Remember to write somewhere, that he/she/they didn't just "use" this forum, he/she/they made it.

You are literally in Satoshi's forum.

Do you know if any shops at the (new) Istanbul airport accepts bitcoin? The way things are going here, i myself might be visiting there for connection flight in the following months, simply because Turkish Airlines had become such a world class passenger carrier. Of course, if said airline accepted bitcoin, it would save me the annoying exchanging step...

Those are 15 countries (count them), out from nearly 200. You could also count the ones where its regulated...

While it looks "easy" to stamp a banning law, in practice your chances from actually preventing people from using it are nearly zero. Sure, it is an annoyance, and sure, many innocent people would get imprisoned, if they don't know how to cover their tracks. But whatever it is they don't want to occur, cannot be stopped by some words on paper. They cannot shutdown Bitcoin, and they cannot block Bitcoin transactions. If two people from any of those countries privately decide to transfer coins one to another, they will never even know it ever happened. Done properly, that is, not revealing it to others, and using Tor, etc.

At least some countries are properly studying it. One of the things that come to light once you read a little, is that you cannot (really) stop it, so issuing a law against it is pointless and can only do more harm than good. And for the same reason, too much regulation is also pointless.

Bitcoin separates money from State and private institutions, this is precisely what makes it so valuable, even more than gold.

The S9i can still be unlocked using the sd card method, and liberated permanently by switching to Braiins OS (or any of the older firmwares, ie. Dec 2018). In my experience a properly downclocked S9 using bOS can do better (efficiency AND low power use) than the single "magic" LPM ELPM button that tends to break some pools...

Lol Bitmain is a joke, they don't have ANY S9 image for this method. They literally instruct people to use the T9+ image, and THEN after you get that installed, you get to use its web ui to "update into" the S9 image (because the T9+ firmware won't mine at all on the S9).

Given the fortune costumers bring to Bitmain, its downright insulting they don't bother to provide the images for each model directly.

But i have no idea about the S9k, if that method still applies to it as it depends on the controller..


Moral of the story: Never use default passwords. But without ssh access, changing the root password there might be tricky... You'll have to learn the method the malware is using. I wonder if your "hacked" miners have ssh enabled, can you nmap one to see what ports has open?

This sounds like a more fair compromise, i was thinking the exact same thing...

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Perhaps you are already aware of the Slushpool next endeavor: Replacing cgminer with their own fork (also open source) made in the rust language. They are calling it bOSminer i think, and is about to be presented publicly. It was needed among other reasons due to the need to integrate newer hardware, and the lack of interest to update or maintain cgminer from their own developers.

With this it is expected they will add support for more asic miners beyond the S9 and T1. For newer miners i think it will be a matter of time before they get dissected and better understood. I wouldn't expect api compatibility, they will probably change things, but its fully open so you can adjust your monitor for it (again). Yeah i know, but remember it was Bitmain that changed cgminer, not the other way around lol.

It becomes a matter of costs. You are welcome to try and block Bitcoin, good luck with that... You will probably go bankrupt far before becoming a nuisance. Same thing could be said of the aforementioned site which governments and private entities wanted shutdown, but couldn't.

You can theoretically perform a 51% attack to Bitcoin. Do you have what it takes? Your team? Your organization? Your country? Your group of countries?. Once upon a time (Dec 2017 to Mar 2018) Bitcoin suffered some sort of spamming attack with garbage transactions, which artificially inflated tx price. A little change made by core corrected this...

A DoS attack doesn't destroy the data, it simply denies access to it. Decentralization can help here, but blockchain is not really needed. Sure you could do it, if you somehow wanted to preserve for posterity every tiny little change done to articles, even defacement and mistakes that are quickly fixed.

In simpler terms, just having lots of mirrors (ie. "hydra") in the same way sites like piratebay do is enough.

The wikipedia dumps are large already as they are. Perhaps people should familiarize themselves with having off line local wikipedia mirrors. This can be done with a program like XOWA or Kiwix. I wish i had learned about them BEFORE my internet became garbage and metered, now i need to go elsewhere to procure my own offline copy of it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Offline_Wikipedia_readers

The admin can't do everything, that is why he appointed several moderators which are probably the ones enforcing the rules. And even among moderators there are only few with jurisdiction over the entire forum, while most are restricted to a select few areas.

So, you are probably blaming the wrong person lol.

BTW: Forum discussion (about the forum) goes in Meta, not in Off-topic...

Hitler theories do belong here... I doubt he ever went to Argentina, but a few of his men did and into Chile as well escaping the trials living as unknown (fake name) German immigrants for the rest of their lives.

Hitler was offered to move from his bunker before the fall of Berlin into his secure home in the mountains, but he refused. The rest is history...

Anyway, enjoy the autobahn, that's but one of his projects...

The way he used Jews as scapegoat of everything, wasn't too different to what was practiced elsewhere. In America racial segregation was still a thing for over a decade or two after the war. No wonder a few select Germans were taken there, which is how they had their space program and their modern unified ("central") intelligence agency.

Keep blaming a group and some idiots will start committing atrocities against them "in the name of the fatherland"... Weak politicians love to have a scapegoat group, so they can blame any and all mistakes to them... In that case (Nazi Germany), the State ended supporting and even organizing the atrocities.

Too dangerous and prone to mistakes. If this is the same thing used in State surveillance, face alone is not enough. China infamously identifies protesters with the way they walk, probably in combination with the face and other features to reduce somehow false positives.

This face thing is probably in addition to something else, perhaps a smartphone app.

No. I don't think we will ever see the real Satoshi again. It had become part of Bitcoin's mysteries. Every claimer of being "Satoshi" for me means, yet another fake.

The real made this forum, and never returned after writing some hundred messages or so for like a couple of years, mostly development related.

Yes. Thank Bitmain for locking them out of SSH access.

Computer wise nothing, you don't need a computer, except for setting them via web ui in the local network. They should go thru some sort of router/firewall like most normal LAN setups.

Forget immersion cooling, not worth it.

I have seen that as well. Wrong sensor readings, than can even trigger the overheating protection and cause the unit to reboot constantly, even if "most" of the time the readings appear normal.

Indeed bOS would be a good solution if you don't want to replace an otherwise perfectly good hashboard. And yes, always test them one by one, and make sure to swap power and data cables around just to make sure. Tests should last an hour at least, look at those values.

I have seen that long ago, even Openbsd does it at first (ssh init?) boot (if you don't move the mouse it simply takes longer). Also noticeably Keepass and other password managers, before generating a random password.

I don't think they use only the mouse, but a combination of sources, just to make random more random

Depending on what kind of "protection" you want. The simplest and cheapest is just cut the power when the fluctuation exceeds a threshold. For miners this might be good enough, and certainly better than nothing (as most miners operations are). There is a variant of this with adjustable timers for when to restore power, make sure to use these, you don't want hundreds of units coming on at precisely the same time...

As for actual power correction (as in transformer) which you seem to seek, its very expensive and unscalable for large operations. You already had one of those so you already know how expensive they are, but yes they'll do a great job protecting your PSUs.

When the large miner is faced between the price of replacing a PSU or purchasing one of these for each unit, you can guess what the answer is.

But the simplest ones that just cut power and have an adjustable timer for restoring it, should not be neglected.

Don't bother with UPS, for the same reason solar power users shouldn't bother with batteries and stick to their grid tie inverter. Batteries are too expensive and die too quickly (3 years). Except perhaps Tesla's powerwall, but those are probably too expensive and unnecessary anyway.

They always do...

I wonder what type of economy he learned about. Something tells me, it was central planned economy... He literally forbade inflation, like the Roman emperors of the past, with the exact same results...

Good riddance i guess. He even visited my country once, applauded by "the left".

It has more to do with the failure of the others. And never forget, Islam hates atheism the most.

You could look at it this way: If you don't return to God by the love of Jesus, you will by the sword of Muhammad.

Christianity had a chance, but has failed. Same as the Jewish. Islam itself may be failing as well, and the time to unite them all is near.

You could also say God is eternal, and even religions may come and go, regardless of what you believe. But to not believe, means you are denying your own existence in a faith of non believing, as you cannot tell where you come and where you are going, which is the reason of all.

You can take a look at Localbitcoins for more updated prices.

While 100 million satoshis make one bitcoin, you need 200 million bolivars for one bitcoin. That means, you need 2 bolivars to buy 1 satoshi.

To make it simple assume 1 BTC = 10k $, so you just move 4 zeroes and then its half that: 0.00005 USD.

Incidentally in the "parallel" market it was about 25k VES per USD, so 1 VES = 0.00004 USD.

With 40k being the "minimum monthly wage", you can already discover our min wages are 1 USD per month, with better jobs giving you, maybe 2...

The VES was "created" exactly one year ago with pomp by Maduro claiming victory over imperialist America as the "last ever" coin. 1 VES = 100000 VEF. 1 USD was about 6 of those IIRC.

Like everything else he promises, falling short would be a gentle description of his monetary policy results, which is an absolute disaster, worst in history of this country.

Don't worry, surpassing the Dong will be a piece of cake, its been about 20k (per USD) since 2011, we only reached 20k like a week ago, give it a couple of weeks...

Lol no. VPN was intended to make your "local" network not local. Ie. a company with many branches all their computers to be part "of the same LAN" but in reality be in separate (distant) places. It wasn't intended for anti-censorship or privacy, but it can be somewhat useful for that, because you are technically using the router of this virtual network, which, can happen to be located in a different country. Oh and its encrypted, that helps too.

This is important because you must know what it was truly designed for and is not really against. Anti-censorship software is something like Tor, which was designed with that intent.

As for Linux, there is a reason to use an AV there, which is to disinfect malware ridden files from windows users, such as in a mail server scan attachments, etc. No way any malware would execute there, of course. Another example would be to clean the typical infected USB thumb/stick without formatting it. Not that it would be needed for Linux itself, malware for Linux is rare because it (usually) needs (a lot of) user interaction.

Various forum members have. That information is actually available somewhere within the subsections in the Mining section of the forum.

While the M20 has less power requirements, i think it still needs 2300W which is far more than the usual 1400W of an S9. Do read in the Mining Hardware section about the M20 and the M20S.