El punto es no usar ninguna de las 2. Si te reciben y te pagan bitcoin, ¿para que?

Ya por lo menos en El Salvador se está comenzando a poder vivir así, y esa es la libertad que queremos para el resto del mundo.

Well, it turns out the ARM cpus in those control boards are capable enough, except maybe the beagle bone; that one is single core and struggles a bit more for certain tasks but its not an issue with the encryption. The others are dual core and even quad core with the amlogic.

Sure, you can also place a v1 to v2 proxy in your network perimeter, so your v1 miners are clear text only in the lan and then go to the pool using v2

Stratum V2 is an open spec, any pool operator can implement it (the lazier ones by putting a v2 to v1 proxy in front), and there is an open independent implementation. You can tell exactly what is going on by yourself from your own mining software talking to your own mining pool.

Bitcoin Magazine: Why Bitcoin Mining Needs Stratum V2

Without the devs what is there to do, revert back to an specific version?, if so which? What can we do to signal disagreement with this spam?

Yes, and you can also do a whitelist so those encrypted connections go where they are supposed to.

If i were off the grid, i would use batteries strictly for essential needs, better to have the mining operation running only during the day.

The best attitude for solo mining is: don't expect to ever earn anything. Can you do it? If you can, then you should! (You have other means of income, etc).

So its like playing lottery, and the higher your hashrate, the better your chances. Those 58 years are an average. If you look at the pools history of finding blocks, you will notice they may have bad luck or good luck, same here. What if it takes you twice that? what if it finds it in a year? You never know.

Like i always say, chances are getting lower and lower (with diff increase), but its never zero.

The funny thing is, that, maybe, just maybe the miners themselves can be treated as assets. If a Bull cycle comes, the asic miner prices will shoot up again. Some people even do both things even used they sell them for more bitcoin while maybe renewing with more efficient models.

Since we can't guess the future, it is unknown. I have seen many past scenarios where buying bitcoin and holding would have been better than buying miners. But sometimes, if you bought the miners cheap (like with a bear market) and then later because of the Bull market they end producing more than anticipated reaching their ROI faster.

So yeah make your guess.

I don't like Nicehash, its not Bitcoin, they rent your hashrate for whatever clients want to do. If the altcoins are green you will get that perception, when altcoins go red, well you will see. It happened in 2018, it will happen again. Supposedly when altcoins go red, they now fallback to Bitcoin. There are other rentals with more control too where YOU define the fallback pool, etc.

This question comes from time to time, and the simple answer is: From the tx fees. Of course mining will shrink. Bitcoin price compensates this, but not in the exact same proportion. Only time will tell, but my view is that it will continue to be slowly less and less profitable to mine, but this will make some whales leave and the home enthusiasts that don't care to run at a loss, would get some breath.

For the very end in the year 2140, yeah that's a bit... too far.

Yes that's one the reasons for v2: encrypted communications so precisely, the kind of things you can do with wireshark with v1 which is clear text, cannot be done by your neighbor, your isp, your government, etc with v2.

Same reason web pages are now https instead of http, Sure, clear text is great for debugging, in your own lan. Perhaps adequate for a time where you were expected to mine against your own node, But alas, the times have changed.

Of course, if you do use bosminer with v1, you can still see it in clear text. Or if you make your own v2 proxy...

Actually the dev fee for S9 is still 2%, so if you want to see it that way, its 0%.

That is not how a pegging works. And the USD isn't stable, unless the slide down is a form of stableness...

It is given in USD as a manner of convenience. In Europe it is given in EUR, that is not a pegging. And because its a free market, you can often see the price in USD and the price in EUR does not match when converting one coin to the other. The local economies also affect it.

A pegging is when they declare x equals y. Its what the so called "stable" tokens do, which is basically going against the market forces usually by promising to keep a fund equivalent to...

There was a time that Argentina decreed that 1 peso was 1 dollar. That's a pegging. You can check that history to see how well it ended...

Now I'm the rude one... I see.

Just like the whitepaper said, electronic cash. Finite emission 90% done, very hard to change rules executed by computers around the world.
No State, no banks/exchanges. Just people to people. Pay with bitcoin, get paid with bitcoin, wallet to wallet, accepted worldwide fin. Its purchase value is defined by the free market, and it has steadily increased since its creation in 2009. Can go up and down in the short term, but long term has always been the same: up. The more people learn about it, the more they want it, because of its merits.

It is funny to see you with jr level imposing rules when you can't make a self moderated thread to enforce them.

Besides with number 1 it is pointless to discuss anything with you. I wouldn't particularly care if it did come from the US gov. They also brought us SELinux (NSA), Tor (US Navy) and some other free and open source projects you can inspect their code and verify it doesn't have backdoors or what not. It really doesn't matter who made it if it benefits you or me in the end, you and i decide, not them.

Use it or not, your choice.

I hate it when the tor project created that confusion. No, tor is not a browser, but that browser includes it.

You just run a tor node, and configure your bitcoin node to use it. Is actually rather simple.

This is the original tor project page: https://2019.www.torproject.org/

Note the 2019. I wish they kept the browser in a different domain or a subdomain...

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That's because you are using a casino in the normal net from tor. If the casino was running in tor (aka hidden server) they can't. That's what you do with bitcoin nodes, make them use a tor node that is not an exit node. Exit nodes is what they detect, they can't do nothing about bridges, especially those that don't advertise (which you can add manually in your configuration). In addition, deep packet inspection is resisted using obfs4 which is an option you need to setup when configuring your tor node, and its needed in certain countries to bypass their restrictive nationwide firewalls.

Just so you get it, tor lets you browse normal internet, but that's not all it does. Some people like to call resources inside tor "dark". It is a place to put content that resists censorship, but tor is not the only project doing it.

PS: The TOR project is a free and open source project from the US Navy, so they are probably still interested in keeping it running for their own benefit. But even if they don't, the community is carrying it on.

Historical anecdote: Satoshi used it to write in this forum.

That's the loophole that needs to be closed.

So Austrian economics. Without it, you will not understand the true meaning of this phrase.

The Monetarists built everything around garbage money, so they invest it and more importantly, get in debt to invest. Add the legal ponzi scheme of fractional reserve the banks do, and create the huge bubble distortion that pops from time to time.

Well, it may not be the end of the problems, but its definitely a solid good step. Imagine that, the State cannot go over-budget anymore, the hidden tax called inflation is no more at their disposal.

Hmm the Electrum node i was connected to decided to "forget" my transaction, i had to push the broadcast button. It feels like the distance was about the same i had moments ago some 4MB. When this started at worst there was like 50MB traffic ahead. Its been only 5 days (i conveniently started on March 1 so its easy to remember). But while I'm typing this, the distance seems to be slowly increasing again...

I wonder if Bisq now allows me to use my system's tor instead of the thing they bundle that i cannot configure?

That was my major show stopper a few years back.

Never forget bitcoin is limited emission, fiat money isn't. So there can be only one outcome.