But pretending that US sanctions didn't accelerate a bad situation into something many times worse is just wilful ignorance. Once the easy option (exporting oil) was gone, the crazy policies had nothing to help prop the up anymore. You can't make a reasonable claim that the crazy policies were ultimately responsible, it was killing the safety net (oil exports) that put Venezuela in this situation. They have enough oil to carry on with the craziest government on earth (just look at the Saudis), so long as the oil can be openly sold. Only now the money from exporting oil to the US is stopping, or more precisely, given to Guaidó instead of Maduro. There were no "sanctions" of that sort before 2019. In all the years of Chavez and Maduro, Venezuelan oil has kept going to the United States. The couple of American companies that left back then (over disagreements on conditions changed by Chavez) did not mean the oil stopped flowing. It was all sent by the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA to the other Venezuelan state oil company CITGO in the US. The money never stopped coming, the problem is what they did to that money, most of it gone in corruption and absurd subsidies (gasoline is still nearly free in Venezuela). Unlike the Saudis, who, at least in addition to their family riches, also invested in their country... |
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Yes, I do plan on building a sound proof box. It would be hanging out of the window. So it would take fresh outside air and exhaust to the outside. Or maybe exhaust to inside in winter. Here we get rather cold winters down to -25C. So not sure if the air would be too cold for the electronics. If so I would just slow the fan speed way down.
What did you use for sound proofing material?
If you go this route I would like to see pictures of your resulting box. I think any wooden box covered in sound insulating fabric inside, with input and output holes, attached to a small section of sound insulating duct on both sides should work. Perhaps for the S15 you'll need two 6" holes instead of one on each side? See philipma1957's quality craftsmanship and how nicely reduced the noise to his S15    Perhaps this 6" circular hole nonsense is overrated, and all you need is two big square holes on the extremes perpendicular so the air flow does a 90° turn (to deflect noise). |
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Thought I would give an update on my M10s experience.
This thing is a monster. The 140mm fans are so loud I hear them over the thousands of S9s in my data center.
I have now had the machine running for about a month with zero issues. It has consistently been hashing at 54.9TH using about 3450w. It would be nice to have numbers in the "low power" setting, What is the maximum efficiency setting for the M10S? 44TH? 60watt per TH? |
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The best outcome would be that we (the U.S.) gets sucked into an extremely costly and protracted new Vietnam in Venezuela and our 'allies' in the West (and our bitches in South America) abandon us to our own devices.
I say this because being tied up there in Venezuela in probably the only way we are not forced by the Zionist masters of our so-called leaders in Washington into 'doing' more and more countries in the Middle East and Former Soviet Union. And things over there could easily go nuclear. That is highly unlikely, they could form a few guerrilla groups and produce some violence, but nothing even remotely looking like a "war". Maduro's Venezuela doesn't compare to the previous charismatic Chavez. The amount of people willing to give their lives to defend Maduro's regime is practically zero, despite state media propaganda. You might be fooled into thinking he is the same because he was appointed by the former, but he is not... Any sort of military resistance would disappear within hours, and most likely you will see en-mass surrender. This is because the Venezuelan military know more than anyone else how bad their situation is with what little equipment and weapons they have in working condition. From a military perspective, the only sensible answer is surrender. The Venezuelan military can deal with drug traffickers or smugglers in border land, sea and air patrol, but they are in no condition to engage with any other military force of any country, including Colombia or Brazil. Suffice to say that the US dealings with Colombia have been far more longer and complicated, than anything that could possibly come out from Venezuela. But if you mean it could be used politically as an excuse for "we are too busy here to go there", well i don't know, USA has enough military capacity to deal in many fronts at the same time. Not to mention this is the UAVs/drone warfare era, where you don't even need to risk human pilots anymore and can field plenty of remote controlled units 24/7 over vast areas. Proximity is also so ridiculously close they could launch from home, and we do technically share a border with the USA in Puerto Rico... A civilian jetliner can do the trip from continental America in under 4 hours, and a civilian cargo ship under 4 days. This is the typical scenario where a politician would say "surrender is not an option" but the military understands that "surrender is the only option". The best outcome for Venezuelans, right now, is to show such a display of muscle from the international community to make the regime surrender without any resistance, and this is what i think will happen. Looking the other way and letting the regime continue is only going to continue the grief and deaths, and mass exodus... |
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Why don't you go with option 1 which is where you have the experience? There are after market solutions for the S9, I'm sure the same (Chinese) sources will put out aftermarket water cooling kits for the S15. Did you take into account the maintenance hassle that involves mineral oil? There is another dielectric liquid used for refrigeration, cleaner like water but expensive:  Option 3 sounds interesting as well, maybe with some 3d printed adapter?
The controller would need to see an rpm signal from somewhere within its specs otherwise it wont hash.
Any cheap case/cpu fan would happily report rpms, you can even remove the blades, and you don't need the fourth control wire either. |
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It looks that I have attracted a miner with 2 PH to this pool. I could share a screenshot of my PMs with this person if you could understand Russian. )) I wonder what is the current electricity price in Siberia and how feasible it is for foreigners to invest in mining there. I recall reading some news about a special incentive from the government, Do you know if it is true? |
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I do not mean they resell those machines, but they could use first shipments for theirselves when the competition is still low and than sell later shipments to the general public. Reselling used stuff would be dumb, indeed  Oh but they do resell them, after becoming obsolete... Or, they start a "cloud mining business" where they sent them to. |
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The human rights violations by the current Venezuela government (and military) are very real and the government should not be able to stay in power because of these violations. You're wrong. The human rights violations started when the US placed Venezuela under economic sanctions in 2004, after Chavez defended himself against a US sponsored coup. Chavez and Maduro have no reason to starve everyone half to death, but the US state department does. Chavez was a bit of an asshole. Maduro also. I don't like totalitarians, period. But the US state department does like human rights abusing totalitarian dictators; so long as they do what they're told to by the US state dept. That's why Saddam, Gadaffi, Chavez and Maduro have been targetted; the fact that they're assholes is not the problem (they all apparently threatened or even began to trade oil outside SWIFT/dollar system before their demise). They're independent assholes, and the US (and also China and Russia) don't tolerate independent despots. Eh? The US has nothing to do with people starving, it was Maduro's idiotic "command economy" taken straight out from the extinct eastern "real socialism" bloc. Keep the absurd USD Peg, fixate prices, and order the central bank to create money from nowhere to pay wages... What could possibly go wrong? Everything did. " Inflation does not exist in real life" -- Luis Salas, Jan 7th, 2016. Maduro's "ministry of economy", a sociologist... For economy czar of crisis-hit Venezuela, inflation 'does not exist'. In 2004 Venezuela had no issues with food or medicine shortages, this all started as soon as Chavez died and Maduro seized power. In those years the only sanction i could remember was a ban on weapon dealings from American companies. So Venezuela switched from buying American weapons and started buying Russian weapons, this had no impact to the people as the only consumer of weapons are the military. Maduro may end like Noriega, or Gaddafi depending on his choices. Either way the people will celebrate when ANYONE opens the economy. Enough is enough. |
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Everybody seems to blame it on Maduro, but I keep reading that in fact it was the US, and the UK Intelligence Initiative. This is delusional Research about Leopoldo Lopes, for example. In 2014 he was leading manifestations against Maduro. Maduro said Leopoldo lopes was going to make a coup. So Leopoldo lopes decided to go to authorities by his own and face justice . He was arrested, and is still under house arrest now. He spend years in jail, faced many human rights violations. He was one of the favorites to become president in a possible election If Maduro did that once, he can do again. Delusional remains short... What elections? The unconstitutional elections done ahead of schedule by the usurper? The ones where the usurper installed his parallel congress? Where his people got "8 million votes" despite the voting centers remaining empty the whole day, and Maduro himself barely reaching 5 million votes when he got "elected" in 2013, back when the economy wasn't ruined by himself and people were much happier with what they had? How about the National Assembly elections where the opposition won by landslide in 2015 only to be immediately unrecognized by Maduro's regime? THIS election in 2015 was the last legitimate election, from that election came the current National Assembly, who's current president is Juan Guaidó. Since then, Maduro's term ended and yet he refuses to leave under the facade of being victim while forcing the people to live in the worst conditions in history. It is Maduro who re-elected himself in the circus he did last year, and nobody recognizes that, except those who have something to gain be keeping him in power. Certainly not the people of Venezuela... Oh yes, who blocked them? Maduro's regime declared the opposition leaders: imperialists, terrorists, traitors, prosecuted them without due process, imprisoned people who spent months in a cell without seeing a lawyer, others tortured... Do you dare read the OAS report? SECRETARY GENERAL PRESENTS UPDATED REPORT ON VENEZUELA TO THE PERMANENT COUNCIL March 14, 2017 - Washington D.C. Some excerpts: The Venezuelan government has demonstrated a systematic pattern of abuse against those who dare to express an opinion contrary to that of the government. Political opponents and critics of the government continue to face imprisonment, and the total number of political prisoners at a given time has grown as the government arrests, detains and releases its opponents at will. Arbitrary detention, holding individuals without access to family or legal advice, secret detentions, inadequate prison conditions, unfair trials and torture are all extreme violations to Article 1 of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man: “Every human being has the right to life, liberty and the security of his person.” According to the Observatory, the torture was carried out without regard to age, sex, profession, social status, or even physical disability. An important detail that has characterized this repressive period was the enjoyment with which some officials tortured their victims, displaying sexual arousal or the wish to inflict pain on open wounds using objects or their own hands, among other details. Most victims were tortured so that they would make accusations against political leaders of the opposition or reveal links to political parties and protests. They were also used as examples to send a message. There were repeated claims of the use of asphyxiation with plastic bags, electricity, beatings with sticks, bats, helmets, machetes, kicking, attempts or threats to burn the victims, burns with lighters or metallic objects, and inhumane positions such as kneeling or having hands and feet tied together for long periods of time. Some victims were hung in order to be beaten or given electric shocks, while others were beaten and brutalized inside military tanks, others were sprayed with toxic gases directly in the face to asphyxiate them. Many were the subjected to sexual torture such as rape, threats of rape, lewd acts, and undressing, and the majority were isolated for the first 48 hours of their detention or even longer, without being given the right to call their lawyer and family. On July 22, 2016, the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR) issued a statement in which it regretted the “urgent situation of extreme scarcity and shortages of medicine, medical supplies, and food in Venezuela. This situation has led to a significant deterioration in living conditions in the country and an increase in violence, which results in harm to people’s health, personal integrity, and life, to the detriment of the rights protected by the inter-American and universal human rights instruments.” In an interview with Venevisión on December 7, 2016, the president of the Venezuelan Medical Federation, Douglas León Natera, said that the public hospital network had very serious structural and financial problems owing to the shortage of supplies, medicines, and financial resources. “The entire public system is bankrupt, which is translating into a health and welfare crisis,” said Natera. He explained that clinics have just 3% of the medical supplies they need, and patients and their family members therefore have to buy most of the supplies in order to be treated at a hospital. “Patients have to bring gauze, IV fluids and even food […]. There has been a veiled privatization of the health system en Venezuela,” he added. Venezuela closed out last year with more than 28,000 violent deaths in the country and a homicide rate of 91 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the Venezuelan Observatory on Violence. By 2014, Caracas had already become the most violent city on the planet, according to a ranking of the 50 most violent cities in the world published by the Mexican NGO Citizens' Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice (CCSPJP). In 2015, according to InSight Crime, the capital city’s homicide rate hit 120 per 100,000. In November 2015, two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady, Efraín Campos and Francisco Flores, were arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration Agents in Haiti for conspiring to smuggle as much as 1,700 pounds of cocaine into the United States. A year later they were found guilty by a Federal District Court in New York. They each face 10 years in prison. This case also highlighted the Military’s direct involvement in the shipment and transportation of drugs. According to Insight Crime and other news sources, piloting the jet that took the President’s nephews to Haiti were members of the presidential security and transportation unit—the Casa Militar—Pedro Miguel Rodriguez, an active lieutenant colonel in the Venezuelan Air Force, and military official Pablo Urbano Perez. For example, in its World Report 2017, Human Rights Watch explains, “the judiciary has ceased to function as an independent branch of government. Members of the Supreme Court have openly rejected the principle of the separation of powers, and publicly pledged their commitment to advancing the government’s political agenda.” The TSJ resolutions to annul National Assembly actions, which undermine the effective separation and independence of powers, are also mentioned in Amnesty International’s annual report. “The powers of the opposition-led National Assembly were severely limited by resolutions from the TSJ, which hindered the ability of MPs to represent Indigenous Peoples,” according to the international nongovernmental human rights organization’s 2016/2017 report. Maduro's regime is a de-facto government that only remains in place by force of military power. The de-jure government rightfully belongs to Juan Guaidó, who WILL call for FAIR elections (as mandated by the constitution) once the usurper and his band of criminals are gone. |
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Here are some tests I have done with different frequency and voltage on S9J, 14.5 TH/s
Have not get time to check power draw yet, will do soon and add them too. If you want to aim for efficiency, you might want to try 500 mhz 8.0~8.1volts. The goal for efficiency is achieving the highest hash rate a single watt can give, even if you end with miners doing 10TH/s but consuming 823watts. Philipma1957 managed to obtain impressive results, you might want to find out which setting is the most efficient, but as you said, each board behaves differently. S9s used to spend 100 watts per TH, but now with Braiins OS they can do 80. Under-clocking should not be underestimated... |
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Exactly the best way to do cold storage. In fact you don't need to write seed words or private keys by hand. You can use QR codes for everything and then that's what print out. Well the point of doing it by hand is to prevent the extreme case of an already compromised device, for example the smartphone you capture the qr code with, or the computer (or printer) you are printing from; since the seed words are the most sensitive information. Of course for the public addresses anything goes. In theory booting from a live iso, that particular computer wouldn't be compromised, you could print right there in theory but... For the extra paranoid, you could boot something like Tails. The only moment you need to place that equipment online is when syncing the wallet, and you can easily tell Electrum to use Tor. |
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Hack and Hacks, every day I am waking up to the news of crypto exchanges getting hacked, recently a crypto exchanges founder died and he seem to have a hold of $190 million worth of BitCoins with him.I have taken a pledge of never using a custodial exchanges, even if it is Binance, and not matter how much CZ says that he will keep the cryptos SAFU, I am not doing the mistake of keeping my money at stake. I did a detailed study of what exchanges to use and what wallets to use - - Exchanges - Instant exchanges only, Changelly, ChangeNow, CoinSwitch etc.
- Wallets - Divided into two parts - Ledger NANO S for long term investment, and keeping the funds safe, MultiCurrency wallet for trading, ex - Gaurda Wallet, Exodus Wallet
Let me know what you guys think. - Boot a live Linux iso, install electrum and make a wallet.
- Write down (by hand) the seed words, copy the addresses: send them to you by email or print them etc.
- Turn off the computer.
Congratulations, You now have an impenetrable cold wallet aka. paper wallet. That paper? Make another copy by hand of those words, store them in two physically separate and secure places, such as a bank vault or such. Send all the money you want to that wallet, monitor the inputs by using any blockchain browser online. Now to move the funds out its almost the same: - Boot a live Linux iso, install electrum and restore a wallet.
- Type back (by hand) the seed words, now move your funds to the address(es) you want
- Turn off the computer.
What are you waiting for? The hardest part would be figuring out how to properly put the iso into an USB thumbdrive (or DVD if you are paranoid) and make the computer boot from that. |
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Username: Artemis3
Thanks!
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Interesting. Thanks. Lets hope they run out of methane before they get close to the oxygen in the atmosphere.  about this, and he said: "You flow either fuel or water in between the sandwich layer, and then you have micro-perforations on the outside—very tiny perforations—and you essentially bleed water, or you could bleed fuel, through the micro-perforations on the outside."So what are they up to? |
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And now all the "small jobs" that would have been paid under that amount disappear.
Life isn't always fair, you need sacrifice somethings to achieve greater things. So what you're trying to say is the minimum wage would had stay that way so there'll be more smaller jobs and get paid in such a small amount that can't even last a family for a month? That is how freedom (in economy) works, but it results in the opposite of what you think... The people who get those jobs are not planning to make a career from them (at least most won't). But what socialism wants is to end those jobs (by force), so it results in zero income vs poor income to the group who was benefiting from them. If you leave those low wage jobs alone, some people will have a starting point where to move from. You do not stop looking for better jobs when you start a low paid work. And as an employer, the higher wages socialism orders you to pay, the less job offers you are going to give, and with more socialist "squeezing"; the business itself simply closes or goes "family" oriented (which is a variant of informal or grayish). Your socialist move to "improve" workers salaries by force of decree, will produce in the end, a reduction in workers salaries. This is the main problem with trying to apply socialist mentality to the economy. The same results when you impose a "lower price" to goods. Another example is when you want to "protect" jobs by it making hard to fire people, then less employers will want to employ, because it becomes too expensive. Every tiny little thing you add to the law "in the name of workers" benefit results in less jobs, and also in less employment. So how to actually solve this? You go in the opposite direction. By promoting a free economy, you get lots of job offers, since its cheap to hire and easy to fire, you get more jobs available in the market. And that leads to... Competition, which leads to.. better job offers (with better conditions).  Another way to stimulate the economy would be to lower taxes, yes, lower taxes. That stimulates people to open more business, and the State ends collecting more taxes. Ironic isn't? Economy tends to work the opposite way socialists think. This is because socialism tries to "fix" the economy by force of what can actually be solved by choice of freedom.  From a worker's perspective, he/she wants to have access to those low paid jobs. It is their choice to do them or not. This is a choice you are removing by raising wages. And yes, it fuels the "black market" (as in illegal, mind you). Its the very same thing that happens if price of things are fixed, when you foolishly try to "stop inflation" by decree as they did in Zimbabwe under Mugabe or Venezuela under Maduro, and ignore the real problem which is you overspending and then trying to fix the budget by "printing" money to pay for it, leading to more inflation, etc. So there is nothing to celebrate, and lot to mourn. Venezuelans are currently earning $8 a month. See yourselves in the mirror before its too late... |
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And the luck came back:
Block February? another block! found by luckyant! I told you so, didn't I? Just joking, I know you can't game luck, despite what some fools believe... And the pool's hashrate is looking good @ 175ish PH/s:  |
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Hi all! Trying to ssh braiins to my Dragonmint T1 (g19) and im getting this: "Error log: Unsupported miner RAM size: 250544 kB" . Any clues to what i'm doing wrong?
Does it have the SD slot? If not, you can't use it. That error simply means 256M of ram is not supported, maybe it needs 512M? |
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Is it python3 and pip3 you've been trying to update also and not just regular python?
As said, look at abdusammads post too. Sorry for delay, didn't see that one. It was python3 and regular pip if I remember correctly. Regular pip refers to pip2, it may be that you don't have pip3 installed but you could always run python3 and type import pip to test this (although even the most basic Linux distros come with pip3). Actually some linux distros have it the other way around, pip is symlinked to v3 and you have to type pip2 to use the v2... He should just use pip3 instead of pip to install the dependencies he thought he installed using pip (but actually pulled the v2 variants). |
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