Why would he commit suicide IN SPAIN?

Value is subjective, and is determined by you, not others. It will be valuable (or not) for you, no matter what the gov or anybody else says.

For some people it won't be worth hiding from the State, for others they will value it more because the State is not involved. The result is the price market.

Those who keep their bitcoins considers them more valuable than selling them. Its that simple really, the value of things is clearly explained by the Austrian School of Economy, and this includes bitcoin.

The true holders know exactly why they are holding it, and are not lemmings followers without knowing why, Those won't change their minds overnight for no real reason.

Upgrade to today's release, it incorporates more fixes:


If you have auto upgrades enabled, during the day or tomorrow the miners will update themselves, otherwise you will have a blue "upgrade" button in the top right corner of the miner's web UI you can use at your convenience to upgrade (single click to it will do it without further confirmation).

Try to stick to changing only the power limit value (with autotuning always enabled). If you want to "lower frequencies", lower the power limit instead and wait for the autotuner to do its job. Do not disable autotuning, and don't bother changing the frequency value directly as this does nothing while autotuning is enabled (true placebo there).

With Braiins OS+ you normally only manipulate the power limit value and nothing else. Less power = lower frequencies and less heat dissipation (better efficiency at the given limit). The unique autotuner is the core value of Braiins OS+ and disabling it would be pointless unless for diagnosing.

Always give time to the autotuner. It can take many hours. Failing boards will be retried later even after the others are already Stable, so giving the miner a day or so to stabilize is a good idea.

While manipulating the power limit, and only after the process is finished (all boards Stable) the fans should NOT be at 100%. Braiins OS+ is more conservative than Stock firmware for the S17/T17 family (due to their infamous bad soldering from factory issue) so it uses lower temperature and power limit values by default. If the fans are at 100% after Tuner Status displays Stable, this means you are above the TARGET temperature for some reason.

So either improving the air flow on site or reducing the power limit to make the miner work less should give a safety margin back for the fans (anything less than 100%) to act when ambient temperature rises for whatever reason. You can also enable Dynamic Power Scaling to have an additional tool in case the Temperature reaches HOT it automatically reduces the power limit the step you define there.

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Also, but most important: How many watts the miner is using at that speed vs "standard" (your beloved bmminer)?

Compare bitcoin with fiat (physical money):

The bitcoin cannot be counterfeited, fiat can.
The quantity of fiat is not fixed and can (and is) increased on a whim, not bitcoin.
Bitcoin makes banks and financing obsolete (loans with interest).
Neither Bank nor State can do fractional reserve banking with bitcoin, at least not openly (easy to verify transparency: see Bitcoin day).

This should give you an idea where this is going. If anything is haram, its fiat money. Bitcoin is even helping you act good instead. Remember that this is about the money itself, not what people are doing with money.

The mathematical representation that cannot be counterfeited but is unique vs a paper issued by some Bank or State that can be copied and falsified. Think about it. Also in history, who and when was the field of mathematics advanced, where do the numbers used by the whole world come from? Etc...


Please remember than in a modern bank, there is no such a thing as a "deposit". If you give money to a bank, you are doing a loan with interest. I wonder what those scholars think about banks which Bitcoin renders obsolete, or optional (not necessary) at most.

The Austrian school of economy has been proposing to end this perverted system of fractional reserve banking and garbage money debt driven economy for more than a century.

Thankfully this is about bitcoin, not garbage altcoins or the little side projects from the institutions that are destined either shrink or disappear entirely.

Sadly these types are common here, talking about "ecosystem" which is euphemism for altcoins which most (all) reproduce the same flaws of fiat or worse.

The politicians and some media people in my country love the word "cryptocurrencies" its no wonder we have the worst economy of the planet. Bitcoin is no mere cryptocurrency or "something blockchain", Bitcoin is the reason the world is changing, not a blockchain or flawed clones and blockchain less tokens.

Its not about cryptocurrencies, its about Bitcoin. It matters, because the others do not follow the same principles and simply confuse or worse.

Chia es lo mismo. Si es realmente rentable van a agotar los discos duros, que usan las "tierras raras" en sus componentes y pronto los grandes anularán a los pequeños. Como hacía tiempo se venía encogiendo este mercado, los fabricantes actuales no tendrían de momento como satisfacer la demanda, mismo caso de las GPUs.

No es alternativa, es mover la "contaminación" de un lado para otro. Es mas, con energía, al menos puedes argumentar que viene de una fuente renovable, pero todos los elementos usados en la fabricación de los discos duros provienen de la minería real, de la tierra... Y no, la memoria flash no sirve para esto (las destruye), necesita mucha lectura Y escritura.

Si se ve con lupa, es hasta peor para el ambiente. Al menos la energía eléctrica puede provenir de fuentes renovables, pero las "tierras raras" (como los súper imanes) vienen de la tierra, por cierto la mayor extracción se hace en China...

Claro pero es un tema de magnitudes, y pues quien no lo devuelva es como los que secuestran datos a cambio de recompensa, tendrían que "lavarlo". Pero la cantidad es tan enorme que mas de uno se lo piensa.

Alguno de esos inmediatamente lo mandan a mixers etc mientras el originario se lo piensa esperando a ver si se lo devuelven o no (antes que sea declarado "robado" y sea marcado). Por supuesto esto solo lo va a hacer alguien con conocimiento, es como tener mala suerte y enviarle precisamente a uno de esos perpetradores sin saberlo.

Además depende mucho la situación personal, entre mas complicada su situación, mayor la tentación. Si 1 BTC es 35mil 700 son 24 millones de dólares. Será como el caso de unos asaltantes de banco que salen a toda velocidad y en alguna curva una de las bolsas de dinero cae en la calle y es encontrada por una persona viviendo en la calle con su familia. Claro en la vida real hay mas temor que los asaltantes vuelvan por su dinero...

Se tendría que buscar una analogía mejor, como por ejemplo un día recibes una correspondencia una caja y resulta que contiene lingotes de oro pero no tiene remitente. Hay quien la guarda "hasta que aparezca el dueño", pero hay quien no...

Dilema ético si. Me ha tocado alguna vez con mucho menor cantidad y la he devuelto, pero eso si, a 1 Sat/B

Bueno ya es un hecho y se pasa la página. Apenas en noviembre estará activado, y faltará ver cuales wallet comenzarán aprovecharlo, luego de core claro.

A nivel global esto debería a mediano plazo aligerar levemente las transacciones y mejorar la privacidad, aunque se abren otras posibilidades.

En resumen, se hizo historia. La movida de Bukele ya está afectando al mundo entero, aunque haya sido solo "para atraer inversiones", está provocando la envidia de unos cuantos que, ahora es que ven de la noche a la mañana como sus países están atrasados en adopción.

Mientra tanto, todo el que imponga trabas y restricciones, sencillamente está negando riqueza que se va para otra parte, como El Salvador...

You are running a version too old, the x17 family has gotten many updates and bug fixes, in the following days should come another release, but you can try enabling nightly feeds (only if installed into NAND, SD image here) in the meantime.

The latest nightly is 2021-06-10.

Never reuse passwords, and do change them from time to time. A password manager such as KeepassXC is your friend, the password for the manager itself should be good and changed periodically. And avoid unsafe operating systems, use Linux or BSD.

With an unsafe OS you could have a malware silently capturing your keystrokes and sending screenshots of your desktop, etc. If you still don't use Linux, switch today, before its too late...

Create a Bitcoin wallet and don't save it.
Lose the seed words.
Copy paste addresses to send money to it
???
Profit!

Or use any of the gazillion addresses of people who come crying saying they lost their password/seeds.

I don't see any point in burning bitcoin since its limited production anyway and some have been getting lost by people's own mistakes or simply passing away without leaving it to anyone. Some altcoins do that, especially those with unlimited production, in their pointless attempt to affect its own market price.

Bitcoin doesn't need any "eco" initiative, the market is self-regulating this. Elon Musk is simply ignorant or attempting to manipulate the market. Mining is becoming more and more unprofitable, large inefficient mining will stop, the last miners will be those with free energy from renewable sources, on a much smaller scale.

When price surges for whatever reason this might seem to be delayed, but make no mistake, it is coming sooner or later. Every 4 years a halving occurs...

You are closer than most other posts in this thread, but you are incorrect about electricity (because we don't use CRTs anymore), tho it might be true for oleds most computer screens are still LCD with white leds as backpanel. Dark is easier for the eyes when you are not in the sun, the Stylus add on is your friend...

Dark web.... well for starters The Onion Router is not the only "hidden" network.
No you don't need TOR browser to browse a .onion site, this is false. But its a good idea because things like Chrome and Firefox are spying on you.
This is basically internet without rules, most content is self hosted anonymously from people's own computers, which are not exactly server class so fast it isn't.

Content varies. It does not necessarily mean criminal garbage, there is also political dissidence from countries where this isn't allowed. Most criminal content is actually set up by authorities to try and catch you anyway.

Here is Duckduckgo "dark" web edition. Its no different than the normal one: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/
And it will give you results from the normal web, its not a .onion search engine but those do exist.
Of course, you cannot open that url if your computer is not set up for TOR. Nowdays they bundle it with a browser, but this is optional. TOR runs standalone and you can connect anything that supports socks4a/5, such as your Bitcoin wallet...

Tor is a bit unusual to the others in that it allows access to the normal web from it, but i don't recommend doing that, your IP will change a lot and will be nearly universally banned or heavily crippled (even this forum does that which is ironic as satoshi used it) or you'll be tortured to death with captchas.

Content hosted inside those separate networks is what some call "dark", but doesn't say anything about the content itself. It can be nothing special like wikipedia or some horrible picture. Again, internet without rules, anything goes you have been warned.

Imagine your social media had no moderation, something like that.

NOTHING has intrinsic value. Value is subjective.

What good is gold for you when you are in a desert while dehydrating?

You will only understand bitcoin when you study the Austrian School of economy.

Not gonna happen with a ruler that thinks the economy is a lie and it can be commanded at will. Bitcoin is essentially telling them to go away, goodbye banks, central bank and world bank (IMF). Obviously the opposite of what they believe in, which is how we ended with Petro rather than Bitcoin with the obvious result.

Fast? We have been waiting more than a decade... About time someone did it. NOW lets see the others getting jealous and somehow pushing for their countries to do a similar move.

Unless a true miracle occurs, we could be one of the last. Even Cuba has higher chances.

Bitcoin represents freedom, it means The State getting out of the way. This is the opposite of the current Venezuelan regime. They made their own coin (like a CBDC) precisely because they didn't trust Bitcoin (in fact any altcoin is precisely that, worse when made by the State).

The over-regulation and creation of more bureaucratic institutions made it hostile for the small miner. What El Salvador did is what we have asked all these years instead of making that garbage Petro they just had to adopt Bitcoin, but they didn't listen since it goes against all they "learned" about "economy" which is simply "command economy", and of course they can't make more bitcoins when they please. We have the worst fiat coin of the world for a reason: Those currently in power are against economic freedom, they just repeated all the mistakes of the now extinct socialist bloc and many more mistakes from history, Ie. Roman inflation and fixing of product prices by decree under penalty of death (which didn't stop the inflation and made it much worse).

And many of them see the "economy" like some sort pseudo-science, capitalist lies, blah blah, at least that's what they say in public.

And yet, it moves...


Thanks to El Salvador, I do hope some other countries get jealous from all the foreign investing moving there, but this is more likely in countries with more economic freedoms not the opposite. Venezuela is where it is due to the State intervention, when they go over-budget they simply add more zeroes to their State bank accounts, printing is not even done anymore and we were forced into a cashless society and hyperinflation, by the time most noticed it was too late.

Cuba has better chance because they have been doing far longer what Venezuela is doing, and are becoming ready to do the next move into a more open economy, perhaps like Vietnam or China, they could start with Bitcoin tourism or such. Even their communist party has had discussions about Bitcoin and their youth see it with interest.

Venezuela needs the dinosaurs to go, the old fashioned politicians currently in power that dreamed for decades do the "utopian" socialism like the now extinct East Germany, they keep saying they can manage what the rest of the world failed at...


Make no mistake, there is a "Salvador" effect in the world, its starting to reverberate in the region with some politicians from neighbor countries starting the discussion. Not so much for Bitcoin, but because NOW they see so much foreign investments heading there.

Oh yeah, El Salvador has geothermal sources of energy (aka volcanoes). Large miners can simply build their own "carbon neutral" power plants and the country would be happy to keep them afterwards in the future, even sell the excess energy to starved neighbors. Win/win of course.

¿Reclamar? ¿No sería mas lógico rogarles? 701 BTC es demasiada tentación...
La recompensa es un buen estímulo, espero que lo del término "reclamo" haya sido un error de traducción.

No, es que naciste (o viviste demasiado) en este país. Así de simple. Te dieron esa formación sin que la pidieras, y no lo sabes (o no te importa), como algunos políticos opositores, pero la usas. El choque del venezolano típico al salir al extranjero es precisamente ese. Inmediatamente hablas de regulación, ahí tienes.

Tienes una formación sesgada porque eso es lo que te inculcaron/enseñaron y sale de tus palabras pero no sabes porqué o de donde ya que no has indagado en el asunto (si lo hubieses hecho, no lo habrías dicho). Ya luego tu pudiste o no ver o aprender y estudiar otra cosa, pero siempre llevarás contigo eso. No te juzgo a ti en lo personal es a este país, Venezuela NO CONOCE LA LIBERTAD, no la entiende mas allá de un concepto lejano, la solución a todo es el gran caudillo, y se te va volver a salir, aunque no lo quieras, porque en eso viviste y en eso creciste.

En vez de estar centrándote en ti, ve lo que te dije de primero: "No hay tal cosa", la afirmación que hiciste, viene de esa inercia socialista en la formación y conocimiento de este país así estés consiente o no del asunto. Repito: Venezuela NO CONOCE LA LIBERTAD. No está en sus instituciones, no está en su clase política, no está en su educación, y por lo tanto no está en su cultura.

"Regular" el mercado, hacer una "mala implementación" (el Estado) es no creer en la economía de libre mercado y su carácter de auto regulación. Es buscar de nuevo al santo político para que lo haga "bien", El Estado debe hacer solo una cosa: Apartarse, nada mas.

El Estado no es quien "encarece" o "empobrece" salarios, no los debe tocar, no es su asunto interferir entre los contratos válidamente suscritos entre 2 partes. La gente en vez de andar buscando al Estado debe madurar y comenzar a actuar por su cuenta. Si no te sirve no lo aceptes, si te sirve al principio y luego no te sirve, finaliza la relación laboral y no estés esperando (o pidiendo) la intervención del Estado para mediar en todos tus asuntos.

Menos Estado es mas libertad.

Pues ahora están lloviendo las ofertas de inversión extranjera a El Salvador. Eso es lo que llevo años diciendo: Quien restringe Bitcoin está diciendo NO a la riqueza.

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Estudia la Escuela Austríaca de Economía. No existe tal cosa como "poner la mano de obra salvadoreña por las nubes". Cada quien debe hacer su contrato sin que el Estado se inmiscuya si acaso solo para hacer cumplir el acuerdo (cosa innecesaria por ejemplo cuando trabajas para empresas extranjeras). Si te incumplen no le trabajas y punto. O emprendes porque no hay trabas.

Como vienes de un país que no conoce la libertad económica, con una clase política y una educación completamente volcada al socialismo, piensas que el Estado debe intervenirlo todo y es al revés. Bitcoin saca al Estado del medio, y el dinero basura no es para "abaratar la mano de obra", es para empobrecerla.

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Me parece muy bien que aprovechen esa energía geotérmica, ahora las inversiones podrán ejecutarla, los grandes mineros tienen recursos para montar la planta completa.