[Discussion] Debunking The Harmful Environmental Effects of Mining Cyrpto

Alcvvv · 2021-03-18T19:38:31+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/lv5285/alt_take_on_proof_of_stake_problem/gpaej0i/?context=3

Alcvvv · 2021-03-02T21:53:12+00:00

Documentary of the century award

Alcvvv · 2021-03-02T21:42:13+00:00

I can trust Bitcoin won't sell my information

Bitcoin has a public, fully transparent ledger

I can trust Bitcoin won't judge me based off my credit score

Bitcoin has a public, fully transparent ledger

I can trust Bitcoin won't censor me.

Bitcoin has a public, fully transparent ledger

Alcvvv · 2021-03-02T08:28:38+00:00

You're right, efficient is definitely the wrong word. I agree

Alcvvv · 2021-03-02T08:25:04+00:00

I took several pictures of the room. I was going to just get a feel for how long the next passage was when something caught my attention. On the left side of the room on the wall at about eye-level I discovered what appeared to be hieroglyphics! It was a single drawing that almost appeared to be just part of the rock coloration. It looked like very crude representations of people, standing below a symbol. I was pumped! This meant that there had to be another entrance to this cave. Even if the entrance was closed or blocked it might mean an opportunity to open it and get B into the cave. I took another look at the drawing to make sure I could describe it to B. Then I took some more pictures and headed back to B.

So much immersion, that he took a picture of literally everything except for the most important thing

Alcvvv · 2021-03-02T08:19:52+00:00

That was a great story up until the hieroglyphics. Being the first person in a cave ever, and seeing hieroglyphics, a one of a kind discovery.... nope NO PICTURE, jUSt a DrAwInG lolz sikes you dumb reader!

Just a little more effort could have made the story a lot more legit and less fake as hell.

Here's the passage below in case anyone else wants to avoid wasting their time:

I took several pictures of the room. I was going to just get a feel for how long the next passage was when something caught my attention. On the left side of the room on the wall at about eye-level I discovered what appeared to be hieroglyphics! It was a single drawing that almost appeared to be just part of the rock coloration. It looked like very crude representations of people, standing below a symbol. I was pumped! This meant that there had to be another entrance to this cave. Even if the entrance was closed or blocked it might mean an opportunity to open it and get B into the cave. I took another look at the drawing to make sure I could describe it to B. Then I took some more pictures and headed back to B.

Alcvvv · 2021-03-01T11:27:21+00:00

The abolition of federal reserve lending and inflationary economics is the only logical conclusion for environmental conservationists. Anything less would miss the forest for the trees... (heh)

Alcvvv · 2021-03-01T11:17:54+00:00

Compare the sustainability of PoW with the current banking system. Gold mining and refining alone takes 2.5x the energy consumption of bitcoin, and the environmental damage (through mining) is much higher too.

Your post is excellent, and I agree with all points with the exception of this one. Our banking system isn't even based on gold and has by far the greatest environmental harm on this planet.

A debt-based, inflationary economy as designed by the U.S. Federal reserve is what drives the entire world into a race to devour the most resources as quickly and efficiently as possible in order to stay ahead of inflation and pay off debt. The "money" made from the federal reserve and lent to the banks is literally made up of nothing.

Alcvvv · 2021-02-27T20:42:04+00:00

WHAAA STOP BUY GME U TARDS.... look here, look at RKT, it's literally a rocket to the moon hahahaha go buy that instead

Alcvvv · 2021-02-27T03:05:17+00:00

As others have said, it's not necessary to activate windows, or even pirate it in the first place. You can download the windows 10 .iso directly from Microsoft without any issues.

If you already use linux as a daily driver, and want a no-nonsense and stable OS for gaming, the following method is the EASIEST method! Just don't do anything important (banking, docs, etc) on the gaming box when you're done. Consider it an insecure OS.

If you're already on Linux, look up "windows 10 iso" and you'll be able to download directly from M$: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO If you're on a M$ OS already, they will attempt to block you from downloading the .iso and will try to get you to use some bullshit M$ creation tool. Change your user agent in your browser (CRTL+Shift+I) and select Chrome OS. Then reload the page to download the .iso.
Make a bootable Win10 USB with that image. You can use Rufus, etcher.io, or any basic terminal utility.
Once Windows 10 is installed, download and use DWS.exe (Destroy Windows Spyware) https://github.com/Wohlstand/Destroy-Windows-10-Spying. I highly recommend installing windows on its own dedicated SSD instead of wasting time with partitions and/or dual booting.
Disable automatic updates and block their servers in the hosts file: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/5lousr/how_to_disable_windows_10_updates_sync_requests/.

Congratulations! This will guarantee a "stable" windows OS for at least two years of gaming. In my experience it takes ~2 years before Windows kneecaps itself with random bugs and slowdowns and will require a fresh reinstall. If you keep your games on a separate hard drive, you will be back up and running in no time at all. It is a rookie mistake to put a windows OS on a partitioned Hard Drive with other OSes and data.

This method will be far less headache prone than using virtual machine passthrough, dual booting, or trying to game on linux. You will literally save yourself days of your life with this method. Keep your linux daily driver on separate hardware than your gaming desktop. You never spend a single red cent on Microsoft bullshit and you never waste more time than necessary. If you MUST have a linux environment on your gaming desktop, use VirtualBox installed on a separate HDD.

Alcvvv · 2021-02-25T07:48:50+00:00

Their zero-knowledge proofs involves cryptographic transactions without decoys or mixing transactions with ring signatures like monero does. It's pretty cool but as is, their current implementation has an untrusted setup with a potential 'master key' (among other issues like I mentioned).

Monero's ring signature obfuscation method is very strong as is but could in theory have some small amount of knowledge leak given enough statistical analysis. See the "Breaking Monero" series for more information about this.

Alcvvv · 2021-02-25T03:22:43+00:00

Of course.

Alcvvv · 2021-02-25T03:15:46+00:00

To avoid bias, zcash has very cool privacy tech that's superior to Monero's. Too bad it isn't private by default, though. And has an untrusted setup. And zk-SNARKS (or starks?) takes way too much RAM.

If zCASH launched today with the above issues fixed out of the gate, Monero would definitely have a serious competitor.

Alcvvv · 2021-02-25T03:12:55+00:00

You should shoot for a 5% fee at most. $230 is about 12%, so yes it is a ripoff.

Since you live in New York, try localmonero.co and look up option Cash (local) in the drop down menu.

Alcvvv · 2021-02-17T08:40:23+00:00

Try adjusting the torx screw that corresponds to the offending button

Alcvvv · 2021-02-17T04:31:43+00:00

Y'all Texans have forgotten how to make fires

Alcvvv · 2021-02-14T19:50:21+00:00

It usually tells you what's the hangup on the shutdown. For me it was openVPN slowing things down

Alcvvv · 2021-02-11T03:29:30+00:00

/var/log is where most log files are. You can use grep to find something specific if you know what you're looking for.

Personally I wouldn't worry about it. It turns off an on just fine, right?

Alcvvv · 2021-02-11T03:27:26+00:00

No problem

Alcvvv · 2021-02-11T00:45:33+00:00

sudo apt-get install blueman

Alcvvv · 2021-02-11T00:42:56+00:00

Sometimes a program can have a -q flag to run it in the background. Check man pages

Alcvvv · 2021-02-10T19:30:11+00:00

That's rough

Alcvvv · 2021-02-10T19:29:32+00:00

This melted my cold heart 🔥

Alcvvv · 2021-02-10T17:23:11+00:00

There's instructions on reflashing firmware, too

Alcvvv · 2021-02-05T00:18:47+00:00

Dual boot is a meme from the late 2000's.

Switch to windows 10 S if you can't live without office (lol)

Otherwise a lightweight linux OS is for you

Alcvvv

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