Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

I’ll commonly explore new tech by generating my own summarized documentation and through light tooling of initial configuration.

I am in the midst of this now where an existing operational “algorithm” needs better software support.

A lot of the discovery for that is starting with very general issues describing “problem” areas and then drilling them down to specific issues that might require action.

It can be tedious to go this “slow,” but it’s how I get to fast.

Is it true that one cannot (or should not for their best interest) mine BitCoin/Eth without being part of a pool, unless one has a datacenter or warehouse full of GPUs dedicated to mining? If that's true, is there a legitimate, low-fee pool a fellow HNer can recommend? All the ones I have run into are either on Google's list of "malware domains" or are else blacklisted by my pfSense DNS blacklist because they're on the list of malicious DNS names used by crytojacker plugins and malware. I understand false positives and work around these blacklists all the time, but each of these sites feels scammier and sleazier than the next...

(Edit: It's minus 8 degrees Fahrenheit outside and I'm mainly curious to see if heating my home office with an RTX 2080 that's taking a break from ML while I'm busy with other things can generate enough heat while offsetting my electrical bill to be a more cost-effective alternative to the dirt-cheap but terribly inefficient natural gas furnace.)

I found a solution though: Lowe's sells a 4'x8' sheet of whiteboard for fifteen bucks, now I have my whiteboard covered wall in my home office so I'm happy again.

An entire comment that is just a joke is not how you end up with substantive discussion, which I think has been well proven by reddit long since.

It's fine to have a joke to lead into a well articulated point, but an entire comment shouldn't _just_ be a joke, unless it's the rare case of a joke that is insightful, not just a shared cultural reference (in this case to a common other argument on HN).

> Isn’t that kind of what you are doing by posting that comment?

I think this is akin to the paradox of tolerance.

There's the saying "that with is presented without evidence may be dismissed without evidence".

I think the HN analogue would be "that which is posted without an attempt to have a substantive discussion can be dismissed out of hand".

Similar to how a gish gallop works, it's absolutely not plausible for dang to respond to every comment that violates HN guidelines with a full breakdown of why he believes so. The volume of poor comments simply is so high that he would need to spend far more hours than he can spare for that.

Most of the pools listed there are easy enough to sign up and start contributing to.