OK lets play devils advocate. Iif you wanted to aid the civilians resist, why would you send them things they already have? Nails and wire? Seriously? And it is us who believe media lies now? whose media, Maduro's?

At least 4 Presidents of sovereign states and the OAS secretary inspected the boxes, they had medicine and dehydrated food rations. To even suggest otherwise means you are accusing at least 4 countries of committing crimes against humanity, "aiding terrorists" if you buy Maduro's language...

If you take a look at the protests of 2014 and 2017, the least the resistance would need is nails and wire to block streets, they are experts building barricades that with whatever they find. Now try fighting unarmed against armed guards using armored trucks with nothing but rocks and bottles, perhaps the occasional molotov or burning tire, and see how well it goes. Did you ever fought against your National Guard?

Starting April 2017 you can see PLENTY of footage on youtube of the street fights of civilians vs state forces. That year alone 150+ civilians were killed in those clashes, some of the killings were captured llve on video. But nobody cares, and the perpetrators are still "serving", the dead can't talk.

Now let me explain something about the State forces. They are "armed" with "anti-demonstration" equipment, meaning, shotguns which are supposed to have rubber pellets, but they tend to remove the rubber and replace it with glass marbles or nails; and tear gas cans, which are meant to be shoot up in an arc to reach the demonstrators, not as an oversized bullet, like they do here... And, though prohibited, many times they use pistols and sometimes even rifles. They also love doing torture, often capturing people and putting it inside an enclosed truck with a triggered tear gas can. There even are worse practices i would refrain from mentioning here, but the evidence is very well documented, a part was exposed in the OAS report last year.

Of course not, nobody was expecting Maduro to give up. As i mentioned, if Maduro and Tarek resign, the problem is over. Calling Guaidó "CIA" backed is childish, your government and country officially recognizes Guaidó, and that obviously includes intelligence, but is not like the act as a separate entity doing "evil". All countries have intelligence services, wherever effective or not that's another matter.

Guaidó is actually USA backed, heck, Guaidó is currently backed by:


Maduro is also backed by the intelligence service of Cuba (g2), so what? Are you going to play spy fiction games now? Who cares?

Albeit the "big powers" do have interests in the region, you seem to be ignoring what the actual Venezuelans want. Can you understand becoming hostage (or prisoner) of your own State? That is more or less the situation, 80% want Maduro and his close group gone, but they say no and they have the weapons while civilians don't. Oh and they do with justice, laws and voting whatever they want and nobody can do or say anything about it because... He has the weapons, and civilians don't. And they use the military force like an occupation army against their own people. "In the name of the 'Legacy' (Chávez) and Socialism" anything goes to them. To them, the constitution is no more, the "National Constituent Assembly" is above all...

Even if America doesn't intervene, nothing is going to change the sentiment against Maduro, the only difference is the number of deaths and misery the prolonged usurping or power produces, while at the same time stubbornly denying humanitarian aid that the people DO WANT.

As of today, more than 400 military and police have defected Maduro and fled to Colombia to request asylum. I don't know how many more had fled to Brazil or the other neighbors. In the Santa Elena town near the border with Brazil, more indigenous people have been killed. At least 700 "irregulars" assaulted the airport which was controlled by the indigenous people protesting the killings, these "irregulars" are not police, nor miltary, some witnesses have recognized convicted criminals and several colombians, probably from ELN guerrilla.

So can you no longer ssh to it? Make sure you keep backups of the older firmware!

This is the best paying pool (0 fees + bech32), but is also the slowest to pay. Of course in a perfect world the whale miners would move a couple of Exa hashes here and then nobody would need the other pools anymore...

Anyway at the current hashrate every 6 weeks or so (on average) a block should be found, but not everyone is paid; only the top 100 plus 50, chosen from those who have waited the longest. At least that is how i understand it. Therefore variance is extreme. Once you do get paid, you will reap the benefits of your hashrate no matter how many months you waited, but at current rates expect at least three months or so to see any payment.

Oh yes there is also ramp up and ramp down, i think the ramp up is a bit faster than the ramp down. Current ramp up takes 209 days at 7.2PH/s according to computergenie's page.

You cannot "test" the pool for a couple of months, instead, you'll need to wait two years for the results to be meaningful... Or bring a couple of Exahashes per second here, then the design should shine.

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This probably involves scheduling using crontab to relaunch cgminer after changing its config, unless the Avalons expose such feature in their UI.

As long as bitcoin becomes worldwide accepted, that will be enough. It doesn't matter if other coins coexist, but knowing you can travel anywhere and they will accept your bitcoins is going to change things and pave the way for major adoption.

Say goodbye to banks and foreign currency exchanges, earn bitcoins and pay bitcoins, worldwide. It might with time become a de facto world coin...

Sounds tempting considering i'm not even controlling the fan (its always at 100%), but without temps how do you know you are not overstressing the chips?

Currently mine is on the latest factory firmware and a board is set to 581Mhz while the other is set to 602Mhz, producing more or less 8.5TH/s

Was yours a Xilinx board with 1gb of ram?

The trucks were burnt by Maduro supporters ("colectivos") assisting the "police" who ambushed the trucks and shot against unarmed civilians, as i explained with detail in the Venezuela thread. Their attempt of damage control after the justified international outrage failed miserably, as shown in the UN assembly. The Maduro regime is actually now entering the path of "crimes against humanity" so don't be surprised if he and his close officials end trialed in The Hague International Court of Justice.

You are wrong in the first part, and right the latter part. You have the freedom to petition your leaders to not get involved, but you are not representing Venezuela or Venezuelans, or have morals to make a joke of the situation or label everything said against Maduro as "lie", because, again, you DON'T live here.

However so far 60+ countries have done the right thing. Maduro is illegitimate, therefore they cannot accept or recognize anyone sent by Maduro, nor let him move funds that do not belong to him or his cronies.

Socialists did seize A LOT of companies and properties "to protect workers interests" they said, with "workers control" they said. Next thing you know all of them failed, without production and the workers on the street. At least back when they were being "exploited", they had something to take home, now they have nothing.

Why don't you go read the American journalist Eva Golinger, who was with them (Chávez/Maduro) until 2014? Now currently living in Rusia (works for Russia Today), she is super socialist, with the likes of Noam Chomsky praising her books. Why don't you ask her about Maduro? See who is the liar by asking one of your own...

Venezuelans try and get jobs paid in foreign currency, be it online games or anything that provides any amount of money in any currency that is not the Venezuelan bolivar, including bitcoin of course.

This is to survive the current situation. A full time job would pay you the equivalent of 10 USD, so naturally if you get an online job that pays you *anything* above that a month, you take it. Yes, even the menial tasks or ad clicks, or helping google train the AI for the pentagon to classify objects and recognize faces. Yes i have an account in figure eight, (formerly crowdflower) and clearly remember doing a few of those. I didn't mind, it brings food to the table, something socialists don't.

There is also solve captchas for money (pretty much defeating their purpose) and much worse. Some people resort to scams or MLM and ponzis. Most online games don't allow selling of items for real money, but the black market exists, and black market is something socialism makes you a habit of using, their promoters never stop to think of the consequences their destruction of the economy produces in human beings.

The Runescape thing is old, almost as old as that game. Game farming was usually seen as a joke about Chinese inmates, even Venezuelans would joke about it a decade ago. But socialism turned the joke on us, and many started doing it as a means to survive, at least when there are no blackouts or internet service outages, which are sadly very frequent especially outside of Caracas.

Some professionals are able to do freelancing from home, while others just leave the country. Several families have gone separate, mothers working alone in neighbor countries, hiding because they are overstaying, sending money back home for their children to it. It is not a joke i have seen it myself. The socialists have forbidden the sending of money without paying taxes, meaning you are supposed to use their intermediation always. Yes, even bitcoin. Good luck enforcing that, same as their attempt to replace the market with bureaucracy...

But if you wait for v18, you could use 0.1sat/B... Contrary to your suggestion, i think low fees will remain, or even get lower with the offloading of transactions into Lightning Network.

If you don't mind waiting a few hours, 1sat/B is working just fine. Sometimes you are lucky and get it under 1 hour.

Quite the mystery isn't? But if you compare it against a few days back, its still higher:

Not that... It depends how strong your fan is. if it moves the others by airflow alone, they generate electricity. A generator is the same thing as an electric motor, more or less. If you pass current, it makes the axis rotate. If you rotate the axis fast enough, it generates current. You don't want current flowing back into your controller board/psu.

Take a tester to measure voltage, plug it to a disconnected fan to the ± pins. Now make that fan move by pointing another fan to it, and see the results.

I never quite understood why asic miners used this tunnel design with two fans pushing/pulling one another, but it seems Bitmain has improved the design, perhaps after the R4 experience.

If both fans are moving about the same amount of air, there shouldn't be a problem. But i don't know how powerful your squirrel fan is. I think it would be ideal to just remove the small fans, as you originally intended. Problem is you need feed back rpms to the controller so it doesn't complain, at least until Braiins OS is ported to the S15.

They won't, because they have plenty of UAVs to swarm the skies without putting feet on the ground. Libya was air support and the occasional civilian contract, and here there is even a chance Colombia and Brazil would walk in instead. And Colombia is a NATO friend too...

This conflict could end peacefully by a resign of Maduro and Tarek (usurping president and vice-president positions), but they would rather let the people die of sickness and malnutrition than losing power. So it has come to this. After they fall, you will see the network of corruption and scandal surrounding them. Almost all of south American presidents lost their position over Odebrecht scandals, and Venezuela being the country with the most dealings with this Brazilian construction company, nothing occurred. Well you will see all the dirt they were hiding soon...

Unlikely, there are no elections scheduled unless Maduro is dethroned. Even if Guaidó takes power, people are talking about at least a year before elections take place.

China would be happy if Venezuela's economy improves, since that would allow them to profit from their investments. Guaidó already stated China has nothing to worry and they truly know business would flourish should the government change. They hoped for Maduro to rectify because he is closer politically, but he didn't; so pragmatically they probably don't mind Guaidó taking power. That is why they remain silent beyond a little diplomatic note and the usual vetoing in the UN council. The Chinese are not stupid, they know the situation. Heck, you can watch the official Chinese news TV channel and get far better information from Venezuela than from watching the official Venezuelan channel which is pure propaganda and zero facts.

Frankly the Chinese would be happier if Chávez was still around, but he appointed an inept to succeed him before his death, and the rest is history.

While the Russians are noisier, they have even less interests in Venezuela to risk messing with (another) conflict. Should America or a coalition act, no one will oppose militarily.

Thanks that did the trick. I think my mistake was not choosing p2sh-p2wpkh.

He is spot on, that is exactly what is happening in my country not by choice but by force. Socialism killed the economy, among other things by restricting foreign money exchange via "currency controls" so they could "digitally create" all the money they wanted to pay their ever growing debt. This provoked scarcity of money in physical form as well, so there are no coins or banknotes in enough abundance or of high enough denomination to be of any use anyway. No surprise my country is topping the ranks in localbitcoin usage. Unfortunately, as usual, socialists want to tax that as well. They might make it illegal to use any other means of exchanging (like they did to fiat), not that they can actually enforce it but that is always the problem with those who think can replace the free market with bureaucracy...

That's a bad design. make sure you keep some airflow around the miner, not just the hashboards. The controller above is notorious for breaking from overheat due to people sealing the airflow within the fans while ignoring the rest.

Attach your fan to a larger box, and put the miner freely inside that box. The miner inside should not be in contact with the box or duct. And you might as well leave the PSU in there, just like the newer S15 does anyway. Wood is good, and you could cover the walls inside with sound proofing fabric. Using a bit of sound insulated duct at the ends also helps.

I have seen another design where the air is following little Z like maze before going out. But there is an important design change, the holes are larger and of rectangular shape half covered, not round duct like. The maker describes it as a "nozzle" effect, noise cancelling but air flowing.

I'm actually worried your squirrel fan would make the others move, ie, generate electricity... Which is the same reason people should not let a fan spin when dusting off electronics with an air blower (they will generate and send electricity down the wire possibly damaging things).

The arm architecture. Things are changing, and you will start seeing those more in servers and even desktops, not just smartphones or raspis...

A signal? Microsoft ported Windows 10 for it. Not that you should use it, Linux is better.

Huawei Rolls 7-nm Arm Server CPU | EE Times

The arm architecture has the advantage of being more power efficient, so called "risc" and no need to support decades old "cisc" instructions, or what modern processors do which is "decomplex" those cisc instructions to make them risc like then "recomplex" them again to satisfy software expecting it. All that baggage is removed with better non legacy architectures.

Intel actually tried to do the right thing in the past, with Itanium, but the market did not understood it and Microsoft didn't support it thus ruining sales.

There were others in the past but mostly didn't survive. I could mention IBM's power that fared a bit while with Apple... Which reminds me: Apple (macs) is going arm as well, so there.

Who would have thought that the British would conquer the world again? And from the 8 bit golden era of computing, no less!

The point of Bitcoin is that it cannot be controlled by any central authority, a central bank would do nothing.

The reason of that, and any bubbles, is due to fractional reserve banking, promoted by the Chicago school of economy (growth by debt). The Austrian school of economy want to do away with fractional reserve banking, therefore no central bank, but also no bubbles to pop up later. It is a boring, but firm growth by saving (actual accumulation) of money that actually exists somewhere.

So in short, switch to Austrian economics, and adopt Bitcoin, and/or use gold as fiat which is what they actually wanted.

You don't need a central bank or a federal reserve because the sole reason that exists is to bail out banks in case of a run. And runs can only exist under fractional reserve banking. The fact that in some countries the central bank also manipulates the fiat, only exacerbates the problem.

If your country had adopted what the "Austrians" (Mises, etc.) proposed a century ago, bubbles like these would never happen. Stop bubbles from forming, so you never have to deal with them later.

In my opinion the money you would spend purchasing an industrial sized UPS (or several smaller ones) would be better used purchasing a grid tie inverter and solar panels which slowly lowers your power bill, something a miner would want in the long run...