I tried to search for a cheaper one but almost all offer $200+ or above.
I only found one website that sells lower than $200 the only problem is I don't know if it's a legit site or not.

Check this site

Respectfully, OP, I have to disagree with you on this one. That thread's been around even before the merit system got introduced. And if you're concerned about people using merit farming to snag a spot in a signature campaign, well, I think it's up to the campaign manager to figure out if someone truly deserves it.

Now, I don't have a ton of merits either, so sometimes when I apply for a campaign, I get that feeling that users with loads of merits are getting the nod. But I don't let it bother me, really. I just keep posting on the boards I love without any expectations of merits. If they come, they come.

The whole idea behind merit farming is to rank up or earn more merits to look appealing to campaign managers. But if you take a closer look, we don't even have to spend time investigating which accounts are legit because the moment they join a campaign, their post quality tends to shoot up. So, personally, I trust the judgment of those campaign managers – they're popular for a reason around here.

Lastly, I don't think Theymos would be on board with disabling that thread either. It's one of the biggest threads around, and we all love to gather there when the bull run hits.

That's... That's not how any of this works.


Since this thread was recently bumped, I thought I would write a limerick about this conspiracy theory:

There once was a man named JJG
Oft he curiously did merit pee
The craftiest of scammers, he ranked up some spammers
For 20% of their campaign BTC

Yes they do this in the US in Colorado I know for sure and a bunch of other states in the US have to go in and get their car approved in emmissons testing.

I actually understand that buddy is not yet self-aware, but I wonder if buddy is aware enough to have at least 7 digits available for such million per coin.


Oh my....

I am surely disinclined to give you the answer.. which is actually a pretty basic concept.. so I will just give you a hint.

Look at this chart:   https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/200-week-moving-average-heatmap/

It shows the 200-week moving average, and so what do you see in the chart?

Another hint:  The stock to flow model uses the 200-week moving average too.. but the stock to flow model has some other data in their too in order to make some claims about bitcoin.


It's not even my statement.  I stole it from Mark Twain.


“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” -Mark Twain Twain

and apparently many other people made similar kinds of statements.. so I am sure that I got it from one or more of them.
>>>>>
"This famous quote has been attributed to many people—-Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, even Bill Clinton, for starters. Once a clever phrase like this comes into the language, a lot of folks start using it, and their readers reasonably figure they made it up. But according to the website quoteinvestigator.com, the first to use it was the 17th century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. "<<<<<<<<<<

https://www.quora.com/Who-wrote-the-quote-If-I-had-more-time-I-would-have-written-you-a-shorter-letter


Some people do like to do those kinds of things.. They focus on certain people and maybe they have some kind of a theme too.. and frequently they focus on more famous people, but you never know, the internet and these kinds of forums are not exactly long lasting in nature, and even in the past 10 years or so we have seen mainstream media become more and more reliant upon quoting sources from various internet forums.

by the way, I thought that you were going to write such book involving me, phillip and maybe you might find some others and do some comparison and contrasting.. ..   There still needs to be some kind of a need for an interesting hook.. so we are likely not interesting enough on our own.

Bitcoins do not expire, bitcoins do not rot, you don't consume Bitcoins and they are not produced randomly in one season but with near complete accuracy. Also unlike a miner who can simply shut down its miners if the reward is lower than the costs there is no way for a farmer to cut losses with the same predictability, plus, let's not even mention the fact that no matter how much gear you point at mining coins you won't be able to mine more than 900 coins a day on average, with apples it takes a few years but you cat quadruple the entire world production.


That's one of most annoying thing, I just hate when some claim that the supply is going down with the halving.


Oil is not in fixed supply and it went from -40 to $80, something I don't see Bitcoin ever being able to replicate 
Volatility has nothing to do with the supply, stocks have a limited supply too and they are all over the place in a messy day.

The only downfall with that is what might happen with VERY old wallets. You have to think in the possibility of DECADES.
Even now getting older software to run at times requires VMs and other things.
Some versions of the bitcoin client are difficult to find.
And so on.

Just something to think about.

-Dave

I agree with your points the Bitcoin discussion is the right board for such questions and I also believe that such questions are helpful for many people as they discuss about Bitcoin related things at that board. I'm active in that board and I can say that most of the times we see useful posts at that board.

Well, I agree that Bitcoin discussion board is not entirely dedicated to increase someone's knowledge about Bitcoin but yeah most of the times it serves for that purpose as well. There are many good threads in that board and so many good and reputed members of the forum leave good replies in the threads that are posted in that board.

I guess you're right that everyone isn't expert and we'll have to accept that fact. There are many users who basically share their experiences and knowledge with others and want to see some good feedback or others opinions in the form of replies. That's the stress-free way of learning and I guess that most people are learning something from the replies that are posted in that board.

I believe that everyone has their own standards regarding a topic's quality, some people consider a topic high quality and helpful while others may consider it as generic and repeated. We can't change anyone opinion and that's why if someone is really not interested in a topic then the better option is to avoid such topics instead of calling those topics low quality.

Under the spot contract, only 1 ASIC model is available for sale, and it seems to me that their new Antminer S21 ASICs discourage the desire to buy S19k Pro ASICs.
They used to have smaller batches of ASICs for sale.
https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=00020230810124545653TwO4yKr106A8

Buying the January batch doesn’t work for me, but the sale of ASIC S19 will end in January

This is not unusual OP, and there is absolutely no requirement for block timestamps to be in order. Block ordering is based on block height, and not on timestamps. The timestamps are only used to calculate difficulty (and as an additional nonce field), nothing more, and so do not need to be accurate beyond a few hours. For example:

145044 - 15:46
145045 - 16:05
145046 - 16:00
145047 - 15:53
145048 - 16:04
145049 - 16:08

That's not quite right. The timestamps of nodes you are connected to are used to adjust your own local time, provided those timestamps are within 70 minutes of your own local time.

With an average block time of 10 minutes, timestamps can fall within a 3 hour window.

After reading the replies I ended up doing a couple of consolidations yesterday, that got confirmed pretty fast.

bitcoin discussion board have lot of unnecessary questions which is mostly not helpful to increase knowledge or learn something new.
most of them start thread about "my first bitcoin purchase" i convinced my dad to invest in bitcoin, "bitcoin is life", etc. which is mostly a waste of time for good posters.
most users post low quality replies to get post count for signature campaign, and the other users start threads like these because many members award them merits, show my request is stop replying to them if it's not an important discussion.

It all comes on to the key players influencing the Bitcoin price. Who are the key players here? Buyers, Sellers, miners because of the mining rewards, and those who speculate. The price of Bitcoin reflects the supply and demand with a given limited supply of the number of Bitcoin that can be mined. When the demand for Bitcoin is high the price will go up, when the demand for Bitcoin is low the price will go down. It is a basic economic principle where buying and selling activities impact the price.

As an example let me quote you how an apple farmer sells his apples. We are considering that the farmer in a year through his farm produces 1000 apples. If the demand for apples goes high with the fixed produce then the farmer will increase the price. If the demand for apples goes down with the fixed produce then the farmer will reduce the price. The reason is that you cannot sell stale apples in the market.

Oh I certainly agree. My point is that because it is not a major issue to them, BM just does not care. A 75kva autotransformer is only $1,1700 so smaller farms do have a viable solution to it. If companies like RIOT and Marathon who run sites that pull 10's to 100's of MW don't care then BM won't care either.

I said "money can't buy happiness but it can maintain happiness", that's just an understatement. And if we speak frankly, what you say is not wrong, but many people still do not believe that happiness today is determined by money, the more money you have, the more opportunities you have to choose a partner.

Marriage was once considered sacred, but today it has also been corrupted by the development of society when money plays an important role in almost every corner of society, love cannot be excluded. Nowadays without money, there will definitely be no love.

I personally consider it to be a good idea to try to keep track of your transactions, and therefore, you should be ONLY combining like transactions..

so one way to divide them is KYC versus non-KYC...   .. and it could be more complicated to divide further, but there could be some kinds of cases that you might decide further kinds of divides, especially if you have some patterns in your own transactions and then you might be able to combine all of the like transactions that might come out of the same source... for example an exchange.. and maybe even some other third party that you deal with if you believe that you are not really given anything up when you combine them.  the more rigid you try to be, then the more complicated it might become to try to keep track, but if you largely deal in generic categories, then it might be a little easier to main some kind of a system of keeping separate but then sometimes combining them.. especially if you might have a whole bunch of small ones that you cannot really contemplate spending that way.. but another thing could be that you just leave the small ones alone because you already have some of your UTXOs that you know you would be able to use for larger transactions if such a need were to occur.


I remember quite a few bitcoiners back in the day (let's say 2014-2016) who used to sometimes consider having 1BTC as too small of an increment, so some of them were separating their coins into 10 BTC increments.. so surely that can become a problem. because even now 0.3 BTC is very close to a $10k bill.

Maybe some of those guys fixed their issues, but I have my doubts because some members do not want to be moving their coins around very much, so surely some of them might be getting into situations in which they would prefer to have some UTXOs with smaller amounts in them.

I have a "friend" who tends to rotate through various addresses, so even an address that has something like 0.3 BTC might end up getting used up over a year or two... that is if the goal might at one time be to exhaust certain UTXOs, but let's say this friend has several BIGGER transactions of $2k to $4k, and then he might have 30 different UTXos that have 0.3 BTC each, so instead of exhausting a couple of the UTXOs, he does the next 10 transactions from each of 10 of those UTXOs and then ends up having around 0.2 BTC in each of those 10 UTXOs that used to have 0.3 BTC... .but then he still has another 20 UTXos that have 0.3 BTC each... does not even sound like a first-world problem, but it does sound like it could be a problem for some bitcoin OGs.