Once again Bitmain attacks its customers. In another attempt to prevent people from switching firmware, last week they pushed an update that makes signature checks in sd updates.

It is very likely that the same thing will spread to all other Bitmain models...

Of course this means the firmware community will have to find a solution (again). If i were to guess, using the serial port...

Remember, DO NOT upgrade the firmware on your S17, T17, + or not, pro or not.

I'm sure the community will find a solution, it always does. But it might not be easy, and might not be pretty. Protect your investment, don't let the manufacturer decide what you can and what you cannot do with your equipment.

At worse, the whole controller would need to be replaced.



PS: History repeats: make sure you don't upgrade fw to the S21 family as well for the same reason.
Any firmware from April 2024 onwards locks the miner, do not be tempted with "hashrate % slider", its the usual bait.
PS2: Also S19.

I hope my country does not follow, all American companies have been forced to leave due to sanctions, and things only get worse and worse. Non American companies that deal with my country are getting punished and forced to stop providing us services or else they get their business in America blocked.

I will be adding the kindly provided proxies just in case the worst comes to happen...

Centralization is dangerous for things like this... And its things like this that makes politicians so dangerous, never again should they be allowed to control money or dictate monetary policy of any kind.

Bitcoin is freedom.

Also, it might come a point where text clear communication just won't do. I don't know how hard it is, but i hope someday to see a solo pool adopt v2's encrypted communication. It might make the difference to some of us in the long run...

Yo no lo uso, les digo que me escriban al Telegram porque whatsapp es infinitamente tedioso y las cosas mas elementales o no las hace, o las hace mal. Lo único salvable son las video llamadas, pero ni eso.

Y además, el historial de Whatsapp es terrible, sumado a que pertenece a Zuckerberg ahora, el mismo que quiere imponer su altcoin centralizada. No pinta nada pero nada bien.

Por supuesto que hay alternativas libres, pero si es dificil sacarlos del vicio whatsapp, que será mandarlos al riot.im o algo decente y seguro. Mucho pedir, y mas los latinos embobados con whatsapp.

Europa usa mucho Telegram, y Asia; depende del país. Line en japón, Kakao en Korea, WeChat en China. Esté último tiene años realizando pagos en fiat local, creo que los otros 2 también. Y bueno ya sabemos que Telegram desistió de su token para no volverse ilegal en EEUU...

¿A todo esto que pinta whatsapp aquí? Creo que es una estratagema para mantener cautivos a sus usuarios, porque aparecen "tentaciones" de irse a otros servicios de mensajería instantánea mejor, ¡algunos hasta respetan tu privacidad! ¡Fin de mundo!

Whatsapp es una porquería.


Un ejemplo: Las PCs desde que existen, permiten corregir errores al texto que se escribe. En los 80, esa era literalmente la razón de abandonar la máquina de escribir mecánica, poder corregir un error en la pantalla.

Insólitamente, Whatsapp no deja. Y ahora tenemos una generación enviciada, que cuando comete un error, pone la palabra corregida debajo con un *,

Pero mira que lo hacen en Telegram, pero Telegram ¡si deja corregir o re-editar el texto!, lo que hace ese mal hábito traído del whatsapp, absurdo.

Hay otras cosas que Whatsapp hace muy pero muy mal, como restringirte a un solo dispositivo. Pero porque les dio su regalada gana... Y si lo abres en una pc por navegador, a tener ese dispositivo con el whatsapp abierto y conectado, y que sea la última versión...

Absurdo por todas partes. Pero los cautivos a el, siempre lo vieron "normal". Es como ver repetir la triste historia de los sistema operativos, otra vez.

¿Para que centralizar los exchange por un lado, y los pool por el otro, cuando todo podría ser un solo sitio? Que podría salir mal...

Entonces no solo Binance pretende ser otro pool chino mas, pero que es un multipool chino mas.... Faltará ver opiniones sobre ese pool...

¿Que vendrá después, la renta de hashrate?

Estos días la altcoin sha256 mas lucrativa a sido BTCV y BTCV2. Da flojera entrar a Binance, ¿las tienen en su repertorio? De lo contrario, es perder el tiempo...

I suppose you have already considered this, but due to economies of scale, sometimes it MIGHT be more cost effective to use gaming gpus for your scientific application. I remember someone comparing these against the more professional setup for some medic imaging software.

The fun part is, you may get it from mining rigs. With opencl and cuda, the sky is the limit.

Unfortunately it does depend on your particular application, you would have to test them by yourself. But don't disregard those gaming gpus, especially the new ones that appear more general scientific purposed than 3d graphics; still those older mining rigs people sometimes get rid of for cheap, could give you a surprise...

I guess the fun part is spreading your workload in the smaller data chunks for the things to actually work...

The world is already perfect, its the humans that seem to be unable to behave...

So the question is, when will (if ever) humanity evolve from its primitive and violent ways?

Maybe people will move into space, maybe there will be some utopian space colonies, and some dystopian space colonies, who knows...

Was life aboard Star Trek's TNG utopian or dystopian? While everyone seemed happy, the gov was literally military and vertical, absolutely, central planned even. Well its a ship and you could argue "resources are limited" (but they have replicators so...).

Babylon 5, an O'neil cylinder, things there seemed more chaotic, but again, a military government.

I wonder what does that tells us? And people blamed Heinlein...


Will humans ever learn to behave by themselves without having a military boot in their face?

And that is why we can't ever have nice things...

I'm using this song as ringtone currently, it works wonders. I never even played that game, but I'm aware from his comments in youtube, that the author is still around and active. This particular version somehow sounds great with the typical (cheap) phone speaker, perhaps mimicking the 80ies typical computer speakers?. I also got the tracker (Amiga) version of it, but somehow stick to the C64 variant.

The fact that its "chiptune" (with the sid being the best chip ever) really drives home the fact that you are very stylish, millenials will be puzzled, and not many older people got into computers in the late 80ies. Perhaps you can find out the perfect "ringtone" for you out there, since everyone's preferences are different, but give "chip music" a try

In Venezuela the monthly wage is about 2 USD. With what an American may spend for a pizza, you can probably feed a family a whole month here. Granted, they won't be eating pizza, mostly grain and the occasional sausage if lucky; but still, its a tremendous difference.

However you are looking at it wrongly. Bitcoin is good because of several reasons, that particular one not being one. 1 bitcoin does not exist, what exists, is, really, 100 million satoshis. The code does not distinguish the bitcoin unit, only the satoshi, the rest is fiction.

You might as well say 100 million satoshis. So, with 200 million satoshis you could buy a house there. It is really the same thing, but mostly psychological i guess.

But no, what matters is that bitcoin is not going to lose its value over time, unlike fiat, which is under the yoke of inflation, induced or not. One of the dogmas of the school of Chicago is, to never let money keep its value, or people will stop spending and/or getting in debt, and they are very very scared of this, because their flawed model doesn't work otherwise, and they never bothered to study the Austrian school of economy that rips them apart.

Sadly the whole world thinks only the Chicago school is true, even the misled leftists which antagonize it with the much worse State should replace the people mindset (free market vs central planned economy).

Mexican economy is going down, but you have flee into Bitcoin, before your fiat drags you faster than you will have time to react. Keeping pesos is dangerous, while keeping bitcoin is not. Heck, even keeping US dollars is dangerous, Trump thinks he is invincible, and that the USD can be printed ad infinitum, but one day it will blow up and dwarf the housing crisis or covid-19...

And yes, your gov will probably "invent" the new peso, say a million of the current one s 1 new peso (haven't you had those before?) but this is fiction. We have had 2 of those in the last decade, it often happens to hyperinflation economies. And, we are used to express menial things in millions anyway. We have a very bad joke here, we are "millionaires" (when a million can only buy you some milk or bread at most). Min wage is actually just 400000 VES, but it'l get into the millions soon, like it did in 2018 with the VEF.

Its an illusion, and that particular thing (zeroes, either left or right) doesn't make something "better" (it doesn't).
Giving its closeness its far easier to express bitcoin price in satoshis in our local currency. According to Localbitcoins, the exchange is about 18~19 VES per satoshi. See? Simple. Get used to it...

But where does it pulls its data from? Localbitcoins?

I tried opening it and, but it doesn't work. Maybe my country is blocked, quite the irony.

There is also the fiat exchange. This might seem easy for most of you, but a few countries out there the reality sucks. There is an official (garbage) rate, and an unofficial (closer but still garbage) rate. Most of the world has gotten rid and don't even know the idea of a government pegging its fiat by decree, but some of those exist. Argentina being a current example. (As long as politicians have the power to do so, they will).

And in those places this site doesn't pull data from, is where the biggest discrepancies in bitcoin price occurs. Most of them by exploiting a system's flaw in that countries misled economies; which can make the occasional well connected foreigner earn a ton of money; often being so whaleish they skew the adoption perception of some.

Its a can of worms, stay away from that. Exchanges are nightmares; legal, security, financial, etc etc etc.

And it takes only one mistake for the whole thing to break down. There is a long history of failed exchanges out there, that should teach something. Even established exchanges are very dangerous and can collapse at any moment without warning, as it has happened before and will happen again.

Opening a bank is probably easier, or a casino for that matter, and safer.

Make a perfect exchange and the simple lack of volume kills it. I don't think you could successfully make a new exchange without having some sort of large company already invested in something else backing it up. And even with that, its no guarantee.

If you spend that amount in bitcoin, and look at it next year, or in the next three years, you'd probably have made more, even if not by much.

This is correct, but Bitcoin is also enabling people to bypass banks. People were led to believe that banks are a necessary evil, but they are not. Of course, with fiat money, any amount you keep by yourself is losing value, they do this on purpose. In their biased view, the "punishment" is meant to make you invest or spend it by force, and with this they justify their dogma that no money cannot keep its value, our of feat that, the horror, people would save it instead; thus stagnate their model. Which explain their insane fear of deflation.

Enter the Austrian school of economy, which a century ago was telling people they should use gold, not fiat. They warned the dangers while in the roaring 20ies, pretty much predicted the crash of 29... If the money doesn't lose value, people don't need to spend it all. In fact, people only need to spend what actually needs to be spent. This leads to saving it, but not in a bank; but by yourself.

The modern bank, with its legalized Ponzi scheme known as fractional reserve, seems to "magically" keep some of the value of fiat, by offering interest for those fool enough to trust their money to them. In turn, its not like they just lent your money to others, they also introduce at least 9 times the amount of that money (out of thin air) into the system, which is even worse than printing (but close).

To break the scam the banks need to change, but they won't, so the next best is, to not use them. But your fiat is losing value, so either you change it into some asset, or, a money that doesn't lose value over time, like bitcoin. Note that the Austrians meant actual gold, not "gold backed" currency, that's garbage. All pegged coins (so called "stable" coins nowdays) live on a promise easy to break by the small group that controls it when things turn bad. The USD for example where Trump prints as much as he wants like it doesn't matter, and scam coin Tether doing 30% fractional reserve according to their promise (good luck auditing that, and they have already broken that promise at least once).

And then there is the whole privacy invasion issue, and the requisites. Many of you are probably biased, think opening a bank account couldn't be easier, but that's not the case in all countries. There are places where you are forced to provide so many things you might have an easier time getting your elected official to actually deliver on their election promise than a bank letting you give them your hard earned money. You need proof of address, proof of nationality, a good amount of money and often, having accounts in other banks already (which makes opening your first starting account kind of tricky).

You know it is fine to get rid of them, and I'm no millennial, but i hate banks. Cheques were still in wide use until recently, a few years ago before hyperinflation finally moved in. Those things, took days to cash, and were highly prone for scam, you had to ask the bank on telephone to find out if the person had the money wrote in the paper before taking it as a form of payment, and then you had to rush to the bank to cash it out (usually in a way too long line) so that the money was still there...

Yet some people have the nerve to complain of a 1 day confirmation on super secure Bitcoin instant transaction...

The only problem with actual gold, is that being physical, you have to protect it and yourself of thievery, and of course it gets heavy. But Bitcoin is better.

[NEW RELEASE] Braiins OS+ 20.06 Release & Roadmap Update

We’ve just released Braiins OS+ 20.06. Here’s some of what’s new:
 • Saved autotuning settings (previously available only with the nightly build)
 • Run custom commands in batch with BOS Toolbox
 • Auto-upgrade
 • Dynamic Power Scaling
 • Support for Stratum V1 passwords and yiimp-based pools (e.g. prohashing)
 • IP report button now works correctly

You can find more details on the release here: https://braiins.com/news/development-update-braiins-os-20-06

With this release, we will now shift our full focus to supporting more hardware, starting with the S17 and T17 models. In other words, this is the last major release specifically for S9s. We anticipate a beta version Braiins OS S17 and T17 support within the next month, with full autotuning Braiins OS+ support coming in a subsequent release.

Braiins OS+ es el único firmware para asics hecho de cero basado en software libre, es el sistema operativo para el equipo de minería. Existen muchas ofertas que no pasan de ser modificaciones de otros (cgminer), solo este tiene su propio bosminer hecho completamente desde cero en lenguaje Rust.

Actualmente la versión para la familia S9 es del 25 de octubre (10-25). Esta versión soporta únicamente equipos S9, S9j y S9i. Su mejora mas importante respecto a la de septiembre, es la corrección del ruido de los ventiladores en caso de una des-conexión con el pool. (este problema no existe en la versión de junio).

La versión actual para la familia S17, es del 5 de noviembre. Esta versión soporta la S17, S17pro. En pruebas, también soporta la S17+, T17 y T17+.

En desarrollo se está trabajando con la M20 y la S19.

Hasta ahora, se ha llegado a reportar eficiencia record de 68 vatios por TH en las S9, y de 29 vatios por TH en las S17. Es mas normal ver que las S9 consuman unos 80 vatios por TH y las S17 unos 35, pero estos resultados fueron logrados por personas que probaron reducir a distintos valores el límite de consumo de energía, una característica de Braiins OS+ que es un software enfocado en la eficiencia y longevidad en lugar de la velocidad ciega.

Para soporte en español, la vía mas rápida es en Telegram por el Grupo oficial para Braiins OS+ en español.

Noticias:

• ¿Que es mejor para los mineros de Bitcoin, Overclocking o Autotuning?
• Privacidad de Datos y Seguridad para los Mineros de Bitcoin
  

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Hoy salió una nueva versión:



Braiins OS+ 20.11 | Versión Completa liberada para S17+, T17, and T17+

Puntos clave:

• Mejorado rendimiento del ajuste para todos los modelos X17
• Una sola Caja de Herramientas BOS que puede usarse para instalación por lotes, configuración, etc. en cualquier mezcla de modelos S9 y X17
• Otros arreglos de fallos menores y características mejoradas

Mas detalles: https://braiins.com/blog/development-update-braiins-os-20-11

Clearly they want their saunas. Never underestimate the saunas! They get cold in Moscow and its too expensive to keep traveling to Finland all the time...

Besides, that country gave us the world's most used kernel of an operating system, and Nokia among other things.

The world wouldn't be the same without Finland, and they have one of the best education systems in the world, puts in shame most other countries.

I don't think its fully controlled as a whole. There are influential groups, but true control is still limited to national borders. Yes some powerful countries control weak ones, but its not a single planetary entity.

The UN is a bad joke, they discuss a lot and produce very little. It shouldn't be in New York in the first place, at least it should rotate but that only help a few delegates get in and out, it still mostly powerless.

The security council is... self limiting. With the major powers vetoing each other, hardly anything is ever done because rarely any issue that warrants military intervention is agreed upon every single one of them (and the non vetoers are useless too).

Some people say the world could be worse without it, but its powers leave a lot to be desired. A world government sounds like an interesting idea, but that doesn't exist, humanity is too immature for it or is simply made for anarchy in some form of self government. In any case right now you get the worst of both.

A world gov could, for example, constrain Trump, AND Putin (and the Chinese for that matter). All three would fiercely oppose the idea, but imagine having them to subordinate themselves to a planetary power.

Perhaps the only answer is to abolish the govs and let people self govern themselves.

Just report them when you see them. The scammers are simply impersonating Musk, or his companies as bait for victims to trust them into giving them money.

Scammers have always existed and will always exist, neither Bitcoin nor Musk are at fault.

This is your problem. I keep doing 1 sat/b transactions just fine. Why can't you just wait? You are doing things wrong if your transfers need to confirm within minutes, as opposed as hours or days.

Bitcoin doesn't really need LN, instant transactions are a minority use case. Most transactions can wait, but you simply are unable to figure it out. If you are a regular customer, why don't you talk to the manager and just keep a tab? Transfer in advance or later, the old fashioned way.

If you think those altcoins are so great, why are you not using them? Why don't you get into the altcoin area and preach the choir there?

The only change I'm waiting in Bitcoin, is when they let us use 0.1 sat/b transfer fees, because even 3¢ is too much and i'm not in a hurry

Bitcoin is still faster than wire transfers here, and that's all i need. My country is cashless due to having the worse inflation in the world and we adapt, to live without instant payments.

Hmm isn't this just the ozone layer? And "Evil" would be, the  UV rays from the Sun that would give you cancer if exposed to them without this filter? Well i guess you didn't need a vision, unless you mean watching a video on the subject.

Also, there is plenty of "evil" inside the bubble, so if this vision was true, it means it failed. Evil only exists when you decide to do it.

Now you know a bit what the astronauts will feel when they need to spend months in space going to Mars or such.

Humans are ill suited for isolation, and yet they must, or else...

Yes, once the vaccine is out, this one will be over. Until the next one...

Oh noes this is not fair... Does it use the same Xilinx controllers? Did he supply its own custom controller?

Will this mystery maker ever use the R4 form factor? Because that's a winner for a heat spreader right there...

Is this going to become commercially available for others?

I wonder what chips are those asics...