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Many people have different reasons.
Some want the consistent payouts.
Some small home miners don't have their miners on 24/7 and the ramp up and down can kill your profits.
Others like to hop between pools and possibly other SHA coins.
And so on.
As for are you getting all the TX fees, most pools do publish how they pay them, if you want to go back and do the math.
-Dave
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Either do the KYC or accept to lose the $1,000. They are always going to refer to their Privacy policy and terms of service whenever you try to make an argument out of it. Agreed, and keep in mind once you start going through lawyers, it can take years to get through the court system. And if you are worried about your data being out there, or your privacy with BTC, remember all court stuff is public information. Your name and who you are brining to court will be out there forever. -Dave |
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Back in 2015 I was working for someone trying to setup some services for selling BTC.
He had acquired a lot from early mining and had the idea that he could sell funded paper wallets.
Tried to tell him that nobody was going to pay for something like that since he had no online exposure at that time and would be coming in here and a few other places as a new user. But he wanted to go ahead with it. So I spent a weekend scanning QR codes to help him. Was 250BTC or so.
Project never went anywhere, he decided to keep the coins. But I did have that wallet on my phone for a few days as I kept sending them to the paper wallets.
-Dave
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The other questions are how much time & effort do you want to put into being anonymous and how much extra you are will to pay and how anonymous do you want to be.
If you want quick and simple it's probably going to cost you more. i.e. finding an ATM that has a high enough non KYC limit to make the transaction you want to do. BUT those ATMs are usually seling 10% or more above preev / coinbase price.
Do you want to put the time and effort in to drive to a major city if you are not near one to to a F2F transaction vs. someone closer who may have worse rates since your choices are more limited.
Do you want to be anonymous from the government and all it's probing, or do you just not want friends / family / jobs / banks to know?
And so on....
-Dave
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Market cap is not important in this case. Ethereum platform has an unlimited supply of coins, BTC is locked at 21000000
Eventually no matter what happens you are going to have 1000s if not 100s of thousands more ETH then BTC so even if 1BTC = $250000 and 1ETH =$1 you can predict a future where the market cap of ETH is more then BTC
Or to use an automotive example. The dollar value of all the Honda Accords on the road is going to be way more then the dollar value of all the Lambos on the road. Because every *day* Honda makes hundreds and hundreds more Accords then Lamborghini makes cars in a year.
-Dave
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It should work just fine and I don't see any big difference in those two devices. They are both ESP32 based and if you check parameters on both pages you will see that they are almost identical, same display, same processor, same SRAM, and only difference I noticed is touch screen on device you want to purchase and better 390mAh battery. EDIT: This is even better option M5Stack Core2 ESP32 AWS (has ATECC608 secure element)The screen is what actually concerned me, but I left it as a general question. In theory it should not matter, however I have had a few RPi projects that specified non touch screens that got a bit off when you used touch ones. Mostly because they did not expect the input. I know enough about RPi / linux to disable the touch part and they were better. But I don't know crap about the this unit or how to disable the touch screen input. With that being said I ordered the Amazon one you linked above. -Dave |
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Or use cash a something like localcryptos.com
There are other ones too that allow for F2F transactions, depending on where you are.
Also the amounts matter, $1000 is a lot easier then $20000.
Location matters too, it's easier to find traders in a big city then more rural areas.
-Dave
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Here is released github code v0.5 with instructions for creating your won BlockClock Micro device that is ten times cheaper than original BlockClock Mini. In theory this should even work on cheaper esp32 devices but I didn't test it myself so I can't confirm it. INSTRUCTIONS
Step 1) Follow this guide using M5Burner to flash the UIFlow firmware to your device.
Step 2) Ensure your device is connected to the IDE via WiFi before proceeding. If it is not connected, you will not be able to upload the code and images. You will need to reset the device in order for the IDE to detect the device.
Step 3) Upload the micropython code to the UIFlow IDE. To do this, open the blockclock_v0.5.py file in a text editor, and then copy and paste the code into UIFlow under the "Python" tab.
Step 4) Insert your WiFi SSID beside wlan_AP = and your WiFi password beside wlan_PW = in the code before flashing the device.
Step 5) Upload the images via the Device File Manager icon near the top right of the IDE. Add them one by one.
Step 6) Click the "Run" icon beside the Device File Manager icon to flash the firmware to your device.
Enjoy! https://github.com/kkdao/micro-blockclockI just opened an issue on github, but figured I would post here if anyone else knows The linked m5stack is EOL: https://shop.m5stack.com/products/basic-core-iot-development-kit?variant=16804801937498Will the clock work with the replacement? https://shop.m5stack.com/collections/stack-series/products/m5stack-core2-esp32-iot-development-kitI was going to get myself an early Christmas present but since that one is not around I'll go for the pyblockmicro that dkbit98 posted. -Dave |
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I have tried with a working MM board from a good known 841 and still the same thing. Maybe it can be a faulty hashboard, but why doesnt the other hashboards work? I think it is uncomon that all the 4 hashboards are faulty,what do you think? Hi, it gives you the ECHU code 131073 in the cgminer API log. I have explained that particular code here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5325107.msg57013711#msg57013711It's usually a sign for a faulty hash board. But if you are sure the hash boards SHOULD be ok, it can also be a faulty MM board (control board). Do you have another MM board to try with this unit? Was it ever working? Did something happen? Since you have another miner can you swap the other hashboards into this unit? Can they all go bad at once by itself? Doubtful, but I had a 721 have everything go bad when the power supply shorted out. There was no physical damage that you could see on the unit itself and it booted up fine once I replaced the PS, but it never mined again. It was old at that point and I didn't put that much time & effort into testing, but looked like the same issue you are having. -Dave |
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The litecoin foundation released a debit card a few weeks ago, if you want to list it. It's currently available for the U.S only but should be available for the rest of the world soon. The litecoin cards are issued by and run by blockcard who is mentioned in the 1st post of this thread. Same card, different skin on it. Somewhere on the blockcard website is does, or at least did mention co-branding cards so there will probably be more in the future. Also, the bitpay card can use ETH & LTC to fund it. Not sure if you would want to add the cashapp debit card to the list. You can send BTC to cash app and sell it and use that on their debit card. -Dave |
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The biggest thing I have hear this morning from people with $100k+ positions is that a lot of it was stop loss triggers.
Bought in the sub $50k price and set a stop at $50xxx or $51xxx and then once they hit the next people with different triggers hit and so on.
Since it did hit overnight in the US there were probably a lot of people who woke up this AM and went WTF?
But, they still make a profit so in their mind it's not the worst.
-Dave
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Over 2x the price of the Sondors but: https://www.fuell.us/products/fuell-fllow-e-motorcycleIt's from Erik Buell who has been into motorcycles forever and Frédéric Vasseur who has been a motorsports engineer forever. And they are NYC based so I have seen their demo. -Dave |
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...And for the US there is no point discussing, everything to date has been auctioned...
Minor quibble, it's everything that had has the court cases completed has been auctioned. There are still a lot in the hands of the US government sitting there waiting for the trials / appeals / etc. to be finished. Some of it will probably be in their hands for years with the speed that some of these cases are moving. -Dave |
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The other question is how many of them are large over the road truckers and how many are the local ones.
If more of them are the long haul ones then it's a bigger issue then if it's the local ones.
One of the people I do work for is involved in the food industry, I see a slightly different perspective.
EVERY person who deals with the food, even if it IS just the guy in the truck driving it and never even has ACCESS to the locked and sealed trailer, has had just about every vaccine known, As in it's frozen vegetables, the chances of transmitting Hep A to them is *zero*. BUT you know what, the insurance brokers don't give a fuck. Vaccinate or you don't get insurance.
But if you are hauling car parts, it's up to you. It's also up to the business shipping the parts and the business getting the parts if they want to let someone who is not vaccinated into their facility.
-Dave
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To add to what franky1 said, you can also look at people who don't leave their nodes on full time the same way.
You open your client, sync the blockchain, do your transaction(s) and shut it down.
Yes, you can send out old data while your node is syncing, but you are still, more then likely taking in way more data then you are giving out.
Outside of keeping your TX on your own node for privacy, there is really very little reason to run your own node that way.
-Dave
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like AMC, Regal is using a 3rd party processor not doing it themselves.
Personally, I have no issue with using such things but they should've gone with a slightly different route instead [e.g. a payment gateway that doesn't require customers to use one of the few "flexa-enabled wallets" that has "certain limits, apart from verifying a few things"]! As a result, Flexa currently enables you to spend up to $250 per account per week (across all merchants), after we receive and verify your full name, date of birth, email address, and the state or territory in which you reside. On "this page", they've listed $750 as their weekly limit [not sure which one is correct].
As part of that process, we are legally required to compare your full name, date of birth, and state or territory of residence against lists provided by the Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC"), the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other government entities.
At Flexa, we believe in preserving your privacy to the greatest extent possible, which is why we encrypt all of your personal information as it is transmitted to our servers, and only retain that information for the minimum duration as required by the law. I have a bad feeling about the highlighted part and they didn't explicitly mention how long is the "minimum duration"!
Still good that there is another big (ish) outlet to use BTC
You're right, but if I were in the US, I would've opted for a " gift card" instead [less risk]. 1) From other discussions around the internet they raised it from $250 to $750 a couple of months ago. But $250 is still listed in places 1a) From those same discussions you can go over that limit by using 2 different apps to spend. 2) I'm guessing since it if a financial transaction they keep it a really long time. Since Gemini is involved as one of the apps I'm guessing years for tax reporting reasons Yeah, there may be better ways to pay to see a movie but it's still cool. On a side note I'm guessing that we are going to see more and more stuff like this in the future. The these apps work with these merchants, and those apps work with those merchants. I see that now with merchants that use square (now named block) they you can pay with CC or with the cashapp app. -Dave |
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Did not see this pop up here so: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/268441/20211124/movie-operator-regal-collaborates-flexa-offer-cryptocurrency-payments-theaters-more.htmhttps://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/regal-partners-with-flexa-to-enable-digital-currency-payments-for-movies-and-more-301430454.htmlRegal understands that digital assets are a rapidly growing and increasingly important form of value. By adopting digital currencies for payment in its theatres, Regal is offering more convenience and choice for movie-goers than ever before. Through its partnership with Flexa, Regal is enabling instant payments using dozens of digital currencies, such as:
Cryptocurrencies including bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), litecoin (LTC), and dogecoin (DOGE);
Digital dollars and stablecoins including USD Coin (USDC), Dai (DAI), and Gemini dollar (GUSD); and
Digital tokens including LINK, ATOM, Basic Attention Token (BAT), and much more. So AMC & Regal are both rolling out crypto payments. That just leaves Showcase / National Amusements not taking BTC for movies in terms of the big chains. BUT.....like AMC, Regal is using a 3rd party processor not doing it themselves. Now I get it, they are a big company and it's not like they process their own credit cards so it's not unexpected that they use someone else. Still good that there is another big (ish) outlet to use BTC-Dave |
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Because for DECADES gold has been hyped as a safe asset.
TV commercials, print advertisements, radio spots. GOLD GOLD GOLD.
So people have gotten into their heads that it's a safe long term investment.
I'm sure if over the next 10 years we spent 100s of millions of dollars advertising BTC as a safe investment that would be how people would see it.
-Dave
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