Those specs are well known and trivial to calculate on your own:
https://www.bitshopper.de/en/shop/sha-256-miner/usb-miner-bitcoin/newpac/
45 GH (overclocked) will draw ~10 Watt
 
10.000 Th = 10.000.000 Gh

10.000.000/45 = 222.223 newpac miners (yes, that number is two hundred twenty two thousand two hunderd twenty three)

222223 miners * 10 Watt/miner = 2222230 Watt = 2222 KiloWatt = 2,2 MegaWatt

Electricity price is usually given in cents/Kwh.
Run those 222223 miners for one hour will use 2222 Kwh.

Prices in my country are about 30 cents/kwh, so in my case, it would cost around 666 euro's PER HOUR... Not including any "extra's", you cannot run these miners in a vacuum... You'll need several hundred's of rPi's, computers or servers and big usb hubs... they all draw power to...

BEFORE you'd actually attempt something like this (very unlikely tough... it would be a hell of a task to set this up, even if you'd manage to get over 200.000 usb miners), you'd only make 0.0036 BTC per hour, with a market value of around 115 euro's, so each hour running this setup you'd lose hundreds of euro's (on your power bill)

I'm trying not to victim-blame, but being scammed has little to do with the medium. My grandfather once told me a story about how he was scammed by a fake insurance salesman that took an equivalent of about 4000€ in cash, over 60 years ago that was a little more than a years's wage. My brother in law got scammed by door-to-door salesmen numerous times, they keep on selling him fake products for a premium price, and he keeps falling for it.
Our newspaper reports scams on a very regular basis, and it's very rare to see bitcoin to be the medium.

The main problem was the fact you used a medium you didn't fully understand to transfer a huge amount of money... Once again: it's the scammer's fault you lost your money, not yours, but saying things like crypto "not being as safe as they claim to be" isn't completely fair. Crypto is really safe. It is well documented how it works, and anybody who's giving out real information will tell you crypto currency's are irreversible and should not be sent to anonymous people you don't fully trust...
If you use it like it's supposed to be used, you should be fine... You should compare it to other irreversible payment methods... Would you have sent gold to an anonymous mailbox in nigeria if a scammer asked you to do this?

Now, it seems to be i was wrong... In the list of addresses you posted, i saw transactions of ~0.4 BTC (~$15k at current exchange rate), but apparently the one that was used to scam you was > 3 BTC. For this price, it might be a reasonable idear to hire a professional blockchain analysis company...

You could always try to follow the trail of unspent outputs trough tools like walletexplorer in the hopes your scammer deposits the funds he stole from you on a KYC exchange... There are company's that specialise in this sort of stuff, they have better analytical tools available to make it easyer for the to follow the trail...

However, if you're dealing with a scammer that has some experience, he'll either mix, coinjoin or move funds trough a coin like monero... The odds of anybody being able to follow this trail are slim to none.

Even if you're faced with a newbie scammer, or if a professional service is able to track the funds over some sort of obfuscation, you'll have to take legal action against him/her... This can be relatively easy if the scammer lives in your country, but if he doesn't it can potentially be a daunting task, one that might cost more than the ~15k you lost...

https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/3682dea897df5df2?from_address=16EvVEgJGbYfYSnbQz3x57iPfw14GAPje8
https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/3682dea897df5df2?from_address=1LteyFFkC362LwVbxMhMn9kC5pr2yTMsNr
https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/3682dea897df5df2?from_address=bc1qrldtc9l5wn3dfma9gm3prw6hglwzenamfxjxdx
https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/3682dea897df5df2?from_address=1E3WStENAFUHj8rPpX6FTpS4KwHKZVFK3m


One last thing: when talking about an $5000 reward, ALWAYS use a trusted forum escrow.
Not following this advice will either result in you being scammed out of another $5000, or you scamming your helper out of $5000.

[sarcasm]You must be joking, right? I mean, you had the good luck of buying some real estate from somebody that made one bad decision (albeit a big one) whilst he had some phd that was somewhat related to money.... In that case, all university degrees are worthless and everybody holding a university degree must be a deadbeat.... [/sarcasm]

Me telling i do have a master's degree wasn't to shut you up, it was merely a way of me to tell you i do know how to read actual scientific study's and spot the fake ones... During my years in uni, i had to learn from ~40 ish professors who started their carreer by studying the life's work of hundreds of actual scientists, then proceed to study the same subject for 20-30 years before they were given the chance of passing on their wisdom. They made me read dozens and dozens of real books, not blogposts and youtube video's.
These professors, their studys, their books actually explained science in a way that if you study them, you actually understand how stuff works and you don't have to look at some unknown dude's blogpost or youtube video that's filled with cherry picked and out of context quotes to fill your head...

In the end i had to work in a lab for 9 months and scientifically study one subject in order to write a thesis (a 250 page book) that had to include references to loads and loads of actual scientific works. Mine was on including a vector in a strain of anaerobic bacteria in order to make them produce carcinogenic molecules, so these bacteria could be injected into a tumor. It was a long, long time ago, and the theory behind the idear was tested and replaced by a better one, cause that's how science works.
After reading so much actual scientific content, i can honestly say that when i see utter bullocks, i do have the knowledge to see which ones are real, and which ones are completely fake. You don't have to believe me, you don't have to like me, you can even continue to insult me... It doesn't change the facts, nor will i lose sleep over it...

Now, i'm going to step away from this thread... There is nothing to gain here, you make fun of entire country's, you make fun of science... No matter what i do, there'll be no way i'll ever be able to convince you you might be seeing things wrong. This makes this whole discussion moot.

EDIT:
I just found a nice, out-of-context quote to end my last post on this very thread:

I was actually crafting a response to Jet Cash, but when i tried to submit it, i saw Cnut237 already beat me to the punch

As much as I respect Jet Cash (and i sincerely do), i do not agree with his stance on vaccines.

It's very simple: science... I have a master degree in a paramedical science field, even tough i never used it after graduating. In high school i followed a highly scientific curriculum filled with chemistry, biology fysics and maths. Afterwards i spent 4 years in university in a course that was filled with statistics, biochemistry, fysics, immunology, bacteriology, virology,... I'm constantly having discussions with people i consider to be friends, but who barely graduated high school in a non-scientific curriculum, and never showed any intrest at all in science at all. For some reason, they feel that the facebook and youtube guys that cherry-pick sentences from pseudo-scientificy self-publications should be helt against the same standard as the peer-reviewed publications from respected professors in scientific journals. I constantly hear BS coming from them, up to the point i no longer start discussions with them. The only thing that happens when i try to have a serious discussion with them, is them blurting out nonsense ignoring my every word, eventough i have always been interested in science, and actively studied it, while their only source for "science" is some random dude on youtube.

It always makes me think about the joke: "don't play chess with a chicken,it will just knock all the pieces over, shit on the board and then strut around like it had won the game".
It's exactly the same for those science-deniers. If you try to have a discussion with them, they'll just blurt out what their facebook/youtube god told them (eventough it's BS), then they'll strut around as if they'd won the discussion.


I kind of blame social media AND entertainment programs.
I've seen programs where they let self-proclaimed anti-vax "specialists" discuss against real specialists. The self-proclaimed anti-vax specialists are usually people that surfed the web for a couple of months, read some crazy conspiracy theories and cherry-picked texts. However, they're pretty charismatic and outspoken.
In those programs, they're put at the same level as professors who have built their knowledge in a scientific way over many decades, starting from other scientific work from other people that have spent their whole life studying these subjects. By placing those self-proclaimed "specialists" on the same level as actual professor, they give the impression the knowledge from both opponents is comparable. It is not. I'm very sorry, but those anti-vaxxers should come into those shows, blurt out their anti-vax theories and then they should be muted while the professor discredits every single sentence they blurted out... It would be a fun thing to watch...

My grandmother (who passed away a while ago, before COVID was even in the picture) went trough an episode of the whooping cough. She also told me about friends of hers that died of polio. Why do you think we no longer have these diseases? Science!!! In this case: VACCINATION.
It WORKS!!! If you don't believe in science, you might aswell stop taking antibiotics if you get ill, don't take a paracetamol if your head hurts, don't let the doctor take out your appendix when it's about to burst... Let's see who lives the longest (on average).

doesn't matter if you know part of the private key... Unless you're just missing a handfull of characters and you have the rest of the private key at hand... In that case, you could probably bruteforce the handfull of missing characters.

The other way around doesn't work... It's not because you know half of the private key that it would be easyer to find the other half.

Like Pmalek already said: bitcoin would not have existed if this was possible.

you should listen to @NotFuzzyWarm, really, if you want to play the lottery, both the odds of winning, the cost of the ticket (vs the electricity price) AND the payout are much higher when playing your country's actual lottery than lotto mining with a cpu.

That being said: you asked what a share is... I'll give you the non-technical version:
Let's say the current network difficulty is 14T. A high difficulty leads to a very (very) small target (and vice versa). This means your goal (as a miner) is to find a block header who's sha256(sha256(block header)) < *the very small target*.

Now, a pool is basically a big group of people trying to solve a block together (POOLing their resources). If one member of the pool solves the block, most of the reward will be split between the pool participants. However, such a split has to happen in a fair way: if you are mining in a pool with your one CPU and i'm mining in the pool with 50 latest gen ASIC's, my share has to be thousands of times bigger than your share.
But... how does the pool know i'm actually running 50 asic's? They could ask me (but i can lie), they could force me to install some monitoring app (but i can't install apps on an ASIC, and i can also fake it's output). So the pool operator came up with a smart way of measuring how much work each pool participant delivers: shares!!!

What a pool does is setting some kind of "imaginary" difficulty... For example 14M. 14M is one million times smaller than the actual difficulty. So the target is much bigger (and you'll "solve" much more blocks at this imaginary difficulty as you'd do with the actual difficulty). This way, everybody that's mining in the pool will hit some shares once in a while and send them to the pool. The pool operator is able to verify if the share is legit and knows, on average, you had to put x amount of work into finding one share. It allows the pool operator to estimate how much hashrate you're bringing to the pool. This estimation is used to divide the block reward once a block is found.

That's basically the beginner, newbie version of what a share is... It's actually more technical and more difficult, but the above explanation should give you a basic idear.

@o_e_l_e_o: to tell you the truth, i used to buy more "unknown" brands in the past, and when i looked for alternative ROM's, the only choiches i had that supported my models were always one-man-shows... I even flashed my phone with some of them since those unknown chinese brands had the nasty habit of not releasing any patches, and after a while you could either use a phone that didn't receive patches for a couple of years or you could roll the dices with an unofficial one-man ROM.

Needless to say, i did not use my phone for banking (either FIAT or crypto) after i flashed it with some uknown ROM, nor for anything else that could have been considered to be important... Just some calling, texting and general surfing.

It's possible there are better alternative OS's out there, i just have 0 experience with them... I buy more known brands nowadays, but it's on my employer's dime (they give me money to buy a cellphone), but they also have rules against running unofficial firmware on any device they pay for.

So, in short, i might have generalised a little bit... Maybe there are more qualitative firmwares out there... I still wouldn't give them the same level of trust as an official ROM from a big company... Imagine the sh*tstorm they'd have to go trough if somebody lost actual money because of an intentional backdoor built into their official ROM... But still, there might be some decent projects out there that are more or less trustworthy (i still don't think they'd face the same consequences if word got out they had an intentional vulerability tough).

I know from the other thread you're looking for some way to mix your bcash, but believe me... This one isn't... Really...
This dude (whalemixer's operator) has not been online since the 18th, so he couldn't have solved any issues.

The previous issues he solved were solved by "pure luck". He just found some funds that magically appeared in his wallet and that could not be matched up by his internal (flawed) accounting mechanism (that protects him, and not his customers), and the "magically appearing" amount correlated to the ammount "lost" by somebody that used his mixer but had no way of proving this. This, combined with community pressure, convinced him to give the funds that "magically" appeared in his wallet to the victim of his site.
It wasn't honesty, it wasn't proper procedures, it wasn't any kind of proof... It was just good luck, community pressure and "magic" that solved previous accusations... And i don't see a positive future for this accusation TBH...

• He lies about the source of his funds, they might not even be clean, but they're certainly not coinbase rewards
• He lies about the fees
• He lies about the automation
• He lies about the amount of funds he has availabe
• He lies about his letter of guarantee (he does not provide you with one)
• He lies about the speed of his contact methods
• He has active scam reports

Really, this one you should stay away from, atleast untill he cleans up his act.

I know you might be desperate to mix your Bcash, but really, you basically have the choice between holding on to your unmixed bcash untill you find a legit mixer, or sending it to this one and having a REALLY big chance of getting scammed and having no Bcash at all after the process.

this is one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5350930.0
but their main ann thread also contains their lies and some scam accusations: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5314083.0

Bottom line, however, no matter how you read these threads: whalemixer's operator hasn't been seen in 10 days, he hasn't replied anyone, he hasn't addressed any scam accusions whilst his "canary" on his site is still updated every day. This could mean his canary is fake (like many other things on his site), but even that doesn't resonate all that well to me either.

Even when he was online, i did not trust the quality of his mixes. He sells "freshly mined" coins, and delivers exactly the opposite: i had unspent outputs in my wallet that contained a much higher percentage of coinbase rewards within a reasonable distance just by accident compared to the ones he is supposed to be selling on purpose.

Well... Theoretically, android is open source aswell... It uses the linux kernel and the source code is open: https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/

There are usually alternative ROM's available to flash your cellphone, but to tell you the truth: if you don't know the guy that built the rom personally, you're probably worse off than using the ROM provided by your vendor...
I mean, the odds of samsung or oppo or xiaomi stealing your funds trough a backdoor in their official ROM are smaller than the ROM build by HaCkErBoY_LoVeS_BrOnYs_2012

For an airgapped setup, theoretically it shouldn't matter all that much... As long as you stick with the ROM provided via the official channels AND you use a peer-reviewed, trusted, popuplar waller, AND  you check the signature of the wallet you're going to use to setup an airgapped setup, you should be fine with protection against remote attacks (because, well, that's the defenition of an airgapped setup: no network connectivity = no remote attacks... )

I mean, airgapped means that even if there are vulnerability's in the OS, it shouldn't matter all that much, unless somebody has physical access to the cellphone itself and the vulnerability lays in the encryption, authentication or access controll. But yeah, that's the same with any airgapped setup: it's very (VERY) secure as long as the attacker has no physical access to your device. As soon as the attacker has access, sure, there's a difference between different kinds of hardware (a cellphone is easyer to steal than a laptop, which is easyer to steal than a desktop, which is easyer to steal than a rackmounted server) and there's a difference between OS's (and the versions of said os), and also with different kinds of setups within the same OS (for example, running your airgapped wallet on a luks encrypted partition on a recent linux distro that was recently patched offline and uses reasonably strong authentication, without any non-essential binaries installed is much safer than running an airgapped windows XP that is also used to run a dozen of cracked games).

accounts aren't locked automatically, if that's what you mean...

If you abandon your account, but remember your password, there is no time limit... you can come back whenever you feel like it.

If you did forget your password, but staked an address in an old, unedited post, you can prove your identity by signing a message, and your password will be reset.

If you did forget your password and didn't stake an address, it depends... Maybe you never changed your e-mail, maybe you posted a website you own, maybe you posted a twitter handle, maybe you have a dedicated home ip that's somewhere in the logs... So maybe you'll be able to recover your account... But don't get your hopes up.

Bottom line: stake an address AND don't forget your password... Especially if you're taking a break from bitcointalk, but you think there's a chance you'll come back in a far away future.

That's one big textwall you got there... Really... I had to make an extra effort to keep reading, but it was very hard to extract the exact meaning of your post...
Very little punctuation, no newlines, no paragraphs, no titles, no lists,... just a big continuous wall...

Am i correct if the TL;DR; version of your post is:

• you say you are sorry for plagiarizing with an account with 41 posts that's little over one month old
• you think plagiarism rules on this forum are to harsh, and think they should change

Plagiarism is a serious offence... In my country (as in most other developed countries), plagiarism can get you fired from your job, thrown out of school, cause a university to take away your degree or even land you in jail.
On bitcointalk, the only sentence you get is being banned from bitcointalk (as a person, you are not allowed to make new accounts either, unless it's to create 1 topic in meta for the sole purpose of discussing your ban). As a whole, such a ban is actually a light sentence... IRL you could have lost your job, get thrown out of school (or uni), or even land in jail....

As for the admin being harsh: actually he's pretty lenient (IMHO). He is even known to lift bans for people that have actually contributed a lot to the community if they committed single acts of plagiarism a long time ago, followed by a long time of being a productive member.
You're free to make your case tough... Good luck!

The domain registrar is a good first step... The police is a good second step. Their host is a good thirth step:
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=arin%3a185.141.25.142&run=toolpage

Apparently, the ip block is owned by hostsailor.com => abuse@hostsailor.com

Hopefully either enom will redirect to a landing page, hostsailor will shut down their service or law enforcement will act against them... But that's about all you can do i'm afraid.

Good luck!

Ordinarily, i'd agree with you when you say you want to be fair to a mixer and give them a chance... However, in this case, i'd personally advocate to remove the mixer from the list during the "grace"-period. If the owner comes back and resolves the accusations, you can re-list them, if he doesn't you can add them to your scam list. That way it can't make new victims from readers of your topic.

I do believe this is a case that warrants such an approach:

• It's a really new mixer... you won't destroy their reputation by not listing them for a couple of days
• There are 2 "in progress" scam reports, and also resolved reports... Way to much for the short time they've been in business
• They've been provably caught lying about many, many key features they try to sell

I've been following this case from the beginning, and i'd even go as far as saying "they're not a real mixer". This is just a one-man mom's basement service that had a nice layout built (filled with lies) and just processes mixes manually while lying about the origin of their "clean" funds.

I know this is your show, and i'll defenatly agree with whatever decission you make on the case... I'd just argue that in this case, the site didn't even belong on your list in the first place (with all the lies, with the manual processing, without proof of funds,...) , and now they've stopped withdrawing i think it would be better to safe than sorry and (at least temporary) stop listing them.

+1
This one does not belong on a list between other mixers... They have lied about quite a lot, they've been proven wrong and they don't keep their promises.

Indeed, but if you want coinbase rewards in exchange for your traceable coin, this is NOT the place... Tryninja shared his mixing session, and i could not find even a reasonable amount of the "clean" coins coming from a coinbase reward. They're just lying about "farm fresh" coins coming from "their" miners... In reality you get "unknown" funds... I don't know where they come from, but defenately NOT from a miner. Seeing what they lied about, and the amateurism, i would not trust a mixing session with this mixer... I'd probably advise anybody who used them to re-mix their coins, and treat this mixer's mixing session's outputs as "slightly"-mixed.

Here's a post i made listing their lies:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5314083.msg57452097#msg57452097
Since making this post, other lies have come to surface:

• They had to admit they're not automated at all
• They admitted not holding the amount of funds they say they hold... It's their "partners" that hold thousands of BTC, not them

source of the quotes: w h a le m ixe r [dot][com]
The mixer's admin says (on his main page), and i quote:

He also says (on his main page), and i quote:

And i you would want to contact him, he says (on his main page), and i quote:
So, in the ideal situation, you shouldn't have had to wait longer than 6 hours, since he promised the site is fully automated. If you have a problem, he promised that he'd reply in less than 24 hours aswell...


HOWEVER......

• He has admitted he's not automated at all, he's just randomly sending funds... Some people have had to wait much longer than 6 hours
• Some people have mentioned waiting way more than 24 hours for support to answer them
• He also doesn't give out letters of guarantee for some fluke of a reason. So you have no way of proving he did not mix your coins
• He also charges a waaaaay higher fee than promised... He substracts the mining fee from the amount he's sending, eventough other mixer's don't do this, and he doesn't tell you he'll be doing this anywhere
• If you were mixing a bigger amount: the admin has admitted those numbers of coins "in stock" he has on his site are fake (well, he started twising words and splitting hairs, saying that he has PARTNERS that have this amount of coins, and he'll be able to get this amount from his PARTNERS)
• Eventough the admin keeps saying you'll get fresh coins: don't believe him... I analysed a mixing session shared by a known and trusted forum member, and there were no coinbase rewards within a meaningfull distance.

The *only* thing you can do is make a scam accusation and hope the admin tries to resolve your case. I would not recommand using this mixer ever again tough... I suspect this is either a manual one-man operation that doesn't really understand the concept of what he's doing, making promises and not keeping them, throwing in big buzzwords without understanding what he's saying OR it's an exit scam waiting to happen

But by not issuing a letter of guarantee, you do not give your clients the OPTION of protecting themselves against you. You take away their opportunity to make valid claims in case you mess up again. If you would provide a letter of guarantee, it's up to your clients wether or not they want to download it to protect themselfs from you, or if they don't want to download it because they don't trust you enough to download anything from your site (or because they don't want any evidence, eventough any 3 letter agency that got their hands on the letter of guarantee would also have their hands on both the sending and receiving wallet, so your clients would be caught with or without a letter of guarantee)...

By the way: if you link to a letter of guarantee instead of automatically downloading it, people could look at it online and just copy it directly, it would be just as safe as browsing any other part of your website....



But yet, if you look at your site's main page, and your first post on bitcointalk, it looks like you've actually got these funds... I think this is misdirecting your clients.
By the way, by working this way, you don't have any guarantee... What if a clients sends 250 BTC your way, but your "partner" lied to you and doesn't provide you with the necessary liquidity... What will you do in this case?



But... But... But....
Your main page said, and i quote:
source: https:// whalemixer . com /


So, ransomware operators are NOT criminals? Strange, in my country they are...

I personally think that putting chipmixer behind cloudflare wouldn't be good for chipmixer's reputation... However, putting a landing page behind cloudflare might actually work...
I mean, by keeping chipmixer.com online behind cloudflare, you give less opportunity to fake phising sites... But you can't put the actual mixer behind cloudflare... So the "best case" sollution would be to use chipmixer.com as cloudflare-protected anti-DDos portal to educate people on how to visit chipmixer on tor v3.

I'm actually kind of sad to see the current state of DDos'ing... I use my company's laptop 90% of the time, and i'm not allowed to install the tor browser (blacklisted due to company policy). I did beta test using my cellphone, it works great tough... Good job

Well... You're making very broad assumptions, you're generalizing quite a bit and it's not all completely true...

If you're  keeping your funds on binance, and using them as a custodial wallet, it seems to be true some millisats are usually left over, and these can indeed be exchanged for BNB.
HOWEVER, keeping your funds on an exchange is one of the worst things you can do... Really... The advice you give should be: don't keep your funds on an exchange...

If you did your homework, and you're using a non-custodial wallet (so your funds are a lot safer than they are on binance), most non-custodial wallets won't even allow you to create transactions with a dust output. If you create a transaction with a dust output, it probably won't even relay properly.

Most newbies that use a decent wallet won't run into any problems with dust outputs untill they start tinkering with wallets... So, it might be a good idear to edit your post to make it very clear that any advice you're giving is for binance only, and keeping your funds on an exchange is not a good idear?