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2941  Local / Minerit / Re: Se merita achizitionarea uni miner Antminer S9i 14 THs Minat in 2022 on: July 27, 2022, 01:54:04 PM
Buna ziua vreau sa incep a investi in miner si as vrea sa stiu daca se merita in 2022 sa incep cu unul singur si daca pot scoate profit chiar in prim luna sunt strans tare cu banii. Undecided

Pai in primul rand conteaza pretul curentului. Si daca sunt corecte calculele din postarea anterioara, deja stam rau. Apoi, as aduga ca si daca ai avea profit, ar fi mic, insuficient chiar si pentru a plati pentru aparat din primele cateva luni. As mai adauga ca:
* pretul curentului este subventionat si probabil va crese mult in primavara; deci si daca ai avea un mic profit anul asta, la anul nu va mai fi cazul
* tine cont ca aparatele de minat produc mult zgomot si caldura, deci probabil ca nu vei dori sa minezi acasa.


Am facut si eu un calcul cu https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator/bitmain-antminer-s9i
Verifica si tu cu pretul de pe ultima ta factura de curent (eventual vezi cu regula de 3 simpla, ca altfel o sa te incurci cu toate taxele care se adauga peste pretul cel frumos de la furnizor)
Mie mia iesit ca, la pretul curent al BTC si al curentului, as pierde daca as mina.
2942  Local / Română (Romanian) / Re: Concursuri/tombole pe bitcointalk (sau pe aprope) on: July 27, 2022, 01:33:46 PM
Fiuuu... ar fi trist sa fie asa... nu are cum! Poate ca ar fi mai bine sa te duci direct la oficiul postal si sa vorbesti cu dirigintele...? Zic si eu... Ii arati si lui AWB-ul, apoi poate ca te va ajuta sa gasesti coletul... Sau sa iei direct legatura cu firma de curierat care l-a adus pana la Otopeni...?

Ii mai dau cateva zile, sa treaca intr-adevar luna, si o sa incep sa ii intreb de sanatate.

Ce nu inteleg insa este de ce sa faci pauza aceasta... Chiar si sa fi fost ratacit coletul, cred ca este o situatie destul de rara totusi... Din cauza asta vrei sa renunti? De teama ca s-ar putea pierde si altele...?

Cam da. Adica si iau sansa altuia, si platesc pentru transport, mai deranjez si oamenii sa se dea peste cap sa trimita, mai si sper.. ca sa raman cu buzele umflate? Mai bine pas.

Imi pare rau sa aud ! Stiu cum e  Sad

Am patit si eu ceva asemanator. Trebuia sa vina la Posta Vamala dar dupa ce am mai vorbit e posibil sa fi venit la alt oficiu postal si nu am fost notificat. Cand am vorbit dincolo deja trecusera 1-2 luni si nu mai aveau/stiau nimic despre colet. Sau pentru ca era un briceag a ramas la vama... nu stiu.

Mie mi-a fost trimis fara tracking si adresa de retur. Deci e praduit deja cu siguranta.

Mda, asta este posta noastra de stat. Exact la fel de serioasa cam ca orice din tara asta.
2943  Local / Română (Romanian) / Re: Concursuri/tombole pe bitcointalk (sau pe aprope) on: July 27, 2022, 12:50:38 PM
Avem un concurs nou!

Multumim!
Bafta sa ai!

Momentan o sa iau o pauza de la concursuri, cel putin cele din State si ma gandesc ce sa fac.
Poate stii ca am castigat un concurs anul asta. Mi-a fost trimis si... deja de o luna AWB-ul arata ca a ajuns la Otopeni, dar Posta Romana nu il "vede". Sper ca nu mi l-au furat astia de la Posta sau mai stiu eu ce...  Sad
2944  Economy / Services / Re: Payment middleman services for Russian products on: July 27, 2022, 12:33:11 PM
I need to pay for a product in Russia (all legal, just hard to get here in West) but the seller only accepts payments via card or Russian payment providers like robokassa/yandexpay/qiwi (which reject all western cards).
Tried to find a way around but it seems all normal services have banned transfers to Russia.

Most Russian banks are no longer part of SEPA hence the payment cannot get thru.

But I am not sure why you don't pay with bitcoin.

Or, another thing that comes into my mind would be bestchange, which is an aggregator of various exchanges that buy/sell bitcoin, most of those being Russian (I think) and will probably offer also qiwi, yandex and so on.

LE: A quick check there has shown that even PayPal USD to Qiwi RUR is possible. However, I don't vouch for those platform, be careful and don't work with big amounts until you're sure they're indeed reliable.
2945  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin 2017 : 20,000$ - Bitcoin 2022 : 20,000$ on: July 27, 2022, 12:21:42 PM
The ATH of this cycle was only 3.5 and it seems very unlikely that we will beat it.

From the current price, getting back to last ATH and some more, no matter it's "only" +50% (to get over the much expected 100k), is imho in the books for "explode"  Wink
Actually getting even near to last ATH would already be wonderful, since everything bigger that what banks, gold or stocks offer is already very good.
2946  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Binance temporary suspending Bitcoin network on: July 26, 2022, 08:40:07 PM
Indeed, lately exchanges often carry out periodic maintenance, until it takes a matter of hours and some up to days, I think what Binance said in the quote above makes sense, they have to adjust some features and withdrawal and deposit fees.

I think that it may be related to a possible exploit CZ said they've found at another exchange (heh). They may have ensured the same problem cannot happen at Binance.

Of course, they turned a news about a possible problem into a news about maintenance and an advertising...


On a more serious note, our security team just discovered an incident at another major exchange.  Not directly fund related. Info leak related, but could easily lead to fund losses. We have informed them.



Did he win that lawsuit against Nikkei when he accused them of unprofessional journalism and misleading facts about Binance losing its right to operate in Japan?
Did he win the lawsuit against Forbes? no, he decided to drop it and rather than that spend money on buying it, which can be labeled as the same sketchiness he was accused of every single time.

(He thinks) he's a rock star. Or politician. Every news about him is good or ends up in a lawsuit. Anything else doesn't matter. Shhhh.
2947  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin 2017 : 20,000$ - Bitcoin 2022 : 20,000$ on: July 26, 2022, 07:47:19 PM
Think Bitcoin has lost its bullish momentum? It feels like now continuing to hold BTC is pointless ...

If you don't trust Bitcoin enough to believe its price will explode again, be my guest and sell. Nobody forces you hold.
There are many very happy to buy. For some now it's crypto winter, for other it's summer sales.

However, I have a hunch that you made this post to convince others sell, so they basically sell to you or, more likely, your employer.
2948  Other / Politics & Society / Re: European Union looks to Nigeria for Gas to replace Russian supplies on: July 26, 2022, 07:38:29 PM
Of course, Putin uses gas as a weapon.

I'm genuinely surprised you admit that.

Be patient, it will get worse, much worse.

I know it will. I don't trust politicians, no matter what's their color. But I guess you also know/expect that it will be worse for both sides.
2949  Economy / Economics / Re: More investment in Tokamaks and hot fusion is required on: July 26, 2022, 07:34:49 PM
This is plasma, the pressure is not as big as you might imagine, ITER operates at a maximum achievable 2.6 atm.
https://www.psfc.mit.edu/news/2016/pressure-record-faq

I am not that knowledgeable in the matter (hence I may be wrong), but the plasma may be only a first step.
I don't know if 2.6 ATM is enough to fuse H2 into He and/or split He into H2 (isn't this that's supposed to happen on long term?)

So basically even if one would explode it will still be contained, there is no way for the amount of energy in a fusion reactor to keep building to generate a larger explosion, that energy build-up would again quench the reaction.

Here I agree, just, as I said, I expect to see there much much more than 2.6 ATM (and also "a bit" of heat).

Humanity has spent millennia dreaming about flying, now it's a trivial thing, the first electric car is more than one century old but they were considered impractical for most of the time till now.

And we dreamed about flying to the stars and no luck yet, and we dreamed about running cars with water and no luck yet (although solar panels + water => hydrogen may not be that far from that).
Some dreams came true, some others not. Or not yet.
I do hope I'm too pessimistic and we get to have free energy with basically unlimited supply, maybe even during my lifetime. But I won't hold my breath for that.
2950  Other / Politics & Society / Re: European Union looks to Nigeria for Gas to replace Russian supplies on: July 26, 2022, 07:16:13 PM
I don't understand Europe's whining about Gazprom.

Of course you don't, since you chose to trust Putin's propaganda instead of fact-checking everything.
Of course you don't, since you chose to ignore everybody who tells that Putin uses the gas as a war weapon.

But yeah, I don't know why I'm even answering. But at least I won't answer to your friend.
2951  Economy / Economics / Re: More investment in Tokamaks and hot fusion is required on: July 26, 2022, 01:40:59 PM
Nuclear fusion is the dream of scientists for quite some time now, and while it sounds great, .. I don't know...
* I don't know if it's indeed possible to be done (to run independently virtually forever) because of its requirements for pressure and starting energy, plus some other conditions I don't know (longest run was under 10 minutes)
* I don't know how (in)secure such a construction would be, since releasing such a pressure means .. a big bomb.
2952  Other / Meta / Re: Spam reserved post, edit later to hit post quota is back on: July 26, 2022, 01:36:07 PM
However, it should be a paid service, not free one. So I think managers will less likely to use it.

I expect good managers find that out. Actually good managers may not allow such users into campaign in the first place...
Bad managers don't care already, so they won't pay for such a feature.

All we can do is for the sake of the forum (since such behavior is abnormal and leads to shitposts) and clean the weed, but, in my idea, an actual rule is also needed so the mods have the reason to actually remove those when reported. A bot will be a later step (some mods have their own bots too helping in the cleanup work).
2953  Other / Meta / Re: Spam reserved post, edit later to hit post quota is back on: July 26, 2022, 01:23:58 PM
Maybe we should have a rule that only the OP can add "reserved" posts into his topic and a bot should have a list of keywords and report the rest of "reserved" posts at sight?
.. Just an idea I've got now...

Edit: of course, if mods choose to not remove those, not much that can be done.
2954  Other / Politics & Society / Re: European Union looks to Nigeria for Gas to replace Russian supplies on: July 26, 2022, 12:56:27 PM
Whatever ministers from RF say, it is meaningless.

No matter who is telling what. Some are clueless and the rest are blatantly lying.



Now Gasprom has found another motif to cut the gas: an alleged problem with a turbine.
Russia’s Gazprom to slash gas to Germany, as Putin fosters uncertainty in Europe
I wonder where will be the end of this sad game.
2955  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Ledger Nano S balance suddenly double on: July 26, 2022, 12:46:34 PM
but I guess that's a dark thought that haunts anyone who has a significant amount of funds in any crypto wallet.

Imho really significant amounts should stay on cold storage, not even hardware wallets - especially those you have to update online every now and then and especially if one is knowledgeable enough to set that up. Am I too paranoid?
2956  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Tether, Bitfinex & Hypercore launch P2P app with Bitcoin LN payments on: July 26, 2022, 12:04:15 PM
Will you trust its creator and use it?

Unfortunately I don't expect it to get much traction. People will prefer the free audio-video calls, no matter how centralized they are and how much data is stored about them. So I expect the new app will be very far from Skype, WhatsApp, Teams, Google meet or Zoom. And I'm sure my list is far from complete, only in picking the really big ones.

And as the others said:
* not the shadiest companies, by far
* closed source, so they can claim anything

And my answer: most probably no, since the few people I do video call with already have their preferences (or requirement!)
2957  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: (beginner) Why a node should be honest ? on: July 26, 2022, 11:51:50 AM
Hi, I'm a complete noob and I start doing my researches about Bitcoin. The answer to my question is probably so obvious that it appears nobody really talk about it...

Why a Bitcoin node should be validing a transaction honestly ?

I mean, if I understand correctly, there are the miners who create the new blocs and the nodes who verify the transactions. But why should a node be honest ? What's the rewards for that ? Are all the nodes receiving a tiny fraction of the bitcoins which afterwards come to the miner's pocket or something similar ?

Thank you for your attention.

Let's say some nodes are not honest. What can they gain from that? Nothing.
The miners must be connected to honest nodes because if they don't they may get the mined block rejected by the others and lose the block rewards.
Since the miners are connected to honest nodes, even if some rogue nodes will try to propagate bad transactions, the miners' nodes will reject those.
Keep in mind that each node has its own mempool.
2958  Economy / Economics / Re: Yellen says economy shows no signs of recession on: July 26, 2022, 11:46:40 AM
Janet Yellen can talk BS as much as she wants. I don't believe that anyone with a brain is taking her seriously.

It's not about the party, it's not about lies, it's not about taking them serious. I've seen the same in the previous recession. The ones handing people's money will tell as long as they can that there's no recession and there will not be recession. Why that? Because they want people stay calm, go to their jobs, use their fiat. If there would be panic, the things would get much worse than "just" recession.

I do like to watch re-runs of the old Dante's Peak movie, I like how they show there how authorities tend to react in case of emergencies (no matter they're natural or financial).
2959  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [7-21-2022]Insider trading charges filed against CB employee on: July 26, 2022, 10:41:30 AM
For something to be illegal, there needs to be an explicit law prohibiting said action. In other words, someone needs to be able to know ahead of time that a particular action is prohibited, so they can act accordingly. For something to be unethical, they will need to consult with community standards, which may change from time to time, and may change retroactively. There are no due process protections when someone does something unethical.

While there are most probably laws for (actually against) that in case of stocks or securities, I am not sure they apply for crypto "products", since legislation (as explicit words) is wonderfully missing them.
However, the spirit of the law may include them and a judge may go by that. Even more, I expect that a company like Coinbase has an internal code of conduct for the employees explicitly prohibiting that (if they don't have that, they're incredibly sloppy); but I don't know how much do company rules mater in a lawsuit.

It's... difficult to say what's going to happen there...
2960  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 8220 Gang uses botnet of around 30000 hosts to mine crypto on: July 26, 2022, 10:34:18 AM
I did the math recently on a Xeon server, and it should be able to mine just over a dollar per month. Still good business if you have 30000 computers wasting electricity without paying for it.

Well, $30k per month is not that bad, after all.
And yeah, the number looks rather low, maybe the report didn't want to show overly big unverified number, especially as some of those computers most probably don't stay up 24/7 (however, since I do expect the numbers to be much bigger, I've done the math with those 30k computers running 24/7).


I've been preaching this many years ago: no matter what OS one is using, there must be tools you can keep on tray and show the CPU usage (I use that on both Windows and Linux). If one sees abnormally big and constant CPU usage, that must be investigated. Unfortunately few do that, few know how to look for that...
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