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BATTLE STATIONS
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I thought Solar had become feasible now. Not far from my house there is a solar farm that is feeding an oil refinery pretty sure (ironic). Now the weird thing is where I live its not even that sunny but apparently they've produced something usable in a field for the factory, maybe because it can be placed so close. The solar farm is next to a school which a normal power station couldnt do.
I rate hydro power over solar but it needs further development. I also live a mile away from the worlds largest tidal range resource, they dont use it... So lots of waste and inefficiency remains sadly
My understanding, and I'm not claiming to be 100% up on the latest, things are changing all the time, is that photovoltaics have only become a net EROI positive in the last 2 years or so...just the panel itself. Then you have deployment and associated infrastructure. We are close, right around break even in a pure energy sense, but remember that PV manufacture has its own externalities. It is a hugely polluting endeavor utilizing, as I understand it, dubiously sourced rare earth minerals. Hydro has its own issues, here in the US Pacific North West we have pretty much destroyed our anadromous fisheries resource. We have even resorted to limited dam removal. Tidal has promise, but thus far the practical obstacles to placing infrastructure in such a violent and corrosive environment have proved insurmountable. |
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We can't even really harvest solar and wind yet without subsidies.
We can, its just that coal/nuke/dams are paid for(subsidized) by future generations, and current society doesn't count that in any way. Absolutely agree. We lack a mechanism for pricing the externalities of many technologies, fossil energy being perhaps the largest, no question. Humans being what they are, I fear we will kick that can wayyyyy too far down the road, perhaps we already have. |
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Yes...even though many of us likely realize that heat generation is going to come in handy in really cold locations; however, it seems that your preheating idea has to be worth something, even if such preheating is not bringing the temperature to an actual boil (that generates steam with some the current powerful electricity generation methods)... and I suppose that part of my point is that if there is ongoing research into such lower heat thresholds, there could be ways to generate energy with temperature thresholds that are below boiling - I feel like I am devolving from BTC price speculation down to random brainstorming regarding energy generation speculation with little to no grounding.  Lots of industrial processes produce waste heat. If it is not worth implementing co-gen on a fucking aluminum smelter it sure as hell is not going to be on a mining farm. Not criticizing, Jay, I find a lot of folks, particularly idealists, frequently speculate about all sorts of possible energy sources, but the reality is that if it was economic to do it the market would. We can't even really harvest solar and wind yet without subsidies. |
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RED ALERT!
ENGAGE 1 MINUTE CANDLES!
FUD shields full forward
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looking like a sideways breakout is in progress until early feb ...
We have a rising log support currently 9700ish (GDAX) that we risk breaking if we are sideways too long |
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I hear that, but if you go to the BCash threads they are postulating that the miners are going to abandon BTC in droves due to the fee loss.
Who cares? As long as at least 1 person does some mining, we are fine. Miners thought they were special snowflakes. They are not. They already make money from the block rewards. They'll leave and do what? Spam the bcash chain which nobody uses and ripoff people which don't even exist? Since nobody uses bcash who'll they be fucking? They'll mine bitcoin whether they like it or not. Get rekt fucktards. Fucking parasites. I do not disagree, I was just slumming over on their thread and wanted people to be aware of what they are thinking over there. There does seem to be some cognitive dissonance involved. |
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Maybe its the lightning network?
It is early to say that but what if they just don't want to lose the on-chain customers?
I mean if LN gets adopted widely, only a few will be using onchain transactions. That means a direct loss of income for miners. What if they stopped spamming so they can be competitive to LN to not lose fee income?
Fee Income from 10sat/b txs is still better than nothing, right? If that's the case, core team just scored another one.
I hear that, but if you go to the BCash threads they are postulating that the miners are going to abandon BTC in droves due to the fee loss. ...
It seems that the ongoing spamming was costing a pretty decent chunk of change on an ongoing basis, and it was seeming not to pay off, and it was also seeming to have some opposite effects too. First of all the cost of keeping it going, and second of all it was causing greater financial motivations for the implementation of lightning - which was not a desired outcome.
I agree with this, the only thing I would remind of is that the spammer in question likely negated a good bit of the costs as they were also mining the spammy blocks. |
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WTF happened to the mempool? This is not the bitcoin i know. (i kid, i still remember 0 fee tx's) Fees are as low as 1-10sat/b right now. I mean. What the fuck? https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/Could it be that those spamming fucktards finally realized if bitcoin goes down they do too? While scaling is certainly a problem, the apoplectic urgency expressed by the bigblockers was clearly a manufactured canard. |
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Most exchanges have been freezing due to the strain all their new users are putting on their systems. The kraken had to do a massive upgrade to its severs after months of problems. Straining those exchanges to that extent would be much harder to fake. Most Bitcoin exchanges won't let you trade until you supply KYC documents.
it has been 6 weeks now you can not even get the process started at Bittrex
Dear new users:
We have received an enormous number of new account registrations over the past few weeks. We are excited to have so many new users who want to join the Bittrex community. Unfortunately, we have to make a few upgrades to our support and backend systems to handle the increased traffic and load. As such, we have halted new user registrations for the time being. If you already have an account on Bittrex, you will not be affected by this change. Please continue to the log in as you normally do.
To our new users, we will keep you posted on when we open up registration. We apologize for the inconvenience!
The Bittrex Team
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Isnt a tether failure bullish for bitcoin? Kind of like a fiat failure?
well yeah, eventually first though it would be a media shitstorm, another major exchange turns out to be fraudulent, doubleplusungood short term |
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oh great
so just as it is looking like maybe we have bottomed out tether is going to implode...fucking wonderful
you can't make this shit up folks
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LOL
BCC diving for $10
I saw one of Trevon's videos recently where he was telling people not to panic about BCC dropping to $30. He went on to explain that all the smart people should keep buying because BCC will come back up without a doubt. I wonder how that's working out for him... Oh, I have no doubt whatsoever that a couple pumps will be executed on this piece of shit. |
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so, my friends think I have gone insaine
I keep wandering around singing
Hey hey heyyyyyyyyy
hey hey heyyyyyyyyy
wassawassawassawassawassaWASSAWASSUUUUUUUP
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Torque, Bitcoin does not give a shit what is good or bad for him. In the past the price has reduced by 90% and look where we are now. The only thing we can do is pave their way for exponential growth and adoption. Artificially restricting its growth causes a direct benefit for the altcoins.
Oh sorry, didn't realize that I had my foot on the Bitcoin brake. I guess I'll take my foot off now...   god dammit Torque I thought I smelled friction material |
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Soooooo
how do we know this outfit is not going to monetize the data they collect on us?
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holy shit
"DAVOR" "coin"
the next one is already spooling up
facepalm
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lol, we have added 10 LN nodes in like the last 2 hours
weekend geeks be geekin'
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