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  Bitcoins - anyone here mining?

  by Jim_TX in

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  howdy!.

  it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

  i am, and am having fun doing it.

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  besty

  The consensus seems to be that hobbyist mining for short term profit is over unless you have access to very cheap electricity. Of course playing with trainsets doesn't neccessarily make financial sense either, and as a way to learn about digital currency mining is a great start.

  For example https://cointerra.com/product/terraminer-iv-used-bitcoin-miners/ offers a 1.6TH/s machine for $1500 and its probably going to cost $200 per month in electricity minimum. You can model some scenarios here https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator but its difficult to see how this can make money unless BTC rises in price or difficulty turns flat or negative.

  If you are bullish on BTC then maybe simply buying some and using it to make purchases is a good start.
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  Bitcoins - anyone here mining?

  by Jim_TX in

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  howdy!.

  it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

  i am, and am having fun doing it.

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  besty

  what equipment are you running Jim_TX
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  My Story: from JW Elder to Born Again Christian to Agnostic

  by passwordprotected in

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  i first posted here on 3rd june 2008. at the time i was an elder, appointed the previous october, i was 36 and i was a born-in.

  at the time i'd become disillusioned with the society due to the governing body's letter explaining why the book study in private homes was being abolished.

  april 2008 saw me start questioning this decision, privately of course, and this eventually led me to this site, to jwfacts and to many youtube videos, all of which began to errode my faith in the leaders of the organisation.. in july 2008, having discussed my doubts with my wife, i attended the district convention, deciding to give the society one last chance to convince me it was the truth.

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  Like you, your posts are getting better with time :-)))))

  Its one of the big values of JWD that this type of journey is documented both in realtime and then for as long as Simon cares to maintain the site.
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  Bitcoins - anyone here mining?

  by Jim_TX in

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  howdy!.

  it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

  i am, and am having fun doing it.

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  besty

  anyone else in?
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  Bitcoins - anyone here mining?

  by Jim_TX in

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  2. current

  howdy!.

  it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

  i am, and am having fun doing it.

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  besty

  I am working with a Bitcoin mining company. We have our own datacenter using hydro power. I would agree that individual consumers buying hardware and running it themselves is not economically viable. I would also agree that there is a lot of background noise and outright scammers.

  The value we see is that BTC has the potential to disrupt banking including payment processing, money transfer and ecommerce. Large companies are now accepting it as a means of payment. Expedia and Dell are two examples

  It is also a protocol that goes beyond banking - the underlying technology could be used for many things where validating identity without a 3rd party middleman would be useful. Examples include the exchange of contracts and voting systems.

  We see Bitcoin disrupting many industries in the same way and at the same scale as the Internet has already reconfigured media and communications.

  Whether it will succeed and how it will do so is highly speculative - its difficult to imagine that the concept of digital currency is not going to play out to the benefit of the consumer, maybe starting at scale with the 3 billion new folks that will have mobile internet access but no bank account within the next decade.

  Just my 0.02BTC :-)
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  Hey you guys...is someone at Bethel having a laugh?

  by wizzstick in

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  2. friends

  has anyone else noticed the below?.

  the mountain on the front cover of 'god kingdom rules' segues beautifully into the mountain on the front cover of 'crisis of conscience' (with a bit of cropping):.

  coincidence?.

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  reading one is all uphill and the only way is down after reading the other?
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  2014 SNAP Conference in Chicago; Report by Barbara Anderson & Kerry Louderback Wood

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  2014 snap conference report.

  posted on august 20, 2014 by barbara.

  from august 1 3, kerry louderback wood* and i attended the 2014 annual snap** conference, which was also its twenty-fifth anniversary celebration, in chicago, illinois.. .

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  besty

  great work Barb and Kerry - thanks for yet another year of commitment to the cause.
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  WT Society's Paranoia Over Spiral Binding of Elder's Textbook - Crazy

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  this letter was sent as an addendum to the elders regarding their latest elders textbook.

  i think you'll find this interesting and also disconcerting as well.. to all bodies of elders.

  re: spiral binding of shepherding textbook.

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  don't forget WTS 'rules' are not the point - the point is the master is jerking the dogs leash.
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  2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

  by steve2 in

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  2. medical

  the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.

  in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.

  if so, could you direct me to the source(s).

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  Poland and Germany 2014 numbers will be instructive....
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  Relative technical sophistication of religious websites

  by besty in

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  2. friends

  a quick summary of website trackers used by:.

  jw.org - 0 trackers (not even google analytics - wow - they really are in broadcast mode) pagerank 5. mormon.org - 5 trackers - incl.

  2 kinds of visitor analytics - they are spending $$ on this as a pro-active campaign with measurable results - pagerank 6. churchofgod.org - similar to jw.org - pagerank 4. adventist.org - google analytics only - pagerank 6. catholic.org - 26 trackers incl.

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  besty

  1 tracker installed on www.24-7prayer.com/ and Google PageRank 5 according to http://checkpagerank.net/