Thank you fillip! I was beginning to wonder what the fuck happened to the WO we used to know :-)

Been awhile, I recently dug out some old stuff including a few Titan cubes. One was on the roof of my shed for a decade, so it will be interesting to see what happens when I plug it in.

How's the mining ecosystem for Fujicoin these days? Pools? Block explorers? Did they ever get that stupid site in New Zeland that got "hacked" back online?

So...... It's um.... been awhile.

While cleaning out some junk here in the lab I came across a box with my Jalapeno, some Titans, and a pair of Monarchs I bought on Ebay long ago. Everything was rusty, dusty, haven't been run in forever and last were used as space heaters because unlike Antminers they are kind of quiet....

And I figured "Why not, I wonder if they still work?" So I cleared my bench and started looking at all of this stuff.

First was to get the Jalapeno working. This was my 3 chip model, my 8 chip water cooled super Jally and the 7 chip air cooled Jally are upstairs somewhere. But I found a power supply, plugged it in, and fired it up. Fan was unbalanced (broken blades, these used to be tough to get) so I dug out a spare, swapped it, and then had to find BFGMiner.

Not easy: The Github repository seems abandoned and many of the modules needed don't.... seem to be in the right places. Finally found CGMiner, compiled it on a Pi, had the compile totally barf, found that the code was not great and the latest version of gcc doesn't allow all that redefining of variables, found the switch to ignore that, and got it up and running.

Next up, found a pool, connected the Jally and sure enough I'm mining at a blistering 10gh/s. At this rate my .01 minimum payout will take.... forever? Yeah. Forever. Even hitting the minimum share amount is like a couple of times a *day*. Not once a second anymore, maybe I'll just solo mine. Wonder if p2pool is still around.

Found another jally, gave it a whirl, it works too. This was a bog-stock model that I never flashed, changed, or hacked. 4gh speed. Which is about what they came with, I remember when we were flashing like nuts to get them to 5-6gh, then we started adding chips....

The Monarchs..... man, those are a different story. One literally exploded its FETs when plugged in, and the later model went to thermal shutdown pretty much immediately. I'll see if I can get it running, these were a lot more fickle, and my guess is the water coolers are shot, the FETs are insane, all of that stuff....

Do not plug those in.

Next week, I'll take a look at the Titans. Fujicoin anyone :-)

Yeah, we just crashed down TO 44k. Total bummer.

(Srsly, I'm just happy it's going up again. Enjoy the good feelings)

Eh, time to get the party going. Train is pulling out of the station.....

Jesus. Two pages of going on about GPUs and not one locomotive?

BPH? Sucks but manageable. I would recommend Flomax+Tadalifil for treatment, don't get your dick steamed, cut, crushed, or whatnot unless absolutely necessary.

Tadalafil (Cialias) also fires up the old sex drive again. Worth it.

I think he just loaded all of his old comments into an AI and out came that.


Yeah, that's Bob :-)

Time for ass pounding prison. Good, fraud is fraud.

Gentlemen.... It is time....

Betamax also controlled licensing for tapes and did a lot to prevent porn from being distributed on Beta. VHS had no problem with porn, and here we are.

Big lesson there....

Or you could just chain a bunch of external batteries to the APC. I have 8 12-400 batteries wired into an older APC Smart UPS 1400 that can do 16 hours at 500 watts. More than enough to run the fridge, circulation pumps, lights, and some chargers.

Also these days your "emergency servers" can just be raspberry pi's with 1tb SSD cards. Those take like no power to run.

There have been days when I've walked by the "sell your blood" places and thought "I wonder if they pay in bitcoins....

Yeah, these companies are using this as a "clear the dead wood" that has accumulated in the last year or two. Kind of like the old Roman concept of decimation, but only one in 10 would get that...

Annoying though, I prefer just firing people as opposed to saving them around to sacrifice at the next mass layoff. Cuz then in 3-6 months you do mass hirings which is a real pain in the ass. Space it out and let people know that good work will be rewarded and poor work will be cause for termination.

My theory on this:

Bitcoin did a number of "10k drops in a day" last year when the whole inflation thing went bananas. Dropped from 50 to 40, then 40 to 30, then 30 to 20, all in very sharp drops. It was annoying to watch, you'd see it flounder at 40, drop to 39k, recover a bit, then plunge to 30. Wash, rinse, repeat.

The final drop from 20-15k was FTX related, but I guess people just couldn't drop it 50% in value at a shot. So we dumped 25%, sat at 15k through the end of the year, then up a bit to 16, then back down. Only thing missing was yet another drop to 10k.

Finally an inflation report comes out that basically says the inflation last year WAS due to supply shocks caused by a 2+ year lockdown and general stupidity and was NOT some sort of systemic thing that would be around forever. Which means all this economic DOOM was basically bullshit. Couple that with the US job markets being... fine (sure the froth is being fired from dot.coms, but even those chuckleheads are finding jobs quickly) and things may. not. be. that. bad....

And low and behold for the first time in a long while, bitcoin actually went above the level of one of the one-day drops. We went back above 20k. Haven't done that since the drops from 50k we'd recover a bit, then drop another 10k to the "new normal". Finally we have gone back up the "normal" track.

So if the economy really *isn't* fucked and things *are* ok overall then we should start seeing 10k jumps in a day, then some selling, then another 10k jump. We shall see.

TLDR: Maybe things aren't fucked, and we have been sold a bill of goods called DOOM!!!!!

Super TLDR:

Yep, need MOAR FEAR!!!!!! The more capitulation stories, the more DOOM!!! you hear from the MSM the more you know the bottom is in.

Happy New Year everyone, see you in 23!

(PS: Good to see you on Bob!)

Hm. My first thought was "that's dumb" but then I thought about it....

If all taxes were abolished then public works would still need to exist. If the government had the power to print unlimited money to fund these things then.... well money would be printed, the money supply would inflate, and people's earnings and savings would be reduced by the inflation amount per year. In a sense, it would be just as much a "tax" on people as... well taxes.

Hm. There would probably be different winners and losers. But the logic may hold. Unfortunately what we're getting now is unfund4ed govt spending which is being funded now by inflation. In years where inflation was low, it was funded by basically slavery (wages didn't go anywhere, people couldn't get ahead, etc).

By trying to crush the job market and return unemployment to the level where workers are once again slaves (well, serfs. Never own an asset when you can rent it) the Fed is just doing taxes with extra steps....

(I pop in from time to time)

Naah, as long as one Titan cube chugs away.....

What? Who in their right mind would part with a TITAN!

:-)