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A lot of the speed improvements are probably not shrinking chips but getting more efficiency out of the ones that they have now.
Years ago Intel and AMD were doing the same thing. Processors were getting a bit faster and a bit more efficient, not because they were getting the dies smaller or upping the voltage but because they tweaked this and that and could run them better.
Early Pentiums were a good example. Socket 8 -> slot1 -> Socket 370.
Yes the dies got smaller, but they could really ratchet up the speed as other things on the chips changed and the manufacturing process got better, not smaller.
Back in day there were a lot of arguments slot vs. socket.
-Dave
*Yes I do know there were die shrinks I said that above but once they were confident in yields they stopped the slot use.
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I'm currently on vacation for the rest of this week. On Monday I'll try to come up with a reasonable collateral estimation to cover 50 tbtc.
Sooo... I'm taking a raw stab at this... To be perfectly honest from the start: THIS IS NOT A SALE... If this is not a sale, you should not be involving money in any way in any transaction involving tBTC. It would probably also be a good idea to tell the people who are posting nonsense that they need xx tBTC instead of 0.00xx tBTC that faucets give out, that there is no reason to need a specific amount of tBTC. Frankly, if you are unable to adjust the code in your application you are testing to account for the difference between 50 tBTC and 0.0005 tBTC, then your application is not ready. I make the assumption that anyone asking for large amounts of testnet coins is a scammer looking to rip someone off who does not understand the diffidence between mainnet and testnet. It's also a somewhat trivial programming change to mask the fact that the reference client is running on testenet. Probably other clients also can be changed somewhat easily not to show that it's on testnet. But yeah for programming 10=1=.1=.01 should not matter how many coins you have. And if you are any kind of non scammer you can just rent hashrate be it at nicehash / mining rig rentals / wherever and for a few bucks get them yourself. If you have a real project it's just the cost of startup. -Dave |
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For those wondering how long it takes to sync, 2020-03-20T08:17:21Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000000f813e7f23162e1a647cd07a4851f016170f30785259dc height=622126
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2020-03-20T08:26:35Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000000068db6dedd26ae638bf34a7498982483c77b117c4d7769 height=622262 549sec for 136 block 4 seconds per block 622262*4/60/60/24 = 28.8 days, assuming full block + segwit. That's vague information, can you tell us : 1. Which RPi4 do you use (1, 2 or 4 GB) 2. Do you know if there are any bottleneck (either from slow internet connection or slow storage)? Yeah, that seems a bit slow. If you are on the high end of hardware. RPi4 / 4GB / Samsung USB SSD / 300MB connection (before corona and everyone working from home killed my connection) did if from scratch in under 10 days. I keep feeling that towards the end of the sync when most block are full a spinning drive just kills performance vs. an SSD -Dave |
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Bit of humor.
The RPi2 and RPi3 look very similar.
When they are in a clear case they are almost impossible to tell apart.
You then can spend about an hour trying to get the non existent wi-fi on a RPi2 to work.
I may possibly have some recent experience with this.
Also, for sale 1 slightly used RPi2 only thrown at wall once.
-Dave
Tip : you can use command sudo dmidecode -t1 to find type of your raspberry, notebook or motherboard. neofetch also can show your device type & specification in general. That would have required me to think in that way. I really thought it was a 3. Through the years I have had a bunch of them with troublesome Wi-Fi & BT. I figured it was just one of them. Did not notice that I grabbed an older one. -Dave |
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fair enough guys. I'm not an expert in the true value of this coin and I'm not trying to mis-represent the value to anyone nor rip anyone off in any way. I changed the title of this (removed "loaded"), and will figure out how to redeem the LTC on my end and just hold onto the actual coin.
I appreciate the help here all.
Where are you located? If you are US based and can go though KYC both Gemini and Coinbase can get you USD I know they work exist in other countries too. Just don't know the rules. You would have to setup an account with them, import the private key into a wallet and send the funds to them to sell. There are many people on the forum who will help you with that, just be VERY careful of where you download the software from and who you listen to. Look <--- left and make sure they have a decent trust rating and have been here for a while. -Dave |
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30 open spots left. Gonna give this another day to roll and then re-assess if we should just proceed with the raffle  Just my view: Give it a day (or however long you want) then roll with what you have. If there is a winner, fine. If not have a paid raffle with the proceeds going to charity. The RedCross takes BTC as do others. Just my opinion. -Dave |
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Bit of humor.
The RPi2 and RPi3 look very similar.
When they are in a clear case they are almost impossible to tell apart.
You then can spend about an hour trying to get the non existent wi-fi on a RPi2 to work.
I may possibly have some recent experience with this.
Also, for sale 1 slightly used RPi2 only thrown at wall once.
-Dave
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Wouldnt you want to use a much faster hard drive to run bitcoin on such as a "Samsung 960 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD" or something of that speed? Or would that not be able to connect to the Rasberry Pi? You would think you would want something faster than 100mb/s though, especially for a public node... those usb thumb drives arent very fast...
The RPi only has USB so the NVMe and other drives will not work. You can get a 500GB SSD usb drive for under $90. -Dave |
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Well it finally finished the database work and now it's syncing from the beginning of last month.
WTF???
-Dave
That's normal if you have full node, there was no syncing while converting, but it looks like you are very close to catch up now. No problem with that, but it was current when I installed the new version on March 8th. It went back to early Feb for the download. Possibly earlier, I don't know when it finished the update and started to download the chain vs. when I actually checked on it. -Dave |
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Well it finally finished the database work and now it's syncing from the beginning of last month.
WTF???
-Dave
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Would you take 0.1BTC for all 3?
-Dave
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Another 2 days and still going.
@tarmo888 as you said task manager shows that obyte is still running.
Going to let it sit and run unless someone else has another idea.
-Dave
Do you have HDD or SSD? Still going.... It's an SSD but an older one. I could move it to something faster but I guess that would mean starting from scratch. -Dave |
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Thanks, both of you!
Also keep in mind this post of mine from last year: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5200716Your list of unconfirmed transactions is not "the" list of unconfirmed transactions it is "a" list of unconfirmed transactions and can vary between nodes. Didn't actually pay attention to that myself till I noticed and asked about it. -Dave Not sure I understood this properly. Is it safe to say there is some kind of "delay"? Let's say I have two nodes, and I'm getting the mempool txs in both of them, and then I find that node_A has 50 more transactions than node_B. Where are these 50 transactions exactly? If I make a second request to get a list of unconfirmed transactions using node_B, would that allow me to see the missing 50 transactions that node_A have? Also, if there is that much gap, how come we never encounter errors while checking our transactions in block explorers? I mean, if not all nodes have your transaction, you should at least not be able to find it in a few block explorers right? This is why occasionally you can't see an unconfirmed TX on some explorers for a bit longer then others. As far as I can tell it's part propagation, and part validation time. Node "A" sees a tx, while it's thinking about it (milliseconds) it may or may not accept another TX so yeah it can probably accept many per second if it hits at the wrong time it just does not see it. This is a very very simplified version as it was explained to me. May or may not be 100% accurate. What was explained to me as accurate is that there are certain non optimal ways that core / reference client do things. But it allows for more stability. i.e. not accepting a transaction is better then stacking them up and building a large backlog of things to process. Because if a block is found it still has to go though the backlog to get all the transactions and then throw out the ones that were in the block since they are now in a block. -Dave |
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Also keep in mind this post of mine from last year: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5200716Your list of unconfirmed transactions is not "the" list of unconfirmed transactions it is "a" list of unconfirmed transactions and can vary between nodes. Didn't actually pay attention to that myself till I noticed and asked about it. -Dave |
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But wait there's more..
In my scheme to scare DaveF away from the 3 of clubs I went in on his J of clubs which I ended up winning. As I am fine with having this card I am also fine not having it as the K/8 were my target.
For transparency sake DaveF will be taking my high bid of 0.037BTC on the J of clubs.
This saves shipping/customs costs between us if we nip it right now.
If something happens and DaveF changes his mind I will make payment and take this card without question.
This post is for transparency and will be discussed further with Corrosive in PM.
I am fine with taking it for the bid of .037 so long as Corrosive posts here or in PM that he is OK with it I will pay for the 3/10/J all at once. Thanks everyone for some lively bidding and thanks to Corrosive for making these. Side note, where are you shipping from? This Corona thing is messing up getting stuff. -Dave |
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Thanks :-)
Sent you a PM (poker).
-Dave
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