PoS Pool for lesser known Altcoins

I recently found this Proof of Stake pool through a coworker.

I didn't realize that people had these pools setup but everyone should check it out.

I was holding onto BitB at Bittrex and not getting the full benefit of a PoS coin until now, hopefully others can follow in my footsteps.

If you're interested check out my referral
https://simplepospool.com/?ref=zkdzegede

I was able to get coins into the pool using https://wallet.crypto-bridge.org which I believe is the affiliated exchange for this pool.

My new crypto mining rig

Recently got into the mining game and built a two PC rig to test things out.
It was my first time building a PC so it was a fun experiment, although kinda expensive :(


5 AMD

5 Nvidia

OS: ethoOS

Mining XMR, ETH, BTG, MONA, and anything else I can get my hands on :-D

Cointracking.info & bitcoin.tax

So I've been looking into how to file my capital gains for bitcoin in Japan.


Thankfully the Japanese tax authority provided a detailed report on how to handle your taxes, including trading, losses, margin trading, mining, spending, and gifts.

https://www.nta.go.jp/shiraberu/zeiho-kaishaku/joho-zeikaishaku/shotoku/shinkoku/171127/01.pdf

For some reason the recommended calculation is not FIFO but Moving Average Cost basis or Total Average Cost basis.

I'm hoping to go with the Moving Average Cost basis, but depending on which service I use that may be limited.

Bitcoin.tax handles average calculations well, but the problem I have with them is that everything is in dollars.  That wouldn't be a problem except every time I do a BTC/JPY trade it becomes a BTC/JPY/USD trade, causing me to rack up fake capital gains for the JPY/USD on every BTC <-> JPY trade group.

This adds up over +1000 trades and make it look like I have >$1000 gains than I really have.  So until they fix that I'm kinda stuck.

As for cointracking.info they don't provide Average Cost Basis but I don't think the Japanese authorities will mind if I use FIFO (it usually results in more taxes with upwards trends anyway).

The issue is that cointracking is so expensive with the current BTC!  It's 0.28 btc for the unlimited plan, which is around $5000 now!  The other yearly plans are cheaper but I'm in this for the long run son!

So in order to offset my cost I'm hoping other people will join in and try cointracking with me.
I've included my referral link below, this will let YOU get 10% off your purchase, and I get some bitcoin back.  win-win.

https://cointracking.info?ref=Z527929

Hopefully there are other people here looking to do their taxes properly.

Good luck out there!

ASUS B250 Mining Expert 導入 19 GPU!

秋葉原のパソコン工房でAsus Miningボード買ってきました！

今日から発売されてて、いる時に他の二人が買ってました、人気ですね！

今までBiostar TB250使ってたけど、これからGPUを増やして見る〜

残り15 GPUも買えるかな。。。。

楽しみだね〜

いろいろ繋がって動かしたらまたポストします〜

ethoOSを使うつもり、とりあえず今持ってる3x RX570 + 1x RX 470動かしてみます。

2017 Tsukuba ST600 Race 1 Report

 #26 Zech Dzegede選手

Team AFG MOTO

Photo by Shigeru Mukai

Race result

Qualifiers 

8th
1:02.50

Race 

8th

1:02.51

Sponsors/support:

AFG Motosports (Icon Motosports)

Chara-Rimpa 
Panolin-Japan
Oda Kaihatsu
Rapidbike Japan (JAM)
BabyFace
DID

Practice

I had been struggling with bringing back my confidence and with getting back into the groove of racing for the past few months.  I was still 2 seconds off my best time and couldn't wrap my head around what I was doing wrong.

Then while speaking to my mentor, he said something that made it all click together, and I remembered what I needed to do.

Sometimes I have the habit of overthinking things, and I need to understand the mechanism behind a motion to perform the motion.  It happened a lot in break dancing, it's just a lot harder to figure it out and slow things down at 200kph.

During practice I was able to get back into the swing of things and match up to my old best time.

Qualifiers

Qualifiers went well, considering I only returned to my 2016 prime less than 24 hours prior.  I got all decked out with my new fairing design and new hand painted helmet and put out a 1:02.50, 0.02 slower than my best ever time, so not too bad.

Just a few weeks ago I added the Jam (RapidBike Japan), BabyFace, and Icon arm patches to my suit.

Placed 8th out of 11 in qualifiers, but was really hoping to get 1:01.  Hopefully I can get it in the race!

Race

I will be having continued support for 2017 from AFG Motosports (Icon) and from Panolin Japan, so I upgraded my tent space from last year's set up to showcase those brands.  

My new fairing design is a vinyl wrapping, and during qualifiers a couple air bubbles got into the wrapping, so we had to pop a few right before the race 👀

The race started off very well for the first 100m~! I usually have good starts so I felt like I couple make a good run a gain a few places.

But then the bike to my left, as I was going to overtake, backfired and veered into my path.  At the same time the bike to my right squeezed in and I had no where to go, forcing me to let off the throttle a little.

By the end of the fist lap I was already back to 8th place, where I started but keeping a healthy distance between the two guys in front of me.

About halfway through the race, the guy in front of my runs wide and I make it up to 7th place!

I made it onto the board!

I was able to hold off the position for most of the remainder of the race, however I got passed back and sent back to 8th place.

This race was the best back-to-back 18 laps I've ever put out.

I was able to hit very close to my best time consistently and didn't feel like I was at the limit.

I'm looking forward to the next Tsukuba race in June where I can hopefully make it to the podium.

Photo by Shigeru Mukai

2016 Season End

I had been meaning to update my blog about what happened towards the end of the 2016 season but I haven't been able to get around to it until now.

Towards the end of the 2016 season I had two races consecutive races with a DNF result.

During the TT in June I overqualified with a time of 1:02.48 and disqualified myself from an official win.  However in the heat of the race I had an incident with another rider and could not finish.

Then during the ST600 Race 3, on the second turn of the first lap, a rider jackknifed his bike very close to me causing myself and another rider to go off course where we crashed.

I then soon after fixing the bike high-sided on the fastest corner at Tsukuba and this set me on a bad path of under confidence.

I finished the season with the ST600 Race 4 where I didn't perform as well as the previous races.

Now its 2017 and the new season has started, and soon I'll be posting about this new things to come!

Gotta keep moving forward, learn from my mistakes and move on :)

2016 Panolin Oil Support!

I'm happy to announce I recently got official #panolin support! 今日はうれしいお知らせを伝えることができます。 私たちはPanolinの公式サポートを受けることになりました！ I've been using panolin oil for the past 2 years thanks to the support of @afgmoto , and with their continued support I've been blessed with a connection to panolin. 2年間Panolinオイルを使っており、サポートしていただいている@aftmotoに感謝しています。 この度、@afgmotoから Panolinを紹介していただき直接的なサポートを受けることになりました。 I've used the motosynth and biorace on multiple bikes and have had great results with riding feeling and engine wear. MotosynthやBioraceといった製品を複数のバイクで使用して、 エンジンの摩耗の少なさやフィーリングの良さを実感しています。

A photo posted by Zech Dzegede (@zechdz) on Jun 13, 2016 at 8:34pm PDT