Indeed, there is no incentives for any pool or large miners to screw with BTC, the rewards will be a lot less than the risk taken but any one of those entities since those have so much at stake, however, there is valid concern in terms of the "law", so mining pools that operate whiting the same country could be "forced"to do some stupid things just to obey the laws and regulation.

It depends on how you actually look at it, this is not the first time where two entities alone have more than 50% of the total hasharate, a few years ago Bitmain as an entity (antpool, btc.com and Viabtc) had 30-35% and along with Binance or f2pool they had more than half the total hashrate, so pretty similar to what is happening now, in fact it was even worse since those pools operated in the same country.

This however does not concern me more than the actual hashrate physical location, it went from China to now the U.S hosting half the hashrate, things like blacklisting certain addresses due to U.S sanctions only started happening when hashrate moved to the U.S, I hate both U.S and Chinese governments (more like I hate every government out there) but the U.S is worse in this regards, I think now if we have no choice but to mine to U.S or China pool, China pool would be better.

You are correct, I missed a dozen of them in the list, payment gateways, wallets, and whatnot, some people seem to think that a change in bitcoin can and must happen just because they wrote about it, look at all the changes we had in the past couple years, taproot was proposed around 2019 IIRC, took a lot of lobbying, emails, debates, and testing for it to come to existence, now some folks want to go back and do another change which they call a "fix" and they expect to happen tomorrow and all they do is write about it in this topic where 99% of those who have the means to do it don't even know about the existence of this topic.




NFTs raise demand on block space, anything that raises demand increases the price of that said service, if everyone is paying 1 sat and blocks are full, someone will pay 2 sat, it's either an NFT transactions or a normal transaction, it doesn't matter, the number/size of the transactions is all that matters.

Block fees are the highest they have ever been since July 2021, it's all because of those useless NFTs, wether that's a good or a bad thing the fact is, as a pool operator and a miner you will extract more "value" with NFTs on the blockchain than without.

The chances of being accepted to any high-paying campaign are slim to nothing for most average users, even if this was a real deal, >90% of the applications would not have been accepted, so what hopes would anyone have over a new campaign? if someone plans to take a loan or get married just because they got accepted to a signature campaign then something is seriously wrong with them, so let alone have high hopes even before getting accepted.

The only thing that might affect those who applied (myself included) is that if you were already a part of another campaign -- its manager might see it as "you are not serious about their campaign and might be replaced by someone else", but I am sure most campaign managers don't take those things personally and do understand fair well that this is only 'business'.

I still remember when I got accepted to CM, I was a part of another mixer's campaign run by Hhampuz, and he went out of his way to ask DS if we could finish the week so that he could pay us before changing our signature, he was very professional and showed no signs of being mad at me and the other two guys who moved from his campaign, I am sure the other folks like Royse, yahoo and icopress and the rest would act as professional, so all in all, nobody had lost anything.

One last piece of advice to everyone is to stop taking signature campaigns as a main source of income, there is nothing more stupid than that, we all love the forum and love posting (I posted here for years before even applying to any campaign) but then I figured out if I can get some little extra income while doing something I already do, why not? but you should still treat every week as if it's the last week, make zero plans on what you are going to do with the payment for this week or next week.

44 let's see who beats this number.  


The secret is not to be afraid of falling, do not rush to jump, allow the bird to go low and only jump right before reaching the column,  so when it first starts, make a random jump then jump when close to the column, every coin requires 2 jumps, when the next column is tall delay the first jump, when it is short jump as soon as you pass the previous one.

Takes some getting used to but then it gets easy.

It's advised against quoting full posts according to forum mods, I had no bad intention in doing so since my reply was within the context of the post as a whole.


Ok, that's true, but that someone can still arrive at the same goal by sending "normal" transactions, it's easier and takes fewer computer resources to simply look at the unconfirmed transactions and just out paying the average by 1 sat sending spam transactions between different addresses you own.

I am not saying I support these things, I just disagree with calling them a hack or exploit since the effect they have on other transactions is the same as spam transactions, so it's nothing new, someone figured out a way to store some data on the blockchain which many people refer to as "useless data" while many others who are interested in the NFT stuff and spend dozen of money on it elsewhere see it as a great improvement which they would want to use and pay for.

Ya, his previous partnership didn't seem to have ended well, I also remember him saying that he doesn't want to partner with anyone anymore, not too long ago in the Cksolo pool thread.


April Fools' Day, I am sure it will be gone in a few hours, and by the way, you can just ignore it and still be able to post.

بحسب علمي فأن الامر في تونس هوا مشابه لمعظم دول العالم التي تحارب البتكوين ضمنيا ولكنها تفتقر للادوات اللازمة لتطبيق ذلك القانون مما يتيح المجال للمستخدمين بالتعامل بالكريبتو في نطاق متوسط او واسع بعض الشي, فمثلا يسطيع اي شخص ان يستعمل p2p احد مثل تلك الموجودة في باينانس, لتحويل مبلغ معين الى دولة اخرى عن طريقة وسيلة دفع تانية ولن تتمكن حكومة تونس او البنك المركزي من معرفة تفاصيل ذلك التحويل, لك ان تتخيل ان دول كبيرة ولديها كل الامكنايات تواجه صعوبة في تنفيد القوانين المتعلقة بالاموال مما يعني ان جل الدول العربية تعاني من مشاكل اكبر في ذلك الشق.

It's great to hear that you got the pool code sorted out, if everything goes according to plan, you might start doing what CK refused to do, offer a service to those who want to run mining pools.

On a side but related note, the pool I talked about started not too long ago, so not sure why CK would do that pool but not yours, maybe he didn't like your offer?

Why does it have to be this way? the "You either agree with me or you are my enemy" approach doesn't solve anything, there are many positive points that NFTs/Ordinals supporters have to share, it isn't only the mining/fees reward subject, there is also the aspect of "value" which said things can add to BTC at least in theory.

I'd like to make clear that I think NFTs are rubbish and I wouldn't buy the most expensive NFT for a single satoshi, but those NFTs could attract a good base of users which could result in an overall stronger blockchain.


But NFTs transferred on the blockchain are "transactions" themselves, they don't cheat the system or kick the "normal transactions" outside of the system by using some magic, they just make transacting on the blockchain more expensive, and the same thing can happen if those transactions were just spam transactions exchanging millions of outputs to keep blocks near full to raise transaction fees, so it doesn't seem like saying "attack an exploit" fits here, I think you could call it "useless data" that shouldn't be on the blockchain.

لم ادهب لاي ملتقى بخصوص الكريبتو, ولكن بناء على تجربة بعض الاصدقاء يبدو ان الهدف الاساسي من كل هده الملتقيات هوا التعارف على الاشخاص لاهداف تجارية في المستقبل, كان اخر ملتقى لباينانس في ايطاليا وقد حظره شخص ما وتكلم عنه وقال ان مشاهدة فيديو واحد عشوائي على اليوتيوب يعلمك عن البلوكتشين اكثر من حضور المؤتمر, لذلك انا لا اعتقد انه يوجد اي فائدة مباشرة من الدهاب لمتل هده الاحدات الا ان كانت لديك تجارة ما في مجال الكريبتو وتريد تحسين علاقاتك والحصول على مصادر جديدة لشغلك.

You don't need any mining infrastructure to operate a mining pool, the same way you don't need to operate a pool to run the mining infrastructure.


With that said, there are no plug-and-play pools that can be deployed as a final product, start by looking at open-source projects like Ckpool, I know that someone recently deployed a pool and had to hire Con Kolivas to make the Ckpool operational. 

LOL, this must be a terrible bot posting this shit, ALL prices above are wrong, some gears are 7-8 years old and no where to be found nor are profitable at any power rate, many models are wrongly spelled and/or do not exist, what is the purpose of posting this b.s?

True, furthermore, what really matters the most is the price of the energy, let us assume I figure out a way of generating power out of thin air at no cost, and I can sell that power for 10 cents per kWh, if I use that power to mine BTC when the average miner pays only 6 cents then technically i am losing potential profit. 

There is an extensive debate on the NFT subject, people have mixed views on the subject, but to Bitmain, the deal is simple, more data on the blockchain = more fees per block, so they make more money by

1- Keeping the block fees on their PPLNS Antpool.
2- Selling their gears for a higher price since now the gears make more BTC.

Ya, that stuff could be bad for Bitcoin in the long term, but as far as the short-term gains are concerned, Bitmain would love to flood the blockchain with all things.

These numbers make more sense, the 10% and above doesn't seem realistic and normal by any means, I mean we are at about 350EH now, 10% is 35EH, that is the equivalent of 350,000 S19j pro or M30/M50, and 1,000,000 KW or 1000MW, that happening in 2 weeks is just not in the cards, 1% is 35,000 gears and 100MW, still some big numbers but doable, 2% is 200MW and 70,000 gears, not impossible, but even 5% doesn't make sense, let alone 10% or 12%.

If the AI is perfectly developed I think it would "Enhance" BTC mining to some extent, but not quite in the way you think, it's more so the other way around, it would help the ignorant lazy people who buy mining gears without understanding a thing or two about the economics of BTC mining, and honestly, mining is rather complicated when looked at from the outside.

Someone would google or find a video on youtube that says, how I earn $1000 every month using ABC asic miner, someone who has no clue and can't or doesn't do the math to fit his power rate and buying price, would jump in and buy the same gears thinking they would be making the same amount of money, and of course, they won't, they would help raise the difficulty and make life harder for other rational miners, and then leave, but they will keep coming.

You might think that there aren't many people like that, but I can tell you with complete certainty that there are many, you can read the stories in this section or on the other various sources, and the amount of clueless people who jump into mine bitcoin without the slightest chance of making any profit is pretty high.

So that's one way AI could affect mining as a business since gathering the relevant info and doing the correct math seems challenging to many people.

The Antminer T9 has a total of 171 chips, which means every single hashboard has 57 of them (unlike the S9 which has 63 each), the 3rd board which should be most left when standing in front of the miner (you can check the label on the control board it will be labeled there, either as J8 or something that represents the last number like 1,2,3 it will be 3).

Check if that board is connected, check both the data/ribbon cable and the power cable from the PSU, swap hash boards and see if the kernel log changes, if not, try to flash the control board with a different firmware, if all fails, it means one of the chips is dead and needs fixing, which isn't an easy thing to do.

And by the way, please use the code tag next time to post your kernel log.

As we get closer to the 1000th block, the pace seems to slow down


So it's either the theory we were discussing is dismissed, or they saw us talk about it so they decided to play mind games with us (conspiracy theories are fun).

Anyway, redoing the math over and over again I still don't see how that theory holds up, also one point I failed to mention in my previous calculation is the fact this "game" becomes harder to play the more the network grows, I could see this played on small coins but not with BTC, so the theory of someone shutting down to help keep diff low is kind of dismissed for me at this stage, something like Bitmain, Canaan or MicroBT randomly testing/abusing gears and causing massive hashrate swings seems more reasonable to me, of course, just being random luck variance still holds the strongest possibility of them all, until proven otherwise.

This is not 2017 anymore, nobody makes profit on Antminer S9 anymore, unless you have totally free power, and no, it is not about the mining pool you use,it is all about watt per terahash and how much you pay your power provider, everything else is almost irrelevant to the profitablity of bitcoin mining.