I have some difficulties to believe that FIOD will pay a Copper membership to announce Sinbad is down on Bitcointalk...

Sinbad.io is really down from my side. Ok. But what about the possibility of an exit scam ? No official mention anywhere from Dutch services or Europol/Interpol ? Sounds strange.

EDIT : thanks for proofs. My bad.

Skot is talking about Bitaxe right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PH5sKrkzZY

Take it easy

Their "ad" says : "Only by invitation!" too, this is visible even before you click on the topic 


Anyone with common sens would tell them to do it, of course. Do you know what Unijoin has produced for the community?
A reliable and honest service for months, they participate in the life of the forum by offering a stable and well-paid signature campaign, they write numerous interesting articles for the community, they offer raffles for free cards on a regular basis... What more do you need?

Congrats dkbit98, saving this for you:

Thank you for sending all the funds earlier than expected 

I confirm that 100% the loan is fully paid back.

Have a good day !

Wow man, this is very risky, as some exchangers refuse coins issued by the coinbase generation. IMHO you should install Electrum (from their official website, you can always verify the signature of the downloaded file) and mine with an address from it. Imagine you find a block by luck and your reward is seized/frozen by Binance ? It could be avoided only with 5 minutes to download and setup Electrum 

Potential life-changing amounts deserves to be your own funds ; as you may be not know the funds you have in your Binance accounts are not your property.


You just need to mine and nothing more, it takes usualy some seconds/minutes depending of your hashrate. With a Nerdminer it can take a very long time I guess.

Happy hashing!

My only contact there is a tax inspector, are you interested to meet him?
By any chance, don't you think that specifying exactly what you're looking for might give you a better chance of getting a proper answer?

I have to confess that I still use Jabber on a daily basis lol

However, I was also surprised to read that the support is available on Jabber, which I think is good, because unlike Telegram, Jabber gives you much more control over your data.

+1 for SimpleX, which would be a great addition!

And speaking of new coins/networks, are you thinking of one day adding the Polygon-MATIC network on eXch?
It could be a good addition, especially for USDT and DAI, the fees on ERC20 are just crazy.

What the hell is this

Too much wood, too much dust, and I wonder how they manage/control the airflow

No cable management at all, what a horror! Special mention to:


An installation small like that shouldn't be difficult to organise properly. I'll never understand people who don't respect their equipment, their investment and their safety...

I agree with phil, the first one looks more neglected than the second one, but both are globaly terrible

I confirm that I have received 470 USDT today.

Thank you HedgeFX for this partial repayment.

The link is good, as long as your address is this one 16EigC8x1yMTvMPDjxsC5EVUav3hZMaHPh


You need to submit at least 1 valid share for your data to be updated on https://solo.ckpool.org/users/16EigC8x1yMTvMPDjxsC5EVUav3hZMaHPh


You should be careful: Bitaxe, Gekkoscience Compac F, R909, R606, Newpac, Apollo miners are able to find blocks, even despite a low hashrate (depending of the model from 50 gh/s to 1-2 Th/s)

I think that Nerdminers are totally useless if we talk of finding block, their hashrate is not more than a few kh/s.
Why not just use Bitaxe or Gekkoscience products ?
For the same energy used, you will have dozens of times more hashrate, and it will be cheaper to buy 1 R909 or 1 Compac F than buying multiple Nerdminers.

You will still learn as much as with Nerdminers, you will support a great team (sidehack from gekko is useful for the community for years, Bitaxe created the reality of DIY cheap hobby ASIC), and at least you will have a chance to find a block if you are lucky !

EDIT : Sorry, I was typing this reply when ck answered

28 - paid2

Thank you Krogoth 

Sherbet username: ilovebtc
Prediction: $37,959.45

C'est grâce à un mélange de plusieurs technologies, grosso modo la blockchain est rendue "opaque" grâce à un savant mélange.

Si tu comprends l'anglais, je te conseille la FAQ de getmonero qui est assez claire: https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/faq/#anchor-different


Par contre, je pense que les utilisateurs moyens s'en cognent du côté "privacy" de Bitcoin, en tout cas, on peut quand même se permettre de penser que si les gens en avaient quelque chose à carrer de leurs données et de leur vie privée, ils n'utiliseraient pas tous Binance ou Kraken non ?

Tout comme développer Bitcoin en allant dans une direction plus "anonyme" serait une tragique erreur et donnerait aux institutions de "bonnes" raisons d'augmenter l'acharnement anti-BTC à mon humble avis.

Il est clair que dans un futur peut-être pas lointain, on peut imaginer que les BTC que tu mines pourront valoir plus en P2P que le cours officiel de chez Binance ou Coinbase par exemple. Des coins "vierges" issus de la coinbase génération auront probablement une valeur supérieure pour ceux qui cherchent à tout prix à compliquer la tache des entreprises d'analyse de la blockchain. (en admettant que ces gens n'utilisent ni XMR ni des services XMR--->BTC ...)

D'ailleurs je ne sais pas si vous êtes au courant, mais les mining pools américains commencent à imposer une procédure KYC à leurs miners tout doucement...

I agree with Gazeta on this point.

I think it's good to have all this information centralised in one discussion. This way, users researching a potential scam will come straight to the official topic, which I think is more relevant than dividing the information between different topics.

It's true that there's been a lot of activity recently in relation to impersonators, but that's tending to calm down, and they seem to have changed their target, so it shouldn't dominate the topic any more.

Indirectly, it could also serve as a "useful bump" (I mean not just a "bump" message), which I think is positive.

Yes, you can read these topics:

keep a small mining farm cool with only air conditioners.

New cooling setup for my asic room.

IMO you should use :3333

Your question = what is mining difficulty ?
You should read this:
https://www.bitcoinmining.com/what-is-bitcoin-mining-difficulty/

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty

Difficulty is increasing as much as people are adding hashpower to the total network hashrate.
Difficulty can decrease too, if the total hashrate is decreasing.

You can look at the total hashrate for the last 3 years:


As you know, more hashrate = higher difficulty in order to keep a 10 minutes block interval.

So, for the same given hashrate, higher difficulty = your part of block rewards drops

Ouais, mais normalement ca sera ralenti par le halving pendant (au moins) un moment. Il y a de fortes de chances qu'un bon pourcentage des miners soient en pertes avec le futur block reward de 3,125BTC si le cours ne monte pas significativement.