100% agree with @fm

Eat good food, cut back on animal products if cholesterol is an issue, get in some aerobic activity. Doesn't have to be a massive change to make a huge difference.

From my understanding anything under 80c isn't a big deal for a long term load. If your main goal is to mine bitcoin for profit, it is for sure more economical to keep the chips cooler. As in, you'll consume less electricity for a given TH. But, my main goal is to heat my house so I need the chips to be warm. When the chips are at 75-80c, I get an outlet air temperature of 50C, and by the time it vents in to my house it's at 35-40C. That keeps a main floor living space at about low 20c when it's 0-10 outside. My point being, I don't want to keep the chips cooler and I'm fairly certain any long term lifespan loss is negligible. Check back in a few years and I'll tell you. Haha.

Nice! I fully agree. I just put a little filter box on the back of my S9 setup this year as well. Aiming to clean the air a bit as it flows through. So far so good...though I did have to up the fan speed a notch in order to pull through the filters and keep the chips as cool as they were before.

I got it off ebay from seller "secondhandgpus". Sounded like it was from a mining operation in Quebec that folded, or was liquidating stock. $1,046 Canadian including shipping. But yes, multi year cost recovery. I can run it as heat from Mid October - Mid April - so about 6 months. Call it $4.50 Canadian/day so make $800 or so for the 6 months at current BTC prices. Maybe we get a BTC price bump so MIGHT break even after two years. However - we wanted to buy a heat pump or some other forced air style heating system anyway which is MUCH more expensive to set up. Easily 4 x more expensive if you go high end. Probably cheaper to run, but my thought was the extra cost savings which I keep in Bitcoin have a chance of appreciating over the next decade. Tough to weigh all the options and potential outcomes.

All said, I'm confident this was the right choice from a long term financial view point. We might have been better off in 10 years just leaving the baseboards and keeping the $2000 in BTC - but it's quite amazing the difference forced air over radiant heat is making. It's worth whatever that ends up costing.

Yes, I was sending from AQUA to another AQUA wallet when I got the error. From Phoenix to his AQUA was no problem. I didn't try from his AQUA to my Phoenix though.

No worries on cholesterol and hardening of the arteries as you get older?

What is your workout? Primarily weights with goal of more muscle mass? Any aerobic stuff?

I understand the mechanics of how the weight loss and muscle gain happens on this type of diet. But surely there are some vitamins and minerals you end up missing. Personally I question the long term affects, but hey, two years is a long time. I'd love to hear from you or someone after 10 years.

I've heard of Tim Noakes, but haven't read that. I'll have a look. For a time while I was racing I would do an early morning session with no food intake since the previous evening. Three weeks of that wrecked me and I had to stop. Hard to implement for endurance sport, but I know some do.

What made you stop? ... Or maybe still going?

My two cents... Embrace your body type. You can still look ripped and not have to be massive. Bonus, you can go for a run, hike, or ride a bike without carrying an extra 50kg of muscle up the next hill.

Maybe we eventually get to the point where you can lend your Bitcoin to a nation state like El Salvador. Perhaps get a good interest payment and be confident you won't get rugged. At this point, if you're super concerned about getting yield and stability....I guess stick with dollars/euros and money market/Tbills? Maybe eventually there will come a time there's reliable/safe yield and stability in Bitcoin. Then you can come back and compare how much you would have had if you just held Bitcoin without needing it to work for you. 😬😝

As a retired professional endurance sport athlete I can say without a doubt... Just do as much as you can without making affecting your current injury. Too many people just sit it out fully and wait. You have to go do something. Anything. Then, when getting strong again, slowly get back into normal routine.

If you can't run; then go walk. Or walk on treadmill at incline. If you can't do that; ride a bike, or swim. Maybe upper body only stuff.

Now that I just stay fit because I love it and it's not my job, if ever I'm silghtly injured I go do something else for a bit. There's millions of things to do in the world. My favourites: mountain biking, dirt biking, road cycling, wind surfing, running, hiking, swimming, weights.

Sweet. 👍 Get out there and do it. It's a great experience and always makes you appreciate the small comforts of home when you get back. Have fun!

I would research some of the hut routes in the Alpes. At least get comfortable with hiking in big mountains on well known and popular trails. My understanding with lots of the hut trips is you can pack super light because you can stay and eat at all the various alpine lodgings. From there you just start doing more and more solo adventures as your experience grows.

As a westerner I think an epic journey would be to go to Asia and get into the massive mountains of Nepal and Tibet. That would put most Euros and North Americans way out of their comfort zone I'm sure. The Rockwall Trail in the Canadian Rockies is pretty awesome. 3 long 20-25km hike days. Plenty of other stuff around there too. There's a ton of stuff in western Canada really. You would feel very isolated very quickly on most of it. If you like coastal trails there's some epic multi day stuff like the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island (Island is 700km long, so it's not small 😂). Most of the popular backpacking routes in the parks you need to apply for a permit, or reserve your campspots. You could easily spend years hiking around western Canada and the USA in areas that few other people go.

Not everyone, just the really small S9 miners trying to capture heat etc. Really, anyone with a 1year or longer payout to avoid relative % pool withdraw fees would probably opt for lightning option. No? I don't see why anyone in that position wouldn't.

I run an S9 at ~7TH/s to heat a big bathroom in our house. With Braiins. With 100,000 sats reward I would still pay a 10,000 sat fee to withdraw. That might not even include network fees? I'm not sure. But anyway, that's about 4 months to get to 100k sats. I may as well wait as long as possible before paying the 10k fee. Plus I only use this S9 in winter, so realistically I won't bother asking for payout until April 2025.

But yeah, if your reward is 1M sats per month, I guess you don't care about 10k sats. Fair.