Can you sell Alaska back to Russia? Pretty please? Also you don't need Puerto Rico, its like spanish speaking with bad music, pretty unamerican. Maduro would be interested to buy it with Petros, because Biden is socialist right? like Maduro and they will be friends no?

According to ABC, Biden got Pennsylvania, so game over. 273 vs 214.

Of course Trump will do the American thing to do: Sue 

So what this means is, currently Braiins OS+ is working with the following models:

S17, S17pro, S17+, T17, T17+
S9, S9j and S9i (separate image).

The recent blog entry explains that there is a problem with a few controllers using the Macronix NAND chip (its garbage). Currently the firmware checks if you have that and refuses to allow installing it to NAND. Controllers with the Macronix NAND should be rare, but if you have one of those, you can only run Braiins OS+ from the sd card for the time being. Most people should have the Micron NAND which works fine.

Remember that Braiins OS+ can run directly from the sd card without ever touching your NAND. The S17 family has no jumpers so it simply boots from sd when you insert it.

We have already seen people reporting 29W/TH with the S17+:


Using this firmware with the S17+, T17 or T17+ is considered beta. The recommendation is to just grab the sd card image and flash it with Rufus, Etcher or dd to try it. Braiins OS can always run from the sd card itself without ever installing it into the NAND, feel free to test it without worries.

Within the miner's ui there is an option to install it permanently into NAND. Do this when you feel confident, or wait a couple of releases. Its OK to install it on the S17 and S17pro already, remember to use the latest version which is labelled braiins-os_am2-s17_sd_2020-11-05-0-7f7650dc-20.11-plus-nightly This image is for the S17 family only.

For the S9 the latest image which fixes the fans spinning fast issue when disconnected from the pool, is labelled braiins-os_am1-s9_sd_2020-10-25-0-908ca41d-20.10-plus

These are sd images that are meant to be flashed to a small capacity microSD card using rufus etcher or dd. In the S9 you need to move jumper jp4 to boot from it, the S17 family will boot from sd when you insert a card, there are no jumpers. You may test Braiins OS+ from the SD card without installing it to the NAND in the controller indefinitely.

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The "Tools for Bitcoin Mining Insights!" have been released by Braiins.

With them you see:

• Cost to Mine 1 BTC with any popular ASIC
• Mining Profitability & Cash Flow calculator and visualization

De hecho en el proveedor del Estado (Cantv) tor está bloqueado desde junio 2018. Se puede usar pero con ofuscación obfs4, y la gente no tiene ni la mas remota idea de eso. Otra forma sería con vpn, preferiblemente un servidor pequeño y oscuro, mejor si privadamente instalan un servidor vpn propio en el exterior y no le dicen a nadie...

Lo de tor browser (que no tor) en localbitcoins es un sin sentido que probablemente tenga otro motivo no revelado, mientras se permita el ingreso desde tor, no hay que prestarle atención.

Durante el gobierno de Maduro se han censurado miles de páginas web por motivos aleatorios, generalmente políticos. Ya han bloqueado temporalmente youtube, wikipedia y pastebin por pánico o ignorancia. Tragi-cómicamente a veces el filtro les falla y, o queda todo abierto, o todo cerrado. El internet en Venezuela ya de por si es bastante malo sin la ayuda de ellos con sus filtros de contenido mal administrados...

No solo es factible, ya llevan años haciéndolo. La empresa privada no pone "demasiado empeño" en obedecer, pero deben hacerlo o son tomados militarmente y detenidos dueños y empleados donde pueden pasar meses y años sin ver un abogado, no hablemos ya de justicia que no existe (es medieval, lo que diga el ejecutivo y sus funcionarios).

Just like the USA with their NSA gag orders. Any American company that gets this order has to do the same: share data or allow them to install tapping devices, and most importantly, keep absolutely quiet about it. But at least they can charge some fee for the service...

You can have all the social media and platforms you like in China, provided you obey their rules. This usually means all technological means to stop the spread of any anti gov messages of any kind, so if your app has filters and can quickly take action to suppress any inadequate sentiment against the gov, you can probably operate just fine. Now Americans get a bit outraged, assuming there is such thing as freedom everywhere, but there isn't, not even in their own country. Only difference is the amount of it.

Consider China like some monarchy, talking against the monarchy in a monarchic country is forbidden period. In fact China was exactly like that for thousands of years, in a way, they simply continue their ancestors traditions.

So once you get over the fact that, there is zero political freedoms in China and that you must do everything to keep it that way if you want to operate there, then sure enough you can. If you willingly offer them technological expertise and knowledge, even more.

If anything, China is more sincere about it. Americans think they are different but they are not, at least not regarding privacy. You think your laws protect you because the NSA isn't supposed to collect data on Americans, but they have to for the surveillance to work. There is no way around it, you record it all, and then IF there is a legal issue, filter it later. Tho they are very likely excepted under national security rules.

Of course it doesn't end there, many countries spy each other and their own citizens and anybody else they can. Why would Huawei defy their gov? You think Google can actually reject the NSA? They can't either. One of the reasons data mining is profitable to some US companies, is that they also get tax paid money from it, and its not like they can refuse it either.

Anything you use, unless fully open sourced, you can assume is spying on you. Maybe you can choose the country at best, but that won't save you when third parties exploit those backdoors, even if you trust country a, doesn't mean country b won't benefit (or criminal organization c).

Many people here don't even bother with using open source software, imagine trying to convince them to use open source hardware... Use both if you truly care.

Auth failed usually means a mistake in the user(worker) name. It has to exactly match the login name you use in the web page.

The .machinename is optional, if you use it, it shows its pretty name in the dashboard. If you omit it, the hash rate shows in a generated "auto" miner. It really doesn't mind if you use it or not, and the password can even be blank or the classic x, doesn't matter.

Again: the username has to match exactly any caps used to login in the Slushpool web page.

Because of the minimal withdrawal amount, I'm not sure its such a good idea to use this old miner with Slushpool. You should really go with https://solo.ckpool.org

BTW: You don't manually create workers in Slush Pool, at least not in its current UI incarnation. the .machinename in the miner user(worker) name field will do that automatically for you.

Kano pool does have a solo mode, but, you have to make an account (old accounts don't work) and configure it for solo mining. Unlike ckpool, where you just use your bitcoin address as user(worker) name and mine without needing to set up a pool account. Also dust payments like what this machine could only make, might take ages (if ever) for getting out any satoshis, not sure if he ever implemented the non manual method of paying dust. Oh and if he feels like your asic is funny, it gets banned, so there is that. In addition, 4 blocks per year is already on the lost cause side of the equation, i think that pool will close sooner than later, a shame since i love pplns pools the most, but a low hashrate for pplns means game over, as we have seen here before.

Because the whale wasn't idiot to let a wallet pick a tx fee. If I was the whale, i would do exactly the same: Set it to 1 sat/B broadcast and leave it alone... Especially if this was destined to a cold wallet, one day or three won't make any difference.

We are not "subject" to anything. You are letting a wallet decide for you. This is your mistake as an user, its not even Bitcoin's fault, but whoever designed the wallet to default to this abominable guessing fee thing which isn't part of Bitcoin in the first place.

"High fees" is an artifact myth of whoever decided users were "too dumb" to choose a fee for themselves. I do blame wallet developers for defaulting to this.

You can right now use a low 3 sat/B fee for a 1 day confirmation. Is your wallet even telling you this? Of course next block costs 280, and one hour 266, and the other wallets are also calculating the same and adding more and more, its like a horde of bots self feeding themselves, it only took a little price fluctuation to initiate the cascade; and i bet those exchange/online wallets that you can't even change the tx fee at all aren't exactly helping... Sure, lets remove the "confusing" (sane) manual setting of a fee, the "user" only wants things by the next block, or one hour (6 blocks) at most. Lets call it "Priority", because you know, confusing numbers, math is hard... What could possibly go wrong?

People thinking Bitcoin is "subjecting people to high fees". Never ending talk about "high fees", because the wallets are racing each other to confirm first by user choice...

Well done. Its about time to debunk this myth of "high fees", the current storm is nothing whatsoever like late 2017 or early 2018.

And the wallets are racing for the top on their own when everything below is empty. This is what happens when people don't pay attention, don't let a wallet ever decide a fee.


Tx feerate 10 min:   280.9 sat/byte
Tx feerate 1 hrs:    266.5 sat/byte
Tx feerate 6 hrs:    164.0 sat/byte
Tx feerate 12 hrs:   105.9 sat/byte
Tx feerate 1 day:    3.0 sat/byte
Tx feerate 3 days:   1.1 sat/byte

See? Just pay 3 satoshis per byte and wait a day, rather than a hundred+ for half a day...

No, traffic increases when price fluctuates because traders keep buying and selling. When the price remains stable, so called "sideways", the network calms.

Remember: the fee never increases unless you let the wallet do it. So don't let it. You can just wait a day or three for a transaction to confirm and not pay any outrageous fees from crazy traders (and their bots) abusing the network. Of course exchanges also are at fault for many other reasons.

And again i tell you sit down and relax. What is the hurry? If you don't want to pay outrageous fees, just wait 3 days for 1 sat/B or 1 day for 3 sat/B. This is nowhere like the beginning of 2018... Its rather insignificant in comparison. This little storm will pass and that is that. In the meantime, miners are enjoying their extra couple bitcoins, from the pools that don't steal them...

How many times do i have to tell people to not let their wallets choose the fee? But do you even listen? Don't blame it on Bitcoin, blame your stupid wallet.

Oh, and if your wallet says nonsensical things like "high priority" or "medium priority", rather than the actual fee, i think you have already overgrown your wallet, get something else that treats you with respect and just tells you the actual fee and the actual guesstimation of how long that would take.

1 sat/B is 3.3 days avg
3 sat/B is 1 day avg.

You are a fool if you let the wallet (that feedback loop themselves at the top, if you haven't noticed) decide the fee for you.

See, for 12 hours the fee goes into 105 sat/B, and from that to "next block" its 280 sat/B.
Its all fake, just wait for the storm to pass or use lower fees manually, and wait a day or three.

And don't forget to get a decent wallet that lets you manually pick fees.

There is no mention of any hacking anywhere. Some people are maybe wisely moving their funds to newer wallets, better protected with modern seed words and perhaps even bech32.

The only thing you can speculate about this, is that those funds were never lost. Not all old wallets are forgotten..

So i got the geographical location wrong, but that port has always worked... Anyway i wouldn't call it a vpn, its more like a proxy. If the problem is your government, you should not just simply use this, because Stratum is a naive protocol, everything is clear text, literally just json strings going back and forth. Its like comparing http vs https anyone could see your traffic. Now if only there was a solo pool with v2 support...

Then i have these in my notes for solo.cpool.org unless i missed anything:

stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 (USA)
stratum+tcp://de.ckpool.org:3333 (Germany)
stratum+tcp://rfpool.org:3334 (France)

This pool is also great to diagnose issues some people have with less reliable pools out there, and the fact you don't need an account to mine and verify hash is a huge plus.

It is truly a service to the community.

Probably failed negotiations. Ripple is centralized garbage, it all depends on the will of a few. Sure way to lose your wealth, trust the very banks and institutions that brought all the problems in the first place.

So if you want justification for your bad investment, you are not going to get it in the Bitcoin forum. You should sell that junk while you can and buy bitcoin, but not with Paypal because that's almost as fake.

"irrespective"? Why don't you get some Petros, see how far you get.. Oops, Trump prohibited you from buying them. There is your lovely centralization: It can be stopped, easily; because its centralized. Therefore its value is zero.

Bitcoin is easier to track (especially when you lack skills) so this is definitely not a reason. And remember that while say, 1% of criminals might use bitcoins, the vast majority of criminal activity still occurs in fiat.

One reason though, is the ease of movement. This is definitely an advantage to anyone, including them. You do not need to declare when you cross borders. This might ease some operations like laundering, but that doesn't make it Bitcoin's fault. They could ask you to prove the origin of your money, and with Bitcoin you can even give them a clear trail to follow, much easier than fiat.

Some people even suggest all public servants should exclusively work with Bitcoin, and by forcing them disclose their addresses, people could always follow the money they get and the money they spent.

Privacy is optional, you can actually do the opposite IF you wanted to. Its not private by default, so this makes it very ill suited for criminal activities. If anything, they would be giving authorities even more hints to track and trace.

If you ask me, i personally think criminal adoption is even slower than normal adoption, because of these issues. But, that doesn't mean they can't use it, it will probably increase as the world as a whole increase adoption. If everyone used gold coins, ransom for kidnapping would be asked in gold coins, like the Spanish did to the south American Inca ruler (and after they paid the ransom, they killed him anyway, typical).

So as much as you hate it, criminals are part of the world. No such thing as a "clean" money. The USD is probably the dirtiest money (even literally with the cocaine traces on its banknotes) simply because its the most widely accepted, not that it deserves it. Then logically followed with the most used coins like the EUR and the other fiats.

So rather than focusing in the medium, focus in the act. Its not Bitcoin, its the kidnapping (or whatever crime).

Not your keys, not your coins. Its as simple as that.

Don't buy with Paypal, because all you will get is some sort of promise that they are held by Paxos, now you have to trust two companies...

Bitcoin is about not trusting anyone. Therefore, when you buy bitcoins, they either enter your own wallet or you might as well assume you have been scammed.

Seriously stop thinking Paypal is "allowing the masses" access to bitcoin. Its actually the opposite, by doing this they are tainting Bitcoin's name. Bitcoin is not this, this is what the banks and other financial institutions do with fiat and assets all the time. You are not buying "gold", you buy some sort of paper that says you somehow own gold, but in the small letter it says you can't actually change it for gold (Just like the old US banknotes).

These two could even collude doing fractional reserve practices. This is not good.

Sorry but the crypto you "buy" in paypal remains in paypal. This is as useless as it gets... In fact, its a trap. So you think paypal is better than using your own wallet? I don't think so. And what good is a bitcoin that cannot be used, just sold again to them? This is so foggy, they can even "pretend" to acquire the coins while never doing so, or do fractional reserve practices.


Not to mention that, to even use Paypal, you need to have a valid credit card and perform a transaction with it to them which of course means fully disclosing your ID.

Did you know there are countries in this world where you just can't acquire a credit card? Its often hard to own a bank account. None of that matters with Bitcoin. This is the old system that needs to go away.

Excellent initiative, shame on them. May their potential users think twice before going for a service or wallet that will make them spend more.

There are some similar lists in the Bitcoin wikis.

There is no shortage of bitcoins. People are willing to part with some of them for the right price. This is how the free market is supposed to work, and its working just fine.

Of course Bitcoin production is limited, and minting was designed to slowdown more and more overtime, following the logarithmic curve seen in the historical gold mining activity. This ensure its value won't be less as time passes. It could even increase a bit as come coins are lost forever (actually the coins are never lost, just the keys that can move them).

Want Bitcoin? Hit some exchange and buy, or, mine while you still can. Things are working as planned, and there are no sudden changes to the rules that could dramatically alter the perceived price. In fact, the less it changes, the better.

The only agreement that would change things is adopting the Austrian school of economy teachings and stop everything they have been doing until now. Since i don't see them using actual gold as money, Bitcoin is the perfect solution for the world.

As long as they keep the Chicago school dogmas, nothing will ever change.

Opposition to this is immense, as it would necessitate the ending of the legalized ponzi scheme known as fractional reserve banking, and true money that doesn't lose its purchasing power overtime is money that people can hold for themselves, specially when its virtual and easy to hide and secure.

Thus, banks become far less useful, and that is your whole financial industry that is going to oppose this until they can no longer do it. Some will embrace it, many will close because they are redundant in the new post Chicago reality.

When the world understands and applies Austrian economics, you won't need banks, central banks, continental banks or world banks. People today think a Bank is a necessity because nobody is teaching them about that other kind of economy where rather than getting in debt to invest, you save from your own effort and then use that. If you think that should be obvious, your gov certainly doesn't.

Growth with an Austrian style economy is slower and everyone is scared to make the first step and get eaten by all the others in the global economy, but with time its steadiness shows when the next crisis hits the others but that place practicing Austrian economics remains unaffected. Like Bitcoin.

Want to end bubbles and crashes forever? Go Austrian!.

Now who is going to propose it first? Your cowardly politicians that would lose even more power? The very institutions that would become redundant?