UPS

Luckyking223

Jeez. I have .5 kg rice here! Now, give me 1 BTC and u will get it via UPS or DHL!

butiwasonthebus

For the same reason that retail uses their banks custodial EFTPOS. Because a pie shop wants to make pies, and not muck around with IT systems, UPS, servers, when for a small fee, they can have someone that knows what they are doing, look after that for them. The vast majority of any payments received will need to be immediately cashed out to avoid slippage and to pay the suppliers for the products, wages for staff and shop rent to the landlord. All that can be handled automatically be a payment provider. Setting up a btcpayserver, adding the Kraken plugin, and getting the API working correctly isn't something that can easily be done by a pie shop. These existing systems have been in place forever and Bitcoin payments have to integrate into the existing systems. A retailer with the ability to setup their own Bitcoin EFTPOS system is very rare.

PM_me_catpics

“Now introducing UPS NFTs”

martinbogo

That's the thing ... I looked at Stacks and Bowers ( someone pointed me at their auction house in a chat message ) and collectors ***really solidly*** place a high value on the actual physical coin as well as the loaded BTC. The BTC itself is hovering around $50k right now ( $50,200 just this second ) and the metal coin, in excellent condition, is adding another $10-20k of value ON TOP of that. Sounds crazy, but rarity = value to people. Thing is, you have to go through this whole coin grading process -- getting the coin placed into a special plastic container that has been appraised and such -- and that involves some risk of it's own -- sending a coin worth $50k or more through FedEx/UPS/Courier and back. Yeesh.

GI-JoeExotic

You can get a mail box at a UPS store which uses a physical street address and unit number, similar to an apartment address, which might work here.

Awkward_Potential_

So many. Hivemapper. I actually think that the team can deliver. It's basically a crowd-sourced Google Streetview. So it's constantly being updated. It's an actual use case that could not exist without crypto rails. They already have 10% of the world mapped. It pays out in Honey tokens for miles driven. I think they will have real customers. Like, FedEx, UPS, Uber, trucking companies, local governments, anything that would benefit from updated pictures of streets. I have a dash cam on backorder and cannot wait to start contributing to the map. Shadow is also interesting. Decentralized data storage similar to Filecoin or Akash. I think $SHDW and $AKASH can be the improved second generation of what Filecoin promised. Ovols is an NFT project that gets other NFT projects, fractionalized them and sells tokens. Lastly, BoDoggos. It's the NFT of the Nifty Morning Show. A show I watch every day. It's not as much a utility play as much as a community.

Praeteritus36

Bitcoin aside, USPS is the post postage service available. UPS, FedEx and any other service is utter garbage in comparison.

GoCryptoYourself

Most of the time the return agreement with the company (that you agree to by transacting with them in the very fine print) supercedes any legislation to do with returns. I lost about 4k USD in a "lost" gold shipment because I didn't open a claim in time. I didn't even recieve the package, and according to the tracking it never left the UPS warehouse in a different state than mine. And yet, I'm the one who gets fucked.

Raphae1

Two things: 1. Avoid blockchain corruption by making sure you always do a clean bitcoind shutdown before powering off your computer. Possibly buy a UPS. 2. Backup your blockchain data in regular intervals. Make sure you only backup data when the bitcoind is not writing to it. So either bitcoind is not running during the backup. If you don't want bitcoind to be offline such a long time, you can create a volume snapshot and backup the snapshot when bitcoind is running again. Just make sure bitcoind is not running when you create the snapshot (which takes only a few seconds).

GBeastETH

Ask yourself why democrats , including Biden, showed up to support wage increases during UAW and UPS (Teamster) contract negotiations. Then ask yourself why Trump went to a non-union shop to talk during the UAW strike. One party clearly supports workers rights and better wages. The other party refuses to lift the minimum wage and supports union-busting “right to work” laws.

conceiv3d-in-lib3rty

The 8 ETH minipools are the lowest amount, but also have a minimum RPL collateral requirement which is 10% of the borrowed amount. For an 8 ETH minipool, this becomes a minimum of 2.4 ETH worth of RPL (10% of the borrowed amount, which is 24 ETH). Maximum is 12 ETH of RPL per minipool. More RPL collateral means more yield, but also means more exposure to RPL. So really it’s 10.4 ETH that is required to start up a 8 ETH minipool. Maintenance is damn near nonexistent as long as you have a reliable setup. I spend MAYBE an hour a month maintaining it. I run mine on a 12th gen i7 NUC with 32gb RAM and a 4tb SSD w/ a UPS.

jmanania

I would not. Crypto is too volatile. I'd buy UPS. It's currently at a huge discount from it's all time high. Amazon , Google and Nividia are all solid investment.

igadjeed

> The database cache setting is used to determine how many memory bitcoin core may use to store downloaded blocks in That's not correct. dbcache stores the pending UTXO database changes. Yes, an uncontrolled shutdown can leave the UTXO database out of sync with the blocks, which in turn may require rebuilding the UTXO database from scratch. It would have to be unlucky timing - immediately after committing a new block to the chain, before the UTXO entries are committed to their DB - but it does happen Using less memory slows down the verification and propagation time for a new block. This isn't important, unless every node slows down from 43 seconds (current) to 60 seconds or longer. I think Bitcoin would still work OK, but nobody can calculate what amount of propagation delay would cause Bitcoin to choke. All we know is that the current time is OK It would be better to have a UPS configured to send a shutdown command

OpencastWilson

No, they send this out to everyone in mass. I receive so many UPS delivery service scam emails and they for sure don’t have my email from an UPS hack

SteveW928

I've heard that too, that people have poor experiences and later go for a bit more computing power, but I'm not familiar with all the RPi models and options. I'd put it on some kind of UPS for this kind of thing.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

OP is creating a completely imaginary scenario in fantasyland to fit his narrative, which has very little to do with what has actually happened, and doesn't match the actual data out there. I was on here 6 years ago (check my profile), and that's a completely airbrushed version of what happened lol. Back in 2017, we didn't have anywhere near the amount of merchants and payment systems accepting Bitcoin. So even the people who wanted to use Bitcoin, couldn't. Now we have many far more merchants accepting crypto, and far more people using it. We have new apps like Flexa that open the door to many merchants, including using your crypto to shop at Whole Foods. There's now crypto cards, so that even if a merchant doesn't accept crypto, as long as Visa is accepted, you can use your crypto to buy any goods. You can even purchase gold with crypto. 2020 and 2021 saw the biggest growth in crypto being used for purchases of goods. But the biggest leap in adoption is behind the scenes, with small businesses to major companies adopting the tech side of the technology. Some big names like IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Alphabet, Apple, Tencent, Tesla, Nestle, Alibaba, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, P&G, AIG, Aegon, Pepsico, Nvidia, Intel, Walt Diseny, Unilever, Samsung, Verizon, Honeywell, Comcast, JP Morgan, Oracle, Cisco, Exxon, Shell, UnitedHealth, UPS, Home Depot, Pfizer, Shopify, Metlife, Siemens, Qualcomm...

mnkbstard

this may sound funny and overengineered but i actually have a motion sensor guarding the hidden safe containing the steel plate with seedphrase. it sends notifications to my mobile when motion is detected. i used two cloudless systems for this: deconz and openhab. an UPS granting 5hrs+ operation and mobile connection backup. pushover and telegram for notifications, they are external services but using 2 different platforms ensures reasonable redundance. is this really needed? no is this fun? yes. (no, i was actually fun at parties)

goldyluckinblokchain

*The injustice in Ulbricht's case becomes evident when compared to other Silk Road-related sentences. The average prison term for all other defendants connected to the case, including actual drug sellers and those who helped run the platform, is just six years. Most of these individuals are already free today, whereas Ross Ulbricht is condemned to spend the rest of his life behind bars.* He has paid the ultimate price with his sentence. People use eBay to scam people all the time, people use UPS to deliver drugs. They aren't culpable for creating a platform where this can be facilitated.

Jumpy-Imagination-81

> no waiting, no driving to Walmart. Well, I did have to wait a couple of days for it to be delivered, but I didn't have to drive to the Walmart 10 minutes from my house. I ordered it online at Walmart.com and it was delivered to my home a couple of days later by UPS. That's OK, I'm not in a hurry. The other online dealers take about a week from online order to delivery. That's OK too. >Bitcoin will be the currency of the future because of its advantages. You have to admit there are disadvantages too. I suspect the world reserve currency of the future might be a gold-backed cryptocurrency issued by the BRICS nations. That's why the central banks in Russia and China have been buying as much gold as they can. If that happens gold, because it backs that BRICS cryptocurrency among its other uses for jewelry, electronics, etc, will still be valuable. If that happens other cryptocurrencies might be made illegal and/or rendered worthless. We shall see. Thank you for your kind thoughts.

Jumpy-Imagination-81

>If gold is better money, is it more accessible to you than Bitcoin? For me, it is. I just received a 1 oz gold bar I ordered from Costco.com. Arrived 2 days later via UPS. https://web.archive.org/web/20230805154528/https://www.costco.com/.product.1748080.html Walmart.com sells gold too. https://www.walmart.com/browse/jewelry/collectible-coins-bullion/3891_4718514_5658887?facet=metal_type%3AGold

raresanevoice

Proof of authenticity is one I like. Data storage and tracking, everything from raw materials to helping UPS fix their shit. Smart contacts and tokenized real world assets is a huge one and one I'm curious to see grow

TheCryptoAccountant1

Dude get a trade !!! You are smart enough to understand bitcoin, go be an electrician or drive for UPS. Upskill mate

serialmentor

Yeah, agreed. You have to administer a linux box, make sure you have good uptime (which also means, good home internet, good power supply, maybe a UPS, and don't live in a place where you have frequent power outages), stay on top of all the software updates, hardforks, etc., and make sure you don't go on vacation when there's a major upgrade scheduled, or better, just don't go on vacation ever. Also make sure you stock replacement hardware parts in case you have a disk crash or whatever. It's not that hard to install the software but keeping a validator running reliably for a long time requires substantial commitment. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anybody who describes themselves as "not tech savy".

0delta

No space in my Umbrel box ) and I just bought a powerbank/UPS for it.

hagbardceline235

You are telling that There ain’t a webcam? A street camera? A fucking RING capture At their corporate offices? This is a different rug, this is going to change things, likely speed up our March towards regulation a little bit… the ides of rug, the tides of the FAOs But, it could just be another weird ending of a X in the Y that crypto kicks out every few years, people die. I’m sure we aren’t anywhere near wall streets greed driven wet work numbers but they don’t have our anonymity capabilities…. Someone should swing by and check on those folks and get back to us: 712 5th ave. NYNY, 10019 UPS truck is in the way, shame. I assume refunds to rugged investors would be issued at the same address.

it_8nt_my_fault

I think there should be some guardrails (not claiming I know what they are!).. but, NOT implemented under the current administration. We are witnessing never-before-seen levels of government interference, overreach, CENSORSHIP, as will as COVER-UPS that have taken place under this "president". Yes I agree with regulations... No, Im not comfortable leaving it in the hands of a corrupt, compromised, & LYING narcissist. Just my 2sats 🪙🪙

pbjclimbing

I hate to be a downer on VET, but the major companies that are using blockchain for logistics are using internal blockchains and not public ones. FedEx, UPS, DHL are all dabbling with blockchains, but not public ones. It honestly does make sense to not having all that information public and at some level it is cheaper. These companies also don’t care about centralization.

raresanevoice

Yeah, when we get, here in the USA, FedEx and UPS and DHL and USPS on blockchain.... It'll be huge for traceability.... Which is why it won't happen soon

JoeDirtsMullet00

They were created by Dylan and Bill Zanker. Same email address registered other work they did. They did it under NFT INT LLC which has an address at a Park City, Utah shopping mall UPS store. Apparently the "creators" get 10% commission on every sale of these. At one point it was like $200,000 per day.

FieserKiller

many people use old laptops as home nodes: they are silent, don't use much power and come with an integrated UPS for free. As for your other systems: remove the graphic cards, they are not needed. run on intergrated graphics or no graphics at all. Most probably you'll want to upgrade ram but 4GB is ok for basic setups. especially lightning nodes need some extra reliability: linux os, RAID storage and UPS is what you want if there is any real economic activity on the node.

harshcougar

Pretty much every project these days is either a scam, a bad idea with big money, or just dumb luck. I have been in crypto since nearly the beginning. I was a huge believe. I made insane amounts of money working for project after project after project. None of them - not a single fucking one - has done anything close to what it claimed it would. Almost all of them went under without ever making anyone except maybe one person any real money. Just buy ETH and BTC and ride the UPS and downs and look at it as a some investment tool. Blockchain is not changing the world. Public ledgers are a horrible idea for 99% of use cases. NFTs add zero value to anything. About the only good thing I can say for crypto is that it being decentralized MIGHT have some benefits as it removed the singular point of failure for say, banks or government services. Crypto is no longer new. In more than a decade of the technology being around, not a single damn project has had any meaningful mainstream impact on any industry. Almost everything is a scam these days, and the few real projects face massive challenges and lack liquidity and are almost always being done better in conventional tech spaces. I was a huge crypto guy. It made me a lot of money. But you should assume that, at best, any coin/project is probably a rugpull and your best bet is to get in and out before the house of cars collapses.

hammerandanvilpro

My regular FedEx guy yesterday was complaining hard about the UPS drivers pay rates.

Grunblau

When do UPS drivers get their paychecks? We need inject some liquidity into this market…

BrotherAmazing

UPS drivers will be able to make up to $170k/yr under their newly negotiated contract and they offer between 5% - 8% match and require nothing but a high school degree. Even if you earn $100k and get the low end at 5%, that’s $5k from you and $5k instant free money, instant 100% return for $10k in a single year. If you knew how to compound at just the typical S&P 500 historical return, you’d see that generates *several* hundreds of thousands of dollars over decades in just *returns* above and beyond what you contributed.

clue5tick

Put Starlink and a router on their own UPS. Should give you hours of service. A cellphone wallet on WiFi and Bam!

clue5tick

Get Starlink and put it on a UPS. This isn't rocket scien... Well, maybe it is.

amalcev

>Put your router on a UPS too? My internet provider has hardware out of my flat, in case of electricity outage it will be down as well.

clue5tick

Put your router on a UPS too? Turn off auto updates? Too many details. Go to minimal system and sort them out.

AceHighFlush

I'm sure all hardware wallets have this ability if you allow bad firmware to be installed. Your seed is on the device (needs to be able to sign transactions) and its a risk, yes, but a small one. Compare this to hot wallets or storing you seed in cloud storage or on a notepad file on your pc. These devices provide one extra step. Ledger are being honest. Yes recover is not good but they are honest that with bad firmware it could technically be possible. Now you want absolute security? Put all your seed words into metal plates, spread across 5 different sheets you store in physically different locations. Allow some overlap in your words so you only need 3 tablets to get your complete seed but anyone with less than 3 would find the words useless. Best make sure to store them on different contenants for redundancy. When you want to make a transaction, retrieve the tombes and get your pen and paper, and manually calculate the signature to send your coins. Type this into your air gapped pc that has never seen the Internet before and you built all the components yourself by hand (intelligence agencies have been caught installing microscopic spying chips on hardware in the mail sometimes). Then, transmit your transaction by UPS, pidgeon, or other offline method. Point is you trust someone eventually because you buy your PC from someone else. How do you know that's secure? Where do you draw the line on what's reasonable?

BrotherAmazing

Somehow Blackrock “owns the world” when they have a lower market cap than Goldman Sachs, Starbucks, Deere, Nike, UPS, Disney, Intel, Lowes, Netflix, Wells Fargo, McDonalds, Pfizer, Adobe, Salesforce, Pepsico, Chevron, Visa, Broadcom, Proctor and Gamble, JP Morgan Chase, Mastercard, Home Depot, Costco, Walmart, Bank of America, god knows Berkshire, Google, Apple, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Amazon, but also Tesla, Meta, UNH, Merck, AbbieVie, Elevance, Cisco, and dozens and dozens of others. *If Blackrock liquidated everything of their’s at fair market value, not selling at a discount, they couldn’t use the proceeds to but even ONE of those companies, and yet these asshat conspiracy theorists think the “own the world”!* 🤣

z6xgy7u6

It really depends on what you need. You could get a UPS that can give you enough time to turn everything off. You don't necessarily need expensive stuff.

alecz123

I use UPS just because of ptsd.

pcvcolin

There's a lot to cover, to address your question. But here are some articles to read at least pertaining to USPS and federal rule, regulatory and budget changes. 1. https://whnt.com/news/national/usps-rolls-out-expanded-crime-prevention-measures-after-rise-in-mail-theft-fraud/ 2. https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/workers-rights/cheated-at-work/usps-cheated-mail-carriers/ 3. https://news.yahoo.com/the-postal-service-is-running-a-running-a-covert-operations-program-that-monitors-americans-social-media-posts-160022919.html 4. ID related policy changes (USPS, FedEx, UPS): https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/youll-need-a-photo-id-to-ship-a-fedex-package-heres-what-else-we-found-out-about-the-rule/ I don't agree with it - but I am trying to document the changes and understand how to operate within them.

mnkbstard

cannot ensure 24/7 connectivity. i already have an UPS but my actual internet provider is shit and it often timeouts on PPPoE, i'll switch to optic fiber at the end of the month. i have no direct experience managing a lighting node and may fuckup breaching channels because of disconnections. i'll probably try to set up a full regtest bitcoin environment and try Lighting there in the next months.

Amber_Sam

Are you sure the fees are per vB, NOT the whole transaction? The numbers looks ridiculous, to put it lightly. The software always asks you to pick the speed/fee. Have you not paid attention to a number about X1000 higher than usually? Sorry, there are no refunds. The miner will just laugh. It's like paying for a 2 hour delivery of important documents across New York and days later asking for a refund because you meant to send it with UPS that takes 48 hours.

BusinessBreakfast3

>CEO experience comes from 16 years of being a UPS driver (shit you not) Had to verify this. It's correct - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-beatty-47a406196).

corporaljustice

I got into crypto for the gains, but stayed for the tech. Genuinely! I now work as a software engineer at a blockchain company and we get to build all sorts of cool things that have nothing to do with the price of a crypto. As one example I've just finished working on an airline cargo tracking app. So when the cargo is handed between different companies (think UPS hand over to JFK, who then handover to British Airways etc etc) Each handover is recorded on the blockchain with the cargo ID and a picture of it. This enables a database that all involved parties can trust, which ultimately gives better transparency for everyone. Outside of being a dev I can't really see why anyone would care much tech-wise. There is some cool shit happening with it though, next few years genuine use cases for blockchain tech is going to become abundant.

Bourbongolfscottie

You’ll take a bigger pay cut at UPS if hired but it is totally worth being here. Great company and a great union.

pbjclimbing

It is a great use for blockchain. The thing is that it makes more sense for private blockchains. FedEx, DHL, Maersk, UPS all have substantial blockchain investments. IBM is a big percentage Budweiser of these servers

transisto

I know what's an UPS, But no rPi comes with one.

spooky_corners

rPi4 makes a fantastic node. No idea what this person is talking about. The SSD goes in the enclosure. With the Pi. There's a fan for cooling. There's a high quality switching power supply and a UPS. There's twice as much RAM on board as needed. Linux kernel and Bitcoin-Core built from source and configured by hand. Node built and fully synced in two days with near 100% uptime ever since. For the last year.

pbjclimbing

I agree with VET being done. Logistic blockchains make a lot of sense, but doing it in house makes a lot more sense than doing it on a public blockchain. DHL/UPS/FedEx all have internal blockchains with IBM providing a lot of custom solutions.

ThisIsTheGwei

I finally bit the bullet and spun up some validators using [eth-docker.](https://eth-docker.net/) The process took a weekend to learn (command line naive, never used Linux, not in tech, etc.). I work full-time 50-75 hrs/week. Maintenance for my validators have been maybe 5 minutes/week. I literally just look for updates for EL/CL clients and run the update command if necessary. It takes less than a minute to update and restart. Otherwise everything is on autopilot. Occasional power outage issues which resolves with a reset (autostart EL/CL on login). I bought a UPS as well and learned how to program it to safely shut down if there's a power outage and power back up once power is restored. I bought a NUC, 2TB SSD, some ram, and a USB keyboard/mouse, spent maybe $1000. It's already paid itself off rather easily. Nothing but profit from here given minimal electricity usage and already fast internet (fiber). The time taken to invest in the validators will probably pay off very well in a few years.

OG_Dookie

Leaked from? "Those sites" lmao My one email gets a shitton of spam. But never have I gotten some random crypto scam email. Buncha stuff for McAfee, PayPal, UPS, and other randoms, but nothing related to crypto.

Jdraspberry

Have you gone to the Tangem website yet? Their help center has a lot of information about how the Tangem Wallet and the cards operate. UPS just delivered my Tangem Wallet. It was very quick and easy to set up and link all three cards along with an access code so nobody can use my card without that access code.

yozoratonight

Yeah I ordered from there website and it took 3 days. I was shocked how fast it came, it’s with UPS Express I think. And it was all the way from Switzerland.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

All you have to do is type blockchain, and two of the first comments say this: ​ >IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Alphabet, Apple, Tencent, Tesla, Nestle, Alibaba, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, P&G, AIG, Aegon, Pepsico, Nvidia, Intel, Walt Diseny, Unilever, Samsung, Verizon, Honeywell, Comcast, JP Morgan, Oracle, Cisco, Exxon, Shell, UnitedHealth, UPS, Home Depot, Pfizer, Shopify, Metlife, Siemens, Qualcomm, etc... > >It's used in real estate by Coldwell Banker, Bookfield, Westfield, JLL. > >It's used in the energy sector by Shell, Tennet, Siemens. > >It's used for insurance MetLife, and Prudential. > >It's used to help the functions of governments like in Dubai and Seoul. > >It's used in travel by Ethiad, Lufthansa, British Airways, and Singapore Airlines. > >IBM is doing a ton of different things. I'll use the hyperledger fabric, which is very much in line with what I was talking about making information and data more useful, valuable, and trustworthy. What's data if you can't trust it and can't tell what's correct? > >Maersk and PWC using chains like Vechain for their logisitcs. Without blockchain, you had to trust the data and information of a shipment, going through different ports, different ways to track the shipment, and having to trust these different ports, warehouses, and countries, with staffs that don't work directly for you. Vechain simplifies the process, and removes corruption, misinformation, fudged numbers, and even things getting lost due to centralized tracking. > >A lot of different medical companies (like the ones I listed) are using blockchain for more efficient medical records, healthcare logistics, etc....Blockchain makes those records immutable, incorruptible, more efficient. Everything is now verifiable. There's chains like Medifind used for that. > >Microsoft, among many other things, is using the Ethereum blockchain for Azure and its cloud servicecs. > >AIG using smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain to reduce costs, and increase transparency.

MrNerd82

not how it works at all. They aren't waiting around, they are processing the transactions in the order in which is makes sense relative to the market. If you run a business and 1000 people want to pay you for your time, but there's no possible way to service them all how do you prioritize? You take care of the highest paying customers first since you are running a for profit business. The same reason I can pay more money and drive on a toll road and speed or bypass traffic, the same reason I can pay more money and ship a package UPS Red Priority Overnight. Miners aren't the one setting the prices, it's people who want their transactions to go through outbidding each other. The same backlog would exist even if all fees were "reasonable", but at that point you wouldn't have a reliable or trustworthy way to pick which ones to process first. Timestamps or a self reported priority level aren't things you would be able to rely on to maximize efficiency or utility of a system that has a limited volume per time period.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

>could you please explain how crypto, or the technology behind it, is going to make a real difference to the world Going to? Hasn't it already done more to the world than most new tech do in their early years? But if you're looking at what it's going to change beyond what it already has, the sky is the limit. It's tech that can change and affect almost every industry in the future. There's not much limit in what it can improve. If you want specific examples of what the future looks like, you can just look at the past and what major companies were able to accomplish with blockchain: IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Alphabet, Apple, Tencent, Tesla, Nestle, Alibaba, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, P&G, AIG, Aegon, Pepsico, Nvidia, Intel, Walt Diseny, Unilever, Samsung, Verizon, Honeywell, Comcast, JP Morgan, Oracle, Cisco, Exxon, Shell, UnitedHealth, UPS, Home Depot, Pfizer, Shopify, Metlife, Siemens, Qualcomm, etc...

meme_throwaway

What's there to say? It's got a built in UPS too

GetMoreSun

Your energy cost is going to be trivial, perhaps a few dollars a year max, not a huge impact. If you're going to run a lightning node you'll want to get an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for your setup to avoid issues with inconsistent power, so a laptop takes care of this by having a battery already built in. Raspberry pi is hobbyist grade hardware and not the most stable/reliable, slight issues with the power supply can cause inconsistent instability and random hard drive issues - these issues are not guaranteed, but nearly any laptop will be more robust in this aspect (with a new SSD). If you already have a raspberry pi + external SSD, go for it! But if you are buying new hardware, there are much better and more cost efficient all-in-one computer options out there, many already mentioned in other responses here.

makeererzo

Then don't use a RPi v4. Why you specify €50 to €100 for a SD card i have no clue. Those are more like €5 (8Gb) to €20 (32Gb) Get a RPi v3 or maybe a Orange PI or Rock PI.. Should run you \~€50. SD card for €5 to €10. Only a small one needed if you keep the OS on the USB disk. External SSD : Crucial X6 portable 2TB - \~€130 = €190 You could also cut that harddrive costs in half and buy a spinning 2TB disk for \~€60 Still using new prices. Or you could go on ebay, or your local fleamarket, and get a second-hand cheap laptop for €50 and then add a new 2TB HDD for €60. As a bonus you get a built-in UPS and dedicated screen. = €110 Even a old i3 or celeron would be more than enough.

spooky_corners

RPI4, 1Tb solid state drive, enclosure, UPS power supply. I prefer to select and configure my own Linux distro and then download and compile Bitcoin Core from verified source. Remember to do the initial sync with a hard line (ethernet cable) to your router and use a fast SSD... it's still going to take a while. I like to run Bitcoin Node Manager over a secure RPC so I can keep a status check on the node, and Netdata to get detailed status on the hardware. Both work remotely from a web browser so you don't even need a monitor or keyboard for your RPI4. There are obviously "off the shelf" installations such as Umbrel, etc but you are then trusting whoever built them. There are certainly technical challenges to getting set up on your own, but there is also excellent documentation available.

DriftMethod

Doesn't Filecoin allow you to store private data on the blockchain? So that brings up a distinction between what you technically have on your computer compared to what you can access. And similarly, with the Apple example, (of course Apple would have some legal problems) but does that make every device owner liable for simply having the material on their device without their knowledge (like the Bitcoin white paper)? Because, not everyone would know even after it's exposed in a court. People could forget about an old device in their closet, but that automatically makes them a criminal? And isn't it just a matter of degree between possessing it and distributing it? I can't see a judge and jury convicting someone for having illegal material on a blockchain that they had nothing to do with outside of having the blockchain on their mining/staking equipment for the purpose of mining/staking. Yet more analogies, Google isn't liable for illegal material sent through Gmail. Verizon isn't liable for illegal material being sent over their network. UPS isn't liable for illegal material in packages they deliver. I'm sure there's exceptions to the above, but in a general sense of them not having knowledge/intent of the illegal material. My point is I don't think an issue like this has a simple answer based on existing laws.

westsidesilver

I know people that make 150k a year with UPS after 4 years of employment driving pretty straight forward job, I think 100k a year is new minimum income to live a normal life on the west coast if you want middle class things, my girlfriend spent 100k this year idk she’s got nothing real to show for it, I have lots of friends that make 100k and end the year with nothing… I’d rather make 50k a year and buy 10k of bitcoins then make 100k and spend it all, it’s not about your income it’s about how much you save. I know lots of people that make min wage live with parents and have 20k in bank account and i have friends that work at Nike/intel making 140k and then go to casino bars and they ask there patients to cover home payments!!!! Insane

User_Number_5

Depending on how much time I have: (-Drive around supermarkets trying to get as much food and water as I can) -Drive Home and Seal all the gaps -Fill the Bathtub with water -Charge my UPS -Buy the dip

adude512

Morpheus network would be one of them for sure, supply chain and logistics IoT blockchain that already has partnerships with leading names like Coke SpaceX UPS FedEx Alibaba Polygon Chainlink Salesforce etc Not really a shill because my bag isn’t heavy but big name partnerships always tend to ease my mind

fan_of_hakiksexydays

IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Alphabet, Apple, Tencent, Tesla, Nestle, Alibaba, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, P&G, AIG, Aegon, Pepsico, Nvidia, Intel, Walt Diseny, Unilever, Samsung, Verizon, Honeywell, Comcast, JP Morgan, Oracle, Cisco, Exxon, Shell, UnitedHealth, UPS, Home Depot, Pfizer, Shopify, Metlife, Siemens, Qualcomm, etc... It's used in real estate by Coldwell Banker, Bookfield, Westfield, JLL. It's used in the energy sector by Shell, Tennet, Siemens. It's used for insurance MetLife, and Prudential. It's used to help the functions of governments like in Dubai and Seoul. It's used in travel by Ethiad, Lufthansa, British Airways, and Singapore Airlines. AIG using smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain to reduce costs, and increase transparency.

JoeOpus

This is like saying the fed is gonna monopolize small parcel logistics by rolling out USPS. FedEx and UPS anyone?

SenseiRaheem

Also similar to USPS labeling UPS or FedEx as risky.

philcsik

People celebrating the "supply shock" from ETH, yet there is no capped fixed supply of ETH. UPS SRI

DasKapitalist

It means anyone with a lick of sense would use electricity from the grid to charge their UPS/battery bank. What does the battery bank provide power to? Their data center. That part of the data center happens to do cryptomining is incidental.

Counterstrike99

Cell towers are also affected so signal quality also drops. Fibre internet still works great though provided you have a UPS

iamthinksnow

Current ETH: \~$1,500 1. If you stake 32 (**$48,000**) 2. You are getting their current rate of 4.31% annually (**$2,068.80 / 1.38 ETH**) 3. That means CB is collecting 5.75% (**$2,758.40 / 1.84ETH**) 4. CB is keeping 25% of that, or 1.44% (**$689.60 / 0.46 ETH**) For that, you: * Don't have to buy/build a machine capable of running a node & validator * Don't have to figure out how TF to even do that, and which staking software or platform to use * Don't have to worry about any maintenance and updates * Don't have to worry about uptime, having a 24/7 machine running w/ a UPS * Don't have to worry about a major spike in network consumption at home

iamthinksnow

# Current ETH: ~$1,500, so if you stake 32 ($48,000): 1. You are getting their current rate of ***4.31%*** annually (**$2,068.80 / 1.38 ETH**) 2. That means CB is collecting ***5.75%*** (**$2,758.40 / 1.84ETH**) 3. CB is keeping 25% of that, or ***1.44%*** (**$689.60 / 0.46 ETH**) For that, you: * Don't have to buy/build a machine capable of running a node & validator * Don't have to figure out how TF to even do that, and which staking software or platform to use * Don't have to worry about any maintenance and updates * Don't have to worry about uptime, having a 24/7 machine running w/ a UPS * Don't have to worry about a major spike in network consumption at home

SmoothGoing

UPS shipping rates have nothing to do with bitcoin.

philcsik

Matic, the investors wet dream has become a nightmare. UPS.SRI

Castr0-

The cleaner quickly put the plug in and the UPS holds the servers.

armantheparman

I can't be absolutely sure, but I wonder if your chainstate is corrupted, or the drive. Do you use an SSD drive (best), or a regular HDD? The regular drives, eventually, you'll run into problems. I always have two nodes running, so if I have issues with one and need to resync, I've got a backup while waiting. This can also happen if you get a blackout or brownout, I suggest a UPS to protect yourself.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

The future is already here. The utility of blockchain in the business world is growing every month, and has been growing for years... IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Alphabet, Apple, Tencent, Tesla, Nestle, Alibaba, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, P&G, AIG, Aegon, Pepsico, Nvidia, Intel, Walt Diseny, Unilever, Samsung, Verizon, Honeywell, Comcast, JP Morgan, Oracle, Cisco, Exxon, Shell, UnitedHealth, UPS, Home Depot, Pfizer, Shopify, Metlife, Siemens, Qualcomm...just to name a few of the major companies already using blockchain. It's used in real estate by Coldwell Banker, Bookfield, Westfield, JLL. It's used in the energy sector by Shell, Tennet, Siemens. It's used for insurance MetLife, and Prudential. It's used to help the functions of governments like in Dubai and Seoul. It's used in travel by Ethiad, Lufthansa, British Airways, and Singapore Airlines. AIG using smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain to reduce costs, and increase transparency. IBM is doing a ton of different things. I'll use the hyperledger fabric, which is very much in line with what I was talking about making information and data more useful, valuable, and trustworthy. What's data if you can't trust it and can't tell what's correct? Maersk and PWC using chains like Vechain for their logisitcs. Without blockchain, you had to trust the data and information of a shipment, going through different ports, different ways to track the shipment, and having to trust these different ports, warehouses, and countries, with staffs that don't work directly for you. Vechain simplifies the process, and removes corruption, misinformation, fudged numbers, and even things getting lost due to centralized tracking. A lot of different medical companies (like the ones I listed) are using blockchain for more efficient medical records, healthcare logistics, etc....Blockchain makes those records immutable, incorruptible, more efficient. Everything is now verifiable. There's chains like Medifind used for that. Microsoft, among many other things, is using the Ethereum blockchain for Azure and its cloud services.

Blom-w1-o

I'm very grateful for the postal service. They deliver 20 times the packages that fedex can deliver. You would have a harder time finding someone that liked FedEx or UPS than you would finding someone who likes the USPS.

Showboat32

I’ll be quite frank. No… the public doesn’t need those things you mentioned in the first paragraph. Do you know how I know? Because there is little to no adoption with any blockchain technologies. Zuckerberg didn’t have to beat down the door or spend billions advertising Facebook, begging people to join when he started it. They just joined organically. Why? Because it solved a problem at the time. Same can be said for FedEx, UPS, Visa, etc. I hope you get my point. There is little to no adoption in real world volume and scale with blockchain technology because it hasn’t solved a problem yet that a lot of people care about.

whitslack

I'll pass. I melted a piece of my crescent wrench when I accidentally completed a circuit across the terminals of a UPS battery while tightening a terminal bolt. I've electrocuted myself on 120 Vac many times, but there's no way I'm touching the terminals of a car battery with my bare skin.

jcpham

The UPS truck MacBook no longer functional

great__pretender

Yeah I googled a few of these companies on google with their name and blockchain and most of them are like "we promise to develop a standart/use blockchain in the future" type of vague promises Just because they say they will use them doesn't mean anything. I want to hear some real life use of blockchain by businesses. Not collection of vague promises just because blockchain at some point was the hot commodity in the market. Like what is UPS doing with blockchain now? What use does it have? What is Roche doing with it? There is a website talking about how it can be used for payment systems but it is all the same talk I have been hearing last 5 years. It seems like nobody is really using it

LukaBloomRocks

Thanks for the pointer. Being new to the space, I don't know what I don't know, but I'm a quick study. All respectfully offered information is appreciated, and I do my own research. My purpose is not to "get rich quick", I'm just looking for practical ways of putting my stack to work in helping the community. Staking with myself on lightning channels might be a good way to do that. I'm actually in the process of setting up a solid node at home with redundant network, generator backed power with local UPS, and an available backup server. No cloud VPS for this guy.

perfect5-7-with-rice

Government services are rarely better than private alternatives. CDBCs will have benefits, just like the post office will. Ideally banks would end up filling in the cracks like FedEx and UPS when USPS doesn't cut it

carpetjpthrowaway

Same grandma can't do much to get her 6k dollars back if she sends it to a 'traditional' scammer. Western Union USPS/Fedex/UPS Cash in a box Itunes / Apple / whatever Giftcard Stupidity or gullability always had potentially long-term consequences...

70redgal70

In the US, there are independent mail centers one can use to get a legal address. Like UPS locations and similar. There are also virtual mail centers to use and get an address. It's a Google search away.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

Bitcoin can be used to purchase goods instantly, across the world, without needing a bank account, for a fraction of the cost of credit cards, and is accepted in more places than ever. What part of that hasn't delivered? Some cryptos are even doing that faster, for a lower cost. Cryptos is also providing many solutions, form letting people be their own banks, banking the unbanked, offering many fintech and defi solutions, derrivates, etc... But most importantly crypto tech and blockchain is now used to provide many tech solutions across all industries, and is currently used to help improve businesses across the world. Companies like IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Alphabet, Apple, Tencent, Tesla, Nestle, Alibaba, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, P&G, AIG, Aegon, Pepsico, Nvidia, Intel, Walt Diseny, Unilever, Samsung, Verizon, Honeywell, Comcast, JP Morgan, Oracle, Cisco, Exxon, Shell, UnitedHealth, UPS, Home Depot, Pfizer, Shopify, Metlife, Siemens, Qualcomm, etc... It's hard to take anyone serious who claims it hasn't done anything in over a decade. This once again proves how little the average person knows about what crypto actually does.

switched133

There are a lot of companies that are using blockchain technology BUT the chain isn't necessarily backed by a cryptocurrency. For now, this is where the tech is likely leading in adoption. UPS, Walmart, and others all use it for logistics. Most people do not realize they're using this tech when supporting a lot of these businesses.

Leading_Dog_1733

No, bitcoin is a bad way to move value in wartime because all transactions are traceable. Governments will require miners in their jurisdictions not to add blocks with transactions from sanctioned wallets. Moreover, they can trace transactions back to a source and punish middlemen that accept those funds or accept funds that originated in those wallets. If Russia needs to buy weapons from Iran, it can just ship gold by using its own planes. And, once that gold arrives in Iran, it has no links to Russia whatsoever. Governments don’t need to use UPS to ship their gold.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

Are you serious? That's gonna be a mile long.... There's far too many companies and too many to even narrow it down. But just the first ones I can think off the top of my head, I have to check if they've updated or made any changes since I last read about them: IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Alphabet, Apple, Tencent, Tesla, Nestle, Alibaba, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, P&G, AIG, Aegon, Pepsico, Nvidia, Intel, Walt Diseny, Unilever, Samsung, Verizon, Honeywell, Comcast, JP Morgan, Oracle, Cisco, Exxon, Shell, UnitedHealth, UPS, Home Depot, Pfizer, Shopify, Metlife, Siemens, Qualcomm...just to name a few of the major companies already using blockchain. It's used in real estate by Coldwell Banker, Bookfield, Westfield, JLL. It's used in the energy sector by Shell, Tennet, Siemens. It's used for insurance MetLife, and Prudential. It's used to help the functions of governments like in Dubai and Seoul. It's used in travel by Ethiad, Lufthansa, British Airways, and Singapore Airlines. AIG using smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain to reduce costs, and increase transparency. IBM is doing a ton of different things. I'll use the hyperledger fabric, which is very much in line with what I was talking about making information and data more useful, valuable, and trustworthy. What's data if you can't trust it and can't tell what's correct? Maersk and PWC using chains like Vechain for their logisitcs. Without blockchain, you had to trust the data and information of a shipment, going through different ports, different ways to track the shipment, and having to trust these different ports, warehouses, and countries, with staffs that don't work directly for you. Vechain simplifies the process, and removes corruption, misinformation, fudged numbers, and even things getting lost due to centralized tracking. A lot of different medical companies (like the ones I listed) are using blockchain for more efficient medical records, healthcare logistics, etc....Blockchain makes those records immutable, incorruptible, more efficient. Everything is now verifiable. There's chains like Medifind used for that. Microsoft, among many other things, is using the Ethereum blockchain for Azure and its cloud services.

igadjeed

UPS will solve that problem - only if the UPS triggers a safe shutdown of Core before the battery power runs out. Failing to shut down Core before rebooting can cause the chainstate to desynchronize from blocks Another strategy is to backup chainstate and the most recent blk file once or twice a week. Do a safe shut down of Core before making the backup. This way, you have a small backup which has chainstate synchronized with blocks. After an unsafe shutdown, restore chainstate and the incomplete blk file. Delete the more recent blk files. Core then only needs to catch up with a few days of blocks, takes less than one hour

Ima_Wreckyou

An old laptop is also something to consider. Just needs a 1T sdd. Has the additional benefit of a free UPS.

NitronBot106

I run Umbrel on a raspberry pi 4 4GB. After an unexpected power failure I have always been able to turn it back on amd it just syncs back up from the point it went offline. I have heard that unexpected shutdowns can corrupt the SSD and require a full resync but that has never been the case the dozen or so times it has happened. I have considered getting an UPS but the cost doesn't really warrant it for me. I have heard other users recommend using an UPS but simply to keep their lightning node from going offline. At the moment I am currently doing an IBD on my desktop just to have a backup of the blockchain and to test some other software I don't want to use with my Umbrel without knowing how they work fully. It seems alot of serious node opperates keep multiple copies of the blockchain so they can quickly redeploy a node in case of hardware failure.

SpaceToadD

you could at least put it in a UPS box or something

Subtraktions

>Look up which celebrities and other public figures are tied to the WEF and dump them all Unless you're going to go off grid and hunt and grow your own food, you can't dump the WEF. They're connected to every major company on the planet. Their "partners" range from Coca Cola to Toyota to TikTok to Lego to UPS to Uber to Amazon to Apple. Multiple crypto companies are WEF partners. This idea that they some shady organisation with "connected public figures" you need to dump is just silly. Virtually every powerful person with influence on the planet is connected to the WEF in one way or another, from Trump to Zuckerberg to Musk.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

"it's a scam with zero adoption" aka "I have done zero research, and a quick google search would have shown me it's being adopted by IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Alphabet, Apple, Tencent, Tesla, Nestle, Alibaba,Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, P&G, AIG, Aegon, Pepsico, Nvidia, Intel, Walt Diseny, Unilever, Samsung, Verizon, Honeywell, Comcast, JPMorgan, Oracle, Cisco, Exxon, Shell, UnitedHealth, UPS, Home Depot, Pfizer, Shopify, Metlife, Siemens, Qualcometc...and providing business solutions to those companies". oops

Skyworthe

The only con is if you have regular power outages, you have to connect it to an online UPS, or use a battery case for the raspberry. As far as building, after you assemble the hardware, you have 2 common routs: 1. If you want fancy interface, easy to use, easy to install option go for Umbrel or other open source OS that does the job. 2. Compile bitcoin core from source and play with the command line interface.