the last minute of the first half was quite dramatic.
Madrid didn't have many chances during these 45 minutes but they almost scored if it wasn't offside.
VAR is a little bit useful here but it's a shame Liverpool are getting distracted after this incident.
It's a shame this isn't a goal
I'm not sure if I agree with the referee here. I mean, the ball was actually kicked by a Liverpool's player's knee in the end, so it shouldn't have been offside. In any case, this reminds you that Benzema can always strike at any time. Shame indeed it wasn't a goal. |
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Don't roast me for this but I think the real question is...
Does the higher amount of hashpower a pool has increase the chances of someone in the pool finding a block (solo or otherwise)?
My thoughts would say yes.
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In terms of probability in doesn't matter for each individual miner, it only matters how much hashrate they provide individually. What I think is significant is that if you have a pool with a high enough hashrate that means that there will be blocks found, and therefore fees will be paid to the pool, which will allow the payment for the servers and so on so the operation can continue smoothly for everyone. But if you have a pool with low hashrate then probably no blocks will be found, server bills will arrive and with no incoming blocks the pool operator might have to shut the operation down. |
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When you see that message that means that someone in the network found a block, not you. You won't see any credit on your dashboard, because someone else found the block. |
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I have a few questions about Bitcoin mining
Is Bitcoin a currency produced by someone or something?
If yes, then what will happen if the production stop?
What is the purpose of the 21million limit to Bitcoin mining?
And finally WHAT IS IT FAITH AFTER REACHING ITS LIMIT
I would recommend you to read all the original material that Satoshi Nakamoto wrote himself, starting from the whitepaper. That will give you a clear answer to all these questions. Here's a website that provides links to all the emails, source code, and posts that Satoshi did when creating Bitcoin: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.orgOnce you read them you'll understand Bitcoin much better than the vast majority of people. |
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R606 has basically been discontinued. Reliability was never that good, and the mechanical parts were way too labor-intensive to manufacture and assemble. If/when there's another pod, it'll use the same basic dimensions but a different mechanical design (including heatsinks) so it goes together a lot easier. It's really demoralizing to put a lot of time into assembling and testing a device only to have it come back for warranty repair.
Thanks for the info. Regarding the Gekko usb mining sticks and the powered USB hub, Does USB 2.0 vs USB 3.0 matter as far as the hash rate goes? I some of the recommended hubs are USB 2.0 but the one that Bitcoinmerch bundles with these miners is USB 3.0. So I wanted to ask. I already have one of each hub, just curious which I should use. It doesn't matter if it's USB2 or USB3, that's mostly for data speed and the amount of data you send is almost nothing. The most important thing to check with these USB hubs is how much power you can transfer per port. The hub from bitcoinmerch that comes with 3 compac Fs has a maximum of 2.4A per port, which is pretty good, much better than most hubs you'll find in the market. You can mine at 300GH/s+ per Compac F with that at 15W. If you want to go higher than that you'll need a special hub, which delivers more than 2.4A per port. I think the GekkoScience hubs are the only ones that actually deliver that. I haven't seen anything else in the market even close to that. And I think these hubs are USB2.0. |
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Less than 5 hours to go for the kickoff, and I believe that Real Madrid is ready to repeat history. I can easily see a 3-1 victory for Madrid with two goals from Benzema.
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I think Salah put a great target on his back with that "we have a score to settle with Real Madrid" statement. It will make them do all they can to stop him from playing his game on Saturday. Probably, the intent of his statement was to motivate his team mates but I believe Madrid players and fans will see that as a threat for revenge that will bring another dimension to the finals tomorrow. Let's wait and see who wins the battle.
It was a devastating defeat in 2018 though, so I'm sure Liverpool will put everything in the field for this final. But I still believe Real will end up winning again. |
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I actually learned how to sign, verify, and encrypt a message with OgNasty's threads when I joined the forum.
Offering some merit to newbies in exchange of some practical knowledge is great in my opinion.
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Laszlo doesn't use twitter, reddit or any other social media. Any message coming from that is 100% a scam. Here's what he said about this: I don't do social media, the people pretending to be me on twitter/reddit/etc begging for donations are scammers. -Laszlo
HCEMyDqAXNBcpPbgQjYsm1V+HReQBWfBvNWr14iNBQj0b2u4mkgBl4S00gv1hXZUZQRaICKBRIxaxeeUNHQx94Y=
1XPTgDRhN8RFnzniWCddobD9iKZatrvH4
This is also a good opportunity for newbies to learn about how to verify a signature to prove someone is who he is claiming to be. In the previous message there's a Bitcoin address associated with laszlo, a message, and a signature. Anyone can verify that message with that signature, and see if it's valid. That means that the person writing that message has control of that Bitcoin address. So, in this case, you have the address of the 10k BTC pizza transaction in the message, and you can check that the transaction actually occurred in the blockchain at that time: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/a1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48dThen you can use the following details to verify the message with any wallet/tool. For example, with Electrum, you can go to Tools->Sign/Verify Message and then input the following: message: I don't do social media, the people pretending to be me on twitter/reddit/etc begging for donations are scammers. -Laszlo
signature: HCEMyDqAXNBcpPbgQjYsm1V+HReQBWfBvNWr14iNBQj0b2u4mkgBl4S00gv1hXZUZQRaICKBRIxaxeeUNHQx94Y=
address: 1XPTgDRhN8RFnzniWCddobD9iKZatrvH4
If you click Verify, you'll see if the signature is valid or not. That way you can 100% know that the person who wrote that message has control of that address. |
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Those of us who live within the borders of the United States must accept official U.S. legal tender for the payment of debts. I believe that this is the only meaning of 'legal tender'.
I snipped out the last part of your post, where it seems you were on the right track as to what "legal tender" means, but it doesn't mean merchants have to accept it; it means the government has to accept it for payment of whatever debts their citizens owe them (like taxes). A merchant is well within its rights to only accept bitcoin if it wants to, or USD, or whatever (at least in the US). I haven't read through this entire thread, but I read the first page and it isn't clear to me why this is a such a big deal. Everyone here is heaping praise on CAR for this move, but such praise was also heaped on Microsoft, Dell, and other companies when they started accepting bitcoin--and then there wasn't exactly an outcry when they stopped, which CAR could also do. El Salvador could also revoke bitcoin's legal tender status as well, so the skeptic in me isn't jumping for joy about this news. What remains to be seen is how many people in those two countries actually use bitcoin to pay their taxes and whatever else. You're absolutely right. But keep in mind that what you're referring to is federal law in the United States. States can have different laws. Here's an in depth answer that explains this: Q: I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn’t this illegal?
A: The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled “Legal tender,” which states: “United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.”
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
As noted above, however, although no federal regulation requires businesses to accept currency and coins as payment, local regulations may do so. Massachusetts has had such a law in place since 1978, and New Jersey enacted similar legislation in 2019. A few cities (e.g., San Francisco, Philadelphia) have prohibited stores from going cashless as well. |
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Thank you for the information. I'm just curious, if I would be to do an experiment with, let's say, 10 ASIC usb stick miners, how much BTC would I make in one day on a normal pool (not solo)? you do not want the stick miners. 10 x 300gh = 3th that is about 33 cents a day if you want small you can buy a 1 board s9 clock it low and get 3th the same 33 cents. but the cost to buy 10 stick miners is in the 1000's and the cost to buy an s9 is in the 100's if you want small you can do the Apollo there is a thread on it here maybe it is 400 or 500 for a full kit. I would buy the Apollo or a 1 board s9 over 10 usb sticks all off the top of my head. but close enough to understand the math favors the usb sticks the least. Yeah, spot on. I'll add that the Compac F does run more a bit more efficiently than the Apollo. Each USB miner mines 300GH/s at 15W, whereas the Apollo gets about 2.1TH/s at 120W (extremely quiet and efficient mode). Based on those numbers, the 7 USB miners required to match the Apollo hashrate consume 105W. But the price difference is huge, 7 USB Miners would cost you $1,629.98 [1, 2], whereas one Apollo BTC with power supply is sold for $574.99 [3] Also, something important specially for a newbie, the Apollo is ready to go in one single unit, and you can easily attach more if you want to. You just connect it to your computer, power it and you're ready to mine. The Compac Fs are great, but you need to tinker a bit more with them, get proper USB hubs that give you at least 2.4A per port, get proper fans and make sure they're running, tweak parameters for each stick, etc. Also for 7 sticks you'll probably need 2 USB hubs, so that's two power connections instead of one for the Apollo, etc. It's just more difficult to scale with the sticks. [1]: https://bitcoinmerch.com/products/4-x-gekkoscience-compac-f-with-fan-upgrade-bitcoin-merch%C2%AE-10-port-usb-hub-combo-up-to-1-4-th-s[2]: https://bitcoinmerch.com/products/3-x-gekkoscience-compac-f-with-fan-upgrade-bitcoin-merch%C2%AE-7-port-usb-hub-combo-up-to-1-05th-s[3]: https://shop.futurebit.io/products/pre-order-apollo-btc-a-bitcoin-asic-miner-and-desktop-class-computer-running-a-full-node-and-much-more-batch-1-ships-in-late-april-to-may?variant=33404745351267 |
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@jstefanop
Good morning,
On Futurebit Apollo LTC, there is a switch in settings which give access to Api. ("api-allow"). Is there a similar feature on the interface of the Futurebit Apollo BTC?
Thanks in advance.
They use different software, so there's no api-allow option as far as I know in the Apollo BTC. But if you're interested in reading the data from the miner, you can get that from a text file that gets written in the same folder of where the miner is. After you run the miner, a file with a name like this is created: apollo-miner.4A122E121471674B52383109. If you open it you'll see json encoded data in clear text. The "official" web UI uses that file to present it in a nice way in the browser. You can just read that file and you'll get similar data that the api in Apollo LTC sent. |
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It really depends on what you're after, and what kind of budget you have. The first thing to establish is if you want to have maximum performance and you don't care about noise, heat, energy consumption, etc. If that's the case, then just grab a few Bitmain Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd which will give you 198Th each at 5445W and 50db. There are other good ones as well if you can't find that one, here's a good list: https://www.asicminervalue.comOn the other hand, if you want to mine at home with a quiet machine, then grab one or more Apollo BTCs and/or Compac Fs. Those are currently the best silent miners for home. Each Apollo can generate between 2-3TH/s+ depending on the amount of heat/noise/power you want. Each Compac F can run at about 300GH/s and are basically as quiet as you can manage to get a fan to run as they come without a fan although they need one. That's the hardware part done, now for the pool, there are a few out there, but the simplest one to run is ckpool solo as you just need to point the miner to the pool, no need to register or anything: https://solo.ckpool.org |
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For me, Ukraine now has many weaknesses, not only in what the country is going through, but also in the fact that its players are a little more concerned and their mentality is in the things that happen in their country, they know very well that some players have resigned to go defend their country and this causes many players of the national team to be quite out of their physical conditions, therefore, putting the game so close can mean that they have to make a lot of effort to qualify, it is interesting, but I think that Ukraine will have a big disadvantage, and Scotland is a country that plays very good football.
In a normal situation, I would say that Ukraine were favorites for the game against Scotland. But the whole situation they are going through, as you said, I think it became more balanced, being more favorable for Scotland. But we can't forget, that despite the Ukrainian players being mentally worried about friends and family, this can also serve as extra motivation in order to try everything for everything to take Ukraine to the World Cup. Well, the match will be played in Hampden Park in Glasgow, so Scotland has the advantage of playing at home. I would say these two teams are very similar in terms of skill, so factors like playing at home would probably tilt the scale towards Scotland. But you never know, maybe the people at the stadium start supporting Ukraine, and they end up winning, just like Eurovision  |
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At the end of the day Benzema will probably score a couple of goals against one from Salah.
My guess is that Real will win again like they did in 2018, 3-1.
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This post reminded me of the message in the README from the mempool.space production setup: HDD vs SSD vs NVMe
If you don't have a fast SSD or NVMe-backed disk, that's fine—go online and buy some fast new NVMe drives. When they arrive, install them, throw away your old HDDs, and then proceed with the rest of this guide. |
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Interesting, they do support lightning, and they only charge 0.5% fee, and only network fees for withdrawals. About what you're saying, how does that work?. Let's say for example a business which is outside of those banned regions sets up CoinPayments, do they have to somehow check that the clients buying are not from the banned regions?, or is this done automatically by CoinPayments and it will just not work from a banned region? |
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~snip~
That's interesting; I'm still running the provided OS on my 'full package' and I do have short internet dropouts from time to time (one very recently, just a few days ago). My uptime is spotless and in the pool's dashboard everything looks alright. But in theory it should be the same binary, is it not?
I'll install custom OpenSUSE on it fairly soon, with this binary and will keep an eye on this issue to see if it happens on my system, too.
Interesting. Note that if you have a full package the miner is connected directly through the IOs of the board, not through USB. This potentially could be the reason why it keeps working for you, but not for me. Maybe they do manage some kind of reset in the direct connection, or something to that effect, that is not done with USB. |
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OK, I've found something not ideal with the Apollo that might be fixed with an updated software.
If you're mining, and then suddenly your connection to the internet stops working (for example you need to restart your router, etc), the connection to the pool is lost forever, it's never reconnected.
Even after the internet comes back, the miner will show the blinking lights as normal and everything would look like it's working, but there's no actual activity in the pool. This is not great since you can lose basically hours, days, or more worth of mining if you're not monitoring the pool itself.
I tried stopping the miner software, and restarting it, but still there was no activity in the pool.
Only after I restarted the host, which is a Raspberry Pi by the way, and the miner was disconnected by the reset, eventually it came back online.
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