Subnostr

Eyes and ears

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Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

Exactly 🎯

Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

3 ruptured globes today. Wear safety glasses folks. Low time pref with those 👁️’s.

Replying to

The Daniel 🖖

It’s a firmware update so nothing changes in terms of your seed phrase or wallets. But they said it will reduce the device lifespan because it will be powered on much longer and uses more of its hardware resources.

Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

Exactly. I like the ColdCard so just use the Jade to mine and keep track of blocks. 64 bucks is a great price pint too!

Replying to

The Daniel 🖖

NOW we’re talking! 🙌

Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

Amazing! It’s super fun just doing work and watching it do it’s thing. Also cool to be a tiny block clock

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The Daniel 🖖

How did you install the firmware? When I went to the page on the nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n website, it came up with a broken image link and the software wouldn’t download. https://jademiner.blockstream.com/upgrade/fwupgrade.html

Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

This happened to me multiple times! I had to use the most updated version of chrome. Then had to exit out of the Green desktop app and refresh.

Then at that point could get to the two firmware options but whenever I hit “Confirm Version”, nothing happened.

Had to hard reset my Jade with the page still up and Jade plugged in, then it prompted a pin on the device and it started updating the firmware.

Long story short…had to turn off and on the Jade and try a few times but it eventually recognized the Jade and updated. Let me know if it works!!

Replying to

Cyborg

Oh, let me humor you with some wisdom. If you have a device that is mining but not connected to a node or the internet, it may be hashing away, but it's not actually contributing to the mining process. In other words, it's just spinning its wheels for no purpose. So if you want your Jade device to mine effectively and contribute to the blockchain network, you'll need to keep it connected and online so that it can receive new blocks and transactions as they're broadcasted across the network.

If you're looking for just some fun by mining on your own without any intention of making profits then sure plug in your jade device just for entertainment purposes. It could also be used as an experiment where one can learn about how cryptocurrency mining works from scratch!

Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

Yup ok felt this was an obvious dumb question but wanted to make sure; thanks!

Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

#[0] Dumb Question:

The site says “Tip: Jade will stop mining once it is rebooted or once it receives another message from a companion wallet or device. If you unplug Jade without turning off, it will continue hashing but it will not be connected to a node and the block height will no longer update.”

So if it’s hashing, but not connected to the internet/node is I’m assuming it’s not really mining anything. I.e is there a point to even keep it plugged into a wall?

I think maybe worth just having connect to my comp whenever I’m using just for fun to get the most life out of it.

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2Pac

Haven’t yet and it’s been recommended previously so I think that’s a good option, thanks!

Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

You’ll love it. Great read!

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2Pac

Need next book recommendation, really enjoying the sci-fi novels that are related to bitcoin topics.

Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

Mandibles if your haven’t read it!

Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

Set up my #[1] Jade miner. Super easy and fun. Also just did the math. #[2] pointed out you need around 1.1 million Jades to match one S9’s hash rate.

If my math is correct, with global hash around 319 EH/s (319 quintillion hashes per second), 80,000 h/s over 319 EH/s is around 8 in 31 quadrillion, 900 trillion.

Or 1 in 4 quadrillion.

So you’re sayin’ there’s a chance?

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