Bad/lazy campaign managers and sig campaigns are a big part of the reason why the forum is a cesspool of spam right now...

I believe the merit system is in place partly to combat bad/lazy campaign managers who are not doing their job.  It would be truly stupid to then give them the power that essentially makes the new merit system useless.

I would say based on the earliest of evidence that smerit distribution is probably still a little bit low.  But given time we can hope that it will be adjusted.  Finding the balance point of making merit useful and useless will probably take some time but adjusting that balancing point to much before data is available also seems stupid.

I think I've highlighted the problem in your case!!!  

You could have a point about finding an on topic reply, but I bet such a sophisticated fella like yourself could find something to start a topic with pretty easy?  Hint Hint! Maybe even a deep dark Necro from within??

I wonder if we will see more copy and pasting so farmers can appear to have better quality posts.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_network

This looks like a typical shit poster.  Is he now using someone else's material as his own in order to get merit for a quality post?

I've reported this idiot and this one was super easy to catch as his reply was completely off topic and vaguely familiar...  What about someone who's a little more sophisticated about it?  I hope the community will continue to aggressively monitor this as stealing someone else's work is LOW really really LOW.

I was thinking more at the subforum level, I prefer to just cruise around a few subs and don't really want to wade through a big old list of every sub here!

Thanks for the link though I will check out the top merited thread link!

I haven't seen it mentioned or requested.  Would it be of interest to anyone to have some kind of indication of topics/threads with lots of merited posts/points awarded in them?  Something similar to the hot topic, very hot topic indicators in the left columns of the topic pages?  Maybe highlight one of the pages with different colours for different levels of merited posts or points awarded in the topic?  

If it wasn't to hard to implement it might be cool to be able to see threads that people feel are merit worthy! If I saw a thread with lots of merited posts/points awarded I might be inclined to check it out instead of blowing it off.

I can't give you a hard number bud!  Those with the lowest capital cost of equipment and the lowest electrical rate in the simplest of terms. 

It is entirely plausible that in the future bitcoin mining will only be done by manufacture's as they will have access to the lowest possible priced units.  It's also plausible that at some point manufacturing costs begin to approach the unprofitable mark.  That is assuming tech flat lines as well as coin price.

Think about Bitmain and their cost to manufacture a unit.  That cost is A LOT lower than current retail pricing.  Combined with sub $.05 usd/kwh and you can see how easily they could outlast any retail purchasing miner for a LONG time in the event of declining coin price and a prolonged low coin price.  What happens if coin price falls to 4K and sits there for 5 years.  Most miners are betting against that as are most folks in this forum in general but it's not an impossibility!

It's also entirely plausible because BTC has the possibility IMO to go a lot higher in price that we see a much larger profit window for a long time to come! 

Until we can predict the impossible we can only speculate and ENJOY the fuckin ride!

First one the green wire needs to go to an actual earth ground, metal shelf won't do much.  The second will be connected to the earth ground via the input cord.  As long as it is plugged into a 3 prong wall outlet you should be fine.

People have been saying this since 2013!! 

Seriously though difficulty will follow price in the long run.  The reason diff has increased exponentially is quite obviously because coin price has as well.  If coin price was still $100 do you think we would have this much hash rate LOL?  It's not hard to see that the more profitable mining is the more people want to do it!  As it becomes less profitable less people are inclined to mine.  If coin price ever stabilized for a long period of time we would hit a soft equilibrium where only those with the lowest of overhead prices would be able to mine profitably.  Believe it or not the system was designed as a near zero sum game and is working exactly as intended.

The problem is that this motion of diff following price is really really slow compared to how fast coin price fluctuates.  Diff is always trying to play catch up.  With such massive volatility in coin price the old slow train diff just can't keep up.

You can't predict what will happen to diff because you can't predict what will happen to coin price.  What we do know is that if coin price explodes or trends up for a "long" time that difficulty will move with it... eventually.  2017 saw both, it makes a lot of sense to predict diff is going up.  If newer machines are made available it will only go up faster!

I assume he's talking about using a media converter, going from UTP to fiber (and back) is common in the structured cabling world.  I haven't used one in a long time but they even have coax to fiber media converters if you have coax and you wanted to protect the modem as well.

If this is a "home" type set up I would avoid the media converters and would just get an inline ethernet surge protector.  Avoid the real cheap ones make sure to look at ones that are rated for "lightning protection".

Something like this one: https://www.amazon.ca/Ethernet-Surge-Protector-Gigabit-1000Mbs/dp/B00805VUD8
Please note I have never used that actual product I just did a quick google search on ethernet cable surge protection and that was the first one from amazon that popped up!  It is just an example, do your own research as that one is probably overkill for a home miner.

One can obviously only speculate at this point but if it is an Inno design or similar situation to the A1 days then maybe they do fear competition, not from Bitmain or Avalon but from others who may have access to Inno's chip/design or whatever.  Perhaps they don't have or couldn't get an exclusive with Inno?

If they own the IP they have I can't see any logical reason to be soooo secretive.  If Inno owns it and has or is selling to others then perhaps they don't want their competition to see how they made it work?

I don't know, this whole thing is so fucking weird TBH and with the limited information around it does make it hard to figure out what exactly is going on!

You are more than free and welcome to go over my post history.  If it does not meet your standards feel free to leave me neg trust.  DT'ers as they also know are free to do the same if they so wish!

As you can see I do not wear a signature and especially not one that's paid for, EVER (to date).

Signature campaign rules are not the same as forum rules/guidelines, but I highly doubt that actually means much to you shit posters.

I love the red paint getting splashed everywhere!  It's about time TBH.  It is refreshing to see the slew of butt hurt shitposters crying!


A lot of viable easy methods exist to virtually eliminate the current shitposting plague but they stop once they hit the top of the ladder, why is that exactly?  Why is banning account sales or paying member fee for signatures off the table?  I get that they are off the table but why?

I am left to surmise (quite possibly wrong) that implementing these options would significantly reduce traffic, thus the traffic generated by the plague is highly valued?  For example, on the vast majority of the forum the plague is running wild.  The staggering amount of users here only for a paycheck is sickening. A test solution is to set up a little tiny quarantine corner for those actually here for learning and sharing about BTC...  

So if we look at the traffic as "highly valued" then we need to retain the traffic and improve quality of the posters.  As we can see from the current state of things this does not seem to be an achievable goal?  Sometimes you can't have your cake and eat it too!

Perhaps their is another reason for taking some of the more effective methods off the table.  If we knew this information it might make it easier to provide useful suggestions for fixing things?

The risk I see in letting this go unchecked is that eventually the plague takes over completely.  When the only people left are the plague the value of their traffic will dwindle.

Anyway that's my rant!  Keep up the red paint Dt'ers hit em where it hurts!

If someone told you that they had a pedal bicycle that could go faster than the fastest motor cycle on the planet would you call that selling optimism or a scam?

Just wait till credit card bills start to show up at you place for CC you don't have.  They have your address, name and a valid CC #, do you have any idea how much they can do with just those limited pieces of information?

Dude FPGA K, nuff said yet?

LOL OMG Bitmain killer these fucking things DO NOT EXIST so ya LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

Clearly no amount of logic will get you to see straight at this point, your desperation and FOMO have gotten the better of your logical reasoning because holy fucking shit man what they are saying is literally impossible...

Anyone else reading this don't fall for this really really bad scam, You've been warned!

Where's NotWarmFuzzy with his SEO banner when you need him! 

Kind of a douchey move to try and jack the thread to sell your unwanted gear...

You should think about deleting and making a post in the marketplace.

Its not fucking real, seriously anyone questioning the validity of this vaporware neads their head examined...

As was already pointed out the picture of their miner is actually an Avalon A6.

WTF is that horse shit, seriously can you say buzz words that mean nothing at all?

Seriously more buzz words with no relevance or meaning in the mining world...

Well good thing they have an FPGA controller so this thing can mine forever...  How can anyone believe this nonsense??

I can't believe anyone thinks for 1 second there is even a .001% this is real, I mean holy shit its a bad scam.

Why was a second thread required for this shit coin?  Some might look at this as spamming for a shit coin...

LOL Lets ask ourselves one question.  If the product is not real (and its 100% not real) why would they allow CC payment???  You should cancel that CC fast, and let AMEX know their may be a fraudulent company accepting their CC's.  You should also watch you CC statements as you just gave your vitals to a scammer!

Or maybe just call it "time released CO" I don't think its anything like LTC. LTC did not take 10% of the block subsidy. It relied on donations, volunteer man hours and users/investors...  ALL LTC ever created were equally obtainable by anyone that wanted them.

By reserving 10% of the coins over time it looks like another shit coin. Trying to word fuck it's way around the rules?  That's a pretty deep rabbit hole to go down IMO.