Email access doesn't necessarily means they can get you, many sites ask you security questions before sending you a new password to your email, it depends on the site. If you are smart, you don't use a normal answer to the security question, but instead use random generated passwords as response for each different security question (you can store those in your password manager the same way).

If the site simply sends you a new password over email when you request it, that site has a very poor design. In this day and age, that's unacceptable. Some form of challenge should be expected. Often a weakness here is people using dumb simple answers to the security questions.

Windows has a LONG history of security breaches. Problem is, its full of holes, several undocumented. Once a malicious individual finds one, it can keep it to himself until the day he wants to use it. In open source, the same thing can occur, BUT  more often than not a thid party finds it and alerts the community. This cannot happen with closed software where its impossible to audit the code, or can only be audited by too small a limited group for a short period of time; meaning several bugs and flaws remain hidden for decades. The software development model (open vs closed) is one of the main reasons for insecure software, but its not the only one. It is however harder to secure closed since its harder to find the flaws than open.

There is no such thing as security by obscurity. A common cryptography tradition is: show your algorithm, so the community as a whole can audit it and give its blessing or find its faults. you know, basic science. Keep it hidden, nobody will trust it as its likely full of flaws. Software is the same.

This is why its critical to never repeat passwords anywhere. First thing they do when they obtain password databases is to try them elsewhere. People can't remember a thousand sites passwords, but they can remember a very good password for a password manager running in a secure OS. Of course you should run a secure OS always (ie. Linux).

And your passwords shouldn't be trivial. Password managers have good random password generators, you should aim for (at least) 16 char long passwords using all char type groups first (ie. letters, numbers, caps, symbols).

I would advise the OP to download a live linux iso and use that in a thumbdrive and boot the computer from it. always have one of those ready.

Why, oh why is it only after people lose money that they start to pay attention? If you haven't been harmed yet, Do it now™; drop windows today, no more excuses.

Then, no "easy passwords", no repeating passwords. Careful with the 2FA, they are double edged swords, not universal protection. Keep major amounts in cold wallets, no excuses for that either. Exchanges learned that lesson the hard way, so should you...

So now its too late for (yet another) poster. Is it late for you the reader? Best OP can do now is report to authorities, probably will never see anything of it back again.

Remember this: When you use crypto, you are your own bank. Act responsibly.

And as we have witnessed various experiments (on S9s) using Braiins OS (which let you tweak speed and voltages in the UI), each asic board is unique. Some can take more, some can take less. They have different sweet-spot for maximum efficiency as well, there is no single value that works for every single board out there, each one has their own. Actually each chip should...

Normally that is correct, overclocking should make it less efficient, and downclocking more efficient. But you should measure for every tiny little adjustment you try and see if you are improving OR degrading efficiency. Also downclocking in general tends to give you lower temperatures and longer lifetime, those things go the opposite way with overclocking. Finally overclocking naturally demands more power than your current PSU may handle. AND, PSUs also have a sweet-spot for efficiency, usually around 60% load or less. Steer away from this ideal load and you will see more power per hash as result. Why of course some PSUs are better than others, and you can always try different ones.

The blockchain is, a special type of database. It is add only. Each time you add a register to it, special math is done against ALL the previous entries. Cryptography is used to do this, it protects the database from tampering. Nobody can ever change a previous entry, because the math would fail. This database should also ideally be decentralized, with several nodes participating, as opposed to a single server. This ensures the utmost redundancy and tamper proof operation, since its easier for a "hacker" get take control of 2 out of 3 nodes, than 50001 from 100000.

Therefore you can now imagine applications where this would extremely useful. Something you want to store data, and be impossible to alter it later or take down. ID documents and Election votes could be such examples.

Bitcoin uses it to ensure each coin is unique.

And that's probably just a side dish, the military are making millions with contraband gasoline to neighbor countries to bother with drugs. But of course that is tightly controlled and perhaps is leaving some people out of that pie who then resort to drug trafficking.

Another more recent source of trafficking is precious metals. They are supposed to be handled exclusively by the State, and yet Venezuelan Gold and Coltan keeps showing abroad. Few days ago an abandoned container full of Coltan from Venezuela was found in a warehouse at some port in Italy i think. Oh, Coltan is a bit radioactive and it was unlabeled which infringed EU laws and only because of that we learned about it...

The corruption levels of this country cannot be expressed with words anymore, if not at the top, its one of the top 5 more corrupt places on Earth.


As for how drugs enter the US and EU, use your imagination. The cartels might take it to central America or the Caribbean islands first, then use small planes, boats, even submarines. Do remember the nephews from Nicolás Maduro were captured doing just that in Haiti planning to use a plane from State oil PDVSA to smuggle 1,700 pounds (800kg) of cocaine into the US.



Uh huh, everything is just an imperialist lie™ to remove a couple of nobodies from, nowhere as they didn't had any positions within the gov...

And what i meant is that we are going to have to do this by ourselves, without any help from Bitmain. We are on our own to break this, especially in current models that come already locked.

Out of fun these days i decided to run my own Electrum server, since i have a full bitcoin node synced and all... And i got one called "Electrum Personal Server", Lo and behold, it made the Electrum wallet work like Bitcoin Core or better. So if the public servers go down i could always use mine now. Next i could try running Electrumx or the other one, not sure which is better, but if i do, i would run it only over tor as a hidden service...

I also think that the cycles are more closely related to the halvings, meaning every 4 years instead of every year. Things are starting to look a lot like the year before the last halving. But nothing is assured, external events may come and distort the market a bit at anytime, such as a banning here, a new regulation there, etc. Still things tend to go back on track, as designed.

Free to move, but still always returning back in place. Bitcoin is only maturing more and more and will tend to stabilize in the long term.

Wouldn't this classify as bio-hazard? Wait, are these stored under high pressure for them to pop when opened? Which package company would pick and move those without failing checks? And i fear for the poor people having to inspect those suspicious packages.

Did Pamela ever do Porn? I remember Home Improvement and Baywatch (mostly reruns) but not much after that.

Protectionism is only going to hurt the USA, as more and more the global market will simply bypass the country. The only net effect that can come out from this, is less and less trade for Americans, a wealth source that will move elsewhere, hopefully emerging markets.

Trump is thinking 50+ years in the past, but the world simply doesn't function like that anymore. Sure it is an opportunity for the rest of us, but i don't think Americans will enjoy these policies for long, especially when they start feeling more and more the negative effects.

As for universal income, that is only a source of inflation. If everyone suddenly has 10k every month, what you used to do with 10k will now cost 20k. Instead of dreaming of earning money without working, worry more about having plenty of jobs (or entrepreneurial opportunities) so you have a better chance to work less for more.

I just (physically) opened one yesterday but was puzzled at its funny reporting. Is this a common T9+ occurrence?



Physically they are just like the S9s, just 3 asic boards. Why does it report like this? Even with separate temperatures?

This is good to hear, and i have read people "rescuing" boards with failed sensors that otherwise work fine, by using BraiinsOS which has an option to ignore sensors or even fans. Normally you would need to spend more money by getting replacement boards (or repair them), but now you have this choice, as long as you keep away from 2019 firmware that would lock you out from your own miner.

What you want is a payment processor, the most infamous being Bitpay, that bridges bitcoin into usd. They already provide credit cards and debit cards are just a variant of the same (and handled by the same companies anyway).

I don't like them because their fees are outrageous, PLUS the payment processor. Instead a direct bitcoin payment would take just like 3 cents, or even less with Lightning.

You can "fill" a credit card by putting money in when it has no debt, and in fact you can enlarge its "limit". Doesn't matter if they issue a card with 1USD limit you can pay "in advance" a 100$ and that becomes your temporary "limit". So called "prepaid".

Unfortunately those who handle such cards are very hostile to Bitcoin, there are still intermediaries making money because of that.

In the end everyone benefits by kicking them all. Buyer and Seller should transact directly.

From what i have seen the M20S at 70th (3360W) is the reasonable thing to expect, assuming 48w/t. The M21 didn't look good, looks more like the M10 to me, not sure what its purpose is at 60w/t maybe its just an M10+.

Obviously, they have chosen to go down this path. The only hope i expect is from the community, same as when they found that S15 flaw that allowed SSH again. Something along these lines would allow people to go back to 2018 or earlier firmware, or even better: Braiins OS.

A quest for freedom has started with those stuck with their gear...

I didn't mention it but actually that appears bugged as well, or, it simply won't reflect the changes. If you change those values and refresh the page, they appear back to the defaults. This gave me no clue to know if they were changed or not, and i was looking for a quick way to simply disable the notifications entirely at least until internet and power stabilizes here, but couldn't find any way (or a means to delete the account). Best i could do was mess the api key, which seems to have stopped the emails.

Kakaotalk is a very Korean phenomenon. I think they can do fiat payments over there using it, not sure. To me it looks bloated, very bloated. Of course Korea has the latest gen smartphones so they don't even notice, but try it with a bit older model and you immediately notice (if the app even installs in your older Android). I don't think there is a kakaotalk lite variant is there?

Japan has Line, China has Wechat (whatever happened to qq), Russia has Telegram (ironically hated by Putin's gov), America has Whatsapp (which sucks the most) and now FB, but thats pulling a group into IM which is redundant since Whatsapp, FB and Instagram are belong to Zuckerberg...

Signal is a "fixed" Whatsapp, but people ignore it. There are private oriented IM like Riot.im (which uses Matrix) and the clients using the tox protocol.

It seems that, as in the early days of IM, we are going to have to use several of them. It all started with Israel's ICQ (yes i know there was talk before), then came others such as AIM, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, etc. An open protocol called XMPP (Jabber) came along and some people use it, most notably Google at first before dumping it for whatever hangouts is.

So how many IM people are supposed to install to communicate with friends? And now each and everyone wants their own coin/token... I'm not opposed to wallet integration into IM, but they should be separate. If Telegram wants an ico, make a separate wallet for it. If both are installed they could integrate, but let people decide if they want both or one. Perhaps they are trying to use their platform as a kind of "free" massive ICO advertising?

Discord was meant as a gamers IM platform, perhaps like the one bundled with Steam (Friends?). Hmm maybe there is MLP reference in there, probably just my imagination...

IRC is good enough. Now get off my lawn!

Also worth trying would be methods for the S11 and the S15. Indeed worth a try for someone with spare controllers... For an extra S9 controller that was already tainted with the 2019 version, its worth a try i think.

As far as i know, the only possible limitation could be the controller itself:


So as suggested, try booting one unit with the sd card first. If it doesn't work, you remove the card and move the jumper back and its like nothing ever happened. No worries.