BSV TO BTC -6%
Go ahead and revel in it. May you enjoy it in peace. May even continue. Right up until blockalypse II. Maybe by August? We are shivering in our boots about the almighty faketoshi and his little clan of non-deli Wasn't meant to scare you, JJG. Was supposed to invoke thought amongst those still capable of such. |
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BSV TO BTC -6%
Go ahead and revel in it. May you enjoy it in peace. May even continue. Right up until blockalypse II. Maybe by August? |
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You think having a botnet of real Bots is a bad idea?
Quite. But also very hard to see how the economic and business models will ever stack up. They are looking to recoup maintenance cost but I don't think they will unless something drastically changes. If they break even then they will be happy. But its added decentralized security for the network and LEA supporting Crypto so it's a Win Win in my book. How could they break even when they are competing against ASICs in data centers? ASIC resistant blockchains. Its not about break even though, they aren't solely miners see. ROI on a miner is before its obsolete. In this example its about gaining something from a thing you have already, that could be mining a little bit. Wont be much, but Im thinking akin to bittorrent many small equals 1 big. Every penny they gain can be recirculated for equipment or operations. That's the sell for them. Yup. Seems to me that they may be counting on several coin flips landing on edge. But they have huge numbers of GPUs that are overwhelmingly idle, coupled to exotic batteries that require non-stop high discharge. It's not so much a profit center, but rather a defraying of sunk costs. |
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Spotted at Bitcoin 2019: the progenitor?  Hush your voices. Show some respect. |
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You think having a botnet of real Bots is a bad idea?
Quite. But also very hard to see how the economic and business models will ever stack up. They are looking to recoup maintenance cost but I don't think they will unless something drastically changes. If they break even then they will be happy. But its added decentralized security for the network and LEA supporting Crypto so it's a Win Win in my book. How could they break even when they are competing against ASICs in data centers? ASIC resistant blockchains. |
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^This.
For GBP you can also use Coinfloor. Not quite the liquidity of Coinbase, but decent support and no problems cashing out. I've used both and localbitcoins over the years.
I've not read good things about Coinfloor. They also don't seem professional in the slightest. Some of their policy changes have been so extreme customers thought it was an April fool until they confirmed it. I wouldn't want to touch them either. Coinfloor? One name: nefario. 'Nuf said. OTOH, Coinbase has done well by me. Their tech support lagged in the 2017 FOMO phase, but they've given that part of the business industrial strength attention. |
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Bitcoin 2019 in San Francisco. Pomp and Draper. Tim talking about the bet he made with the Argentinean president. If Tim wins, Argentina makes bitcoin legal tender.  |
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Don't forget: the drones are coming.
You have been warned.
huh? amazon drones? Interesting revelation from MoneroKon today. Thought it would fit in the weekly crypto recap. I can't really spend the time to go into it right now. But for a teaser, you could just ask yourself what Astral AR could possibly have to do with mining. |
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Don't forget: the drones are coming. You have been warned. |
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there will likely be more spending friendly regulations ... in a few years....
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Day two at MoneroKon in Denver. Interesting intercontinental panel discussion on regulation. Sarang Noether, Jerry Brito, and Eric Voorhees here in Denver, and Amber Baldet, Jack Gavigan, and Peter van Valkenburgh at Zcon1 in Croatia. Interesting thinking through governmental regulation from a privacy coin viewpoint.  |
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What ever happened to Adam?
He got tired of being abused for his heretical thoughts, and left for The Forum That Shall Not Be Named. |
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^ @jbreher This is "what pass your camp as evidence"....
Better not talk about "camps". There are idiots in both....
Aye, that there are. Probably (way) more on SV one,
I doubt it, but that may be only by virtue of the fact that the Core camp is oh so much larger than the SV camp - ATM, anyhoo. Though the two examples which I responded to above are certainly howlers... |
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Did you see this gem? In an interview with GQ, Wright said, "I haven’t moved [any bitcoins]. I have sent them to Hal Finney and Zooko and that was it. Full stop.” But in 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto sent 82.51 BTC to developer Mike Hearn. So did he just have a brain fart on that or what do you reckon happened? Hopefully you can respond to this comment before OP deletes it. Happy to oblige. Like I said above - "But with what passes for 'evidence' in your camp is kindergarten level hilarity." |
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That's freeking hilarious. |
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I paid a two dollars fee to move 0.1btc, not even one hour later and it already have four confirmations.
We dont need big blocks.
I think 2$ and 20minutes to wait it's too slow and too expensive for people in 2019  When FOMO kicks in, it will spectacularly increase the demand for block space. Sending average confirmation times and average fees soaring. Once again. |
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1 of the dishes is broken, in the original photo the trick was 2 looked to be pointing down.
I earlier presumed they were both the visual trick. I have now inspected the dishes in detail and I was wrong about one of them. I admit it.
I don't see that much difference between the two. Either they are both a visual trick or both dishes pointing downwards. I think we need an expert here... where is xhomerx10? Sad as I am I went up and down the road on street view inspecting the dishes and angles  *edit* the plot thickens, it was also fixed now from certain angles.    Great, you solved it! One (leftmost) clearly pointing fully down and the other one it seems was sliding over time and that explains why in some angles (maybe snapshots at a different date?) look not so down. Not a visual trick. Just neglecting owners. Mistery solved. Oh come on. It's obviously a well-disguised phased array installed by our reptilian overlords so they can signal back to Alpha Centauri, built from locally-sourced components for maximum stealth. |
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Great headline. Somewhat disappointed it's businessinsider rather than The Onion. |
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Don't make me dig out Maxwell's equations on y'all.
Go on then Won't even have to. Satellite-band TV signals, being electromagnetic waves, are just light that oscillates more slowly. Accordingly, people can understand elements of their behavior by commonly perceived light behavior. Look at one of those antenna dish assemblies. Picture your eye being where the LNA is. Pointing in the same direction - angled upwards towards the dish. Now envision the dish being a mirror. Whadda ya see? The road? No! You see the sky, silly. Those dishes are pointing skyward. Hard to draw mathematical notation in BBCode anyhoo. Plus, it'd run right over most heads. You know we are talking about the two dishes in the top left, don't you? "Oh! Well that's different! ... Nevermind." - E. Litella |
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