"digital internet"? Um, is there some other one???
That said, I've actually read many of Einstein's papers as in actual published books printed in the 1950's and there is ZERO mention of him doing that.
And just *who/why* did the supposed removal of it's mention in all books/papers/etc? Aliens?  

Most of which should not see the light of day to begin with...

Blazing Saddles.
Hilarious especially without the stupid 'PC'-edits. No way on God's little green Earth could that movie be made these days...  

By Sidehack and -vh then Kano doing exactly that. Sidehack mapped out the IO and -vh did the `84 & `89 drivers. It helped a lot that that Bitmain eventually did release the code for their s9 and their subsequent chips largely use the same data structures and signaling. Kano did the 1397 (s17 chip) driver for Sidehack's Compac-F as well as cleaned up the older code from -vh and other niggling bits which became the latest cgminer.

As for Bitfury... per Kano and Sidehack they are a bitch to work with. For 1 you pretty much must use *their* driver with no changes allowed - and it sux...

How about just consulting your Canadian Tax Authorities about it? Safe be that they have a page on their website dedicated to crypto transactions...

Taking tax or any other legal advice from random folks here is never a good ides. That said, my *guess* is that yes, you do have to pay tax like here in the USA.

For a start - we are talking about Taiwan - NOT China. Despite what China's Leaders say/think about the matter for the foreseeable future Taiwan is NOT part of China and will remain so. Someday that may change but won't be anytime soon.

China has ZERO advanced node chip making capabilities, their 'bleeding edge' is the 7nm node and even there it is problematic for them because China has never had access to the still by any standard fairly advanced lithography equipment needed to improve their yields. Smaller than 7nm is out of the question for them and with the chip technology embargo in-place even the 7nm node may no longer be possible for the (yes, 'the' as in their only one that was capable of 7nm) Chinese Foundry to use

~~ Silicon Valley does not have to 'catch up'. Why? Simple: Foundries like TSMC et al are not the ones who are designing the chips and the basic processes used to make them. Companies like Micron, Cisco, Broadcom, AMD, nVidia, etc design them. Recently even Intel has shifted production of some chips to TSMC.

Foundries are given the chip designs by their customers who work with the foundries to implement their designs into chips using whatever process node they want to use that the foundry can provide. Guess where most of the actual design work for leading/bleeding-edge chips is done - the US, Europe and Japan. Not Taiwan (and certainly not China).

~~ Manufacturing cost is a different story. All aspects of chip making is heavily automated as there is no other way to do it so that bit is out of the picture. Oh, and just *where* is the equipment made? All advanced process equipment is designed & made in, you guessed it - the US, Europe, and Japan. Now, yes Taiwan does have lower labor costs but that is their only advantage.

~~ Hardware Patents - again, most are held by US, European and Japanese owned companies with #1 on that list being the EUV lithography systems. Now Process Patents - that's a different story. Process Patents are a Foundry's highly optimized Secret Sauce but if need be there are always ways around that with the most obvious being Licensing. Barring that, just do things in a significantly different way. Ya know, like Intel, GF & Samsung have done with their Foundries. The whole point of TSMC opening a Foundry in the US is simply to have a long-term safe place to operate that is (mostly) free of major political unrest with zero chance of China causing problems.

Well, 1st  start here
As stated in that ^^, BTC mining requires using ASIC-based miners. Period.

Be aware that most miners are very power hungry - as in several kw - and all of that power is transformed into a lot of heat and noise from the fans cooling them. Think a high power space heater.
Because of the power needed you MUST have very low cost electric power, at least 210VAC and it must be stable.

For much quieter/affordable/but slower miners there are the ComPac-F USB sticks from Sidehack
and the faster Futurebit Apollo miner & Node here

Another good place to start is the Beginners & Help section.

To use any ASIC mining chip you need the Secret Sauce for it -- in other words, the driver for it. In most cases said driver(s) is closed source and without it your mining software is useless. That said, if you can write the needed drivers then ja, not a bad idea though it's certainly not a new one.

I really do not care why someone gets banned. I fully trust the mods and the reporting system.
The Forum Rules are pretty clear-cut and anyone who is too lazy to read them or as in far too many cases just-do-not-care (like spammers), deserve to be banned.

All of your questions can be answered in a heartbeat using Google or going here which is the Beginners & Help area
As for Yes.
Regarding 'virgin' coins: Pure Marketing - only an idiot would pay more for new coins.
Banks, as with everything in life -- depends. Some don't care, some do care. Same with your Country's attitude toward crypto.
Do Your Own Research online using *targeted* questions that zero in on where you live..

And you are using what make/model of ASIC miner?
If you are attempting to use just CPU or GPU -- forget it...

You mean this thread? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405856.msg61235472#msg61235472

Precisely.
For the vast majority of test cases, you are testing that the code you are working on for *your* software/app is able to correctly transmit/receive transactions. The amount of the Tx is irrelevant (unless your code moves a decimal point...), it's getting the process to work correctly that counts.

Once your testing is done and the project is safe to use on the main BTC network a true community supporter is expected to return tBTC back to the Faucets so they can continue to support code development.

Remember, on the old hubs the current limit per-pair of ports is 6A and each pair used their own (6A) regulator. My F running at 575 pulls 2.9-3A so only one per port pair. If you were running just 1 stick *something* overloaded that regulator feeding the ports...

Precisely. The key points of BTC is that there is no central authority and that there can never be more than 21 million BTC. Well, technically actually 20.9999999 million.

So:
Just who/what would be monitoring every address that is holding coins and checking how long they are held so interest could be paid?
Coin dates checked by incoming tx date and the interest being calculated and added when the coins are spent?
By what mechanism would the coins be generated?
Would the interest paid come out of the 21 million or would that rule be thrown out to create more?
So many things wrong here...

As others have said, ja you can self mine tnbtc if so inclined. But if the intention is to just collect large sums of tnbtc well, then this immediately comes to mind.... Legit testnet users do fine using Faucets vs trying to get whole test coins. That of course is the reason behind my answer above.

The BTC is in cyberspace. What you need is the public address and private key(s) used for the wallet. Find the version of Core you were running and look for Wallet.dat. If you have it then fire up Core and get the address & keys from the wallet.

From there IMMEDIATELY xfr the BTC to a new and secure wallet for safe storage & HODL or cash some out through an exchange.

Well thank you very much. That more than makes up for what someone who's apparently off their medications posted and this gem as well after they did not like my answer (regarding 'mining' on testnet) and reason behind it. Fortunately the 'Ignore' button takes care of folks like that.

As you said one just has to check my post history. They would be hard pressed to find 'poison'...
Cheers

Precisely (emphasis mine). If one comes across Trash, OT, or the "Low Quality Post" -- report it to the Mods - not just bitch about it elsewhere.. And um, been here since 2014 so... God only knows how many I've reported, I stopped looking at that stat long ago. I do know that >99% were 'accurate' and acted upon  

Going a bit OT here but ja, why Bitmain, microBT, and since their IPO even Canaan, don't open up their auto tuning routines for users to tweak some of the operation targets is beyond me. For the record, Canaan used to market their miners as constantly monitoring each chip and periodically tweaking them to a defined performance level. A lot of the more general tweaks are available through the cgminer API that Kano wrote. Canaan's entire code for that tuning & chip performance monitoring as well as of course all cgminer switches supported - including the Secret Sauce drivers for all of their chips used up to the A10 series - is out there in the wild. If the mfgrs are so afraid of the inevitable warranty issues then activate one of the non-resetable flags inside the micro-controlers used to signal intentional operation outside of OEM boundaries so the OEM can check it and also grab a log of settings and take it from there with the user as yes warranty or no.

So... Since example open-source code (from Canaan) exists for auto-tune routines as well as per-chip monitoring/control code, ja, someone should build on that to work with other miners and publish it! Since at one time most miners (except perhaps Bitfury) did and these days still *do* follow the cgminer API at least up to a point, it is not too hard to hack their version of cgminer for the basics of Vcore, fan speed, etc. Heck using Awesomeminer, just pull the list of API commands supported and talk to the miner using ssh/GUI.

The hard and most important part is the chip driver(s) used to access whatever resources said chip has regarding the monitoring/controlling of it. *That* Secret Sauce is why the closed source fee based 3rd party FW exists. Throwing in a decent GUI for tweaking that uses all chip control resources available vs using a more limited command line options switch is nice but also the Marketing hook. Canaan *does* support some tweaks for the A10/11/12/13(?) and have published command line support for that but again, since their IPO beyond that limited bit AFAIK they have not published any of their code.

At least Kano made the s17 driver for the Compac-F open source