Just play the Half Life 1 remake that uses the same engine as Half Life 2. Then try the various mods, such as Gary's etc.

I go with (mostly) classical music, taken free from a satellite radio its quite varied including a blues/jazz hour and some instrumental and chanting.
There are no classical radios broadcasting in my city anymore, and with our garbage internet, this can make anyone stressed quite fast, especially when power goes down...

Well this measuring method is... interesting. Considering you do have db meter, why don't you take readings from (a fixed position in) said bedroom for each of the units? Given the larger fan it is possible the noise is lower pitched in those units. You could get a reading next to the miner, and the "bedroom" reading. Do that at night at sleep time of course...

And then the noise levels table would start looking interesting.

I guess it would be fair to have only the singled unit being tested and not the whole mess of things you keep running in that garage. And also without putting the unit inside the silencing box. Its just to get numbers as accurate as possible, obviously you found already the M21S is the quietest.

In theory, if everything else remains the same, half production with half demand keeps the price the same. half production with same demand should in theory double the price. But the market people are trying to catch this before it actually happens, so it ends correcting.

Suppose the "real" was 4k, after halving it would be 8k, what is it doing at 12k? So you see the price fluctuating up and down, and besides demand does vary as well, so "real" changes every second anyway.

Bitcoin production is fixed no matter what. Few miners, or many miners, every 10 minutes a new batch comes. But every 4 years this batch halves, today 12.5 but next year 6.25.

Mining is expected to become less and less profitable over time. Those large operations become inefficient and will have to size down or close completely. Price of bitcoin sometimes delays this, but don't count on it to always compensate miners needs, it won't.

The miners themselves auto regulate this. When there is so much mining (global hashrate) its less profitable for all, so many leave, and it returns being profitable for a few, which overtime becomes unprofitable again making them leave and making it attractive again... But notice on each round more leave.

You can make posts in local boards, but they don't count for the campaign. All your posts in local = 0, so make sure to have at least 15 in valid places.

Consider that there are other invalid boards, such as Serious Discussion because no signatures are shown there. You can still make posts there, but they don't count for the signature campaign.

Well you know what to do. Take that unit apart, and test each board separately at normal (non overclocked) values, change power and data cables and see if there is any chance for the single board to work again.

Perhaps your last cleaning broke something...

At the end i would try it with BraiinsOS to see if the board only has lost sensors.

This is where "FPS" comes from: as in First Person Shooter, such as Battlefield, etc. You see from the eyes of the solider, but not the soldier you play with (unless you look at a mirror).

If VR helmets become more popular, most games will probably default to being First Person, as its the most natural 3d world representation. Sometimes you get the same thing in other genres, such as car racing, but those tend to offer both choices: See as if you are behind the wheel, or see the entire car as if you had some sort of camera floating behind it (third person).

This "First/Second/Third" person term comes from literature, and is also used in acting, its Me, You, he/she.

Normally people talk in first person, but could switch when playing roles, such as controlling a character, or if you are "narrating".

Grammatical person

Can you make a table with db levels of each of your tested units? Would make for a much easier comparison. M21S is  67db? That's two 140mm fans?

What about the power requirements? Do you have the circuits with the appropriate capacity? Asic miners are not toys, they need air conditioner type circuits for each (or two in this case) of them. Something like 230v 15a per S9...

4 and 5 can come bundled together. The router can probably do NAT and some firewalling, and each miner should have a non default password in both web ui and ssh access.

If you follow the advise and use a nice embedded router with OPNsense* or such, you can also add redundancy, failover, firewall, etc, etc. Its not strictly needed, but please try to keep windows computers away from this lan. Get a nice linux laptop for anything you could possibly need setting up things there. Don't let your old habits ruin your dreams, too many people get malware because of this.

*Because Netgate owns pfSense. Think when Oracle owned Openoffice, leading to Libreoffice, because (new) owner didn't let the project grow...

Mine-able yes, profitable no. There will always be a group of hobbyists willing to mine for fun, or with "free" (renewable?) energy available to do so. Also the asics are getting even more efficient, so Cannan's idea of embedding a few asic chips in common household appliances will return. Yeah, your smart fridge/ac/router/tv/heater/whatever might have 1~10 THs, why not?

Its like getting one of those usb mining sticks and plug it permanently into your "smart" tv, just because you want to help the community and it doesn't make you go bankrupt anyway.

I know i will probably get into that group, with a node as well, because its one way i can help and thank Bitcoin, for letting me eat today, when the politicians and institutions stole our wealth and nobody else cared.

To move your safely stored bitcoin into the unsafely dangerous online wallet, you first import it into a normal wallet, and then send it from there to the online wallet.

So you would get a secure computer os (such as Tails) boot a pc with that, import your cold wallet there using perhaps an updated Electrum (IMO you should skip step 2 to leave no traces), and then make a transaction to the online wallet.

Then just pray Coinbase doesn't disappear tomorrow, because, its not in your hands anymore....

Whatever you do, don't use windows or your regular leisure computer for handling serious money things. You have been warned.

So where is a transcript of this debate, for those of us bandwidth impaired? I wouldn't mind a copy paste of CC into pastebin or something.

I'd rather follow Elon Musk, fellow geek co-authored Paypal and didn't rest on his fortune, but made rockets, electric cars, hyperloop, tunnels, etc. Even honorary Dogecoin CEO for lulz; pushing humanity forward to a new age.

I don't particularly care what Warren has to say, his time is past. If he supports Bitcoin, then welcome. But if he insists in opposing it, he should just step aside. And please don't get me started on Bill Gates, thankfully he is retired and mostly a philanthropist, but any anti Bitcoin comments are unwelcome.

Those names are counter examples, what people should not follow.

So i guess those will belong to those willing to invest in quantum computing, which is still so far much more expensive than any potential gains...

This is what happens in a deflationary economy. People will save, and only use what they really need to. Inevitable that you will use some, but not all. It does promote a culture of saving, in opposition to a culture of getting in debt. this is the fundamental difference from the opposing schools of economics, the current world dominating (debt based) Chicago vs the (savings based) Austrian. And it happens that one promotes inflation and the other deflation.

The reason you don't understand it is because you have not live it. Please read Mises and the other Austrian economists, then you will understand. And help spread the word, the world is going to move from inflation to deflation.

Hmm yes, but Bitcoin should go first not last, as in Bs. ₿s. BTCs. Ironically that's what the Venezuelan bolivar used to use as symbol, quite appropriate given that its descendant (the BsS.) is currently a bit less (but nearly on par) to 1 satoshi.

Well thanks for the advise. Under this superstition its best to hurry and finish any business with Chinese people, who would probably go silent for a whole month without really telling you why over any (major) proposal.

Although i doubt they will all stop doing business, i wouldn't be surprised some would rather wait a month before committing into any large enterprise. Its always good to be aware of these cultural traditions.

Nope, its not "thin air" Mr Trump, you got it wrong as some from your age group and social position do. Its math, the trust-less model gives Bitcoin its value, its even more valuable than sheets of paper backed by the "most reputable" institutions that can disappear overnight over a human decision.

Bitcoin rules are known beforehand and remain the same overtime, unlike your fiat currency which can be manipulated and changed by decree. Its this thing called code, as in computer programming code, which happens to be validated by a worldwide network of computers from people willing to run a currency under those rules and no one else's.

This Mr. Trump is why Bitcoin is valuable, even more valuable than any monetary unit humanity has ever seen in its history. Its not about being able to touch it, its about being unable to change it.

Venezuela has the worst currency in the world, over a politician's decision to make everyone poor rather than fix the budget. Same thing happens when a bank plays roulette with people's savings goes bankrupt. Never again, should humanity be exposed to such tragedies.

Can you understand Bitcoin's value yet? You should...

The slowing is logarithmic (and dramatic). While most would have already been mined, the reminder is going to come slower and slower overtime until the year 2140. Just imagine how long its going to take for the reminder, every 4 years an order of magnitude slower. Probably most people would have seen 99% of all the produced bitcoins in their lifetime.

This also allows humanity to adapt to the fact that, there won't me more bitcoins. Price will also tend to stabilize, ie. fluctuate less, and gain value more slowly than it used to. It all goes together, the design is working quite brilliantly in fact.

If (large) miners (and asic manufacturers) are sleeping in their laurels and not paying attention, they should, as they won't be able to keep their business the same anymore. Mining will shrink, you cannot escape this reality. You have a chance to shrink now amicably (or diversify your business), because if you do nothing later you might end up in the red.

In the end most of the miners left will be small hobbyists, and those who invested in renewable energy. You might still not get it now but after the next couple halvings you will probably understand. Mining is going to be too expensive, and the bitcoin price will NOT keep pace with mining to keep it profitable, its going to be less and less, and you will see that 1¢ per kw/h will be too much, even with bitcoin reaching, say 100k, because asic efficiency is soaring too among hashrate and difficulty.

Incidentally this also solves the "bitcoin is environmentally bad" (non)issue, because this (brilliant) design makes it solve it by itself thanks to market forces.

I stand corrected, very good information. I normally don't re-use paper wallets so i didn't think about the change going elsewhere...

Personally i don't like them (paper wallets), I'd rather switch to seed phrases, as explained in the Bitcoin wiki. Besides its unsafe to reuse the same address.


I know the op doesn't want to bother securing it again, but think about it. What is that security worth when it could be already compromised? Ideally, a private key should never ever be seen by an electronic device.

After importing that paper wallet into Electrum, i would make a new wallet, write down the seed words in the paper that needs to be secured (also manually copied by hand again to store at two physically different places) and transfer all the remaining funds there. (All done from a proper secured os/pc, ie. Tails).

Good tips on doing multiple payments with a single broadcast, but this is still seen as multiple transactions to the blockchain no? Albeit at the same time i reckon.