I already acknowledged that there may have been discrepancies in what was owed whom or for what reason. But I seriously question an authoritarian moderator. IMO a moderator should not take sides so blatantly.

I almost always fight for the underdog so...

I don't think a moderator should advocate the seizure of GimEEE's bitcoins he was owed as was done in the Eligius pool thread. There may have been more to the story and who knows who was right, but frankly how do you trust a forum when the moderator recommends taking the bitcoins owed for either the pool or himself and continually calls you a troll...

;o) Muahahahahaha

Sorry I really have no clue how etsy verifies sellers. A co-worker has/does sell on there so I can ask him tomorrow. You're right though the trust would be entirely on the buyer who sends his btc and assumes their product is on the way. Frankly I'm not sure how to answer that. There is a fine line between accurately identifying sellers and being so invasive no one wants to sell on your site. At the beginning I would imagine it starts with trust and seller reputation, like ebay does. If you have 0 rep it may be awhile before anyone buys from you, but once you get above 10-20 reputable transactions buyers become more comfortable and trusting.

I was going to say something about the site escrowing the first 10 or so transactions from a seller until each individual transactions buyer confirmed it, but that makes the buyer position too strong for possible fraud.

You could ask the seller to make a small deposit to back their sales, but that again may lock out small sellers and scare others away.

I think it has to be simply about trust and reputation. You are untrustworthy, no one buys from you. Simple.

There would be no such thing as a deadbeat buyer as they'd need to transfer bitcoin. Though how you deal with dead beat sellers is another nut to crack.

Is anyone aware of a "market" type website that allows sellers to list their wares and the site automatically converts the USD value of the product to the current 24HR bitcoin value and provides the checkout system with bitcoin payouts? I've got a relative that sells scentsy products  http://scentsy.net/ that I think could do quite well in the bitcoin marketplace. I've done some programming, but I know my limits and writing something "secure" for all involved is something I would most likely not excel at.

I'm not even sure if scentsy allows that type of sale, but regardless of the product being sold I think it would/could be very profitable for the right person who can write it and takes a small percentage off the top.

Really I'm assuming someone has already written one and I just haven't found it yet. Anyone? ;o)

Thank you.

If it was my pool I'd announce a minimum .5 or 1% fee... You are big enough now that you may lose a few people but slush is 2%, deep 3%, and no one else comes close to the size. Losing a few of the people who never contribute when you keep taking on additional costs is better than sooner or later going to make you quitting the site if you don't make a few bucks bitcoins off it. Everyone who doesn't contribute can hate me and call me a troll all you want, but for all the economics posts on this forum people sure hate to hear they have to pay a measly 1% fee for all the work you do. Just my humble opinion.



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I really didn't proofread this as well as I normally would. Strikeouts throughout.

My question was how are they defining "Strong" passwords? Are they actually trying to crack the resultant hash in x number of sec/min or are they simply viewing it plaintext to see if it meets their requirements? I'd hate to think it's the latter... and don't call me a troll I'm just curious.

My new pwd at their site is 25+ characters and all manner of bullshit symbols...

lol I had to run downstairs and double check my machines after I posted ;o)

In the last 2 hours or so I've gotten 11 miner is idle and I think it was 6 prob comm with rpc etc.. I've personally had MUCH worse with other pools.

Not trying to convince anyone of anything, just for me 11 is a lot less than I've previously had, but unlike the previous poster I'm not seeing my gpu cycle excessively or my temps drop noticeably. To each his/her own ;o)

For you all having connection problems, and Really I imagine most of you have done this, but when more pools servers came online I did like 20 pings or so to each server. For me a certain server was dropping every 4th packet, so I obviously didn't use it. I then picked the server with the lowest latency ~60-90 was my lowest. I'm now getting very few stales. One of my miners has crept up a little more than I'd like, but I've also been playing with longer askrates.

Have you guys tried doing the same?

Sorry I don't own any 6990's so I'm not entirely sure. Maybe the 6990 does an internal crossfire to utilize both gpu's? But that's just pulling an answer outta my rear ;o)

I thought windows opencl drivers limited gpu processing to 4. Try taking out the 6950. All good now? Probably have to try linux if that is the case.





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Ha too funny. I saw my balance was above a bitcoin so I cashed out. Seeing as this is the only pool I like and I've tried eligius, deep, slush, btcmine, etc.... I think I'll wait for it to go positive ;o)

btw Eleuthria did you get the pm about the payout button "issue"? Not sure if that's causing you unnecessary fees or not?

BTCGuild found 5 blocks in 10 minutes or so. No random SHA256 crack unless they were stupid enough to share the wealth and ingenious enough to crack it... lol @ conspiracy theorists

I found that you don't need to actually restart the Afterburner.
Make your change on your first card.
Click settings and choose your second card.
Make your changes, settings again and choose your first card.
The change in cards is sufficient to allow you to drop mem clock lower. At least on my system anyways it is.

Saves a lot of time ;o)

lol I think both sides attacking are wrong. I haven't seen sufficient evidence that says either side is right. Just a bunch of conjecture and speculation... ;o)

For a bunch of smart people everyone here really jumps to conclusions based on what? 6 lines mtgox could have typed? As far as I am concerned until someone actually produces legitimate evidence, all toasty is guilty of is being in the right place at the right time....

If you look on the block statistics page BTCGuilds luck is -14% atm. So if you take your past 24 HR collected is it 14% less, roughly, than you think you should be getting? Your miners could be taking a little longer than average also and you could be getting a higher pct of stale shares.

Those are my thoughts. Maybe someone with more experience can chime in also.

What I'm wondering is exactly what kind of person has that much btc in their mtgox account. Was it a wealthy day trader, or one of these nefarious individuals rumor says are using bitcoins. If it was the criminal type that hacker may not get to spend much...

Yes I realize this is rather Hollywood-istic but maybe.... ;o)

I nor anyone else would want the pool to incur those fees. Wouldn't it work to have minimum payout be .01 BTC after say 3 days inactivity and if the balance due is < .25 then the receiver pays the transaction fee out of their BTC due balance?



Seeing as the 5% fees are directly tied to your efficiency algorithms doesn't it make sense to disclose what those fees are based upon?

I realize you have a right to make some bitcoins off of your time and hardware. I am not disputing that. I'm just trying to understand when and how those 5% instances are determined.

And one more.

Why limit payouts after a week of inactivity to .10 min.

If I quit your service and have only given .09 btc of service I've inadvertently gifted you 1.50+(more ATM) ....... WTF?

and I'm really not WTF'ing but if I was in that position, I'd be WTF'ing and more.......

EDIT:
changed .10 max to .10 min

I may have missed this, I apologize in advance if I did.

How are you computing the efficiency of improvement?