Thanks so much, the S7 needs 10 pcie 6 pin plugs correct? At 400watt per boards, 2 plugs per boards would be logically safe, but with 3 per boards you further increase the safety margin. It would be good to keep in mind that, if you don't plug all 3 plugs per board, you void your warranty. I have no idea how they could possibly know that, but better safe than sorry. TLDR: Yes 10 PCI-e 6 pin plugs. |
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So long as your antenna is from a 2.4GHz device (most will be) then yes you just need the pigtail.
Rich
What would happen if i put a 2.2ghz antenna on it? Will it inhibit, or still help a little bit? I remember seeing 2.2ghz and 2.4ghz antennas and i don't remember which one i bought :S |
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of course send money super fast anywhere in the world is good, but also whit paypal you can send money everiwhere in the world whit a internet connection,
And you pay something like 12% in fee. Then you pay for a poor exchange rate, for example when CAD to USD is 0.76 paypal give you 0.73. Overall Paypal is a extremely expensive way to transfer money and its why Bitcoin is so special. You can do it while ignoring all the bureaucratic loops that will take all your money. |
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1) How do people think that bitcoin is actually anonymous? You would have to buy them with your debit card/credit card in which banks have your information... why would you think that this stuff is actually anonymous and could be used in such a way?
There are other fairly anonymous ways to buy bitcoin like from forum members or other face-to-face deals. After you have bought bitcoin, there are also means to loose the trail of your coins, making it harder for people to track your spending and ownership. Some would tell you that bitcoin is pseudo anonymous, I would say you can make bitcoin as anonymous as you need. Just be careful buying bitcoins face to face in the US using localbitcoins. The newest fashion over there are undercover agents that are meeting people over localbitcoins and then arresting them and charging them. Freaking unbelievable! Is that for real? I would imagine that that would only be applicable to people in NY due to the new laws regarding Bitcoin... Right? Just one of the threads that you can find online.. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=543688That sound unbelievable. Its as if the government is trying to scare people out of Bitcoin. I'm guessing if you previously declared your BTC revenue then you could be okay but if you just buy some Bitcoin to buy stuff with it, then its in no way an income and they're going to ignore your civil rights and just charge you? Thats disgusting. |
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So wait, reading through this thread, even if you have a free electricity and you buy the latest miners, S7 for example, you will not be able to get any profits and ROI? How the heck is this possible?
I think that the problem with the S7 as i so vocally say is that its too expensive, so you *will* ROI it but it could take a very long time. Meanwhile you can get the same hashrate with 3 S5's for less than half the price, which means you may ROI three pr four times faster because of the difficulty will be lower during your term. S3 and even S1 would do great. The upside of S1 is you can get them by the bucket, but it make for more management. The upside for both S3 and S1 is you can fit antennas so you can spread them around the house as quiet housewarmer for the winter. |
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So today I spent a bit more time with a multi-chip board, a PCB I had worked up a while back but never actually got around to testing. Only problem with it is the topology isn't quite right so I'm having to jumper a few things, but I want it working to test some node-level stuff I'll need to know before I can work up a pod miner. Right now I have two chips on there, but the second chip doesn't initialize reliably. I wasn't sure if that was hardware or software so I grabbed an old two-chip test board and fired it up (UART adapter to stock cgminer) and it lit up both chips from the get-go so it must be a hardware issue. I hope to work on it more tomorrow, get at least four chips to light up which should tell me pretty much everything I need to know for the 8-chip layout I have planned. Maybe when it's working I'll put up some pictures. The fun thing about using cgminer is apparently U3 code shares out work differently than these chips require because, while I can get it to initialize two chips off the U3 driver, the second chip returns the same shares as the first so while I see two chips' hashrate I only see one chip's WU and multiple errors per second because cgminer labeles duplicates as errors. The pod survey is still open over here, where I'm looking at community/customer interest in a BM1384-based pod miner. Like the Compac, this will basically be considered a dev step that becomes a full product; it'll include all of the controls we'd put on a larger board and give a bit more data on topology and efficiency without having to build a whole big board. I think the survey results no matter what is take our money  . Only thing I hope with pods is possibly a limit of 1 per person at start. I really want a chance of getting one and know it will be a limited amount. But I am still willing to pre-order once you do decide to sale. And I think a lot of others will to once you decide to start selling. But I respect your decision on whatever you decide. I'd be interested but i can't do it with the expensive shipping if its only one unit. I could give a dead S5 board + money and that would be possibly enough for nearly 4 pods, which would then be doable. I think you missed the idea behind the dead board. Re-read the topic here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1203190.0Shipping 1x dead S5 board would be payment for 1 pod (I believe). Sidehack can confirm If I'm reading it right. But I do not think shipping in 1 dead board get's you 4 pods. The other chips would be "recycled" and sold in other pods. And you get one for the dead board. I said one dead board, enough chips for 3 pods and a bit more assuming they would all be in working condition and to that add money to cover the rest. Since i am supplying my own chips, i'd be taking idealistically under 1 pod worth of supplies from sidehack, hereby leaving plenty to others. So i'm pretty sure i did not miss the idea behind the dead board. The idea is he only has chips for 50 pods. If i supply him the parts, i do not see a problem. |
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Most secure wallet is blockchain.info. They encrypt everything in our browser and they store nothing as raw data.
I'am not a professional and that's why I made this topic however this is the worst advice you could give to someone i guess , all someone need to do to get millions of dollar that are stored in blockchain is to attack the location where the physicals servers are then run a cracker .. and we all know how easy the passwords used by people these days . If someone hacks your funds from blockchain server side, will blockchain fill your wallet with the missed bitcoins? I haven't heard anyone, but i see that blockchain.info blocks their users accounts so i think it should be a trick to steal peoples funds!!! If someone hacks the physicals server then it would be the .dat files and he won't need Two factor authentication or anything like that , he will just crack the passwords and with the amount of wallets they have , they will definitly make few millions . Well the password wouldn't be a password, it would be a physical encryption key. To be fair i'm not sure properly secured funds can be ever hacked or stolen, you'd need to find a vulnerability in how the internal transaction works and stealing millions would be somewhat impossible if they store 95-99% of all the bitcoins in cold storage, as they should. |
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So today I spent a bit more time with a multi-chip board, a PCB I had worked up a while back but never actually got around to testing. Only problem with it is the topology isn't quite right so I'm having to jumper a few things, but I want it working to test some node-level stuff I'll need to know before I can work up a pod miner. Right now I have two chips on there, but the second chip doesn't initialize reliably. I wasn't sure if that was hardware or software so I grabbed an old two-chip test board and fired it up (UART adapter to stock cgminer) and it lit up both chips from the get-go so it must be a hardware issue. I hope to work on it more tomorrow, get at least four chips to light up which should tell me pretty much everything I need to know for the 8-chip layout I have planned. Maybe when it's working I'll put up some pictures. The fun thing about using cgminer is apparently U3 code shares out work differently than these chips require because, while I can get it to initialize two chips off the U3 driver, the second chip returns the same shares as the first so while I see two chips' hashrate I only see one chip's WU and multiple errors per second because cgminer labeles duplicates as errors. The pod survey is still open over here, where I'm looking at community/customer interest in a BM1384-based pod miner. Like the Compac, this will basically be considered a dev step that becomes a full product; it'll include all of the controls we'd put on a larger board and give a bit more data on topology and efficiency without having to build a whole big board. I think the survey results no matter what is take our money . Only thing I hope with pods is possibly a limit of 1 per person at start. I really want a chance of getting one and know it will be a limited amount. But I am still willing to pre-order once you do decide to sale. And I think a lot of others will to once you decide to start selling. But I respect your decision on whatever you decide. I'd be interested but i can't do it with the expensive shipping if its only one unit. I could give a dead S5 board + money and that would be possibly enough for nearly 4 pods, which would then be doable. |
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Dear loyal customers,
We're sorry to inform you that we didn't make the shipment of some orders today as promised. When we did the last spot check, we found some issues which cannot be delivered to you directly, engineers are working on it now and shipment should be arranged before end of next week.
Due to this trouble, we'd like to offer you the compensation following 97.5%*PPS payment according to the total hash rate of miners in order, starting from Oct. 11 Hong Kong Time, till the real shipping out date(which is not included), with electricity cost deducted at the price of $0.098/KWH.
The accounting unit is Bitcoin in the calculating, while USD is considered as a foreign currency. The day to day exchange rate will be get from Bitstamp daily average.
The final payment will be after we have collected your payment address, and we will inform you the way to confirm your receiving address with us.
After collect all the necessary info, we'll process the refund by batches, please wait for update patiently.
Thank you very much for an update, it is very much appreciated. What about the difference between B1 and the others, will anything be done to accommodate the pricing differences? Ufo Sounds like no coupons. Wow I guessed wrong complexity on this. Never guessed they would do PPS on day's till ship that is a new way for BM for sure. I am pretty shocked right now. Not sure about everyone else on this. Hmm well thats interesting. I didn't expect lost miner time income compensation. Id complain about the 0.1$/kWh but then again at current difficulty and the efficiency of the S7, that won't amount in too much. I'm guessing they stopped shipping because they had so many bad units. I think you are reading something into this wrong. I think it was that they did not have the unit's. They shipped under spec one's they just sent emails asking if it was ok for X compensation. So they did ship those out to they did not only ship grade A out. It likely was they did not have them, or out of chips or something holding up the process. My train of thoughts was; Bitmain open order for X units. When X units order is filled they get an issue that disallow them to ship all the units as they would of been supposed to. A potential explanation would be either something happen with a batch at the manufacturer, or they decided to only send units that do 4.6/4.77+THs. |
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Well, are you betting gold will double in value in the next few years? I think gold is a good store of value, but unless a gold shortage happen, the value will most not likely raise by all that much.
If BTC goes up to only 400$, then that is a great investment to make right now. But if you wish for physical good that will merely retain their value, then gold/silver and toilet paper it is.
Like I said earlier, gold is not just a commodity for me that just have a value but we also have jewelry made of gold and that's worth much more than the bitcoins I hold in a wallet. I am almost 100% sure that Gold being used for the past 100 years will continue to hold value for another 100 years but will Bitcoins be able to survive so long? It would make me look delusional if I say that bitcoins would last for so long. About doubling the price, it's just a guess that the price would be $400 after 2-3 years but if we take into account the price in 2013, now the price is 25% the value it was then. If the price does reach $400, it would still be a loss for those who bought bitcoins when it was worth $1000. On the other hand, the price of gold has not reached -75% of its amount in 2013 (1 kg is now worth $38,532 and the percentage difference in 2 years is -10% approximately) . The price is stable which matters a lot while we decide what's preferred Gold or Bitcoins. You clearly have no idea what you'r'e talking about. Gold has been the 'gold standard' as a medium of exchange for thousands of years. If you look at gold's history, there has been hugely volatile rides in price throughout the years. https://www.tradingview.com/x/0gCBfwtm/Check this chart out of GOLD during the 80's boom and subsequent decline.. Even though gold is a global commodity, it really is in the control of very few entities. The scale of their games is simply much larger. But the end goal exactly the same. At the end of the day, where you choose to put your money is up to you, each and every asset is exposed to 'market forces' whether its Commodities, currencies or stocks. Some just fluctuate less on smaller time frames. If you zoom out and look at the bigger picture, there's always a bunch of people getting screwed. In a zero-sum game, there's only very few winners, and those exact wins are on the backs of the majority losing. Gold will retain value no matter what happen, short of human extinction. While fiat or any currency really that has no value by itself has risks. The US economy could collapse, BTC could get attacked in a big scale way by governments, etc. |
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Dear loyal customers,
We're sorry to inform you that we didn't make the shipment of some orders today as promised. When we did the last spot check, we found some issues which cannot be delivered to you directly, engineers are working on it now and shipment should be arranged before end of next week.
Due to this trouble, we'd like to offer you the compensation following 97.5%*PPS payment according to the total hash rate of miners in order, starting from Oct. 11 Hong Kong Time, till the real shipping out date(which is not included), with electricity cost deducted at the price of $0.098/KWH.
The accounting unit is Bitcoin in the calculating, while USD is considered as a foreign currency. The day to day exchange rate will be get from Bitstamp daily average.
The final payment will be after we have collected your payment address, and we will inform you the way to confirm your receiving address with us.
After collect all the necessary info, we'll process the refund by batches, please wait for update patiently.
Thank you very much for an update, it is very much appreciated. What about the difference between B1 and the others, will anything be done to accommodate the pricing differences? Ufo Sounds like no coupons. Wow I guessed wrong complexity on this. Never guessed they would do PPS on day's till ship that is a new way for BM for sure. I am pretty shocked right now. Not sure about everyone else on this. Hmm well thats interesting. I didn't expect lost miner time income compensation. Id complain about the 0.1$/kWh but then again at current difficulty and the efficiency of the S7, that won't amount in too much. I'm guessing they stopped shipping because they had so many bad units. |
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Hey there, I have a gridseed miner and every 2 or more days bfgminer (any version) said GSD 0 failed to send work. The other blade is working fine. So I found out that CGMiner has an "detect sick or dead" devices option, but this stupid program doesn't recorgnize this error. So anyone know there are any other programs that could observer the log or something like that to reboot the system if this error occured? Greetings Kulturnilpferd  Personally i use the M's Miner Monitor; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=596178.0It handle Gridseed G Black it look like, but i don't know if thats what you have or if its compatible. Also if a hardware go haywire, sometime the only way to fix the issue is a controller reboot which only work if its run by a controller. Or powercycling the unit. |
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Verifying Bitcoin signatures online is ludicrous to me. Why do we have wallets that we know are safe and will do the job?
This is like verifying SHA sums online, it beats every purpose of doing it!
Oh well..
I think wallets that function online can be very handy in certain situations where you don't have your main software availible, like you are traveling or something. It's good to have some spare change "in the cloud". Other than that, it's not safe. Brainwallet being closed is a proof of that. But the point of verifying a message is only relying on your own trust of yourself to verifying the authenticity. If you use a 3rd party, you're again putting that trust into someone else's hand. Signing messages is a way to avoid that. |
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Ok, so my girlfriend has recently asked me why I have been online for a while, and told her about the forum and why I invest my time and money into bitcoin/cryptos and it's forum. She had a list of questions for me which I couldn't seem to give her the best answer to and found myself stumbling to come up with a short and direct answer. She has asked the questions below and I would like to get an answer for each so I could tell her in a very easy way for me and her to understand. I reworded her questions into away in which it would make the most sense.
1) How do people think that bitcoin is actually anonymous? You would have to buy them with your debit card/credit card in which banks have your information... why would you think that this stuff is actually anonymous and could be used in such a way?
2) How many people develop bitcoin? If it's a decentralized currency then if these people control how the currency works, how would that make it decentralized?
3) If it is a currency that can be used in a sort of anonymous way, then how can governments regulate it in a way to make sure that people aren't funding bad organizations like ISIS and drug lords? "Harpua" has told me about what silk road was and the way the darknet markets work, but how can this be prevented?
4) My dad works in a government facility where he deals with high clearance documents in a high security facility. His organization has just been recently hacked by the Chinese government and lost dozens of top secret information including SS#'s, locations of the homes of workers, basically any personal information about the workers of his business and his families (which includes me). How can cryptocurrencies ever be a secure enough form of transactions where governments and top notch hackers can't just find a way to hack into the blockchain database?
I found myself trying to sell her on why this form of currency is important and why it should be used. But I couldn't find a reason why it is important without getting to sketchy businesses that need a sort of anonymous payment; like darknet sites. Any simple explanations would be of real help, and she'll probably have more questions for you guys in the long run... we've been drinking and I'm trying to introduce her into the world of crypto which I have just been introduced to myself... Thanks. 1)Okay... Bitcoin is not anonymous. It is pseudo-anonymous. And many obtain BTC without using debit/credit card. For example i mine it, so its completely anonymous, but BTC itself is not fully anonymous because of the complete traceability between transactions. There are way to go around this however. 2)BTC isint being managed by a company. Anyone can post a new version and the network will vote to jump on it or not. Not just the corebitcoin wallet devloppers do this. Proof is how many wallet there are out there. 3)You can't prevent crime using Bitcoin. Or cash. Or laundering money through shell corp. BTC is a criminal's currency is a fallacy. 4)The database is public, hacking to access this information would be pointless. The security lies in how impossible it is to crack the encryption. You'd need to brute force against #e57 values that would take literally forever. |
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Hello everyone!
i am new to BTC. I am from Pakistan and finding it hard to start with the BTC. Any useful information how to start from scratch if i am from a 3rd world county? Thanks a lot in advance.
It doesn't matter much where do you live honestly , as long as you have a good English and enough knowledge about Bitcoin you should be ready to go however you will need a little investment from your side . (Let's say 0.17 BTC or above) which you should buy as a start . Once you do that , head to the Digital goods section and buy Senior member account then enroll on a signature compaign that pays well (make sure that the account have good quality of posting then enroll on signature compaigns like Bit-x which pays per constructive post) . Now if you don't want to invest , you will need to have some Skills to start with (e.g Photoshop , web developer , Mobile apps developer etc ..) which are needed and you will get a lot of customers if you are good on what you are doing (Post your services on "Services" section ) I guess you should have some skills ,from what I saw on Freelancer.com most of people are from Pakistan and Indian  Feel free to ask more questions if you have any . About Bit-x, be sute to post mainly on Bitcoin and Economy boards or you will be denied (like I was). Also, if you want to have a quick overview of your post quality, try this tool : http://www.bctalkaccountpricer.info/. Just enter your UID (User ID) and it will tell you your potential activity and the most important your estimated post quality. To know your UID, just click on your profile on one of your posts. You can also go to your profile, and then click on "Show general statistics for this member." and the number at the end of the URL is your UID. Ah very nice tool! I'm not sure what the criteria are like... Just length or syntax/grammar/orthography too. But i guess this give a good idea of where you stand in term of chances of getting accepted in a sig campaign. Here's a sample output; Posts: 1846
Activity: 280
Potential Activity: 280
Post Quality: Excellent Also sometimes Bit-X recruit a tons of user in one batch. Like i think Marco recruited like 10 in a short time before closing signups. Timing your application may be worth keeping an eye on the thread as well. |
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Hold bitcoin for as long as you can. All I have to say. Dont be tempted to gamble to increase your bitcoin.
You can make good profit with mining too if you have cheap electricity. Earning more BTC is better on the long term than just holding the same value for years. Doubling your BTC per year should be doable and a good target if you want to retire with BTC later on. Assuming BTC get mainstream adoption. |
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The good news on banks focusing on this crap is that they are putting their energy into a dead end, so in the meantime you can focus on obtaining cheaper Bitcoins. If all the banks jumped on the Bitcoin blockchain the price would raise too much. It's actually a good thing to have a low price for people like us that don't have that many BTC so we can stack them properly.
Its not a deadend. Its blockchain technology in a sense that's absolutely not related to Bitcoin. You can rest easy, banks have no interest in jumping on BTC, they live on FIAT. The blockchain technology however will be very yummy for them. Not that it will change much for customers for a long time. |
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We'll see an increase because a lot of people will fall for the hype. Although, I don't expect it to go x10 like last time. Something more modest like x3.
It didnt go 10x it stayed at 12~13$ for 2 months then went to 15-18$ over even more time. Then it kept going up slow up MtGox's inflated the numbers artificially, and then it dropped in big crashes eventually to sub 200$. Where everyone was panicking... but didnt realized that compared to the pre mt-gox price, that was pretty good. |
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Most secure wallet is blockchain.info. They encrypt everything in our browser and they store nothing as raw data.
I'am not a professional and that's why I made this topic however this is the worst advice you could give to someone i guess , all someone need to do to get millions of dollar that are stored in blockchain is to attack the location where the physicals servers are then run a cracker .. and we all know how easy the passwords used by people these days . If someone hacks your funds from blockchain server side, will blockchain fill your wallet with the missed bitcoins? I haven't heard anyone, but i see that blockchain.info blocks their users accounts so i think it should be a trick to steal peoples funds!!! Blockchain.info isint the blockchain. Its just another services. So if they get hacked and they are not insured, you're fucked... Go with cold storage or Coinbase if you absolutely need a online service. |
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