And i also know people getting busted for going over, and others getting extorted in spite of doing everything correctly, so yeah, not a good example country... I cringe when i see people insinuate bitcoin is "legal" here, but knowing the weight of the world "legal" in a country where law matters little, doesn't exactly matters. Besides, that "law" itself is not legal, but that would be a large and rather boring off-topic discussion.

Write them by hand into a piece of paper, make sure to make another copy by hand, store them in two physically separate but secure places.
If place A burns down, there is your backup in place B. The words can be cleverly disguised with a longer list, be creative but don't forget how to undo the trick later lol.

Memory alone? Too dangerous.

Exercise. Find some sport you like and make it routine. Even walking or jogging works, but i like cycling the most.

Even so you still have a limit, you have to inspect the transformers and stay below 80%. If it blows up not only will you get attention (and stay a long period without service) you might even get imprisoned. I remember here people would add magnets and such to manipulate these old analogic meters (which are still widely in use), even tho the rate is the cheapest worldwide. But a lot of people are simply unmetered. Water is the same situation.

Yours might be broken, but they might notice anyway if you over do it. Take advice and find out whats your max rated capacity by looking at your transformer, and look how much amps you are currently using with all your ACs and appliances on, such as clothes dryer, laundry machine at the rinse (spinning) cycle, etc. More so if this is a multi home setup.

"Maximum" benefit is simply buy the latest miner. Bitmain announced S17, MicroBT announced M20, and Cannan announced A10. You can wait for the forum reviewers to show the actual numbers.

But if you don't care, you can buy a cheap used S9 for like 150 USD and recover the costs in two or three months, only after that you will be earning, but consider by 3 months all those new efficient miners would have increased the worldwide hashrate lowering your income even more, so that's the drawback of buying old miners (aside from the previous owner abuse).

Don't you think they added the (minimum 50W/T) inside their ad for a reason? Perhaps they already tested it and could not get any better efficiency from them? 50W/T is pretty good in my opinion. Bitmain's S17 is probably 45ish but they claim 35... Only a third party review can tell.

At some point something better than the S17 will come and the cycle repeats again. S15, S11, S9, S7. Everytime a new generation comes, this story repeats. More surprising is you didn't expect this after so many years of the same. You could go back to the days of CPU mining, then GPU mining, FPGAs, the first ASICs, etc.

More importantly at these rates we are talking 32 watt/th the S17 (7nm)... vs 47 watt/th the M20 (12nm) or 60 watt/th for the S15 (7nm) vs 70 watt/th the M10(16nm). Also take into consideration that Bitmain specs are probably better than reality, we will have to wait for an actual review from members of this forum.

MicroBT is still at 12nm, they could probably still make something even better at 7nm. Frankly if the S11 and S15 are 7nm parts, they are quite disappointing, considering a 16nm chip nearly matched them. Maybe they planned to finance the refinement by selling those low yield units first, or maybe there is an S19 lurking around the corner, how to know?

Access your wallet from whatsapp? How about, i don't know, using a proper wallet instead? All i see here is adding more vectors for thieves to get your funds. So this is a type of online wallet but rather than using a browser you use an IM client... Hmm no thanks. And don't get me started on SMS.

And there is this scheme where they take out a portion of the gold inside a ingot and replace it with a cheaper metal that weights almost the same, covering any traces with actual gold. How are you going to inspect each and every ingot bar? You'd need to melt them and mint them again.

Also, someone will find gold in an asteroid someday... Gold is a nice metal, but way overpriced. Rust-less metal things like a fence as opposed to useless rings or jewelry, for example. Anyone living near the sea could use it in many more useful ways if it wasn't so darn expensive.

Before Europe "discovered" the Americas, South America actually had more gold than iron. Guess which one was considered more valuable? But their view of the world was limited to their lands, how were they going to know that worldwide gold was the scarce one. Of course most was pillaged and taken to Europe, made into useless jewelry or boring ingots to be "stored" and never seen by anyone ever again...

I have seen many people simply let the exhaust of the PSU go inside the miner, that extra warm even helps lower humidity a little.

Consider each Asic miner like an extra AC so you will now have 4, 5, 6 ACs... You know, that will eventually trip something down the line assuming your wiring inside can take the load and the transformer on the street, did you check that? You should, as that gives you a max capacity. You mustn't use more than 80% of that transformer. Specially critical if you happen to be "sharing" it with others.

Just because its "free", does not mean you are magically immune to physics. My country has the cheapest electricity in the world, i know and have seen nasty things done to the electricity poles and transformers, thousands steal it. Yes, this ultra subsidized cheap electricity is stolen by many poor neighborhoods. And yes, i have seen transformers blow up, specially lately with the blackouts. Its pretty awesome to look at night, but not so pretty spending days in darkness right after that.

Just don't neglect the airflow around the miner, it is important. Ducts should not be directly attached to the miner in my opinion, but to a box where the miner resides inside instead.

Please do not commit this mistake. IF you are going to use a box, do NOT attach the ducts directly to the fans. You can attach them to the box, but leave the miner and PSU free inside, you specially do not want to do what that picture shows. Airflow must ALSO go around the miner, otherwise you will burn the controller. You have been warned.


This adapter is not needed at all. If you follow my advise, you don't have to worry about such thing. You can simply make two 6" holes to the box on each side instead and attach insulated ducts to those, no adapters.

Wood and insulating fabric works very well:



Notice the ducts are not attached directly to the fans, this is important, airflow must also go around the miner, not only inside the Asic boards.

Think something like this:

This is the same as the other phishing scams, such as that fake Electrum wallet that too many forum members fell for, people dumb enough to lose half or even a million dollars by doing the most ridiculous thing: Trusting a rogue download link. And as long as the world has such dumb people around, so will phishers exist. I mean, How many here are still using windows with their wallets? No wonder this still happens.

Too lazy to use Linux, too lazy to make a paper (cold) wallet, too lazy verify a download link, too lazy to check a program signature or cryptosum, too lazy to put large funds into the cold wallet and only keep the spare change in the hot one, etc.

Or get an old container and mod it yourself? I have seen people building homes with them in Youtube... Of course, you could actually put the containers inside a warehouse...

Make a big enough a load and they will come for you. Sure 1 miner or 2 probably won't catch attention (unless your neighbors complain for noise if you don't put it inside a sound insulating box or such), but start getting greedy and they'll go there, meter or not.

We pay about the same amount here with a miner running (its cents without it), and its not illegal at all. And yet, some people got in trouble... That was before becoming unstable due to non-technical reasons (leave a national grid unattended long enough and things tend to go pop).

Try to get the newest model you can, a single S17 would consume the same as an S9, yet would make 4 times more money.

Yes. Smartphones are too small, and typing on flat surface sucks. I like a large enough screen, and a proper keyboard...

What is the name for this asteroid? Any relevant links?

Completely their fault for centralizing it, since "socialists" don't believe in the freedom of a free market. They say that's how capitalists keep "exploiting the masses", therefore in their infinite wisdom the only solution they can think of from letting people decide for themselves where to work or buy, and for how much; is to "command" the whole thing entirely (planned economy, fixed prices, fixed exchange, etc), since... people can't ever play nice to each other by themselves and have to be, "guided/educated" (coerced) into...

But don't worry, I think that Petro site might come back up, its probably down due to the frequent blackouts. Doesn't mean people will ever see their money back, you can write in the history book of crypto-currencies that even a Goverment made an ICO scam.

To guess their rhetoric, yes, the Petro is site is currently down because USA "attacked" the national electric grid...

Also their lack of skills is not limited to electricity, IT is seriously lacking, most of their systems are outdated, unlicensed and even cracked crapware that any script kiddie can take down at any point (and have done for years), but since corruption is the number one driving force, there was always someone benefiting from dubious sales of both equipment and licenses, at outrageous prices paid by Venezuelan's oil/tax money, and no one can do or say anything about it because... A) They don't care, or B) You are an imperialist for daring pointing an obvious flaw or C) Since you know so much you must be involved therefore go to prison. In this country people can land in prison for posting the wrong tweet, go figure...

Petro came from Dash, but the few nodes that exist belong to the gov, no software code was ever released (infringing their own laws), there are also no wallets beyond the only online wallet in that specific site. So if that site goes down, so does the Petro.

Another national blackout two days this time. Internal information revealed they overloaded the hydro by improper manipulation of this delicate very high voltage system, which they "switched to manual" after claiming a "cyber attack" last week... This time it resulted in transformers catching fire. In case you somehow manage to read their propaganda, they claim "imperialist sabotage", lets ignore the fact the place has been placed under heavy military control even further after the March 7th event...

Of course, they blamed the opposition and the US, because... yeah, who cares, its never their fault... But no one believes them.

This time there are not many more details, but here it goes in case something was missed:


This part of the documentation is in error, in case anyone needed to use those options they actually are:

fan-dangerous-temp and fan-hot-temp.