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4141  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Venezuela - communists are falling, so might btc on: February 15, 2019, 11:33:06 PM
I thought that Venezuela was doing ok with its crypto? Before all those political nonsense has begun it demonstrated a good attitude to crypto in general. Hope they'll cope with it.

The "political nonsense" started years ago (arguably decades ago), it was only slowly getting to boiling point. Precisely because of this nonsense (socialist economy) the local fiat was thrown in the garbage, and people desperately sought for ways to survive, one way is crypto.

After things change, i think people will remember fondly about true crypto (Bitcoin) and be positive for future legislation. While the current illegitimate government made a facade of a crypto, and also made a facade of being "crypto friendly" (they aren't, just to their close "friends"), it turned out to be a huge disappointment. A state backed ICO scam.
4142  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to get wallet in mac osx? on: February 15, 2019, 11:24:04 PM
I have mac and want wallet??

The same way everybody else does: Choose your Bitcoin wallet.

I recommend Electrum, unless your internet speeds are great.
4143  Other / Off-topic / Re: Profably Fair Games on: February 15, 2019, 10:59:52 PM
You are in the wrong forum area, this goes into Gambling but only if your site uses bitcoin.
4144  Other / Off-topic / Re: Best Starter Animes To Give Your Friends? on: February 15, 2019, 10:54:49 PM
There is too much to recommend something without knowing your friend likes and dislikes. Try to find out that first from regular movies and shows, then you can make an educated guess of anime from the same genres, then slowly try different but closely related genres.

There are also eras, like classic, 70ies, 80ies, 90ies, 2000s they have certain aspects they might or might not like from. Some people don't like early cgi aesthetics, for example, or cheap hand draw 4:3 aspect ratio with lots of stills when it was so expensive to animate some studios took that shortcut. But you end learning that only after you show them and see their reaction...

Back in the day there was no choice but to show a variety and see their reaction and start recommending based on that. At least now you don't have to send video tapes over mail... But tuday there is SO MUCH anime...

One Piece? Good luck convincing someone to watch a 700+ episode show. Its not bad, typical shounen fights, train, gets stronger and fight again with the usual boring fillers from the overly popular shows... But yeah, there is a lot of people into that like there were into Dragonball back then. If they like that there is a list you can borrow from that genre which is enormous. Fairy Tail, Hunter x Hunter Bleach, just to name a few.

Careful with the hentai, some people become prejudiced against anime if you start people with that, especially the infamous mentioned earlier and another i won't mention here which trolls love to bring to these threads.
4145  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Testing a 220VA Wall Socket? on: February 15, 2019, 09:47:01 PM
As said earlier, NO!

The best you could do is look at the socket for the oven and based on what type it is, make a GUESS based on the sockets max current rating.
Only possible way to test the capacity is if you can provide a variable heavy load and monitor it while increasing the load until the breaker trips. Of course after that you will need to reset the breaker so...

You need to get access to the breaker panel and look. Period.

I think he should also look at the wire gauge and read the code printed on it if possible. Even if the breaker is high rated the wire might not be, and that is not rare in certain countries... (Yes, it should be the opposite, a wire stronger than what the breaker is rated for, but the "3rd world" can be like that).

For that very reason, I wouldn't blindly trust a socket that says "50A" (look at the wires). Yes, in nice countries the electricians are supposed to respect the rules...

I'm guessing you got involved in Bitcoin and other cryptos around 2017?
So you only see bitcoin as a money making machine. And you can't imagine why anyone would mine at a lost. But in fact I was an early miner back in 2009 when Bitcoin was less than a penny and you could mine it on a desktop. Hardly nobody back then was making much money with mining. There is far more to mining Bitcoin than pure profit. But as a late adopter, I'm guessing that would be too difficult to explain it all to you.

Even if I was doing it at a lost, I'd still want to mine. And I think Bitcoin will eventually climb much higher. So I hang on for the long run.

The simple reason people won't mine at a loss: The money you would spend buying the miner and the electrical works and silencing, take it all to buy bitcoin now and you end with more bitcoin now than trying to mine the same amount for months or years. That is unless you are betting the price will go up later, but it is possible the miner becomes damaged before that.

Suppose your S15 and the rest the stuff costs you $1500, you could get 0.4215₿ now, or wait 383 days mining it, assuming nothing breaks in the meantime. But what about the electricity? you have to add the costs of the electricity during those 383 days, and you would have rather gotten even more bitcoin today by simply buying it. How many days would you need to mine to get that many bitcoins? Its more days, so more electricity, so more money you need to sum, this goes to infinite.

Its logical to stop the mining if it is unprofitable, or make it profitable (ie. with solar panels). If i knew what is the electricity price per kw/h or what country it is (so i can find the price by myself) i could be a little more specific.
4146  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: ckpool.org ZERO FEE SPLNS no registration mining pool US/DE/CN on: February 15, 2019, 09:23:46 PM
Hello everybody
Now first to me I'm new here and get my first GekkoScience NewPac tomorrow and want to run it in the ckpool. CGminer is set up so that I only have to wait for the postman. I hope I can learn a lot here and maybe there will be more NewPac.

This is offtopic, but please keep in mind that the USB stick NewPac will gather only dust while mining on a regular pool.
Sticks are more commonly used for solo mining as a so called 'lottery ticket'.

He is close, its right here: http://solo.ckpool.org/

Forum thread here: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 1% fee solo mining USA/DE 251 blocks solved!



That said, this particular pool has a very low payment threshold:

Q: What is the dust threshold?
A: 5460 satoshi or 0.0000546 BTC. Once enough herp has been amassed to create this much derp, miners will enter the payout queue.

I have no idea how long would it take for a stick of those to reach 5460 satoshis. Doesn't this cause the same problem as the GPU miners?
Tried a mining calculator, and since its supposed to be a 22.8GH Asic, it should take two months to reach the minimum...
4147  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Lightning Network Coming To The Square App Soon on: February 15, 2019, 05:55:08 PM
Very interesting post [as usual] Franky1, TBH I wasn't aware of the
intricacies of LN, I thought it was in fact a true Bitcoin development.
Im sure there are others who assume the same.

Its a bit worrying that if the LN devs are issuing caution there may be
implications in the future, complicated ones that we didn't forsee.

"meanwhile true bitcoin remains stifled and un innovated for the last few years"
That's not good reading, Has the development been centered around
segwit and LN?

It really is a parallel network, or "off chain" (side chain?). But this also has the side effect for lowering the load on the main network, so its win/win. You use it if you want, or else you do a regular tx.

Imagine you exchanged your bitcoins with litecoins then do the tx on that chain and convert back at the receiving point; only because Litecoin was faster and cheaper... Well its very similar with LN. Actually, because both Bitcoin and Litecoin have Segwit, it is theoretically possible to do just that without any middle men... (True decentralized exchange).

Business are going to love it, especially cheap little things like coffee from frequent customers that could be consolidated every month or so.
Japan has vending machines, LOTS of vending machines, and is a Bitcoin friendly country, I think the manufacturers would love to use LN, consolidate the sales everyday or such.
4148  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: HASH TAG PROBLEMS WITH TRANSFER on: February 15, 2019, 05:39:41 PM
when i check my bitcoin hash tag it says

No transaction found with the hash c88a9f1686e3e790bfd01cda4b0657b8c4341fd54bd70f6e5333312fc53c8176
 Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh
HELP ME

Its been 24 hours and i cant get 3 different transfers i did with electrum wallet.
pleeeease

In Electrum you can right click the transaction and use "View on block explorer".
If your transaction doesn't show, you still have your money so there is nothing to fret.

Which Electrum version you are using?
4149  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin ATMs should target developing and third world countries on: February 15, 2019, 05:36:04 PM
Bitcoin automatic teller machine is quite an advance technology and it's being developed on.
For now I don't think developing countries are ready to adopt that technology

Actually not really, in my opinion the typical Diebold type ATM, a model with camera, would do just fine (they are just PCs). They are expensive because of the vault that needs to be rugged, and the mechanism that push/pulls/sorts banknotes. But i wouldn't dare recommend putting one in the street, especially in third world countries with rampant crime...

I guess some people are building them from scratch, which is probably cheaper than getting a typical bank ATM. Perhaps something raspberry pi like...
4150  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Validating vs mining nodes, really a myth ? on: February 15, 2019, 04:46:33 PM
imagine a home user with 5mb connection but 100 nodes connected.. thats 0.05mb per node (sending ~1.2mb 100x)
imagine a home user with 5mb connection but 2 nodes.. thats 2.5mb per node(sending 1.2mb 2x)

the second option is better for home user as the block is sent in seconds to just 2 users meaning speedy. also its only 2.4mb total instead of 120mb total.

now imagine it from the receiver side.. imagine a merchant was connected to a home node. the merchant wont want to get data at 0.05mb speed they would prefer 2.5mb speed
so not only will the home user benefit by lowering nodes connected but also the people on the other end would benefit too
its far better that a home user only connects to 1-2 nodes for own benefit and have just enough for own NEED, and let the merchants that have a higher NEED do the higher node connected higher bandwidth/sped connections. as they NEED it more

For that very reason I was inquiring about the usage of maxconnections with low values. If i understand correctly, using the value 10 would give me 8 nodes to connect to while allowing 2 nodes connect to me. The default is 125 which would allow 117 people to connect to me while i connect to 8 nodes.

125 connections might be a bit too much for a poor 1mbps down 300ish kbps up link...
4151  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: New buildout with buysolar has entered stage 2. on: February 15, 2019, 04:29:06 PM
Just added more sound proofing on the floor Some rubber mats over  the same sound deadening material that is on the walls.

https://i.imgur.com/KpgivIy.png

Drops sound down quite a bit.

https://i.imgur.com/JcDb4VF.png

Can you tell us the name of the material? Is it a thermal/sound insulation material?
4152  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Antminer S9 Network Usage on: February 15, 2019, 04:09:25 PM
It is not only on 1 I have many antminers and several after several days start to use 100 Mbps. On all antminers I am using static IP. Never had similar problem with Z9!!!

Well in that case you might have all of them compromised. So reset them all and change BOTH passwords (Web UI AND SSH) before connecting to the internet. You can do that on each miner by connecting a computer directly to them. This computer better be clean, such as running from a live linux iso on dvd or such.

Your whole operation should be audited, anything in that lan might be compromised: Router, switches (if "smart") any PCs and the miners of course.
4153  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Better alternative to bitcointalk? on: February 15, 2019, 01:30:59 PM
I think the op is simply advertising his forum. There is no such thing as a "better alternative", There is bitcointalk, irc and reddit.
4154  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: Braiins OS: open-source mining firmware [S9, T1]. New release includes AsicBoost on: February 15, 2019, 12:18:12 PM
This piece of news from the Braiins OS Telegram group is of interest for all the water/liquid coolers out there:

Quote from: Jan Čapek
  • the new update allows running without fans completely
  • but it will take us about a week to release

So, no need to pwm emulate or use cheap fans without blades anymore Smiley
4155  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Quiet Antminer S15? on: February 15, 2019, 02:43:39 AM
That's been addressed already. There is a software that would allow me to bypass the fan control system. I could also fake the RPM signal. Or even easier, leave a fast turning fan with the fins plucked out strictly to report RPM.

Not the Asic fans, the PSU fans, if they are monitored/controlled its inside the PSU itself...

That idea might or might not work depending on how the PSU is configured.  What I am talking about is removing the two small fans and blocking that hole with tape. Than I would install a 120 mm or 140 mm fan on the side of the PSU, not on the front where the two fans are. To do this, I would have to drill holes on the side panel of the PSU. But again, I would have to see the inside of the PSU to know if this can work. It would be dumb to install a fan on the side of the PSU box that blows air onto the back of a board, basically cooling nothing at all.

Its right here: Cybtc Review: Bitmain Antminer S15-28TH/s



It also looks like you can unscrew the grills:

4156  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Should the UK return the Venezuelan gold? on: February 15, 2019, 01:55:56 AM
This gold belongs to Venezuela so UK can't forbide them to return their own gold. Even though UK doesn't support Maduro's policy, it's not fair to use such sitiation as a political weapon

The gold belongs to Venezuela but Maduro is not recognized and therefore has no authority over it.
4157  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Capitalism and the exploitation of labor on: February 15, 2019, 01:52:41 AM
Quote
No. It literally doesn't. At most it requires time which is arguable as far as availability, but people don't lack free time. They lack the will to better themselves. Nothing is stopping people from educating themselves in a world with more information available than every in human history for free. The government is not the center of the universe, nor should it be.
If people have to use their time to work in order to meet bare necessities, they no longer have time for education.  Time itself is capital.  We sell time for money and buy other people's time with capital.  Capitalists have more time.  In terms of labor time, someone like Bezos has thousands  (or is it millions?) of hours in a day. 

You can count this up by adding up all of the time it took to create the things they consume in one day. 

The information you say is "available" requires capital to access.  Where does the book come from? Where does the device come from? Where does the internet connection come from?  The best answer is public libraries provided by government, of course.

If people have to use their time waiting in lines in order to meet bare necessities, they no longer have time for education, or work...

Which one is worse?

Living conditions in capitalist societies are far better than the collective misery socialist economies produce. The less State there is, the better.
4158  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: just got hacked through electrum on: February 15, 2019, 12:38:01 AM
I have version 3.0.3 and i have a password when i open my wallet and send.
Did you download Electrum from anywhere else other than electrum.org? Like a github link?

Did you receive a popup telling you to update your Electrum after trying to make a transaction?

Using v3.2.3 I saw the phishing popup yesterday from one of the rogue servers when i tried to do a tx. I'm sorry I forgot to screenshot, but it wasn't a github url. It was electrumsomething.com. Probably github kicked the phishers out and they registered another more "innocuous looking" url... I just switched to a trusted known server and did the tx fine (despite another nag saying my Electrum was "vulnerable", download a new version from electrum.org yadda, yadda.).

I already upgraded to v3.3.3... Was just waiting for the Arch package update.
4159  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Number of connections on: February 14, 2019, 11:57:46 PM
Could you please be more clear in framing your question? I can't get your point clearly, but based on my understanding you seem to ask how many incoming connections you allow apart from the 8 outgoing connections if you have specified those above mentioned values?
You have already partially answered my question, but this detail eludes me:

While you are specifying maxconnections at default, you allow at most 117 incoming connections to connect to you and 8 outgoing connections are by default connected from your node.
Here you subtract 8 from the default 125, resulting in 117. With the 865 example you subtract 8 again so, 857. Fine and easy to understand. Now the problem lies with the value 8 or less...

What does maxconnections=8 means? 0 incoming? then what does any value under 8 means? Leaving the fact that "its not a full node", though I wonder how do you call a node like that then?

bitcoind -maxconnections=8
Using at most 8 automatic connections (1024 file descriptors available)

If the maxconnections value just means the number of incoming, as i was understanding from other posters, it would mean that the default of 125 would be 125+8 instead of 125-8. Then it makes perfect sense, i could use maxconnections=4 and that would be 4+8. I now see that the value 8 is hardcoded for outgoing connections (unless you edit the code and recompile), so you can only manipulate incoming by maxconnections.

bitcoind -maxconnections=4
Using at most 4 automatic connections (1024 file descriptors available)

If this is not a full node, what it is? What are nodes using values 1~8 for maxconnections?
4160  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: ckpool.org ZERO FEE SPLNS no registration mining pool US/DE/CN on: February 14, 2019, 11:00:50 PM
Hallo zusammen
Ich hoffe es ist erlaubt hier in Deutsch zu schreiben wenn nicht einfach bescheid sagen dann muss ich es vorher in Google übersetzen lassen.
Jetzt erst mal zu mir ich bin neu hier und bekomme morgen meinen ersten GekkoScience NewPac und will ihn im ckpool laufen lassen.
CGminer ist eingerichtet so das ich nur noch auf den Postmann warten muss.
Ich hoffe das ich hier einiges lernen kann und vielleicht werden es noch mehr NewPac.
German language is not allowed in this area, but you can ask in the Local German Mining (Deutsch) sub-forum.
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