There are less than 150,000 addresses with more than 10 BTC.
I think there’s probably less than 15,000 people in the world that have more than 10 BTC.
many folks keep btc split up between several wallets. and any particular wallet can have many addys.. change addys and such. so a lot more people than that 150,000 number may have more than 10 btc, just not all in one address or wallet. |
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so my bcu1525 arrived yesterday, the upgraded air cooled version. i must say it looks to be a solid piece of kit.
currently running on the allmine shell with the "built in" lyra2 algo at blaze pool at ~40ish mhs (blaze auto switches to btc) for testing. its on a dedicated rig, a gigabyte Z97X UD3H with an evga 850. ubuntu 18.04, i ssh into it to control it. draws 350ish watts at the wall according to my killowatt meter. been running about 12 hours now, no problem.
now i know there are lots of bitstreams this thing can run but to do so you need specific settings in the shell (startup voltages etc) or bad things can happen. you also need to load some bitstreams (the non sqrl ones like whitefire/sensless stuff) via usb from a windows machine, and i havent got that far, mainly because im afraid of blowing it up.
anyone with a bcu1525 running other bitstreams? if so how did you set it up? i do have a windows rig next to it (my gpu/acorn mining rig) and have connected the usb cable from the windows box to the bcu. but thats about it.
btw the sqrl fan can get pretty loud, its running about 3800 rpm atm (perhaps half speed?). input power
around 260 watts, fpga temp 74C
i would love to play with more bitstreams and such but info is spread around so many places and so piecemeal its hard to find and digest. i hope we can consolidate some here.
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but the pain man
You really need to invest in a set of titanium platters, brother. for the testicular smashing thing? all i have is some old bricks in the yard. not good enough? what is all that about? seems like a weird flex to me, but whatever not sure to be honest but Bob seems to attach great importance to it. i myself would rather use marshmallows or something if i had to do it. which i dont. |
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I do need to access my rigs remotely every now and then though with TV... Just beefed up my password and enabled 2FA. Also disabled any access to my main PC. That should help.
I only add my miners to TV; I don't sign them in ever. Hopefully it was just this fluke. I myself am pretty up tight about what i run on m y PC's i mainly use. That's why I have a few "sandbox" laptops and OS installs. i am so paranoid i let NOTHING connect to my network from outside the lan. my network is just a black hole to the outside world. using a combination of hardware and software for security. with IoT things with little to no security out there its way to easy for people to get into your network nowadays. better to just lock it down to everything. ive never need access to anything on my network when im not around so it works for me. better to have a miner down till i get back than have a hacker roaming around my network for days or whatever. |
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but the pain man
You really need to invest in a set of titanium platters, brother. for the testicular smashing thing? all i have is some old bricks in the yard. not good enough? |
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also gpuhoarder mentioned currently there are not a lot of fpga coders out there. and the money for their time is not worth it for proprietary stuff compared to a 4% dev fee times 5000 bcu, maybe a thousand cvps, and another thousand vcu.
in short, right now its generally more profitable to release for the allmine shell at 4%
I figure that bistreams will end up being sold, it's about that hardware circulation. The more hardware in the hands of users the more that individual bitstream will be in demand. I figure it will be like how Wolf0 sold bins. agreed. private bitstreams will be for sale, most likely to anyone who wants it. ie no (or very very few) one off totally custom super bitstreams that only large farms will get. those private bitstreams for sale to the general public will be better than the public ones, at least at the start. so depending on the farm loadout it may be worth it. i never had enough gear to make gpu private miners pay off although i never looked into it that much. |
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My gf knows my wallet password, I told her she’d have to look for an OTC corporate buyer or something because there’s no way she’s clever enough to be able to sell online via an exchange or LBC by herself or anything.
If she died with me then they’ll be lost bitcoin’s.
Trust No One !!!!
my wife knows where the wallet seeds have been distributed (lotta redundancy) and how to reconstruct pass phrases and the extra seed words (the 13th or 25th words). i told her to hand everything over to the family lawyer, pay whatever it costs and she will be set. nothing is written down all in one place or without some misleading false info but enough hints have been included that only she or i wound be able understand to reconstruct it all. the lawyer is to actually run the wallets and set exchanges etc up. as ive repeatedly asked my wife to walk through the whole process of recovering a wallet, running it and transferring coins to wherever. she keeps putting it off. and if we both get whacked? well there are others i plan to give them to but they dont know it. |
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About the offtopic, well, that's what we do here when there's no walls to observe. In fact I am wondering if there is any correlation between hodlers and cat owners which would make this discussion perfectly on topic  well, im both a cat owner since forever (or rather the cats deign to tolerate the wife and i) and a long term hodler. maybe a poll on it? |
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Yeah, its this whole propritary "bitstream" thing that turns me off to these for the most part. That and the overhyped and underdelivered software. And I was so close to wanting to believe in this...
Proprietary bitstreams? Wait are you upset about how bitstreams work in general or do you not understand that anyone can release a bitstream for the devices? once additional reason for getting fpgas was something to learn and possible code for. and as such devices come on line there will be more coders writing bitsteams for them. i figure in about 10 years i will be good enough to make a led blink on a fpga dev kit. also gpuhoarder mentioned currently there are not a lot of fpga coders out there. and the money for their time is not worth it for proprietary stuff compared to a 4% dev fee times 5000 bcu, maybe a thousand cvps, and another thousand vcu. in short, right now its generally more profitable to release for the allmine shell at 4% |
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buns a mile across with a 1 inch piece of meat?
there's a saucy picture out there no doubt illustrating your double entendre but it's probably best left to the imagination. roach with a hamplanet anyone? oh man forgot what thread i was in. please God no |
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It always seem to happen like that. Fuck. I am going to quit this McieD's bullshit (and having to rub elbows with the likes of jbreher for 4 hours) as soon as I can get enough money for my own apartment. You fuckers.  Inb4 jbreher leaves the franchise to run his own burguer place where you can order the TRUE BigMac (XXXXL size - Ronald Mcdonald Vision) buns a mile across with a 1 inch piece of meat? |
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Don't forget that you need to get the bitstream from the devs with time to roi as well.
sure, we get ours after all the farms that pay for private bitstreams and regulars guys in secret bitstream clubs are done. then after that, the pions like me will get the public bitstreams, just in time for reletive scraps.. IOW, same old same old but now with fpgas. |
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last bull run gpus were almost impossible to get. and thats with nvidia and amd shoveling them out the door as fast as they could. if this happens again.. well there are a lot less fpgas to be had than there were gpus. having a few fpgas and knowing their limitations, strengths and needs will make a big difference. try building a good fpga or fpga boosted gpu based system without knowing what they need or how they function.. have fun. sure guides for noobs will come out but too late for many.
Ya but what about the fact that most coin dev's are doing what they can to keep asic and fpga's off their chain fpga's will never be a decentralized miner until one come's out that don't cost $4000-$5000 especially right now once they start flooding the chain profits are going to be shit and it'll take 10 years to ROI fpgas will come down in price, i mean an midrange acorn is what $300? ..cheap to get your fpga feet wet. and as for the race against devs changing algos.. well algos need a lot of testing, you dont just whip something up and risk the future of a coin on some new algo thats possibly faulty or can be gamed. in a race between fpga coders vs devs coming up with algo after algo? ill bet on the fpga coders. if my bet is wrong.. oh well. |
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those who bought and kept them knew the risk when we rolled the dice. and the dice are still rolling. software will come out. as for roi, if i lose 99% of what i put in, oh well. it was an amount i was willing to lose. annoying for sure, but nothing to lose sleep over.
Definitely agree it's a bet to have the ultimate hedge, and at even $~$300 it was a cheap bet. It's at minimum a great tool to learn as we all can see the writing on the wall, fpga is the future of most mining. If this just teaches me how to load bitstreams and configure them I much rather do it on $300 hardware before I do it on $5000+ hardware. agreed. i think fpga, with or without gpu assist, is minings future, and fpga are different beasts with different rig requirements. and if/when the next bear run occurs, those that understand how the tech runs will be ahead. $300 for an acorn to get in the game now and start learning is a no brainer to me. last bull run gpus were almost impossible to get. and thats with nvidia and amd shoveling them out the door as fast as they could. if this happens again.. well there are a lot less fpgas to be had than there were gpus. having a few fpgas and knowing their limitations, strengths and needs will make a big difference. try building a good fpga or fpga boosted gpu based system without knowing what they need or how they function.. have fun. sure guides for noobs will come out but too late for many. |
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Why are we still here? Bitcoin is dead.
we cant leave. we are too paralyzed with shock and fear. |
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The check is in the mail.....
hey! im making ~40 cents USD a day on my acorns mining ZP - so in a mere 6.5 years ill hit ROI and be rolling in da moneyz  actually i would need to find an exchange that lists it and that i can use 1st.. hell i dont even know what this shitcoin im mining is. anyway. those who bought and kept them knew the risk when we rolled the dice. and the dice are still rolling. software will come out. as for roi, if i lose 99% of what i put in, oh well. it was an amount i was willing to lose. annoying for sure, but nothing to lose sleep over. that said, i too sure hope sqrl come up with some serious bitstreams and software soon. this wait is getting monotonous. |
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oh man
a topic where i need to think before posting?
im not used to this.
$4422
thanks mic!
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The overall feeling was similar to other bear markets - agony, despair, etc. However, many of us took to heart the rumors of bitcoin's demise. It seemed likely that bitcoin would, at best, remain something of a hobby for cypherpunks. OTOH, the despair was different. It was more about the loss of a dream, and less about the loss of money. Since BTC was so cheap, most people only had like a few grand invested, at most. Unlike Dec. 2017-18 when even the shoeshine boy lost $100K+.
You guys deserve respect for persevering through that. You pretty much blazed the trail that we could look back on for confirmation that Bitcoin would survive the worst. just wanted to confirm what infofront posted about 2011 - 2012. i started mining late(ish) 2011, at first using an existing ATI HD4850 on my gaming rig (my main distributed computing rigs, nvidias on folding@home, stayed on that), then dropping a couple grand on a rig built for BTC mining specifically. ATI HD6870 and HD5830s where the gotos at that point it was more or less surreal as back then, for me it was just another experiment in distributed computing with a new kind of money storage theme, and distributed computing was very familiar to me from other projects. price was ~$10 when i started. went up to ~35. YES! then the loooong decline to ~$2. but i kept mining to support the experiment then, and really did not expect any monetary gains. but guess where a large part of my current stack is from. yup, the $2 per coin mining days. not that btc cant fail, but accumulation during the cheap coins day sure paid off for me. i intend to keep that strategy. |
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In the future I want to run a full node
I have questions
most info you need is in a link right in the 1st post: https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#minimum-requirementsI need a very powerful computer?
no. a rasperry pi 3 would do. or an intel atom from any netbook. basically if the computer less than 10 years old it will do. How much hard disk Gb?
Hard disk HDD or SSD?
500 gb should last a few years at the rate the blockchain is growing. currently the blockchain is ~210gb. a ssd will make syncing faster but not needed, mechanical drives are fine for a node. blockchain growth chart can be found here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/647523/worldwide-bitcoin-blockchain-size/ |
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Did you receive a jtag cable with your acorn? Mine didn't have one, the FAQ does state they come with one.
I need one so I can test the stand alone but I'm sure we'll get the assist software soon. I do wish we had some good updates.
Anyone know the discord?
no jtag cables came with my acorns. i do have a jtag cable i cobbled up for an avr dragon programmer i used to reprogram some bfl stuff back in the day. if i need it for anything acorn or bcu related i hope i can use/adapt it. but jtag cables are cheap. no? havent heard much about jtag use for acorns on discord though, as least as it relates to acorns. but i miss a lot of stuff there. fpga acorn discord link: https://discord.gg/TYNAeymay only last a day, if it doesnt work lemme know ill post another |
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