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We did, long term behavior of bitcoin I think won't be settled until after the next one i.e. is the trend we are seeing now the same as the last halving or is it going to be indicative of a shift to late stage BTC behavior. The big question will be if we are in a bubble that will bust or a market that will settle.

You are linking the shift to POS from POW as a rationale for a crash, however that is a hypothesis that doesn't really hold water, or at least you haven't made an argument for it. That shift is from a pure fundamentals basis makes it more valuable not less as that change along with other elements results in better performance at the core function of Eth, which isn't actually the same as BTC. The reason Ethereum is valuable really has nothing to do with the fact you can mine it, it started off that way as a draw to get people into the network, but they don't need it and have largely given up on it(they could ditch increase the ASICs resistance and keep it PoW for another 2 years if they wanted to no real determinant). Will less miners hold eth, possibly, but not that many really do, once they reach a certain level many diversify out of Eth into BTC or other assets. I've got a good chunk of Eth building up, I think it's got good fundamentals, but mining wise if there is more profit elsewhere I won't mine it and probably won't go out of my way to get more that 1-2 Eth to hold as an asset. As to what people will move to, there are other cryptos with other use cases that are mineable, some of them where the move to PoS system would never really work i.e. those where the work done is core part of the system value such as when it is compensation for work itself. And it could be Ethereum does something stupid or another crypto just does what it does better, there are certainly competitors to it, but none I would say other than addressing gas are better on their fundamentals and none of those have the legacy and adoption level of Ether thanks to it being first to market and having legacy. There are already some fairly close to Eth profitability Cortex isn't bad for example. There may be another crypto crash, what happens at the BTC halving will be the strongest indicator of that. However it's worth looking at the fundamentals as any investment and the market at the moment has things going for it that it never had before i.e. institutional adoptions of BTC and corporate adoption of Ether into infrastructure, and that's in addition to the whole DeFi space which is itself pretty new. I think unless we get massive growth in the next couple of months we at best might get a wobble, but for Ether and BTC in particular they are really only going to if anything level off at the moment. And long term BTC is now too much of an asset to go away so it's going to end up like any other asset and ebb and flow like any fixed supply asset.

I just grabbed a APC Backup 850W, on the basis that while not enough to run the system at load (3900x and a 3090), it's plenty for it under low to moderate load and just accepted that as that's likely where I'll need it. It also had more sockets, which was actually more important as it let me keep my NAS and all the associated components plugged in. To be honest though the actual benefit for me is in cleaning up the power and surge protection, I'm not that worried about data loss from power cuts rather than surges causing damage. One benefit I wasn't expecting at all and not sure I believe, is I actually got a performance bump and my overclocks became a lot more stable. Not sure if it's because cleaner power means my PSU is generating less heat and so everything is a bit cooler or more consistent voltages, but there is a genuine difference in performance.

Sure, but fiat doesn't do smart contractors or a bunch of other stuff? If you mine the gas is not much of a hassle since it's part and parcel of your profits i.e. you make your eth of gas. There's also mitigations for that coming as it has gotten higher and alternatives to eth where it is less of an issue. Although it does buy you security. You also wouldn't have made money on fiat, and that much Eth in defi could literally have doubled its value or more! At the moment the defi space is absolute money printing, it won't last, but if I had that much appetite for risk or had already made huge gains I would be up for the risk.

Dark doesn't mean bad, there are a lot of good things about crypto that would really make a difference to elevating people out of poverty. There is a whole racket that is totally legal around fleecing hard working migrants as they send money back to support their families. It is a total headache, but I think all it really does is expose the shadiness that goes around everywhere, do you think criminals aren't doing all those things without crypto? Like anything it's just another avenue that brings good and bad. I do think ASIC resistant and proof of stake is a good way to go, but as a technology there are some real advantages to be had on the legitimate applications. What we are seeing now is a new generation of blockchain applications and it is totally the wild west, but even the west was won and I wouldn't want to see all the benefits gone as they go beyond traditional currency applications like I described above. Things like what BAT and Brave is doing I think is really innovative and good for the internet for example, and what cortex is doing with blockchain in AI has real potential, and NFTs while stupid represents possible solutions to getting artists paid for their work when combined with solutions like BAT.

Well you can always stop any miner any time without any real penalty, you just close the miner! Ethermine is larger and more reputable, it's a more traditional eth mining pool, nicehash as mentioned in this post is a tad shady, it's founders also a convicted criminal(don't mind it but having a hacker in the mix isn't great). Overall I would always prefer when given a choice a more reputable set of diverse solutions than a single potentially disreputable source. Son of a Tech or VoskCoin on youtube are worth a watch if you want more info. Just keep both of them going I would say, as long as it generates profit run every bit of hardware you have. When the 980 can't do ether anymore it's likely to be able to manage some other altcoins ok. As long as you net out in the positive it doesn't really matter.

You don't need to use Nicehash or Phoenix, Ethermine (or others) as the pool with T-rex or lolminer would work. There are also other coins profitable, cortex is ok at the moment for example.

Sure it could have been filmed then and by the date reference in it we know it definitely was, however it was posted today and surely good practice when you delay your videos this much is to do a final look to see if your sponsor that is historically a little shady hasn't done something wrong in the meantime. They also like I said could have hedged their bets with a more neutral piece, even after the hack if you lurk the crypto community nicehash has a bad reputation for things after the hack.

It's always possible that companies can lie, however there are a lot of developers going online and calling out Kotaku on this. Absolutely as a big company one team through one manager or lack of one could have heard a wrong or distorted message, in a crisis we all now understand how bad communication can get. However we can also see even from the Kotaku article the end result was the same for everyone i.e. nobody lost any PTO and they got supported where they needed it. In the context of it being a pretty blatant attack piece the CIG comment looks off, however in the context of it being a standard response to an issue they've actually done ok on it does make sense i.e. your anonymous comments sound made up and we just aren't calling you on it. Thing is there are loads of things to criticize CIG on, but employee relations isn't one of them, I know CIG devs and they've all said how great a place to work it is and that the don't have to crunch anymore like other studios do. I've also known people at Frontier for example which is making a similar game and has a good reputation, but the workplace is from the people I've known there totally toxic at times.

Have to say the nicehash thing really put me off after the recent bad behavior by the company around Phoenix Miner(see developers response on bitcoin forum). It was shady in the extreme and clearly not only an attack on developers that rightly and reasonably wanted to preserve their anonymity, but the users of their own site. Quite a few people reformatted their systems off the back of baseless claims that Phoenix miner had been compromised and they still haven't retracted the post and went and banned people criticizing them on Reddit, that isn't reputable behavior. I get you have to make money, but you usually go to the effort to do balanced pieces even when they are really ad pieces, you could easily have done a more neutral how to mine piece and simply mentioned them as an option rather than basically kept it specific to them. I get they wanted an advert, but given how downright shady they are on both the reputation of key individuals behind the company having criminal records and their on record behavior I'm disappointed that you have let your standards slip and doubled down on them like you have here. I don't have a problem with the premise of mining, I've got my current gaming rig and my old one mining when not in use, it's still cold so it's basically free heat and pays the electric bill. It's also subsidized my being able to afford getting the only 30 series card I could find: a 3090. Which from an ROI point is rubbish, but when I was prepared to buy a 3080 it's more than good enough and in two weeks already payed off nearly 10% of the value of the card and will pay off the difference in no time and of course I get to use a 3090 now vs a 3080 later! It's made a huge difference to my VR experience especially moving up from a 1070! Anyway to sum up I'm just disappointed that LTT let the standard slip on this one.

A neater analogy is that the work being done is like someone writing a textbook and then people going off and using that knowledge. They may then profit from it, but so can everyone else. What you are discussing is largely a political issue locally, but all that same the data is public so any other company anywhere else in the world can then go on and create treatments etc that are then obviously available anywhere.

Wouldn't doing Nottingham, would do Bath as it is a lovely place to spend 3 years and one of the nicest places in the UK. Bath University though is in the unenviable position of being exclusive, but not really for the merits of its academic reputation like Oxbridges and Edinburgh are. As a Newcastle Alumn myself I can fully recommend it,albeit I was on the Civil Engineering side so limited contact with the sparkies and faireys(British military slang for Electrical and Electronics). My time at Newcastle was some of the best of my life, I loved the University and the city is a fantastic place to be a student. I don't know about Intel on campus, but ARM guys were up on the regular and a lot of the bigger software/hardware outfits were also out in force, most of the Comp Eng guys ended up at Red Hat or Google.

In terms of area it isn't so much night life, just general quality of life that matters, students will be students anywhere. The best time I had at University was a post grad in Newcastle where the cost of living allowed a significantly more comfortable lifestyle. Warwick is pretty good though, as I said more boutique which can be good as it offers something more bespoke and it's strong on technical subjects especially. Acceptance criteria is a toughy, the better the University the unfortunately more exclusive they are in what they accept. The Oxbridges, Edinburgh, Durham and St Andrews being particularly snobby about essentially only accepting baccalaureate, US & British qualifications and even then they can be picky. That being said it is worth noting you can transfer Universities in the UK after year 1 pretty easily, particularly Russel Group if you already have the credits for a full year.

Of your list Surrey is the only one I wouldn't go to, Redding does have a good Electrical/Electronics department though from feedback from a colleague on my Doctoral programme(at least they did a few years ago) if that particular area is important. The Scottish Universities are also pretty good, Edinburgh has an Electronics and Comp Sci programme and a great Physics programme, Glasgow does the same for both programmes although not as good at Physics. Warwick is a pretty good technical uni, it's more in the boutique category than some of the others and is a bit remote(edge of Coventry). Bristol is decent place, but has gotten a lot more expensive as a place to live which isn't something to sniff at. Southampton is ok, but can be a bit of a rough place, and middling reputation for some things. I would look at the individual programmes offered and see what suits you at each place as a start. Then compare that to their respective rankings and if the two lists don't match decide which one looks best. In terms of reputation Bristol is probably the best one on your list for a large University, followed by Birmingham. There are obviously even better ones at the UK. There is a few places that do rankings for particular fields in the UK which can be useful. You also might want to consider where you want to live for three years. PS to the points you made in another post: Work load is the same regardless of what degree you pick. You will learn whatever coding you need for the work, but Computer Systems in the UK is more IT based in a lot of places. Electrical/Electronics is safer as that is harder to learn practically or in your own time.

For UK universities undergrad is very flexible and you will be able to steer your degree in later years in a specific direction. For more technical areas like electronics design that is more post grad level of specialisation. Another aspect of UK universities that many people will tell you doesn't matter, but absolutely does is where you go matters. There are a lot of Universities in the UK, but there are two categories of picking a good one: 1. A University that is so good it barely matters what you do and even a mediocre degree will take you a long way. 2. A University that is highly specialised and renowned in the field you are interested in. If you are lucky you can get both. For 1 it can be harder as sometimes good reputations are harshly guarded so the academic rigour is fairly extreme and not necessarily very practical. For 2 sometimes you get pigeonholed by the level of specialisation so getting out of that area later can be tough if it isn't what you want. So generally a vaguely in the right field degree or something more generic such as Electrical Engineering or Physics from a good Russel Group university will set you in good stead for future workplaces and then potentially post graduate work. Particularly as a good University can let you skip the need for an MSc which usually aren't funded, before doing a PhD which in the UK are generally funded. Working out what universities have the best reputation for a particular field requires a bit of research, you need someone in the field to tell you that for example Chemical Engineering is best at Strathclyde etc. Also will avoid you being directed into a University where the degree course isn't designed for what you want as at undergrad there is a wide variation in what is in scope of a subject and what it can look like. P.S. GPA isn't a thing in the UK at all, and Colleges are things IN Universities or non-university education facilities. UK uses something call common marking scheme which isn't GPA friendly, its something to not be surprised about as an A under the US style grading system with GPA equates to between 60%and 70% in a UK institution which is a 2:1 or Merit. A Major also isn't something that is a thing as there is no such thing as a minor in a UK university in the same way as in US style universities.