I am the one who is trying to enter the mining business LOL sometimes some tiny information will be huge help for me.
more or less: right now only those with very cheap power are making profit. unless you get the hardware very cheap you are generally looking at a ROI of years, and thats no guarantee. personally i am still running 470 and 1070/1080 class cards. i retired my power hungry 380/390s over a year ago. so very meager profits at the moment. |
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How about the whole Intel security "flaw"? The best engineers in the world haven't been able to know about it until it was thrown into the public.
if you mean specter etc or the intel MME stuff it was not intel that just came out and admitted it one day. it was others that found and publicized it, then intel admitted it to the public. so other "engineers," for want of a better term, did find it. and just because there are/were no known exploits, that just means the possible exploits were not common or severe enough (for the general public) to be noticed by the general public. |
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“create customized solutions, tailored to their individual system architectures that are capable of meeting lawful access requirements.”
so thats what, everything from smoke signals to every computer and smart device on the planet? a back door into all communication devices. communications devices that the governments themselves need to securely communicate with each other. that hackers and "questionable" nations can use to access another governments internal, banking, law enforcement, infrastructure and businesses communications. we all know how good governments are at keeping secret stuff secret. what could go wrong. |
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Maybe it will be mined for some reasons that there could be some losses on the supply definitely the team could add some more coins on it knowingly that there could be a percentage of the losses of that crypto. There could be a substitution to it as we all know that even in fiat money where the physical money is being lost and damaged it will be replaced by other physical money. The team knows how to calculate for it so we will going to trust them.
how does one tell between coins that are lost vs coins that have simply never been moved by the owner? if bitcoin ever adds to the 21 million supply (for whatever reason) then it would be an alt, not bitcoin. |
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OP, I think that the piece of paper you were looking for was the password for the wallet. And if you don't have the corresponding wallet anymore, you are wasting your time.
there were no passwords for the bitcoin core wallet in 2009, the year i assume the OP destroyed his drive and made the backup. those came in sometime after 2011 (the year i started) and the wallet wasnt encrypted at that point. OP im afraid that unless you find the wallet.dat or the keys themselves (paper wallet maybe, which is pretty advanced as has been pointed out) they are gone if indeed all you ran was the core wallet, and nothing else. long shot here.. you have no drive image backups from that time period? a drive image would have all files, including "hidden" files, in it. you would just need to restore it to a spare drive. and the file "name of wallet my wallet".wallet i dont recall any files that had a .wallet extension in the bitcoin core wallet filesystem. maybe you sent it to some other wallet like armory? armory uses the .wallet extension, plus i believe it did/does word based backups. however i dont recall when armory was introduced, or what its early capabilities were. |
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i would think there are so many redundant backups, full and incremental, stored in so many locations, that it would be near impossible to wipe them all out. worse would be a days or hours of data lost.
i know just from my own backup strategies it would take a near end of world scenario to take them all out.
take out all internet and power in the world, that might do it. but then banking would be the least of ones worries.
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"feels like he has to fake a personality for the job"
the exact reason why I always preferred laborer jobs to office jobs, not many understood among my family and friends.
when i was a laborer, i noticed no one faked anything, we were all just ourselves. once i graduated to office jobs, thats when i noticed the fakers. What a load of shit. I was also a labourer and there were guys who "forgot their wallet" when it was their turn to bring the coffee which we all looked forward to on the colder days. Then there were the guys who lost their license for a DUI and tried to hide it as long as they could while sponging rides from the others under the guise of card trouble, wife needs a car I'm getting a bike soon etc... Jesus. There was tons of false bravado and comparisons cars/bikes/tattoos and who slept with the most women. People are people; it's just that the games get headier in an office environment where belching and farting aren't legitimate comebacks anymore. Also, you'd probably get fired for whistling at each woman (or man) that happened by. I couldn't afford to waste my hard-earned money on a Harley and tattoos so I was forced into the office for a while (tech stuff - mostly sealants and paint) and finally settled into a production plant environment where there are people of all types and we get diversity training so we can all get along. edit: Almost forgot, I also worked as a farmhand on a fruit farm (pay was heavily gov't subsidized). We weren't allowed to talk while pulling weeds and rocks from the field so head games were at an absolute minimum. You got a couple of warnings for talking and then they just sent you home. guess i was just lucky then. it was construction, we all pulled out weight and got along great, and partied a lot outside of work. my office gigs however.. many backstabbers there. |
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"feels like he has to fake a personality for the job"
the exact reason why I always preferred laborer jobs to office jobs, not many understood among my family and friends.
when i was a laborer, i noticed no one faked anything, we were all just ourselves. once i graduated to office jobs, thats when i noticed the fakers. |
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So, let's keep Bitcoin aside for a little while and let's think for a moment about how this forum has become one of the places in which information can run decentralized.
this forum is not decentralized. and its not meant to be, as it is privately owned. it is controlled by the owner and moderators, limiting what can be posted. it is still one of the best "goto" forums on btc and alts at the moment, but post things contrary to what the owners and mods consider acceptable and posts will disappear. a truly decentralized forum has yet to exist AFAIK, although it is being worked on. |
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And I know some of you are big fans of anonymint but he is a fucking cultist just like Craig and Roger. Maybe a little smarter than them but he is still a cultist.
i dont think so. if one can prove his data or analysis is wrong, he will admit his mistake. it has happened. thats not the mark of a cultist. cultists ignore facts. it may seem hes inflexible but thats only because his logic, understanding of the subjects and research is very very good. the mark of a true scientist is to go with the best theory that fits the facts as they are known. when something happens that invalidates that, the scientist will scrap that theory and search for a new one. thats shelby. even his detractors generally admit he is very very smart. thats puts us average guys (like me specifically not mentioning any names here) at a distinct disadvantage. i would need to dedicate years to understand just some his theories, and even then i probably lack the brainpower to fully grok it. |
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Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
well, except when forced by to lie by being given conflicting orders. |
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I just wanted to let you all know, that I'm secure enough with myself to admit, that I have absolutely no idea what is going on with Bitcorn prices.
What a ride though. Crazy wild swings.
I can't imagine the financial carnage Bitcorn has caused people trying to play the markets.
isnt this what we signed up for? the wild ride? i mean who wants to be bored. |
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thought it was ArtForz
pretty sure youre right. |
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Yes - Nate is one of ours.
thanks. one can never can be too careful. |
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Hi, I'm Nate with SQRL Support. Please DM me your email address and support ticket number. I will be happy to track down what happened here and answer any questions you might have. Thanks!
it sure would be nice if gpuhoarder or some official rep from squirrel confirmed this. otherwise i would not send any info to this person. |
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oh man how did i miss this?? that thread is gold |
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[...] my concern is the power usage control on TVs, I think the issue of mining consuming too much electricity would only become worse.
I agree, that's always been the problem with mining, aside from the expensive rigs for mining, the electric bill is something that should be reconsidered. I've always been interested, I tried it before when I was new to crypto, mining was easy to understand. A mining tv will surely double the electricity consumption for sure. Let's see how this turns out, it's interesting from my point of view. most TVs (and much/most) consumer electronics here in the usa strive for "energy star" ratings, which mean they turn off or enter low power modes after a set amount of time automatically, or do other energy saving things. and for many its a selling point. less power used etc.. i hate it myself, when i turn a device on i expect it to stay on. i have to go through menus on my electronics to override these settings. what a pain. these TVs sure wont get "energy star" rated lol |
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how they consider this as a good idea is beyond me. 100 watts? so someone with high electric cost has this in their living space that produces 100 watts of heat that the AC now needs to absorb and dump in hot weather/climates? 100 watts isnt much but its still added cost for that gets them what.. "entertainment content or physical gifts through Canaan’s platform.” when these chips are obsolete and losing the owner money (assuming that their entertainment content or gifts are even worth the extra cost of 100 watts worth of electricity when its new).. this is a good idea? hopefully this feature can be turned off. i wonder if it mines 24/7 or only if the TV is on. basically the manufacturer makes money, not the owner of the TV. i assume the TV mines at a pool the manufacturer or canaan controls as you dont get any coins. so thats not much towards decentralization.. it mines where they point it. now i can see mining chips in hot water heaters, hot tubs, pools, heated floors etc.. but TVs? just dont see any upside. maybe they picked TVs because many people have theirs connected to the internet. mine is not, and no TV of mine ever will be (sometimes temporarily for a firmware update but then its disconnected again). but thats likely just me; i use a HTPC for delivering stuff to my TV. |
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Could someone post a working discord link? I've gone and reformatted this computer and lost access to it.
Thanks in advance friends!
give this a shot, its the latest one i could find in the announcements channel. https://discord.gg/jdw8jZB |
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Man punch cards! Don't ever drop a stack of those and if you do pray they're numbered.
dropped my decks own a few times back in the day (fortran in college). after the 1st time i started numbering them heh. |
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