While its true VISA/MC have both credit and debit cards, it is also true you can use a credit card almost like a debit card.

Imagine you are issued a credit card with a (ridiculously low) 10$ limit, and you want to purchase something that costs 200$ What do you do? You pay it in advance, that is, pay your currently 0 debt credit card 200$, and then you can use it to buy the 200$ item.

A debit card is a bit different, since is tied to your bank account, it lets you spend whatever you have in there. It may have a transaction limit depending on bank and country being used.

Not sure what type Bitpay uses, but now you are paying: Bitcoin tx fee, Bitpay fee, visa/mc fee.

I wonder what is behind this peculiar pattern in pool usage:

But is quite easy to spoof by the OS, and seems to be the late fashion.
Also some hardware lets you change it in their firmware, or needs to set it at boot time from an external file (driver).

To answer the OP question: It is a 48 bit address that is supposed to be unique for each network device.

And Venezuela was the world's first oil producer in the 50ies, and remained one of the wealthiest countries of south America until the 80ies.

All it took was some politician to mess with the coin... If your government can dictate monetary policy, you are exposed to this.

Bitcoin separates coin from State, you want this, even if you think you don't because your fiat is looking great today...

This clearly needs citation. 10% according to who?

LN can help transactions from trusted recurring customers, but the most important obstacle is the shop itself accepting Bitcoin in the first place.

It doesn't work that way, you just can't blindly input values others use and expect the same results.

Assuming you have a strong PSU (ie not the 1600w model, but the 1800w model or bigger), you:

Slowly rise the speed AND WAIT to see if your "Chip rate" and "Ideal rate" match, and don't see many errors. Your capture is already showing two things: 1st you are using 725mhz not 700mhz. 2nd your second and third chain (asic boards) are not making it, that is the moment you rise the voltage to them and try again. Ie. from 8.7 to 8.8. You might need to keep going up (individually), but if it does not work after going 9v or so then slow it back down to 700mhz until the rates match again.

ONCE you get matching rates you should try reducing the voltages one step at a time until you see the rates mismatching again, then you know whats the lowest "safe" voltage at a given speed for that board.

Every Asic board (chain) behaves differently.

Also this is completely unrelated to fans, the more you overclock the more hot it becomes and they will tend to go 100% and stay there (as your capture is already showing). You might also want to know that PSUs going beyond 60%~80% their capacity are less efficient, so you are wasting more power for th when using smaller capacity PSUs. Oh and you don't want to overload your PSU...

You should always aim for the best efficiency not the max TH/s.

Because as i said before, the documentation has an error:


NOT fan-temp-hot and fan-temp-dangerous...

Ie: {(the_rest_of_the_options),"fan-hot-temp":"80","fan-dangerous-temp":"90"}

What happens if you plug them with the wires energized? When you plug the first and then the second.. I don't think this should be done, but given how some people operate their mines...

Next experiment; Would it turn on if you used two 120v from different phases (would it get the 208v from the two hots?). Theoretically speaking, of course, don't try this at home, in the name of science.

Probably /etc/cgminer.conf

{(the_rest_of_the_options),"sched-start":"07:00","sched-stop":"18:00"}

Don't forget to restart cgminer with /etc/init.d/cgminer reload

Good luck builds momentum in bad luck times, so all is good. The longer the bad luck, the higher the chance good luck will come...

Yes, but test them one by one in a working miner, ie, turn it on with only one board connected at a time. You can also try swapping data cables, and power cables from the PSU.

If they still don't work with a miner you know its good with its own asic boards, they are likely bad.

For number 1 try to disable LPM and ELPM. If this works, try a different pool.

For number 2 you need to test the Asic boards one by one, perhaps try a different PSU, and a different controller. You could also try moving the asic board to your working miner to see if it works there.

Just to confirm, Are native segwit bech32 addresses still invalid on KanoPool?

That would be ideal, but doing that has to be under-wraps, as the only legal payment for employer and employee here is either the garbage fiat or the garbage centralized token and neither is wanted.

Next best is getting the garbage fiat and exchange it for bitcoin asap, and then when you need to buy things, change it to fiat for the smallest possible amount. Of course the major volume of transactions are not people using it to survive hyperinflation, but those trading who are mostly outside the country, as people within the country are too impoverished for this.

Of course this all breaks if internet or power fails, which is sadly becoming more and more frequent. March was a nightmare and things are looking very grim on a national scale.

With the economy destroyed as it is, no jobs within the country are worth getting at this point, but the de-facto gov wants to take a cut from any money coming from abroad people are struggling to obtain to survive. So naturally, ways for avoiding the State meddling are sought by the people.

The only problem with "backing" is the trust in the backer. You can have a "gold standard", and assume everyone isn't going to change their banknotes for gold at the same time... Then you get a repeat of the fractional reserve system again. In fact, it could be that countries like the USA were so deep in that already that dropping it was the safest thing to do (before somehow all Americans decided to demand their gold).

While money backed with "something" sounds almost like its that something, it isn't. A gold dollar coin is not the same as a dollar that represents an amount of gold equal to the same gold dollar coin. Even if you have trust, its still a promise you have to fulfill, and humans being humans, or human institutions, or governments, politicians, whatever, could come the day they don't fulfill it and plummets the price, just like a bankrun. (Or the legislative declares that the gold standard is now void).

When the Austrians wanted gold as money, they meant actual gold coins or ingots, anything you could melt at anytime and you don't have to trust that "someone" will give it to you when you request it (the same promise a bank does to you when you make a deposit).

So even if you say, that money is backed with gold, I'm not going to trust it the same as if it was gold itself. So its rather pointless.

The point of Bitcoin is that is taken away from the hands of politicians and financial institutions so they can't destroy it anymore when they see fit, as it has always been done to the fiat.

Separating money from state, would be an apt description. Precisely because its political, we came with this technical solution, already knowing that it would be under attack by politicians who get in panic of a money they can no longer be "controlled". That is until the newer generations more open to crypto end replacing the old.

The Star Trek model is based on "infinite energy" by the matter/antimatter power generation that made the "replicators" possible. If this is ever attainable, it will be centuries away.

It is also hierarchy military based, so I'm not sure how well it could last. Certainly the part of being contacted by alien civilizations played a role there.

In reality i doubt we will ever be contacted for various reasons but if that ever occurred anything we say here changes.

To reach that level, we would need to spend enormous amounts in research and resources. Not before we treat our solar system like our playground, so called "Level II" on the Kardashev scale.

For starters, the minuscule LHC is unsuitable. We need planet orbit sized particle accelerators... We are going to have Mars inhabited and probably terraformed already before we manage to build one of these, and its corresponding dyson ring or whatever is needed to power it.

Keep it flat and you are going to hurt the upper Asic board. They have to stand for a reason: Heats goes up, and you want the boards to have the same relative dissipation, not the lower ones dissipating to the top ones. Other than that, nice results.

Also repeating the exact same pool url is pointless. If you want same pool failover, try the same pool different nodes. For slushpool you could use something like:

stratum+tcp://us-east.stratum.slushpool.com:3333
stratum+tcp://ca.stratum.slushpool.com:3333
stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333

This is just in case a node fails or something. If you only fill 1, that 1 is going to be endlessly retried anyway you don't have to repeat it twice or thrice.

And in space we might find more gold that, if brought back to earth, will lower its value. So there is that.

You can see Bitcoin as 21,000,000 bitcoin units or 2,100,000,000,000,000 satoshi units, but its still a fixed amount by code that could only be changed by the vast majority of its owners, something that might probably never happen unless its value goes so high that even 1 satoshi becomes impractical to use.

In reality resources ON earth are limited, but in space you need to spend resources to find more resources. And yes, you could run out of resources before finding any if you mismanage their use. There are several resource games out there and you can see the same pattern repeat again and again.

Fundamentally it is the human who decides to do bad things. Evil disappears the moment we decide to, Ie. not kill others, regardless of circumstances. You may get the temptation, but your discipline can stop it, as it can stop people from stealing, or littering. From small to grave, we have the power to choose not to do bad, and the moment we realize this, world peace is at hand.

Sadly some people are easy to succumb, and they force us to have rules and rule enforcing, a justice system, etc. Which is to some extent a form of deterrent to keep us from falling to what some call "basic" (animal) instincts.

The human is a creature that reached a civilized state, but still carries this violent baggage from the past. It might have been important when we were living in the wild but in the modern world it gets in the way, thus the need to self improvement, via religion, sports or something else.

In the end its still our choice, but a minority still refuses to behave and they cannot be allowed to ruin everybody else's life.