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December 26, 2017, 06:17:07 PM |
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Not only were they giving away their flagship product for free, they made it hard to avoid it. Around the same time they also started giving their #2 product MS Office away too.
Makes you wonder where their revenues are coming from.
probably the NSA. No kidding. Pretty hard for them to buy the worldwide open-source community though.
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xhomerx10
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December 26, 2017, 06:19:05 PM |
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Won't load in chrome but loaded in Firefox...
Trezor trouble shooter screen wont load for me in IE 11 ever! I can't believe any Bitcoiner would use some sleazy corporate browser like Chrome or IE when there's an honest open-source option in Firefox. Oh this should be good... I can't get angry with old Jimbo. He's had a tough life.
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December 26, 2017, 06:19:56 PM |
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When I can't use Win7 any more, I guess I'll have to choose a Linux distro.
yep, planning that migration already and my list of blocked win7 updates is as long as your arm...sad So was mine. But unfortunately my HD crashed and I had to get a new computer fast, and all that was available was computers with Windows 10 preinstalled. I decided to give it a go and I'm regretting it already. You can't disable updates, and I have that weird felling of being spied on all the time, and every now and then the hard drive on C starts for no reason. It changes your settings with every update and it puts back things that you removed. So I therefore decided to put a new HD in my old computer and now I'm looking for a OS to put on it, that's why I'm asking about PureOS. It seems to be very secure and user friendly, but I would like to here the opinion of someone with actual experience. The new Windows 10 computer will be used for GPU mining only, let them spy on that if it amuses them.
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Arriemoller
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December 26, 2017, 06:25:19 PM |
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I would also like to bump my questions posted some 10 hours ago or something.
If you GPU mine, does it matter if your computer is connected to your browser via wifi or cable?
And does anyone know anything about the OS called PureOS. Are there any issues with that OS that you know of?
Cable is always the best choice but, if you are mining to a pool and your wifi is stable probably there will be no significant difference. I was mining for some time with an antminer S3 I added an antenna over wifi and it worked well. There is very little traffic if you are pool mining and a few ms of additional latency are not that important. Running a full node would be a much different matter. Never used PureOS. I usually prefer vanilla debian or any other widely used distribution so that any new vulnerabilities are published/patched soon enough. Thank you, I will be pool mining and I'm going to do it for fun, not for profits. I only have one cable slot on my router and would prefer to use that for my everyday computer so I will give the wifi a try.
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December 26, 2017, 06:25:30 PM |
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Source : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-26/bitcoin-bounces-back-again-beginning-end-or-bump-roadYears ago, the price of Bitcoin crashed 75 percent at one point. What would have happened if the early investors had all bailed out then instead of holding on until now?
Those that sold Bitcoin at $12,000 might end up really kicking themselves if the price of Bitcoin does hit $40,000 by the end of next year, and that is exactly what some top experts are projecting…
Billionaire investors and highly respected analysts including hedge fund investor Mike Novogratz, prominent financial analyst Max Keiser, and Fundstrat’s Tom Lee stated that the price of bitcoin will likely surpass the $40,000 margin by the end of 2018, and achieve a $1 trillion market cap.
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HairyMaclairy
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December 26, 2017, 06:27:41 PM Last edit: December 26, 2017, 06:51:46 PM by HairyMaclairy |
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We have had our fun but I don’t think we are mooning this side of the 2x fork at block 501451 which is ~ 300 blocks away. We could easily have a relief rally after though.
Mem pool is swelling with 5 - 10 sat transactions which are spam. Our hash rate seems stable enough though.
Edit: after thinking about it some more I expect a further bump as herd moves in for fork coins.
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December 26, 2017, 06:30:38 PM |
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40k by end of 2018? That's very conservative. Will they really "tame" the honey badger?
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JimboToronto
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December 26, 2017, 06:31:24 PM |
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I can't get angry with old Jimbo. He's had a tough life.
Tough life? Hardly. Job-free since 1976, spent most of my adult life partying, debt-free for over 20 years, enjoying relatively good health because of stress avoidance, lots of good friends and thousands of acquaintances (many who are considerably younger than me), and now a nice fat retirement fund thanks to Bitcoin. I can't complain.
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HairyMaclairy
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December 26, 2017, 06:31:57 PM |
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40k by end of 2018? That's very conservative. Will they really "tame" the honey badger?
Remember all the pundits saying in early December that Bitcoin could reach 10k by the end of the year?
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December 26, 2017, 06:32:03 PM |
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It's time to bear it all.
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December 26, 2017, 06:37:42 PM |
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I can't get angry with old Jimbo. He's had a tough life.
Tough life? Hardly. Job-free since 1976, spent most of my adult life partying, debt-free for over 20 years, enjoying relatively good health because of stress avoidance, lots of good friends and thousands of acquaintances (many who are considerably younger than me), and now a nice fat retirement fund thanks to Bitcoin. I can't complain. Music also helps to keep us young. See the incredible age managed by famous conductors, often still in full activity.
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HairyMaclairy
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December 26, 2017, 06:43:54 PM |
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December 26, 2017, 06:44:20 PM |
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I have always presumed jbreher is probably at least in the 4 digits BTC, maybe even in the (low) 5's.... Which is why I have always tried to understand why he decided to go the "wrong way" (Jihan/Ver) with so much at stake I haven't worked out estimates of jbreher's (or anyone else's) stash, but the man strikes me as a rational thinker with much at stake since a long time. So I also tried to understand the reasons for his choice, and I asked him explicitly. Unfortunately, his explanations with regard to bigblockery/Verism etc. always came short. Disappointing underperformance for a good poster, accurate checker of facts, numerical literate such as he is. What more reason do you need other than the fact that the current blocksize limitation is destroying the user experience thereby constraining adoption?
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December 26, 2017, 06:45:54 PM |
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I would also like to bump my questions posted some 10 hours ago or something.
If you GPU mine, does it matter if your computer is connected to your browser via wifi or cable?
And does anyone know anything about the OS called PureOS. Are there any issues with that OS that you know of?
Cable is always the best choice but, if you are mining to a pool and your wifi is stable probably there will be no significant difference. I was mining for some time with an antminer S3 I added an antenna over wifi and it worked well. There is very little traffic if you are pool mining and a few ms of additional latency are not that important. Running a full node would be a much different matter. Never used PureOS. I usually prefer vanilla debian or any other widely used distribution so that any new vulnerabilities are published/patched soon enough. Thank you, I will be pool mining and I'm going to do it for fun, not for profits. I only have one cable slot on my router and would prefer to use that for my everyday computer so I will give the wifi a try. Yes, give it a try. Latency on Wi-Fi might be some ms worse than having the rig connected via cable but might not really matter. Let's say you're solo mining a coin with short block time (like 15 seconds) and Wi-Fi adds 5 ms, there is a 0.033 % chance the block you found might be orphaned. If you're pool mining on something like BTG with one block every 10 minutes, well... no significant difference nails it.
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December 26, 2017, 06:49:27 PM |
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I can't get angry with old Jimbo. He's had a tough life.
Tough life? Hardly. Job-free since 1976, spent most of my adult life partying, debt-free for over 20 years, enjoying relatively good health because of stress avoidance, lots of good friends and thousands of acquaintances (many who are considerably younger than me), and now a nice fat retirement fund thanks to Bitcoin. I can't complain. Music also helps to keep us young. See the incredible age managed by famous conductors, often still in full activity. Is it enough to listen to music? I'm so tone deaf that I was excused from (some) music classes in high school. Btw was this song ever a international hit? or was it just in Sweden? Always wondered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdxCJaPLLE0
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d_eddie
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December 26, 2017, 06:59:06 PM |
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I have always presumed jbreher is probably at least in the 4 digits BTC, maybe even in the (low) 5's.... Which is why I have always tried to understand why he decided to go the "wrong way" (Jihan/Ver) with so much at stake I haven't worked out estimates of jbreher's (or anyone else's) stash, but the man strikes me as a rational thinker with much at stake since a long time. So I also tried to understand the reasons for his choice, and I asked him explicitly. Unfortunately, his explanations with regard to bigblockery/Verism etc. always came short. Disappointing underperformance for a good poster, accurate checker of facts, numerical literate such as he is. What more reason do you need other than the fact that the current blocksize limitation is destroying the user experience thereby constraining adoption? You seem to like BCH a lot, which IMO is not a rational strategy. This dissonance is unresolved as yet. A few reasons: - BCH doesn't fix transaction malleabilty, ruling out L2 solutions which are the scaling solution in the medium (possibly long) term. - BCH is controlled by a cartel. Their coders are clueless. The cartel is likely under the heavy hand of PBOC. They use guerrilla tactics (esp. transaction spam) to gain control. - Big blocks will stifle adoption. Yes, that's the old "Raspberry pi in rural Afghanistan" argument. Even I, not in rural Afghanistan, would stop my own homespun node (not a pi though) if pressed by bandwidth and storage limits. "Be your own bank" implies the ability to run your own full verifying node.- More adoption will come when we have a scalable system. Big blocks aren't scalable. You know all these things already. You are too intelligent not to see the logical implications. So, my fuzzy inference is: you have other reasons. Not saying you are necessarily a paid shill, although it can't be ruled out. The "more reason" I was (and am) asking of you is an effective, documented rebuttal of my points or some subjective reason that goes beyond "I like big big big! Blocks big, me happy!" Something like "I was bitten by a small block when I was a child, try to understand my shock" would be a little better, but as you understand, still not quite satisfactory.
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December 26, 2017, 07:02:54 PM |
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"I was bitten by a small block when I was a child, try to understand my shock"
LOL!!
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HairyMaclairy
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December 26, 2017, 07:03:05 PM |
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^^^ To add to the above, the complete pointlessness of increasing block size when those larger blocks will immediately be filled again and congestion will be just as bad as before. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis–Mogridge_PositionWhy do you insist on a solution that is doomed to fail?
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December 26, 2017, 07:11:06 PM |
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Music also helps to keep us young. See the incredible age managed by famous conductors, often still in full activity.
Is it enough to listen to music? Not sure, but I'm afraid not. I suspect it's the brain activity involved in making music that makes the magic happen. I don't think I've heard it before. Certainly nothing big like Abba or Europe.
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December 26, 2017, 07:35:30 PM |
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^^^ To add to the above, the complete pointlessness of increasing block size when those larger blocks will immediately be filled again and congestion will be just as bad as before. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis–Mogridge_PositionWhy do you insist on a solution that is doomed to fail? Since e-Commerce comprises less than 0.1% of legit bitcoin transactions, I'm assuming they need more lanes for faster/cheaper trading, spamming, and drugs. Actually no, Monero would probably be better to buy drugs with. So that just leaves faster/cheaper trades and spamming. But based on the amount of time they spend here trolling and shilling, for some reason they refuse to use BCash because its somehow not good enough? The solution is right there to be used and yet they insist that Bitcoin must change? Huh?
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