False.
MANY American ISPs, if not the large majority of them, DO NOT have bandwidth caps.
Don’t ASSUME wireless, the only American ISPs I’ve seen that DID have bandwidth caps were either cellular phone access, or sat access, or ComCast (by report, and they’ve been SUED over that BS as it violated their STATED ad information).
Why are you ASSUMING I’m … British? Irish? I can’t remember where RyanAir is based out of. And I don’t use pounds. You are trying to place me on a continent I’ve NEVER BEEN TO.
For reference, I’m near the Left Coast of the United States, though I COULD drive to Canada in 3 hours more-or-less. Probably a bit less.
I didn’t think you were British (no idea how he came to that conclusion), Ryan Air is an Irish airline, based in Dublin, Ireland.
You didn’t notice the ? behind British (and Irish)?
And the reason I mentioned them is that YOU mentioned the pound - which is British.
For reference - while I’ve been very far West (across the Date Line and almost to Singapore) in my Navy days, I’ve never been East of Conn.
Just curious what pool you are using for DrPlotter plots now? Am I correct that DrPlotter takes about 3.5% and then you have pool fee’s of another 2 to 4%?
I’m on SpaceFarmers. Their pool fee is optional, but I give to them because they rock.
DrPlotter doesn’t take rewards like GH or NoSSD. DrNick was able to bake in proofs for himself in each Pro4x or Eco3x plot. He may be moving to the CHIP-22 model ASAP.
However, I can say, that if I explained the algorithm to you the amount allocated as developer fees would make complete sense. I can also say that it is a single digit percentage, and when I transition to chip 22 it would likely be a 3.25% fee.
That’s what he said in a Reddit thread, no idea what that single digit actually is. Looks interesting, wonder if the NoSSD folks are going to try and compete or just keep doing what they are doing.
This is my DrPlotter farm today – incredible to get this level of compression working! 1 single 4090 driving 1.2 PiBe of plots.
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So, eventually we will see plot generated on the fly by 8000 series GPU or ASIC box. Chia becomes bitcoin brother.
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It’s entirely possible. FGPA could probably be made now for plotting and de-compression. It’s just a matter of when is it profitable enough for someone to take this on?
How many plots can a 4090 handle? I have about 540 TiB, means 5525 OG Plots. Is it possble to handle Pro4x Plots with a 4090?
The other question ist: The Minimum Requirements for DrPlotter is 128 Gb. Is it possible to take a consumer Mainboard with maximum of 128 GB? I mean the system neeeds some Gb to, to operate?
I’m just reading… and thinking.
With a double advantage in getting prizes - somehow it didn’t motivate me to enter the compression…
I came to terms with the advantage of other farmers.
However, when I see a quadruple advantage, I start to wonder that I am too far behind and feel like a dwarf in the land of giants.
Only after all these revelations and news (drPlotter, thoughts and plans from Bram Cohen) how to approach the reconstruction of a farm that is not in a rack in the garage - but at home…
Replace RAM and buy RTX4090?
Or maybe wait for the 5 series model?
Or maybe soon we will connect ASIC to a farmer with disks?
I identify more and more with the fact that my approach was too hobbyist (wrong) and therefore I don’t tolerate all these changes well.
Although I am flexible in my life, when shopping I follow my father’s old advice - buy once and buy well! I just don’t know if such advice has a chance to exist in the world of crypto production…
I also don’t want to join the RTX-GPU of the week club. Remember when CGA was king…
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Good advice! 
Also takes some of the pain of replotting wen u can fill 5-6-7-8 drives at-a-time full stop quickly with those 
ones. Furthermore, remember that quality sells better used, longer … so I wouldn’t be afraid of ponying up for GPUs, think of it as renting…not buying 
Cause they’re hella fun to plot those tiny plot files!!
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At the moment, I would rather wait and see and use Nossd to reap the increased profits from compression. If you don’t have a 4080/90 and 128 GB RAM to use Dr.Plotter, I would wait until it is decided whether there will be a hard fork or not. I’m not familiar enough with the subject to know whether this is really coming or not. But I believe that the CNI is really about to put a stop to compression. But I think you know that better than I do.
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I gave him exactly the opposite advice. 
Now he can really form an opinion. 
It’s a nice hobby, yes. But I think we all spend too much on technology.
And that’s why it’s good to…talk!
Minimum to plot is stated as 128 GB.
Less to farm - I think I remember mention of 32GB.
4090 on current plot filter (512) is rated to handle appx. 400 TB of plots (or 1600ish) with the “Pro4x” option, half that when the plot filter drops to 256 in a very few months.
Much higher on the Eco3x - almost 1000/500TB worth of plots but they’re not as compressed, so “only” 3000/1500 ish.
My original PC-Clone had a real IBM MGP card in it (monochrome + printer port).
Your CGA was fancy.
9-)
And that doesn’t even begin to address my Kaypro II and IV, my Bigboard I, and my Xerox 820 (I never got the S100 system working, so I don’t count it).
Yes, it’s fine on a consumer mainboard with 128GB. It uses less than the full amount.
Divide those results by 2? Just an idea.