The day the system was introduced I remember having 4 sMerits. Gave all of 'em to Lauda, without realizing that they'd be distributed so scarcely. Kind of an understatement, seeing as how I haven't gotten any since. Can anyone shed some light on the matter?

As the title says. In case the buyer has a trusted reputation, there won't be a need for escrow.

Make me an offer. There is no escrow needed for people with positive rep. Accepting dash/eth.

My friend has a D3, the 19.3 version which suddenly (simple reboot after it had been running flawlessly for days) gives out thousand of HW errors. We powered the boards consecutively, and all of 'em appear to have the same problem, but to a different extent - as in not all of 'em are prone to the same amount of errors. This led me to believe that the control board might be the source of the problem. Alas, I tried the board from my machine, a 17.5 version that works without issues. Lo and behold, nothing changed.

The only logical explanation is that all 3 boards are damaged, in which case he's screwed. But I find it hard to believe that they all developed the same problem after a reboot. None of them are presenting the infamous xxx's, they just get pummeled with 60-80% errors. I'm at a loss here, can anyone give me an idea on how to address this? He even used a bunch of different firmware, nothing seems to help. His warranty is now void as well, so there's that. I'd appreciate any pointers, thanks.

//edit: btw, the temps at which it runs are somewhat high, but acceptable nonetheless. Around 70C.

First of all, btc finds itself in a deadlock, where it's no longer viable as a fast and cheap payment method, being painfully slow and expensive. And this is all Core's doing. Mind you, I am not an adept of Bitcoin Cash and I'm not here to champion BCH or their side. But doubling the blocksize to 2mb coupled with segwit would alleviate, at least for the moment, the strain on the network. I'm not arguing that increasing the size without reason would be a good thing, I can understand the sentiment that mr. Antonopoulos is trying to convey, that increasing the size endlessly would pose a serious threat to the network in the future and make it harder for individuals to provide nodes. But 2mb is not gonna make that happen.

BTC lost its dominance over the altcoins BECAUSE of core. Because of religious extremists like Luke Dash Jr that only see their views as being the right ones. Why was such a shady character (the man advocates for the DEATH of non-catholics and all other type of crazy stuff, if you didn't know: https://np.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/search?q=luke&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all). Why are these people put on a pedestal and trusted blindly? Like I said, I'm not here advocating Jihan and Ver's cause, but the Core team is dangerous.

Can someone change my view by pointing to the contrary? I think S2X would be a great improvement for the current problems of Bitcoin and it's something that they ALREADY agreed to.