Indeed. I sold a little in the upper 50's to pay for some projects but why sell otherwise? I mean do you really want a big stack of fiat cluttering up your room, losing value by the day? Blah....

Upsie Daisey

Well, sort of, but if I might ask, why? Are S7's now profitable, if so I have one in the junk pile here I should fire up or sell. S9's are, and of course Titans are very profitable but S7's?

Damn, missed the 50% off sale on Bitcoin today. I really should set up an exchange account....

44%. Dump for ants.

*sigh* Pretty much. The US civil war is an example of what happens when the loser is given honorable terms and troops removed quickly. Result: Century of "lost cause" baloney.

We'll see.

Fair enough, I think I accounted for that under "inflation type BS" which is a known attack by governments. And yes it does work on physical dollars, that's why I have moved them into bitcoin.

If they want my bitcoin they can try to get the password out of me with a blowtorch and a truncheon, but they do have to do it in person. I myself appreciate the "personal touch" type of service over an anonymous lout in a bunker. :-)

I hear about government "sponsored" (controlled) cyber currency from time to time and I have to tell people that it's not a good idea. Most of the time I focus on things like "inflation", "currency debasement" and of course "this money can only be spent on these things we will allow you to buy".

I don't even consider the really weird stuff like "This money expires on xxxx", or "We can take this money back from you at our discretion". That is where stuff really gets creepy. I mean it's my labor that I am getting paid for, but I'm getting paid in a currency that can be taken away from me on a whim?

Fuck that noise. At least with paper dollars they have to send a thug with a truncheon to get it from me.

Yeah, ~25% down, normal day.

Still remember Bob selling a chunk to buy his lover out of slavery at 16k or so. That memory puts all of this in perspective.

Well, crap. I really should follow my own advice....

So I was starting work on a second controller for the "B" condition cubes. These are the 2-3 die cubes that I will run on one of my beaglebone controllers instead of the Rpi that has Tarkin's firmware. Since Tarkin's code does some pretty nifty monitoring of power supplies and cube temps and does restart of failed dies I figured I would load the best cubes on that controller and put the lesser ones on a dumber one.

I swapped in a sixth cube last week which was a 4 die unit. Worked well at 250mh and since I found another one marked "4 die" I figured I would replace one of my 3 die units and bring that controller to 4 4-die and 2 3 die. So I plugged it in, hooked it up to the same ps that the 4 die cube was using and powered up.

A quick flash of the light on the controller told me I fucked up. Quick flash followed by quick flash means a short on the spi bus and since that is shared with all cubes one fucked cube can damage others. I SHOULD have checked the resistance of all 10 pins with respect to pin 10 (ground) but I was in a hurry.

In this case it cost me the cube that was on the same power supply, the 4 die one. Both now cause the controller to beacon, but on a positive note the other 4 cubes appear ok. So I put the old cube back (3 die) on and put another 3 die cube in. Oddly enough the ribbon cable also does not work anymore, although I can't see damage I'm guessing it blew open in the failure.

Moral: Always check a cube before putting it on a controller with other cubes. Drat.

I'll call bottom.



Bad Elon! Bad DOGE!

Thank you. I have always wondered if anyone else understood the whole concept of the Hollow Earth.

Wait, this is the Tesla that makes battery powered cars? And solar systems? And powerwalls?

And this is the guy that builds reusable spaceships so you don't just toss the whole damn thing in the ocean?

Say what you want about Elon, but the guy's not an eco-disaster or a dickhead like Bezos. It's nice to have someone actually thinking about future stuff. Which makes this whole Doge/Bitcoin thing completely baffling.

Weird.

Back brace. Even the little Home Depot soft one. They look stupid yes, but man does it totally solve the back problem.

Hm, that doesn't make much sense. Me thinks there is another issue going on, wonder what it is.

The solution to bitcoin using too much electricity is simple: Raise the price of electricity. Price goes up fewer people mine, network is still way way way way way over secure. The other solution is time: Another halving or two and less miners will be around. Still plenty to secure the network, and people can use it for transactions.

Yawn.

The very fact that people may need these things repaired again blows my mind. But... well, odder things have happened.

The Lightfoot BB firmware is over here on Dropbox. https://www.dropbox.com/s/iz0z2bpzpcetpil/knc-lightfoot%204gb%20version.7z?dl=0

Damn, it even works. Fast too. Oddly enough I don't think anyone ever donated LTC, even though a bunch of people used it. Note to self: Tarkin's license thing was a good idea. Go figure. Tarkin should start selling his code again too.

You can figure out how to uncompress it with 7z then burn it onto a 4gb or larger SD card, it's a simple ISO image.

Currently the five titans are happily hashing at 300mh and I'll be adding some more from the pile this weekend. That should get me a solid 500-600mh, which is plenty.

And if anyone blows up their Titan and needs repairs, drop me a line and I'll give it a go. Oddly enough my repairs turned out to be a hell of a deal in the day for all concerned.

I'm also fixing this pile of Dragonmint T1 boards I accumulated, they are profitable too. Will wonders ever cease?

Actually you were stuck at Hero this morning so I dropped 1 merit to put you over the line :-) Congrats.

What I wonder is why people don't just shift their loads to ETC. Same network with some integrity.

Is the problem money is being printed or demand+debt is at insane levels. Everyone coming out of this pandemic wants a new house, horse, and hooker so I would expect the prices for these (limited, although onlyfans will supply an endless stream of hookers) assets would rise regardless of current monetary supply.

The real fun comes if people can tap debt once again to bid up the prices of goods. Then we have 2004-2008 all over again where those of us with money are constantly outbid by people who are using debt to mortgage their houses, cars, souls, kids, and whatnot. Bad financial choices wind up driving out the good.