Guys post here what offline games you played in your phones.
The best offline game I played is SpaceArmor2. I also play minecraft and sometime NBA 2K18.
What is yours? 
The Battle for Wesnoth. Free open source turn strategy fantasy game that has a 13 year history on PC but its also available on smartphones. You can play online against people too, but there are plenty of official and user created solo campaigns to entertain you for a long time. Hexagonal turn based strategy with a bit of a random luck element added, to ensure no game is ever the same. |
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Common sense.
All most anti-virus do is check for signatures. The best protection against malware is always being smart (not downloading random shit, not falling for phishing scams, etc...); I stopped using an anti-virus years ago and I'm pretty sure I never got any malware on my computer. It's honestly not that hard. This, and dropping windows are a solid steps in the right direction... There is no reason to do any internet browsing in a windows, and much less handle money or crypto with it when you have plenty of good and safe alternatives. |
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The first banks only stored money, they wouldn't dare use it (it was forbidden).
Then the bankers started using the money, and made sure to return it before the owner wanted it back.
They noticed few people bothered to withdraw all of it and lots of money doing nothing kept sitting there, so they used it and got rich.
Since the practice was illegal, they bought their way to make it legal, modern banks now only store a small fraction of the money they get, and in turn:
They give out loans...
100 units enter a bank, 90 are loaned. The person getting the loan, deposits in the bank:
90 units enter the bank, 80 are loaned. Wait, 90+80=170 Where did that 70 came from?
80 units enter the bank, 70 are loaned. 90+80+70=240...
70 units enter the bank, 60 are loaned. 90+80+70+60=300 This is getting ridiculous...
60 units enter the bank, 50 are loaned. See where this is going?
But thats more or less how it is. Most of the money never existed in the first place.
Its called fractional reserve banking, legalized ponzi.
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Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this? Will it be Game Over for Bitcoin? Or will everything go back to normal soon?  I think you got it wrong. Things are now back to normal, the anomaly was Dec 2017. It went up too quickly, and it corrected over 2018. And, no matter what the price against fiat is, the network will work just fine. It can never be over, as long as there is electricity and some means of network communication. |
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One obstacle is that it requires internet, Hopefully BIP-174 will solve this. Next would be the smartphone/pc requirement, but as they get cheaper and cheaper, that might solve itself in time. Perhaps someone will design some sort of dedicated "smart" wallet based on a raspi or something similar very cheap for poor countries. You don't need anything to receive bitcoins, but you need "something" (that can browse the blockchain) to confirm you got them, and to send them. |
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You can technically do it, but its unlikely it will ever get relayed, as most nodes will drop them.
I think Bitcoin Core v18 will finally allow in the ui to specify 0.1 sat/B, we will see.
Curiously right now TX fees went up a bit, I wonder why?
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They wont be running active listings while not responding because it would look bad for their reputation and also scoring on response time. The pricing is inaccurate because dollars are not freely available in the country and dollar must be smuggled in so its price accuracy is about the same as various drugs where price varies massively
I read people use jetskies to travel far into the ocean and register their credit card trades there where its not subject to restrictions they might suffer on shore. So to settle a bill they must leave the country and return with the mans card, hell of a reason to be using crypto instead seems like
It is actually a hard chore to enable a credit card for international use, you need to use the official USD auctioning site, which very few people manage to obtain dollars from, but before that you must have a special bank account in USD. To bid in the auction you need a large amount in fiat, which would be locked until the auction ends, and you might not get chosen. When your fiat halves its purchasing power every day, that is not exactly enticing. The credit card can only be funded from this special bank account, it doesn't matter if you have millions of the local fiat. So if you only managed to obtain $400, and that would be the theoretical max. That doesn't mean the credit card actually has that limit, its usually ridiculously lower as its set in the local fiat (called bolivar soberano, VES). Which means, you probably need to use the credit card multiple times, but wait, there are also daily bank limits you must not exceed or your funds get frozen for questioning where they come from... And the limits are low, like $200 a day. The official dollar exchange rate comes from this, but they only report the "lowest accredited price of the bid", which is a giant lie as most bidders go close to the street ("illegal") exchange rate, but they always allow a single artificially low bid so they can publish that as the "official exchange rate". In any case the official auctioning site only serves about 10% of the actual demand for USD in the country. Of course today the trend continues:  Perhaps it takes longer to complete the loop before the fiat loses its value and you end with less BTC anyway? Did you know: Last Friday the street USD price was 850ish VES per USD, but today right now it is 1100ish VES per USD? That should give you an idea of the current inflation levels. If we talk about BTC as you can see from my previous captures, Friday was 4 million but its already 5 million today... |
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Welcome to https://thepool.life! Multiple world-wide stratums, autoexchange enabled stratum, payouts every 3 hours. All of our coins are setup on their own dedicated port. Website: https://thepool.lifeMining Fee: 1.0 % Payouts: Every 3 hours for balances over 0.001 This is yet another altcoin multipool, and it doesn't even have bitcoin or any sha256 coins at all. Shouldn't it go in the Altcoins Pools area? |
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3 blocks in one day! damn! nice! really wish I was back in the pool  looks like the hash rate is steady now and not really fail over any more. as the average hash rate is now close to 300 ph/s Looks 400ish PH/s to me:  |
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mine appears to only work on asic pools even when not checked. Does it make any significant difference in power use or hashrate when checked vs unchecked? |
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Who needs two when you can have three   |
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Who needs one when you can have two   |
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Algunos de ellos son
1. Ebang Communication (E11, E11+ y E11++) --> con Th/s de hasta 44, dejando la Antminer S9 casi en el olvido
2. Canaan (Avalonminer)
3. Innosilicon
4. Bitmain (con sus nuevas S15 y T15) Te faltó MicroBT, que son muy rentables en sha256: M10 (33T) y M10S (55T) logran 62 vatios por TH y eso es a 16nm, espera que bajen eso a 7nm... Sobre de si es rentable, pues, donde la electricidad sea barata. Las viejas Bitmain (S9 etc) supongo que solo en Venezuela siguen siendo rentables. Aunque gracias al reemplazo de firmware Braiins OS, ha sido posible aumentar la eficiencia y bajarles el consumo a 82 vatios por tera de los típicos 90~100 vatios que solían consumir las S9... Lo mas sencillo es revisar esta página para saber cuales son las mas rentables: https://www.apanel.com/ |
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I was trying to figure out the extent to which bitcoin and Dash specifically were being used in Venezuela, where they're actually having a hyperinflation situation, and all I've ever seen were the news quotes from Hydrogen. I can talk in english all you want from the situation here if you point me to the right thread. Have done some comments here and there but there is little interest it seems. BTW: Hyperinflation is still going on and everyday is getting worse, faster; exactly like the theory and history of other countries said it would. Same mistakes, same results... |
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While we are still waiting for the new bitcointalk website to run. We can still use a third party extension or google extension. You can download Stylish here. After the downloading process, Go to bitcointalk.org click the extension go to Find more styles for this site. Here is the style that I installed. I'm using Stylus in both Chromium (Ie. Brave) and Firefox (Ie. Waterfox) based browsers. It is a Stylish fork without the nonsense, and it uses the same themes. Stylish used to be nice before it added user tracking, and other annoyances, but the fork cures this. It is an accessibility need, as too many web sites don't offer a dark/night mode. I have a couple of "global themes" always ready to use: Pseudo Brightness and dark style. For Firefox I also have no more black text on black input boxe for the daytime when i don't use dark style but keep my dark desktop theme. Messing the monitor controls is not always possible/desirable (ie. after half an hour of color calibration) or sometimes the laptop/all in one is already at the min but still too bright. And some people could just need the extra contrast anyway. |
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As mentioned before - certainly no problem with failing over ... or ... Block! by luckyant  Finally! First block of 2019 |
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Like any miner, you should always have backup pool settings, and thus when the main pool has problems, updates, changes, whatever, you failover to one of your backup pool settings. In this case of course it's to us here As discussed in discord, there's certainly no problem with them doing it, and their luck proves it's all ok for them to do it, and you can't hop pools to your advantage, so it's all good. strange tactics to have so long PPL5NS pool for failover, for 1-2h failover imho better use some pps pool. They should stay in this pool and use it as primary, secondary and tertiary (plenty of mirrors) imo. I'm using these: stratum+tcp://nya.kano.is:3333 stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 stratum+tcp://stratum80.kano.space:80 The bigger their operation, the more useful it is to remain in the PPLNS pool, as blocks (and payments) would come so often the variance would be averaged quickly and they would end earning more in the long run... |
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However that won't happen because if mining falls then normal users can mine using graphics cards and CPUs again
But wouldn't it lead to decreasing the speed of transactions? To me no blockchain network or very-very slow blockchain network is neraly the same. Am I wrong? Yes you are. No matter what the hashrate is, every 2016 blocks the network adjusts its diff rate so that a new block is found every 10 minutes. |
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If you're referring to the bitcoin blockchain, yes, it's possible for it to be stopped if a global crackdown on miners takes place and seize all the mining equipment, further preventing the addition of new blocks on the chain. Given the 'decentralized' nature of bitcoin, and its miners being situated into different parts of the world, it would be hard to search all of these and seize it all, so that one possibility is ruled out. Another event that could possibly stop bitcoin's blockchain is a nuclear warfare wherein a huge percentage of the world is completely disintegrated and the remaining are left dying in nuclear waste. We are very far from that happening but it still is a possibility you cannot rule out to happen in the distant future, otherwise the process of adding blocks in the chain is ad infinitum. Even if all asics disappeared tomorrow, people could simply go back to cpu/gpu mining. Granted, that diff adjust would be painful, but the network would survive. My actual question is: What happens after the last bitcoin gets mined?. Sure the year 2140 is so far away we may not even see it, but, I'd like to know regardless. |
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Well the base hash rate is still around 45-50PH, and the rest is failover.
I don't try and mislead the miners about the pool hash rate, unlike ckpool who has not changed their hash rate down for about 10 days that it's been well under half what it says.
Well that one is currently doing 8PH at the moment for what is worth. But then this means there is 350PH worth of hash rate using your pool only when another one fails? Is there any advantage to them doing that? |
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