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1  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Anyone else feels that US didn't take COVID-19 serious enough? on: March 30, 2020, 03:16:33 PM
Almost no country took it seriously enough. There is an exception, which we'll come to in a moment...


Sure, at the beginning. But it's not the same if they didn't take it seriously after China, or after China, Italy, Spain...
It's somewhat understandable that Italy didn't take it seriously after receiving cryptic reports from China. But WTF the rest of the world didn't take it seriously after Italy?
How stupid you must be to think that this shitty virus will need a visa for your country...
2  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Anyone else feels that US didn't take COVID-19 serious enough? on: March 29, 2020, 07:35:36 AM
Trump closed his eyes and held fingers in his ears long enough. Now it's late to contain COVID-19 in the US successfully.
He still refuses to see the threat of the virus, and only focuses on the business side. People getting ill is not a great business...


FYI : can i ask you the success rate of those countries who had locked down their country and restricted citizen from coming out (not even a 200 meter walk away from their home)

Now do you think this is really working well?
I'm in rome. we only saw a slight drop down in this curve on sunday/monday and now  the spread seems to have started again.

Thanks
Soldierwitlittlefaith

I'm from Croatia, so we are neighbors. We have implemented lockdown on time, and despite being in so close proximity to one of the hotspots (you), we managed to keep it under control (so far). At this moment we have around 500 confirmed cases, and only a few fatalities.
Our lockdown is working.

If we were late to implement it, or if the people were not disciplined in obeying it, I think our scenario would be much, much worse now.

The virus will spread eventually, but I hope not all will be sick at the same time. For now, our hospitals can manage it, thanks to lockdown.
I fear that UK(saw a picture of full metro the other day)  and especially US will get the worst of it (after Spain and Italy). Screw the business for a few months, much less people will die if the business is on hold for a few months...
IMO ->Trump + bad health care for the poor + lots of poor = disaster

That being said, I hope I am wrong. And I do hope that they will develop the vaccine soon.
3  Other / Serious discussion / Anyone else feels that US didn't take COVID-19 serious enough? on: March 25, 2020, 04:33:11 PM
Trump closed his eyes and held fingers in his ears long enough. Now it's late to contain COVID-19 in the US successfully.
He still refuses to see the threat of the virus, and only focuses on the business side. People getting ill is not a great business...
4  Economy / Economics / Re: If bitcoin is made for times like these why is everyone selling at a time like.. on: March 18, 2020, 01:49:52 PM
Crypto failed at establishing itself as a replacement for traditional financial tools.
Then again the biggest impact on the price of BTC have the largest whales. And they like the current position of the fintech. They made big bucks on it, why would the usher a change? Change is bad for them...
There are lots of small fish in the sea, and only a few whales, but fish have a herd mentality. And the whales will always end up feeding upon them. Facts.
Until the richest people/institutions decide that they want BTC, the price will skyrocket. (don't hold your breath).
5  Economy / Speculation / Re: Are we going to see another PANIC on: March 09, 2020, 06:51:16 AM
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Coronavirus ain't helping on: March 09, 2020, 06:24:25 AM
7  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Have you ever lost access to your Bitcoins? on: March 05, 2020, 12:53:40 PM
It was about 2013. 
I had a couple of hundreds worth of BTC & LTC. I used my GPU for mining (believe it was r9 280X?), and one day I came back from work and found all up in smoke.
PC was gone, hard disk deceased.
I had a PK printed out on paper, and I thought I was safe there. I was sorry for the PC, but glad that my apartment didn't catch on fire.
At a later date, with a new PC, I started to install all my shit, got to a wallet.
I went to the drawer where I held all my PC related crap and found out that my girl (now wife), has "cleaned" everything for me, after that terrible fire.   Cheesy

I was too furious to get in crypto until early 2017., but a lesson learned.
NEVER EVER have PK only in one physical place... Grin



What a story!

Well, you got back in early 2017, which was just before the great bull run, not too bad.

I guess your girl is also now educated on Bitcoin  Grin

My wife, yes, I think she's a pro on crypto how much I talked about it.  Grin
8  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Have you ever lost access to your Bitcoins? on: March 05, 2020, 10:40:58 AM
It was about 2013. 
I had a couple of hundreds worth of BTC & LTC. I used my GPU for mining (believe it was r9 280X?), and one day I came back from work and found all up in smoke.
PC was gone, hard disk deceased.
I had a PK printed out on paper, and I thought I was safe there. I was sorry for the PC, but glad that my apartment didn't catch on fire.
At a later date, with a new PC, I started to install all my shit, got to a wallet.
I went to the drawer where I held all my PC related crap and found out that my girl (now wife), has "cleaned" everything for me, after that terrible fire.   Cheesy

I was too furious to get in crypto until early 2017., but a lesson learned.
NEVER EVER have PK only in one physical place... Grin

9  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Supreme Court of India finally uplifts the ban on Cryptocurrencies in India on: March 04, 2020, 09:37:42 AM
Good news, now I know why Crypto.com (Monaco) announced today that they are open for business in India!  Grin
10  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is Bitcoin The Best Safe-haven In The Wake of Financial Crisis? on: March 03, 2020, 12:44:05 PM
In September 2019, Gallup released a poll in which 49% of Americans believe the U.S. economy would fall into recession, 9% higher than the one polled before the 2008 financial crisis. The world situation is turbulent after entering 2020. US-Iraq conflicts continue, the China-U.S. relation on a tight rope, coupled with the broken out of regional financial crisis over the years, the public’s fear of recession is growing. The rising price of insurance assets also indicates that more people are preparing for the financial crisis.

Since the value consensus of Bitcoin has been formed and is widely acknowledged, many people chose Bitcoin as a safe-haven when regional financial crisis occur...

In a financial crisis, the people will turn to the store of value assets like metals (gold, silver). One can argue that BTC is a poor store of value when it's price fluctuates 20% from week to week.
Sure it's good for combating inflation in Venezuela, but in this Corona outbreak, we saw nothing that would draw a conclusion that BTC has replaced metals (And that it will ever will).
Why?
In the affected areas people were preparing for the worst, they bought food, supplies, masks, and the ones who had more money - gold&silver. Stuff for the armageddon day.
And what will be the store value of BTC when the power is out? (One of the things they were preparing for). No electricity = no real-life use of BTC.

Am I for the mass adoption - sure, all the way. Should it be used as inflation combating decentralized asset - hell yes! For speculative trading - yes, if you like to gamble and looking at graphs.
Store of value - no freaking way!

My 2 cents.
11  Other / Meta / Re: How can I increase my merit? on: March 02, 2020, 06:59:46 AM
Hard is the life of the newbie...
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
If we want signatures shall we not get it?  Grin

Basically, what the answers here tell us - if you want merits, post quality posts, and forget about merit.
Great!
Like telling hungry people - forget about the bread.
Homeless - forget about the money.
Lonely - forget about the sex.
 Grin

But I do get your point.
12  Other / Meta / Re: Merit & new rank requirements on: February 29, 2020, 01:47:32 PM
I was always wondering how this merit thingy worked. Now I know why I'm still a newbie here...  Grin


13  Other / Off-topic / Re: How good is the IT job market these days? on: February 26, 2020, 12:23:58 PM
There's a new study from Freelance union and Upwork about the Freelance jobs from 2019. More about it here: https://freelancerin.com
14  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29m miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 16.0.5 on: February 26, 2020, 10:07:11 AM
It seems that dev is not interested in C31 algo. To bad.

Well, then you need to look for another miner that will support C31 algo

I already use NBminer, but this one falsely advertise:
Grin31 mining on stock settings
2.60 G/s on RTX 2080Ti


15  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29m miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 16.0.5 on: February 10, 2020, 01:15:56 PM
It seems that dev is not interested in C31 algo. To bad.
16  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29m miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 16.0.0 on: January 17, 2020, 10:49:01 AM
I have an error:

[INFO] [2020-01-16T23:24:24+03:00] Bminer: When Crypto-mining Made Fast (v16.0.0-362b272)
[INFO] [2020-01-16T23:24:24+03:00] Watchdog has started.
[FATA] [2020-01-16T23:24:30+03:00] CudaError: Unknown error: c:\windows\system32\vcruntime140.dll
[WARN] [2020-01-16T23:24:30+03:00] Miner died! It will be restarted soon...

I've tried to reinstall Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable, but nothing changed.
Please Help!

+1. Do you have 2080ti?
17  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29m miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 16.0.0 on: January 17, 2020, 10:33:39 AM
Waiting for C29m support for P104-100 4GB GPUs.
CudaError: Unknown error: c:\windows\system32\vcruntime140.dll

+1^^
Probably still no support for 2080ti...
18  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29d miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 15.8.4 on: October 06, 2019, 01:05:13 PM
Still no use for 2080ti and Grin31. Will skip again.
19  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29d miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 15.7.6 on: August 24, 2019, 06:18:24 AM
Hello I would like to try Bminer, but it fails to start, I get this message:

Failed to initialize the CUDA platform: CudaError: Could not initialize the NVML library. Miner died! It will be restarted soon. (etc)

I get this for every coin I try to mine.

I'm using Bminer v.15.7.6 (full version)

My configuration is:
Windows 10
2x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 ti

cuda_10.1.168_425.25 installed

Does anybody know what can be the problem?

(other mining software, like the grin gold miner, doesn't have this problem)

Thanks!!





This ^^, altough I have only one 2080ti with CUDA 10.1 and regular 431.68 on it... It seems to fail initializing CUDA library...
Edit: Tried with 431.70 DCH driver, still same result-" Could not initialize the NVML library".

thanks for the information, this is a known issue, we are working on the fix, thanks for the detailed information which helped a lot.

Found the work arround NVML, got a new problem...
Solution for NVML: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/msi-afterburner-v4-6-0-beta-10-pascal-support-extended-sliders-more.424559/page-3#post-5622018

New problem to sort out:
CudaError: Unkown error: c:\windows\system32\vcruntime140.dll

I have all the MS visual C++ red. from 2010-2019 installed
20  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: NBMiner v24.4, Nvidia GPU Miner for GRIN, AE, SERO, BTM, ETH, SWAP on: August 24, 2019, 06:02:04 AM
Code:
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,367] INFO - ----------------------------------------------
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,367] INFO - |                   NBMiner                  |
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,367] INFO - |              NVIDIA GPU Miner              |
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,367] INFO - |                    24.2                    |
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,367] INFO - ----------------------------------------------
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,367] INFO - ALGO:       cuckatoo
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,367] INFO - URL:        stratum+tcp://grin31-eu.f2pool.com:13654
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,367] INFO - USER:       -
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,367] INFO - TEMP-LIMIT: 81C
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,525] INFO - ============= Device Information =============
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,755] INFO - * ID 0: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 9248 MB, CC 75
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,880] INFO - * ID 1: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 9248 MB, CC 75
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,880] INFO - ==============================================
[2019-08-23 23:28:23,880] INFO - [b]Failed to initialize NVML[/b]. GPU Health information will not display.

I have CUDA 10.1 and Nvidia drv 431.70 DCH, this failed to initialize NVML iritates me... Why it cannot initialize cuda libraries?
Anyone has similar issue? How to correct it?
Ty.

Found the solution:
https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/msi-afterburner-v4-6-0-beta-10-pascal-support-extended-sliders-more.424559/page-3#post-5622018
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