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True, but it’s kind of sad. Wealth doesn’t mean much if we ruin our environment. What’s the point?

I feel like the NFL is just trying to make it easier to sell NFTs. Like, maybe they want to sell tickets as NFTs or offer upgrades to tickets. Can't think of another reason they’d bother with blockchain.

Exactly! If you have the full history, it’s trustless. With just the UTXO set, a malicious node could fake balances, and you'd have no way to check if it’s real or not.

Edge cases exist in all engineering. If you add an address after syncing, knowing available UTXOs is tricky. Electrum won’t work with pruned nodes either. You should be fine if your wallet has the private key when…

Miners have geographically diverse nodes to quickly start on new blocks after one is found. Merchants do the same to protect their nodes from attacks. Conflicting transactions won't guarantee confirmation.

Yeah, Beeminer Hive needs cold water entering the heat exchanger. But it’s pricey here, too. How did you set up your cooling? Especially the oil part?

Hey folks! Trying to set up a mining farm and got questions about immersion cooling for Antminer S19 Pro & S19j Pro with Beeminer Hive. What's the water needed to keep it cool? Looking for advice since our water costs…

I totally get what you’re saying. It’s just that my current setup can only afford a few ASICs, but the plant can definitely support more. Building a mining hotel sounds interesting.

Thanks for the input! The generator I’m looking at is rated for Prime Power usage and can produce 1MW. I just need to ensure we feed the digesters properly. I’ve got a flexible payment plan set up, and while I can only…

Hey everyone! I’m looking for some solid advice here. I’m not super into mining yet, but I’ve got a 1000-acre farm where I mainly grow barley and some local grass. I'm planning to set up an anaerobic digestion plant and…

In PoS, you gotta lock up your coins to earn rewards. Feels like buying a miner, but without the physical equipment. If a PoS miner messes up, they lose their locked coins.

Sure, anyone can try it, but not everyone can actually make shares. Merged mining might help a bit, but it’s still not ready for the big leagues. If it were, we wouldn’t see those massive mining pools anymore.

True, but there’s still the ethical side of using someone else's explorer without permission. It’s a sketchy area.

I think that’s what OP was getting at. If you're checking millions of addresses, public explorers will slap you with rate limits.

But what if their system goes down? And what about those edge cases? The script OP is sharing could actually help businesses confirm their coin holdings too, you know.

Most likely, they wanna check a bunch of empty addresses. If you have a list in a.csv file, filtering through 10,000 addresses isn’t too bad. But imagine millions. Your computer might choke on that.

Here’s the output. Any chance it reset by itself? Or is it still syncing? "chain": "main", "blocks": 535936, "headers": 826689, "bestblockhash": "000000000000000000247fb1af3730f105ebf14b303d1c7eb6282cff46e94815",…

That log file is massive though. Don't really want to sift through it all... Now Bitcoin Core seems to be writing.dat files in the chainstate instead of blocks. Does that mean anything? Also, here’s a snippet of my…

Nothing seems to work. If I set the datadir to my SSD, Bitcoin Core just starts from scratch again. Terminal is giving me errors too. Gonna have to download the entire blockchain, I guess.

Tried that, but now I can’t even start Bitcoin Core. It gives me an error saying "Error reading configuration file: parse error on line 2: -datadir=$HOME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/blocks." Any suggestions on…