تبدو لغتك ممتازة بالنسبة لي بالرغم من اني لست افضل شخص يمكن سؤاله بخصوص اللغة العربية , ولكن ان لم تقم بالتصريح حول رغبتك في تعلم اللغة العربية ماكنت لاكتشف انك لست عربي من الاساس, بغض النظر عن بعض الاخطاء البسيطة مثل  (انه صعب التجارة) حيث يجب ان تكون " انه لمن الصعب التجارة" , ولكن بالمجمل كلامك واضح جدا, استمر ومرحبا بك في القسم العربي.

 I think the confusion has to do with lack of knowledge regarding mining, by "nicehash hacker" I mean the famous hacker who uses the following Nicehash JP server and mines under the wallet 3BjMWfED7RJvtBPPikJpweDT6A9xRW952x, you can read about here and here.

In fact, even without reading a thing about it elsewhere, if you weren't reading out of context you would have understood that this whole thing has NOTHING to do with Nicehash itself being hacked and it simply implies a hacker who USES nicehash, this is the second time you do this and now I'm almost certain that you have poor reading comprehension, sadly I can't help you with that.

I have been following the thread and waiting for you to update since the previous owner replaced the PSU and you replaced the control board, it's all now pointing to faulty hashboards, this is a very rare case, we don't know the history of this gear, the other guy might have bought it used from a reseller who purposely attached dead boards and shipped it away.

but before giving up on this, I want you to try different network settings, by different I mean EVERYTHING different from the network cable to the router and even ISP if possible, and would you please post the pool settings you use? just in case you are making a mistake here or there.

شخصيا شبه متأكد ان بتكوين ساتوشي لن تتحرك من مكانها ابدا, حتى وان كان حي يرزق ولم يفقد مفاتيح المحفظة, ولكن لو فرضنا جدلا انا فعلا تحركت فتاثير ذلك على سعر بتكوين سيكون قابل لكل الاحتمالات.

الاحتمال الاول, تحريك تلك الكمية الضخمة او جزء منها يعني ان العرض المتاح قد زاد بمقدار 5.5% ( مليون من 18 مليون) وهدا قد يسبب هبوط في الاسعار, من الجانب الاخر وهوا الاحتمال التاني ان هدا سيكون دليل على ان ساتوشي لازال موجود وقد يعطي قيمة اكبر للبتكوين نظرا لشعور الكثير من الناس بالامان بوجود مخترع  هده الثقنية, الفرضية الاخرى والتي استبعدها كل البعد هي ان يحصل شخص ما على مفاتيح ساتوشي ويستعملها لالحاق الضرر بالبتكوين, ولكن منطقيا ساتوشي اذكى بكثير من ان يسمح لاي شخص بالوصول الى امواله.

This has nothing to do with Nicehash getting hacked, Nicehash or any other pool ( i am assuming Nicehash is a pool for the sake of simplicity) only has control over the hashrate you direct to them, they have NO control over the miner itself, so even if Nicehash gets hacked 5 times a day your miner couldn't be infected.

In a nutshell, it's a simple matter of how the miner got infected, in most cases based on my experience with my personal gears or most of clients/friends gears it's a second hand aka used miner that came loaded with the hacker's firmware, the moment you plug it in, it will try to infect every other miner on the same network, here is where a strong password comes to rescue, although there is no guarantee that the infected firmware won't brute force or key-log the passwords of other miners, so even with a very complex password one infected miner may very well infect every other miner on the network, but based on my experience it's unlikely, in other words, the hacked/infected miner does not have the ability to actually infect a PC or a phone and then use those to infect other miners, it only targets miners with the default password or the easy once and miners with SSH access with default password is more hackable than those with SSH access disabled.
 
With the being said, you shouldn't count on the limitation of the hacker/s, technically one infected miner can spread itself to every other miner, you MUST be paranoid and treat the infected miner as if it has superpowers and could do everything.

You can post in asic.to thread or reach out to taserz if he does not reply let me know and I will contact him off-forum.

have you actually tried to set a lower frequency on the bad chain?

I do agree to the majority if not all of it, however, what you seem to be missing is the fact that mining is treated as a "very short business valued in FIAT".

It is safe to assume that at least 95% of miners do it for profit and not for the love of bitcoin, the proof is, they shut their mining gears the minute they become unprofitable FIAT wise.

This alone should give you a good idea of why 95% of miners wouldn't listen to you in the first place. Now let me dig a little deeper into the "very short business valued in FIAT"

You see the thing with crypto mining, in general, is that the calculations are done very short term, in most cases, it's merely a period of 6 months on average, in other words, every mining purchase decision they make is valid for that short period of time, your theory is 100% valid if these businesses were to run over longer periods of years or decades, in that case, one would really feel that they are indirectly competing against themselves when buying from Bitmain.

These business "cycles" being too short due to the nature of mining gears' efficiency and the instability of BTC value in FIAT, the power bills are paid in FIAT and not in bitcoin, the "If I don't do it, someone else will" theory and the fact that most miners don't CARE about bitcoin price next year because all that matters is how fast they return their investment, all of these factors makes everything you just said pretty meaningless to them.

Even altcoin diversity is viewed as an advantage rather than the opposite, as far as FIAT profitability is concerned, the more alts the more profit, if for whatever reason Bitcoin fails they get to mine another coin.

So let's just assume 'hypothetically' the miners are greedy businessmen who want to make more $$ and don't give a damn about bitcoin, shouldn't you be blaming everyone else who doesn't mine bitcoin but owns it? in other words, shouldn't bitcoin hodlers be doing something about it rather than telling miners not to purchase bitmain gears?

A person X who pretends to love the technology, cares about its future and sees the wrongdoings of miners, they should at worst case scenario buy a non-bitmain gear and mine bitcoin even if they had to pay more for the power bill, so this phrase here


You are asking miners to sacrifice profit for the good of their and your bitcoin, in the long run, we know that sacrificing profit for bitcoin is equal to spending money on bitcoin, why don't you suggest that everyone who owns bitcoin should mine at a loss using a non-bitmain gear to protect the value of their money and thus protecting bitcoin?

if everybody who claims to care about bitcoin was to sacrifice a very little portion of the BTC ""which sitting in their wallets doing nothing" bought a small miner from a bitmain competitor, then bitmain gears wouldn't make up 10% of the total hash rate, but almost nobody does that, nobody is willing to give today to receive next year, and when they try to spend bitcoin they would pay the LOWEST fees they can, I have yet to see a person who sends bitcoin with higher fees when not required to just to support those miners who are sacrificing profit by not buying from bitmain, so now tell me, how do you expect miners to do all of this for you when you aren't doing anything? i find it lame that non-miners expect miners to leave money on the table for them when they are not willing to pay an extra sat per byte for miners.

favebook brought up a very valid argument which you seem to underestimate, allow me to make a better one on his behalf, or rather reconstruct in a  (funny/lame) way.

nullius, since you are an owner of bitcoin and your duty, is to protect it just as much as its mine, pay me the price difference between Bitmain and Microbt gears and I will stop buying from Bitmain.  

or in worst-case scenario.

nullius, please pay more fees for your transactions and stop paying the lowest you can so that mining profitability becomes reasonable enough for me to buy from another mining gears manufacturer.  

If you can't do that, you shouldn't be expecting him to leave money on the table, sacrifice is a two way street.

On a side note: all the "yous" are not directly pointed to nullius, it's just a representation of a miner speaking to a Hodler, nothing personal whatsoever, and I am by no means encouraging anyone to buy from Bitmain, in fact, if you have the choice and you can afford it you should always avoid Bitmain.

Paying 10 times more than the rest is not smart, paying more than what you actually need to pay is plain stupid, the guy was placing orders outbidding NOBODY but himself, he could literally obtain all the hash power he needed paying only 50% or less of what he actually paid and nobody would have outbid him, that dude was paying  8.154BTC for 90PH just to get a 1 in 9 chances for the whole day, in other words, he paid 68% of the potential reward which has 11.11% chance of getting him the remaining 32% which equal 4.3BTC and thus risking 2 to gain 1  .in simple English, stupid as hell as far as the numbers are concerned.

With that being said, I don't think the person is that stupid, I don't even think they were looking for profit, it's either a money laundry attempt or a software bug.

There is no point in changing the miner's password after it has been already hacked, the hacker doe not need the password anymore, he is already INSIDE.

in most cases and according to my experience with the same nicehash hacker, even a reset does not fix this, and when you attempt a firmware upgrade from the web, it will show "updated" but it won't, the hacker tricks you into thinking it was updated when it was not, I had luck fixing this issue on antminer S9 by using the IP report button method to reset the miner and then quickly before the miner loads I rush to change the firmware, and it worked perfectly, another option would be SDcarding a different firmware and then immediately change the password.

But you should be extra paranoid, assume that every device you have on the network is infected, especially those windows PCs, so to be extra safe, you should either use another PC/Laptop or a mobile phone to change the password for the first time after the new firmware and if you have a Linux based system will be great, if not any of the prior options is good enough.

What summary? where? how? you seem to have an issue with describing the problem you have, all we can do here is speculate the problem which in many cases does not work, you should at least upload the "miner status" page, take a screenshot using any snipping tool or even your mobile camera, go to this website https://imgur.com/upload, upload the image and paste the link here.

لم اقرا كثيرا عن اقتراح erc 777 لاستبدال erc20 ولكن احد اهم الاضافات فيه هي ميزة حظر عنواين معينة عن طريق عدم استقبال الاموال منها, فمثلا لو قام شخص بسرقة منصة يمكن للبلوك تشين ان يضع عنوان السارق في blacklist وبالتالي يصبح ماسرقه عديم الفائدة, يوجد العديد من المزايا الاخرى ولكن هدا ما اذكره بحكم انني لم تعجبني هده الفكرة اصلا, لانه البلوك تشين يجب ان لايكون فيه اي حظر لاي عنواين سواء كان مخترق , مطلوب للسلطات او غير ذلك, لان هدا يعيدنا للمربع الاول لساسية ال censorship او الحجب المتبعة من البنوك المركزية, حتى لو كان هدا سلاح فعال في سبيل الخير ومحاربة السارقين فهوا يبقا سلاح ذو حديث ومن وجهة نظري المتواضعة لا اقبل به.

اما بالنسبة للاختراق فقام الهاكرز باستغلال ثغرة تعرف ب reentrancy وهي موجودة في ERC777  وهده الثغرة تم التدقيق فيها العام الماضي ولم يتم اصلاحها , الطريقة التي تم تنفيد الهجوم بها يحتاج لفهم الثغرة جيدا وانا بصراحة لا امتلك الوقت ولا الرغبة في ذلك , اتمنى ان يقوم احد الاعضاء المهتمين بعملة الاثيريوم بتلخيص الموضوع  

https://github.com/ConsenSys/Uniswap-audit-report-2018-12#31-liquidity-pool-can-be-stolen-in-some-tokens-eg-erc-777-29

This is my top 1 most likely scenario, whoever did that was

 1- Desperate to get the power, they were way too far from other competitors, they could have paid half what they paid and still got all the hashrate they wanted, but they didn't care

2-  Knows enough about mining, their orders were divided between the 4 SHA256 markets ( SHA256 EU, SHA256 USA, SHA256AsicBoost EU, SHA256AsicBoost US)

The second point makes me rule out the possibility of a clueless person playing with a ton of BTC, and the first point rules out any rational or economical benefit where money laundering is not the sole motive.

Another possibility which doesn't go against any of the above points or I rather call them facts is a software bug, we could easily assume that nicehash is almost entirely controlled by bots, a simple glitch in the software makes the bot do stupid things.

الكهرباء التي يتم توليدها بالفحم ايضا رخيصة نسبيا, والارخص طبعا من حيث تكلفة التشغيل وليس تكلفة البناء هوا الطاقة النظيفة مثل الطاقة الشمسية , الانهار, الرياح و و, ولكن كل هدا لايهم في مجال التعدين لان سعر التكلفة والانتاج ليس هوا العامل الرئيسي في سعر بيع الطاقة, مثلا دولة مثل فرنسا تعتمد على الطاقة النووية بطريقة كبيرة وترتيبها التاني بعد الولايات المتحدة تبيع الطاقة بسعر يصل لي 5 اضعاف مقارنة بالصين التي تعتمد على الطاقة غير النقية مثل الفحم, ايضا الدول العربية في المتوسط سعر الكهرباء فيها ارخص بكثير من الدول الاوروبية التي يكلفها توليد الطاقة اقل بكثير من الدول العربية حيث ان الاخيرة تعتمد على الغاز والوقود الخفيف والثقيل وهوا الاكثر كلفتا لانتاج الطاقة, بدون الخوض في المزيد من الامثلة, رخص تكلفة الكهرباء لايعني رخص ثمن بيعها, مايهم في التعدين هوا سعر البيع وليس التكلفة.

Maybe.


I initially thought CW or Bitmain or anyone else for that matter was trying to pump their coin's hashrate, but it doesn't look like it, all SHA265 coins are pretty low in hashrate, nothing major is happening to any of them for the past couple of days, check them out.

The orders on Nicehach today were INSANE, many groups on FB/Telegram were talking about it, someone posted a screenshot and I thought it was a glitch or something, when I checked https://www.whattomine.com , found it was real! to double-check I went ahead and looked at the order book on Nicehash.



I want to hear your thoughts ( I have a few that I will share later) on why would someone pay 0.0906 BTC per PH/day? let's run the numbers in USD to make it a bit easier to understand.

0.0906 BTC a day = 650$ for 90PH he pays  $58,500 to make 1.55 BTC or $11,100 a day, that's a $47,400 loss per day or about $2000 an hour, why would anyone on planet earth pay 5 times what they can make? and by the way, this explains the crazy high payout from NH today.

لا اعتقد ان هناك اي شخص يعرف من هوا ساتوشي, ربما يكون theymos نفسه, ربما يكون شخص اخر موجود معنا بتاريخ اليوم, ربما لايوجد شخص اسمه ساتوشي بل مجموعة من الاشخاص او منظمة عالمية او اي شي, الامر لايهم الان, لتسهيل الموضوع على نفسي احب ان اعتقد ان ساتوشي شخص ياباني ذكي كبير في العمر, اخترع البتكوين ومن ثم توفاه الاجل, وكل ماتبقى من اثره هوا هدا الاختراع العظيم.

لايوجد اي معلومات بخصوص العضو رقم 11, ولا اعتقد ان اي شخص يعرفه ايضا.

of course, they are reversible so if you don't like the firmware you can go back to bitmain, although there is a good chance that you might prefer it to bitmain even if it doesn't fix the issue you have, you will be able to overclock the other two working boards to get something close to the initial hashrate with 3 working boards.

في الواقع كنت احاول شراء الرصيد لصديقي, في البداية قمت باستخدام موقع https://www.coinsbee.com/en/ واشتريت له بطاقة 10$ للتجربة ولكن لم يتمكن من تعبئتها, فعند اتصاله بالدعم تبين ان البطاقة صادرة من "ايران" وان عليه ان يستخدمها في "ايران" او طبعا عبر VPN في ايران ولم يتمكن من ايجاد VPN في ايران, فكرت في البحث عن مواقع اخرى ولكن المشكلة مع كاش يو كما تبين لي انه كل بلد له بطاقاته الخاصة يعني لابد ان يتيح لك الموقع الخيار في شراء بطاقة الدولة التي تقيم بها, الحل الاخر هوا "تحويل" الرصيد كما طلبت انا في الموضوع لتجاوز موضوع اختلاف البطاقة عن دولة الاقامة.

في المرة القادمة ان احتجت لذلك ساقوم بتجربة Huobi , سيكون من الجيد ان يدلي اي شخص بتجاربه مع المنصة في شراء وبيع البتكوين بصفة عامة.


نعم الوسيط اخي خالد.

You are wrong. This is what I said


It's common sense that both GPUs and ASIC or even CPUs have things in common, from choosing the right coin, the pool and creating a wallet, I stated that clearly


Now for the things that are ASIC-Only-Related, mining with a GPU teaches you absolutely NOTHING about ASICs (not mining), I think I made that clear enough, I am not responsible for any miscomprehension or cherry-picking.

Then why buy a GPU and ONLY then buy an ASIC miner? obviously one should learn about mining before investing in it, that's common sense, my argument is that the point of "go GPU and then go ASIC" when initially you want to mine with an ASIC is an unnecessary step.


Again, I did not say anything that goes against this statement, I 100% agree to it, it's missing one single part IMO and it should be


Please allow me to shed some light on the fact that GPU mining is NOT cheaper than ASIC mining, buying a second-hand S9 is probably cheaper than buying the cheapest GPU rig available, at worst case scenario - cost is equally similar, so there are no advantages in terms of the initial cost here, and since the price factor is out of the equation, the leaning process or say the closest thing to "Plug and Play" as OP wants it to be, there is no argument that setting up and ASIC takes less than half the time you need to set up a GPU miner, I mean its almost a plug and play for the most part, if you count the steps from unboxing to payouts you will understand why ASIC miners are way easier to work with but if you want me to go into great details on how one can set up 5 miners at the same duration they need to assemble a single GPU rig, let me know although I think that is common sense.

With that being said, if you happen to actually own a GPU, even an old one that hashes a few hashes above zero, you should certainly play with it before buying any mining equipment regardless of what it is, and honestly, with all the information available online, it's pretty easy to read and understand MOST of what you need without even trying.