Why not?

It really doesn't matter, if they want to organize it better with it or something. They are private IPs, you are wasting nothing if you'd rather use a class A because 10.1.5.11 might mean area 1, isle 5, computer 11 or something like that.

Bitcoin is still at 4k, looks quite stable to me. When is this ETH fork event coming?

That's hardly possible because, even if all holders suddenly decided to sell today, they price would go down enough to attract others who have been waiting to get in. Supply and demand is at work, as long as there is use for BTC, there would be demand and that in turn keeps it from "disappearing" from the market. Which is why I'm also not afraid of "whale dumps". Sure it will make the price fluctuate, which in turn makes it attractive. Same way as too fast a rise in price makes it unattractive and the price has to correct itself, quickly or slowly.

In the long run BTC should slowly (not quickly) gain value, because its limited in supply, and because more people know of it and want it.

Which is interesting because internet was born in USA, as a military project to keep data communications going in case of nuclear warfare. But its decentralized design made possible later for everyone to join and nobody to control, at least for the most part.

What north Korea has is not internet, its a single state network, not interconnected to anything. They do have people copying content they approve from the real internet hosted on their servers, but that's about it.

Bitcoin is decentralized, and that's what makes it strong. No single point of failure ensures no entity can easily shut it down.

And speaking of other interesting US developed projects, Tor was (is?) an US Navy project. There is also NSA's Selinux, among many other things. As long as it is free open source, where everyone can audit it to ensure it doesn't do hidden stuff on your back, its welcome. Yes, even if something was truly developed in North Korea (which so far I don't know of anything interesting shared to the world, aside from a leaked redhat/centos clone) it would be useful to everyone.

Just don't reuse BTC addresses after 1 transaction.
More improvements are on the way...

As with any disruptive technology, you can fight it until it overpowers you, or you can embrace it and figure how to keep doing business in a new world.

Banks could embrace bitcoin, but they can't treat it like fiat coins. They are forced to treat it like assets. They can't produce bitcoins out of thin air, like they do with fiat. Most likely the way they can embrace it is to act like exchanges. They can implement online wallets and earn fees in exchanging, and perhaps offer financial services, mutual funds and the like. Also lending (like a few exchanges let you do).

They also have their own altcoins for moving capital among themselves, but i don't think that would be very interesting to clients. We are in the transition period, but with time and maturing, things that seemed impossible 10 years ago would become everyday. Like, say, smartphones.

Those are good ideas. You have to think ahead, because when you are handling money you WILL become a target, either directly (you managed to attract someone's attention) or indirectly (phishing, malware, random probing, etc).

As for the keyboard encryptor, I'm not entirely sure of the usefulness of that. I guess its a race of who captures the keystrokes first...
You should have those passwords backed up in someway, in case the physical location gets destroyed (in a fire, flood, or such). Could be digitally using an encrypted file or password manager, or copies in a different places. But securing (and making) the copies becomes tricky; which is why I like the digital encrypting method more.

Cold "paper" wallets are very good when handled properly and its always a good practice to learn how to make and use them.

And never mix your leisure computer with your money handling operations.

Oops, sorry my mistake. Fixed it, thanks!

Excellent, the pool seems to have kept 170ish PH. Blocks (and thus payments) are coming more often.

Unless you have very cheap electricity, I think it is in your best interest to improve the efficiency, not the TH/s. Overclocking will do you no good if each TH consumes more watts. Its best to underclock if this makes every TH cost less, like philipma1957 just did by putting them into 500M@8.0~1 volts and achieving 82 watt per TH on the S9i.

Just divide your current watts with the hashrate to see if you are being more or less efficient than normal, or under-clocking.

The 192.169 sounds strange, but in case you meant 192.168.* ALL you have to do is change your network mask from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.0.0

And its far more profitable to mine altcoins with the GPUs and then sell those for bitcoin than attempting to mine bitcoin directly with GPUs.
There are plenty of pools to choose from in the Pools (Altcoins) forum area, and some even automate the selling for BTC part!

Thank you for reminding us this. Have you considered writing about the dust in the Help -> Payouts page?

This will take time. Humanity is going to transition from government controlled money to independent (p2p) money. The concept and implications themselves are world changing, and people simply take time to adapt, even after learning about it (which is still far from done, even after 10 years of BTC).

Of course we want to quickly get rid of the State messing with the money anytime they want, and inflating it because they need people to be in eternal debt "to stimulate the economy"...

1. Yes, it doesn't matter where you are, the blockchain is in "the cloud" (internet).
2. Yes of course.

You can make your wallet connect via TOR to obfuscate the use of it. Also make sure you use a new address every time, you can make as many as you want. Every time you expect to receive funds, use/give a new address.

It was never illegal, but police is very corrupt and can do things at random that has nothing to do with the rule of law. In theory, the gov welcomed it starting 2018, but some people were still seized equipment and put in prison after that, because... The corrupt cops would fabricate lies such as money laundering, funding "terrorism" (as in political opposition groups) or what not, to the victim that refused to pay whatever they were extorting.

As for sending machines, they were being seized for the major part of 2018. I'm not sure if you currently can or cannot bring them without risking seizure, I have read conflicting reports. Some bring them in parts hidden among unrelated goods, some just use DHL, I don't even know anymore...

Venezuela has frequent blackouts outside of Caracas, and in Caracas itself sometimes electricity fails. This is not due to lack of generation, its due to lack of maintenance (a by product of hyperinflation and price/currency exchange controls) The government officials stated that they would like large miners to set up operations at the southern State of Bolivar, close to the hydro generation, or in industrial areas in Carabobo or Monagas States iirc.

Crime is super high in this country so if you ever think of coming, you have to look and act as poor and plain as possible. Certainly NOT use 5 star hotels or bring luxury things such as any Apple products, jewels, gold, etc.

The large blocks also makes it demand more bandwidth and storage (even it it can be pruned afterwards). Also BCH forked, which fork are business going to follow? I don't think BCH will get much adoption IMO. Other altcoins might have a better chance at 2nd place, but Bitcoin is here to stay leading, simply because it was made first and was made good enough AND is adapting to changing circumstances. With Segwit and LN there is no need for giant blocks and (true p2p) decentralized exchanging is now possible among other cryptos with similar capabilities.

Have you done any transactions with bitcoin lately? It is at the lowest fees, and its going to get even better with LN.

Currently all the altcoins together are moving less money than bitcoin alone. They have A LOT of catching to do to even think about a "flippening". But if it ever happens, BCH won't be it. Jihan Wu made Bitmain incur in too many losses from that pet project of his, and the late fork hurt it even more.

Delaying the inevitable, or perhaps by Streisand effect produce the exact opposite result? I see China, the worlds largest bitcoin user, with bitcoin banned, a poetic irony of where governments end with their insatiable appetite for "controlling" everything and everyone. Because free people are dangerous, or something.

But in the end, the genie is out of the bottle. I don't see 2019 crucial, maybe 2010 was, but not anymore. Bitcoin is a success and is only getting better.
Money will become separate from State. It is a new world, I guess it felt the same way when church and state also got separate, unthinkable until it happened...

Perhaps future generations will study this dark time where governments still controlled money, and did as they please causing poverty and misery with their foolish decisions. And among these dark times, the light of bitcoin that started it all...

It would be nice if the "big guys" understood this and stayed put, instead of foolishly losing money "grasshopping" pools or "gambling" luck...

And your site clearly demonstrates here they would earn more in the long run.

As a matter of fact, in most countries it is legal and regulated. From a quick glimpse checking various internet sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_betting#Legality
https://xplorehub.blogspot.com/2018/06/bettinggambling-in-india-will-be.html
https://simonsblogpark.com/onlinegambling/simons-guide-online-gambling-legal-status-laws/
http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/23518003/which-countries-allow-gambling-sports-assessing-impact-betting-world
https://www.gamblingsites.com/sports-betting/laws/