Antigua and Barbuda offers citizenship for 200k USD no return, or 400k USD investment later to be returned to you. They will of course check your background and wealth origin. They do accept bitcoin directly. The money they collect is for their rebuilding efforts, mostly housing projects. If i had that money i would do it right now, but alas...

Aside from the missiles there are a few more weapon platforms bought in the time of Chávez, such as the 35 or so Sukhois Su-30. From time to time a pair of bombers come and leave, and once a fleet of ships, reportedly with nuclear warheads came for a parade then left some years ago.

They might have some interests but their commitment seems lacking at most. It is clear that China would secretly want someone else, and probably Russia as well. Maduro destroyed the country to a point where its even hurting THEIR interests.


Said by someone who doesn't have to live days in total darkness and weeks without water.

Does it matter who "prints" money? Yes, A LOT. Under tyranny there is little you can do. Want to use bitcoin? oh there is no electricity, or no internet... Everyday i understand a little more how the people survive in north korea...

From your freedom you can choose which fiat or crypto to use, not here. The difference is abysmal.

Its not the same "printing money" when you have the privilege of not using it, than "printing money" when you are coerced to NOT use anything else. But you have yet to live under "socialism" to truly get it. Within the realm of imagination and theory, everything looks beautiful, now try it in practice...

Even i have gotten such spam, and its probably not even directed for you, but copy pasted to a long list of purchased email addresses from the dark web. Like any spammer they are aiming for a very low percentage of victims to fall prey of fear. Heck at 1k even a single victim could probably pay back their "investment". You can report it, but its probably from one of those countries "uncooperative" to international authorities...

If your email client has some sort of Bayesian filter it should go straight to the spam folder without bothering you again. Email needs spam filtering.

Bitcoin is no central authority, the whole point is that it is decentralized. You don't have "accounts", you can make a wallet and nobody will ever know until you use it, and even after that proving that it belongs to a specific individual can be difficult if enough precautions are made (such as using an address only once). I doubt the spammer bothered to use distinct addresses on each spam mail you got, did he? nah.

Is this the large M10S like unit? 72T or 46T? Can you post size dimensions as I'm now confused with the three M20 models... An independent review is always welcome.

Canaan should revise their price structure to remain competitive, they have been pricier even back with 7xx models. One would think skipping controllers on each unit would net them some price advantage but no. Its nice to have costumer satisfaction and quality parts, but the market inevitable goes towards the lowest price per hash.

And i wanted to see those mining TVs and wifi routers too...

Efficiency. You want to max the amount of hashing for the less energy consumption. After certain zone you start spending more energy per hash which makes it pointless. Besides the PSU would have to big much bigger (Ie. 2200w).

In most circumstances you earn more money by downclocking the chips to 500ish mhz rather than going the opposite direction.

And is far better to have two "cool and quiet" S9s producing 20THs and consuming 1600w than a single S9 producing 20th but consuming 2000+w, not to mention the stress to the chips and the high temperatures and maxed fans (who also consume power).

Remarkably an S9 that by default used to consume 100W/T can now consume 80W/T downclocking it like that.

Yes but they are ripping you off. Look at this pangolinminer shop screenshot:



$155 each S9... The M3 is a bit higher, now $75 (10) but was $50 in quantities of 5 a few weeks ago... I'm sure you can get even better prices if you dig more. S9s and M3s are ancient now and they are nearly sold for scraps.

The password is only meant to prevent unauthorized use from a hot wallet, or a wallet stored in a plugged device. Its actually better to lose that password as you can always recover your wallet with the seed words anyway. The seed words are far more important than the password, but you should always use a good password to prevent hot wallets from being misused, just remember its OK to lose that password as long as you keep your seed words safe. The mobile version uses a PIN instead but i'm unsure of the safety of that, i guess its just to prevent opportunity thieves from physically manipulating your own phone rather than preventing outsiders from the net from obtaining your wallet. But then you should not keep large sums in a mobile wallet anyway...

Well from my experiments running a full node, i noticed tremendous disk i/o activity during syncing, and significant even when up to date, for that very reason i wouldn't recommend it on non spinning magnetic media (ie. flash based storage) as it would quickly reduce its lifetime. Yes, specially for you raspi users, but a smartphone counts as well. Yes i know better flash devices last longer, do you really think your device has one of those latest generation quality flash storage? Even picking the good ones is difficult in m.2 or ssd factor, who even knows what your phone manufacturer used. And, regardless, it is a fact that each write reduces the lifetime of a flash storage device, you want to minimize to writes or use another type of media.

Better CPU and more RAM i guess is simply a matter of speed. With my slow 2ish mbps link that didn't made much difference anyway.

The question is, how did they got access to your email? Weak password? weak recovery words? Was your OS compromised with some malware that siphoned out your password to attackers?

I know someone who lost 6 figures with an even worse mistake, and there have been posts in this forum of people losing 7 figures, so yeah it could have been worse. At least you were smart enough to keep cold wallets unlike the aforementioned examples...

Er... you need tokens to nominate a "trustworthy" exchange and more tokens to challenge them?



I don't think this is going to end good...

Of course, they don't care about parliamentary immunity, heck they don't care about the legislative branch at all, they are like: "we do what we want because no one can stop us". Yes, they have done this to almost the entire opposition for the past 5 years, there is no rule of law here, only the rule of "presidential decree".

In other news, yesterday we had the third nationwide blackout in a month... Remember this is a cashless country, thanks to gov induced hyperinflation. No electricity, no purchasing. Oh and most of the water needs electric pumps. Every time electricity goes, it takes about a week for the water to return after power is restored...

The excuses for the blackouts are laughable at best. First one was "cyberattack" (on an analogical system from the 60ies) then they claimed electromagnetic attack (because Maduro can't get it right), the second one was attributed to a fire by saboteurs, and after being laughed and the stupidity of the comments, because all those places are guarded by the military, they came with "sniper attack". Yeah right, a sniper would waste bullets to remote electric installations instead of going after them like real snipers actually do... The third one was yesterday, lets see what excuse they come up with... And yes, the electrical engineers and even workers anonymously leak the real reasons, thats how we get to know the truth, mostly thru internet social media.

Truth is, lack of maintenance to a system that has been neglected for almost two decades. The only reason it lasted this long is thanks to the diligent and excellent work done by those prior to them, but even the best systems have a lifetime and when not replaced promptly, things start falling apart. This is what is happening to the electricity, and its what has been happening to all state controlled companies, which in a "socialist" state, means pretty much all. They have gone to a severe state of disrepair, and things just break and don't get repaired, except the bare minimum and for the areas they consider the most important. The city of Caracas is blessed in that regard, while Maracaibo had weeks without electricity, which prompted looting (remember cashless society, days pass but no one can buy things anymore?)

Here i found a better source of Venezuelan news in english:

• Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido vows to fight on despite 15-year ban from public office
• Venezuela: Starving children forced to feed off rubbish dumps
• Venezuela: After days of darkness, mob's orgy of violence has left city in shock
• Venezuela: Plunged into anarchy - A city on edge after frenzied looting
• Venezuelans risk illness as they resort to dirty water
• Venezuela crisis: Rich and poor both suffer as Venezuela struggles without power
• Venezuela: Power cuts - not power struggle - could see off Nicolas Maduro
• Venezuela blames major power cut on US senator Marco Rubio

PS: Posting asap then editing for beautification in case the next power outage hits, they come without warning, Maduro already announced rationing but no one knows when and where or for how long...

Oh, you were thinking something like this?



Also consider more holes per miner, such as two for each one. In your box it would be 4 holes per side for the two miners instead of forcing it with a Y.

Perhaps a key factor is reducing the curve radius, avoid 90°, try a gentler radius like in that picture, like it was a railroad curve

No, if anything it would be "the real image" of some crypto exchanges...

Note that the article is actually commenting on this report. Take a look by yourselves:

Bitwise Asset Management
Presentation to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
March 19, 2019

You are right but, wood is a nice sound insulator... Perhaps those philipma1957 noise insulating and fire retardant fabric tiles would help? Or, put the wood box inside a metal/rock/masonry box or such...

You should avoid those and stick to Bitcoin miners, get old S9, or M3s which are being sold dirt chip (50USD). The L3+ is a dead end and is already obsolete (also i have a report of it being too sensitive to hot temps, by having 4 Asic boards airflow isn't that great).

Since new ones are coming the S11 and S15 should have lowered price, and the M10 which is an excellent miner.
Also check your ambient humidity, under 20% is dangerous.

This is a good discovery, are you using the --no-sensor-scan option?
IIRC there are at least three types of T9: T9, T9+ and T9++ each with different controllers. Which one is yours? First type?

Well people should have fled to p2p alternatives, such as Diaspora. I dislike Facebook and the like. Not only you should go p2p, but secure and obfuscated p2p, such as Diaspora thru Tor or something similar.

Living in a country that blocks thousands of sites for having opposition views, i have come to realize the importance it is to strengthen these initiatives. Do not ignore them because in your freedom you don't seem to need them. This is like people ignoring Bitcoin because their fiat is so great (ie. USD o EUR). But by the time a fiat goes the inflationary spiral it is too late to react, you won't see it coming, trust me, a million yearly inflation last year but it might reach 10 million or more this year, should "socialists" remain in power that is.

For better IM you have several choices, I haven't tried that elixxir but have used riot.im. One thing i dislike from Signal is that it is too much a clone of Whatsapp, and i consider whatsapp design abominable. If anything, i'd rater have a Telegram open source p2p clone.

But yeah, the giant problem is always convincing the others to stop using those garbage centralized and proprietary social media apps...

Or in Caracas, where guns are banned too, and only criminals have them...

The "official" account is that these 99 Russians came to do maintenance and fix weapon systems previously bought from them, such as the S-300VM
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