I'm glad that this was made optional. If anything, this whole issue was caused by a nag message due to a wrong design decision to allow Electrum servers to send nag messages to Electrum clients. The fact that this nag screen also rendered html links to be clickable only made it worse, but it was a design mistake to allow the nagging in the first place.

Now perhaps a means to white/black list servers...

Leaving it undefined (commented out) bitcoind outputs (and logs) this:
Using at most 125 automatic connections (1024 file descriptors available)

If 1 (either bitcoin.conf or -maxconnections=1, it shows this:
Using at most 1 automatic connections (1024 file descriptors available)

Using "2000" like the OP wanted, it shows this:
Using at most 865 automatic connections (1024 file descriptors available)

So to clarify, this value means: How many nodes i let connect to me, while I'm always connected to 8 nodes regardless?

No because doing the same with localbitcoins or some other exchange would be much cheaper (fees). Also my country's garbage fiat would fill the poor thing safe box before i could even manage to buy 0.01 BTC. 36 USD would need 216 banknotes of 500 VES, which are rare btw, more likely 5x that using 1080 banknotes of 100 VES. Next month is probably double that...

The irony is, the poorest the country's fiat is, the less useful an ATM becomes. Only those countries with a "strong" fiat money, where a single banknote can buy plenty of satoshis, an ATM makes sense. But in those countries there is little incentive to do so.

Just like electric cars where the gasoline costs nearly nothing.

I don't know if that PSU is monitoring the fans and needs to read rpm values, that would make things a bit trickier if you remove them, tho in principle i would agree. Bigger fans always moves more air making less noise at the same rpm.

I don't understand the "block the holes" part, that would be like removing them but leaving obstructions to the air flow.

You will want to run it in "enhanced low power mode" or if Braiins OS gets ported, underclock it.

You are wrong on both. Either forget the stove, or forget the mining. Also you might find the same type of socket for clothes dryer or air conditioner. A step up transformer is big no, if the miner needs 8a with 220v the transformer would need at least 18a (or more), i think 110v circuits are usually capped at 15a (tho there are exceptions) but you would need to inspect if your house wiring and breakers can handle that load (and the transformer won't be cheap either). Remember, if you have a 20a circuit, the max that can handle is 16a constant load (80% rule), so no.

Do you know of the importance and delicacy of running an asic miner? Imagine you buy a 220v air conditioner, how do you plug it? You cannot share the "stove" circuit, you need a separate circuit from the breaker box.

So you say you have "no access" to the breaker box, what do you do if you make a short circuit? The breaker box must exist somewhere.
If you can use a gas stove instead, that would release the stove socket. Buy that if you still want to run an asic miner. You are worried about your wife? Wait until she hears the noise...

Technically its not impossible to "share" the circuit, but everytime you turn on and off the stove you are likely going to damage the PSU on the miner, so don't. Perhaps take apart the socket and put a small sub breaker in there. It could be useful if that circuit is, say, 50a rated and your stove only needs 20a or so.

What country is this anyway?

A better solution is you install your own sub-breaker panel from the main panel and redo your circuits "locally" (inside the apartment), exactly what you don't want to do, you must. It is weird that whoever built that apartment, didn't do it that way.

I was right there on IRC, tho i didn't pay much attention why they called it halvening instead of halving, but whatever, it was "party time!".

I did learn at that time that it meant miners would get half for finding a block... Dogecoin exhausted all its "halvenings" rather quickly and almost nobody was mining it anymore anyway...

Hmm so if i specify maxconnections=1 this means i have 8 OUT and 1 IN correct?

But if i query bitcoind (also written in the wiki) it shows this:


So where did your 8 come from? I did read in the wiki that, when you can't get incoming connections this goes down to 8.

The comment in bitcoin.conf says:

# Maximum number of inbound+outbound connections.

This is why i am confused about the value 1.

Now for bigger values, does it pick half for inbound and half for outbound, or something else? Ie. does the value 2 means: 1 in, 1 out? Or it could be 2 in only, later 2 out only, later 1 in 1 out?

If there were separate values for IN and OUT it would be more clear to me, but you are saying this means INcoming only?

You shouldn't panic. Did you not write the seed words in a physical piece of paper by hand? This is the only thing that matters. You can delete your computer, install fresh, and use the seed words to get back to your wallet.

Practice this with a linux live iso, boot a linux live iso, install electrum and use the seed words and there is your wallet and funds.

If you are paranoid consider installing that Linux in your computer. And use a password manager with a very good password. Never re-use the same password anywhere, the manager can generate random passwords for each site and keep them safe, so you might as well change all your passwords from that secured linux machine.

Why are windows users so prone to click to random spam? Even if it "comes from Electrum", spam is spam. No you don't need reminders to scare you, (twice) sigh.

Electrum is not vulnerable, a true vulnerability would install malware without your interaction. This fake message is meaningless if you don't pay attention to it, close the window and change the server. Unfortunately you fell for it and clicked... Why? Do you click suspicious links from email too?

Well it doesn't matter, switch to Linux today, and hopefully you'll learn better habits from now on.

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You will be fine sending from the old version. If you connect to a fake server, when you try send the funds you get a scary message telling you to upgrade, go to electrumfakeserver yadda. Just ignore it; change the server to a legit one and try again.

In a legit server, you also get another scary message telling you to upgrade because your Electrum is "vulnerable" but the broadcast was successful (sigh). Ignore that too, you are done.

If the addresses belong to different wallets, maybe. Best protection is cold wallets, no computer no hacking. The private key (seed words) is what you need to protect the most. You can put that in a paper written by hand, and another copy of that paper written by hand store them in two separate secure physical places.

If you want to do it with more than one wallet that is ok, but it doesn't improve security much unless those wallets are stored in different places, but then you'll have the overhead of protecting so many places...

It doesn't matter if you don't care about privacy. If you care about privacy, you can make as many public addresses as you want.

You don't lose funds, they are still in the same wallet.

A SINGLE wallet can have (nearly) INFINITE addresses.

PAPER wallet is irrelevant, with the private key (seed words) you can generate more addresses.

Yes I meant that precisely.

It does look like you made a mistake when you changed from dhcp to static. Do you remember what settings you used?

Or as others have suggested, try to reset the miner and start from dhcp again.

Be careful when you input the static values. A wrong Netmask (ie. 255.255.255.255) could render the miner inaccessible.

You could use an IP scanner from your PC/laptop connected directly to the lan cable (you don't need internet), having that PC with a static IP configuration and a wide netmask (ie. 0.0.0.0) set, it should find it as long as you didn't use the 255.255.255.255 netmask on the miner

Brave is a Chromium based browser and can use the same add-ons as Chrome.

My main browser is actually Waterfox, a Firefox based browser. Of course you can use Firefox add-ons (both old and new) with it.

The price is determined by market price, and it changes all the time. You can take a look at bitcoin exchanges, or use one of several online calculators.

The price fluctuates in real time by people buying and selling in the world, 24/7.

How you ever needed to buy or sell US dollars? How can you tell the price in Euros? Same thing...

If it is the same technology used by Maduro in Venezuela, you can still use Tor if you stick to obfuscated bridges (obfs4).

A full airgap is what they have in North Korea, they have a national LAN and they copy the things they approve from the internet in. Only in that case, your idea would be required. In the meantime, its probably the same thing used here, Iran and China, or a variant of. A giant firewall with deep packet inspection.

Obfuscation is important, and most VPN software doesn't do that and is easy to spot. In China people get visits if they use this...

I think both satellites and openmesh technology would help. I'm curious to see how the SpaceX internet by satellite project results. Google also is using balloons to achieve the same.

While we are at it, Can someone tell me the effect of setting maxconnections=1? Does it become half duplex or something?

And what is your "solution"? Point a gun to the GM owner and force him to, either sell the cars 80% less value in Mexico, or pay mexicans 80% more? Do you know where that leads? The more you intervene to remove "unfair" profits to capitalists, the less interested they will be in keeping the business afloat.

End result: GM closes, all the "low paid" mexicans back to the streets.

Workers control? Look how far that goes... Good luck. Its not impossible for cooperatives (which are still capitalist) to prosper, the majority fail. Many attribute it to the "unfair" market, but it was in fact their lack of efficiency. What, you wanted them to earn 80% more and still be competitive?

Ah the workers don't have the skill, lets put a bureaucrat to "guide" them... Yeah that will solve it... NOT. I know the results, i have seen them...

Keypoints about socialism:

• It destroys wealth, never make it.
• And it does to by force, never by free choice.

Therefore socialism is the opposite to freedom.

It is the workers decision, not yours, to work for GM at that wage. It is their right, and you want to take it from them, because you (who don't or shouldn't work there) don't like it. Socialism, in the inside, goes AGAINST workers wishes and interests.

In a free market society there are plenty of chances to get better wages, NONE by force. In a socialist economy, you get garbage wage, and you can do nothing about it, you HAVE TO take it, or else...

Of course the State should neither intervene the business, neither do anything to "save them". It goes both ways.

Do you have any remote idea how many people have to die every year because of the current regime? 20k+.

Since Guaidó's proclamation on Jan 23, only in political demonstrations alone, 35 have been killed by the gov armed forces.. Today is an important demonstration day, how many more will die?

At the same time, this country has the highest crime rate of the hemisphere, with Caracas often surpassing Hondura's worst city (San Pedro Sula) with violent crime deaths per capita.

There is also the deaths provoked by socialist economy. An economy that resulted in no medicine and barely food.

So by both inaction and action, every day that passes without change, more people die. There is more if you dare to search a little. Just search "violent deaths Venezuela"...

There is also documented torture, as i posted in one of the threads...

Yet. SpaceX does have plans to go to the Moon...

Sure, they aren't landing (yet) but it could be a "previous step" to finance a landing. It should't be to hard to land and take off, actually; but walking outside is another matter...

I think SpaceX will do it after these rich space tourists get a fly by the moon...


When will China land humans to the moon? I don't think they are too far either. It's been probes so far...