Anno 1800 just inhales my free time

absolute banger of a song btw

i refer you to my previous comment on the subject

pool mining on the lower difficulty pool

and yeah used gupax for the cpu so p2pool+xmrig is built in

haha i also have my own homemade linux router. debian based on an orangepi r1+

thinking about replacing it with openwrt on some more application specific hardware soon though

never heard of it tbh

not something i recorded this time. may do it next year.

i observed usually around 83 to 93 degrees celcius on the GPU. although i did see it drop to 53 degrees a few times whilst still mining. not sure what that was about as there’s no way that was a true figure.

i did override the gpu fan once or twice manually and set it to full flat out and got it down into the 70s. i found the interface for that to be kinda complicated to deal with though so i didnt do it routinely

wasnt watching the CPU

could have bought yourself a £500 gpu after and mined even more then

Not possible where i am. i live in an apartment above a shop in a busy UK town. Attaching anything to the outside of my property requires expensive permission from the freeholder.

Plus i want to move in the next year or so, so economically it wouldn’t make a lot of sense for me to do it

was fun tho. and if those coins do pop in future then i stand to make a decent amount of money.

I’ve spent more on the lottery for worse odds

I’m generally of the opinion that thermal cycles are more damaging to a gpu that sustaining high (but within tolerance) temperatures consistently over a long period of time.

I have lost GPUs before, but not yet to mining.

That said i did switch the mining off many times to play some games so probs getting the worst of both worlds…

I was folding@home on my media server as part of this experiment.

I did try and do this a couple years ago with folding@home on both machines but didn’t make it all the way through December, although i did have different hardware at that time.

I did briefly look at doing it again this year but setting it up to work with an AMD gpu seemed to be unsupported. the mining software seems easier to script with too

Yes, it does get below freezing quite a few times during that time of year. if i allow the temperature in the flat to get too low i risk pipes freezing which can cause damage.

Plus i have the girlfriend factor to think of. She likes to be warm and is loud about it when she isnt

how much was that?

I wouldn’t say it was the only significant factor but you’re right in that it was a factor. It is heating the largest space in the flat. If it got too hot in the lounge/diner/kitchen area i would open the door to the hallway and let it do the whole flat though through convection

I know. i paid £500 for this Powercolor Radeon 6800X about a year or so ago though, so if these results are to be believed then it has paid 2/3rds of it’s value back. if it makes it another year it will have paid for its self

You need money to live in woods?

Move to the woods and avoid the internet. you’ll feel a lot better

it was at the time i wrote that comment (hence the screenshot). Reddit since came out and said there was an error. most of the banned subreddits are now back up

When i stay stabilize i don’t mean it will stay the same for ever. it will just become less volatile the more it is uptaken. Value should continue to go up as the total supply is finite but should do so in a more predictable manner similar to gold. Of course this requires it’s widespread uptake as a currency.

Unrelated note: part of why humanity stopped making our money out of precious metals was because the metal was worth more and more while the dollar held steady. So people started shaving the edges off silver coins, and then recievers had to start weighing money at the time of transaction (which slowed it all down). Making money fungible was a huge advantage for commerce.

I’m not sure that’s really analogous to bitcoin, sure you can spend subdivisions of bitcoins but you cant shave sats off and still pass off a shaved bitcoin as a full one. a bitcoin is a bitcoin and a bitcoin with shaved sats is a bitcoin minus those shaved sats.

The lighting network feels like a tab at the hardware store where anyone can skip town anytime they want.

except with the lightning network, if your customer “skip[s] town” with lightning you can take the tab (channel) to the bank (blockchain) yourself and still get your payment. Opening a lightning channel requires staking the value of the channel up front. you can get unspent sats back but once you’ve made a transaction on the network then those sats belong to the person who you sent them to. You can try and close a channel with an older version of the channels ledger to try and “revert” the payment but there are mechanisms in place to stop this. if someone does that to you you can just broadcast the up to date ledger to the network and then you get everything in the channel including unspent sats as a penalty.

at least that’s how i understand it