So what happens when you flash for example 42601 to 42603 or vice versa? Nothing? What about 42621 with 42631 or 42701 with 42801?

In the past, i have seen some shady "repairs" where because they had all 3 eeproms corrupted they pick some random one and flash it in all three, see it work with factory fw and call it a day... I guess the least issue is being underclocked/overclocked as you say, but is there really nothing else?

I started a new 1 sat/b actual Bitcoin transaction yesterday. Lets see how many days the current spam wave will make me wait... Remember, it used to be 2~12 hours before Ordinals and friends invaded.

Too bad WIkipedia and Firefox drank the Ripple lobbying FUD and decided to ban bitcoin donations "because it hurts the environment"...

Maybe Arch and the binary rolling distros, not Gentoo. There is nothing more rock solid than a distro that compiles its packages with the same libraries that are actually present in the system. How often do you update? When you want. I have left Gentoo installs without updating half a year or a year, it still works rock solid, unlike binary distros including LTS with packages from 3 years ago...

Arch has a rule you cannot break: Upgrade all the system, not a single package. This is not a problem with Gentoo, because you will compile it against whatever you really have. Instability comes from downloading binaries that were compiled against slightly different libraries. A bit of workaround is shipping those libraries with the binary, windows style, which is why snap and others are becoming popular in some distros.

The other reason is bloat and stuff you don't need. With Gentoo you can customize your compiles, and remove things you will never use resulting in a leaner and more stable experience. It is not for newbies, but the end result is far more stable than anything else i have ever seen or used. Still for a production server something like Debian Stable or Ubuntu LTS is ok, especially when you have several to manage.

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If you just want to use a system without getting your money stolen, just run something like Lubuntu, Linux lite, Pop_OS!, Linux Mint, etc. Its not perfection but its far better than windows. You still need to use "common" sense like using proper passwords, keeping security updates, etc.

Move your money related activities to Linux or BSD, preferably to a separate PC.

Of course like i was saying, this is only the beginning. There is a spam attack going on, some with commercial incentive, and some people want to pretend its nothing.

Its not about NFTs, its about spam. Anything that is not Bitcoin transactions is spam and this spam is going to grow if left unchecked, like some people want. Who benefits from the destruction of Bitcoin?

The German cable works fine with 240V or the equivalent used in computer servers, photocopiers, etc.

Dropping to 120V will use twice the amps. By default the S9 cannot be run safely like this since 1350W is +11 amps unlike +6 when using 230V. So you would need to either disconnect 1 hashboard or switch to a firmware that lets you exactly control the amounts of watts used, about 900W is safe at 120V (8A).

thierry4wd some miners have been seen from factory with mixed hashboards, don't always rely on this method. I have no idea what using the wrong eeprom info could cause...

BitMaxz endusers are not going to do backups of their eeproms unfortunately... That is why bosminer never touches them.

Try unplugging power for half hour after you have flashed factory firmware.

You can't install to nand with the latest version, you need the older version and then upgrade. Or just always run it from SD. Check the first post in this thread to get the right version (x17).

PS: The miner MUST have factory firmware. Beware that running others may permanently cause damage.

Basically: Desolder all, resolder all and replace the damaged components, perhaps do the mod that uses large heatsinks with screws, or go with immersion.

Cost effective? Probably not, but some people did this full refurbish in the past.

If the fan fails its basically the same as when one (or more) of the small fans fail. The fw should stop hashing when it overheats, in Braiins OS controlled by the Dangerous value, which you can lower even more.

The theory is that sucking is better because you don't add the heat of the fan itself. It also tends to attract more dust because its negative pressure for the miner.

So i guess it depends in your actual setup. If its well filtered with noise insulated ducts that reach the outside on both ends, i would go with suck. But if its something like no inlet duct or scooping air from the inside, maybe blow is better.

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With the likes of the infinity 8" you don't need any other fans at all. 800cfm is twice the required volume so it should be fine at 50% or less.

PS: I don't like leaving the small fans because they can be forced to generate electricity by the external fan.

Las especulaciones son tontas. Si todos sabemos desde el día cero que la emisión está limitada, y además sabemos que el resto del dinero del mundo es ilimitado, básicamente cualquier número podrá ser realidad en algún momento.

Hay que saber un poco en que se fundamenta la macro economía actual de la escuela Monetarista (de Chicago) y como todo su dogma depende de la emisión ilimitada y la expansión crediticia; básicamente despertar ante la realidad de que el dinero fiat es chatarra por diseño y que todos los que pintan horror a la deflación están en ese campo.

Solo en la escuela Austríaca se tiene un siglo proponiendo el dinero no chatarra, in-devaluable por el Estado. Lamentablemente solo tenían el oro como referencia, el cual por su debilidad física si que tiene problemas como lamentablemente se demostró en los 30 con la confiscación de todo el oro en los EE.UU.

¿Es que bitcoin sube o el dolar/euro/etc bajan? Ambos. Y la posibilidad de que mas gente aprenda la verdad de la nefasta reserva fraccionaria de los bancos y de que 90% del dinero fiat no existe en ninguna parte logrando una masa crítica que acabe por completo con esta práctica.

Y luego la gente (y los Estados) re-aprenderán a ahorrar para invertir, en lugar de endeudarse, y de ajustar sus presupuestos para que sean sostenibles en lugar de meter mano al dinero de todos causando la inflación que es el peor de los impuestos.

Bitcoin arranca a los políticos esa arbitrariedad que tienen de devaluar el dinero. Y a los bancos de hacer la expansión crediticia del esquema ponzí legalizado que es la reserva fraccionaria; siempre y cuando no se les entregue: Si no son tus llaves, no es tu dinero...

El punto aquí no son los "NFT". es la demostración de que se puede inundar de spam la cadena de bloques, es de ahí la polémica principal. NO es tema de que si son perritos o contenido sensible, podría ser ruido blanco da igual; es "basura digital", en lugar de transacciones y es un vector de ataque demostrado por Ordinals (quienes no son necesariamente los únicos en capacidad de hacerlo).

Todavía funciona Binance, si estos deciden irse o como han hecho algunos, filtrar las IPs, pues...

Para el Estado Venezolano es ilegal usar Binance porque "no está autorizada" por Sunacrip. Generalmente los que se van no lo hacen por el Estado Venezolano, lo hacen por el Estado en EE.UU. específicamente el tema de las sanciones. Técnicamente no es al país sino una lista de funcionarios, pero ellos tendrían que dedicar personal a investigar que ninguna cuenta tenga alguna relación con los sancionados de la lista, quienes por supuesto se apoyan en terceros para evadir las sanciones.

Como siempre las sanciones solo afectan al pueblo los gobernantes tienen todo el poder para evadirlas. Apenas les arruinaron sus vacaciones a Miami porque sí, esos políticos de pacotilla que hablan mal de EE.UU. 24/7 tienen propiedades y cuentas en ese país y de ahí que las sanciones congelaron varias de esas posesiones (y les prohíben el viaje). Es el colmo del descaro pero son intocables.

Pues también hay noticias de filtrado para los nodos. Bueno algo había que hacer ante este ataque de spam a la cadena de bloques.

Todavía esperando acciones mas concretas de core... Está una puja entre el grupito que dice que no pasa nada y los que si, que es un problema serio.

Mi posición de este tema es simple: Si no son transacciones, es spam. Ese spam nos está ralentizando la red y encareciendo las transacciones, con potencial de empeorar muchísimo mas si no se hace nada. El contenido del spam no me interesa en lo mas mínimo, no pertenece aquí. Hay otras cadenas de bloque mejor preparadas para este tipo de cosas, dejen Bitcoin en paz.

Otro con +700T pegó un bloque en ckpool...

Dogecoin no implementó Segwit como si lo hizo Litecoin así que el spam ese no puede implementarse tan fácil...

Messing with the eeproms is a recipe for disaster. It is bad enough with those firmware mods doing it...

Especially since you don't know how many sub-variants are really out there. This is no longer S17 walk in the park, don't rewrite eeproms ever, and stay away from shady fw that never deals with the hardware directly since all they do is leech on the work already done at factory...

Hmm you can do that without the dummy with Braiins OS. Just enable immersion mode.

Also remember to edit your first post, miner doesn't stop hashing at Hot, it does at Dangerous.