This is a forum, higher members that are active do come to post on this forum daily or almost daily to learn from each other. They make posts in a way they read unique posts that they get ideas from to later make better posts too. When I met two friends some years ago, I noticed if I am arguing with one about something, the other friend is almost all the time in support of the other friend. Before I met them, they have been together for years, they have discussed many things they have agreed upon many times before I met them both. That is how this forum is. But the difference is that newbies do not know what old ranked members know, but when he began to read more than post, studying the establish members, his discussion would start to be similar with those of old ranked members and he will rank up.

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A bear has to do bear stuff 


I was half joking with that but only half, not that I would even plan on doing so but I remembered how used gear that was one step away from being sold at scrap metal prices suddenly become 5x more expensive than normal. Of course, I might get things wrong since at that time I wasn't mining and I wasn't following the pieces that close but didn't s9 spike from something like $75 to $500 and even over it?
But, as I said, I was half joking and 0 percent planning on doing it, but it was a fun thing thinking of!

I see Phil got lucky, the S19Pro are sold out,w what's left are the 95Th at $3230, meh!!!

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Also, just how much f^&^&^ spare power do you still have? 


When I go over reddit posts it starts to hurt my head from how much copium and denial some GPU miners are clinging to, people with tons of cards claiming not to sell because the next bull run will be here any moment, there were thousands making a few $ a day watching a video card mining and they simply can't let it go.
Magically someone will invent a new coin just so that they can make money again!

USD lifeboat:

Right now its tough market for GPUs.

Basically if you are a seller, you are getting awfully low offers because "ETH mining is dead".

If you are a buyer, most of the ads or ebay listings have a price listed that is still fairly high for your tastes. So you make an offer that ends up being insultingly low and get the seller to not respond.

Similar to the car market it seems. Buyers don't want to pay inflated prices and sellers don't want to sell low, so there are no actual sales.

I'm looking for people who are looking to get rid of RTX3080 & 3090 cards now that mining is dead.
Please only PM if you have at least 8 units of the same model.

And everyone can attain those ranks with time. You need both merits and activity to get there. The spamming and shit posting got so bad a few years ago, that the admins had to do something. Hence, the merit system was introduced.

If you believe that to be the case, please take advantage of the Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source thread. Someone with enough source merits can take a look at those posts and merit them if they feel they deserve some. The Pharmacist has also written more than once that people can PM him and ask him to check their post history and he will merit those posts that deserve more merits. There is also Ratimov's Help newbies and those who have a little left to the next rank initiative.  

Of course it's not perfect. Nothing is. But it's good. It has stopped shit posters to rank up just by posting meaningless posts and it has killed the black market for account sellers.  

I would really like to know who those are? Who are the legendary shit posters who get merited and who does the meriting? If for some reason you don't feel like discussing it in public, PM me a few names. I am curious if your assessment of a shit poster is the same as mine.

The thing is, there are no rules for meriting posts. There are only the rules you create and your subjective opinion about a post. Merit sources aren't allowed to sell their merits. That's it. That's where the rules stop. If I thought a post of yours was funny, I can merit it if I want to. Humor gets merited as well. Regarding the popularity and familiarity part, remember what I said previously about seeing the same group of people hanging out in the same boards. It becomes a habit seeing them there. You learn what they are all about and you understand what quality they can bring to the table. If you have a group of let's say 20 people with similar interests who write and discuss the same things and all of them are capable of participating in a quality discussion, merits start going back and forth. If you like being on the receiving and, you want to give other people that same feeling. That's natural and human wouldn't you agree? If someone does something nice to you, you feel like you need to reciprocate in some way. Maybe that's why you think of it as merits for popularity or familiarity. But you are wrong if you think it's some kind of close circle of friends working together and tapping each other on the shoulders. Do the things that the best forum users do and if you aren't appreciated or merited properly, then we can discuss what is going on. This is more of a general message, not directed towards you personally because I am not that familiar with your posting habits.

I really don't know how active you are. But I don't see you around the same boards or threads where I see many other people. If I don't see you there, others don't see you there either. But what I do see is that you have a decent merit to activity count. But even with 1000 merits to your name, you need the activity points. There is no ranking up without them.  

I am not following sorry. It's time for my nap, maybe that's got something to do with it. When you say they have taken it upon themselves, are you talking about them being merit sources who get to decide who gets merited and who doesn't? Merit sources get selected by theymos or they apply to become one. They are picked based on the admins' criteria and whether or not he believes they can be trusted to do the job properly and not abuse the system. Just like in all segments of life, you select the best when it comes to more responsible positions, right?  

There we go again 


Such a terrible idea, all mining gears lose BTC value over time, if one is confident that price will recover at one point, buying BTC directly is the best thing to do, however, I am also preparing for perhaps one last expansion this cycle, not because I think the markets are going to hit the sky tomorrow, but because I think we are close to the bottom than we were months ago, and I also think this side-ways action will still be there for months.

IMO, the best time to invest in mining gears is when buying BTC or even holding cash can't yield you anything, this is exactly what happens in a no-action market, like the one we have no and are about to have for months, while I do think we might still have one more leg to the downside, I chose not to try and time the market but rather DCA into the expansion, thankfully, I made good decisions before the collapse and expanded the infrastructure, because doing that now would be a terrible idea, so it's just about time.

So ya, I am shopping for mining gears now, just kind of hard to make up my mind, I know I want Whatsminers just can't decide on whether to risk buying used at nearly half the price or just get the new, the used ones are either M20s or M21s both which I have tested intensively and am very satisfied with, the new ones will be either M31s or M31s, I could possibly mix here and there but I hate to do that, I prefer to get the gear type so that I won't be needing many spares, just 1-2 PSUs, control boards and a couple of fans and then as the miners age, some of them will give you those spare parts for free, but either way, I should fill up the whole space by year-end one way or the other.

Oh, did I miss my chance of saying difficulty is going down, price is recovering above 20k, and everything is fine again?

I'm starting to think, if I'm facing 7c revenue per th a day, 0,75 kwh burned for each th/day, no real chance of difficulty going down enough to matter without the price also, this will be a game of who last longer, either due to the cost/profits or real breakdown of miners. Yes, I see Phil eager to get a new toy for his mining,I see others over Telegram,  but how many could still expand, and how many would take the risks of doing something significant in purchases?  And won't that make things even worse short term?

Yeah, I know, it's better to be ready when the bull market comes back than run after the cheap gear that is nowhere to be found when it happens, but right now I feel like the best way to profit would be to buy the miners, let them in their boxes and sell them as new once this bearish period is over.


I like to go back in time and read them, I'm just so eager to finally get to that state where you learn from past mistakes, but for me it ain't working no matter what 

In a Bitcoiner's perspective, isn't Ethereum moving to PoS a good thing? Not sure about mining hardware compatibility, but wouldn't it be a safe assumption that some of the Ethereum PoW miners would transition to mining BTC? Bitcoin's mining hashrate is doing really well despite markets being quite bearish. https://coin.dance/blocks/hashrate

I've never had cancer (knock on wood) but my most critical battle was fighting severe food poisoning a few years back. Drank funny tasting soda from the fountain machine, knew something was off about the taste, kept drinking anyway... exploded out of both holes for about 5 days, fuck that was terrible.

Other more critical battles of our lives include the Ukraine invasion which has definitely had a dampening effect on the price of BTC, the Fall of Sadr City, which marked the end of the Iraq War, and definitely the Israel-Palestine conflict which is coming up on its 75th birthday.

Hi there,

 I am just getting interested in crypto (especially Bitcoin as it's most well known) now. I have a decent (but few years old) gaming laptop...

I was wondering, is it possible to slowly mine in the background on such a computer, as a way to very slowly create my own wallet and gain I dunno... like maybe 0.001 Bitcoin at a time or something? (I understand you can sell/trade with partial Bitcoin, now)... I'm looking for a way to start small with the equipment I already have - as I'm super broke - beyond broke - and am hoping to make even a couple hundred dollars only with this (even if it takes months).

I'm regretting not purchasing bitcoin way back when I first heard about it in my University days, something like 2005~2007.... *sighs* If only!

Previously I did a light dabble into some other coin... I can't remember if it was Etherium or something else more experimental --- it had a browser addon and looked kind of like a crystal fox, maybe? Might've started with a Q? Reminds me of the GIMP (GNU/Gnome Linux free, open-source Photoshop) logo...  But I never got anywhere with that, and that was at least a few years back. My uncle had also recommended some new phone app mining program/cryptocurrency dealio that was purple, but it was so new I didn't trust it (?).

I'm not a programmer, but have often been programmer-adjacent. I'm fairly decent with computers, but still not very deep into things, though I can skim through some code, have a basic grasp of copy-paste-modify...

Basically, is there something people can point me to, a software or a wallet, that I can just turn on and have running in the background... perhaps with sliders "use 80% of resources" for when I'm doing something like writing, but then lower it down to like 10% or 5% if I'm busy gaming, streaming, editing video or something else more processor-heavy? then "100%" or even 110% if I'm just setting up and walking away?

I neither have the space nor money to set up any kind of fancy server tower.


TL;DR - Total novice when it comes to crypto, want to mine bitcoin easily to make a little cash on a LAPTOP, as insane as that might sound. Is that even possible?

If not, can someone recommend or point me to another crypto or two to look into, or another resource/website that might know something about mining the SUPER SUPER slow way with old gear?



Thanks!

I think its probably closer to 90% just going by how many posts have paid signatures underneath them. In theory sig campaigns should just be a bonus to people who were already posting anyway, and I think for some posters this still holds true. However, its pretty clear the vast majority are here just for the payday. This has led to an ingrained culture of shitposting-for-cash where genuine contribution is quickly buried beneath a flurry of dull, meaningless drivel. Most visitors who aren't already a member here aren't gonna wade through it to find the rare, interesting nuggets of information... they've effectively stopped coming here.

Similarweb Global Rank for Bitcointalk (taken from what is currently available and archived)

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At the same time, there is no motivation to attract more traffic. As theymos recently explained, the forum is doing quite well financially. Bitcointalk really just has one purpose now and theymos has one job, and that is to make sure satoshi's posts remain accessible and in tact.

Unfortunately no. Bitmain played dirty tricks again.

In regards to the "J" miners, there are two different ones: Old ones, with pic in the hashboard, New ones without it.

You can only recognize he "New" ones when they come from factory with the PSU APW121215 rev D or later. You cannot use older PSU revisions with these "New" miners as it lacks the detailed power control. Old miners should probably work fine with the New PSUs though.

You cannot recognize the "New" hashboards without removing heatsinks, so be very careful with mix matching PSUs. Once Braiins OS supports the New miners, the log will alert if the old rev PSU is connected to new miners.

The APW121417 also uses these pic less hashboards.

I suppose the aftermarket PSUs will all just have to adapt for the "New" miners, but who knows.

Yeah, gone are the days where the PSU only supplies 12V... It changes dynamically within a range. Well the control board itself is still getting 12V (and feeds the fans with that).

The only aftermarket psu i know that works right now with Braiins OS, is the Gullpower, specifically the GPW121215-8KW immersion PSU. Some crazy person managed to pull "Over 9000!"™ watts at the wall with it... So the thing does deliver.

The development team is also studying the Alphaminers, but for some reason those need extra firmware support, so i don't know when they will get supported. Last time i read they were making the 7kw model work, so i think it should get support sooner or later.

I suppose the model you linked was tested by the reseller so they would know, when i get confirmation from a third party I'll add it to the list.

Other aftermarket brands/models are unknown if they would work or not. The Gullpower was discovered by adventurous people who just tried.

Its the same way others also discovered the Zynq control boards C87 and C84 "just work", unlike that Beaglebone and Amlogic trash which imo are a waste of dev time and resources (they should be just thrown out), even if its theoretically possible to make them work, they do suck, very low capacity, poor cpu, etc. For example with the BB tuning takes much longer as it can't do all hashboards in parallel. Even Bitmain won't ship them if you break your board and ask for a new one you will get the C87 which is perfectly fine like the other Zynq.

Braiins is fully committed to Bitcoin, so the other algo asics will not be supported. Its also the reason altcoins were finally removed from the pool.