Skyminers

[Anonymous No.9041445]

So considering that testnet probably hits in about a month, is anyone else thinking of getting one of these things?

[Anonymous No.9041511]

I still can't understand the Skyminers. You still need an ISP cable to provide internet that can control the connection no?

[Anonymous No.9041520]

>>9041511
literal scam.

[Anonymous No.9041526]

>>9041511
I ask this question in almost every Skycoin thread, never get an answer

[Anonymous No.9041537]

>see filename

[Anonymous No.9041546]

>>9041511
Thats the point.... Its a chink scam to sell orange pis for $600. You need copper, fiber, or long range antennas to connect people to the internet. Skycoin has no plans of funding any infrastructure like that. Stay away.

[Anonymous No.9041558]

>>9041511
>>9041526
What i'm thinking is that at first you do use the cables that are already linking computers together. You'll get antennas at some point and stop relying on isps.

[Anonymous No.9041587]

>>9041520
>>9041526
>>9041546

Look anons I don't believe it's a scam since it has been in development for quite some time and has basically 0 marketing so no need to give low level fud.

[Anonymous No.9041588]

>>9041546
Well they're not funding the miners either, the idea is that you're incentivised to run nodes, just like you're currently incentivised to mine btc

[Anonymous No.9041601]

>>9041587
please explain then, I genuinely want to know how it works or should work

[Anonymous No.9041618]

>>9041558
Aren't antenna connections many times slower though and require significant power/energy to broadcast the signal?

[Anonymous No.9041631]

>>9041601
Idk how it works yet since I have done almost 0 technical research about it.

[Anonymous No.9041632]

>>9041587
>100% premined
>sells miners

LOL
https://medium.com/@Skycoinproject/is-skycoin-a-scam-c5d47ab80d2f

[Anonymous No.9041655]

>>9041632
You cant make this shit up

[Anonymous No.9041658]

>>9041588
You are paying someone for six orange pis (1$ usd a piece) and a modem for $600. They are making money you cunt chink shill. Go jump off a foxconn building you subhuman dog-boiling gook shill.

[Anonymous No.9041683]

>>9041632
>TL;DR is Skycoin a scam? No.
M8

[Anonymous No.9041687]

>>9041618
You need a lot of power to send signals over large distances, but what you'd want is to not do that and instead have many nodes connecting those distances.
I don't think this type of decentralization will completely replace normal internet because it will be slow (think Tor) but I'm hoping it'll prove to be great for free speech in the long run.

[Anonymous No.9041695]

I’m not intelligent enough to mine but want to invest. It’s bizarre they are not on a legitimate exchange after 5 years

[Anonymous No.9041729]

>>9041445
Cool idea but obvious scam:
>transparent shilling
>overpriced hardware
>idea is ambitious and may be out of reach

Does anyone know if you can build your own miner and just flash it with their image? I mean, this IS open source right?

[Anonymous No.9041740]

I'm no expert, but at first it will basically act like an encrypted high bandwidth VPN network. So it will bypass ISP limits for specific websites in the US, etc. Basically TOR on steroids.
And later you add 5G antennas to the skywire and together they create a mesh network and stop using ISPs altogether.
One of the most ambitious projects that actually makes sense.
Is it a scam? Probably not
Can they actually make it work? Too soon to tell.
I bought eth at 5$ and after 1.5 years this feels like the only project so far that has comparable potential.

[Anonymous No.9041741]

>>9041658
you can build your own

[Anonymous No.9041748]

>>9041658
They're making money? And which coindevs aren't? Are you one of those guys with a shrine to Sergey in your bedroom? The idea is that I can also make money off of that miner, and if I want i can go DIY and buy my own fucking pis.

[Anonymous No.9041765]

>>9041445
what the fuck does this thing even do.
1) skycoin is pre-mined, there are no more coins to mine, why do you need a sky'miner'
2) why does some box with a cpu make internet? still need an antennae or cables or something to transmit data
3) the box costs 1BTC. That's almost 9 thousand dollars. With that kind of money you could buy a gaming pc capable of running VR games from 2020 at 8k resolution 160 fps.

this is the herbalife of crypto, expensive useless vaporware being sold as a life-changing innovation

[Anonymous No.9041783]

>>9041631
Thanks just bought 100k

[Anonymous No.9041789]

>>9041729
Yes you can build DIY miner, I almost have all the components and there are official guides in the forums.
Why they did the 1 BTC a miner thing? Not sure, maybe create liquidity to skycoin market?

[Anonymous No.9041801]

>>9041765
It doesn't mine, it transmits data. You get paid for acting as a node of communication between other points. And you can build your own, the linux build for it is already released (as far as I can tell, haven't tested it yet)

[Anonymous No.9041831]

>>9041632
>After spending the better half of a decade
So.... 3 years.

[Anonymous No.9041853]

>>9041765
it doesn't mine anything it rewards you for being a node, you get a refund in sky or btc your choice, and they deduct the cost of the skyminer(600) you get the rest back

[Anonymous No.9041869]

>>9041765
aren't you tired of the same low quality fud? you get skycoin worth of 9400$, it only costs 600$. Is it wrong for the devs to ant people to stand by them instead of speculators? Is it that bad for pump and dumpers that they can't stand one legit project that won't let itself be manipulated? This was $0.01 2 years ago, it's $19.58 now, what more do you want?