Well, apparently, this image linked on page 50 does not support October units.  My Oct Jupiter works fine with the unified 1.01 from the KnC website, but if I install this f/w image, the miner won't start - and if I start it by hand it complains of EEPROM errors or something to that effect.

Oh well

Awesome, thanks   I had seen that link, but in context it was not clear if that was the real f/w or not.  Thanks for the confirmation

Can someone give me a link to where I can download the 'Padrino' firmware?  Thanks in advance.

The last time I saw that error, my bitcoin block chain was corrupted.  Rescan didn't fix it, and I had to re-download the whole damn thing.

BTC is not merge-mineable.

Wrong.  They were socialists.

In Hitler's Germany, every citizen was guaranteed a job by the government.  Every citizen was guaranteed an education, at government expense.  Health care was not totally socialized, but it was heavily subsidized by the government.  Sound familiar?  They weren't Marxists, but Fascists really are socialists too.

I don't think you know what left-wing and right-wing actually mean.  In America, at least, these terms have become almost meaningless.  Nowadays, right-wing = conservative = republican, and left-wing = liberal = democrat.  In reality, all of these terms have distinct, useful meanings.

The left-wing/right-wing terminology originated in France after the French revolution, where those who favored the old aristocracy sat on the right side of the legislature, and those who were more egalitarian in their views sat on the left.  Thus, right-wing came to be associated with those who believed that some people (the aristocracy, in this case) were genuinely better than others by birth, and ought to rule over others based on their basic genetic superiority.  In this way, the Nazis were clearly right-wing, even though they were also socialists.  I don't think any political group in America now is really right-wing, other than fringe groups like neo-nazis and the Ku Klux Klan - but it makes Democrats feel better to associate that term with Republicans.

Look up "classical liberalism" on Wikipedia to see what the original (and real) meaning of liberalism is.  I think you will be surprised by the answer.  Spoiler:  It reads a LOT like what most of us call 'Libertarianism'.

"Conservative" historically has meant to oppose change, to favor maintaining the status quo - whatever that might be at the time.  I don't know too many American 'conservatives' who are happy with the status quo nowadays.

The media and the political establishment try to conflate any term that has negative connotations among their supporters with their political opposition, and thereby render good, useful words useless.

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QFT

Maybe cpuminer just doesn't try to validate the address, and trusts you to know what you are doing?  I imagine you could easily remove the address validation in BFGMiner and recompile it if you want.  Maybe Luke-jr will fix it, but I don't think he is an alt-coin fan, so he may not think it's worth the effort.

As I recall, BFGMiner validates the coinbase address to be a well-formed BITCOIN address, so if you are mining an alt coin, solo mining with GBT won't work.  I'm not sure how you could validate the payout address in a way that would work for all possible alt coins.

There should be a different name for "Libertarianism" because it is not an "ism" at all.  "Ism"s are always doctrines of people who want to coerce others to do what the Ismist thinks should be done.  Libertarians don't want to coerce anyone into doing anything.

Libertarianism is simply the acknowledgement that it is the nature of humans to resist coercion.  If you look at the history of government, you will notice that it is quite naturally becoming less and less coercive as the centuries roll past, and it will continue to do so, simply because it is the basic nature of humans to resist coercion.  It doesn't matter if you understand or want this - it is simply a result of human nature.

It's heartening to see that you recognize the evolution of less coercive government that is represented by the United States of America, but I think it's silly that you suggest that we are free enough because we are in some ways freer than others.  It seems very natural to me that humans should always seek to maximize freedom and minimize coercion.

You seem to believe that civilization can only exist through coercion - and on that point Libertarians will disagree with you - but we still don't want to coerce you into doing what we want...  We just want you to stop trying to coerce us.

Maybe you are free enough, but some of us don't believe we have reached the optimal state just yet.  And we believe that Bitcoin technology, whether or not the bitcoin currency succeeds or fails, will be key in the further evolution of freedom and minimalization of coercion.

^ this

I used to enjoy Jorge's posts as a balanced and well thought-out counterpoint, but nowadays his posts consist almost entirely of FUD that has been repeated and refuted ad nauseum on this forum.  Not worth reading anymore.

Again:

The historic behavior of cgminer when necessary parameters are not specified is to NOT MINE At ALL - and rightly so, because if you leave out your user name or password or whatever required parameter it cannot know how to go about mining so that you get paid.

Similarly, for solo mining with GBT, the address is a required parameter.  If it's missing, no mining should occur, because cgminer cannot know how to go about mining so that you get paid.

BFGMiner has supported GBT solo mining for a long time, and it simply won't use GBT unless you have specified a mining address.  That seems like correct behavior to me.

I certainly don't want to argue that people shouldn't read the documentation - but it seems very wrong that a miner with a known working configuration can start to silently lose mined coins just because they upgraded and forgot to read the release notes this time.

If you forget to fill in your pool credentials, should it then just default to mining using Con's credentials?

If you leave out a parameter necessary for mining on a given pool, it will just not mine on that pool, and will provide a message explaining the situation.

Solo mining requires a payout address, so if that parameter is not provided, then clearly, solo mining should not occur on anyone's address, and the user should be informed about the situation.

Am I missing something here?

It HAS been invented.  The bitcoin network itself is a distributed autonomous corporation.

Isn't it possible to create a double-spend using the same inputs and thereby get the transaction cancelled?

In the "Plan B" announcement they said:


Clearly, they have said that that will be using any and all 28nm chips they have or can produce for "Plan B" - thus, no new Jupiters, and no upgrade modules either.