It will be funny when a hacker hacks their toilet and launches a really powerful jet stream into there ass. Some blackhats will use this google nest agasint some rich people to see when they are home and stuff.
I'm sure this is already possible with some Japanese toilet models, they come equipped with all necessary things in place, and i wouldn't be surprised the IoT mania hasn't reached those. Last time i was there i did saw a pure digital one, it had only buttons to operate, including the jet stream. Oddly enough the stop button was in kanji, you better learn that one before sitting as it won't stop until you push it (if you engage it or let the sensor do it). Arguably the pranksters would activate it again or disable this stop button... It would we wise to never let those on the net  |
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It would be interesting if you can make it pull current rates, current diff, so it can make calculations using that as starting point. It is nice to have guestimated results based on difficulty speculation as well as price. As with difficulty, what if price goes up, or down?
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Mining is potentially more profitable, but demands much more work. And learning can be expensive, once you know it things get easier. Also size matters a lot, it is far more complicated the larger you become, its basically an industrial business.
Holding is very simple, but it needs discipline (ie, hold, not spend). Sometimes the miner is already committed with the equipment bought and can do nothing but wait until it ROIs, can be helpful with certain individuals.
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Hi all. What are considered "best practices" to ensure a paper wallet is as secure as can be for cold storage? I realize the paper itself is vulnerable to fire, water etc. And to be sure to guard your private key from view of people and cameras. But I've also heard about needing a special printer because most modern printers have memory in them that saves what you print and that can be compromised. Also an "air gapped" computer using something called "iceberg protocol" or something like that. Can someone tell me what is the best way to set up a paper wallet?
Don't print. Make a paper wallet by using seed words, people shouldn't be messing with private keys directly anymore. These words, you write in a piece of paper using your own hands. Then using the same hands copy them to another piece of paper. Secure both in separate physical places, that should be it. If anything, you'd want to print/copy/email whatever some of the addresses to deposit funds to. Procedure to make the cold wallets vary but i tend to favor booting a linux iso from usb (like TailsOS), install Electrum, create the wallet and shutdown. There are ways to monitor a cold wallets using Electrum or the other wallets (Electrum just happens to do it quick because SPV, but you depend on others). If Paranoid run your own bitcoin node first, then you can either use core or your own Electrum server. Don't worry, after the wallet is made you don't need either afterwards, but its nice to have. Yes you can technically make the wallet with a computer unplugged to the network, and then move some non compromising data to a computer plugged to broadcast. I like booting TailsOS in the plugged computer because it uses Tor by default, and you want your Electrum wallet to use tor as well (and/or your own server). The chances of someone catching your seed words when you boot something like TailsOS to make your wallet are minimal. Since the OS wasn't installed in the first place, there was no chance to install a keylogger, and sniffing the network won't do much, unless there is some exploit in that particular version that could be used in the small amount of time it takes you to make the wallet and copy the seed words by hand (which is why some people like to do that part in a computer unplugged to the network). |
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Besides making sure not to download the wrong programs that can be fake programs like fake wallets and not clicking on links, what other important things should you do to protect your computer? Yes i know you should not put crypto in it but even those who have hardware wallets, some coins cannot be put in the hardware wallet and you need to put it on its own wallet you install or in an exchange.
First off, does everyone here put a password on their computer? I read the windows password is completely useless. But does anyone here use veracrypt or a program where you must enter a password on your computer before you can log in? Because i read cases where a hacker if they have access to your laptop can put a virus, trojan, keylogger in your computer... then shut down your computer and if you never knew someone accessed your computer, well anything you type on it can be visible to the hacker. Of course this requires someone smart to have physical access to your laptop. Thus if they take your laptop, well even if they put a trojan on it, well as long as you don't type your stuff on it, thats fine.
Can someone tell me what program they use to password protect their laptop? I do not do this as i heard this process is not that simple. I heard there is either veracrypt or bitlocker. Are those the only 2 options or best 2 options? If so, which do you choose and with it, does that mean a thief with access to your laptop cannot get into your laptop and store anything in it like trojan unless they have the password? Because say someone installed a trojan in your laptop while you are not there for a bit... let say its just a friend who did it b/c they know you have crypto... that is dangerous. Any advice here?
Just run a good Linux distro using an encrypted partition, it asks a password at boot and unless its correct, the data is scrambled. Incidentally if you lose your password you lose your data. I think veracrypt/bitlocker attempt to do the same in windows, but windows has several more things to worry about. User attitude is one of the factors, but so is OS design, and Windows is flawed to the extreme. You run that and its only a matter of time, by user action or inaction (missed update, 0day exploit, accidental click). While Linux is not perfect, it is ages better. Securing Linux is much easier than securing Windows, and with the later you will always have to second guess. So unless you didn't get the answer: Running Linux (or BSD) is first step towards computer security. |
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My country has burned natural gas for a century, only in the recent years a part of it has been saved for export and some domestic use.
This is because the oil underground is often accompanied with natural gas, which is dangerous to leave around once you drill and it starts coming out. Companies rather than invest in the equipment to catch it, they simply burn it. That's how the oil industry operates...
And now, we have blackouts all the time, because the current administration considered pointless to keep the natural gas generators, and rather sold them for their own benefit... It took a little forest fire in march for the "dark" truth to come out.
Remember in "socialism" it is unfair for only the rich to have electricity, so everyone should live equally in darkness, except the leaders and some party members, of course...
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PS. Almost forgot, you can kiss your equipments' warranty goodbye. Even if you run into a faulty unit, unless the manufacturer covers all of the shipping expenses, it'll likely be cheaper to just take whatever hashboards/control units are still OK and just use them for future repairs. No with Bitmain, you can just send the things back to USA, either warranty or repairs. This is a problem with some other manufacturers, as sending to China isn't cheap. |
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The fan died in one of my APW 3+ power supply's. I bought a new fan on Amazon and it was delivered today. The old fan was 2 wires (one black and one red). The new fan (same model number) had 3 wires (1-red, 1-black, and 1-yellow). Thinking the yellow wire was just an auxiliary ground I connected the black and red wires and left the yellow hanging. Powered up the power supply with the S9 connected and nothing. Fan on the power supply not turning, and of course the S9 not working. Both the S9 and the power supply fan were working prior to taking it off-line. The old fan was about to explode so I shut it down until I could get a new fan.
Does anyone have any experience with this? If the fan power supply is not working will that keep the miner from mining? There is 220 going to the power supply, but not sure how to test the power going to the S9. Did I buy (or did they send me) the wrong power supply fan ? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Take a look at position of the wires, most likely the third wire is only to report rpm, but the colors might be wrong... Assuming you bought the same voltage. Unless the miner is damaged, you could plug only the controller to see if its delivering power (or use a tester). Under a low load (just controller) it should work. Under normal load (with hash boards) without fan it would overheat. |
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So you are saying with Braiins OS, Overclocking is safer? I wanted to install Braiins OS but I could not find an answer to a question. If I install Braiins OS to Nand since all my devices run 2019 Bitmain fw, How can I install bitmain fw to Nand? I have multiple devices, I dont wan to run all of them with SD card, installing would be better choice.
BraiinsOS gives you more control, but it comes with responsibility. You can find a more efficient (and safer) setting, but you can also damage your miner if you don't pay attention and bOS won't stop you from using improper speeds and voltages. Someone linked the procedure to restore the older bitmain fw, it involves the T9 firmware, which lets you install the older S9 firmware... No, they don't show you an option to install it to nand like bOS does, its all blind actually, all you see is leds blinking when its done, then you use that t9 web ui to "upgrade" to the old (pre 2019) s9 firmware. You can thank Bitmain for the stupidity of not offering an S9 recovery image in the first place, but people here found the hard way that convoluted method which i tested myself. |
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Flush browser cache or open with another browser where you have not opened the miner web page recently.
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Won't you try the trick of separating the input fan away from the case a bit to reduce the vacuum produced in the middle board position due to the proximity of the fan engine? Should be easy if you have a damaged fan you are willing to sacrifice to use its plastic frame as tunnel. this should improve heat dissipation to the part of the board in close proximity to the input fan. Another thing to try would be to use a dummy middle (double wedged) board and try with two hash boards on the sides instead of one in the middle, Not unlike the avalons... While easy to work with, i don't like wood much. It retains heat, and if/when things burn, it might catch fire. It does absorb noise tho. |
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Dumb question but does this pool support overt ASICBOOST?
Yep, dumb question. This pool was the pioneer of overt ASIC Boost. And native segwit addresses |
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That's too hot it's the same as in my country but you can still mine with this miner just make sure that the miner is inside in your house not indirect heat in the sun and let the hot air out with exhaust to keep your room cool like the above said "do not ingest their own waste heat" I can maybe affordably lower the temp with an evaporative cooler, or might be better off just venting to outside?
Not recommended it is not a good cooler for miner due to humidity(moist). it may damage the miner exhaust fan is enough to take hot air out from the room. Might work if you keep humidity under 70%, as long as the air from the cooler is not too cool (don't go under 25°C) because if you inject cold air there is a thermal shock when it enters the hot asic miner condensation occurs (becomes wet), and you don't want water short circuiting stuff inside... |
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Hmm this guide would be useful to recover a controller without the sd slot soldered in. I think an ftdi cable plugged to the rj45 jack would have done the same, but yeah, same thing if you plug to that 3 pin header.
Also if the nand becomes damaged, move jp4 and do everything directly from the sd card (ie load from sd into ram, then boot).
But then if you have the sd slot you might as well just use the sd card recovery method.
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Why? Did you made the cable yourself? Just search online for FTDI usb cable pinout... I believe it involves a chip, due to usb, unless you want to make a direct rj45 to serial which i happen to have one lol. Cisco switches and such use them in both the true serial and usb variants that go into an rj45 jack and serial/usb on the other side. Oh, if you are using a true serial port, make sure its enabled in the bios. Some bios are set to "auto" and won't turn it on if nothing is plugged at boot.
I haven't touched putty in over a decade, but if it can do true serial then its a matter of picking the right port and speed parameters (115kbps 8,n,1).
If unsure test the program with something else if you have anything that still connects via serial (such as the aforementioned router, or an old fashioned pc).
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Petro only works with an online wallet in a single State operated server. Even Banco de Venezuela would need to connect to this server to manage their wallet. While they promote a smartphone app, all that does is connect to the very same server.
Venezuela has state owned collapsing infrastructure all over the place, especially internet and electricity. Everyday this week my home has lost electricity for about 6 hours during daytime, Internet Adsl has not recovered since two weeks ago and the phone line is dead since Sep. I'm using a cellphone tethered counting every byte and blocking images, because no one knows how much you are supposed to pay or after how much data per month it stops working.
You can imagine the chances of success Petro has, without going deep with the rest of its design flaws, and the fact that its price is pegged by decree arbitrarily, by the same government responsible for the worst hyperinflation in history.
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I have also read very good things about Norway, and the Scandinavian countries. Japan is good too.
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Hey guys, I just wanna put a question here in this thread because I have no enough information about this topic to post it in another thread. Is there here more information, thread, discussions or something about what is happening with Craig Wright when he says he´s the real Satoshi?
Why do I post this? Look, I´m Colombian, I am knowing Bitcoin since Dec - 2016 and I focused on Blockchain Technology, however I am looking people (they are newbies) saying like very happy that they finally met the real Satoshi Nakamoto and if that was not enough. Bogotá city (Colombia´s Capital) Council has recognised him as the real Satoshi Nakamoto in an event that ocurred some days ago at the Capital...
Well, if you all have some information (in this forum. Not on internet) I would like you to post or comment it here... Thanks!
Mire parse, for starters you are in the forum made by Satoshi, that should give you a hint... Oh yes, he/she has his/her Founder account intact, he/she can log anytime he/she wants. Seen Craig logging in the forum with the Founder account? No, he can't because he isn't. Yes i know there was some sponsored event in Colombia, but that guy is a fake. Here is a web page with links explaining in detail why Craig is a fake (aka: faketoshi): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Craig_WrightI'm sorry you were all scammed by that charlatan, and your politicians in the council were too eager to accept him, I can only wonder why... |
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Is Minds really built on ethereum? I have heard a lot about it but did not know it's a decentralized social networking site.
Moderation and rules are extremely important. It will be necessary on decentralized platforms otherwise attackers will use the lack of moderation to desecrate such platforms and the authorities and the world will have reason to attack no matter the cost.
Decentralized platforms without moderation should be avoided in my opinion.
Moderation must be assigned randomly to qualified anonymous moderators. Their job must be done transparently. And there must be reward/punishment for good and bad moderation.
Such a system has been used successfully in Slashdot for over two decades. There the system random assigns moderators and meta moderators where you can build reputation by doing a good job from the community itself. |
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I'm pretty sure that electronic cars are the future, i don't own one myself yet but i want to once the oil reserves dry out there will be the need for another kind of fuel for cars and electric cars are a step in the right direction. I also think that a lot of people will still drive normal cars until the oil runs out because of the sound and the feeling that you get with a regular more specific fast car or a muscle car for example, but maybe we could solve the sound issue by installing a hifi surround sound system imitating a muscle cars noises The oil reserves won't dry in your lifetime, don't bother waiting for that, just buy it at your best convenience, preferably before all your local gas stations disappear (give it a few more decades). As for the noise, i particularly like the subtle (but noticeable) electric motor noise. Cities will have a much better sonic environment in the future. Check the many youtube videos about Tesla owners, search for "tesla smile" where they give people rides to see their reaction when flooring it, there you can listen to the electric buzz kicking. It might not wake up your neighbors, but you will feel it... When oil production peaks globally, it won't disappear the next day. Supply will simply slowly decrease, and price will slowly rise to compensate, which will in turn increase the demand for electric vehicles, and perhaps production. Granted, Tesla's are luxury cars, over qualified for someone doing a daily commute, but Elon wanted to change the worldwide perception and challenge all the established companies, which i think he did successfully. From his efforts the whole world benefits (he released the patents of his electric engines for anyone to use). The model 3 is cheaper, but still a luxury. Probably the cheapest pure electric cars won't come from Tesla, maybe from China or such very compact 4 seats at best. I don't believe in hybrids, they are a dead end, and are more complex (and heavier) than what its needed. The simplicity of a pure electric is its beauty, and people habits must and will change. Just remember: Park and plug, never forget. |
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