Just go to a mining pool. Most have a faucet that will give you 2-3 coins as long as you wallet has no transactions against it.

Given the market trend you are better off dumping and re-buy lower down and improve your holding. The whole market is in crash. I expect BTC to touch $6000 and if that falls well lower. ETH to retest $300

The monadic stuff I am doing in C# all has grounding in haskell :) The LINQ query syntax is really a direct port of the haskell do notation with different syntax sugar

Just spotted this. mmmm We have a few Carolina Reapers that I am sort of scared to eat lol Will put in a hot sauce

Good luck. It is a beautiful language BUT if you come from an OO world will melt your mind :) I have spent a couple of years scraping the surface of it . You might struggle with the way it expects you

For me it is React but better yet Elm :)

programmer, an organism that turns coffee into code :)

Down in NZ so just hitting winter here. Yep, summer I plan on moving the rig to a cooler room we do not use. As long as it covers the power costs then running through summer is not an issue for me unless

Too much choice. Back when I started working in code for a living (Mid 80s) you could keep a wide knowledge up to date. Not now the field is so wide you ether ending up with no depth to your stills and

Do you think the hosting costs are offset by the income from being a witness? For the heater thing. The reality is if your PC draws 400W from the wall that is the same heat generation as a 400W electric

I would start in imperative world as that sounds like the space you came from. Get comfortable and feel like you are getting up to speed again then as a side project explore functional. Even if you do

For me the electricity costs in this case are zero or so close to zero that it does not factor. I put this on an existing server running in my house that runs 24/7 so I am already paying that cost. The

Yep, only time that breaks down is when you cross paradigms, such as imperative to functional as the structure and how you do things is worlds apart. But within a paradigm all skills translate. Really

Best thing. I found I am happiest below the UI level, better fit with my mind. So my weapons of choice are C# and F#. I have gone through all the normal Basic, VisualBasic, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, SQL

depends at the level you want to work. UI/Web and hard to avoid JavaScript/HTML5 although Elm is very interesting. Move lower down the stack and things like C/C# are popular. I am a huge fan of C# over

It would not have dropped like this if not for all the FOMO idiots pushing the price parabolic :) This is just the system correcting like it has done multiple times in BTCs past. It has had 70%+ drops

The Bitfinex and Tether subpoena is interesting at it actually happened on Dec 6th last year but Bloomberg pushed the story recently and made it sound like just happened then corrected themselves later.

I guess for me it is more maintenance later on. I am in a code base at work that has been growing 10 years+ and not adding the extra if means there is less chance someone will come in for a bug fix and

Yep, the guy at the front almost matched the energy of Jack on stage :)

Had a quick scan through the code and like you have a nice consistent style :) Small games like this teach you a lot. Not sure why this stood out but thought I would point out. You had this piece of code