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401  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [AUCTION] Ledger Nano S - (Pizza Day) | Current Bid: 0.00099 [btc] on: April 22, 2022, 07:21:42 PM
0.00099 BTC

Auction is over, it has been a busy day. Winner! I’ll be in contact via PM as soon as possible.

Thank you to everyone who participated.
I got this promptly after paying for it a couple weeks ago. I gotta say I feel kind of bad like I stole it or something, It's nice to get something at a deal on here once in a while!
Thanks bill gator!
402  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How to reduce energy consumption and eliminate wasted work on: April 22, 2022, 11:48:54 AM
In reality they don't though, and ideally that situation never arises. Although, retailers might be entering due to fear of missing out, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. It should bring in competition, and prices should actually lower due to that competition, which should be seen as a good thing, as it reduces the amount of centralisation at least partly.
We don't need the retailers to know every intrigue detail, we just need them to create efficient machines, that's all. Which, they definitely know how to do as they've been doing it before Bitcoin was around.
A retail investor is an average user. Not a retailer. But I hope intel's new chip opens up some good door for us! It would be nice to see decent quiet units again like the R4

Please, let's stop this Satoshi's vision nonsense; that's how BSV, that I know how we all hate, began. It doesn't matter what he might have thought of it.
Whoah now thats not where I was going with that !  Cheesy I have to clean coffee out of my nose now. Poor choice of words on my part no pun intended.

I'm just thinking out loud here 7 years ago I wouldn't have thought we would need 3 Phase for the newest stuff.

-snip
I guess your right , just because the wheel was invented doesnt mean it was made with the best materials.
 


 
403  Economy / Reputation / Re: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source on: April 22, 2022, 10:41:26 AM
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@LoyceV
This one It may be pretty opinionated but a LOT went into it and it went into oblivion. Thank for the merit, its the most I've ever gotten.
404  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How to reduce energy consumption and eliminate wasted work on: April 22, 2022, 10:10:28 AM
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1. Maybe but if that guy and his friends make up the 99% of the network (In theory) Why would they listen to the 1% of little guys running 2 or 3 units at home or a handful in a DC?
Majority of retail investors I'm learning have no clue at all how this works and are entering based on fomo or trusting the guy that does understand.

2. Eth to me is a way to get my bitcoin without running crazy loud gear and an expanding mining operation out of my control, no limits on how much eth there is ,is concerning considering the value, I've read an article a while back of a guy exploiting it and basically fabricating it out of thin air. Pretty unfair you have to stake 32eth to have a say so with the new standard.(last I checked I haven't been keeping up as much these days)

3. I've personally wondered if he left around when asics came out, the point of no return if you will. Asics essentially centralized BTC in a way , starting with suppliers in particular , bitmain. Lately I've felt the only clear winners in BTC are the guys that where in early or asic sellers. I personally don't think that was Satoshi's vision. What good is a decentralized currency if majority of it's owned by the elites already?

To be clear I'm a little guy, even with a pretty good understanding how bitcoin works I don't feel like I'd have any say so where it goes, because I'm not running 1PH or even have 1BTC to stake.
I run a few nodes though Smiley  in 2022 that's not saying much.
405  Economy / Reputation / Re: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source on: April 22, 2022, 06:54:03 AM
I may not always post "quality merit-able content". But I would like to adjust my focus. I have been trying the last few weeks more than usual.
I haven't participated in signature campaigns unless I believed in the project, and honestly, it's been a while since I've seen anything aside from Casinos or Mixers with that being said in the past I haven't had much incentive to post quality content, however I'm starting to see things a little differently, especially as bitcoin becomes harder to come by these days.
I'm not in any circle of friends so to speak, and I haven't posted lots of content people would deem worthy of merit.
As I surpassed 1000 post I've been thinking more about this, are things I say now less weighed in due to lack of historical content value?
Does being helpful prevail over being a casual faithful community member? This is my version of facebook & I like being around likeminded people.

Sorry about the rant Ill try to do better in reporting post that seem worthy of merit.
406  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Re: SELLING EXCHANGE ACCOUNT LOGIN WITH 0.86495 BTC IN BALANCE Verified ID on: April 22, 2022, 06:17:30 AM
I will have to pay income taxes on it if i withdraw the bitcoin.  I would like the $ to be transferred via WU or onto my crypto app

This is likely a scam. Buyers Beware, Brave souls should use escrow..

You still would anyways unless you're going to claim the account that probably not yours was stolen (If it even exist).
$18,201 - $45,000 = 19%  (a quick google search im not AU tax savvy though )
So your knocking an additional 16% off what you would pay in the first place?

Hi
I am selling my account on the exchange that has a total balance of 0.86495858 or US $35,920 (at time of writing)
I want to sell the WHOLE account.
-Verified with ID
-Includes Full login and password
-No 2fa (You can set it up after obtaining account)
I am asking for 65% of the value of the account to be paid to myself in AUD. (Crypto.com app transfers accepted)
Asking price $31,400 AUD
Value of BTC at time of post $48,319 AUD
407  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How to reduce energy consumption and eliminate wasted work on: April 22, 2022, 05:58:17 AM
Us electricity consumption vs mining growth is quiet fascinating. Our usage really hasn't budged in the last 17 years.
This proves nothing really but it is hard to tell what industries effect what, Lightbulbs for example in lumens per watt have gotten incredibly efficient, even mining gear has  s19 was 34J/TH @95TH the new s19 xp hydro gear 20J/TH @ 255TH , but as this gear becomes more efficient they also want more out of it so it doesn't seem like change is happening but it is.
As I said in an earlier post "However the 1% that owns 99% of the network strength will probably not vote for such measures." consensus would have to vote by switching hashpower/staking a node or whatever concept someone conjures up to a new systems idea that promotes efficiency, guys that have spent 20k on a single piece of gear simply would laugh at you and tell you why it cant be done. The guys that where getting 100BTC block rewards on 45watt processors however might could/would.
Bitcoins smarter than me but ETH is incredibly complex in comparison, they also dont really care about the miners the miners dont have a vote if the dev's around telling people they can stake more and earn more this new way. But if ETH and its complexity's can actually pull of PoS, bitcoin could too I think but maybe not , there is a reason Bitcoin is king and all forks have ultimately failed in comparison.     I'm sure if Satoshi where around he would advocate a new system that advocates better decentralization but by his design he wouldn't have much say in it except a voice of reason.
408  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: LTC CASINO NOT paying winnings . 1496 Ltc to be paid on: April 22, 2022, 03:30:06 AM
TOS are irrelevant when there's no way to enforce them from the perspective of the player.  An unlicensed casino can do whatever it wants.  Their reputation in the community is the only thing that holds them accountable.
 Those are the terms. 
Exactaly, and as judge jury and executioner (community), We want to see the data they claim they will provide publicly.
I particularly want to see the timestamps to see if OP was scripting. Although I don't know if console scripting would count as 3rd party "software" considering the platform is presented on 3rd party software "Browser"
In this case even cookies would count against an endpoint user in terms of violating tos.
Martingale dice "strategy" would be a violation too.
Nothing anyone would care to enforce unless it was ohh I don't know $150k+ usd prize pot?
Here's an average of what I see

outside looking in this appears to be biased without the presented/proposed data.
ltccasino has mentioned the data but hasn't presented it. so the counterclaim is meritless filibuster.
But here's what I did notice, LTCC has validated that OP did in-fact get the win. And has locked out OP's account.
OP cannot back anymore claim's due to this but OP's initial claim has been in-fact validated by the opposing user LTCC
LTCC has spoke on the data but has not presented it. So LTCC must have concluded the investigation and doesn't care what the community thinks.
My 2 satoshi fwiw.
409  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: LTC CASINO NOT paying winnings . 1496 Ltc to be paid on: April 20, 2022, 06:41:46 PM
Quote
ANTI-FRAUD POLICY
The Casino has strict anti-fraud policy. If the player is suspected of fraudulent actions including but not limited to:
participating in any type of collusion with other players
development of strategies aimed at unfaithful winnings
using third party software
fraudulent actions against other online casinos or payment providers
threats or blackmail of any kind against the casino
charge back procedures or denial of some payments made
providing incorrect information about personal data during registration
other types of cheating
If the user is known to have gone bankrupt in the country of his residence, the Casino reserves the right to terminate the user account and suspend all payouts to the player.
For players that only play Roulette and Baccarat live games, the casino may require to complete a 10x wagering requirement on the deposit amount before any withdrawal
Should any of the previous situations occur the Casino reserves the right to block the player's account, while the investigation is being carried out, for a period of up to 3 months. If there is reasonable suspicion the Casino may terminate or suspend the player account immediately, without prior notice or liability, and retain the player’s account funds. These decisions are at sole discretion of LTC casino management. The Casino also reserves the right to inform the regulatory bodies of such fraudulent actions performed by the player.
To prevent criminal activity and if the user's intentions are not to gamble or if the player's behavior shows evidence of an attempt to hide blockchain footprints, the matter will be investigated and the Casino reserves the right to retain the player’s account funds.
PRIVACY
The Casino is complying with the data protection and privacy laws and is treating all customer information as strictly confidential.
Collection of Personal Data
The personal data of players, which include only the ip address and the number of the crypto wallet, is available to LTC Casino employees, employees of the software providers, to payment systems and other third parties which assist LTC Casino in providing gambling services to the end users. All parties to whom the player's information is disclosed are treating it as confidential according to the corresponding agreements and laws. The data is fully protected from unauthorized access.
Information on Player's Balance
We keep information on player's deposits, winnings and cash-outs as strictly confidential and is not disclosing it to any third parties without prior consent of the player unless otherwise required by the law.
Using Personal Data for Marketing
We use player's information for marketing purposes. However, we respect player's privacy. If player's do not wish to receive any promotional materials, they can choose such an option during registration or unsubscribe at any time when using LTC Casino gambling services.
Cookie policy
LTC Casino website is using cookies to store your preferences and guarantee a more pleasant gaming experience.For any custom privacy settings, players shall contact our support team at support@ltccasino.com.
Disclosure of Personal Data
In case we discover that a player has participated in any type of fraudulent actions, such as game manipulation, payment fraud, provision of false personal data, money laundering, using stolen credit cards, etc., the Casino reserves the right to disclose such player’s personal data to any third party or make it publicly available.
Security of Personal Data
The Casino is committed to provide 100% secure gambling services to players to ensure that no data is stolen, lost or misused. We implement the latest technological achievements to provide for the safety of all personal data of the players.
SSL Technology
We use 128-bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer), the technology preferred by many legal and financial institutions, to guarantee safety of all transactions performed on the website.
Anti-Fraud System
Moreover, we use special anti-fraud techniques to prevent any type of financial fraud on the website. Any attempts of fraudulent actions result in immediate termination of player’s account.
Access to Player's Account
Player’s account can only be access with the unique ID and password of the players. The player is responsible for keeping their login information confidential and making sure it cannot be accessed by another person.
Secure Payment Processing
We only work with the most reputable and trustable payment processing providers to make sure that player's deposits and cash outs are handled carefully and according to the corresponding standards.
The tos basically states they can ban, take lock you out for whatever reason they want to really. ltccasino's tos in particular wouldn't make me want to touch it with a 10ft pole.
Alot of things are catch 22's as well.
"In case we discover that a player has participated in any type of fraudulent actions, such as game manipulation, payment fraud, provision of false personal data, money laundering, using stolen credit cards, etc., the Casino reserves the right to disclose such player’s personal data to any third party or make it publicly available."

"A participating in any type of collusion with other players
B development of strategies aimed at unfaithful winnings
C using third party software
D fraudulent actions against other online casinos or payment providers
E threats or blackmail of any kind against the casino
F charge back procedures or denial of some payments made
G providing incorrect information about personal data during registration
H other types of cheating
Should any of the previous situations occur the Casino reserves the right to block the player's account, while the investigation is being carried out, for a period of up to 3 months."

Now is the time to put this statement to the test.
You either think they did something bad and should publish said data , or you dont and should issue payment.
"Suspicion" alone isn't enough in a ecosphere filled only with data.

410  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: New Model?Ratheon S99 miner on: April 20, 2022, 04:19:13 AM
This was probably done to export before import duties were lifted, a $50 facelift vs a potential 7%-25% tax on $10,000 units that you can now claim are a $500 generic miner.
XFX did it with GPU's. Why wouldn't a 3rd party?   
Make a slightly wider psu that recesses the fans and replace 2x 10A c13 with 1x 20a c19 was probably worth all the trouble at the time. And simply works out better in a DCE in a worst-case scenario.
Thing is importing units in bulk has been a total shit show, most the guys wanted to continue running them rather than selling them but wouldn't tell brokers this until they leveraged enough data to make a move to run them on their own. 
I could be wrong, and they could be building a new facility that was approved in 2/2022 with a "clone" that's only has a %1.5~ variation with identical extrusions underneath the new psu/controller shell. 
In all fairness to OP the units probably are real as it gets. Probably. What is OP's motive, sell them or just show them off?
411  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: WTS Antminer E7 800M on: April 19, 2022, 03:57:12 PM
You can tell these have started getting dumped on the market recently.

What price? Also, my understanding is these can't mine ETH currently?
No eth but for now they do okay in eth classic until everyone swaps over and increases difficulty and dumps mined coins on the market since there isn't many practical applications for ethclassic in comparison to eth.
The above statement is my opinion on the future oversaturation on the lesser coins after 2.0 launches. Some coins might fair well though as they get attention such as conflux and ergo with actual use case scenarios other than just another blockchain. I don't know shit though, bitcoin in general is smarter than me.
412  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: Non KYC Bitcoin ATM Small no SaaS on: April 19, 2022, 03:17:44 PM
cool machine, how much you asking?
I'm open to offers and trades.
Paid about 1300 out the door.
413  Economy / Goods / Re: [FREE RAFFLE] Pokémon Cards 6/16 on: April 18, 2022, 04:00:13 AM
I'll take 9 if this is still going on and thank you for doing this!
Ooo cool, I'll take spot 9 if still available... Thanks for holding this Smiley
Looks like 4 is open, looks like we have ourselves a raffle!
414  Economy / Computer hardware / Non KYC Bitcoin ATM Small no SaaS on: April 16, 2022, 03:45:06 PM




Open to offers and trades. Escrow is fine.
The place I was going to put it isn't going to work out.
Unit is new and only used for testing.
No subscription fees , bill acceptor works for $1-$100 USD bills.

Don't ask me for legal advice on it because literally every state has a different stance on it.
Comes with keys, a power supply , countertop mounting place and wall mounting plate.
415  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: I'm looking for an HNT buyer, nothing large scale. on: April 14, 2022, 04:50:47 PM
Why not use an exchange?  It is exactly what they provide.

I don't want to register for another exchange.
The ones I use do not provide HNT exchange options.
416  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How to Improve Mining Efficiency on: April 12, 2022, 07:55:37 PM
Doesnt helium kind of work like 2 and 3?.  1 person issues a challenge ,another challenges, others witness?. all split rewards accordingly?
417  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / I'm looking for an HNT buyer, nothing large scale. on: April 12, 2022, 07:11:50 PM
I'm piggy banking my HNT earnings, I'd like to convert the earnings to BTC on a weekly/monthly basis to a cold wallet.
Currently mining about ~1-1.5HNT a week. I'm looking to feed my piggy bank .001BTC at a time.
Thanks for your interest and I hope we can do business!
418  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How to Improve Mining Efficiency on: April 12, 2022, 07:00:28 PM
2. Employ some kind of dice roll or rock-paper-scissor or pick-a-number scheme to select a miner at random who then does the actual work alone.  This would greatly reduce energy consumption but it would not distribute block rewards as fairly as solution #1.  Hash power would no longer effect a miner's odds of winning so this would eliminate mining pools.

3. Yet another idea is to have nodes announce their intent to mine (register) and wait their turn in a queue.  This would reduce energy consumption as much as solution #2 and it would distribute block rewards more fairly over time and it would eliminate mining pools.
I'm down with these concepts!
However the 1% that owns 99% of the network strength will probably not vote for such measures.
419  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Prefix Difficulty Calculator c# assistance please! Base code included in post. on: April 12, 2022, 06:54:31 PM
Remember this service is being designed for the retail investor.
Do you remember this post? I know it's not really practical, and you'll need cooperation of customers to hand over their keys when requested, but it has the potential to search for many split key vanity addresses at once.

Yea, to much dev work though, if i tried id have it whipped up in the next 10 years or so.


Right, so it sounds like you have a more accurate way of calculating difficulty, so use it. It's all a ball park average; you will find some over and some under said difficulty/time. As Lloyce said, after awhile and 1000s of keys generated, should be your market maker.

Oh I like to race, you wanna race? Title for title?  Wink

I have been working on an AI "bot" to decrease my block finds (altcoin, not bitcoin). I'm at about 88% average over 1,000 blocks. But I see many with similar hash rate who are at 100%+; I used the mining just as a reference, it's just numbers that tell you how long it should take you to find x y and z, most of the time, they are somewhat close, but not exact.

Why not also focus on the newer bitcoin addresses, can it not be done via split key? What is the market for legacy vanity addresses? A lot of people still wanting them?

The back end for p2sh and bech32 are already there and working, problem is finding a way for customers to get pub keys and merge them easily using streamlined Gui that's not lost in translation its preferable to be in one tool. (Again this is for retail investor , we arnt trying to confuse people yet! We will probably offer an advanced mode of 1splitkey in the future, we are trying to crawl before we walk though.

For now we've blocked incoming pub keys that are not legacy.  We want to focus on one thing at a time until its mastered.




420  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Prefix Difficulty Calculator c# assistance please! Base code included in post. on: April 12, 2022, 05:26:06 PM
1.I get why you are trying to get it down to an exact difficulty number...but it doesn't seem important to me, to get it exact.
2.You have your ball park numbers. Who cares about exact, how does that help you or a potential customer?
3.If difficulty is x and you say it should take you 3 days, so you charge $x, what happens if you find it in 1 hour? Do you refund the customer for 71 hours?
4.Or what if it takes you 6 days to find, do you go back to customer and charge extra?

The numbers are just numbers, they give us an estimate. That is all.
Just like mining.
5If a coin's network hashrate is 70GH/s and I have 7GH/s, then by math, I should find a block on average, 1 out of every 10. But that does not happen.

6.Also, so JLP codes an awesome program and you want to dog him out about 1 aspect...pivots? You won't someone to admit he was wrong, lol. Really? How about you code a vanitysearch program that is 100% accurate and release it so we can "test" it?

7.I could be wrong here, but did you say your site will check around 24,000 MKey/s? What program will your site be using? 24,000 MKey/s does not seem like a lot. I have an 8 card rig that can do that.

1 If someone does a trailing number with pivots and it takes 256 * 58 * 58  longer than 58 * 58 * 58 with a 341% difference for the same amount of digits.
from a business aspect its helps us from misquoting , If you contact a broker for 2 s19's for $10,000 he agrees and shakes on it, but he contacts you a day later saying he can only get you 1 for $10,000 thats bad business, and youve lost a customer and a customer reference.
2 Our competitors offer the following prefix for 85 euros (~$92) 11111111 If I submitted that order the following would likely happen
I would get an email apologizing and that it cannot be done for that price. Possibly offered a refund.
I would get the prefix at some point in time while the operator runs at a major loss.
This is why quotes are so important and pinpoint accuracy is crucial ball park numbers don't work here.
3 No that is why we consider overall averaging. (Loyce broke this down pretty well)
4 Also no we consider overall averaging and is also why we desire as much accuracy as possible. There is also a mean pricing quota that compensates for luck on our end.(Loyce broke this down pretty well)
5 if your coins networks stayed at 70gh and you stayed at 7gh I can say with confidence your average block find will be about 10%~ overall
6 I don't want anyone to admit its wrong , I know its wrong. Im not harping JLVS as its by far my favorite program, (I wouldn't have spent 16 months making a program around it if I didn't)
But to poke the bear so to speak VanityGen is 100% accurate pivots or not.  
7 I don't care how fast your car is if your not trying to race. Remember this service is being designed for the retail investor. And in most situations will be free to the endpoint user.
we also wont be disclosing total key counts across the farm(s).

With that being said JLVS wrote an amazing program.
We utilize it instead of vanitygen due to the key counts.
We need to be accurate so we can realistically provide proper services, We want to give out certain difficulties for free.
We want to be the definitive split key wallet provider in this sector. In order to do this we need to factor all things that can go wrong from the customers point of view.



 
 

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