316

Hurray!

Unfortunately that's less than 1 sat per fjc which is probably why it's not trading on exchanges.

Given that as of this morning 1 LTC=.005 btc then 1 fjc=00000000015 btc.

Ok, just for giggles I tried to download a Fujicoin wallet for Android. Partially because downloading a 2019 version of Electrum just trips all sorts of sadness for me.

No wallet in Play store. Sure, I could side-load the wallet from the web site but normal people wouldn't want to take the risk.

Now that FJC is not on Coinomi, which wallet can I use?

Interesting: Got an S17 coming in for repair and the guy was wondering how he could trust me with his miner. I thought about it, haven't really been asked that much, then wrote this:

When it comes down to it, the only thing I have to go on is my reputation here on the forum. If I did screw you over then a posting in the Wall Observer or scammer thread that I was a jerk would pretty much tank my future business. I'll take care of your unit, check it out, see what's wrong, and hopefully get the boards running so you can get back to mining. If I can't fix it there's no charge of course. If I can the fee is a couple months of mining revenue in bitpennies plus parts (chips if needed).

I do the best I can....

Seriously, was there anything in the wallet you opened? A bitpenny or 100btc?

Sure, but let's think about it: You can open 10,000 wallets a second with a super bot. Off you go.

3*10^38 wallet combinations/10k a second=3*10^34 second.

Divide again by 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day, 365.25 days to a year and you will search all the wallets in:

950,642,634,420,868,507,110,806,905 years.

So be sure to grab a cup of coffee before starting, it may take a bit.

How long before we hit one?

Well, let's take a guess of 100,000,000 wallets with some form of coin in them, just as a starting point. If we divide the above number by 100,000,000 we get:

9,506,426,344,208,685,071 years to find a wallet on average.

So about 9.5 quintillion years and you will most likely find one. Given that the sun will go nova in 4 billion years you have a good solid .0000000420768% chance of hitting a wallet with coin before the sun blows up.

Go go, time's waiting!

Sure, you can open *A* wallet, but since there are a very large number of possible wallet addresses and only a small number of those have actual coin your chances of stumbling on an address with anything in it is pretty low. There are people who look for these kind of intersections, but unless it is a really stupid passphrase it's highly unlikely you will hit anything by trying random seed combos. But give it a go, what's the worst that can happen?

I'll take "Weak hands" for $1000 Alex!

Honest: If you want one PM me and we can trade one for whatever bitcoin is plus shipping. They're kinda cute to be honest and feel neat when you put them against your cheek (it's the way to check if a watch is real gold: Brass won't warm up quickly but gold will) but as a store of value they suck.

I always recommend taking a little off the top. Even a few K, that way when it falls you can think "Oh I got a bit of money out at the high point, no big deal". Don't dump the whole wad of course, but just enough to make you happy and keep your financial ship afloat.

This... is just normal bitcoin noise. And if I had to sell a few K at 35k the world wouldn't come to an end either.

Just got an Ender 3d pro here to print some parts and the like for the miners and cars. Overall I am impressed as hell, thoughts:

Get the Pro, it has a really nice magnetic pad so you can peel off parts more easily and a heated bed.
And a better power supply, no issues with this one even when printing all night long.
Buy the $15 extruder upgrade, the plastic one that comes with it is cheap and a metal one is NICE

That's about it. Good quality device for a few hundred bucks....

Hm. So this finally flushed the miners and all those "hoarded coins" being used to pump and dump the market? Good.

I put 5 merits on it for ya. It is a pretty good post and a reminder that when you sell and say "I'll buy back lower" you don't, then you miss the train.

Toot toot! Train is just taking on a load of coal.

That should help bitcoin a lot. Why would anyone want to hold a currency like the Ruble, get rid of it ASAP and put it in bitcoin.