Purchasing a cloud mining contract is a a bet that future difficulty will not rise as much as the cloud mining company expected it too when they originally priced the contract. A contract may actually turn profitable for you if difficulty does not increase as expected. If that happens the problem then becomes a question of whether the company will continue to honor the contract or if they would just disappear and keep the mining revenue for themselves.

If the cubes that are behaving this way are all connected to one power supply, it might be an indication that the power supply is almost dead. It happened to me twice with Lepa 1600 power supplies after powering 3 cubes each for about 9 months. Those Lepa 1600's are junk. I was only using 1200W evenly balanced across 3 power rails.

Shouldn't this be in the alt-coins subforum? In any case, many other alt-coins are based on the Bitcoin code base.

Although security is mandatory, it is not a sufficient condition for me. The exchange would also need to make deposits and withdrawals easy through multiple channels, minimal verification, etc. What is the point of a secure exchange if you cannot get money in and out? The exchange certainly should not ask for more documents than a bank would. I get treated like royalty at my fiat banks (in spite of how much I hate them) - on the other hand I feel like BTC exchanges treat me like I am a 2-bit scammer.

And how much did you spend in fees using up the 0.1 BTC?

Exactly. The concept of letting the largest stakeholders make the most money (without doing any significant work) is pretty close to how the central banks of the world currently operate. Do people really want that from a cryptocurrency?

Thanks, I will give it a try this weekend.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but is it possible to convert a Jupiter controller into a Neptune controller? The reason I am asking is because I would like to repackage 2 Neptune cubes + controller into a 4U chassis but I don't have enough Neptune controllers to do this. However, I have some old "November" Jupiters laying around and it would be great if I could use their controllers.

Yes instead of showing something short and cryptic like "Insubstantial posts+sig ad" (which looks like it might be an attempt to cram the explanation into a varchar(30) database field originally meant to store short codes) how about displaying some user friendly text such as "The reason for your ban: you have written insubstantial posts while enrolled in a signature ad campaign." It does not have to be typed manually.

I've always thought that in common terminology tax avoidance and tax evasion were 2 different things. The first would be legal, such as moving the location of your business to a different jurisdiction, while the latter would be illegal (such as simply not paying taxes you are supposed to).

At some point in time all coins in circulation will be tainted. It won't be practical to block transactions just because the coins were used in some alleged criminal activity at some point in the past.

People can't even agree to a simple fork to increase the blocksize to 20MB. Why would you think that forking Bitcoin to a Piece-of-Shit coin could stand any chance of happening?

It says "database corrupted" when it crashed while verifying blocks. However, it loaded fine the second time. This could mean that your hard drive has marginally bad sectors (or you might have a poor quality SSD, but my experience with bad SSDs is that the entire drive usually goes offline).

Beyond a certain point larger blocks incur an increasing risk of getting orphaned if they take too long to propagate across the network.

I took my car in for a scheduled service and without me asking the dealer apparently gave the car a software update. The software that runs the navigation, radio, driver assist, cameras and what not now behaves differently. It seems a lot smarter than before and I am somewhat concerned that it might be tracking and reporting my movements to some central database. It is a fairly new car with a lot of electronic gizmo and I am in the US. It seems to be connected to some network because I do get live traffic updates that enables the GPS to bypass traffic jams.

Does anybody here know exactly how much data a car tracks - say those equipped with OnStar or ConnectedDrive? I am guessing that this forum might have a number of privacy conscious readers who might know the answer.

As far as I know Localbitcoins can only hold BTC in escrow and not fiat. Therefore I suspect that the email is fake.

OP should only have released the coins after the money (Turkish Lira) is in hand.

Better safe than sorry.

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This is off-topic, but I feel like it is unfortunate that Wordpress was built on top of MySQL because it is a very inefficient technology stack based on what's available today. It would have been more appropriate to have built Wordpress on top of a noSQL document database such as CouchDB or MongoDB. Unfortunately, when Wordpress was first designed noSQL databases did not exist.

Back on topic, MySQL is just not just a storage system - it is a relational database. With a relational database system you expect things like records, tables, indexes, primary keys, constraints, yadayadayada ... How are you going to implement these features on top of the blockchain?

On my PC the blockchain right now takes up 37.1 GB of disk space. I don't see how this idea can be practical or scalable.

As long as it is not 100% legal especially at the Federal level, banks will be pressured to not provide credit card merchant services to dispensaries even though these dispensaries are legit at the state level. This is where Bitcoin will step in. It may take some time for cannabis to be legalized federally so there is plenty of time to take advantage of this "grey market".