Bitcoin Forum

Just wondering.  I had questions for the other folders at this forum.  When will I be able to post in them?

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15911.0

5 post requirement just encourages someone to spam here and there to get their 5 posts.

I'd really like to make a post on the deepbit thread asking why I haven't seen the bitcoins I tried to withdraw from my account there even after waiting 4 hours, instead, I am here. . . spamming.

Yeah, its really annoying, having to ask some important stuff and being forced to spam here for a while, even after reading the Forum peacefully for several days... Cant even show up how serious i'm into Bitcoin because I need to spam 50 posts just to put my deepbit Hashrate into my signature... ;)

It is irritating indeed. However, it does protect the rest of the board from illegitimate spam and trolls.

I'm pretty frustrated myself - it has been a week since I learned about Bitcoin, and I still don't have any. Tried one exchange - lots of communication at first, then I send the moneypak and no more responses (they didn't even cash it). Tried somewhere else - they need you to do an international wire or open a dwolla account. I come to this forum to post on the thread on the processor I tried to use, and I find out I can't even post due to a new rule. I'm a friggin computer programmer and I'm frustrated - I can't even imagine a non-geek would even be bothering anymore at this point. It will most certainly have to get easier to purchase these things if it is ever going to catch on big.

yeah it's not easy setting up a mining rig either. I'm an electrical computer engineer and I've spent many days setting my rig up.

It was quite frustrating when I wanted to answer a hardware question, but after staring at the screen for five minutes wondering where the reply button went, I quickly gave up.

There are many ways to prevent spam and trolls, and this is an effective way, maybe not the best, but it does make it difficult for newcomers to contribute. All I got to say now is: Na na na, I got out :P

P.S.: The 4 hours limit is kinda ridiculous. I'm not sure the policy makers know how long that can take to accumulate.

Just keep a tab signed in for a while, that's what I do, im up to 7 days logged in.

 8)

Is there really any point in joinin a "rig" if you ca just buy bitcoins from an exchange anyway?

I am waiting for my account being verified by Bitmarket.eu??...I have put my eBay username as a CV, hopefully that will get me in as I have over 4000 FB.

hm?

It's called a pool, but there's probably no point for the casual miner at this stage.
OK, you may get 1 BTC a day for free if you're lucky, probably more like 1 BTC a week very shortly because of the mining competition increase, but it probably makes more sense to buy 1000 bitcoins at $10 each and resell them when they reach $20/BTC.

That's assuming the exchange rate will increase, which is likely in the medium term, but now the American government is looking at the bitcoin system, so I would not keep bitcoins on the long term. I know, "they'll never be able to shut us down etc."

If you make enough money buying and selling bitcoins to pay for a mining machine, like a $3000 PC with 3 Radeon 6990 cards that mines at 2 gigahashes/second, or even a less ambitious system, then it's a different matter, because you basically got it for free and can resell it for real money if you need to. Just don't expect a mining machine bought now to pay for itself any time soon. Still, for the gamer, you get a great machine at reduced price.

i'm not qualified in any way to setup a rig, but i'm giving it a go with a asus supercomputer mobo, and 7 x 5770 single slot cards.. will see how it goes

7?!

You need to post 5 posts and total time logged in 4 hours.

(+1 post for me  ;D)

You do have to know your way around a computer and not mind doing a bunch of research.  At least we can try to captialize on our tech abilities for a while.. it it was totally obvious there would be no profit in it at all.

You do know that there is no motherboard that can fit 7 PCI-E x16 cards, right?
Or that most decent 5770 are double slots?
Or no PSU powerful enough or probably no circuit breaker and outlet in your house powerful enough to feed that monster?

You can put GPU's into x1 slots. and you can use more than 1 PSU per motherboard.

I've seen a bunch of picts where people have ribbon cables extending their even the x1 ports for more video cards.  And I have heard of people using multiple power supplies.  I heard there was a limit of 4 cards for Windows machines (but I don't know for sure).  A lot of people seem to be running without a case so you can just have all the cards sitting on a shelf with a fan blowing on them.

I agree, it seems like a good effort to curb the trolling and get truly interested parties to participate in an effective manor. A few days ago there were several users who were bashing the owner of a web page selling - ahem... "less than healthy porn" and that crap went on forever. While I agreed with the points made by some of the people sticking to their ethics/morals, it did distract from the actual topic at hand and the constructive information relating to a big hub in the bitcoin accepting retailers. The admin deleted those troll posts eventually. My point with this is that while this is a measure admin has taken not all will agree with, I COMPLETELY see why they are doing this.

Sorry to break in but where is the Code i can use for forum? I mean that " i´m mining at deepbit with 380mhs"

I just can find it no more i am searching two days now :(

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It should be on their site.

Where you do your mining from.

I can not find it anymore there at deepbit :(

If you are only going to use bitcoin short term then yes, makes more sense to just buy. If you want to use bitcoin long term, long enough for earned bitcoin to pay for your rig, power, etc, then mining in a pool is worth it.

I'm sure you could just ask...I mean, if you've got a valid reason to be in the forums faster than the rules allow, you should discuss with a moderator. I get by all sorts of rules in day to day life by appealing to reason...you just need a good reason.

DrGoss
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About four hours and five posts. And the only reason I'm even saying that is so I only have two posts left to make.

Anybody knows where i can find that forum code at deepbit?

That line that says "I am mining at deepbit at 380MHas/s"

Looking for i 3 days now..I had that code before but cant find it anymore...

Thanks!

My 'time logged in' seems to stop counting while I'm reading posts, so I have to force myself to keep switching pages while I'm on here.  :P

You shouldn't feel bad for being stuck here. This is one of the few sections of the forum where people actually talk about bitcoins. Out there is just madness...  :P

I think the 4-hour wait is fine but the requirement for posts encourage people to spam - like other members said here.

5 posts and a 4 hour wait is not effective...

Nice antispam move :(

I wonder how many I have?

Mods and Admins should be protecting the rest of the board. This is just lazy administration. It doesn't effectively stop spammers because its very easy to circumvent the 4 hour/5 post limit.

I disagree, it takes no effort to write a script or leave a tab open.

I'd rather let the wisdom of the crowd decide, and have running votes with ban thresholds for suspected spam and trolls.

Or maybe a one-time registration fee...

Very true, it would be very easy to write a Javascript script to do precisely this.

Pictures?

Thanks. This was what I want to know :D
I want to make thread of my bitcoin software.

So one should come here before he/she has problem on bitcoin.