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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Will these bitcoind settings hamper my solo miner chances? on: February 06, 2020, 04:15:57 PM
lol...I knew my odds were practically zero but it's nice to see the math which proves it. Those odds are lower than I thought. Still, I'm running a full node for several reasons, only one of which is solo mining. My "rig" is 3 block erupters, so the amount of electricity being used exclusively for mining is negligible. I've had the block erupters for years so I thought since I'm running a node I might as well put them to work. 

Now if they do find a block I'll have more appreciation for such an extremely unlikely event Smiley
2  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: cgminer showing 1969-12-31 timestamp on: February 06, 2020, 04:05:30 PM
Thanks!
3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Will these bitcoind settings hamper my solo miner chances? on: February 06, 2020, 02:33:51 PM
Thanks! My hashrate is 1 Gigahash.
4  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / cgminer showing 1969-12-31 timestamp on: February 05, 2020, 08:49:11 PM
I'm running the latest version of cgminer on Ubuntu 18.04.03.

The output of timedatectl is:

Code:
Local time: Wed 2020-02-05 15:46:13 EST
Universal time: Wed 2020-02-05 20:46:13 UTC
RTC time: Wed 2020-02-05 20:46:13
Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500)
System clock synchronized: yes
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
RTC in local TZ: no

However, when I run cgminer, it shows the starting date as 1969-12-31.

Will this affect my mining (BTC solo mining)? If so, how can i correct this?
5  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Will these bitcoind settings hamper my solo miner chances? on: February 05, 2020, 08:39:49 PM
I'm running bitcoind and solo mining. It's a lottery miner since my hash rate is very low. Still, do these settings lessen my already low chances of finding a block?

maxconnections=50
maxuploadtarget=150

I chose these settings because my bandwidth is somewhat limited but I still would like to run a full node for several reasons.
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Is it possible to use an ASIC miner to crack a wallet.dat lost password? on: January 16, 2020, 07:01:16 PM
I guess the answer in general is here:

Why Bitcoin mining ASICs won't crack your password

In other words it should be some particular ASIC especially designed for passwords' bruteforce. Random old ASIC-miner unlikely would be suitable for this since it basically works according to another scheme.

Thanks - that answers it perfectly and explains why a miner can't be used for password cracking. It wasn't the answer I was hoping for but at least I know I need to look in another direction  Smiley
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Is it possible to use an ASIC miner to crack a wallet.dat lost password? on: January 16, 2020, 07:21:15 AM
It's pretty common:

https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover

https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes (search for "bitcoin")

It's not like anyone can just crack your bitcoin password. They at least need the wallet password hash, which I have, and unless it's a weak password, they need to have educated guesses as to what the password is (which I do).

Since there are ways to solve these hashes with CPUs and GPUs, there must be a way to use SHA-256 ASIC hardware to solve SHA-256 password hashes much faster than CPUs or GPUs. I just don't know how and am hoping someone here does and can point me in the right direction.

8  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Is it possible to use an ASIC miner to crack a wallet.dat lost password? on: January 15, 2020, 08:55:56 PM
I have a Dash wallet from years ago and I can't find the password to it. I was able to dump the hash (parts between periods have been substituted):

Code:
$bitcoin$64$...64-hex-chars...$16$...16-hex-chars...$190170$2$00$2$00

Is it possible to use an ASIC miner, like an old Jalepeno, to crack the hash? I'm using btcrecover and it won't work with my GPU, and hashcat wants a bitcoin hash to begin with $bitcoin$96, so I'm looking for other options. I figured since the password I'm trying to crack is SHA-256 based, maybe an ASIC miner could help?
9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Do not trust New wallets with your fund on: November 18, 2019, 03:35:45 AM
For Android: Let's say I download a wallet app from the PlayStore. Is it possible for that app to access other wallet apps and their info on my phone?
10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency on: November 18, 2019, 03:00:20 AM
Hey guys, where is the best places to sports bet with XMR?


Does anyone have Referral links they would like me to use?
I don't really see any. Looks like an opportunity for some enterprising chap.

Couldn't you send your XMR to xmr.to, then then have xmr.to send the BTC to your choice of site?
For your earnings from the site (hopefully), send the BTC to a new Electrum wallet, then bisq for trading BTC to XMR (the electrum wallet is an optional step).
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BiblePay | 10% Charity | POBH CPU | Sanctuaries (Masternodes) | Orphans on: November 16, 2019, 07:37:02 AM
Yall might like https://truebibletrivia.com, a free Bible trivia game.
12  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: 👑[ANN][BIS]Bismuth - On/off-chain, IoT, Scaling, Tokens, Privacy, Governance on: November 16, 2019, 07:29:19 AM
Any chance of a CPU miner being released?
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