Well, this is true to an extent: Technically the skills needed to fix these things are limited and as the value of bitcoin rises the value of repairing a miner rises as well. That was the logic I used to not raise prices when it was at $300; the miners were worth "less" therefore I should not charge the same amount in dollars since I'm trying to work the concept of value into bitcoin.

That said when it hit 900 I started decreasing my prices to compensate for the "new normal" instead of $600. I could re-price again at $1200, but at some point the constant re-framing of prices becomes a bit of a pain.

Thus it would be nice for bitcoin to stick at a price for awhile. :-)

C

I have a problem with this price rise:

As many people know, I fix people's bitcoin miners for bitcoin payments. Thus I have to account for my time, skills, experience, and material costs (damn FPGAs are expensive when they blow up). I price my work in bitcoin because I want this currency to have a reason to exist other than as a speculation thingie.

Problem is the fluctuations: If I charge .3btc for a service and bitcoin drops from 600 to 300 I don't want to raise my bitcoin prices so I kept them constant. Likewise if it goes from 600-1200 I don't want to change my prices for the same basic reason (I'm doing work for a certain amount of bitcoin). But if it keeps going haywire, what do I do? What's fair? And at what point am I simply doing work for dollars instead of Bitcoin?

It's complex.

Looks like the FT article is behind a paywall and they don't seem to take bitcoin.

*yawn*

Mrmph. If that board bangs around those 24 gauge wirewrap wires are going to break (solid core). I wonder if you could stuff the box with fiberglass insulation or packing or pudding or something.

If Chris doesn't have the time/want to do this, let me know. I'll host it here at Lightfoot labs and do everyone's boards. Payment is buy me a beer at the next couple of bitcoin conferences, Vegas strip clubs, or if I happen to be in your town :-) If your religion, AA friend, or beliefs are concerned with beers, you can add birch, root, or ginger in front of beer.

Only stipulation is please don't complain about the turnaround time, will do as fast as I can.

C

Answer: Probably. Grab a copy of something like Encase Forensics, get a write blocker, make a duplicate of the disk to a second disk, put the second disk on the write blocker, and start looking for the wallet files.

Not impossible, just would take bitcoin and time to do.

Hey, I don't mind media attention as long as the whole drug laden hippies thing is not reinforced too much.

They should include comments from this forum in these articles. Like:

"I've been touching myself all morning with GLEE!!!"

And we make CNN Money front page.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/02/investing/bitcoin-1000-2017/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom



Cool.

Very cool. I can now relax and enjoy the rest of the day. 1k is pretty ok with me.

Will the watched pot boil?

Putting down the porn. Hm. Look at that....

3 more controllers came in today. So far one's fixed with my inventory FPGA, two more tomorrow so I should be able to get them out on Tuesday.

In terms of what blows up FPGAs, one item is if you plug in the 10 pin connector to the controller board, then mis-place it on the Titan so it is only connecting on five pins. That blows up the controller (shorts all the FPGA driver lines, no buffers, sad), but also should blow up the cube in such a way that it appears on the console (once you replace that) but never hashes on any dies (internal gates blown)

I can fix that but I see less of those than blown controllers.

Indeed. When I was running Singles I realized I could just line 10 of them up on a windowsill, point the exhaust fans *OUT* and have a wonderful whole house fan. In winter I would turn them the other way and get fresh warm air from the outside.

Never exhaust heat into a room, dump it outside.

Easy to burn down. That has got to be the most appropriate warning message I have seen in awhile :-)

Just report it to the mod, hell I mention litecoin and my posts get pulled.

Meantime I'm back to other things instead of waiting for it to hit 1000. Doesn't really matter, by the time I think of selling for fiat, fiat will be something you use to light fires and will be priced appropriately.

Possible, but you get into things like how do they distribute/queue work to the cores, what is the interrupt method when a core finds a hash, how does it distribute/collect work, etc. I remember when the guy built the chili, he got a 10% hash improvement by totally redesigning how work was sent to the cores.

Stuff like that. Once they open source the software you can fiddle with it and see what happens. Then again you might have to reprogram the MCU to get stuff like that.

Hm.

Interesting. Titans were built around the 20u die sets, I wonder if the efficiency came from their jamming close to 250 cores on a die. I think they just built the damn things with wizard magic or something.

Watching porn on one screen and BTCWisdom on the other is a bit... disconcerting. :-)

Just crack 1k already so I can go back to watching porn.

Part of the reason difficulty is going up is due to people with older/less efficient miners getting back into the game for awhile due to the price increase. That should settle out as the GAWs and the A2's drop off again.

I don't know what else there is besides Titans and Inno, and the extra power savings from the A4 doesn't really show a magnitude of improvement over the titan.

The next 24 minutes are critical (thinking short term here). Nice to see things purring along today.