I am interested in buying individual titan cubes and controllers, due to a paypal hiccup I cant yet afford another full titan and it stalled a miner buy I was about to do, but I am looking for one or more cubes and controller boards! Faulty or working cubes, I am interested.

What have people got on offer

Jacob

You can make ASICs harder to manufacture, i.e scrypt ones are more difficult than SHA256 but still... These are not the only flaws, purists wanting to keep 1MB blocks forever or scale to unlimited size or have a band-aid fix of a one time increase are in my opinion deluded, but that's my own opinion. One of my indian clients is struggling to give me daily payments of my articles due to TX fee size, this is becoming a problem for Bitcoin. No one has considered countries which do not have a lot of money, a 20p TX fee is too much for example. Now we are switching to every few days which I am fine with, if this carries on we may move to Litecoin for a more clear blockchain.


Segwit is the best option for those who wish to run full network nodes even though it takes more power, imagine unlimited having 64MB blocks? This wont even come close to visa or mastercards transaction volume but it would make blocks insanely hard to propagate and store.

ASIC resistance is a myth, you can make a dedicated chip for anything if theres enough desire and someone with the cash decides to do it, design it and have a foundry make it for them. You can make it harder and less cost effective (i.e scrypt and cryptonight) A CPU is simply a chip designed to do Multiple tasks, a GPU is like a CPU which can do many SINGLE tasks of one's choice, one at a time, an ASIC is a chip designed for a SINGLE task, no other task can ever be done or adapted for it, but it can do it better than the other two. For example if Bitcoin crashed and no sha256 coin took its place, all the ASICs become a doorstop. This can be designed for any particular task, some ASICs can be used for video decoding if desired for a single algorithm. Cheap MP3 players would have an ASIC to decode the MP3s. Someone designed an ASIC to crack 64 bit DES keys.

Unless Bitcoin comes to a consensus on the scaling issue, then I see another cryptocurrency replacing it as a PAYMENT system but not as a store of wealth or very large transactions.

That's the thing though, how many have solo mining as their *final* backup on their *own nodes*? Not a solo node like CKs which could be second in line before the final failover options as cks pool is more reliable than most nodes, but the *final* failover option in miner configuration. They could fail over to another pool, but there are few enough of them that a well recourse attacker couldn't take half or more of them down. So yes its made of many miners, but question is how many of them have the failover mode by which I described?

For example:

1. Kano (example)
2. Solo CK
3. Own Node

or

1. Kano
2. Johnny Bravo
3. Solo CK
4. Own Node

or

1. Slush
2. Kano
3. Solo CK
4. Own Node

or

1. MMPool
2. Kano
3. Johnny Bravo
4. Solo CK (de)
5. Own Node

Not just a single failover. As there are not many pools to take down.

This sort of set up. Most miners adding that final option to the mix will greatly protect the network in ways that are rarely discussed. It is needed. If they have the recourses to run a full node of course, if so, why not have it as the failover option!

I think Bitcoin is a great cryptocurrency. I think it has innovation and is way better than many of the pump and dumps following it, however I do have trust in Litecoin also. This post may be controversial but I feel I must air my view and I am sure many repeat it, some will agree and disagree, that's fine but I must say it...

This entire block size issue has grown serious. If one even hopes to solve the scaling issue, there must be consensus. My humble opinion feels that segwit is the best option. All well and good having unlimited block sizes until you have a transaction quantity the size of visa or mastercard and if 1 MB blocks allow around 7? transactions a second, purists will never be able to get widespread adoption without stalling. So no hope of widespread adoption if we follow the 'pure' 1MB blocks route.

If we have a one time increase, its pushing the problem forward until its harder to fix due to a wider userbase. If we have unlimited blocksizes, then the block propagation times will be insane. 100 times the current amount would be 100MB blocks, or 700 transactions a second by my calculations. It nowhere near dents visa or mastercard even there.

All of these are hard forks.

Then you have segwit which adds another layer on top allowing lightning networks or other payment channels. This adds a small increase in blocksize. This is also a soft fork. A Soft Fork. And is adding the best solution yet to the scalability problem by allowing off chain yet secure payment channels which can be pushed to the blockchain if needed. Older nodes can still spend coins they have or that are sent to them. Yes it is tricking older nodes a bit but...

As bitcoin gains widespread adoption, this needs fixing NOW. Not tomorrow, not when its already too late and the userbase is too large. It must be fixed. How can we hope to have widespread adoption with 1MB blocks. One time increases are a Band-Aid. Segwit in my opinion solves this problem. The price increases are lovely, but if it becomes unusable and the chain stalls due to transaction demands... This could set it back a long way. Enough arguing, enough of this rubbish about profits being harmed etc(aimed at some larger pools), there wont be any profits to harm if it crashes due to chain stalling. Burying head in the sand is fine, but it does not stop you drowning when the tide comes in!

If blocks are kept as 1MB, it may become a store of value like gold for serious investors, but never a widespread payment currency. No, segwit is not perfect. But I feel that segwit is the best solution, based on the information above if we wish to use it for payment solution. Or people run the risk of being like people stuck in the 1970s not wanting world change. Things have to move onwards and upwards.

Now we get onto Litecoin. This unlike many altcoins has not been a pump and dump but rightly holds silver to BTC gold. Price has been quite low but STABLE* compared to many crapcoins. Crapcoins bug me enough that I made my own coin, BST (bullshit) and people were already wanting it on an exchange to trade the damn thing but it was fun and I am quite pleased many were mining it for fun as that is all it was and it was fun!

Litecoin I have half of my mining profits paid as on prohashing. I feel that if Litecoin implements segwit first it may 1. Show bitcoin community that it works and 2. Litecoin could be used for general day to day transactions like shopping while BTC is reserved for the larger ones. This is kind of where I feel it could go if Litecoin gains consensus for segwit. If Litecoin does it opens many doors for it, even if not it is a second chain. A potential market backup if something went wrong with Bitcoin's. All eggs in one basket is not a good move.

I have many earnings from clients in both LTC and BTC and use a bitcoin debit card which also I can shapeshift LTC to it if I need to.

I have carefully spent ages reading on solutions from all developers for Bitcoin, and I feel that the core team may not have a perfect solution, but in my eyes it makes sense, in a nutshell because.

1. Keeping blocks at 1 MB will forever wall bitcoin off from being a payment currency for the wider world without great effort. Rules out purists if bitcoin has a future.

2. One time increase is a Band-Aid, same problem as above. Hard fork would again be required later.

3. Unlimited blocks or blocks larger than say 8MB will increase propagation times to stupid amounts as adoption increases, and don't count on mores law to save you with traditional storage devices, something has to give.

4. Segwit is not a perfect solution and as a soft fork involves 'lying' to old nodes in a way. But it is a soft fork so less risky than a hard fork and allows bi directional payment channels, and those purists may still spend coins as they always did without using them should they wish! Yes it may have some stuff to iron out based on what I have read, but I do not see a better solution. I have spent weeks waiting this out and frustration at the sheer lack of consensus.

This is the reason I solo mine as well, because I do not want a pool to decide, I want to decide. No I have not found a block yet and have thrown away electricity, but what Bitcoin could hold for humanity if properly treated is insanely positive.


There is also one last thing. HAVE SOLO MINING ON YOUR OWN NODE AS A FINAL BACKUP FAILOVER IN YOUR MINERS. For the love of the divine creator (pagans) god all mighty (Christians) Allah (muslims) Buddha (Buddhists) etc etc (I am pagan)... I cant emphasize this enough... A DDoS on even a few major pools could spell disaster. Seriously, it could. 9 to 10 pools to DDoS and you stall the chain. Nothing a large botnet could not accomplish. Bitcoin is weak because of this and would not be difficult for a well resourced attacker who had no financial risk in bitcoin to do. At least in this case, you can failover and blocks still get solved by miners who may have otherwise been in a pool, transactions still get propagated and as a result some miners would even get lucky and it is a win win all round. 50PH of miners for example, one or more of those would most likely find blocks as they would have done in the pool. This really is another issue I rarely find discussed. And CK Pool solo could make a great backup and I have some miners there, and more reliable than many nodes but even if you mine there, for a FINAL backup, your own node without the IP address published everywhere. They can DDoS major pools, but cant take down every single node like a shot in the dark.

Maybe another solution would be to have many smaller but still sizable pools, why are some miners mining on antpool for example when there are other smaller ones like johnnys pool? I like Kanos pool also even though I disagree with him on the block size and segwit, it is a small pool compared to many others and many small pools that still have good variance reduction are better than a few large ones for network security and he puts quite a lot of work into his pool. Yes it means delayed gratification on showing earnings on a pool like johnnys, but still its good

This is part rant, part venting, part stating my opinion and part showing my concern for something that has the potential to help so many people and wrestle power back from the powers that were and into the hands of the people. Can the people handle this yet? We will find out. And for the above reasons, I have 50/50 in BTC/LTC. Both currencies have a future and a place, but LTC seems to have its boots on the ground trying to solve this more than major pools are on BTC. Both can co exist, like visa, mastercard and amex do. There are many developers contributing to Bitcoin and that is good. I personally feel the Core team has the best solution at present as it is the only one that makes sense in my own mind, not just NOW but in the Future. The clock is ticking though to get a solution out there.

Note, I am not taking a dig at anyone, just giving my opinion. If I have any facts wrong feel free to correct me, but no one can deny some of the issues I have bought up!

All the posts claiming LTC is dead, yet it is still standing years later. Litecoin is not a coin for quick profits and bucks like many altcoins with value all over the place so one can rarely hope to profit by trading but the price has been relatively stable, which is a key thing in a currency.

It is likely to deploy segwit and have better scaling abilities than Bitcoin does early on. Litecoin acting as a silver to BTC gold is reasonable and quite frankly I trust in LTC as much as BTC, unlike many of the pump/dumps on here. With so many crappy cryptocurrencies everywhere, there are very few with actual value short of a trading/money tool.

I have acquired a BGA IR station and I have some experience in BGA rework.
For mining gear or hardware which may need BGA reworking that is otherwise junk, I would be happy to work on a no-fix no-fee where BGA work is concerned and escrow the cost with ognasty or psychotic boy.

Reballing stencils for some mining gear is probably impossible to obtain, but a good IR station is much better to reflow components than a heat gun (which often warps the board and has no temperature control or profiling)

I originally got interested in BGA rework when my PS3 went YLOD a few years ago.

If anyone would be interested in such a service, I would like to gauge it here! BGA rework is an *** and not many places in this city will touch it with a barge-pole!

If I get enough interest I may start offering it as a service next year.

I found a solution to this very problem.

A wifi repeater with an Ethernet port, get it to connect to the wifi, then use the Ethernet port for your miner or connect it to a simple switch if you wish to use more.

If the shared wifi doesn't allow mining, then do the same set up but the wifi repeater to a cheap mobile hotspot.

If you are going to be running a loud S9 in an isolated area then the cost of this would probably be much cheaper than power costs in the long run putting the miner elsewhere.

P.S I did the router ->  to tp link repeater (wired) -> to mobile hotspot (wireless from tp link repeater to hotspot) while I am waiting for my internet to be installed in the new house, works like a charm!

I got a titan today, and compared to the other one, this one has been able to undervolt to an INSANE degree as compared to the other. While the other did not allow most dies to go below -439v etc, this has allowed most dies to go into the -8XX / -9XX range and below at 300MHz. I have not yet pushed them to 325 MHz as I am currently happy with the insanely low power usage at 300. One cube refuses to go below -9XX range on ANY die without HW errors getting stupid, but that's still good.


I understand component quality, silicon quality / individual chip and its tolerances are at play and even how good the power supply input you are feeding in, ripple among other things. Both titans were batch 1 ( think)

This puppy is able to go much lower than the other, big variance. Power supplies are simple corsair HX platinum.

I consider myself reasonably versed in electronics, the variance is big enough for me to mention it.

Anyone have any ideas to chime in? HW errors are still below 1.2%.

Have I just simply got a 'lucky' titan?

Worth the £800 I paid for this titan, at any rate.

Yeah I changed the algo in the final release, because I had planned sha256 then I decided to change it, mimicking the broken promises of many scam companies:)

To the person who says this coin is a scam, it is the very coin to xpose all scam coins! But your entitled to your opinion, free will n all I couldn't make this coin and purposely pump it, coming from a pagan who always works for the light, making something for that purpose at the expense of others is a very service-to-self and negative polarity! Honestly, the karmic implications of doing so are the equivalent of robbing someone of money... If one purposely pumps to trade, there are losers in that too!

Now onto the Bullshit coin:

To anyone else I am working on getting the source from them so we can look at an exchange, if not I use the source for a scrypt/pos coin and set the same parameters and consensus rules and genesis block hash so I can make it compatible. I never planned for that to be honest because I expected it as a fun token! I am interested in developing it further for fun! Even while it isn't, one can trade it privately or just give it away. I will when this is sorted get logos and stuff sorted out!


This coin is merely intended to be a fun to trade token. POW ends at block 100,000 I will admit I forgot to mention that. With a fair launch and distribution, POS will ensure a secure network! To make it POW all the way will require a hard-fork but no hard forks here! I feel fair launched POW/POS was the best option.

Vlad2Vlad will be proud, but his coin is the real shit. I will never try and compete with SHT.

CrapCoin would be funny, CrapCoin, - CRP.

Good on you for mining so many  blocks, the difficulty is close to reaching 1! I have mined about 70 on my CPU so far. I feel that waiting for diff to rise before properly mining makes this as fair a launch as possible.

This coin is merely for fun, but like any token, be it bitcoin, gold or silver I cannot choose what people tie value to!

As an investment, I implore people not to try pumping this coin for the sake of a quick buck as while there are winners in that trading there are also losers! and don't invest way too much this is intended to be fun, and shit! But, equally maybe it can become the new dogecoin! I am honoured, this is merely fun and to take a pick at those scamcoins. Consider this coin fun! I am honoured people wish to trade it to be honest, absolute bullshit! Sometimes we need some light humor, as the world of crypto has become very serious and in some ways negative polarity and people fighting for position, so this is for a breath of fresh air! I hope satoshi would be proud


For those interested in further developments, we have the forum as well! This is merely designed to be as rare as rocking horse poo for enjoyment! Shame this coin couldn't be used to pay for public toilet access

With only 70 coins, I must be constipated! This does have hard coded seed nodes at node1.bullshitcoin.site and node2.bullshitcoin.site which can be changed if/when needed rather than a simple VPS IP which can be lost!

We enter the darkest day of the year, an awesome time to shine our light bright! Mercury is in retrograde so it is a good time for reflection, going over what we have not yet fully expelled or completed ready for the direct station on January 8!

To any fellow pagans/or even non pagans for every person / entity is equal in the universe, now is a time to light a candle, reflect and shine your light! As of today, the days get longer, the lights get brighter.

On the darkest day,
may our light always shine,
what is old and done shall be cleared,
what is new shall flow in,
in love and light and service to others,
may this sacred time flow.

~So mote it be~

From a pagan who always works with the light, in divine love, light and service to others <3 Now is the time to sit round the table with your family and loved ones and just let it flow!

Happy solstice / yule guys!


P.S I advise do not make investments until after January 8 when mercury stations direct! If you planned it before retrograde as I had (but they failed due to paypal not refunding me monies due so I couldn't buy two miners with them) it should be good. Mercury retrogrades are time to reflect on what you already have or are doing, and especially on the solstice, make the most of that time! If anyone after the 16th has a sudden urge to invest in miners, or anything of the sort let mercury go direct then decide!

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We all know BST is the Real stinky Bullshit, so much that someone has tried to create more bullshit to rip off of the bullshit!

Even better, with the insane premine!


SHT is the first REAL shitcoin rip off of bitcoin and is THE shit.

BST is a rare version of SHT, but is bullshit rather than regular shit, a BTC/LTC analog SHT/BST.

BULLS are a rip off of BST, like a simple Rip-Off but with the premine and attempts to get it listed to an exchange, as like many rip off coins are a scam.

We know that SHT and BST is the real, non-premined, non-scam shit.


But kudos for making another shitcoin, but this is piggy backing off the shitcoin name by being an ACTUAL shitcoin while posing as a real shitcoin, as if we did not have enough bullshit to deal with!

Given that we both made our coins during mercury retrograde, fuck knows what happens when mercury goes direct

That is more than a few lines

Jacob

Sorry that was my bad, I was on mobile

Btw, you did copy my ANN post word for word

THIS IS NOT MY COIN (BST), this IS a copycat coin, even copycatted my ANN post word for word. Write your own

deleted my post have we? 92% premine scam

edit: my bad, chrome browser

^ As quoted in the fake bullshitcoin, he had a PREMINE OF 19 % and hes trying to sell it, this is exactly the sort of thing BST was designed to beat and win! We win guys!!

copied much of my ANN post word for word!

Even more BS is flying!

AND THIS ONE HAS A PREMINE!

Looks like someone has copycatted my BST! BST/SHT are the real shit! Even copied much of my ANN post word for word but added a premine of 19%. Even more bullpoo.

Damn them!

XD

Just so everyone is clear, their coin is not this one but a rip off of my coin name with a 19% premine. Bullshit!