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Never write off any of the CONMEBOL teams. Even the weakest teams in that confederation, such as Bolivia and Venezuela are capable of defeating the strongest teams in CAF and AFC. Now I regard Australia as one of the strongest teams in AFC, but still I would go for Peru if they face each other. Anyway, we need to wait one more week to find out which team is going to qualify for Qatar 2022. Also, there is one more playoff scheduled for next week (CONCACAF v OFC), in which Costa Rica will take on New Zealand.
Absolutely right, CONMEBOL should have at least one extra slot in my view, 4.5 is just too few as basically all the teams there are good enough to qualify, and two of them are always qualifying: Brazil, and Argentina, which are both still undefeated. This basically reduces the slots for the rest of the teams and makes it extremely competitive. Costa Rica vs New Zealand will be an interesting match, the all whites should be able to win there. So, overall, my guess is that Oceania (Australia, New Zealand) will go to the world cup. |
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Many Bitcoin wallets seem to be only available through the Play Store in Android, but there are quite a few excellent ones that are non-custodial, open source, and available outside of the Play Store, directly with an APK installer. If you're using a phone with no Play Store (like GrapheneOS for example), or you simply don't want to use the Play Store, you might be interested in using some of these wallets for lightning so that you can pay and receive Bitcoin on the go, plus use all the latest features of lightning. Here's the list: Blixt Wallet. This is a really nice and modern lightning wallet. It has a lot of state of the art features like Keysend, Lightning Address, LNURL and WebLN. They use LND and Neutrino directly on the phone. They have the apk download available from github releases. SBW. Simple Bitcoin Wallet. This is a great non-custodial lightning wallet. It's very simple to use, you can send and receive bitcoin on-chain and through lighting by just scanning a QR code or pasting an invoice. It's based on Immortan, a custom implementation of lightning for light nodes. They also offer optional services like lightning channels through partners if you don't have your own node. It's available from f-droid, and github releases. Breez. A great open source, non-custodial, lnd and neutrino based lightning wallet with a lot of features like automatically opening channels for you. You can get the apk from the github releases. Phoenix. A lightning wallet based on Eclair. This wallet provides a great user experience, and channels are managed for you. You can get the apk from the github releases. BlueWallet. This is a great wallet with a lot of functionality. It's been around for a few years already, and it keeps getting better. You can either use your own lightning node or one of the nodes they provide for you. It's available from f-droid and github releases. Zeus. This is a great wallet for lightning node operators. You can send and receive Bitcoin through lightning or on-chain. It provides a direct connection to your node where you can manage all the details of its operation. It works for lnd, Eclair, and c-lightning nodes. You can get it from f-droid and github releases. Muun. Muun is also a great and simple lightning wallet, and it's open source, but they don't publish their apk directly anywhere other than the Play Store. Here's a discussion about it. You can get the apk, but it's more complicated. Also, note that they do require Google Play Services running on the phone to use it. |
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As per the article, pokies are not banned in Western Australia. But not only are they not allowed in pubs and clubs, they are also not allowed in any casino. Western Australia only allows pokies in its Crown Casino in Perth.
It looks like the only place where pokies were allowed in Western Australia might not be able to continue operating: Crown Perth royal commission finds casino giant unsuitable to hold WA's only gaming licence But it's unsure what will happen there. A similar thing occurred in NSW with Crown Casino in Sydney, and they're now saying they are going to open in days: Crown could secure licence to open Barangaroo casino despite being found unfit by gaming regulator last year |
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Woo hoo Australia!
Watched the first half just before Germany-England Nations League game and I have to say I feared the worst when half time came up, Aussies had the offense but ended up blunt, but by the time they scored the first goal (with their only shot on target all game) I was okay. Then the equaliser -- had a bet riding on it -- and good old late goal popped up.
@KTChampions I got Aussie at effective 19/10 boost so really pleased. Somehow like them in the WC, even if they end up just getting whipped heh.
Up next Peru!
The 2-1 was an amazing win for Australia, and I think they're going to be pumped to win their match against Peru in a few days. I honestly don't think Peru can win unless Australia makes some silly mistakes. In my opinion, if both teams play their best games, Australia will end up winning and securing their spot into group D. |
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My guess is that in the long term they're not very profitable, unless you're the one selling them  It might be true that in certain specific conditions you might end up ahead, but those are rare. The garden variety trading bot will probably lose money in the long term. |
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Groud D already has France, Denmark and Tunisia.
The next one to join it will be either Australia or Peru. We will find out in a few days, but my guess is that Australia will end up winning.
Peru is not a particularly strong team, and in these qualifiers they've not been incredibly good. On the other hand Australia seems to be doing quite well lately, and I'm sure they're going to secure their spot at the world cup.
It will be a close match though, but as I said I think Australia has a slight advantage and will end up winning.
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I really like this project, thanks for making it.
There's a weird feeling with this one though, on one hand it looks like a great item for a collection, being a limited edition. But on the other hand, the whole purpose of it is to become more mainstream and very common, so that a lot of people are trading it back and forth, which would lower the collector's value.
I guess the first edition might keep the value as a collector's item and next batches would be not limited...
Any plans decided now about the future of production of these bills?
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That is the great mistakes that people make. The strength of a coin is not determined by the current price. Price is not static, it changes greatly. Otherwise price can be manipulated through pump and dump and other means.
The main purpose of the project should be put into consideration. Does it have any problems to solve?
Is it acceptable by the community. It is important to look beyond price in making decisions.
One thing that I've learnt is that most people don't really know too much about their investments. The key metric that a lot of people use is simply the price. That's basically driving a lot of new projects, aka shitcoins, they offer massive potential gains if you "buy now", and a lot of people are extremely greedy, want to have a quick win, and end up losing their money with these things. Shitcoins are a bit similar to the products being sold by infomercials on TV late at night. Sadly, a lot of people end up buying them because they just said something like "but wait, there's more!" |
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Hello, is it possible to see when was bitcoin address or wallet created?
Thank you
All possible Bitcoin addresses, and therefore wallets, have always existed. It's not like when you open an account at a bank for example. A Bitcoin address is based on math, not a centralized database used by someone to generate a new row when an account is created. You can only know when a transaction occurred in a particular address, but the address has and will always be there. The only thing that changes is who has access to the private key of an address. That event could be somehow tracked in certain scenarios, but not in a general way. |
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Is this going to work with lightning? The Bold Card for example uses NFC and allows lightning transaction by just tapping it.
Also, is there any open source app, library, or standard that can be used to confirm that the bill actually holds the funds it says it has? Of course it can have a public address, but that doesn't mean it has control over it. Not sure if it's possible to prove this. I guess something like this is critical for mass usage of this type of thing.
And finally, why are you guys patenting this?, it feels very far from the original idea of Bitcoin and the open source philosophy.
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~snip~ This thread is 9+ years old when BTC was MUCH easier - see the comment above: BTC was around $100 or less then. Things are very different now. As an example, I have a dual FutureBit system running (one full node and one standard) which averages a bit more than 6 gHash or (about) 6,000 mHash. That rig generates about 0.00017 BTC per week or about $5.00 USD. At current BTC prices that's a few cents more than the electricity it costs to run. A single FutureBit full node costs $899 for 3 gHash or about $0.30/ mHash. At this level it's basically a hobby with the hope that "stacking sats" will pay off sometime in the indefinite future. Bottom line: DIY FPGA mining at that level is a lot of work for zero return. All that said... if you enjoy DIY electronics (I build Eurorack synth modules "for fun", LOL) and are reasonably competent/confident with modern software development tools, building a small miner could be an interesting project. There are a number of reasonably recent videos on YouTube documenting such projects and you can find PCB layouts, software, etc. on github. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_AocgfvTIs&t=290sGood Luck! Well, the thing is that mining Bitcoin has usually been difficult, at the time, lots of hardware work for relatively low pay. For example, the initial CPU miners were extremely inefficient, and Bitcoin was worth almost nothing. So all those miners mined for almost nothing. The same is true today, and it has usually been the case in the entire Bitcoin mining history. At the time you're mining basically at cost or close to it. Sometimes a bit better, and sometimes a bit worse, but around the cost of production. You also now have the concept of lottery mining, which wasn't even a thing back then, you had to wait a decade or so to see the value increase, now you can just get lucky and earn a lot of money mining. |
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Australia comes from winning against Jordan in a friendly match, and I would say that the Australian squad is playing quite nicely lately overall.
Both sides will go at 100% as whoever wins qualifies. My guess is that Australia will end up qualifying if they manage to play a decent game. If they make any silly mistakes then it's all over for them, but my guess is that they'll end up winning this one and getting into the next round.
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~snip~ I have heard that Barcelona has introduced/is about to introduce (as it is hard to pull off for existing contracts legally) a salary cap of 10 million due to their difficult financial situation. With no one else willing to buy him and his salary in Bavaria is 24 million, it looks like it's time for him to tell stories about how he was misunderstood and dreamed of ending his career in Bavaria all his life  Yeah, Barcelona is trying to reduce their wages bill, in particular they're setting a maximum of 10 million euros (about the same in USD as it's now at 1.06) for new contracts and renewals. They're also going to try to lower the current salaries as well, but not sure if that'll go well as you mention. No chance of him wanting to play for less than half his current salary. |
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Do you believe that France will enter the final of this tournament? because if you say for england and make it as favourite, i think it's still very possible and worth it because england still has a very good performance so far than some other countries like you mentioned. So what do you see in France this time that you also make it a favorite in this tournament?
I'm not even sure England will go through to the second stage though... Group B is made up of England, USA, Iran, and either Wales or Ukraine depending on their upcoming match. I think Ukraine will win and go through the group as well, and maybe US qualifies, possibly leaving England behind. We'll have to wait and see. Only a few months left. |
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This is ironic.... I, more or less, had this same thought! My gas bill triples in the winter months (New England) so I decided to get two birds stoned at once. Can't post pictures - but you can take a look at my Apollo setup here!    I put it next to my gaming setup so I don't need to run up my gas bill in the winter. I have 4 120mm fans mounted to the rear of the "kitchen shelves" I set them up on and when it's really cold during the winter, I crank them up and it keeps me nice n' toasty! Quoting for photos to show up here. Hey, I recognized this place from the other thread!, you have compac fs as well The Apollos and the Compac Fs are the best home miners at the moment, not sure which one would make a better heater though  |
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n0nce - so I actually used something VERY similar to that - I bought them from Bitcoinmerch. However, they ran way, way hotter using those as opposed to the setup pictured in the link (measured the rear of the PCB directly behind the chip). I don't have a jr rank so you'll have to go to this site to see my current setup.   Running my sticks with the BitcoinMerch "fan upgrade" I measured the rear of the PCB at about 53 Celsius (420mhz). With my current setup (this was prior to getting the industrial noctua fans - was using Arctic F12's) I measured the same spot at about 46 Celsius, which I would certainly consider substantial. I would, conservatively, assume the chip itself is probably 20% hotter than the rear of the PCB. Quoted for photo visibility. Also wanted to ask, how are you measuring the temperature of the sticks?, I'm thinking about using a thermal camera to do it, but I'm not sure they're actually very accurate. At least the cheaper USB ones. A drop from 53 to 46 degs is considerable. Those noctua fans are really great at keeping silent miners cool. |
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It really depends on what you want. You need to first decide the kind of payout that you're more comfortable with. Here are some definitions: CPPSRB - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay.
DGM - Double Geometric Method. A hybrid between PPLNS and Geometric reward types that enables to operator to absorb some of the variance risk. Operator receives portion of payout on short rounds and returns it on longer rounds to normalize payments.
ESMPPS - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed.
POT - Pay On Target. A high variance PPS variant that pays on the difficulty of work returned to pool rather than the difficulty of work served by pool
PPLNS - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.
PPLNSG - Pay Per Last N Groups (or shifts). Similar to PPLNS, but shares are grouped into "shifts" which are paid as a whole.
PPS - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares on average, a PPS method with 0% fee would be 6.25 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.
Prop. - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.
RSMPPS - Recent Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but system aims to prioritize the most recent miners first.
Score - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time t since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)
SMPPS - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns.
FPPS - Full Pay Per Share. Similar to PPS，but not only divide regular block reward (6.25 BTC for now) but also some of the transaction fees. Calculate a standard transaction fee within a certain period and distribute it to miners according to their hash power contributions in the pool. It will increase the miners' earnings by sharing some of the transaction fees. Basically they all are on a scale from solo mining where you get 100% of the rewards when you find a block(and nothing otherwise), up to small payouts for every share for a more stable payout over time. Here are some pools:  There's also ckpool solo if you want to solo mine. There's a 2% fee there. |
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