Living on a Narrowboat
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I bought a fitbit Ionic in August 2020. It was £160 from Amazon.
My Fitbit Ionic has been recalled!
Just the other day, I was thinking about how long I’d had it and how crap the strap replacement I had to buy off Amazon was!
Imagine my delight when I read last night on Bloomberg evening newsletter that it was being recalled.
The fitbit Ionic cost me £158.90 from Amazon in 2020.
I’ve had two emails confirming that they’re going to refund an amount to my credit card!
They’ve also given me a discount code for buying up to 4 new ones.
There are some other freebies in there, such as accessory bands?
And expedited shipping….
They’ve given me a Unique Access Code:
It allows me to see the range of products available.
There it is. You don’t get something for nothing.
No doubt my wrist will have been replaced with a burnt stump when I get out of bed tomorrow morning. 😂😂😂
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/fitbit-recalls-ionic-smartwatches-burns-b2027426.html
If you want a new fitbit let me know.
Yep.
A bat.
Flying around the boat.
During the middle of the day.
Take a look.
Today, I purchased my first item, or thing…… with the old ‘Bitcoin’.
It cost me, 0.00011000 BTC, or £3.22!
Here’s a screenshot.
This purchase took roughly 3 minutes from start to finish.
I’ve got more to do today. I just thought I’d let you know.
Or thereabouts.
Actually Buckby Wharf.
That’s right my phone, pictured below. Left it on charge overnight. Shortly after I got up in the morning, whilst it was still on charge, the red light came on and started flashing and the picture of the battery sign came on the screen.
Checked the Google Support website. “The battery is fully discharged. Re-charge for at least 30 minutes then re-try”.
I knew this was not the case, because it had been on charge, and when I checked the cable, it was attached securely.
So…. The phone had just stopped working. Continue reading “Muscott -> Long Buckby and Google Pixel stops working”
Something to start the day about bitcoin mining.
One of the world’s largest bitcoin mines is located in the SanShangLiang industrial park on the outskirts of the city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region that’s part of China. It’s 400 miles from China’s capital, Beijing, and 35 miles from the the city of Baotou. The mine is just off the highway, near the intersection of Latitutde 3rd Road and Longitude 3rd Road. It sits amidst abandoned, half-built factories—victims of an earlier coal mining boom that fizzled out, leaving Ordos and its outlying areas littered with the shells of unfinished buildings.
The mine belongs to Bitmain, a Beijing-based company that also makes mining machines that perform billions of calculations per second to try and crack the cryptographic puzzle that yields new bitcoins. Fifty Bitmain staff, many of them local to Ordos, watch over eight buildings crammed with 25,000 machines that are cranking through calculations 24 hours a day. One of the buildings is devoted to mining litecoin, an ascendant cryptocurrency. The staff live on-site in a building with a dormitory, offices, a canteen, and a repair center. For recreation, they play basketball on an unfinished cement court.
Bitcoin mining consumes enormous amounts of electricity, which is why miners seek out locations that offer cheap energy. The Ordos mine was set up in 2014, making it China’s oldest large-scale bitcoin mining facility. Bitmain acquired it in 2015. It’s powered by electricity mostly from coal-fired power plants. Its daily electricity bill amounts to $39,000. Bitmain also operates other mines in China’s remote areas, like the mountainous Yunnan province in the south and the autonomous region of Xinjiang in the west.
Continue reading “How a bitcoin is made”
