can you still even get drivers for modern GPUs for win7?

i know that when i installed an AMD 6700XT with the latest AMD win10 driver on my version 1709 of win10 (yes 4 year old install with updates disabled) it said my OS was too old to support the driver and the OS didnt see the new card (i had only nvidia 10x0 cards in it at the time).. . so even old versions of win10 are not supported by AMD anymore it seems.. so i had to update to win10 20H1 or whatever the latest win10 version was as of a couple months ago for the AMD driver to install and see the card.

personally i loved 7 but security wise i would really hesitate to use now it except as a last resort or something.

good take imo

i started with a single ~$300 USD video card mining btc back in 2011 (GPU mining BTC was big at that point, this was pre ASIC/FPGA). and yes i sold through the various levels very early on. hard to resist 10x or 100x gainz when youve never experienced it as one who has had very little money for a large portion of ones life (ie me). so a large chunk of my coins i sold at less than maybe $500 on average iirc. i mean i sold some at $10 very early and such and of late sold some at 62k but on average call it like $500. maybe im way off, dont care enough to check.

but obviously i did hold a reserve and was fortunate enough never to need to sell that to cover some catastrophe.

learn to be poor 1st, and youll pretty much know how to live if/when you become rich.

im behind on the china thing so maybe this is way off.. but anyway if this is related to that ban thing..

so if china outright bans mining that means that gear goes somewhere, assuming the gov doesnt just take it and mine for themselves. so with corruption etc gears gonna kinda diffuse through chinas borders via trucks, trunks of cars or tied under sheep as it aint gonna just sit around gathering dust. so how long to disappear and reappear some significant chunk of currently-in-china gear to mining friendly nations and get that missing hash back online?

so, using maths and sciency thing type reasoning if proudhons mere typing of two words could cause a gain of over $1k in a day (its ~38.7k as i type) thats like 500 bucks a word!

proudhon.. we need a SPEECH.

well it does mention "person" and bots are not legally people yet are they? maybe R. JayJuanGee can research this more definitively?

also assuming the lizards/humans/whatever is here thousands of years from now dont just go digging bodies up and running their brain through the Key-O-Matic-4000 Blend-Tastic and run the juice through their pocket sequencer and pull that seed from your brain juice. then dump the rest of your brain in the compost pile.

again? do you know how much a good reset switch costs to replace when it wears out? even in bulk theyre expensive.

nah just bigger parties

i know one lid = one joint, what more maths and science do i need to know??

i dont need my full node (which i use purely for validating my own transactions) to run on a rPi, but it at least needs to be able to run on a (probably beefy) commodity computer and be able to sync from scratch in a reasonable time. so i dont mind needing a 3-4k (or even 10k) computer to run a node purely for my own verification, but once you need business class internet and seriously potent server gear thats when i have issues. i will need to trust other nodes at that point. SPV clients have thier place but not as my main check for my transactions and balances. i suppose spinning up AWS type stuff for a personal verification node is a possibility but that seems drastic and likely expensive plus i like my gear in house.

blocks at its current size may have issues but they work for me at this point and thats good enough for now. high fees at the moment? pay up, wait, or go home: pretty simple. ill wait for the bulging brains types to figure the best way forward.

edit: slow and steady. this is Prod after all. i like my coin STABLE. let the alts blow up their blockchains. believe me its nice to have paper wallets from 2011 that are as safe and usable as the day i printed them. cant say that for a lot (likely most) shitcoins from back in the day, or even more recent ones.

ok so i am wearing my honey badger tshirt from back in the day. like, way back in the day. and its been years since i wore it.

so i expect big things, naturally. while i do not think me wearing it will trigger a "face melting" price event i have duct taped my face in place, just in case.

JJG how does this rate in the "top 50 stupid things" list and any tips on how to get on it?

avalon had the 1st ASIC miner.

bfl did eventually deliver their asics, very very late and seemingly delivered mainly by carrier pigeons. i have one of their FPGAs and a couple SC series.


made out on the FPGA, not so much on the ASICs.

i believe he did know that gpus could hash, in fact i think he requested that programmers hold off on GPU hashing until the network got more established.

i dont recall him mentioning anything about ASICSs, at least as we know them today.

wait.. theres a BURN ADDY (or forum account number perhaps) that we can send merits to and be burnt? like if i want to merit JJG but am in a bad mood i can send a merit meant for him to a NULL type account?

maybe we need a user named "merit burn" (or whatever) setup by theymos and its has but one  post labeled BURN MERITS HERE in some section. you merit that post to burn them and explain why in thje thread.

so. theres my totally stupid thought for the day. more to come of course.

same, sold at up to ~62k and wasnt trying to time anything, its just what my ladder was set at. i think ~65k was next on the sell ladder then. i still have others beyond that cuz well honey badger.

ok, look man, all these bigly words and 6 dimensional charts and geopolitical jawing and mathematical terms i just only vaguely remember from high school...

im mean come on, lets get with the real serious question

"please sir when rich?"

thank you for your attention to this matter.

gemini offers currently 7.4% on their pegged gemini dollar (GUSD) Earn thingie and 2.05% on the BTC version. a quick look mentions its DeFi based and you more or less assume the risk even though coinbase does vett the party used. so they say. you allocate some/all of your BTC/GUSD/whatever to Earn and let it do its thing. it can take a few days to pull it out however.

i tossed some into it to see what happens.

been taking voice lessons for when "scream like a little girl" mode is needed. i must say i think its made a big improvement on my scream. i think im ready.

well confirmed by maths and science, kinda. for what its worth.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87408.msg961086#msg961086

glad to hear the wife is doing well! and i hope your covid problems are easily treatable.

i had mined a bunch of eth for about the last year and mainly just sat on it. unloaded a good chunk of it for fiat near enough that recent high to be happy and basically now just trade it for btc as i mine it.