End result was there's not much point going elsewhere. Payout was set to 0.04 minimum and was paid quickly.  Left them with 0.029 in the kitty.

Just stay calm and ride out the rough!

Antminer U1 Trouble....

For some reason bfgminer wont detect my U1 anymore.  The green lights are on, so there is power.  Once I do m, +, all it will blink some but then say no devices found.  I've also tried ./bfgminer -S amu:all and -S antminer:all to no avail.  Any ideas? The jalapeno is running fine though.  This just stopped working one day and now it can't seem to pick it up. 

Thanks,

 Fuglie

P.S. - It might be the u1 itself....cgminer cant find the dang thing either.  But I like bfgminer more so if y'all can help that would be awesome.

well actually i use to get owned by Murphy almost everyday, but not by the law, by my history teacher Ms. Murphy

Google Authenticator uses a standard protocol for 2FA. Neither the server nor the client needs to communicate with Google for Google Authenticator to work. This will definitely be supported in the new forum. (And maybe also added to the current forum.)

You do understand that in an open source decentralized network there is no such thing as a third party client.   Bitcoin-core is an implementation of a full node.  There are other implementations of nodes both full nodes and SPV nodes.  So the question is do you want to run a full node?  If so then there is a resource requirement to pay.  It just be software bloat to combine a SPV implementation and a full node implementation into the same software.   If the same dev team that is developing bitcoin-core also created an SPV client would you consider that a "third party" client?

As it had been discussed here before, there are methods to compress the entire blockchain state on your disk (ATM to like 500MB), yet still allowing your node to have a secure copy of the entire UTXO db and thus all the possible address balances, as well as be usable for mining. Which SPV clients are totally useless for - they are just leeches of the bitcoin network and they should be banned, not encouraged, IMHO.

But to do this, you need to extend the blockchain protocol and to extend the blockchain protocol you need to change the reference software, and to change the reference software you need to talk to the people who have their own agenda - which have recently seemed to be quite contradictory to encouraging decentralization of nodes.

All it takes is just make a hash from serialized records of the current UTXO database and mine into the next block (each block, or once for awhile) - then enforce the protocol to verify this hash and reject blocks that would have a wrong hash. It isn't a rocket science - quite a simple feature actually, comparing to the rest of the bitcoin protocol.

Last time I moved this topic on this forum, I was told that they "way ahead" of me with the solution.
Though that was like over a year ago - now they obviously must be at least one year further ahead of me...

Anyway, don't expect it to happen within the next 10 years - not with this team, and ATM there isn't any other bitcoin software that would be suitable for mining.
And there isn't any solution for the disk space problem that could work securely without first upgrading the blockchain protocol (inside the mining software).

So if you want to keep running a bitcoin node like 5 years from now, better start monitoring hard disk prices already.
Then use the same rule as for bitcoins: buy when it's low.

I don't.  I expect Joe Blow will use a SPV client and never keep a full copy of the blockchain.  Enthusiasts, service providers, the paranoid, merchants, and researchers will keep a full copy of the blockchain.

The cost of using cash is usually less then it is for most other payment methods, especially with lower cost items.