And...Bitmain STILL has D3's for sale.....

(their sinister plan worked...they managed to make D3's in stock and into the snail equivalent of S9's) (Bitmain: we do evil in Slo-Mo Eventually)

https://shop.bitmain.com/main.htm?lang=en

I want to buy (soooo  pretty) at $1,450 usd ..BUT and I mean a BIG BUT .....

With X11 difficulty rise....its hard to buy a rubber dingy for the kiddy pool.....when the elephant (x11 difficulty) is gonna 'cannon ball' into it.

Gonna be quite wierd, imho ..when that x11 difficulty slams into the ASIC X11 shoreline....let me tell ya

For those interested (not me) they SEEM to have Bitmain D3's on the Bitmain site for the last hour (could be a web error) but the price is showing up in

black.

Me...not interested in anymore at 1,450 with the difficulty dump ..says shipping Nov 24th to 30th

been up 1 hour..not a lot of interest it seems

Good Luck. (me I'm standing pat on 1 batch 2 and 1 batch 3 only)

edit: price w/o shipping (that shows up in the sales page at the time of this post)

1450 USD    ( 0.3232271 BTC; 31.86813187 LTC )

Well, the outernet USB satellite receiver you see on the 1st post...I got that as a 100 buck toy a few months back and never played with it

so such exists .... you supposedly can use this to download a bunch of stuff like facebook etc and cache it and update news weather etc

good for an RV etc....

but again to put data back up to the internet you'd need a cell phone or cell phone hot spot or some such

just saying..the unit is 'supposed' to suck stuff down in mass amounts to look at offline

thus even if slow speed inet the other way....that only has to be thru a cell phone and fast enough to update your wallet and take your moving BTC about

it is probably a big step forward ..where even older flip phones are still in use

AS to the hype...it depends...if the bandwidth was 'donated' by Richard Branston (virgin) or some such (he is into satellites) this very well could be the real deal

I guess I'm gonna have to get my act together and get on the outernet forum and get this thing up and try it (no time I have no frigging time)

That is why I have one of these OuterNet units and it has sat on the shelf for 4 months plus

too much work/projects/toys etc

still would be tough..imho....difficulty wise.....just saying

NOW if they were 1k instead of 2k .that might be a different spin  on this


Thou.... Dash is at $246....

hmmmm....perhaps getting the 3rd batch 1 unit was not as big a boo boo as I thought.....gonna have to pump a bit more thought imho

but hey...good news

Probably with the next batch bitmain ships L3+ it would be better. But still 10-12 month roi
with electric if I was to buy next batch L3+ and get it end of November?

The L3 batches are much larger also imho.

The ways of Bitcoin are mysterious to me! Bitcoin is a
Fickle Mystress! Indeed!

Recieve only. But for wallet use w/cell phone likely cheap and untraceable in a corrupt
Country with cell phone prepaid. Comes to mind anyway.

With

Pinidea
Ibelink
Baikal
Innsolicon
Bitmain

All dumping X11 equip in Oct or if late 1 or 2 weeks into November, I expect a lot of
Toaster doorstops. I got 1 $2,600 D3 2nd batch ships 18 to 28th September.

Got caught up in hype and got $1,600 3rd batch (dubious) November.

My view I need the 100% equip deduction. If lucky I see 14 month plus roi even with the above equip deduction.

So imho, hell yes bitmain is having a fire sale.

Oh well. Not my wisest asic boat to hop on. I will likely lose 25% in reality with electric on this play. Live and learn.

Got to pop up a ball once in awhile, at the plate I guess?

Toaster city is likely on D3's, weekly, imho. But folk may be wising up.

Still on sale 1/2 day later....they may have lots yet to move and little time to do so.

Probably true. But I mean really 4200 btc. Freaking me out a bit. Thus I'm in
WTF mode a lot lately.

Likely it is still up so they can point to the site and their blog's to us every 3/4 of a year or so and 'claim we are still trying'.

Hell, for all I know some newb sends them money and they still take it

They are airdroping you coins based on your bitcoins held by you in your btc address (and byteball held)
They do this around the full moon each month. Take a snapshot of your holdings. You prove you own with a private msg key from bitcoin-qt wallet or such. Or sending them tiny fee from btc addresses you own.

I'm out. Not buying. May watch the cluster though.

Well supposedly this is for Satellite stuff. But then again you could be correct. I have a
Link to the outernet forum in above posts. Someone could ask somebody with one to point
it at the proper Satellite from the blockstream thread. Also in above posts

If you do need a bigger dish they are common and used on eBay. I saw how to use
the OuterNet via those instead. I still think this unit is likely to work on the USA Satellite in
the above links with only the small Reciever plate.

Saved for further tech links.

Blockstream Satellite Service (Free!)

https://blockstream.com/2017/08/15/announcing-blockstream-satellite.html

OuterNet Discussion Forum. (Free!)

https://forums.outernet.is

OuterNet USB Satellite Reciever Kit ($125 Approximately)

https://store.outernet.is

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Revised 9/20/2020 New Unit in Pre-Order with New Links below. Also supposedly the older unit below will also work with patches/upgrades
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My thanks to LAST OF THE V8's for pointing this out on this thread. I had no 'frigging' idea! Pretty cool looking toy 2.0 is I must say!











Info on units and prices for both Pro and Reg versions below.

Blockstream Satellite Basic Kit: A consumer-grade satellite receiver, ready to connect a Bitcoin node at home. Requires a computer running Linux, e.g. a Raspberry Pi, to process the received broadcasts. Pre-sale: $279 / RRP: $299

Blockstream Satellite Pro Kit: Rack-mountable professional hardware that supports all the features of the Basic Kit, with additional dual-satellite capability for more reliable and faster data transfers, and multicasting (more on this below). Provides Bitcoin data to multiple devices on the same network. Pre-sale: $749 / RRP: $799

Blockstream Satellite Flat Panel Antenna: A flat-panel antenna array with integrated LNB offers a stylish alternative to a satellite TV dish. Users in the Asia-Pacific region should contact support to check compatibility before purchasing. Pre-sale: $179 / RRP: $199

https://blockstream.com/2020/05/04/en-announcing-blockstream-satellite-2/

A review here on the setup and how well it all works. https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoin-satellite/

as of 9.21.2020

enjoy

Brad

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Revised 12/20/2018 with new links below!
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Satellite Service. Wow!

Comments, by those with better tech knowledge on this kinda thing, please.

Edit: I have one of the below USB Receivers. I think it was $100 bucks. Got it to play with months ago. Guess it is time to fire this hobby USB Satellite Reciever
Up!

Note 12/20/2018: My unit is still in the box, with the BTC crash in 2018, not had a lot of time with 'panic'ing' to delve into this. Hopefully, the links below
help with those in the weeds on these kinds of units.

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whew! new links 12/20/2018

https://blockstream.com/2017/08/15/announcing-blockstream-satellite.html

https://othernet.is/

https://forums.othernet.is/

https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2018/12/bitcoin-broken-free-from-isps-by-blockstream-satellite-connection-new-api/
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Thanks to Saint-loop https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=975910 on Bitcointalk here for the below additional links.

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https://hackernoon.com/building-your-own-bitcoin-satellite-node-6061d3c93e7

https://medium.com/@notgrubles/building-your-own-bitcoin-satellite-node-part-2-software-installation-a94a0b85d089

https://hackernoon.com/building-your-own-bitcoin-satellite-node-part-3-dish-alignment-1306b4c21326

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The original picture of the kit I got at the start of this thread below.




Revised 09/21/2020

Brad

Damn, Siacoin is a pumping. Anyone have any idea why?

Are these shipping yet?

if so what is the timeline on units that may have shipped

and/or

future batches ship dates?

curious

Except....someday I need to move my private keys to get my Bitcoin cash...but with Bitcoin core's 15.0
version stopping anything with the 2+mb fork...(looking at 3 forks then) ..in a month and 1/2 it could get
interesting ...with MORE FUD drama if Bitcoin core continues to stop the +2mb hard fork....or just tries to...

So hell, just leaving it ride....and not messing with moving Bitcoin Classic to Bitcoin mainstay makes more sense

and

of course, it is frigging $4,300 bucks !!!! as we speak !!!! (no stress in that right...hands shaking, throat dry....)

be careful what you wish for.....everyone wishes for MOON but they forget about the stress and acceleration (and the fear of blowing up)

on takeoff!

Might be interested at 6K and the discount of 1/5th price with others on the free one.

As in my pm individual shipping vs bulk shipping if they provide no service to ship..could be very, very high as well.

but will watch how this shakes out.