90% of laptop users will never make use of their dual drives so there is nothing to really miss here. If for whatever reason you feel an additional hard disk (not just more disk space) is required, feel free to buy any of the external SSDs that have reasonable performance. And have acceptable failure rates as well - i.e. no Sandisk SSDs.

To be honest, I've had this question for quite a while. I keep seeing people claiming to just hold and hold; it'll take one, two, three, or whatever years for the next bull market. However, I'm often wondering: do you ever feel tired of waiting for Bitcoin to thrive? The past few months, or the whole past year—I'm not sure I've lost track of time—have been quite stale. Bitcoin has been ranging between $25.000 and $28.000 for quite a while. The volatility compared to other periods is lower than we're used to, or at least, to what I was used to in the past.

I feel that there isn't too much excitement and this adrenaline feeling anymore; suddenly you'd see Bitcoin climb or crash; you'd be curious when it'd stop, what your next move would be, or simply feel accomplished seeing your money's value grow. Price movements are quite insignificant at this point compared to the huge pumps or dumps that occurred in 2020 or 2021.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against holding, nor am I getting frustrated, at least not yet; I did it in the past and regretted it, even though my only source of income is signature campaigns. It's just that sometimes you can't stop the thoughts from circling around your head. I generally didn't bother to even look at it's price, but I've recently started feeling a little wearied. Perhaps it has to do with the life-induced stress that I've discussed in a previous thread. Who knows? How do you cope with waiting?

Can the exact date of bitcoin halving be known?

I remember opening a thread concerning this topic and I got to know that any date you’ll see online is purely based on predictions and no official date can be known prolly till we get very close to it.

And if you search you’ll see that there are different dates for it online, some April, October (as you have stated in your post).

Or are mining with the gear they were supposed to build now and ship first thing in January?  
And here I missed my chance of saying no, that's just luck it will drop like a stone:


I lost count, of the previous versions, so assuming brand new gear, we're at 400Exa 7% is 28Exa, the S21 is 200Th, so 140k of those?
Coupon means $600 million and 490MW, let's put a 100% profit margin so $300 million worth of gear?

Not going to do the math for the S19 as I literally have no idea what model and what orders are still unfulfilled, I used to have a sheet on the orders based on PR for the publicly traded companies but I can no longer find the damn thing, besides, it's probably outdated and useless anyhow.
Anyhow, heading to under 200sat/th, so relaxing to be outside of the game with just 300th left heating the floor faaaar away!

https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/difficulty-estimator

Latest Block:   811784  (5 minutes ago)

Current Pace:   107.1122%  (1353 / 1263.16 expected, 89.84 ahead)

Previous Difficulty:   57119871304635.31                            
Current Difficulty:   57321508229258.04                            
Next Difficulty:   between 60940383765728 and 61410554511137
Next Difficulty Change:   between +6.3133% and +7.1335%
Previous Retarget:   October 3, 2023 at 3:56 AM  (+0.3530%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   Monday at 5:37 AM  (in 4d 7h 9m 46s)
Next Retarget (latest):   Monday at 8:02 AM  (in 4d 9h 34m 32s)
Projected Epoch Length:   between 13d 1h 41m 23s and 13d 4h 6m 9s

I think the rental price depends on the location, if we have the patience to find a cheaper house to rent then we can easily get it, I once worked in an area where the rent for a place was very expensive, but I was looking for a small road that was not far away and could get it at a very low price cheaper maybe only about 30% of the market price.

Hey,

i am doing a similar setup as yours. Were you successful with the transformer?

The merit systems works, we see less crap on the forum because of the merit system. Prior to the introduction of the merit system, anyone could build their account to legendary rank without doing any real work or make any positive contribution. They could just jargons and rank up, some high rank accounts of today are from the old system and the owners may not be as knowledgeable on bitcoin as the rank suggests. In this case, the user made the post in off topic board, I rarely visit there because it has nothing to do with bitcoin. You shouldn’t be so worked up about it, an expert in bitcoin could also be a noob in medicine or politics. 

For what it's worth: there's a huge difference in SSDs. This BX500 for instance:
I found out the hard way how sneaky drive manufacturers are nowadays, after I bought a 2 TB HDD that drops to kilobytes per second when filling the last 20%. With this SSD it's not that bad, and for your purpose you'll probably never notice it, but it is something to keep in mind. I now only buy disks that can sustain their performance until they're full.

I've never liked Apple, and I don't like Windows, so I've been using Linux for a long time. I love it, and can only recommend to get used to using the command line (and vi). I still prefer the console for most file operations, it's faster and much more powerful than the GUI.

Theymos will say something about not impeding free speech, that it's easy to abuse and will not bring it back just like the scammer tag or the newbie jail, not going to happen.


If you think that's brilliant:
NSA, CIA, IRS, DHS, ATF, FBI, GCHQ, Federal Reserve, ISIS are Terrorists
Ongoing Civil War in U.S.A. corporation
Warren Buffet is a high level luciferian

Badecker is just an amateur compared to Tom.
And every single one of those topics shows why we must continue to allow unlimited free speech on this forum no matter what drugs the user in question is on! /s

The earnings are ridiculously low, considering the btc I stake.

I did try to maximize my earnings for a while. By that, I provided liquidity to the LOOP channel, which provides a lightning/on-chain swap service at a very favorable fee for the node who open to them.

In order to do that, I constantly have to open a channel with LOOP, since they close the channel once it's drained on their side. This activity would quickly make me run out of inbound liquidity unless I can get lightning to on-chain btc at a cheaper price than LOOP. For that I used Nicehash and Kraken. The increased activity with Kraken got me audited though. They questioned me about the source of funds, even though I've been a customer of theirs for close to a decade.

During this time, my earnings was close to 300k sats ($80) per month. Now, after I've stopped this aggressive channel opening with LOOP, it's closer to 100k sats ($27) per month. 6-8 months more at this rate and my hardware investment will pay off.

My node is fairly balanced, so out of the 17 BTC capacity it has, 8 BTC or so is provided by me. So, like I said, the earnings are ridiculously low. It's self-hosted though. I don't need to trust my funds with any 3rd part.

back in the day the ignore button under a users name would glow bright yellow when that user was ignored.. the more people that ignored them the brighter the word ignore glowed.

so bring it back. it did serve a purpose, like warning unwary people that that person is likely a nutter. likely would help in matters like this.

I don't understand what you're talking about, this is what I see in my browser.




*Sorry theymos