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5041  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 06, 2023, 02:00:03 AM
what do you mean what is nostr.

do they have links to read on it
5042  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 06, 2023, 12:21:38 AM
First Hercules which spun into Zena .

Side shows were You don’t know Jack which had Bruce Campbell as the star he did side work with the xena series a bit.

Sam Raimi producedand directed all off these including some big spiderman movies the Toby McQuire ones.

Zena had a side character Joxter he was a character player in a few of these shows.

Sam Ash is on netflix it is based on the cabin in the woods horror movie series.

All with Bruce Campbell.

The 2015 netflix series is three seasons

Lucy Lawless
Bruce Campbell
Joxter = Bartender in season 2

bloody show but not bad.

I am at 20 posts

so is buddy
5043  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 11:57:33 PM
I need posters to help me as I only allow myself one post at a time.

Just make a doge shitcoin post aimed at jjg and you'll have all the engagement you can handle. Cheesy

example: should I dca or bulk purchase doge on a elon tweet?

I mine both Ltc and Doge on a constant basis since it earns the most fiat per watt.

does this do the trick jjg?

I think the answer is obvious  Cheesy



But tbf, if pow shitcoins get's you more satoshis per watt then go for it.

As long as it ends up in satoshis

I miss zena

but bottom line for mining today a paid off L7 earns $24 cash and burns 75 kwatts daily
a paid off s19xp earns $ 8.80 cash and burns 75 kwatts daily

so if you ignore the job and look at the $ per watt you want to mine with the L7 and covert the Ltc and Doge to $ or BTC
5044  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 11:29:44 PM
I need posters to help me as I only allow myself one post at a time.

Just make a doge shitcoin post aimed at jjg and you'll have all the engagement you can handle. Cheesy

example: should I dca or bulk purchase doge on a elon tweet?

I mine both Ltc and Doge on a constant basis since it earns the most fiat per watt.

does this do the trick jjg?

5045  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 11:18:34 PM


can you link the telescope you use please


and for that matter the camera

finally do you live in a rural area?

As far as OpSec allows:

I am using a 430mm Apochromatic Refractor with 72mm front lens diameter. I have a second 750mm reflector scope, but it's much more sensitive to wind and not protected as good against dew.
The camera is a ZWO Asi294MC Pro, a peltier cooled astrophotography camera.
Living in a rural area (Class Bortle-3), i sometimes travel to a place in the mountains (Bortle-2), but i tend to avoid it, because if i get a problem with the software or hardware, or forget anything i need at home, i'm all fucked in a dark, cold night with no option other than to return home. There's also stronger wind, which makes the scope shake, degrading picture quality.




thank you I will be checking this out.

I was in the Navy and traded across the South Pacific on ships set to black out conditions.  you could see stars right down to the horizon. your photos sometimes remind of those nights looking at so many freak star it was amazing

This is a scpecial occasion, because at new moon, you have Bortle-1, like in the most dark environments on earth.
Some places in deserts or higher mountains are the same. It's a pity that you can't do long exposures on a ship because of the movements.
Of course, our eyes aren't made to see so far out and gather as much light, and this is what finally drew me to astrophotography.
But looking at a full star-blown milky way expanding from horizon to horizon is as breathtaking as all these photographs, at least.
When i'm in a city and get a chance to look up at night, i even feel a little sorry for the people, because many of them probably never experience observing the surrounding universe (half of if, tbf).


When we would go out onto the deck from a flourescent lite computer room, it would take close to 30 minutes for your pupils to be fully dilated plus it was the southern sky so the stars are different.
To a native New Yorker like myself.
It was nice really nice.

700 foot ship had three red lights bow , stern and radar stack .

One of the best parts of being in the Navy was looking at those stars.
5046  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 11:02:58 PM

I need posters to help me as I only allow myself one post at a time.

I did do two double posts in this contest. One because buddy did a skip one because I was a bit drunk.



so, if i get drunk, it helps? hey team phil all the way baby

I was pretty drunk on friday. nice ice tea and vanilla vodka.

Weekend was very sideways. 22-23 k covered the entire buddy $ number.

22.2k to 22.6k to be more precise.
5047  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 10:58:04 PM


can you link the telescope you use please


and for that matter the camera

finally do you live in a rural area?

As far as OpSec allows:

I am using a 430mm Apochromatic Refractor with 72mm front lens diameter. I have a second 750mm reflector scope, but it's much more sensitive to wind and not protected as good against dew.
The camera is a ZWO Asi294MC Pro, a peltier cooled astrophotography camera.
Living in a rural area (Class Bortle-3), i sometimes travel to a place in the mountains (Bortle-2), but i tend to avoid it, because if i get a problem with the software or hardware, or forget anything i need at home, i'm all fucked in a dark, cold night with no option other than to return home. There's also stronger wind, which makes the scope shake, degrading picture quality.




thank you I will be checking this out.

I was in the Navy and traded across the South Pacific on ships set to black out conditions.  you could see stars right down to the horizon. your photos sometimes remind of those nights looking at so many freak star it was amazing


14 posts I need to do 11 more.
5048  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 10:21:38 PM
OT: Messier 3 (open star cluster).

Total exposure: 92 Minutes.
One of the few objects that made sense, standing about opposite to the nearly full moon at the time of exposure.
Had to zoom-crop about 80% of the original picture, because i was using only 430mm scope and i shot the - comparably bigger - horsehead nebula just before, but the result was shitty because of the strong light pollution from the moonlight, so i switched to darker areas.



can you link the telescope you use please


and for that matter the camera

finally do you live in a rural area?
5049  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 10:01:40 PM
This one helps me have a shot at buddy.


At the moment I have 12 and need to do 13 more posts.


buddy will mostly do his 24 unless someone has a pc crash 💥.

I need posters to help me as I only allow myself one post at a time.

I did do two double posts in this contest. One because buddy did a skip one because I was a bit drunk.

I still beat him on those two days  by two or three posts .

5050  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 10:00:45 PM
hey just was able to slip this in the middle of two buddies.
5051  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 08:12:46 PM
#random

OK. It took me a couple days to really grok it, but Twitter is fucked.

They just haven't gotten the memo yet.

nostr is going to change everything just like Bitcoin did.

What a time to be alive.



the only good thing I got out of twitter is the name i use
there.

theyankeeswin which i hardly ever use at all.
5052  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 07:22:06 PM
It is still possible to "buy the dip" bitcoin! I bought a lot under 20 k and I will buy more if it goes there again!

Oh?

your threshold buying point is sub $20k?  You must already have "lots" of dee cornz.

In other words, even current prices seem like pretty good prices for anyone who might not have "lots of cornz" already.. surely potentially depending on how long we stay around these prices and at what price points were your last purchases.

and some I bonds (just for you to talk about jjg)
You are trolling me...??
You fuck
No homo
hahahahahaha
yep I am a big bad  troll


 Angry Angry Angry Angry

That selfie looks just like I imagined it would.

At jjg it looks somewhat like the Norwegian side of my family. Although I am a bit taller.

and at hostm 22.4k is decently price dip
5053  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 06:40:35 PM
and some I bonds (just for you to talk about jjg)

You are trolling me...??


You fuck



No homo




hahahahahaha

yep I am a big bad  troll

5054  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 05:32:45 PM
[...] Part of the reason that you are likely going to continue to have fun staying more poor than you otherwise "could have been." 


err seems to me the most important thing is that phil you, me and most here, is this: we are still in the game. thats the main goal. we all have btc. profit, while fun, is a bonus.

stack sats. one way or another, just get them and stack them.

I am stacking as I type. DCA is still set for weds. at 2 x units of fiat. that will get me to 26x units of dca fiat and 16x dip buys of fiat since nov 2022

42x units of fiat .


Does not count the sha 256 gear purchased since sept 2022.

and no debt = key.

and some I bonds (just for you to talk about jjg)
5055  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 04:56:16 PM


Maybe or maybe in 2056 or 2072 a frozen coin rule is done.

Any account that has not made a withdrawal in 60 years must take some coin out or it is fed back into the reward system as lost currency.

if it is 2072 and btc is 1 million dollars with 1 million coins frozen from 2009 to 2012 I could see this happening.

But I would be 115 years old to be able to see it. Grin

I don't think you'll see it. And that's not because of your age.

That's Craig S. Wright's kind of thinking... Won't happen.

Well like I said it is not happening any time soon even if it does I will be gone.
5056  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 04:29:31 PM


Maybe or maybe in 2056 or 2072 a frozen coin rule is done.

Any account that has not made a withdrawal in 60 years must take some coin out or it is fed back into the reward system as lost currency.

if it is 2072 and btc is 1 million dollars with 1 million coins frozen from 2009 to 2012 I could see this happening.

But I would be 115 years old to be able to see it. Grin
5057  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 04:10:39 PM
again a good article by Lopp



How Many Bitcoin Confirmations is Enough?
https://blog.lopp.net/how-many-bitcoin-confirmations-is-enough/

So if a country with large resources wants to fuck up bitcoin they need only have 2 large hydoplants and 52% of the hash.

Thus CHINA could do it for about 6 billion

let check the math.

we are at 330 eh or  330,000ph or 330,000,000th

3,300,000 s19 pros = the network.

say 1000 for 1 or

3,300,000,000 cash to match the networks hash

let China take over bitmain build the units and they would make some extra ones so 4 billion means

4.0 all china 3.3 rest of us

you need power
 4 units = 13.2kwatts
40 units = 132kwatts
400 units = 1320kwatts
4000 units = 13200kwatts
40000 units = 132000kwatts
400000 units = 1320000 kwatts
4000000 units= 13200000kwatts or 13200megawatts this dam in china does 20,000 megawatts


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hydroelectric_power_stations



so at the moment China could destroy btc for under 6 billion dollars if they choose to do so.

This is a roadblock to adaptation worldwide btc currency


I posted it before but there lies truth in what Antonopoulos says:


Andreas Antonopoulos - 51% Bitcoin Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncPyMUfNyVM




Do you think he is correct cause my math above is accurate.

 China would be the player to cause the attack as they build most of the gear.

No need to do this today or tomorrow but if BTC did get big say 500k a coin it could be tempting.

It kind of calls for a gear race or at least a gear decentralization of plants.

USA is to open a chip plant in NY

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3675354/micron-to-build-largest-chip-factory-in-us-history.html

I believe your math is roundabout correct.  But that doesn't invalidate what Antonopoulos says.

If such an attack happened, nobody would value the fork of the attackers, after they are discovered.


I don't even know if they could pull off the same attack several times after being caught.  

The Bitcoin network has a community behind it sharing the same values and that's (an intentional) part of its strength.

I'm sure our community would get together and quickly secure the network by any necessary means ...even if that meant a kind of temporary centralization or something.

But I'm just poking around in the dark.  There are some very smart people who already figured out the possibilities and also the most 'successful' objectives of an attacker as well as the necessary counter measures.


I'm sure many WOers have a shitload of knowledge and educating links to share on that rather ancient topic.



 


Right I get that. But as I said btc could go to 100-500k and do it quickly.

As I type the possibility that the gear is in place and ready to attack is not very high.

But
2017 19.9k
2021 69.1k
2025 200k why not and at this moment how much gear is in direct control of China 🇨🇳 Russia 🇷🇺 USA 🇺🇸

governments. We dont know.

Remember the hashrate attack done in 2021

a 50% drop in mining due to a Chinese mining ban.

How about right now Chinese government direct controls 20% of all mining gear.

They could slash the hashrate by 20% on day 1 of the 14 days.

In fact there is evidence this is being tested as I type.

I will post a link.

 

so is it more likely variance or testing of a reverse hashrate attack

DO NOT POST SESC LINKS

here it is due to the bold above.


Early numbers are whacked.

Quote
https://www.bitrawr.com/difficulty-estimator


Latest Block:   778240  (2 minutes ago)

Current Pace:   72.0918%  (65 / 90.16 expected, 25.16 behind)

Previous Difficulty:   39156400059293.19                            
Current Difficulty:   43053844193928.45                            
Next Difficulty:   between 31256691304059 and 42046996715428
Next Difficulty Change:   between -27.4009% and -2.3386%
Previous Retarget:   Yesterday at 8:27 PM  (+9.9535%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   March 11, 2023 at 4:43 AM  (in 13d 17h 13m 30s)
Next Retarget (latest):   March 16, 2023 at 7:32 AM  (in 18d 19h 2m 43s)
Projected Epoch Length:   between 14d 8h 15m 8s and 19d 10h 4m 20s
Copy stats to clipboard





I know there is 'bad' luck and or variance.

But -28% is weird.


now look some more just 200 blocks later



Phill, it was too early to judge, we climbed up real fast

Quote
Latest Block:
778444  (2 minutes ago)
Current Pace:
96.5416%  (269 / 278.64 expected, 9.64 behind)
Previous Difficulty:
39156400059293.19                           
Current Difficulty:
43053844193928.45                           
Next Difficulty:
between 41659082621125 and 42697802191261
Next Difficulty Change:
between -3.2396% and -0.8270%
Previous Retarget:
last Saturday at 3:27 AM  (+9.9535%)
Next Retarget (earliest):
March 11, 2023 at 6:27 AM  (in 12d 4h 33m 30s)
Next Retarget (latest):
March 11, 2023 at 3:30 PM  (in 12d 13h 35m 49s)
Projected Epoch Length:
between 14d 2h 59m 51s and 14d 12h 2m 10s


20% was unreal to be honest, 3% is sustainable, maybe 5% at best, i do not see a drop more than that happening this epoch, i actually think we will get a small positive adjustment.


and almost back to normal

it appears to me a huge amount of hashrate is in the hands of 1 player and that this is an example of a possible reverse hashrate attack.


the math that would allow for the network to be at 72% at block 65 then up to 96% at block 269 is very high long shot.

the simple conclusion is someone can turn as much as 33% of the network on and off at will.

as little as maybe 20%.

So simple add to this capacity  most likely China because they build most of the gear.

Then do a reverse hashrate attack when ever you please.

How would you like btc to be 500k in 2029 and the networks drops 65% of its hash on day 1 of the diff adjustment.

BTW I have seen these very deep early drops during the first 100 blocks of a new 14 day period on more than 1 occasion.
5058  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 02:15:38 PM
again a good article by Lopp



How Many Bitcoin Confirmations is Enough?
https://blog.lopp.net/how-many-bitcoin-confirmations-is-enough/

So if a country with large resources wants to fuck up bitcoin they need only have 2 large hydoplants and 52% of the hash.

Thus CHINA could do it for about 6 billion

let check the math.

we are at 330 eh or  330,000ph or 330,000,000th

3,300,000 s19 pros = the network.

say 1000 for 1 or

3,300,000,000 cash to match the networks hash

let China take over bitmain build the units and they would make some extra ones so 4 billion means

4.0 all china 3.3 rest of us

you need power
 4 units = 13.2kwatts
40 units = 132kwatts
400 units = 1320kwatts
4000 units = 13200kwatts
40000 units = 132000kwatts
400000 units = 1320000 kwatts
4000000 units= 13200000kwatts or 13200megawatts this dam in china does 20,000 megawatts


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hydroelectric_power_stations



so at the moment China could destroy btc for under 6 billion dollars if they choose to do so.

This is a roadblock to adaptation worldwide btc currency


I posted it before but there lies truth in what Antonopoulos says:


Andreas Antonopoulos - 51% Bitcoin Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncPyMUfNyVM




Do you think he is correct cause my math above is accurate.

 China would be the player to cause the attack as they build most of the gear.

No need to do this today or tomorrow but if BTC did get big say 500k a coin it could be tempting.

It kind of calls for a gear race or at least a gear decentralization of plants.

USA is to open a chip plant in NY

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3675354/micron-to-build-largest-chip-factory-in-us-history.html
5059  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 01:41:15 PM
again a good article by Lopp



How Many Bitcoin Confirmations is Enough?
https://blog.lopp.net/how-many-bitcoin-confirmations-is-enough/

So if a country with large resources wants to fuck up bitcoin they need only have 2 large hydoplants and 52% of the hash.

Thus CHINA could do it for about 6 billion

let check the math.

we are at 330 eh or  330,000ph or 330,000,000th

3,300,000 s19 pros = the network.

say 1000 for 1 or

3,300,000,000 cash to match the networks hash

let China take over bitmain build the units and they would make some extra ones so 4 billion means

4.0 all china 3.3 rest of us

you need power
 4 units = 13.2kwatts
40 units = 132kwatts
400 units = 1320kwatts
4000 units = 13200kwatts
40000 units = 132000kwatts
400000 units = 1320000 kwatts
4000000 units= 13200000kwatts or 13200megawatts this dam in china does 20,000 megawatts


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hydroelectric_power_stations



so at the moment China could destroy btc for under 6 billion dollars if they choose to do so.

This is a roadblock to adaptation worldwide btc currency
5060  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 05, 2023, 05:12:55 AM
buddy just did 24 and I did 26

WO these days
(Facing some serious issues no good memes in a good quantity)
(Phil Vs Chart Buddy)
The ending results seem to be in favor of Phil as he cheated by doing 26 Posts as it was not a play let's see what happens in today's session.

Things pass on as always, just like this ...



Yeah day 5 of march

buddy 1

phil 1


we have had a few good memes



but what is killing the quality of posting is the 22-25 k sold we are stuck in.
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