Whoops, looks like the Kraken finally bit its own head off. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-law-license-2020-election/...The appeals court in New York said in its order there is "uncontroverted evidence" that Giuliani "communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large"..... Turns out Giuliani was full of shit after all. Who could have possibly guessed. Who could have possibly seen that coming from miles away. Oh right, everybody could have... everybody except for Trumptards that is. As a someone who lived through Giuliani's destruction of small businesses in New York and saw that what he was doing to the Police and Fire departments would cause issues down the road like we are seeing now I think it's too little too late. However, now that a at least some of it is coming back to him puts a smile on my face. -Dave |
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Some other questions:
Are you looking to just take BTC or other cryptos?
This will matter because some processors are more limited.
Do you want conversion to fiat or to keep the funds in crypto?
Different places have different rates for doing different things.
What country are you in / where will it be hosted?
Depends on who you CAN deal with.
Is it a registered business or just something you are doing on the side?
Some processors treat it differently / have different requirements for a business vs personal account.
How much do you think you will be doing and what size will the payments be?
-Dave
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Do you think that there should be a page or pages about the BTC to gift card options? Bitrefill.com / coinsbee.com / egifter.com etc.
Definitely. Part of me thinks it would be good, another part thinks that if you list some but not all it might be looked at as favoritism when it just comes down to lack of time to find them all and list them.
What I might end up doing is making an exhaustive search for all gift card selling sites but a big problem with trying to find them all is that how can I be completely sure that none of them are scamming (some fraudsters pretend to make gift card stores to scam people). So the most logical approach would be to write a page for each of the major and minor stores, and then finally make the compiled list, complete with inbound links back to Bitcoin Wiki pages. A line that says something like, these are the gift card sellers that have been established for a period of time that have earned the communities trust. There are others out there that may or may not be legitimate. The other issue that I see is that there are some that although legitimate are viewed very poorly in the community and on this forum by some people. bitpay.com comes to mind. Side question, I have a few other thoughts about updates. Do you want them all in one post or separate ones? I figure separate one are better, this way we can discuss each one separately and others can reply without it becoming a mess. This is why I brought up the pools in one post and gift cards in another. -Dave |
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Do you think that there should be a page or pages about the BTC to gift card options? Bitrefill.com / coinsbee.com / egifter.com etc.
Part of me thinks it would be good, another part thinks that if you list some but not all it might be looked at as favoritism when it just comes down to lack of time to find them all and list them.
-Dave
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And there will probably always be places on the internet that are based in other countries that allow it.
You would wind up with more limited options and might have to jump though a few more steps but you will always be able to convert it out somehow.
Might take a hit on the rates, but that's about it.
-Dave
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Can the CPU fan run from any of the 5v/GND GPIO pins? Or does it have to be run through the proprietary connector you guys have made?
CPU Fan Connector is attached to the 3.3v power, if you connect it to the 5v pins it will spin nearly twice as fast and be super loud. I know in the olden days of PC cooling (go back to the mid 90s) under-volting a fan could cause issues. Back then people tried to run 12V fans off the 5V rail to reduce noise since for the most part you did not need the airflow that you need in todays PCs. But, it caused a lot of them not to spin at times. Once they started moving, even with a flick of a finger they kept spinning. I know there is a big difference between a case fan and the little one on the CPU and 5 to 12 is a much larger gap then 3.3 to 5 but could that be causing some of the early death issues? I actually have one coming in from you to replace mine that died. -Dave |
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He was just in the news recently whre he said all his crypto assets are gone. Could it be that he is tortured by Spanish guards and simply make it look like he hang himself? Yep its a conspiracy theory again but mind you it happens all the time to the poor men in 3rd world counties.
Tax has to be paid in full, thats a message but seem like there are more Elons out there.
Could also be in the other direction. He handed the guards a bunch of money and walked out the front door and a "John Doe" in the morgue was who was found in McAfee's cell. Considering the amount of drugs he had admitted to have taken later in life you never know what was going through his mind. -Dave |
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5) Before resellers and opportunists get way too ahead of themselves for scooping up discounted electrical equipment, they should consider that most of the gear wont be up to code for established Western countries (not UL Listed or CE Certified, aluminum transformers vs copper)
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Most of it has not been anyway. People have pulled apart many bad bitmain and other miners power supplies and none of them could have had any real certification based on what has been seen. I would think that most of this stuff is going to be brought in through the gray market anyway. -Dave |
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This has been posted many many times but: 2009 : $0 Just launched, no exchanges or market, only used by Bitcoin enthusiasts.
2010 : $0.50 (6 November) on 17 March 2010, the first bitcoin exchange BitcoinMarket.com started operating.
2011 : $31 (8 June) The first bubble in History, following by a big drop.
2012 : $13.50 (16 August)
2013 : $1,242 (29 November) Surpass $1k for the first time, but crash -50% in December.
2014 : $1,017 (6 January) for a brief moment, price crash in February
2015 : $495 (4 November) The price spike from $225 start in October
2017 : $20,089 (17 December) Bitcoin value rise 1,824% since 1 January 2017, set the All-time high.
2018 : Bitcoin price drop 76% this year after hit the ATH. If you sit there and worry about the day to day / week to week / month to month price then you are not cut out for trading. Bitcoin will go up, bitcoin will go down, but overall it keeps climbing in price. -Dave |
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I usually fly Jet Blue or American so I think I'm safe  Sorry, had to say it. Seems to be spreading quickly and a touch more dangerous then the alpha version. Due to the speed of it's spread, it's going to be interesting to see if it takes over as the primary variant over time or if it slows down like the other variants did. -Dave |
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If you are not mining all day every day PPS is going to be better. You do the mining work, you get paid for it at a known rate.
Although Kano is correct in the fact that PPLNS would eventually possibly be better, it's all in theory.
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While at the moment due to the small size of my pool, it indeed is not paying anything for 11 months without a block and certainly less than PPS. However, while the pool was larger and getting regular blocks, our long term reward history was always better than the PPS pools, pretty much over any 12 month period. (I guess we just need a couple of large miners to join  ) True, but for the "here and now" for someone not 24/7/365 although in the end PPLNS would probably work out better. In just about any reasonable amount of time mining PPS is going to be better. Also, question for the OP how much mining power do you have? If it's a very small amount a pool that has a lower minimum payout even with a higher fee might be better. If you have to mine for a year+ before you generate enough BTC for a payment at a lower fee pool it might be worth it to you to mine someplace else. -Dave |
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If you want to run mynode can you get more RAM? There is a VM of mynode out there but it needs 4GB so you can't run it (well) on a machine with just 4GB. Since it's Windows 8 I am guessing it's using DDR3 RAM which is cheap now. Same with SSDs you can get a 512 GB SSD for under $75 and a 1 TB for under $110 (US based pricing) Side note, so long as it's a legit copy of Windows 8 you can still do the free 8 to 10 update from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10-Dave |
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If you are not mining all day every day PPS is going to be better. You do the mining work, you get paid for it at a known rate.
Although Kano is correct in the fact that PPLNS would eventually possibly be better, it's all in theory.
If you started mining Jan 1st 2021, with a pool like VIABTC that Phil recommended you would have been getting paid "X" for every share you mined + a percentage of the block fees - the 4% they take.
Since PPLNS is based on finding a block if you were mining on a pool like Kanos you would have been paid nothing since his pool has not found a block in 11 months.
If you were mining with a larger PPLNS that actually found blocks then it would depend on pure random luck. If there were more blocks found towards the end of your ramp up time then you would possibly be ahead. If your luck ran the other way then you would be behind.
If you could not mine for a few days for whatever reason (or even if you forgot to turn the rigs on for a weekend) and a PPLNS pool got lucky then had a bad week, you are worse off.
But with PPS you submit shares, you get paid.
*If you were running 24/7/365 it's a different story. So for anyone else reading this figure out what works for you.
-Dave
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It affects the pool code and increases the risk of BTC block stales.
i.e. as I said at the start, they are free, not worth paying for when (as you say) 80% of the bitcoin network gets them for free.
I’m not sure what you’re arguing here or how it pertains to domain censorship. I also don’t believe that 80% of Bitcoin miners are being given the NMC that their hashes are mining. I’d like to have a more clear understanding of what is happening to all that NMC by those pool operators that isn’t being distributed. Whether they’re dumping it, burning it, hoarding it, and who “they” are… Although you won't get all of them you should be able to figure out some by following block explorers. If they mine a BTC block and they are merge mining NMC then there will be a NMC block mined at the same time. From there you can follow what happens to the coins that were generated. You will not be able to figure out who is mining all the blocks this way but you will get a large portion of them. -Dave |
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The entire pools section needs to be redone. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_poolsPools that no longer exist, payment methods that are no longer relevant, etc. Also there are a bunch of links on that page to pools / locations that no longer exist and should probably be removed before someone puts up something bad at one of the linked sites. -Dave |
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Unless it actually gets wide use (which it still hasn't after all these years) it's value is dubious.
In fact it was basically ignored for a number of years.
If you say people are trying to resurrect it, I'd wonder what their true reasons behind that are ... other than pump an dump like pretty much every scamcoin.
It certainly will never be comparable to the price of BTC, thus the $1.50 point still stands.
And when a normal domain these days can cost less than $10 a year, it's unexpected for namecoin to ever get a high price even it it became more widely used.
Looking here: https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin-core/releases it looks like they have had development going on actively for at least the last few years. It's not the cost of the domain it's the fact that its supposed to be un-censorable. Never actually checked if it is or how it works. -Dave |
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yeah the ATX can be found at steep prices from resellers.
supply lines are crazy right now. Probably from folks trying to find PSU's to power S9xx, Avalon 8-9's etc? That or GPU rigs. Also, as the issue is the lack of many parts in general. And it's just creeping up. You just need a 400 watt unit for your PC for something, and it's sold out. So you buy the 500. I need a 500 and would be perfectly happy with a generic unit but you got it so I get the EVGA. Phil needs a 500W for a 3 card rig and wants the EVGA but it's sold out since I bought it, so he gets the 850. etc. In real life: I bought a 1000w PS for a clients massive drive array because the 850 that was overkill was sold out. I could have gone to another store or ordered it but I was there and just got it. Multiply that by 1000s of times and you have the situation we are in. -Dave |
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Spending time doing anything other than the minimum amount of reading that is necessary to squeeze out a post is antithetical to their objectives. They want to churn out as many posts as possible with the minimal amount of effort so they're not going to waste time reading all the other posts. Unless there's bans issued or campaign mangers are cracking down on low quality posts then they'll continue to do it. Best thing you can do right now is just report them.
Interesting thought: At the moment I am wearing a signature that is managed by Hhampuz. He is somewhat strict with his "quality control" of posts. If he was not and allowed crap posts, would it be better to remove the posts or to ban the manager. Cut off the head of the issue so to speak. If you allow your posters to post crap, you get banned. Eventually the problem would sole itself. OR the problem would become 1000x worse as everyone just registered new accounts to manage campaigns and it all went to hell. -Dave |
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The 1200 / 1300 are available at many retail locations. The local Microcenter here on Long Island has them. The 1600 comes in and out of stock very quickly but I have seen them. Other then that, yeah you are 100% correct. There are some off brand ones at other retailers, but not something I would trust long term. -Dave |
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