This is the best answer below. I don't put it past any large entity in mining to have a moral compass that would turn away the opportunity to stomp out competition. In this case there isn't any competition really, and who knows how many of these potential bad actors are still holding onto their forked, BCH. That's like burning a wallet full of foreign currency because you hate the country.

As it stands there are enough farms out there to easily screw with the BCH network at last check they sit under 2 EH for the entire network. Asics make it so you can't just bounce around different Algo's. Your topic is exactly why no one will launch a brand new Sha-256 coin, the network would not be secure and you couldn't grow the project. If you look into alt coins it becomes a bit more tricky as there is no shortage of GPU's out there and the market is significantly more cutthroat as people chase profits. It doesn't matter what your project is it's probably forked and renamed within a week if it has legs and that's when competition starts looking at how to harm the competitor.

Being newer here this post might help improve your sales thread.[WTS] Posting guidelines for physical goods

I couldn't get your image to load, but you will want to take one with a handwritten note and the date. Please also specify if you will be using forum trusted escrow. Who covers shipping and what price you are looking for. Good luck

Yes and don't forget it's also currently being used.
Much like ebay, still open to offers. Better deal if it stays in Canada, but can look into costs for other locations.

Phil is proposing he and his friend each order 2 that brings them in at $800 which I believe is the limit for triggering the tariffs. So it still exists, and there are very few units you can buy to stay under it anymore.

What PSU are you using? I've never had to set one up that had a breakout board. I'm assuming you have preassembled 6-pin cables to make the connection from the PSU to the S9. If your cables are properly assembled they only fit the connection on the S9 boards one way.

Is this similar to what you are talking about it?

https://www.centrix-intl.com/product/x8-16-port-breakout-board-adapter-compatible-with-hp-delta-dell-server-power-supply-for-asic-or-gpu-crypto-mining/

I'm new to the whole speculating thing, I've only recently began to follow a couple of tubers that legitimately just sit there and run through their take on the charts. The target here might be conservative compared to a lot of the "predictions" out there but I like keeping grounded. Looking at Christmas this year I think we could see a 24, 000 BTC. That's about 1/3 of the time remaining to the next halving, which I think is a window where we will probably still be seeing higher highs, before a pull back leading into the last few months before the halving. Mentioned above is that November into December are months that generally produce higher price points.

Kind of kicking myself for picking a poor time to begin diversifying a while back.

From the few that I legitimately new who bought  in near the top, it's about 50/50. Some sold once it dropped about 30% as they were hoping to ride it to some instant profits. Most are still holding, as it was a long term buy they went in for.

Hey sorry to hear you are having troubles. Not positive but I think the company has gone out of business - can't even check their site anymore.

To try and help though. How long are you leaving the machine on before trying to log in and monitor. Gear is tricky, sometimes you can log in right away sometimes it's a few minutes. If you've given it plenty of time check to see if there are any loose connections. You may wind up having to open the machine, not sure.

Might want to check with one of the people in this thread who bought one for additional troubleshooting.

I had no idea the connections there. That shitshow went on so long and flammed out so poorly I never followed if there were resolutions. Surprised more people weren't screaming his name back then when the gear shit the bed so hard and support and supply just disappeared.

I imagine they are working with all the distributors now that were able to produce gear under 60W/TH. That's a lot of space to fill, especially if you also want to be a one stop shop for customers. They've likely been going solo and/or are testing their pool.

More likely it results in a negative for Capital Gains. This should lower your amount of owing taxes depending on the tax system involved. If they tax you on the gain you receive "relief" on the loss. What I would look into more is whether or not they create a barter ruling. If you are using it to buy goods as opposed to cashing out it isn't treated as a capital gain. I'm not sure if that can be used in the case of services offered or not.

There is no money to be made going after small fish. They will hope that a pop-up or notice is enough to convince you to dig and report enough to be close to accurate and compliant. They will be looking into people who move around and trade in the 10's of thousands to millions a year. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years exchanges were filing tax documents and no longer leaving it up to the customers.

Hmm there's actually a lot to unpack from that article. First yeah they're huge but with a similar model to Bitmain apart from the hardware sales mining for themselves, hosting and pool operation. Who knows how much is their hash, and how much will be hosted for clients. If not for gear shortages they surely could just shutter the doors to outside miners and rock a massive percentage of the global hashrate, but seems counter intuitive to the decentralization talk you don't normally hear from a large entity.

Then there is the new pool protocol they are going to launch, where the miners get to control the transactions being included not the pool operators. No empty blocks there if everything goes smooth.

Yeah I was originally interested in the M20 model, but they sold out quicker and I took what I could get. I would prefer to step it down to 2 M20 units, just like you said having 65 TH tied up in 1 machine is a bit nerve racking. I thin kanyone running a few of these will have a couple spare PSU's around.  Agreed on the M10 though I have 3 running  and will move them back into the house this winter, really happy I grabbed them when I did.

While they aren't at the top of the efficiency list I do really like the MicroBT product.

The problem is people shitpost for a lot of reasons. Some are promoting off forum sites by linking to it in their shitpost, some do so just to read how great they are, some because they think this is facebook. We have seen action when things are bad enough this year with campaigns and participants receiving temp bans, I think that sent a decent message out to most as we've seen people be more cautious about signing up blindly.

It doesn't matter the monetary limit you impose to someone it could be a couple weeks salary so they would gladly fill as many spots with alts and turn out garbage all week. If you want to make a difference, go around reporting posts, if their quality is poor it will result in them not being paid and losing the incentive.

Account sales suck, but not much can be done. People are willing to sell entire packages of personal documents for cash. So I don't think there is any reasonable level of precautions the forum could take to prevent someone from trading in accounts. At least now there is a good hacked recovery system to prevent hacked account sales as best can be done.

Forgot to update this so with another nice price run-up I'll give it a bump. Hosting in Canada is offered by Cryptoboreas, and if you go that route I have secured a spot. Long time member allinvain runs this operation and has also offered to provide escrow service to the buyer if it's going there, should it be needed.

Will accept BTC, LTC maybe others you can reach out, as always feel free to make an offer.

Do we need a thread in meta for this? This seams like a great thing to have either followed the advice above of:

We need to be better at keeping things clean ourselves if we are going around trying to clean up the forum. All it takes sometimes is the report to Mod function or posting in an established thread if you want like minded people to pull at the strings as well. Also giving you a chance to link to a post explaining your "report". If your information is sound the accounts will receive a ban from the powers that be.

I'm sorry but if that's really a concern than banks should start testing paper bills for drugs as they are taken in. Just google "drug traces on currency", there's plenty to go on. There are a ton of virgin coins out there and if people really pay a premium for them that's going to be hilarious; coin is coin. Discussion should end there, now if they want to charge someone with criminal offences based on coin usage they will need to get much better proof of a crime than your money came from a criminal at some point in time.

Does it have anything to do with the recount theymos did? Not sure how that would affect the data LoyceV uses.


Edit: I guess not, just behind the scenes

Well I'm not giving them an A+ on anything, but looking at their site it looks like 53 TH for 13800 Yaun = ~1960 USD for this gear  - 53T ASIC miner Cheetah Miner-F5M with PSU
I did reach out to them for information and to ask if they had anyone performing reviews. I do not recommend anyone send them money until gear has been seen and verified by an independent party. Positives are that they are not just blindly accepting payment via the site, but will have a service rep reach out to you.

The 30TH model may just be an outlier of a small company that doesn't update their website very well. It should really just say in-stock if it is still available. We'll see if I hear back from them or something materializes in the wild.

Are both of your miners still reporting a low hashrate? What type of internet connection are you using is it a stable connection? If both your miners are experienceing approximately the same hash drop it seems tied to your connection.

What sort of stats does your pool give? Anything about rejected/stale shares on their end that would explain the discrepancy?

Did you try any of the advice above about pinging or trying different pool addresses for less latency.

I agree, but until something is implemented by the Admins anything is better than nothing our message may not be perfect but could still be effective. The "unnofficial" was in line with the labeling of the rules we currently have (Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ) and for complete clarity on that this is a community message - which might be a good intro that some systems within  the forum are community driven as opposed to moderated. I don't agree it could be labelled as spam as long as the content adds value.

With most things if it wasn't to hard for someone to implement, go for it. If theymos doesn't like it he will speak to it, or ask the individual to stop. There also would be nothing preventing theymos from implementing his polished message if/when it's complete. Then there would no longer be a need to continue this interim measure.


For local board languages it may be worth just posting links at the top of the message in the languages we currently have local boards for. As time goes on I'm sure someone would translate the message from each board and it could be linked to that post.

I didn't check to see which were which but I did go and look at the first and last.

Ending in 345 is from April 5, 2018
Ending in 363 is from November 9 2018 -
No need to go back so far, it makes more work for the Mods if you go back and try to clean to much of the past.

Were any reports from that thread marked good that you made? Yes the OP should be deleting the old bumps when they have a new one, it does look like sometimes the "product" changes. Going forward you can monitor the thread and report any bumps they don't delete. I also don't see any within 24 hours so no real violation just a messy long sales thread.