Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 15304.

Arriemoller

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Quote from: d_eddie on December 26, 2017, 01:37:42 PM

Quote from: JimboToronto on December 26, 2017, 01:31:24 PM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on December 26, 2017, 01:19:05 PM

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

Dunkelheit667

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no degradation

Quote from: Arriemoller on December 26, 2017, 01:25:19 PM

Quote from: bitserve on December 26, 2017, 12:57:01 PM

Quote from: Arriemoller on December 26, 2017, 12:34:54 PM

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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lose: unfind ... loose: untight

Quote from: d_eddie on December 25, 2017, 11:03:54 AM

Quote from: bitserve on December 25, 2017, 10:52:08 AM

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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d_eddie

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Quote from: JimboToronto on December 26, 2017, 01:31:24 PM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on December 26, 2017, 01:19:05 PM

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.

TERA2

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Deb Rah Von Doom

It's time to bear it all.

HairyMaclairy

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Quote from: fabiorem on December 26, 2017, 01:30:38 PM

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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Quote from: xhomerx10 on December 26, 2017, 01:19:05 PM

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.

fabiorem

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40k by end of 2018? That's very conservative. Will they really "tame" the honey badger?

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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Source : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-26/bitcoin-bounces-back-again-beginning-end-or-bump-road

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Years 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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Quote from: bitserve on December 26, 2017, 12:57:01 PM

Quote from: Arriemoller on December 26, 2017, 12:34:54 PM

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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Quote from: jojo69 on December 26, 2017, 12:59:12 PM

Quote from: JimboToronto on December 26, 2017, 12:53:23 PM

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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Quote from: Toxic2040 on December 26, 2017, 12:32:50 PM

Quote from: JimboToronto on December 26, 2017, 12:22:30 PM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on December 26, 2017, 12:07:56 PM

Quote from: Icygreen on December 26, 2017, 12:04:44 PM

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.

JimboToronto

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Quote from: vapourminer on December 26, 2017, 01:13:39 PM

Quote from: JimboToronto on December 26, 2017, 12:53:23 PM

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.

vapourminer

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

Quote from: JimboToronto on December 26, 2017, 12:53:23 PM

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.

d_eddie

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Quote from: JimboToronto on December 26, 2017, 12:53:23 PM

Quote from: Arriemoller on December 26, 2017, 12:30:09 PM

I use Opera and I'm quite happy with it.

I haven't used Opera since the days of Win95 but I liked it back then.

I've kept on using the original Opera well into my Windows XP years. It used to be the best browser under all aspects. Fast, secure, customizable, dependable, obedient to the user (not to the website).
Unfortunately, they weren't able to maintain their Presto engine anymore, so they switched to Chromium, and now Opera is only a Chrome clone with a difference. I'm still using it on the sites where it works, but most of my browsing is on Firefox these days.

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Quote from: TERA2 on December 26, 2017, 02:42:12 AM

Ok I have to admit my posts have been super bearish and I'm going to change my ways. So here's how it's going to go. Look, this is going up. It's going straight up. Nobody is ever going to sell again. There will never be another dip, or another retracement, or another crash. A miner might need to sell like 1 satoshi, that's it. We're going to see an increase at a steady rate of, say, 5% per day. A new ATH will appear at least once per week. We will reach $1,000,000 in no time, and then it'll keep going. There will be no limit because all of us will be hoarding everything except 1 coin. The whole world will have to share the single coin in circulation, which comprises all of the world's GDP and currency derivatives, and they will be fighting over satoshis. Warren Buffet will go big and buy like 100 satoshis. To the moon. Wow.

That's right. Finally you understand.

Now I am actually a little worried because of the mania.

mr angry

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Quote from: yefi on December 26, 2017, 01:56:26 AM

Quote from: TERA2 on December 25, 2017, 11:30:36 PM

Looks like its going with the 16k thing before the drop

I'm thinking the 78 fib line around 17,900. There should be significant resistance around 18K. If it can break through decisively, then who knows. A continuation of the exponential trend would suggest around 80K in Jan/Feb.

How do you decide where the lowest line starts?

Although I have a very basic understanding of Fibonacci sequences, I never figured out how people pick the low to start calculating from.

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Quote from: JimboToronto on December 26, 2017, 12:53:23 PM

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

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