I don't think there are any countries "unfriendly" towards blockchain. If anything, some have issues with the coins or tokens from ICOs etc, but blockchain itself is pretty much a non issue. A block chain is more or less a write only, immutable database, self protected on each new entry. There are infinite applications where such a system could prove useful, something you want data to never be tampered with, such as votes or people's IDs.

Only a corrupt society that "needs" to be able to alter registries after the fact, would object this technology. It does bring transparency and it should in fact be pursued.

"Rapid Unintentional Disassembly" is a tradition (baptism of fire?) of all agencies and companies that have embarked in this business known as "rocket science". NASA and the Soviets had a long series of catastrophic failures, and even the meticulous europeans once uploaded the wrong software to a rocket that was perfectly fine (Arianne 4 parameters into Arianne 5, IIRC); and everyone learns from those mistakes. Even Von Braun with the Nazis had a lot of failures with the V2, there was this hilarious comment of a general about its usefulness as a short range artillery weapon (when failing and blowing spectacularly at/near the launch site.

But then, after so many failures they did it:



With a historic landing, SpaceX launches new age of spaceflight

And this is their merit, one of many, and I expect them to keep delivering and return us to an age were we can dream again.

It is nice that brilliant people planned and hoped to realize this within NASA or other State agencies, but what is the value if it remains buried behind eternal bureaucracy and budget cuts? Yes, Orion could have performed this decades ago, but they didn't do it. In fact there is a lot of trouble just to send anything "nuclear", even a small passive generator for deep space missions, let alone using directly the energy from controlled nuclear blasts.

At least these people are opening a path, and i hope they can make it sustainable. I'm sure if an idea doesn't seem feasible, they will change it to one that could. From my fuzzy memory i think Elon was once asked about the ferry loop idea, IIRC he said something along the lines of: "that is not ruled out". I might be mistaken, but if it makes more sense from their point of view, they will reach to it one way or another, just like you see them using concepts and ideas others proposed decades ago.

Unfortunately in Venezuela it would probably infringe the draconian foreign currency exchange control. Even if you obeyed the government "official" exchange rate, you would immediately go bankrupt. Example: The current official rate is 1000 VES for 1 USD, street price is 2500 VES for 1 USD. Very few people can get the official price (and its actually a lie, inside that system most people end paying closer to the street price anyway).

Also, even if you managed to trade at the street/localbitcoins exchange rate, the time you take to collect the fiat from the ATM and exchange it back for bitcoin (or anything else) it would be worth half or less (even if you emptied the box daily).

There have been banknote shortages in the past, and its probable that will repeat again, as those in power keep feeding inflation because they think they can command the market by force. And you'd also need an insanely large amount of bank notes for a few satoshis.

Perhaps you have not noticed but they are selling higher than buying at localbitcoins, that should give you a hint of the time it takes to complete the loop:



And if that occurs to an online exchange, just imagine having to physically keep and maintain the ATM, which would need to remain in private property and under surveillance. Venezuela is a country where regular Bank ATMs are vandalized if left unprotected (there are banks that keep them inside). I'm sure you will find a similar criminality problem in most poor countries, where this is ironically most needed...

But this is not exclusive to bitcoin, it is a (newbish) trader's dillema. Oops, you just invested in stock/asset/forex and the price went down, it could recover tomorrow, or next year... If you sell now you lose, do you really have something else in mind that would make you more money before the time it takes to recover, even incurring in a temporary loss?

It also has to do with the trader's strategy. Short or long, diversified investment? Any parallel business to keep the cash flow going in?

This troll post should be moved into the Altcoin Discussion area where it belongs...
And besides, that altcoin has been a failure, forked already, becoming even more failure. Hopefully Bitmain should go back to doing asics now that they moved Jihan Wu away, precisely for making the company lose money over things like making an altcoin instead of sticking to (their) core business...

Electric cars are like digital cameras; gasoline cars like film cameras. Undoubtedly, the first will end replacing the second, and soon people will forget what it was to burn fossil fuel to move a car, same way youngsters might never see a photographic film and many other obsolete technologies that were such a revolution in their time.

In fact, prepare to see the demise of fuel stations, just like you seldom see photographic development shops anymore.

The simplicity of the pure (not hybrid) electric car is the determining factor. Speaking of analogies, have you seen the difference inside a CRT and LCD monitor? Which one is simpler? Which one you see today? Now do the same to a car. Ever seen the Tesla insides?

An antivirus is not going to protect you from so called 0 day exploits, (new malware), or targeted attacks (you attracted someone's attention); that is why using a secure OS should be your priority. I already gave a solid recommendation: Use Linux. That will reduce the number of threats significantly, and for truly sensitive stuff (ie cold wallets), booting a live iso should be practiced religiously (even if you are already running a linux desktop).

Torrent is simply a (decentralized, p2p) method for transferring files, what files you transfer is not the protocol's fault. Just because its a torrent doesn't mean anything. Many linux isos are distributed that way, you actually help offload servers by using that method instead of a simple download.

Mine is:

We both have 1024 mb of ram...

If you are worried why don't you let the fan blow at 100%? That's how mine has always been running. With the older firmware i would sometimes see crazy temperatures (max i saw was 120) but with the newer firmware 74 is the max i have seen so far, and instead of two readings you get 4, it seems far more accurate than before. Here look:



I upgraded that R4 from 2016 firmware to 2017 and then to 2018 without any errors. Do check the file integrity of your 2018 firmware download.

But the M10 is 16nm while the S15 is 7nm. Don't you think MicroBT will come out with something 7nm in less than 18 months? Bitmain is losing ground IMO.

It is a known issue, (temperature sensors not supported by Braiins OS in some batch/rev. models) hopefully it will be fixed in the next release this month...

That would have been a good question to him in that Reddit AMA about SpaceX and Mars. Of course I see the merit, i have read about that idea before, and see it as perfectly valid. I also consider that loop ferry sort of like a moving space station. Perhaps shielding against the sun radiation bursts could be one problem, the ISS wasn't designed for that but another station/spacecraft could. If SpaceX's plan goes ahead, that very ship in the proposal could be doing the loops as well.

Almost nothing in SpaceX is original, they simply made things commercially possible after so much government stagnation. That's quite a feat, for someone who was just another geek programming in a garage like some people here, who became millionaire (by selling Paypal) and instead of sitting on his money, decided to push things for humanity realizing dreams considered "impossible" by most...

Maybe your dhcp server is having trouble? That's one more reason i would recommend to set networking manually in all miners. Perhaps the only moment you'd need dhcp is when its brand new and you need to log in to configure it the first time into a proper manually set address, like you just did

In the last 6 months or so, i have made all my bitcoin transactions using the smallest possible amount, which is 1sat/B. That results in a typical tx fee is under 1000 satoshis, usually under 500 (depending on inputs), and gets confirmed within the hour, sometimes within the block (10 minutes).

For reference: 1000 satoshis = 3¢

In the near future, Lightning Network enabled wallets would allow your barbershop to accept bitcoin payments instantly, in fact he could have a "tab" for frequent clients, and further bitcoin updates would allow him to do that even offline...

There was no need for you to waste time with altcoins, bitcoin is becoming even better for business and small "Lightning" payments.

I like Electrum for speed, and Bitcoin-core for safety. Of course you can make cold (paper) wallets with either.
You can move your funds from one address to another, even within the same wallet if you want.

I don't think you need to do anything, if you have your privatekey or seed words safe. If it were me, i would do any such operations (ie. moving funds from a cold wallet to another) from a live iso running linux.

Of course you can create a new cold wallet using the same linux live iso. Boot Lubuntu or simillar, install Electrum, make a new wallet, copy the seed words manually (by hand) in a sheet of paper, print or copy the wallet addresses and turn off the pc. And now you have (new) cold wallet unreacheable from the net.

Just remember those seed words need to be safeguarded, and make another copy (by hand as well) and store it in a physically different place.

Nice! Let's hope you find the next block! 

Congratulations on your promotion. I have a long experience with internet forums, but this is the only one i have seen with such a system. I lurked for years not paying much attention to merits, thinking it was cosmetic like in most forums (simply by increasing the number of posts), but this is quite different. And it seems to work too!

Funny considering those sites have official telegram groups for you to get the same news, without having to open a browser.
Within Telegram itself all you have to do is use search for finding groups or news you want delivered. So, kinda like RSS next generation.
Indeed Telegram has two types of groups: Read only for things like news, and discussion groups. There are also bots, LOTS of bots, many are free open source... Like the rest of internet, Telegram has lots of good and bad, you have to discern what is worth your time and what is not. I like how many exchanges and asic miner companies have official groups in there, but there are also scammers trying to impersonate official support. Of course ICOs and altcoins have heavy presence as well.

In that case there is nothing to do but wait until they deliver. Do you think SpaceX doesn't know about the advantages / disadvantages of staging? I see them using stages in their current rockets, up to the falcon heavy...

On the other hand, how many years have passed since the Apollo program? You'd think some advances have been made in all these years. They want to reuse parts, yet they can't recover the second stage in their current rockets. Perhaps keeping it all together allows them to achieve that goal?

In my opinion, they are going to waste more fuel by not using stages, but don't forget they don't plan to go straight away, they plan to refuel in orbit so the fuel they need is only to reach orbit, not Mars. The more efficient engines for vacuum/light atmosphere are already attached to the spacecraft.

Once (if) these concepts become reality, we can see if they were wrong or not. At the very least, they have been delivering results so far.

It comes down to electricity costs. Currently anything above 0.07 kWh is probably not worth it. If you DO have cheap electricity, its simply a matter of purchasing an asic, plug it into a 200v~240v circuit (those are usually found for clothes dryer or air conditioner) and give it internet via lan cable, configure it like you would a router, and mine away. Taking into account the things are VERY LOUD, so you need to find ways to quiet it down if there is people living nearby.

You can get an used S9 asic miner for about $200 nowdays.
Larger operations are another matter entirely, but at least this will get you started.

Remember, without cheap electricity it is not worth it. Unless bitcoin price climbs up.