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1501  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: 2023 Diff thread now opened. on: July 09, 2023, 02:14:05 PM
Bumping this cause I saw Phil reply on another topic... and we have liftoff!!!!!

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Latest Block:   797958  (9 minutes ago)
Current Pace:   107.0267%  (1639 / 1531.39
expected, 107.61 ahead)

it was around 860 at that time so we're up 20 blocks in about ~24 hours.

So if this goes on like this and we don't have surprises in the two days left we're another ATH and a 3.4% on the previous, erasing completely the previous loss and keeping close to the 2% average growth. My weather app says continuous 36C in Houston and Dallas so I doubt this is caused by miners returning miners to normal hashing and more like completely new gear being turned on on top of whatever is still lingering at low settings.

Still 7 cents/th and probably we're going to be stuck like that. probably not even jumping to $45 would help break the 10 cents barrier as probably it will, trigger a dozen or so of exas to come back online.
It might be premature to call it, especially since is crypto and we all know how it goes, and on top of that, I have the habit of being wrong but is this a sign of the gold rush even though everyone was getting a shovel (asic) and digging to get rich finally ending and turning into the less thrilling mining where you look at annual reports in single digit profits rather than monthly ROI?


1502  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Outsmart Bitcoin Mining: heliosfund.io - We're LIVE on: July 09, 2023, 01:41:49 PM

So you scammers have enough material to pay for publishing your own articles?
Review my ass, paid publicity by a scammer who keeps saying it has clients, it's making profits but somehow it can't show a single proof of actively having a single damn miner at work.

Again, to everyone reading this, stay away from this scam:
-no license
-no gear
-fake promises
=ponzi scheme!

Please note, we are incorporated in the US and comply with the us laws, this acts as a silver signature regarding the legitimacy of our business.

Yeah, are you sure about that?
So don't mind if I forward an inquiry about your "company" and your business to the FINRA, right?
I would normally not waste that much of my time with petty scammers like you but you crossed too many liens here!

1503  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Free electricity, just the equipment left. on: July 09, 2023, 01:18:43 PM
if your doing it to earn some cash , its a tough gig , people out there have petra hashes of
kit running for years without catching a block , thats the first REALITY !

Nobody mentioned solo mining, so please stop with the damn lottery thing, you might find an interesting word to throw it around but it's not it's place here.
OP said it was going to mine, and that's it, leaving aside the legal implications with free energy he will get a profit no matter what, he can easily just join a mining pool with 4-5 miners and that's it unless you have a broken usb miner from 6 years ago that will never be making the minimum withdraw nobody is forcing you to solo mine! Plenty of pools that will accept an S9 and I'm more curious about those that don't (well, except for foundry)

if you're considering buying used machines, www spamfinder com

Stop with your spam and with all your alts!




1504  Economy / Reputation / Re: hugeblack made false accusations against me. on: July 08, 2023, 10:44:09 PM
Also, a forum member can delete his own post, this is not an anti-forum act.

https://ninjastic.space/post/11939724

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posted by deadsea33 on 2015-07-22 04:55:22 UTC
11939724
Bitcoin Discussion

Forget Bitcointalk. Go to Bitcoingarden

How do you call this?
1505  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why I Can't Stand POS for Bitcoin on: July 08, 2023, 02:06:06 PM
POS might be the end of Bitcoin, therefore I am totally against it! We know what happened to Ethereum the moment it became POS, do we not?

Why, has ETH died?

I have some really bad news for you if by god forbid what miracle of hell Bitcoin will go POS, it won't mean the end of it.
Simple because the number of people that really care about decentralization is a tiny drop in the ocean compared to the ones that are only after the value and the swings in trading, hard to swallow pill but it's reality.

https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership-united-states-2022/
There are supposedly 46 million people holding crypto and 76% of it, that's 33.4 million, holding Bitcoin.
And yet you only have 40,121,270 addresses with more than 1$ worth of BTC on it.

So, we either agree that the number of addresses and thus at most users has barely doubled in 6 years from 20957930 to 47812082 or we agree that most of the growth is in users holding their funds in CEX, so, do you think those people would care about PoW or Pos or do they even know what those mean?

I keep bumping on this forum into one or two-year-old users who think that if miners add more gear the number of confirmed transactions will grow or even double, do you expect a total newbie who is only investing to get some x10 x100 overnight to care about pos or pow? No! That's reality! And that as much as I hate ETH I know this won't affect it even one tiny bit!

and from all indication, tx fees then will be higher than what it regularly is now, so that would be enough to encourage miners to keep on mining BTC.

Care to name one of those indicators?
1506  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: [Jul 2023] Fees are low, use this opportunity to Consolidate your small inputs! on: July 08, 2023, 01:39:06 PM
Use this if you can Smiley

Seems like at least someone has taken your advice:
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/3JSdUu1ivm3rqMvuCTAdAj6Dc2hdVhHiEe

I've countered over 15k inputs being consolidated just here today, not spending time tracking if it's a tumbler or an exchange but this guy with his few addresses has used just today about 10 blocks today at least. While they will go down to 2-3 probably this weekend I doubt we will see too soon blocks with empty space, there are probably a ton of users waiting for this breather just to consolidate.

Also, a sudden increase in hash rate is also helping,
Current Pace:   106.2707%  (1472 / 1385.14 expected, 86.86 ahead)
86 blocks more than normal, about 8 blocks a day extra.


1507  Economy / Economics / Re: Russia and others, move to use Yuan instead of dollar. on: July 08, 2023, 01:22:06 PM
Doomsayers cult two years ago:
China is holding all of US debt, US is owned by China, Us puppet of China, US bankrupt
Doomsayers cult now:
China is dumping all of US debt, China no longer holds US debt, US is bankrupt!

Going over the obvious lack of knowledge of what those bonds actually are and what purpose they serve here is a really hard pill for you to swallow:

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According to data from the US Department of the Treasury, China's holdings of US agency bonds — bonds issued by US government-sponsored agencies like mortgage buyer Freddie Mac — stood at $259.99 billion as of January, up by $55.3 billion, or 27 percent, from a year ago.

Simply said, China is just converting treasury bonds to us agency ones because they are offering higher yields.

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Experts said a key driver of China's rising holdings of US agency debt was its higher yield over US Treasuries.

A recent Bloomberg report said that the US agency bonds' yield premium over US Treasuries has widened over the past year, with the option-adjusted spread between US agency bonds and Treasuries increasing to about 28 basis points as of mid-February, up from about 15 basis points a year ago.

Oh, and I'm sure every single one of you is going to label this as fake news, even if it comes from the official paper of the CCP.

Meanwhile, how are BRICS currencies doing?
If the USD is dying, why are the BRICS currencies going lower against it?



I would have mentioned also the Iranian rial but that thing went down so bad it's destroying every graphic like the Zimbabwe dollar.
1508  Economy / Economics / Re: The future of Farming. on: July 07, 2023, 02:59:41 PM
What do you think about Vertical Farming, do you agree that it is the future of farming really?
https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/advantages-disadvantages-vertical-farming.php

Let me tell you as a guy who lived at a farm, his whole family was in the farming business for a century, who still doeS the accounting for one, as clear as the sky is blue the author of that garbage has seen a farm only in pictures and maybe while playing Farmville on his phone.

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One of the biggest perks of vertical farming lies in the fact that it follows a Hydroponic growing process whereby only 10% of the water is used.

And instead, they use 10 times more energy for it, just this year despite with food prices going up:
Vertical farmer Kalera files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Indoor farming operations face bankruptcies, layoffs, closures
AeroFarms Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection, CEO Steps Down
The vertical farming bubble is finally popping

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You can always choose to grow crops in an area where your customer lives thereby reducing transportation costs, carbon dioxide emissions, and the constant need for refrigerating your produce. At the end of the day, this not only contributes to the freshness of your products but also makes them incredibly profitable.

A 100km trip for a fully packed truck is about ~30l, that's one tractor round for one ha, usually, you will need 5 rounds for that including the harvesting, and you will be getting around 10 tons, so 1/4 of a truck. Besides, good luck with bananas in Bulgaria, with rice in Denmark and your Merlot will taste horrible in Pakistan or Nigeria.

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When you grow food on a vertical farm, you have the chance of completely cutting down on the need to invest in pesticides. That is because your farming is practiced in a controlled environment that prohibits the entry of pests.

And the controlled environment costs more than pesticides. But, who cares, right?
Obviously not the above-mentioned business that went bankrupt one after other!

Since this mode of farming does not affect trees and animals around inland zones, it is also an excellent way to promote biodiversity.

Yeah, because flattening the ground and pouring 10 feet of concrete foundation for all that weight, all the piping all the electricity needed will do wonders for biodiversity? The author just mentioned a closed environment and now we have biodiversity, LMAO!!!!!

But the most important thing that nearly every single one of those "authors" tend to forget
If there is no room for the farm in the city because, prices are high, do you think paying 10 000 euros per sqm to grow 50 kilos of tomatoes worth 100 euros is a viable business?
1509  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] Whirlwind.money | ⚡No Fee⚡ | Ultimate Privacy | Anonymity Mining 12% APR🔥 on: July 07, 2023, 02:35:17 PM
I have a mixed opinion with the swap option XMR and ETH but surely because I'm too maximalist.
Of course there are people who will be interested, but I don't know if the demand is high enough to be viable.

Maxi here also, and eth hater by default.

But I can understand WW tactics, they are a business and they have to offer something more to their clients, and to be able to break completely the chain while doing a hoop on some other altcoin might sound appealing to enough users to be worth it.
Besides, they will find out themselves, if it's not working and not gaining traction at all they will simply drop and we will have BTC only again!

This would be an amazing thing to have, many users would want to use the mixer as an exchange instead, a no-KYC exchange is certainly needed by many users, not sure about the legal implications since the service will no longer be just a BTC mixer, but rather an exchange and a mixer.
Wouldn't this be categorized as centralized exchange?

Echoing these concerns, at this point you're going to be more like a no-KYC CEX than a mixer, but I assume you thought of this at least one step further before you started working on it.
1510  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Bitcoin hash is 380,000,000TH so small miners don't stand a chance on: July 07, 2023, 02:26:14 PM
And you would be making $307704 a day, which in most industries you will not even come close.
I'd be a prince in my country if earned that a day. You're typing numbers that someone like me shouldn't dare dream about.

Yeah, but you would be a price in the first place by having $50 mils to invest.
But again, as I said, you don't need 1% you could be happy with 0.01%, and you can be making a profit even with 1 single gear after all that's what mining is all about, you need to ROI as fast as you can, not the amount of hashrate you have, the % in returns counts.

It's an idea for people who've funds at their disposal. I can't be alone as one of the people who doesn't have large amounts of money.

It's the same for every single business out there, if you don't have the money you will not be able to make more money, except if your plan is winning the lottery or hitting 80000:1 gamble on horses at Ascot.

It is nothing new, small miners died long time ago. If you have any thoughts of mining bitcoin, just forget it.

No they didn't, they have gone way lower in numbers and in the percentage of hashrate owned by it's not like they've gone all of them extinct and this board is the proof of it.




1511  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why I Can't Stand POS for Bitcoin on: July 07, 2023, 01:27:38 PM
And here's another thing: POW can be optimized! We can find ways to get rid of those pesky ASICs and make the mining process more inclusive and fair. We have the power to make it better, folks.

POW can't be optimized, it's machines that run on the chosen algorithm that can be optimized.

And no, getting rid of ASICs will be impossible, it's not some magical algorithms that prevent s ASICs from being built for that, it's the money involved. For example, Monero is not preventing ASICs to be developed by some magical code, it's the daily reward, which is a puny $70,103 compared to $31,356,478 for Bitcoin, who would develop ASICs and design chips for something that is 0.2% of Bitcoin?
Have monero go up by x1000 and the reward reach 70 million a day and ASICs for Randomx will grow like mushrooms.

The very, very first version of BTC was the most fair. Back then, when 1 CPU = 1 vote, things were more equal.

That never happened and besides, even Satoshi broke that rule since he didn't have just one CPU!



1512  Economy / Goods / Re: Super sexy underwear worn at least 3 days to your pleasure+photos of my pussy on: July 05, 2023, 08:33:31 PM
Ordinarily, one would expect that such a post as this wil be deleted, of course it would have if it were on most other platforms, but here, I feel what decentralization truly mean, even though the forum is not decentralized...

Why?
This forum sells vouchers and coupons that are 99% bought with hacked cc, allows for fake subscribers and views, and a ton of other things that are either a result of illegal activity or are illegal in like 100 jurisdictions. What would be the problem if somebody is selling used panties? You've joined the morality police maybe?

At least Im selling a legitimate product instead of scamming people l;)

But you posted a picture you obviously copied from a website, you should have at least looked at the URL as it says 2017 in it Smiley So while I have nothing against what you sell, I have serious doubts you're not just stealing pictures and maybe you're not even a girl.



1513  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Bitcoin hash is 380,000,000TH so small miners don't stand a chance on: July 05, 2023, 01:44:00 PM
There's 110TH S19 pro advertised on ebay for $1975. I can afford to buy small mining hardware but it's bad news because I didn't know about hash rates until the present. Those hash rates won't make me wealthy so isn't worth entering cryptocurrency mining. I'll need 34,500 S19 Pro's for 1% of Bitcoin's total hash. It's $51M investment if one costs $1500.

You're making it sound like it's a waste of time for everyone in the world to grow food because Cargill Meat has 10 million cattle and General Mills has god knows how many acres of farmland, so just give up! It doesn't work like this, if you have dirt cheap electricity you can easily compete with the large companies because you don't need to pay employees, you don't need to pay rent or security, and most importantly you have no shareholders that need to have a return on top of that.

Also, the price of that miner means also nothing, it's the return that counts, if it were 100$ and it would have earned you 10 cents a day it would have been better? No!

I'll need 34,500 S19 Pro's for 1% of Bitcoin's total hash. It's $51M investment if one costs $1500.

And you would be making $307704 a day, which in most industries you will not even come close.
1514  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: LENDERS STAY SAFE on: July 04, 2023, 01:54:11 PM
Such documents are no longer useful in most services, KYC implementation is using 3rd party platforms which require live verification. He understood that all the documents he collected (illegally I think) were completely useless.

One of the KYC things I like and I hope every platform out there starts implementing it so we can finally get rid of this black market with selfies and id scans that have simply gone insane, a few days ago I saw offers for as low as 5$ for EU and US combos, (id,selfie,utility,bank), it needs to stop! And people who are using those to bypass country blocks, also need to stop, you never know how much trouble you're getting your ass for a few hundred dollars, and you might regret this all your life.

if you smell money then you are there huh  
what were you trying to do here sir?  (your the only one who contacted me by pm)  

So? He sent you a PM, just as you asked in your topic:

Hello can someone contact me by pm  with good merit on his account ?
proposal and you can get something out of this (money)   contact me !

I'm willing to bet that if I posted on that topic asking eveyone not to send you a PM you woudl have screamed like a madman

i'm not here to defend myself however i got these docs to make account on 1 site  i'm intrested in

You have somebody's else documents, you're using somebody else documents and you're trying to sell them, there is nothing you can defend here.
But still grabbing some popcorn in case some poor bounty hunter recognizes his papers in those pics!
1515  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Poly Network hacked - 57 crypto pairs affected - withdraw your coins now! - on: July 04, 2023, 01:42:40 PM
So what kind of animal is this "Interoperability Heterogeneous Protocol?"
I feel like I'm getting too old for this new crypto scene where nothing is simple anymore.

Anyhow, what I wanted to add at this point, and it's again and again, the supreme irony, the moment such a hack occurs, every single entity out there, from Defi to Cex, Wallets to Investing platforms, every single preacher of decentralizations run to Twitter an asks every single exchange to seize the funds! At one point is freedom and decentralization and censorship resistance the next time please find a way to block every single penny!

Second thing, why was this thing even alive after that $600m hack two years ago?

1516  Other / Meta / Re: Suggestion: The "DT update log" should be Alphabetical. on: July 04, 2023, 01:28:23 PM
Whenever the log is updated, we the active forum users check it to know the current DT members in the forum, that is who was removed and who was added, so I am suggesting that the names should be alphabetically arrange in the next updates.

We? No, not WE, YOU! Why do you assume every user here checks that or even cares about it?
A quick search on that last page and I see my name mentioned 20 times but I never once wasted a second to see if I'm on DT or out of it.
So why are you so much interested in who's in and out? You realize you're raising eyebrows with this, right?

But if you don't remember the DT member name then that can't work out again.

How in the name of god do you plan on searching for somebody if you don't know their name?  Grin
And if you can't even remember his name, why do you even care about his DT status?
1517  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: keep a small mining farm cool with only air conditioners. on: July 04, 2023, 12:07:58 PM
The efficiency of an AC shouldn't change based on outside temps, if does 1k BTU, it does 1K BTU regardless, now let's forget for a moment about mining, and let's just picture an empty room with little BTUs.

No, the efficiency actually changes:



TC is Capacity PI is power consumption.
It's a pain in the ass-protected pdf file, but I'm pretty sure even your model has the same kind of manual.
Again, look at the pipe length, this rating above is for 5m linear, and once you count elevation it's a mess.

If that's true (which I believe it is), what happens when you bring in another AC of the same size that is set on heating mode, so now you have 2 hot vs 1 cold? you end up with 1 hot AC since the cold ac will cancel one hot ac, correct?
How hot do you think that one lonely hot ac will bring the room temperature to? 10c above ambient temp? the room now is 30c, 20c? the room now is 40c.
I could be wrong, but would like to know, how? Cheesy

It will bring the room temperature slowly up till it reaches the exhaust temperature at which point they will probably shut down themselves.

Let's look at it from the thermodynamics point of view as heat is just energy:

At one point you have one extra unit of produced heat in a unit of time, if this process goes continuously in a closed environment, after 1000 units of time it's 1000 extra units of heat. In a million units of time one million units of heat!
This will not stop at any point if we don't assume the equipment will melt itself because you're still feeding more heat in that room every second than you extract, 10C, 40C, 100C, 300C it's like blowing into a balloon, the heat has nowhere to go.

Of course, this is in a perfectly sealed environment, so there is heat escaping the room through the floor and the walls, but if we talk about 30KW extra there is no way you will reach an equilibrium before you melt everything!
Especially since you also want to soundproof this room which will add to insulation and make less heat able to escape through the walls.




1518  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: "Not your keys, Not your coins" is not enough on: July 04, 2023, 11:44:22 AM
I do wish more people saw it that way.  Imagine you are satoshi.  You've just designed a revolutionary new peer-to-peer protocol, where Person A can send funds to Person B without any intermediaries blocking the transaction, freezing funds, harvesting user data, etc.  And then the first thing people do with it is introduce middlemen who do all of those terrible things and more.  Wouldn't you be disappointed/annoyed/saddened by that?

I've said it a few times, if Satoshi is dead he for sure had died a few more times from rolling in his grave.

That aside, there is a tiny difference here, Satoshi would be probably mad if you would use an intermediary to pay with Bitcoins, such a coinbase or Binance account, but if we talk strictly about buying and selling bitcoins for $ there is little alternative to a third party. Oh, you don't use Binance you sue Bisq, but you still get your fiat in a bank account, via WU, via Swish or any other payment method.
So if you're not going to use cash, you're still definitely going to use a 3rd party that for sure going to do all the above things you mentioned.

But again, despite what OP is claiming, people do this because! it's convenient and unless you find a way to do that p2p just as easily as pressing buy in an app where Gpay is autocompleting your cc details nothing is going to change, hundreds of innovations and companies have failed exactly because of this, we're in an age where everyone wants a tap and that's it, two taps maximum, once you ask them for a few extra steps it's bye bye.

Your analysis is sharp and powerful. You want Bitcoin's decentralization back.

Bitcoin has always been decentralized and will never be centralized.
If people want to use it like that they are free to do so, and not just you as I'm right now replying to more on this topic, you should not forget there are two things that are true at the same time:
"Not your keys, not your coins" but also "My coins, my decision"

Of course, it's not the outcome we would want, it's not making much sense but at the same time, but nothing is broken and the whole environment works just as planned, where everyone is making his moves as he wishes.
1519  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] Whirlwind.money | ⚡No Fee⚡ | Ultimate Privacy | Anonymity Mining 12% APR🔥 on: July 03, 2023, 04:43:21 PM
UNLESS the community thinks otherwise.

And this will make sure things will never end with this single issue alone, not counting possible future ones!

I wanted to stay out of this because, well, I did use WW outside my sig funds, I'm getting paid by their campaign so one would start reading my reply with the thought I'm biased, but now in all seriousness, this needs to end here as we have a damn single thing covering pages over pages and not going anywhere. So, what do we do, do we have a vote now? Do we come together every single time there is an issue like this and hold a vote?

I do sympathize a bit with the user just as you sympathize with the guy that runs his car into a wall by mistaking the gears despite being his complete fault but from WW point of view it will be bad even if they try to make up for it now, if they pay him it's like they've paid him to shut up, they will open Pandora's box with it with a lot of trying to get some $ this way, so, can we end this now?



1520  Economy / Reputation / Re: The curious case of forum member: rby (of the Rubycoin scam) on: July 03, 2023, 04:27:28 PM
Why delete the post history or most of it? You left just shy of 25 posts from 2015 and deleted the rest. That doesn't look good.

Because leaving a ton on would prove it's definitely not the same user and if he were to delete them he would lose activity, a quick glance and he will need to make up for about 5 months if he would trash those also.

The thing is pretty simple, it's obvious he is not the original user, if he keeps saying this he's a liar and it makes things worse, if he will simply say he got this account from an old relative that served in ww2 it might not be that big of a deal, he earned 355 merits according to BPIP so he would still be a full sr member on his own.
But again, bill gator account was red-tagged into -9 after confirming he bought his so, every DT with his own choice.


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