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[wavelengthsf]

I wish Bitmain would hurry up and ship my November S9s - mining requires more patience than so many other hobbies.

Come on blocks!

[NomadGroup]

Hey, kano-san, could you please officially announce the no-fee promotion in a different post with no other info, so that I could announce it to some Russian-speaking communities and give a link to it? Some big guys don't speak English but probably will get interested in a no-fee offer.

Didn’t know you were Russian Buddha!   Пpиятнo пoзнaкoмитьcя!   

[NomadGroup]

Guys can someone please tell me if the Segwit2x happened today or not?  Thanks! 

[wavelengthsf]

Guys can someone please tell me if the Segwit2x happened today or not?  Thanks!  

Nope - the few btc1 nodes running got stuck on a block before the fork was supposed to activate, and there was a fatal defect that prevented the new chain from spawning.

The write up here: https://twitter.com/jfnewbery/status/931553531471032320

John Newbery on Twitter says:

I try to assume good intentions in people. Unfortunately, I can no longer do so for @jgarzik. My judgement is that he is acting to disrupt the bitcoin network to advance his own interests.
Segwit2x was announced abandoned last week, but there are still some residual nodes in the network. This morning, those nodes froze at block 494,782. That's two blocks before the intended hard fork at 494,784.
...
Looking at the code, it appears that Jeff made an off-by-one error. That's not entirely surprising. The VersionBitsState() code is confusing, and the commit where Jeff added the hard fork code had no review- https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/pull/50
I then took a look at the miner activation code. There's another bug there. In the BlockAssembler constructor code, fWitnessSeasoned is being accessed before initialization. The result: no large block can be mined to trigger the fork.
This is a simple bug. Any reasonably competent coder would have spotted this (not least because a compiler or static analysis could have warned that a member was being accessed before initialization). Any reasonable review process would have caught this. Sadly btc1 had neither.
When I pointed this out to Jeff, he immediately created a patch and pushed it out.
In case it's not clear: SegWit2x only makes sense if it has consensus and can bring the network with it. That's what we were told again and again: 2x is an upgrade and will become the one true chain.
...
Trying to create a SegWit2x fork at this point, when it's clear that it doesn't have consensus, is simply sowing discord and confusion.
There are more bugs in the btc1 code. I can't in good conscience reveal what those are, since I have no intention of helping create a disruptive hard fork.
In case it's not clear: no-one should run btc1 code. It is untested, unreviewed, buggy and can only serve to disrupt and confuse the Bitcoin network.

[kano]

No pool fees for the rest of 2017

[overcon]

No pool fees for the rest of 2017

WOOT!

COMMON BLOCKS!

[padrinogtr]

No pool fees for the rest of 2017

That’s a beautiful thing
Thanks KanoSan

[minergain.com]

No pool fees for the rest of 2017

And it is only 0.9% after that - the lowest that I've been able to find for a well established long term pool!

[CryptoBuddha]

Didn’t know you were Russian Buddha!   Пpиятнo пoзнaкoмитьcя!   

I'm actually only half Russian by ethnicity and don't live in Russia, but can speak my father's native language. Bзaимнo!

No pool fees for the rest of 2017

Woohoo now one has to be crazy NOT to mine here!
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[YabaDabaDoo]

Didn’t know you were Russian Buddha!   Пpиятнo пoзнaкoмитьcя!  

I'm actually only half Russian by ethnicity and don't live in Russia, but can speak my father's native language. Bзaимнo!

бyдим вмecтe вoдкy пить!!!

[firetreeactual]

Mahalo nui loa, Kano. Luv u. 

[NomadGroup]

Didn’t know you were Russian Buddha!   Пpиятнo пoзнaкoмитьcя!  

I'm actually only half Russian by ethnicity and don't live in Russia, but can speak my father's native language. Bзaимнo!

бyдим вмecтe вoдкy пить!!!

Xaxa кpyтo!  Oчeнь paд видeть вac peбятa!  It’s my pleasure to meet you guys!  . 

[NomadGroup]

Guys can someone please tell me if the Segwit2x happened today or not?  Thanks!  

Nope - the few btc1 nodes running got stuck on a block before the fork was supposed to activate, and there was a fatal defect that prevented the new chain from spawning.

The write up here: https://twitter.com/jfnewbery/status/931553531471032320

John Newbery on Twitter says:

I try to assume good intentions in people. Unfortunately, I can no longer do so for @jgarzik. My judgement is that he is acting to disrupt the bitcoin network to advance his own interests.
Segwit2x was announced abandoned last week, but there are still some residual nodes in the network. This morning, those nodes froze at block 494,782. That's two blocks before the intended hard fork at 494,784.
...
Looking at the code, it appears that Jeff made an off-by-one error. That's not entirely surprising. The VersionBitsState() code is confusing, and the commit where Jeff added the hard fork code had no review- https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/pull/50
I then took a look at the miner activation code. There's another bug there. In the BlockAssembler constructor code, fWitnessSeasoned is being accessed before initialization. The result: no large block can be mined to trigger the fork.
This is a simple bug. Any reasonably competent coder would have spotted this (not least because a compiler or static analysis could have warned that a member was being accessed before initialization). Any reasonable review process would have caught this. Sadly btc1 had neither.
When I pointed this out to Jeff, he immediately created a patch and pushed it out.
In case it's not clear: SegWit2x only makes sense if it has consensus and can bring the network with it. That's what we were told again and again: 2x is an upgrade and will become the one true chain.
...
Trying to create a SegWit2x fork at this point, when it's clear that it doesn't have consensus, is simply sowing discord and confusion.
There are more bugs in the btc1 code. I can't in good conscience reveal what those are, since I have no intention of helping create a disruptive hard fork.
In case it's not clear: no-one should run btc1 code. It is untested, unreviewed, buggy and can only serve to disrupt and confuse the Bitcoin network.

I see, thanks for the insight! 

[CryptoBuddha]

Hey, kano-san, could you please officially announce the no-fee promotion in a different post with no other info, so that I could announce it to some Russian-speaking communities and give a link to it? Some big guys don't speak English but probably will get interested in a no-fee offer.

As promised, I started a topic about no-fee promotion at the largest Russian language crypto forum and sent out a dozen of messages to Russian speaking Telegram mining chats.

бyдим вмecтe вoдкy пить!!!

Well, I'm not-so-Russian when it comes to vodka. Tried it several times when I was younger but never liked it.
And i'm writing this in English to stop this off-topic dialogue in a language most ppl don't understand.

[YabaDabaDoo]

Hey, kano-san, could you please officially announce the no-fee promotion in a different post with no other info, so that I could announce it to some Russian-speaking communities and give a link to it? Some big guys don't speak English but probably will get interested in a no-fee offer.

As promised, I started a topic about no-fee promotion at the largest Russian language crypto forum and sent out a dozen of messages to Russian speaking Telegram mining chats.

бyдим вмecтe вoдкy пить!!!

Well, I'm not-so-Russian when it comes to vodka. Tried it several times when I was younger but never liked it.
And i'm writing this in English to stop this off-topic dialogue in a language most ppl don't understand.

Nice to see you trying to get some Russian miners with their cheap electricity cost to join the pool!!!

I personally drink cognac / brandy but can get down to the basics if needed.

[muscarina]

私の偉大な友Kanoをありがとう。 Thank you Kano-san. "Judo (柔道 jūdō, meaning "gentle way") was created as a physical, mental and moral pedagogy in Japan, in 1882, by Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎)."

Hugs from Brazil!


MINE ON.

[YabaDabaDoo]

私の偉大な友Kanoをありがとう。 Thank you Kano-san. "Judo (柔道 jūdō, meaning "gentle way") was created as a physical, mental and moral pedagogy in Japan, in 1882, by Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎)."

Hugs from Brazil!


MINE ON.

I visit SP for business Electricity cost is expensive in Brazil

[kano]

Hey, kano-san, could you please officially announce the no-fee promotion in a different post with no other info, so that I could announce it to some Russian-speaking communities and give a link to it? Some big guys don't speak English but probably will get interested in a no-fee offer.

As promised, I started a topic about no-fee promotion at the largest Russian language crypto forum and sent out a dozen of messages to Russian speaking Telegram mining chats.

бyдим вмecтe вoдкy пить!!!

Well, I'm not-so-Russian when it comes to vodka. Tried it several times when I was younger but never liked it.
And i'm writing this in English to stop this off-topic dialogue in a language most ppl don't understand.

Heh, well the aim is to get the variance back down, and that's one way to do it!
Zazdarovje ypa

[kano]

私の偉大な友Kanoをありがとう。 Thank you Kano-san. "Judo (柔道 jūdō, meaning "gentle way") was created as a physical, mental and moral pedagogy in Japan, in 1882, by Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎)."

Hugs from Brazil!


MINE ON.

どうもありがとうございました

[muscarina]

I visit SP for business Electricity cost is expensive in Brazil

Yeah! But i got free energy and wifi from my neighbor, so I just contribute with mining =D.