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ive not been effected by this.
when i set coinbase up several years ago i linked it to a new bank account dedicated ONLY to coinbase, just in case a hacker got in the damage would be limited. also in case coinbase went hog wild, which i never thought would happen but hey, lookee here..it did.
no way would i link my day to day bank accounts to an exchange. i keep very little fiat in the account and same with coinbase.. i transfer fiat in or out to buy or sell, then move that stuff out pronto.
oh, and no cards are linked to coinbase either.
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love my onda b250 d8p v1. will never build a riser rig again.
some of those riserless boards have better slot spacing than others, the d8p v1 is very good with 2.5 spacing. i dunno how well a 2.0 spacing board will do cooling wise.
but the d8p with its 2.5 spacing will not fit in a server case whereas a board with 2.0 spacing would.
one thing i will always want in a riserless board is a socket for the cpu rather than a built in. just personal preference.
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It seems the "old ones" doesn't understand what bitcoin is or the whole cryptocurrency. The so called experts are also old and calling all fud against bitcoin. Yet almost all crypto enthusiasts are the younger generation, mid 30's and below. There is the barrier. The technological gap between old and young. Give it a few years when we "young" are the old, then we'll see it flourish. Early 30's here.  Steady. You will find in this august thread many fine gentlemen of the older persuasion. That said, you're right, it is hard for someone in their fifties or more to change their mental and personal financial model utterly to suit the demands of bitcoin. late 50's here. and when i heard of btc in 2011 i took to the concept like a dog to a bone. dont forget us old farts have seen how the government and banks play with money "for our own good" for a long time and many of us trust the government/banks even less than the younger generation. but maybe im an exception. lot of my friends around my age just dont get btc and wont get into it. but that may be because they generally arent a technology freak like i am. |
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Why buy a HW cloner when you can do it faster with free SW? https://www.macrium.com/reflectfreeI have used this SW for over a year and love it. I use it to create nightly backup images of all of my Windows PCs to a backup server through the included scheduler. It can also clone any OS disk (including Ubuntu - nvOC) and even Windows Server if you boot from the PE image. If you want to roll out the same image to a bunch of machines, just create an image and then restore it multiple times. Hope this helps. yup ive used macrium reflect free for years. pretty much the same deal, all regular computers/notebooks get weekly image backups to raid 5 nas, and that is backed up to rotated HDs in my bank deposit box about once a month. nightly file backups are via syncback free to the nas. love it for mining rigs, once i change a miner config and know its stable i do a new image backup to usb. if something goes south when im messing with it i just reimage and its back up in 5 minutes. |
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ouch. that would certainly put some hurt on gpu eth farms. most people were counting on eth not going away from pow for what, another year or so? |
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ok stupid question time again.
what does "iT" stand for?? i see it all the time and cant figure it out from its usage.
With me its because of the stupid iPhone word correct.... make allways iT from it..... Damn Apple trying to take credit for the entire IT industry. lmao. ok, got it. i saw some "IT"s and some "iT"s so thought they were different. figures its a "iThing" |
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ok stupid question time again.
what does "iT" stand for?? i see it all the time and cant figure it out from its usage.
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ive sent the required kyc documents to coinbase, bittrex and Gemini. poloniex will be next.
i figure anything i upload will get leaked and sold at some point. thats just the way it is. computer security at most places is a joke.
i already had my info stolen from equifax so no big deal for some more stuff to be out there. i just put a credit freeze and placed a fraud alert at the 3 credit agencies.
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Just switched from EWBF to DSTM this week and saw a nice 5-7% uptick in Hashrate on my 1080ti's
Better switch to bminer. You will be suprised i dont like that it keeps a channel continuously open to his server. until he explains more i will not use it. |
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folks who are serious about security and hiding valuables certainly are not going to list example setups here, so i dont expect much conversation in this thread. just search online for what the security experts recommend. lots of good info to be had.
one thing though, an alarm and/or dog dont necessarily mean high value monetary objects are within, the most valuable things i have are my wifes and my lives. all the alarm system or dog does is give me warning enough to take appropriate measures. anything else in the house is considered expendable/replaceable.
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That's nice you like those boards and risers. Calling the Octominer product a fail is a bit harsh, sure they might not work for your needs but each approach has pros and cons.
I have two riserless rigs (not Octominers but basically the same form factor). I'd recommend nvidia cards with them as they run cooler. Sure you're not going to run 1080ti's (ok hybrids would be awesome but that's going to cost a shitload) but cooling 1060s is no problem with 4 fans extracting heat and 1070s are OK with intake fans and smart heat management around the rigs. I don't miss risers at all on them.
If you are building a bunch of rigs riserless are less hassle too – plug in the cards, ram + ssd, connect fans and you're away.
i agree. i have a riserless 8 card board (not octominers but similar) setup and will never again use risers in a rig. much easier to work on, very stable. cooling is a breeze with 4x140s pushing air at them (open air rig) and its pretty quiet to boot. and depending on slot spacing (it varies per board) cooling 8x1080tis should be doable. mine has 2.5 slot spacing which is a plus, but that means it wont fit in a 4U chassis. but putting 8 monster delta fans in a closed case with a mobo with 2 slot spacing and 8x1080tis could be done (i believe, not seen it done but im sure someone will do it.. love to see that). air flow is king, force enough air through and you can cool most anything. if you can stand the noise of 8x 6000 rpm screamers.. perhaps i will be proven wrong though. whos gonna be the 1st to do it? heh |
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...various redacted quotes...
Hi, Would you be able to quote here the links to some of the recent posts that got your a lot of merit points? I think that would be useful for everybody to see. I know i would be interested to know just click his user name (on the left of his post.. the name with the stats under it), this will bring you to his profile. then click "merit" it will show a list of merits received and given for that user along with a link to those posts. just click the link. |
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This is totally off topic - but why did you name your company gekkoscience? I'm thinking you had the idea during on the beach in Hawaii sipping a tropical drink when a gecko fell on your head... Sort of like Isaac Newton and the apple...
i believe he mentioned it was based on the gecko pattern from the game of life if i remember right. could be wrong, if so im sure i will be notified of the fact  |
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Jalapeno, owwww, you brought up bad memories..... Butterflylabs  aaaarg. i have one. but it was a very early one, ordered very early on the 1st day so mine shipped way ahead of most, so it actually made some fiat profit. lost in btc mined though. had one of their fpgas and that one actually made fiat and btc. the rare good bfl experience in an otherwise bleak landscape of scammed customers. yeah bfl was as deceitful and crooked as they came. imagine if bfl had survived. you think bitmain is bad.. man, nightmare city. |
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I will merit someone for anyone for .01 BTC per Merit.
Get in while the price is low. ICO. Cheap Merits.
btw....we're up 1.5% for the day!
btc price has gone up 1.5% or the price for buying your merits has gone up 1.5%?  |
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Not surprised you have no merits. Dammit, why can't I demerit you??
On a serious note, I think this whole sMerit system needs a re-thinking. I wanted to merit this post, but find myself on my last sMerit. So now I'm forced to HODL my last sMerit. tossed ya a merit to help you recharge as i know youll pass em on to some worthy post or another. well, probably a worthy post. |
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Anyone hear from Rosewood I'm concerned the dude is passed out in a ditch somewhere, completely obliterated on scotch.
is that so bad? i mean it beats being passed out naked in a bathroom in mexico (umm, or so ive heard), especially if you dont live in mexico . it even beats being passed out drunk in police lockup (that one ive verified heard of too). |
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You don't understand the problem.
People with rank "Full Member" and higher don't want to give merits to the people which rank is" Member" or lower. They are not interested in it. It's a competition! Higher rank means higher rewards and others advantages.
umm, i think its you who does not understand the problem. this forum is a place to exchange ideas and knowledge about btc. its not a marketplace to make money via sig campaigns. and it is being overrun by people making crap posts to meet sig goals with no intent to add information relevant to the tread. the merit system is by far the best effort so far to turn this forum back into what it once was, a place to discuss btc without a ton of crap posted that has no value other than to level up a person or meet some arbitrary sig campaign criteria. i have never been in a sig campaign or in any other way used to forum to make money. perhaps im in the minority now, i dunno. i have sigs turned off so i never see them. i have no ill will to people that do, but it needs to be done in a manner that does not detract from the purpose of the forum. hopefully the merit system can help do that. BTW i have given plenty of merit to low rank members. i give merit based on the post, not the poster or posters rank. |
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1) Forum participants are not motivated to give merit to good posts .
i have my own motivation for meriting posts that ive also seen others mention: a way to make the best, most informative posts in a thread stand out. because hopefully at some point we will be have a way to be able to view only posts that have merit value as a way to quickly skim the best posts in a thread instead of reading pages of drivel or random banter. there are many threads about things i would like to learn about but usually i quickly lose interest as only one post in ten have useful info. i soon just stop reading it. if i could only see the best posts to get a feel for the threads usefulness i can then go back and read all of it if i want. of course we would need a merit filter for threads or something but im sure that can be done if this merit thing works out. even now though posts that have merit tend to stand out while scrolling so i can zero in on those posts even as is stands. |
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So here's my thinking: everything is already over engineered, so why not take full advantage of what these things can do? Here's an example that I can give real evidence to. I'm sure a lot of you guys use PCIe power splitters, the Y cables that turn 6 pin to (2) 8 pins, right? So many of them claim to support certain wattages. 6 pins are supposed to deliver 75w max and 8 pins are supposed to do 150w. I have every single one of my 1080tis plugged in with (1) 6 pin -> (2) 8 pin adapters. That's "300w" (up to) being delivered via a cable that's only supposed to do 75w! That's insane right?! Not at all. Check the "Wire Gauge Selection Table 12 Volt Circuit" https://www.tessco.com/yts/industry/products/itm/automotive/get_wired.htmlNotice how an 18 gauge wire on 12v can supply up to 40a on a 3' run, and these guys are only 6" long with 3 wires carrying the power.Now, unless I am radically wrong in my misunderstanding of how this works.. by my math that single connector should be able to easily provide up to 1,000w of power before you have to worry about the wires failing. Suddenly, that 300w doesn't look so crazy! And I'm only using that as an example, I am fairly sure that the components on the TI are able to provide far beyond their normal use specs. Can some of them be created poorly with parts that will fail quickly? Sure. Those are cards that would die eventually anyway. I've been mining on and off since 2013, I have bought/sold over 200 GPUs in that time, not once have I had one GPU fail from being run at 100% 24/7 (fans excluded). its not the wire 18 gauge wire thats the limiting factor, its the connectors. their rating is far lower, they get dirty, lose tension, oxidize. that builds resistance and thats when the problems happen. |
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