That wooden case looks promising, but you might want to mod it with larger holes/fans. And if you get dust you will have to periodically stop the miner and clean it.

So what? Pablo Escobar built homes and schools for the poor in Medellin. Does that make the drug lord a superior model, only because it happens to fit with your socialist dreams?

You must be very ignorant of not knowing the amount of money Chávez spent worldwide seeking political support, basically all the money that could have fixed the problems of Venezuela, such as its rundown electric grid, or, i don't know, food and medicine... But what would a socialist understand.

The main point is you have never lived under socialism, so you will never know. If you had, you would no longer be a socialist.

There are various pools you can use without registering, such as kanopool or ckpool where your user is your Bitcoin address.
You can try setting your miner to one of those pools and see if it makes a difference (after 30 mins).

My ping is similar to yours, and my unit can take 20 minutes before showing that its working. I have seen S9s from other people start much faster, but some are slow to start like this.

Your miner has to connect to servers outside, but the pool doesn't connect back to the miner.
With kano pool you can try different ports such as 80 or 443, maybe try those. Your configuration should read like this:

URL:	stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333
Worker:	yourbitcoinaddress.workername
Password:	x
URL:	stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:80
Worker:	yourbitcoinaddress.workername
Password:	x
URL:	stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.space:443
Worker:	yourbitcoinaddress.workername
Password:	x

You must be careful not to add spaces anywhere, and never omit stratum+tcp://

You can try pinging all kano servers and pick the fastest three:

stratum+tcp://or.kano.is:3333 (Oregon)
stratum+tcp://nya.kano.is:3333 (NewYork)
stratum+tcp://nl.kano.is:3333 (Netherlands)
stratum+tcp://de.kano.is:3333 (Germany)
stratum+tcp://jp.kano.is:3333 (Japan)
stratum+tcp://sg.kano.is:3333 (Singapore)

All can take ports 3333, 80, 81, 443 and 8080, and all can replace .is with .space.

Looks like humidity (or sea corrosion) to me, the grill fan is also clearly telling you so.

So, check your humidity. You want to lower it and there are many ways: Dehumidifiers, air conditioners, even redirecting a bit of the heat back works, check online. For saltiness i think you would need filters in your location air intakes (if the warehouse is close to the ocean, etc).

No i don't think the port is bad, because it has been protected by the lan cable itself by being plugged in all the time (and they use gold plated corrosion resistant connectors, so if it works it works, don't fret).

Sure you should clean it, but try to address the main cause of the corrosion.

Eventually mining anywhere will be too expensive to continue using only the grid, so you should be investing now in renewable energy if you plan to keep mining in the future. And yes worldwide mining will shrink, the last miners will be those who wisely invested in solar/wind etc instead of spending it all in Asics expanding beyond control only to go bankrupt not much later.

Your ATM is badly designed. How can you claim you run a Bitcoin ATM company and not already know all transactions are final? Once confirmed (in the Litecoin blockchain), the litecoins are destroyed.

Bitcoin addresses start with 1, 3 or bc1. Litecoin addresses start with L. How is your software unable to catch such simple mistake? Perhaps you should remove Litecoin support altogether, or hide it more, at least until you can make your software recognize and prevent this.

I now see in that guide you have a slight chance of recovering funds if they were sent to a Bitcoin SegWit address. Good luck.

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Lets see, you format your computer, and now its the computer fault because it let you to?
Of course you would be against freedom, you need "someone" forcibly preventing you to do it, like Apple, or the State...

If the government changes we will return to have very good electricity, its only like that now because of the irresponsible socialist government has let all state owned companies deteriorate to this point.

But from a resources point of view, that single dam is already providing 80% of the power nationwide, it is able to provide past 100% but as i said, it has suffered decades of abuse and improper maintenance.

But wait there is more:

The same river can accommodate at least two more similar dams. The projects exist, only the current inept politicians (who formerly contracted Odebrecht to build them) stand in the way...

And, the country has so much natural gas it could also provide all its power from it. The last century, most of the extracted natural gas was just burnt away, simply because it was "less profitable" than the oil it was with. A shame. There is still plenty and its mostly still burned without use (it cannot be left alone in the environment due to the industrial risk, its either use or lose).

And then there is oil (Petroleum), very heavy oil, which is expensive to make it into lighter fuels like gasoline, but good for power plants. Not as clean tho, its a slight step up from coal.

Did i mention being in the tropics, the amount of sun it gets is quite intense? Yes solar panels paradise... And there is a region with so much strong winds even a State owned initiative to generate plenty of wind power was built a decade or so ago, but was let run down by the current usurper.

Don't judge the country because of a few corrupt individuals... Things will change for the better.

This does not exist, you downloaded a fake wallet designed to steal bitcoin.

True Electrum is located in https://electrum.org/

Last version is currently 3.3.4.

All bitcoin transactions are final, nothing can be recovered once your broadcast gets 1 confirmation in the blockchain.

You should format that computer and start from zero, i recommend you use Linux.

This forum contains an Electrum Wallet sub-forum where you can inquire more information.

Moral of the story: Stop downloading programs to handle money without double checking first. This is a problem that has been occurring to windows users for decades, and its not even related to Bitcoin, its called phishing. There is no excuse if you install a trojan or malware when its because of your own actions. Electrum is not at fault here, there have been phishing attacks from email and the web since at least the 90ies.

Yes there is a slight chance to save funds if you hurry and send them to another address using a higher fee, before it gets confirmed. To do that just download true Electrum (from a clean computer) recover your wallet using the seed words and do the transaction, do this real quick. Good luck.

Brave (and Opera, Vivaldi, etc) come from Chromium, so you are using it one way or another... Try to find out which Chromium version is your Brave browser going to chrome://settings/help it clearly shows it there. If you are in a version at risk (under 72.0.3626.121), update it immediately.

Same thing with Opera: opera://about/ and all chromium browsers out there.

Tor-browser is Firefox based, thankfully.

Unfortunately many routers enable WPS by default, its one of those things you should turn off immediately and never use.

Yes it was made for lazy people, who can't bother with setting up a decent password and inputting it. Well once again this shows laziness leads to losses.

I wish they would just kill WPS like they did to WEP. Now we shall see how long it takes for WPA3 to be adopted...

Just add the options inside /etc/cgminer.conf and force the fan speeds since they won't be reacting to anything anymore:


The number in fan-speed means fan % speed, in the example its at 90 percent.

Now that my electricity and internet came back (after 40+ hours of MORE blackout) I'll take the chance to say that in the middle of this chaos some people started taking USD bills directly. There is few or no Venezuelan currency in cash available anymore (and you need 7 of the (rare) highest bills to reach 1 USD), commerce basically halted for most people since they don't have USD.


(1 USD for 10 mins charge your smarphone/tablet; 9 USD 1 kg of meat. Note avg monthly wage is 10 USD, NOT paid in USD or cash, but wire transfer to your bank, so most people use debit cards due to physical fiat scarcity, which doesn't work without electricity).

There were some lootings and repression from authorities to people having days without food and water. Water in Caracas stops without electricity, because its source of water is at a lower elevation and the system uses electric pumps...


Similar situation occurred across other major cities such as Maracaibo, and Merida, here they looted a State owned bank...

...But they didn't care for the money, just the computers and other valuables.

Since last week we have been several hours without electricity, 70+. After restoring power, many transformers blew up either by lack of maintenance or incompetence and several locations ended in blackout again. This should show you how fragile this country really is, there was no intervention, just apparently a forest fire out of control and people without the expertise to protect and control their own SCADA air-gapped network.


Insinuating that this was an US aggression is stupid at best, but that's your typical socialist rhetoric: Always blame capitalists of everything we are unable to do properly.

Looters take to Venezuela's streets as blackout enters its FIFTH day killing 15 kidney patients as under-pressure president Maduro claims the power cut was caused by an 'imperialist' electromagnetic attack from the US

And yes we are expecting even more blackouts, they are rationing while hiding the facts to the people, no one believes them but no one can do anything, that's how it works when they own the guns.



Where is that hypocrite Max Blumenthal now?



Venezuela blackout: 'Like living in the apocalypse' - BBC News

What's wrong with a good old fashioned container? Ok a group of old fashioned containers, some are even tailored for Bitmain products...



You'd only need 5 of those to accommodate 1500+ miners.

The whole point of using command stuff is precisely to not do it by yourself all the time. That's precisely what sysadmins do: automate, automate, automate. The computers are meant to do the job for you, not the other way around...

As for his intention, he wants to mine normally every 6 days, and play lottery on the 7th. Given the chances of actually finding a block by yourself with such a low hash-rate i wouldn't personally bother, but to each their own...

Crontab is the text file most *nix like OSes use for scheduling tasks. Its rather mundane and standard. Thankfully Asic miner units tend to use Linux, such as OpenWrt in their controllers, so doing these automated tasks from within the miner itself becomes trivial.

A crontab file looks like this:


If you go to https://crontab.guru/ you get a realtime translation of the meaning of those "strange looking" lines. Its just what wikipedia says:


Then there is the command you actually want to execute, in this case copy a file into another:

cp /root/cgminer.pool1.conf /etc/cgminer.conf and cp /root/cgminer.pool2.conf /etc/cgminer.conf

Similar to papampi's post.

End result should be something like:


This will overwrite cgminer.conf with the contents of cgminer.pool1.conf on Wednesdays, and the contents of cgminer.pool2.conf on Thursdays at 0:00 (12am).

If you pay attention, The Command Line Interface is easier than a Graphic User Interface, on a magnitude of scale for most tasks. Edit a text file, vs the dreaded registry, or a simple command line vs open window, click here, scroll bar, click tab, go back, unset radio button, next tab, etc...

Of course you can combine both and use the most efficient one for each task.

7zip can open all file types, and can definitely make zip files, so there is zero reason to keep winzip and winrar. 7zip is free open source software, and that should be enough reason to give it priority.

In Linux other compression algorithms have now taken the spot, such as xz. I think 7zip can handle those too. There is 7z for Linux of course.

Its because of this philipma1957 comment, he wants to change the pool on schedule. But ckpool doesn't provide this, only backup pools. Hence my suggestion.

I suppose because there is $ for USD and ¢ cents. But indeed the "satoshi" might not actually remain the smallest unit of bitcoin forever. It took a good while to have BTC admitted as unicode symbol ₿ so even if this actually gets consent it might take a long while (if ever) to get into unicode, and without unicode support it won't be used. Even now people rarely uses ₿ as they should...

Look at cgminer.conf and the pools should be defined in there. You could arrange switching pools by simple copying of the files at scheduled times (crontab).

Ie: have cgminer.pool1.conf and cgminer.pool2.conf and copy them into cgminer.conf with a script launched from crontab at the intended time.

A script like this should do, but instead of changing frequencies, what you want to change is the pool. Also adjust your crontab accordingly.

One thing i do is ssh to the miner and ping a known server on the internet to verify things are working properly. This could be a configuration mistake. But do wait at least 20~30 minutes, if your local network is sub optimal, it might take that long...