It's the 17/01, the competition is launched ! I just spent wasted 1.5 hours on trying to update my daily price checks, but I gave up. I'd need much more time to figure out how I did it last time, and don't have time for that now. Hey Loyce, if you host a new CSV like https://loyce.club/other/halab_2025/csv.txt again, I'll migrate my visualization script too! |
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I am not surprised that an overwhelming majority of us are responding that lower ranked members are not discriminated against. All of us who have reached a high rank before went through the lower ranks. Even recently there have been very notable cases like n0nce or PowerGlove, who gained merit as lower ranked members at an impressive pace.
So less protesting and more working, OP.
Just saw this through the mention. I agree: everyone was super kind and welcoming and appreciated my posts when I first signed up here. But I did and still do put a lot of time and sometimes money (purchasing hardware wallets for review, server costs for the yearly altcoin portfolio competition, ...) into my posts. It's clear to me from the very title of this thread that your posts very likely just aren't 'good quality'. It all starts with spelling errors & grammar, which make some people's contributions just very hard to read, and ends with lack of self-reflection, critical thinking and common sense, which would answer the very question you're asking. Ultimately, I'd wager to say that the merit system does exactly what it's supposed to here, unless I'm shown high-quality posts and threads that went under the radar. We even have members specifically offering to help in this regard, like fillippone here: [Merit] Share your best posts/threads with Fillippone to be merit assessedAnd LoyceV here: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source |
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For sure a lower priced device would be able to increase their customer base who find that Foundation Passport if off limits to them cost wise. We are very close to know what this device might be, and I couldn't be more excited about it.
While I still love my Foundation Passport device(s), and it's my go-to recommendation for hardware wallets, I agree that there should be a 'Passport Lite' of some sorts, based on the Batch 2 device but with some cost cuttings. Some items come to mind like its premium finish (cast metal), color display, and SD card slot that could be eliminated. A plastic device with monochrome display and manual seed backup at a decent price would be welcome. The codebase also already exists and runs on 2 different kinds of hardware, so little additional costs there, and there would be the option to base it on the existing founders edition PCB, too. Once again, I prefer to have the separate specialized gears like wallet, security key , encrypted storage, etc. that have advanced features. rather then a single highly priced crypto-combine were some parts may be short-tailed. Such setup gives me more flexibility in security and heritage schemes as applied to my stash. For instance, using this technique I have openly spread my SEED phrases over the whole word keeping them at my relatives and friends. How could I do it with the use of crypto combine other that to spend the fortune to buy dozens of its instances? How about using a Passport Prime for everyday usage (small amount of BTC, 2FA codes, and e.g. encrypted files that you need on the go) and a Passport stored in a safe place for bigger sums? Though I don't think Prime as an everyday device will make sense in combination with its ability of storing seed backups, as you typically wouldn't want to carry those around with you under any circumstance. However, the fact that it will allow us to develop custom apps for it, makes it very interesting to me for this 'everyday usage' scenario. It could be something like a secondary smartphone for security-critical stuff that you don't want to keep on your actual phone. I still need to watch the presentation, but I'm quite sure this thing won't be based on regular Android / Linux / other big OS that's full of functionality, but also potential bugs and security flaws.
I do plan do get one of these Passport Prime devices; not sure if I personally need it, but I'll buy it with my own money and review it here for you guys in depth, as always! |
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Bump. Maybe it helps if I mention the 2024-participants: [...] Thanks Loyce! Here's my entry: Let the experiment begin!  |
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Crazy how after a year, only 6 out of 40 portfolios outperformed Bitcoin. It's not even a 50/50 gamble, when buying alts. Excited to see what happens next year! Also next time someone skyrockets like Vispilio, I'll look into logarithmic scaling for my graphs.  |
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My 2 cents on this: I personally prefer weekly payments, as it's essentially a more fine-grained DCA approach compared to bi-weekly or even monthly payments. Especially when exchange rates are 'spikey', i.e. they change a lot (upwards / downwards) in a short amount of time, it could be beneficial to have a higher payout frequency. However, there is this fun online calculator which indicates that these two strategies differ just barely, with bi-weekly being slightly superior; we're talking about single-digit or lower percentage differences. I think Bitcoin is just not volatile enough. On paper, whatever we'd save in fees by having bi-weekly payments, would be more significant than any potential gains from shorter payment intervals. First graph is a weekly investment of $50 from the start of this year: And here's $100 bi-weekly: They're almost identical, netting 0.03983 BTC vs. 0.04007 BTC, i.e. just a 0.6% advantage for the bi-weekly strategy. If we look at it for just the last 2 months though, it's a bit more significant, yielding 0.00717BTC (bi-weekly) instead of 0.00695BTC (weekly), an improvement of 3%. Do keep in mind that savings through less UTXOs come on top of those 0.6% / 3% gains. |
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And do you feel this heat really warming the room?
Or do you think it won’t be as efficient if the space is a little bigger?
But for where it is now, no there is no way it could do ANYTHING due to the size of the room where it is. Running it in the small back room of my condo it did do A LITTLE bit but you are talking about early spring temps in a 200 square foot (18.5 square meter) room. I can see it in places like that, or where there is a little chill that a hundred watts and change can bump up the temp those couple of degrees to make things more comfortable. Personally, I put my Nano 3 on the desk from time to time, pointed at my hands that might get a little chilly in autumn / winter. It's a nice warm breeze, but even at 125W it will mathematically just never significantly change an entire room's average temperature. Now on to replying to some more recent stuff.. sorry for jumping over more than 10 pages. FYI the fan clips onto the PSU to help cool it. Thing is - the fan needs a USB-A power source to run it...
Yeah, I was very surprised when I opened my package. I had heard about some 'early bird thank you gift', but didn't know what to expect. This is just funny: a keychain to mess up your opsec and a fan that needs USB-A which is nowhere on either the PSU or the miner.. For what it's worth, I don't think the power supply really needs active cooling. |
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OK to print for my wall or you sell a print?
Sure, here's the link again in case you missed it: Direct link to a 15,9MB 5142x3921 pix jpg: https://sha256art.com/img/Cryptoglyphs1/Cryptoglyphs.jpgIt's completely free. However, if anyone wants to show extra support, here's the cryptic way to reach me  I just stumbled across your art through the BITCOIN FORUM METAVERSE thread and I really like this one, too. Sadly, the link is dead now. Would it be possible to get a high-resolution version for download and / or purchase the canvas version? Feel free to DM me. And yes, to whoever reads this, this is my first post after my absence. I'm back! See you in Development & Technical Discussion.  |
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My unit arrived a few days ago and I recently started testing it (just the way it comes out of the box); everything's very positive so far. I'll write one of my typical detailed reviews once I have enough information and experience with it, later this month probably. In the meantime you can check those out if you haven't already: [Review] Apollo BTC - Full Node + Miner in a box[Review] GekkoScience Terminus R909 home minerI'm also planning to look into ways of tuning mining parameters; whether there's a binary that can take custom parameters or anything like that. There is an SSH server running on the unit, but I couldn't find working credentials yet.
So far, I found out from the log files (and the GUI options) that unlike the only other fully self-contained unit I tested (Apollo BTC), it doesn't seem to be based on a Raspberry Pi / similar 'full' single-board computer, but instead it runs some light Linux distro on a microcontroller. There are mentions of RISC-V in the syslog and there is no 'shutdown' option in the web UI. The system doesn't act up or have any issues just pulling the power and plugging it back in, which is quite convenient if you want to use it as a space heater in different parts of your home (e.g. shed, basement, anywhere you quickly and temporarily need some warm air). In fact, it boots up and reconnects to WiFi / resumes hashing astonishingly quickly; something that couldn't be said about the Apollo unit. I really love how compact it is, while having a very respectable hashrate of over 4TH/s. Keep in mind that it only costs $160 shipped, as of today! In order to be able to have something relatable / baseline, I did get the 'full set' with their PSU, even though I have other high-power USB-C power supplies already. It's passively cooled, so heating up a bit is expected, but compared to USB-C laptop power supplies, I have the feeling that it gets warmer (lower efficiency). Last I checked, it was pulling about 138W from the wall, while showing me 126W on the device's built-in screen. This results in a roughly estimated efficiency of 90%, which is not excellent, but totally decent for the price and not out of norm. For reference, a high-quality ATX power supply like a Seasonic Prime 850W Platinum tops out at 95% efficiency, but it costs over 200 bucks - more than the price of the whole Avalon Nano 3. Just keep this in mind if you're calculating running costs, as always, do measure wall power and not just software-reported 'hashboard power'. In this case we're talking about ~100kWh a year of PSU heat loss (about 10 to 30 bucks in total, depending on your electricity price). |
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This site is completely trustworthy. On this site you have to trust the seller. This is one of the biggest crowdfunding sites out there.
It may be one of the biggest crowdfunding sites, but these are notorious for being used by scammer vaporware salesmen. I.e. such sellers promise extraordinary products at incredible prices, but never ship. And there's nothing you can do about it, because legally you're not a 'buyer', but just a 'backer' of a project who gets a 'reward' for your generous donation, in case the project succeeds. This failed many times with 3D printer projects about half a decade ago; more often than not, backers never got their printers. I don't personally agree with big companies selling products via crowdfunding websites, because they are essentially just offloading their risk (of not being able to deliver) to buyers instead of taking it on themselves, while they clearly could. That being said, you can trust a company like Canaan much more than a brand-new start-up to actually deliver and send you your 'reward'. |
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Looking forward to your thoughts and ideas!
Looks really good, you did a great job with the modeling and I love your innovation that removes the need of an anvil! I'd like to print the STL and try it for myself, to be honest, since I made my own open-source, customizable steel washer backup jig back in 2021: n0nce's Steel Washer Backup jig (customisable)It is much simpler than what you made, but people can get an STL for any washer size (metric, imperial, any size, any thickness). |
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Since I'm not sure exactly how this works on a technical level right now (might have slipped my memory): is the mining software / firmware used communicated through Stratum v2 and / or could it be spoofed? How do you make sure that someone pointing hashpower to your pool is running a tested / 'known working' software stack? My miners use the original firmware  I will try to buy fan emulators as I'm running immersion cooling so I need to "cheat" original firmware that fans are still there. Should be fairly easy to hack together if you can't find anything ready-made, right? I guess the original firmware expects a fan RPM reading on the yellow cable of a 3-pin fan connector?  The cable usually gives you 2 pulses per revolution so if you want to emulate 500RPM you just need to provide a 1kHz square wave. You can get that from a cheap Arduino clone and a few lines of code such as: void setup() {
pinMode(0, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
digitalWrite(0, HIGH);
delay(1); // wait 1ms
digitalWrite(0, LOW);
delay(1); // wait 1ms
}
If it should be cheaper, you could also get such a square wave from a 555 timer IC, although I doubt that the time invested to build and test it is worth it over an affordable microcontroller devkit. Lastly, easiest might be to use fan cable extensions and have actual fans running outside of the immersion cooling tank. |
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Obviously, if they have a targeted input (or a few of them) to which they want to link -- then that would make sense, and they could be doing that already and manage to hide it but a full-scale Sybil attack is just not feasible IMO.
Okay, but if they wanted to target individual UTXOs every now and then, that might be feasible, right? With that said, I am not claiming Wasabi don't/won't do any of that, I am just stating that it would be very difficult to hide a sybil attack, besides, Wasabi doesn't need any more criticism, you make chain analysis scums richer every time you use it.
From what I've heard so far, it seems to me that sybil-attacking from the coordinator side is still feasible, as long as it's not done on a massive scale. That's a good last point, though; even if they weren't doing anything fishy, every Wasabi CoinJoin puts some extra money in blockchain analysis pockets. They might use that to fund more blockchain analysis research and development for new ways to deanonymize us. |
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There are many alternative options to store those phrases online, without anyone even noticing it.
You just need to camouflage it a bit with clever techniques that will conceal it's real purpose. (Using templates and splitting it into many pieces that only you will be able to decipher) Of course it's possible. But if enough people do this, I bet some of them lose their money, while others are unable to recover their seed on their own. And that's why it's generally not a good idea to create your own "system". I agree; never roll your own crypto / encoding schemes! Over the years, I myself had to re-check my seed backups to even remember which backup belonged to which wallet. And these are just regular old steel washer and steel plate backups of BIP39 seed phrases. Only issue is as with all 'custom crypto' ( don't roll your own crypto), if let's say you pass away and your family knows nothing about this scheme, they won't randomly think to unzip a file from your cloud storage, take the image that is hung in your office and pass it through a program from GitHub to restore a Bitcoin wallet. Instead, if they find some paper with 12 words, they might look online and find out this is a Bitcoin wallet seed. Of course, you yourself might also forget how you generated that wallet if you find your backup again after decades and maybe already have symptoms of dementia. Some people stay in areas where natural disasters are more prevalent, so you cannot store this in one geographical location. Even a safe deposit box in a bank far from your home would be a better idea. Or 3 safe deposit boxes, each storing 16 out of 24 words. Seed splitting is not that smart, though. There are multiple threads about it on here; especially with Taproot, multisig is the way to go. |
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Stop spreading false information. Mixers are not scam. He can use a reputable mixer. It will have onion link and he should use Tor to access the onion link. I will not say that you do not know what you are saying because you know about this very well, so I will say you should stop lying.
I'm not lying, here's proof: Destroying the session deletes chip private key.
Really fucking bad practice of ChipMixer to keep private keys, not gonna lie.
I'm going to stand by what I said: it was a bad practice from the side of ChipMixer, but it's not a flaw in the concept of centralized mixers, in itself. If a service does everything correctly (including deleting private keys and any backups of them after handing them to the user), something like what happened to CM could simply not happen. |
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You guys make sure to report an issue here: https://github.com/skot/ESP-Miner/issuesIt's much more likely for the maintainers of the firmware to see it there. Do include as many details as you can (e.g. after how much time exactly something happens, what happens, ...) to help them get it fixed. |
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If you are indeed the coordinator then you have got an edge, you could simply reject all other users in the round I am joining and the attack will work, but again, doing that would be obvious because other users who have valid inputs will be rejected for no good reason and that would indicate the coordinator is attempting the attack.
Couldn't the coordinator just use own inputs and 'prioritize' them over real user inputs whenever they need to do a sybil attack? How would that be obvious to other users? It could easily be that those are not coordinator inputs but that it's real user demand that's simply higher than usual for a brief period of time, no? I don't think users get something like a timestamped proof that they submitted inputs to a CoinJoin at a certain point in time (could be used to show that they entered the CoinJoin before the coordinator started to attack), right? |
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Somebody mentioned 20 doge as cost for it, don't know how accurate that is, but I guess we can say bye by to bitcoin ordinals and a flood to doge at these prices!
Full fee reward was under 15k for doge last 24h so cheap enough to inscribe a shitload of stuff there.
I don't see why Ordinals people would switch to Dogecoin, when they didn't even have to switch to Bitcoin in the first place; all of this functionality basically already existed on Ethereum and other cheaper blockchains, before. But I guess with the popularity of Dogecoin, the fact these people are likely no hardcore Bitcoiners, and consistently high transaction fees lately, there's a chance they lose interest in using the Bitcoin blockchain. We can only hope! |
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Hi
Has anyone tried using a voltage value of 1300mv for a few months? could it be exaggerated or dangerous for a long time? Thank you
I don't own the BitaxeUltra, but having worked with similar chips on stick and pod miners in the past, it's generally safe to run any voltage, as long as the chips stay cool enough. In some cases, industrial miners run their chips at substantially higher voltages than the ranges we use on micro-miners, even when using the exact same chips, simply because they have better cooling solutions like high-flow, high-pressure - but very loud - industrial fans, or liquid cooling setups. Do keep in mind that there's a point where your efficiency starts to decrease, simply because the increased power draw from the higher voltage stops yielding substantial improvements in stable clock speed (and thus maximum hashpower), so keep an eye on that as well. |
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