I don't really worry too much about browsing the internet since I don't do anything bad. Don't really care if a computer is tracking my habits for advertising.
perhaps what you do now is not "bad" but who knows what will be considered "bad" in the future. perfectly legal stuff you do now may come back to haunt you later. depends on what the future government decides. heck even exorcising you right to online privacy now (using vpn, tor, monero, whatever) is enough to flag you as a suspicious person in places. |
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Please anyone feel free to correct me, but as far as i remember, you have to close all your overclock tools first (MSI afterburner, nvidia-smi, etc) then run the pill first and then run your mining software second. After those are both running smoothly, thats when you open your overclock tools and apply settings. The settings won't be the same as your max overclock settings before the pill tho. It will be slightly less so just play around with the values.
actually i havent noticed any difference in stability no matter what order i start them in. just need sane clocks once in on the pill. once you find that and set it via ab or whatever, it just works whatever order the rig fires them up in. |
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Ledger Nano S has a feature to protect you against a regular robbing (like tell your private key or die). It's called Alternative Pin or Hidden Account. How to set up and/ or recover a hidden passphrase and alternate PIN on your Ledger Nano S? The hidden passphrase is used for two reasons
1. Protection of your 24 words recovery phrase if your accounts are behind a passphrase then you are protected.
2. "Plausible deniability" is a security feature that combats the risk of being threatened and/or forced to enter your PIN code. With this option, you can manage two PIN codes, unlocking two separate accounts:
- Your first PIN code provides access to your main wallet, like a basic account, with low amounts used for daily payments and small transactions.
- Second PIN code, linked to a specific passphrase you need to set up, opens an hidden account, to save large amounts, which will only be used occasionally. With this option, in case you are forced to recover a wallet from your 24-word backup, only the main wallet will be displayed, and the second account will remain hidden, as long as you don't reveal the attached passphrase. It works like this: You you will have 2 PIN. So if someone gets inside your house and say "give me your bitcoin or die" you can unlock just the basic wallet with your PIN. The other one is totally hidden, only unlockable with the second PIN. This is a feature which not many users know... But pretty useful. trezor also has this. you can have as many wallets on one device as you have passwords for. 2, 10, 20 whatsever. just dont write the passphrases down in the same place as the recovery seeds. keep chump change in the 1st two (the more sophisticated btc robbers will know that hardware wallets can have "hidden" wallets). keep the real stash in the 3rd, 4th, whatever wallet. |
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1. centralization of development, only a few people can publish miner for FPGA. In the face of much lower than expected hashrate and profit, you can only be forced to accept.
2. risk of open source, if open source, is likely to be taken by the third party to make MPW ASIC, which does not require much money , but return is much higher than FPGA.
3. risk of warranty, FPGA is quite different from GPU, it can not real-time monitoring the running state and cannot quickly adjust the frequency, when so you notice the running state exceeds the limit, it is late. Maintenance may be a big trouble , the FPGA is very expensive, if the FPGA chip burned, that is equal to the board scrap.
4.algo risk, altcoin developers may change the algorithm, GPU can quickly adapt to the new algorithm, but FPGA developers cannot be so fast ,when he worked hard to develop a new miner,the algorithm may change again.
At present, FPGA miner is unrealistic and some is obviously scam.electricity fee is not the main factor for altcoin mining.
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ROI and electricity fee are not important, because GPU and CPU can bring dozens of times more revenue every year.
the main draw for me is power usage. my electric costs are high and fpgas are an answer to that. 1. as for developers, it seems most bitstreams will have a devfee, that incentives development. 2. sure but tapeout still takes time (2-3 months?) in which the fpga will rule. then change algo again perhaps. 3. true, easy to burn it up. so, run vetted bitstreams, observe proper cooling, do monthly maintenance. 4. for algo changes, depending on what changes in the algo i believe ive heard a few days for the new bitstream to come out with most of that time being compiling (or whatever its called) the new bitstream but hey you may be right. i just ordered one, we will see how it goes. and yes i am aware i may of wasted 3.6k USD. if so oh well at least ill have a cool toy to learn VHDL on. |
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so basically if we stick to only your officially sanctioned bitstreams we should be withing card limits. its just if we load others we may destroy the card if we dont know what we are doing?
The way that I would see users destroying their card is operating bitstreams that push things to the extreme while not providing adequate cooling. OR Using a long molex chain to power multiple risers that would surely melt under the load. OR Using a sata connector to plug into the riser which isn't rated for 75W. well going to be plugged directly into a x16 slot so no worries on the last two. as for bitstreams ill use ones vetted by your group. cooling.. well i have deltas if needed and dont mind the noise; it will be in the basement. still dont like the 90 day warranty but it is what it is. |
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90 day warranty is a big turnoff for a 3-4k USD item.
Again - we are not building these cards, nor designing them. Xilinx provides what they provide. The reality is there is no magic clock that makes these boards go up into smoke in 90 days. They’re reliable, but fully controllable by the user and therefore can be abused and damaged through carelessness in ways that are impossible to tell from hardware failure. 90 days covers actual defective hardware. Regardless - here are the terms, no one forces you to buy. You must decide yourself. Sales should be live today, once we get green light. so basically if we stick to only your officially sanctioned bitstreams we should be withing card limits. its just if we load others we may destroy the card if we dont know what we are doing? |
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90 day warranty is a big turnoff for a 3-4k USD item.
is there not a way to build in protection circuits to the device. i know the fpga will not self throttle (afaik) without specific bitstream support (maybe i have that wrong?) but surely there are ways to monitor critical sections of the cards (VRMs, FPGA, support chips, whatever) to downclock the device. i mean gpus are more or less bulletproof in that regard, why cant your card do the same.
seems the only thing outside of your control is ESD damage. that i can see as most miners probably ignore it.
at least offer an extended warranty for an added price.
180 days i could handle, 90 days, not so much. sounds almost like youre deliberately running beyond spec and cooling abilities and dont expect it to last.
no disrespect intended but self preservation seems like it should be built into high performance parts from day one.
EDIT btw not all miners abuse their rigs. my rigs lead a better life than my daily driver.. constant power (no cycling), better cooling, more checks for maintenance (temps, dust, cable conditions) etc.
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It indicates it has 3 x16 slots, but one covers up an m2. That will probably be OK (3 GPU's on 1 m2 connected FPGA accelerator), but I def am not an authority. That represents my best target on first pass.
Hopefully this helps, spurns some discussion and research.
The x16 (or 16 lanes) number refers to the bandwidth and size, that said, just because it is a x16 size slot does not mean it will run full bandwidth. The processor has a certain number of PCIE lanes that it will support, as does the chipset. Most modern consumer intel cpus will support 16 lanes, with the chipset supporting another 16+ lanes. For example the z270 chipset supports 24, so any system with that will support 40 lanes total. This is why you see these mining motherboards with an insane amount of 1x sized pci slots to use with risers. Normally mining doesnt require much pcie bandwidth as everything is computed on the GPUs. But when you have instances where the gpu needs to communicate with something else (i.e. an accelerator) then bandwidth becomes an issue short version is this (pls correct me if im wrong): acorn needs 4 pcie lanes at gen 3 speed. this can be via an acorn in a m2 slot or in a pcie-m2 adapter provided the pcie slot that adapter is in is configured for 4 pcie lanes at gen 3 speed. this allows up to 4 gpus, each connected with one pcie lane at gen 3 speed to be accelerated. ie cards on x1 risers for example. not all 16x slots have 16 pcie lanes, the bios can change that to a point. my onda board (8 full size x16 slots, most that run with one pcie lane) for example has no m2 slots, but slot 0 can be run with 4 pcie lanes at gen 3 speed. so i put a pcie->m2 adapter with the acorn in that, and 4 cards get the benefit. the three other cards run on their own with no help from the acorn. btw AFAIK cpu power has not been mentioned yet. G4400 here but easy to upgrade. memory was mentioned also but no minimum, just more is better. not sure if this is what you were asking, if not my apologies |
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no need from my point of view, as one way or another BTC price is not affected.
there is plenty of evidence around if you look for it. believing it is up to the individual. depends on ones technical understanding of the tech and your belief in the sources.
I think that part of my point is that moon landing and other topics such as the official story behind the twin tower and DC attacks of 9/11/2001, who was behind the JFK assassination and other topics have decently credible evidence on both sides.. There is almost NO decently credible evidence that the earth is flat. ive seen a bit of the "fake moon landing" stuff. shadows in odd directions, flag staying horizontal, the rock with a prop number, camera button too small, such like that. all were debunked once you know the real reasons for such "discrepancies." unless theres much more recent stuff to "prove" otherwise, the moon landing being real is a done deal for me. btw i watched the 1st moon landing in a telescope with my dad in the back yard. cant say we saw much however  |
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i find it hard to believe people that are otherwise reasonably intelligent can still believe that moon landings were faked.
mental block? lack of knowledge the technical aspects? brain washing? wishful thinking? whatever it is.. well enjoy your beliefs.
Maybe there is a need for a thread on the topic? I know that there is a thread on the flat earth bullshit, but that concept of flat earth is totally luny (pun intended). By the way, a faking of the moon landing is not even close to the same level of flat earth luny beliefs. no need from my point of view, as one way or another BTC price is not affected. there is plenty of evidence around if you look for it. believing it is up to the individual. depends on ones technical understanding of the tech and your belief in the sources. |
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folks new to crypto today have so much learning to do its very tempting to take shortcuts and latch on to some perceived "experts" coattails and just go with what they recommend.
yes the learning curve is steep. POW, tokens, utility coins, ICOs, ERC20, wading through whitepapers, reading roadmaps, researching teams, figuring use cases, watching out for SEC gotchas, all that. not easy for a noob, and easy to get blinded by "LAMBO DUDE!" stuff.
those of us who have been in the space a while (2011 for me) have learned as we went through it. hard to compress all what we learned into a couple weeks/months.
there is so much noise as compared to real info out there right now new folks are at a real disadvantage.
not saying doing real research in a short time frame cant be done but too many people have little to no attention span for it. and they will more than likely get burned.
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The last thing I want to do is see this come out and totally annihilate GPU mining. And that is exactly what it has the potential to do. Profitability for everything else will be completely destroyed and we'll be stuck fire selling everything we have in the hope we can get in line to acquire this hardware and software.
no, gpus will always have something to mine, as some algos will almost certainly be created with anti asic/fpga properties. wont stop fpga/asics but will make it much more expensive to develop. OhGodaCompany has its ProgPOW plans that will leverage so much of a gpus capabilities (not just CUDA cores or whatever) that its just not worth emulating with fpga/asic, as to do it one would basically have to emulate an entire gpu to do it. easier just to use a real gpu. of course it remains to be seen how that goes, but fpga/asic is not the end of pow on gpus. at least not yet. |
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use ten pencils per flight so they don't have to be sharpened? that still saves millions of dollars.
valid to a point, but pencil points dont last long (we use em in medical a lot and we always need to sharpen them, one page of writing and its more or less useless) and if you break the tip, what then. send up 100s? but i do see your point. not sure if theres more to it than i know. |
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I like the famous anecdote about the US's phenomenal talent of wasting money. NASA engineers spent millions of dollar trying to develop a pen that could write in space, or so the story goes. Meanwhile, the soviets used pencils.
pencil shavings floating around were perceived to be a problem as they could get into delicate electronic packages. hence, pens. at least there was some reasoning involved. whether it was valid? who knows. NASA (back then) was all about safety, anything that might cause equipment failure was minimized. |
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doubting the moon landing...seriously, that shit is cray
Perhaps it is better that we forget about it. What a phenomenal waste of money, time and talent. NASA would have been better off, and gathered much more useful science by sending umpteen unmanned missions instead. I feel the exact same way about NASA's current project on sending a manned mission to Mars. it was mainly political IIRC. we needed to show russia up. they had the 1st satellite, and 1st person to orbit the earth. a manned moon landing was the next step. couldnt let russia beat us there too; they would then be the most advanced "space faring" nation. no way would the USA come in second on that, our national pride was at stake. and the advances from the space program have many benefits. one being that for long term human survival as a species. we need to get off this rock before we destroy it. the sooner colonies are on mars/wherever, the better the chance for human survival. earth is getting to be shithole. we need "boots on the ground" at some point and automated probes are just the 1st step towards that. |
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I don't see what is controversial about my statement... which part of my statement is controversial?
my doubting of the moon landing or my confidence that the earth is not flat?
doubting the moon landing...seriously, that shit is cray i find it hard to believe people that are otherwise reasonably intelligent can still believe that moon landings were faked. mental block? lack of knowledge the technical aspects? brain washing? wishful thinking? whatever it is.. well enjoy your beliefs. |
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for most of us, its way too late. they already have so much info that preventing them getting more, while worthwhile, wont invalidate the data they already have.
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It's never too late as long as you're alive. While it's true big tech companies already collect your data, the data won't be too useful if you stop use their service and start over from fresh device/account. Also, some countries have regulation which force companies must comply if user submit their Right to erasure or right to be forgotten even though i doubt they actually remove your data, but surely they can't use your data freely. true, the big data guys may delete the data (so they say) but they have already sold most of it to other parties. i doubt those parties (even we even know who they are) will comply, we would need a record of where the data went, not just what they collected. but yes, cant hurt to start. |
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for most of us, its way too late. they already have so much info that preventing them getting more, while worthwhile, wont invalidate the data they already have.
i started using the web when it 1st came out (and internet/BBS before that). privacy wasnt a concern back then and not much if anything was logged for profile purposes (maybe AOL/compuserve did dunno never used them).
never used facebook/twitter stuff. BUT i did use google a lot when it 1st came out, not realizing just how much data they keep. still use sometimes it as its pretty good. but now its duckduckgo. also use gmail as its just convenient and everyone has the addy. be a pain to change now.
vpm is fine if you can take the speed hit.
bottom line is i accept my data is logged for whatever. looks like my goat porn habit is well known to google and three letter agencies. have fun.
but now data collection has reached the point of absurdity. its actually intrusive to get ads on something the second i do a search for it. i wouldnt want to be at work and have my phone display an add for adult diapers or something if i show someone at work a web page on my phone.
i do believe in the right to privacy, and going forward will be paying more attention to it.
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Hello, I just like to report that, newer versions (11,2 forward, crashes with the OhGodACompany's Enlargement pill mempatch with GTX 1080s) Nvidia driver crash, doesn't happen with 9.8 Version, which works just fine.
without the mempatch works fine but the hash rate on the 1080 is a joke due to the GDDR5X memory.
Lubuntu 14.04 , driver 378.09
actually i noticed that 11.6 does that (low hash rate with ethelargement pill), but 11.4 runs fine at 50+ mhs. driver doesnt crash on 11.6, just low hash rate. havent tried 11.7 yet. thought it just operator error on my part.have 2 1080tis on ethlargment. |
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technically and opportunity wise we are much better off than in the past. in general (at least developed societies) disease and starvation are fairly rare. education is the main (IMO) way society advances.
however.
we now (here in the USA) have programs that encourage laziness and leeching from the government so work is entirely optional. free housing, food, healthcare. sit around and breed so you get more subsidies for every extra child. why bother bettering yourself and society when you are paid to watch tv, eat, and complain you need more handouts because you dont have what that guy who works for a living has.
the human race... we are devolving, not evolving.
(some of) the latest generations seems to just want easy living, no stress, and more money and status without earning it, just because they feel entitled. "snowflakes" yeah right.. they need to learn how life really is.
my parents and myself made ourselves what we are. not that we havent screwed up here and there, but when we did we learned from our mistakes and bettered ourselves on our own. we didnt go cry to the government for handouts.
BTW, yes some on welfare do need it, im not saying all take advantage of it. safety nets are needed. but it seems that its being abused beyond belief today.
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