No it isn't. The higher ranks allow you bigger signatures and using an avatar, but that's it. It also signals how much experience you have using the forum, that's about it.

From what i understand, after you lower the voltage, you lower the speed until the asic board starts hashing properly again. This is a bit of a trial and error and needs lots of reboots, and each board (chain) seems to like different settings. Its the opposite of overclocking, where you set a high speed then increase the voltage until it hashes again, and hopefully don't get too many HW errors (or melt your chips).

If your phases are 120v each, you have to make your circuits using two hots from different phases, instead of the usual hot neutral, with a pair of tied breakers per circuit.



So for phases A B C, your first circuit uses A+B, second uses B+C, and third uses A+C. Then keep repeating as needed.

This method would give you 208v per circuit, but needs nothing else, and the miners would work.

Of course if your phases are already 240v each instead of 120v, you don't need to use double hots, you make your circuits normally using a single breaker with a single hot each.

In North America the NEMA 6 plug is supposed to be used for 208~240v circuits, take a quick look at your receptacles:



In an ideal world you would be getting 240v for each phase from the street, but that probably needs re-configuring the transformers which are usually in the realm of the utility providing your power service. Thing is, those wires hanging on poles outside (or underground) are actually 11k volts, so transforming that down to 120v or 240v makes little difference to them. In fact its more efficient if they deliver you the higher voltage. Depending on country/utility that might be a long process but its always good to know.

You don't have to worry about the API unless you want to use a third party program with Binance. For example a trading bot.

In December i also decided to make the effort and run a full (non pruned) node (over tor), i have been syncing at nights since then, painfully waiting for gigs and gigs of data download and processing. Currently i'm almost only 1 year behind, so the day is getting closer for me to be in sync. Unfortunately i don't use a core wallet, since in my country it would be impossible.

Since i'm taking all this effort to sync the blockchain, once i finish i might as well set up a wallet just in case, an Electrum server and a Lightning Node server.

Here is where i am at right now:

2019-03-02T22:17:44Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000000132f8a65053f47be69d349e6bad77087297f030f16df18 height=506034 version=0x20000000 log2_work=87.958875 tx=295278051 date='2018-01-25T09:48:53Z' progress=0.785072 cache=3.1MiB(24076txo)

Almost there...

Bitcoin transactions are final and irreversible, therefore always triple check before making a payment. If you are a victim of malware, you should be aware that using insecure OSes like Windows will lead you to money loss. If you were waiting for an excuse, now is the time you take Linux seriously.

Separate your tasks physically, the serious things like banking and money handling, should always be done in a safe environment, this can be achieved by booting a live Linux iso (such as Tails) or having an older dedicated computer for such tasks.

Securing windows is much harder than using Linux for mundane tasks such as web browsing banks and bitcoin handling. You could keep your windows cleaner by purchasing anti malware software which would in turn make it slower than it already is, but there is still a chance a new undiscovered malware infects you and steals your money anyway. Lower your chances of getting infected and switch to Linux today.

Wouldn't a good boat be enough? like a Yacht or something with nice habitation inside? I mean what could possibly warrant a "seastead" or "floating home" when many regular ships can do the same thing and be easier to move and more reliable should weather conditions worsen? OK i guess a floating home could do in a lake or such, but i think this couple is in open sea, which in itself could spell trouble...

There are however methods to quiet them, such as putting it inside a wooden box with ample holes on the sides covered inside with sound insulation fabric.



And with the addition of Braiins OS, you could underclock them to maximize efficiency and have then run quieter, as philipma1957 demonstrated, an S9 can work at say, 500mhz 8.0~8.1v producing 10TH/s while pulling a mere 823 watts, lowering the traditional 100w per tera down to 80 watt per tera, AND lowering the temperatures enough to have the fans work at 3k rpms or so automatically as opposed to 5k~6k rpms.

I'm actually interested in MMOs using actual crypto as ingame currency rather than some virtual money with infinite supply. I guess the game would need to be designed in a way where the rich doesn't game unbalancing advantages. Ie, the money would let you buy a house, instead of a super weapon. Which games are doing this, and which would you recommend?

Same here. I did made an account in Discord but can't bother to keep open "yet another messaging platform". Besides for me IRC would be good enough, but Telegram is acceptable. Discord seems to be game oriented, but i found its client heavy on resource usage. I guess with Discord you don't need a cellphone number? But at least with Telegram that is only needed the first time you make an account.

I'm not really sure why its popular, but have seen plenty of popular things come and go in my lifetime. Slack? I detest it.

Coming from the country with the largest Bitcoin usage, perhaps simply because it has the largest population, makes this comment even more nonsensical. Perhaps the communist party doesn't like it, being socialists and all it goes against their dogma to give power to the people so they can choose for themselves... But as far as the economy is concerned, China has shown more pragmatism and less socialism, at least after Mao died.

Considering the amount of wealth Bitcoin has created, it would be stupid to stay out of the pie. But you know, socialism...

"Fair and square" according to whom, you? You are not even Venezuelan and have no idea what actually happened to be making that statement. They were blatantly rigged, period. You have every right to demand your politicians to not intervene (and they have every right to ignore you), but you have zero rights to defend the cause of the misery of the Venezuelan people. The moment you move a finger to defend Maduro, you are trampling over millions of lives and you have no morals to make those anti Venezuelans comments. In fact, i demand that you stay out of our matters. YOU are the one intervening. We requested the aid, not you. You don't want to give it? Fine, others will. Maduro is a criminal usurper and has no authority over any matters, he should be taken into custody and trialed for his crimes in the international court along with his close accomplices. But that is not YOUR problem, its OURS, so mind your own problems in your own country before spitting lies about a place you don't belong to.

I tested this with Waterfox (Firefox based) and it works fine. You have probably found a Chromium bug, which probably affects all Chromium based browsers (Ie: Opera, Brave, Edge, etc).

Perhaps the right course of action is to fill a bug report to the Chromium development team. I wouldn't be surprised if this happens in other forums, try checking elsewhere (ie. Simple Machine Forums in Arabic). There is a chance the bug isn't even Chromium but SMF related. You should also test a different forum software, such as a phpbb forum in Arabic to see if the problem repeats. Then you will know which team to send the report to.

And this is related to Bitcoin Discussion how again? I think your perfectly valid thread belongs in the Altcoin Discussion, you know, with the rest of the "stable" coins.

For me, Facebook releasing their own altcoin after being so hostile to Bitcoin, is meh. Even within altcoins, they'll have a hard time. But good luck to them, everyone is entitled to try, not that everyone will necessarily succeed...

I'm currently using (chromium is not my main browser, its my backup browser):

Authy (2fa)
Auto Refresh (kano pool needs this)
Block Image (when bandwidth goes under 1mbps)
Disable HTML5 Autoplay (must have)
HTTP/2 and SPDY indicator (this forum supports it)
I don't care about cookies (EU regulations should not be bothering the rest of the world)
Improve YouTube! (Must have youtube enhancement)
ImTranslator (Inline translation, always useful)
Keepa (Because Amazon prices are not static)
minerBlock
Nano Adblocker (leaner than the others)
Nano Defender (anti-antiadblockers)
Search by Image (faster than going to google image and pasting)
Stealthy (to circumvent censorship)
Stylus (must have, to darken the web for example)
WhatRuns (Knowledge is power)
Yet another flags (So that's why that server i so slow...)

My addons catalogue in other browsers is quite similar to this. My main browser is Waterfox because it uses less ram and the addons don't have to obey Google's policy (ie youtube downloaders banned), but chromium lets me choose a different audio device which is nice regular youtube playing, etc.

The US, the EU, and various other countries (ie. Canada) have been trying to send the aid "via normal routes", even back when they still recognized Maduro (before Jan 10 2019). He always rejected it on absurd claims. This has been going for 2 or 3 years... Now that Maduro is no longer recognized, and the new President Interim Guaidó officially requested the aid, they have been trying to deliver it. I has been piling near the borders for months.

Whatever Richard Branson does, its his private business. It doesn't change the official position of countries or the needs of the people of Venezuela. If private entities want to raise funds to donate food or medicine, Why are we going to reject it? This is the country where people are supposed to live with under 10 USD a month, somehow...

I don't know about Yemen, but Colombia is in a far, FAR better situation that Venezuela. In Colombia the average wage is 250 USD, just like Venezuela had 10 years ago. Colombia's main problem was the leftist guerrillas (and later rightist paramilitary, which were anti-guerrilla's guerrilla). For the most part that problem is now solved, only very few groups remain, but it isn't like 10, 20 or 30 years ago where they controlled vast areas. The previous Colombian administrations, with the military aid of USA, reduced the guerrillas, and a peace treaty with the help of Cuba demobilized the majority the last administration. In fact some have moved to Venezuela... Colombia also accepts aid, being an US partner you can raise funds and deliver aid without anyone making a fuzz (ie. burning it), perhaps that's why you don't see it in the news... Currently Colombia's current crisis has to do with nearly a million Venezuelans flooding in, thanks to Maduro's "socialist" policies and rampant crime.

Why doesn't the US "spend money to reduce poverty"? I leave that to you. Perhaps you should think more in ways to increase wealth rather than reduce it...

The sanctions, as i have told countless times, do not target Venezuela as a whole. The sanctions go against specific individuals, who should not be handling stolen Venezuelan assets and money anyway. These sanctions are very well deserved, and in my opinion those people should be arrested and imprisoned anywhere they go in the world. They are criminals, as simple as that.

Paypal is one of the things that becomes obsolete with Bitcoin. Like banks, unless Paypal also becomes an exchange or payment processor (ie. deposit bitcoin pay fiat), people will simply stop using it. The main problem with Paypal is that depends on credit cards. Why? We should be able to move our funds from/to bitcoin.

But that is ok. The whole sector either embraces Bitcoin or will start getting kicked to the sides. Why he doesn't ask one of the actual creators of Paypal, you know, Elon Musk? That should give him a hint...

That's the thing with luck... You could increase your chances, but not the results. Ie you may have a 99% chance of winning (buy 99 tickets from a lottery of 100 tickets), and yet you can lose, TWICE  

Throw a coin, should be 50/50 right? actually there is a 2% chance it lands standing. What are the chances of the next throw to make it land standing again? 2%. Very unlikely but possible.

In theory it should approach 100%. Another possible reason for bad luck could be misbehaving mining equipment or rentals, not sure what the exact issue is why some pools do ban some gear.

I also went in 2014, it is incredibly clean and organized.

I went for an important reason (marriage) but i managed to visit a place i always wanted to visit: Akihabara (lol). I could mention Steins;Gate but i already knew about it before that game/anime.

I still have a Suica card, it was useful. I think purchasing tickets would be more complicated than simply getting the card and putting money in it using a machine.

Also vending machines. My country has not seen vending machines in almost 3 decades due to criminality (they would get all vandalized). They are so convenient, extra points for being able to use the Suica inside the stations on them.

I didn't knew at the time, but i visited the park used in Occult;Nine, Inokashira Park, at that very moment the lake was also dried, which is very rare and is shown that way in that game/anime. Heh, i guess 5pb should be commended for being a Tokyo tourism promoter

It is true the Japanese don't speak English, so you have to learn Japanese

The Japanese culture is very different, it does take time to understand it. Watching media helps, but not completely. As a tourist you shouldn't have much trouble, but is best to go take a guided tour or have a good friend. Japanese people are very busy usually so this can be difficult.

Food is everywhere, and even if you don't like traditional, there are plenty of American franchises everywhere (ie. McDonalds). The trains stop at 11pm beware, the city is huge! Got to the top level of Skytree tower, you'll feel like an airplane there. I hope to return someday, and probably will.

Mitchell could you check these? Both links point to the Nanogames thread, i think the correct link for the Sigma Pool thread would be https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5104406.0