well. the signature campaign you have for Searing is wrong. I'm with Yobit.

I tried Chipmixer...but was told that at Legendary and only 23 Trusts on my profile that it was not enough to get into the Chipmixer campaign these days.

Indeed, as far as I know the ONLY two campaigns that are not related to some type of gambling are Chipmixer and Yobit at this point in time. At least

from what I can tell at the below link. I won't do a gambling signature...even I have to draw the line someplace.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0

Just so folk know. I've had no issues with Yobit as an exchange or a campaign..I think the spamming is pretty much way down now

but then again I'm selective on threads. Anyway, so it goes.

Brad

Well, it did seem to go up because of the Iran troubles...but BTC is doing what I'd hoped and is staying above $8K as a result of all this. In other words, Trump's antics put BTC and Gold

back up as options to an erratic world, and IMHO, in BTC's case...reinforced the notion of halving that is coming end May 2020, I think it is?

Again, it is not like, again IMHO, the Trump Administration is 'actually' going to have consistent policies on anything in 2020 and BTC if it is really a store of value in uncertain times

should reflect this.

or not...(what do I know at one time I believed the Butterfly Labs ASIC miner hype and drank the kool-aid...I was such a cute newbie back in the day)

Brad

The Kool-Aid drinking 2013 'noob' I once was, still lingers...

I still make too many Kool-Aid drinking "this will all work out" noob missteps.

The 'addiction' to 'optimism' never seems to fade on crypto/projects/mining/hope'm, etc.

"I may not be as much of a noob as I once was, but once in a while, I am as big a noob as I ever was!"



Brad

If we are lucky, the Iran situation was JUST enough to shake people up and look at BTC as Plan B again, it is not like the Trump Administration is going to get any saner in the long term.

Then if they further thought about the Halving coming up...perhaps it was just a 'push' of an upturn? (a guy can hope) I need it to have a base price of $11,111.12 (for obvious reasons) as

the FLOOR on the future and forever price never to go below. Then I will 'officially' shut the hell up and never worry about price again. (It is my safe zone don't ya know..like a price pacifier

or blankie for me!)

Anyway, my Edward Jones financial advisor says the stock market is gonna dump big time, likely this year. We will see. Bitcoin is plan B in my book, for such.

Brad

Well, is is a bit of a mystery. Iran refuses to give black boxes to Boeing to see what happened. But on the other hand, they could just be doing this because 'pissed off' at the USA.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-iran-plane-crash-black-box-boeing-2020-1

As Garrick puts in on Star Trek: DS9

Elim Garak:
I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-E-o0ajGAo

So me, officially on the fence on this but also very 'skeptical' on the coincidence!

Brad

I don't know, even at 10k my selling crap out of the attic and keeping it all in Bitcoin and HODL mode, still seems more prudent at my view of all this.

Reserved.

Well, interesting times indeed! Do you think this pump in BTC price will fade as 'hopefully' Trump's Iran War talk fades? Or is this simply

a pre-cursor to the halving pump coming and this price will be maintained and go yet higher?

take the poll (I've not a clue!)

Brad

No, I really don't. However, the 'economy of scale' for bitcoin to keep its factories and employees open with the added problem of R & D development for new ASIC's along with other supply chain issues, I do know they have to move a 'minimum' amount of product (ie toasters) or the whole thing will become unraveled. So PERHAPS they might offer a low-end model for the above reasons to just keep the frigging doors open. But this would only apply if they can't move huge units fast enough at inflated prices, which will always be what they prefer. But the 'Needs must when the Devil drives"....so they might have to get creative to keep the doors open with all the overhead they have, even with a 50% cut in the workforce. I myself don't understand how they are selling the units they are now at:

(1) IMHO the inflated prices up by 1/3 more than I find in any way reasonable for ROI.

(2) Why the hell they are not shipping EVERYTHING to the USA to get around USA Tariffs via Malaysia where some in the USA are getting the product from (if lucky).

(3) How you currently can sell (mostly sell out) of Bitmain units that ROI in more than 1 year with flat difficulty. I mean are we simply dealing with clueless very rich newbies?

(4) How you can even justify ANY of the equipment above when Bitmain and Innsilicon announced they will go from 7nm to 5nm chips in Q1 of 2020. (A 15% improvement)

(5) And IF they really can get 5nm Chips out in Q1, they obviously will go to Bitmain Data Halls first and any 'overage' of 7nm will be sold to the clueless in bulk!

So yeah, I'm befuddled, to say the least on all ASIC miner prices of ANY flavor of crypto! Even without the USA 27.6% Tariff with import fees and less shipping. The math is so ugly as to be obvious IMHO, or at least at my 10c kWh electric prices.

Brad

Remember Philipma1957 I said similar things in 2016 and Bitmain went with it.....be careful they likely may steal your ideas! (or in my case back way back a happy coincidence?)

Bitmain: Evil is as Evil does (tm: Bitmain)

I don't think so either...that they will build under 2000 watt miners again either, however, you COULD make a 'small' case that Bitmain is in trouble. They just laid off another 50% of their workforce on top of a previous 50% layoff of the workforce in 2019. So if you figure they have to have a 'certain' amount of Toaster's (miners) to get out the door with the economy of scale vs profits to keep the plants open/the designers of chips happy/the data halls/etc... and you'd probably have to have Bitcoin POP significantly to grease the wheels on the above. IT COULD happen? Nah? But playing contrary...the above would have to line up in the above for anything like that to happen.

Bitmain: Making ASIC Toasters in Amounts that allow us to stay at the leading edge of 'evil'! ) (tm Bitmain)

Brad

No upgrade equipment for broken boards sc1 or sc2 ..no boards that could be used in DCR units to revive them....little progress from what I can see (compared to the sia-tech equipment dump

and siacoin's in existence vs adoption and siacoin difficulty..this is completely unbalanced vs the storage solution IMHO) Promises made that SC1 folk would be compensated and have not done

so ..even when SC1 and SC2 units etc were MUCH more profitable. Now I get an email stating they MAY pay us (in my case $600 in late compensation for SC1) IF they show a profit this

last year. (Damn near impossible for that to happen IMHO with the dump/dismay/dissolve of GRIN Miner cluster**ck...and demise). Also on the $600 supposedly I should have gotten from

the SC1 lateness...it also came when there was NO EQUIPMENT to buy from Siacoin even if I did want to flip such ...according to my account. I have a buddy that has 10k coming to him

damn hard to use it..if no equipment to take a chance on!

The list goes on, I'm sure others can 'chime in here' .....I continue to expect the worse and am not impressed!

Brad

Would be nice to see this from other than a 'newbie' account (sorry, just saying)

Again, show me the decentralized storage network I can build and make a profit on or at least show me some SC1 or SC2 boards out there that a person can run in the now 'defunct'

DCR1 miners.....they are showing no movement on anything, be it Sia-Tech (equip) or Siacoin (use) or Sia-decentralized network.

ie...deafening silence..they also admit they owe me around $600 from their promised 'compensation' for SC1 units being late...but also said in an email that they will only

pay such if they show a 'profit' this year. I am hardly encouraged. (copy of that email should be in this thread yet unless they deleted it)

So it goes FUD/Dismay on our lack of trust/ then blamo ...for companies like this in the USA....bankruptcy! I still expect a Butterfly labs outcome where they devs/owners

walk away free and clear of any BTC or $$$ returned. The project seems to be the Siacoin project ...is a dead man walking.. has just not 'tipped over dead' yet.

Project is  indeed 'toast"

11,151-11,201

I don't think this is taken ..from what I can tell?

Searing

How much Solar do you need to invest in the house to run (at least during the day) a Bitmain L3+ underclocked at 700 watts at 450mh rate?

I suspect it is much more than the worth doing this for either LTC or BTC. But curious, if you have solar how does something like this work out? (or not today?)

Brad

Thus, is the way of the Yobit Bot...it seems to me the whole 'campaign' is run in auto mode w/o pesky human interaction!

I rejoice, however,  to our benevolent Yobit robot 'bot manager' overlord....(tosses body on the floor in dreaded worship...minion that I have become)

Yep, I'm still on the Yobit Campaign...this will likely change on the next slip up, which seems to be not posting for 3 days or some such, not changing

signature in 3 days or less, so folks say on here. The 'bot' cares not for us 'whiney' meat bags.

I'm sure it is just a matter of time before I slip up as well on something. (Likely this post, the 'bot' will not be amused)

Brad

No...but at this point I don't really care anymore....I'm like the Waitress on the Dock in 'trouble' due to a sailor and waving at the ship in the vain hope that it will turn around.

very frikking unlikely!

All hope is lost here I'm afraid.

I hate to say this..but it is my 'assumption' and I hope I am dead wrong, that once the ink is barely dry on this 1st phase of

getting rid of China Tariffs with the USA and vs versa. (They are mainly Agricultural from what I can see). I fear that China

with Trump now more or less being 'distracted' by (1) US Election (2) A likely cooling ecoinomy (3) North Korea (4) the other

2/3 continuing tariff issue with China (4) the likely further movement of Irag to Iran's influence. (4) Afganastan isssues. (5) The

Arms Control Treaty running out with Russia this year  and last but not least, (6) the continuing many, many, court cases and

the Impeacment.

So, I 'assume' any 2-3 of the above will be enough of a 'distraction' for China to go in and 'squash' Hong Kong protestors and

claim it is an internal matter. Even though there are a couple decades or so of them 'supposedly' staying autonomous.

Sh*t is gonna come home to roost in the USA this year, you can only kick so much down the road without clear actions and policies

before other countries will see this as a way to take things to their own advantage with 'supposedly' few consequences.

So my prediction is sometime Q1 2020 in Hong Kong this will unfortunatly come to pass. Massive Crackdown with troops.

That was also a point I forgot to mention: Trust. So I would drag out the Bitmain L3+ and solo mine it on a pool you ran, however....no real

motivation to do so now, but again, if you had such a pool, I think a lot of 'former' folks on your pool would jump on your solo pool just for giggles

(and maybe some winter heat in the basement)

Brad

Well, this is not good for your pool in Litecoin land. The latest (only?) new miner for sale scrypt-pow wise is the Innsilicon A6 at $2,000 respectively and if you get one

today you mine at a loss of -$2.18 USD per day at 10c a kWh. (my data hall rates includes all fees etc). This one is at a $2,000 price tag.

https://www.asicminervalue.com/miners/innosilicon/a6-ltcmaster

The Innsilicon A+ at a bit more at 1gh moe in speed you lose -$2.50 USD per day at its $3,000 price tag.

https://www.asicminervalue.com/miners/innosilicon/a6-ltcmaster

So I can safely say, well into 2020, that the ONLY pool I might join is a SOLO pool with my puny Bitmain L3+. This is IMHO something you should get right on. A SOLO pool for when the rest of

folk drop off your main www.litecoinpool.org site and use these for doorstops. This way at LEAST you get a portion of something if someone hits some blocks with equipment that would

otherwise, sit in the attic. I don't see this changing in any way shape or form until way into 2020 myself. It is that ugly. This again, would be a good fallback postion for folk to at least play the lottery!

Anyway, I'd drop one on a SOLO pool you would run immediately. As it is now not motivated by other solo pools so they sit in the attic.

Anyway, my 2 satoshi's worth.

Brad

edit: Again, I think the demand is 'hidden' from those who have gone off your pool. If you offered such a lot of us would  likely go 'what the hell' and at least fire ONE back up on such a pool. IMHO.