never had an intel nuc. always seemed a bit pricy.
Which was why I didn't include them. The NUC both intel branded and other makes always tended to be a lot more money then an equivalent mini PC. This even follows down to the used market. Not sure why, it just is one of those things, at least around here. -Dave |
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Of course, voluntary, only you forgot to say that if I refused to carry out your illegal actions, you would block me without a refund.
Would OP able to withdraw all of his balance if OP refuse the "voluntary" call?
We always refund users who are unable to complete verification steps. There does not exist a single case where this is any different. Refund or withdraw? 1) Refund = you bet $10 you won $10 but you are only getting your original $10 back. or 2)Withdraw = you bet $10 you won $10 here is your $20 and now you can no longer bet here. I have no issues with #2 it's your house and your rules. But with #1 you could make the KYC so miserable on big wins that you get out of having to pay them. I am not saying you have have done this, just that it leaves it open that you could.-Dave |
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Laptop (assuming used): ~ Bad: For the most part NOT designed for 24/7/365 operations It may not be designed for it, but after years af running laptops for 24/7/365, I can tell you it works just fine in most cases  Just keep the fan clean, and stay away from the ones with power hungry CPUs. Me too, I have a pair of them that have been up just about forever 24/7 but it's still something to consider. Also, with laptops if you do have to change the fan out it is *usually* more of a project then a desktop. On the flip side if the AC adapter dies on a laptop it's not a big deal vs. taking apart a PC to and getting a new power supply. The mini PCs with the external power eliminate that issue. -Dave |
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I use RPi and some old laptops and some old PCs to run my nodes. All have their good side and bad side. RPi: Good: Small, cheap, a lot of support, very low power use. Bad: Can be slow for IBD, and even as cheap as they are, you can get used laptops / PCs for free. Laptop (assuming used): Good: Built in screen, lower power then a desktop, can be had for very little. Bad: For the most part NOT designed for 24/7/365 operations, and you have no idea how the previous owner(s) treated it. Could have been dropped, left in a hot car cooking over the summer or freezing in the winter. And so on. Desktop: Good: Cheap (or free) and everywhere. Going to faster then the laptop / RPi for the most part. Bad: Pulls the most power, although not as bad as a laptop you don't know how the previous owner(s) treated it, would need a screen to do a lot of the initial setup. There is no one size fits all. Something like this that I am selling still works well ( I have a couple still running) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5471664 BUT, you have to then hunt down a m.2 sata and deal with the fan issue........ -Dave |
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We actually got mailed checks every couple of months, had to fill on a W-9 (tax form) and got a 1099 (tax form) at the end of the year.
Wow, I guess sig campaigns aren't as new a concept as I thought! I am probably far more shocked by that fact than my written words are conveying in this thread; it would seem like more forums would implement them, since they offer advertising space to manufacturers/whoever and at least a small amount of income to forum participants. They benefit everyone as far as I can see, and the only real drawback is the one that's plagued bitcointalk, i.e., that incentivized posting leads to a lot of crappy, off-topic, low-value posts. And that was prior to 2000, eh? Wow. Yes, signatures were not what we are seeing here but closer to: Visit BanditZone supplies for all your Suzuki Bandit needs. http://www.banditzone.com/davef The cheating accusations on both sides were insane. Checks not being sent, commissions not being paid and so on, on one side. On the other you had people putting their links all over the place and since it WAS a way different internet 25+ years ago the crap posting was beyond bad. -Dave |
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Keystone added USB connection in model 3 so it's not really full airgapped device anymore, even if you can currently only use USB connection for updating firmware.
But if you don't use the USB cable it's still airgapped. It just can be made not to be airgapped. Same as if I take my airgapped laptop, boot into the BIOS enable the network card and then plug in a Cat-5 cable. Up until that moment it WAS airgapped. Splitting hairs I know, and it's best to make sure people can't do something stupid (because they will) but probably not that big a deal with all the other issues out there. -Dave |
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Part of it is does anyone want to spend any time and effort and money doing it?
They are running mailman and they are not 100% happy with it. That's fine, but since it was on the Linux Foundations servers they were limited as to what they could modify.
If they setup their own server and tweaked the code (they are developers....) it might work for them with very few changes.
-Dave
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The 90 & 95 TH ones?
I know the 130TH / 140TH are still around as new, but I have not seen any of the 90/95/110 for a while.
We got the 82th, 86th and 90th, all with more than 300 days warranty left which means they have just left Bitmain's warehouse, , the 140TH is the XP version of the S19 and is a different model, it is pretty normal for Bitmain to still manufacture old gears that they can still sell, also just because they are labeled new and still under warranty -- it does not mean they were recently manufactured, they could been sitting on the shelf waiting for a new buyer. Interesting, when the S21 hit all the availability for the S19 dropped a lot and then they just stopped coming totally for the people I was dealing with. Wonder if they are still making them or they were just old stock. Having this and the one from the other post I linked die the way they did just feels off. Since they were Amazon purchases, they should just ship them back and get another one. -Dave |
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I can't speak for those sellers, however, one thing I can tell you is that brand-new S19s still exist, I have them in stock and I sold a few not too long ago to a forum member, of course, your theory is perfectly valid, some sellers would sell a used miner as new, it's not so hard to fake that.
The 90 & 95 TH ones? I know the 130TH / 140TH are still around as new, but I have not seen any of the 90/95/110 for a while. With when they went out of production I just can't see the slower ones as new. -Dave |
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Going back to pre Y2K days I had a paid signature on a motorcycle forum.
And this was before PayPal was even a thing for online payments. We actually got mailed checks every couple of months, had to fill on a W-9 (tax form) and got a 1099 (tax form) at the end of the year.
Then PayPal came and it all went nuts for a while.
-Dave
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Rule #1 don't talk money / finances with people unless they ask 1st.
Rule #2 if they argue / disagree with what they say explain rule #1 that they asked 1st.
Rule #3 then state, 'what I am doing works for what I need and what I am doing at the moment, if you disagree that is your right, but for now I am not going to change'
Rule #4 if they keep talking....change the subject.
And the most important rule.....never talk about how much $ / BTC / whatever you have.
-Dave
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Side thought, there was also this person who bought a s19 95th machine from Amazon that was sold as new but also turned out to have issues. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5469920.0I wonder if a some mine just sold off a bunch of these older units and there are some Amazon sellers that are cleaning then up and selling them as new when they had actually been run hot & hard for over 2 years. Could be a coincidence but 2 in 2 weeks, seems odd. -Dave |
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I do not seem to understand how this challenge works.
In RSA you need the private key to decrypt anything that is encrypted by it by it. Now I don't know how it works with encryption, but when you're RSA/DSA/ECDSA signing something with the private key, the public key is exposed. But that doesn't really matter here because he also shared the public key by itself.
If something is "encrypted by the public key", that is by keypair and no password, right? Hopefully he did not use the public key as a pasword, because that would not make sense?
Looks like more or less he is just making the point that he really can't decrypt anything. If he can decrypt it, he would then have the private key and then could sign anything. So if he really did find out a way to to decrypt something without the private key somehow then he would have the private key. But, since it can't be done its more or less a FU to him. This is the same as the magic carburetor that allowed you to get 200 miles to a gallon of gas in your 2 ton truck, it just can't be done. You just need to use uranium instead of gasoline.  -Dave |
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A no i didnt buy it pre used its a new machine and came with all the original packaging from bitmain
And i will contact the seller for now my question is should i swap out the control board and test it? Could it be a control board issue ? And anyone that has encountered it before? Thank you so much for the help
99.999% sure it's not new. That model has not been active from Bitmain for a while now. Yes it could have been new old stock, but things like miners tend to drop in value so much that they just don't sit around for a year. Could be new, but I would put it as more likely used / refurbished. -Dave |
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That's interesting idea. But i worry with small screen and high resolution (since expensive one usually have bigger resolution and better specification), that would make font on Bitcoin Core GUI is barely or even not readable unless your eyes is extremely close to the screen. <cough> CLI </cough> If it's not for regular use for a few minutes of dealing with a very difficult screen setup is probably not the worst. And if you know where you are sending the BTC and the amount you can pre-populate it at home and just hit send once you get a wi-fi signal wherever you are doing the exchange. -Dave |
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There are a lot of devices like this out there: https://www.amazon.com/Industry-Portable-Computer-Notebook-Graphics/dp/B07QYZHM8FI know running core on that would not work it's just the 1st one I found with a quick search. Small enough to fit in a jacket pocket and you just look like a nerd / geek with an oddball computer. There are a ton of other 'pocket computers' out there. Just how much do you want to spend. If you are worried about your phone now being secure but you only do a couple of $200 transactions a year the payback time is long. If you are doing a couple of $1000 transactions a week it's a different story. -Dave |
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Another side note, not related to the OP since they are on a USB device.
But for internal drives, I am really starting to see BIG differences between the top of the line SSD / NVMe and the cheap generic ones.
There was always a performance difference, but the spread of performance seems to be getting larger.
If you are just running core on the machine and noting else it's not a real concern once the IBD is done.
But with a full LN node, and a few other things the generic I have is the bottleneck. The exact same spec hardware with a Samsung is not having the same slowdown.
However....the Samsung was probably 50% more expensive so there is that....
-Dave
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Wine is no more or less an attack vector then having your funds on an online HOT wallet.
The windows subsystem is more or less isolated from the linux OS so for an attack to happen
1) Something would have to breach from windows to linux
2) That vulnerability would have to be targeted to get crypto / other data
I would be more worried about other security issues and having funds on a PC without a hardware wallet then something breaching wine.
-Dave
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So I have been looking at this on and off for the last day or so. It really looks like there are a number of things going on.
1) Hired shills as discussed.
AND
2) Hired one of the cheap promo companies separate from hiring individuals
AND
3) Hired some company to generate backlinks.
All of them are combining together to generate this mess.
I can't prove it but it just looks like there are several (crap) forces at work here. Add in some legitimate discussions about them and legitimate users talking about them and you get when we have now.
As I said, I can't prove it but for #s 1-2-3 the language and way of posting just seem to have a couple of different patterns to them. At least to my eyes.
In the end it's still a CEX so not your keys not your coins
-Dave
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1) What CPU?
2) USB 3 or 2 on the external drive.
What others have discussed is true but running an older Celeron and an old spinning external drive on USB 2 is going to be a totally different experience then an 6th gen i5 and a newer 7200RPM external on USB3
-Dave
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