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Hello  :)
Just thought it would be fun to see if you guys are going to shut down your miners and computers during Earth hour 2012. For you guys that don't know what it is you can read more about it here http://www.earthhour.org/. Between 8:30 PM and 9:30 pm on Saturday (31st), you are suppose to shut down all electrical devices.

//DeaDTerra

It would take more then 1 hour to restart my miners, so no. :-\

Yea I think that most of the big miners have to many miners to be able to shut them down for only a hour, as it would take to long to restart them. I only got one miner so I was planing to shut it down for the event, it wont take that long to start it again after earth hour :)
Would be fun though to see if the overall hash rate of the bitcoin network is effected or not :P
//DeaDTerra

I suggest you read about it here:
http://thedailybell.com/3747/Every-Day-a-New-Elitist-Fairy-Tale-Now-Earth-Hour (http://thedailybell.com/3747/Every-Day-a-New-Elitist-Fairy-Tale-Now-Earth-Hour)

I will mine with more gusto

I thought about this yesterday. I'm not a miner, but would love to view the effects, via some chart once the data is extracted, on this thread.

~Bruno~

I guess we could check this graph http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ and see if there's any downward spikes under the earth hour :)
nvm, I think the graphs are not zoomed in enough to show us the hour by hour network speed. I will try to look for a better graph
//DeaDTerra

Article booring but one interesting point from the comments after the above article:


This is true and gets worse the more "successful" the event is.  Although if operators know the consumption is going down and then up again they can plan for it to a certian degree.

I don't actually think the operators take down reactors and such just because of a planned down spike of demand. They should know about the event and that the electricity usage will go back up after the hour.
//DeaDTerra

That is exactly the point.  They cannot really reduce production for just one hour so they maintian production.  Thus all the energy "saved" is really just energy wasted.

Yea thats true :P

So, go all in, make a Miner's Day Off where everyone kills their miners for an entire 24 Hours at 0 Hundred UTC, and see what happens then?

This is a great idea!  I really hope that you can get all the other miners to do this. 

I will raise my clock rates, first up additional AC and fire up all my spare cards at full capacity that day and reap the rewards  ;D

Then I would mine even with my notebook's cpu and possibly my phone and my mind!

There would be no rewards for you man, but it would really suck for people trying to do business in Bitcoin that wouldn't get any confirms on their transactions.

This is like UN Resolutions. It won't work and for the same reasons.

e.g.

 UN Resolution § 42.01.10 BTC Mining Carbon Footprint Reduction

 All miners shut down for the day.


Really says: Lets have people shut down so we can make more money and have an advantage.

Now this is usually done indirectly through ideology. Or sheep being sheep being guided without knowing they are being guided.

Not that I am against the philosophy, but 9 Billion people will not get fed by solar power.

However, rather than give some an advantage by telling people to shut down for a while, why not give a Bounty for a solar powered rig that reaches say: 1 GH/s.

I will put 1 BTC towards that bounty if someone wishes to start it. 

See it is a market driven subsidy from the whole and isn't forced through taxes.