What do you guys think about the effect on the price of DOGE of the reward halving at block 100,000?

Price goes up, down, stable?
Price stays the same and difficulty halves to compensate?
DOGE goes such bye-bye?

Yeah I realize I'm kind of highjacking the topic, sorry about this, but the DOGE thread is so spammish already. At least the advice can be used by all multipool users here, as DOGE stays one of the most mined alt these weeks.

My experience is that the tricky part is not really installing alx (on Debian-based systems - Ubuntu, Xubuntu included - backports.org is your friend for 11.x/12.x). The problem I had was getting it done when you are booting from a USB stick. It will probably need to install a new kernel image (as a dependency), then the package tries to link the new kernel with the bootloader (GRUB), and fails.

There is probably a way to get through this, anyone has a good step-by-step tutorial? Thanks!

For those who still have doubts, I was much better off with DHL than UPS and their questionable aircrafts.

This shipment was DHL (requested) and only took 3 days, it went flawless:



BUT... my previous shipment was UPS and took 7 days, featuring aircraft mechanical failures:

They didn't have the chips back in November but how exactly is this Nov 23, 2013 video not a video of a working prototype?

They said on previous page that they started shipping today, so we should expect a status update for our orders soon

I would say it like this: given what we know about the properties of SHA256 hashing, asking "what happens if a block can't be found" would get the same answer as "what happens if it never rains again": there can be droughts, but it is not going to happen.

Have you tried the factory reset button already?

You need to short "pins" (actually holes on V2) 2 and 3 just on the right of the Ethernet connector.
If you look at the PCB it should be written 'Factory Reset' on it, next to these pins

Yes and more precisely, here's where they jumped the shark:


Snapshot anyone?

If we can finally get rid of The Gox Issue once for all, that will pave the way to a solid, sustainable growth in the following months.

As far as I'm concerned they had lost my trust and I stopped using them on that famous day of April 2013

Believe it or not, the same hour when I was kind of turning down that poor OP here, I went to the station to buy something an a girl outside seemed totally lost, and she was missing a few bucks to take a cab to her destination. I didn't want to give here anything in the first place, besides advice -- remember I'm arrogant

In the end, she ended up crying, and I just gave her 5€ so that she could take her cab. I tried to cheer her up and she seemed so relieved, I wonder how long she had been staying there. I'm not heartless and the monkey theory that someone mentioned here is quite true.

And who knows, maybe I even ended up giving OP a small donation

not available here is certainly merely a euphemism for gone

PM'd for 5 chip unit

By the way, does anyone have a link to how to mine with the 5 chip ones? Is it standalone? USB => software? Thanks

+1

Ukyo, this was asked already, sometimes more harshly, but could you please not ignore and actually answer this simple question.

How come you can't even provide us with a deadline for the next announcement about how the recovery is doing? I'm trying to imagine all possible scenarios, with lawyers sending other lawyers friendly letters of some sorts, etc., but at any rate, you must be waiting for something, with either a positive, neutral or negative out come, but there has got to be some damn thing that you are waiting for and you won't wait for it forever will you?

Example:

"I expect the current phase of the process to be completed no later than in 1/2/3/4/5/6/12/18/24/36/48/more? months, and then I will be able to tell you how much more coins have been recovered, if any"

How hard is this to answer even if you are under the most crazy NDA of all time? Please educate us. Thanks.

Thank you very much for your crystal clear explanation. That makes so much more sense now!

Unrelated, less technical question: several people have requested features that are just not feasible at pool level for many reasons that you have already explained (hashrate drop notifications, for example). However these features seem not that complicated to implement for third parties or miners themselves, by running a watcher monitoring workers through the API. Are you aware of already existing OSS code or services (free/tips-based or commercial)? Would it stress the API too much if many miners started doing so? If not, maybe I'll feel like writing some basic code tonight...

I know about cgwatcher and the advantages of monitoring the mining software directly, but setting up NAT traversal on a wide scale can be tricky, especially (sadly unavoidable under some circumstances) double-NATs, native IPv6 support is still scarce, etc. Basically, the pool API is often a more convenient way to collect overall worker stats from different locations / LANs.


Answer above is good IMO. I just wanted to add that it should only be a minor effect (i.e. for a 200 ms RTT I would expect much less than 1% drop of efficiency due to the stales), on a chain like Bitcoin with 10 minutes avg block time. However, optimizing is always a good thing and I would just ping the US and the EU servers to check for the best round trip time

Was this a factory made (soldered) Molex connector or "home made"? I'm asking this because the naked end of the two 12V (yellow) wires seem to have been twisted together, it seems unusual to be, but I may be wrong or in may be the result / visual artefacts of melting. From personal experience, bare wires inserted straight into a PCI-e 6/8 pin or Molex connector almost ends up badly after a few days when not just hours. Generally it starts overheating, any traction on wires may cause short circuits - at best just sparks and PSU shutdown, possibly nastier. Meltdown with soot on wires with also occur after overheating becomes excessive.

It would be interesting to see how you had wired the other end too, on the Blade side.

It was party expected due to the new ToS applied since yesterday.
Let's see how it turns out from here.

You have to create a remarkable coin, at the very least (that may not even be enough), and do some research as rednalexa said above. Additionally, yes, I believe it has to be minable or at least with a "land rush" mechanism to distribute the money supply as cleverly as possible.

Selling a coin whose only purpose is to make you and *only* you insanely rich is quite unattractive to others. I would obviously (!) not advise doing this but even a classic Ponzi scheme is much more attractive actually

Amusingly, minable in French means pitiful. If your coin is just a copy of a copy of a copy, that's what it will be...

I think you can't disable the last active pool.

Yeah it's anecdotic, just an attempt to put the topic back on rails, although I know many of you are eating popcorn while reading it

Yeah right. I am an evil Member of the Bitcoin Foundation. Obviously I'm just pushing my agenda, and my statement was misleading indeed. I stand corrected, and I'm rephrasing:

"Although NXT is 'diggable', but with pure PoS it just means an insane interest rate for the richest, and nothing for those who have nothing in the first place. Kind of fiat 2.0 without the FRB bomb maybe?"

Better so?