The only people who even knew about the damn conference already posted on the forum. It was a noble "first effort", but no one outside of the tech community was even vaguely aware it was going on. It didn't even get coverage on Anandtech, or HardOCP, or any of the other "computer" sites, which would have at least made some logical sense. The way they played it up, I was expecting some week long CNN coverage with balloons and dancing girls, ala The Stark Expo.  |
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thanks for the info!
i'll check back periodically for this.
Hypothetically, you could set up a SOCKS proxy server at your house, on port 80, and use Proxifier or FreeCap to forward all the traffic to. I do something semi similar; I have a local server running a SOCKS server on the public DSL (rest of the network is corporate), and use Proxifier on the machines running poclbm to direct that application traffic there. Works quite well. |
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I really don't get it why people are complaining and argumenting about different payout systems? Are you ALL hoppers?! WTF!  The reason why I joined ARS 4 weeks ago and never looked back was that the pool wasn't down, not even once. At BitLC, Elegius, Deepbit and Guild the pools were regularly and annoyingly often and shockingly long DOWN. At ARS - not once.  Another reason is the helpful community. That's why I love ARS and will stay there. You Hoppers go where ever you wish, and please take that 50% hashing power with you, it stinks anyway and messes up my rank in the stats!  Don't forget though, a lot of the other pools were down because they were targets of DDOSes; ARS isn't immune I'm sure, we just haven't been DDOSed yet. When I was in deepbit, it was a daily occurrence; "oh, lol, we're being DDOSed again, kekekekeke". I think it's mostly luck that we haven't been DDOSed, and not so much a design difference in the Amazon server BurningToad has us on. |
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I'm curious how many people here actually prefer PPLNS over SMPPS. Personally, I jumped on to ars because of SMPPS.
If BurningToad can get the "simulated" PPLNS payout active, that would help a lot of people, myself included, understand how it'd compare. Frankly, I don't care HOW the math is done, if it's just some sort of magical machine picking numbers out of the air, as long as I get payment on a regular basis, and can understand why or why I'm not getting paid. That's it. There's a whole lot of minutiae I simply don't give a damn about. |
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The whole process of mining reminds me amazingly of Warhammer. I just keep screaming "Blood for the Blood God" as I watch the stats change.
There is something insanely wrong with me.
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I think we found a block, and then it failed to update the Time Since Last Block.
I've been glancing at it this morning, and I believe that's what might of happened.
Hey, Sorry, my code that tries to fix block numbers to be correct (could be off a bit before) was causing problems. I've fixed it for now. Not a problem. I've just been trying to wrap my head around how this all works in practice, and figured that's what occurred. |
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I think we found a block, and then it failed to update the Time Since Last Block.
I've been glancing at it this morning, and I believe that's what might of happened.
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Yeah. Quicker blocks = good.
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True, and it's something every pool will go through. This is the first PPS pool I've been in, and the constant stream due to the huge buffer we had in place was pretty sexy.
If I were you, I'd implement the "pseudo" PPLNS, to show what we'd be making if we were on it. It'd give us a nice comparison.
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Yee haw, guessing I can finally post here now.
From my point of view: Once we dip into the negative balance, people will drop like flies. It's just normal. I moved to ARS because, at the time, deepbit was getting DDOSed insanely hard, and seeing my boxes just sit there doing nothing is a terrible, terrible thing.
Looks like we will probably hit negative sometime today, eh? Looking at ~60 or so BTC balance right now.
Do you have any time frame for the change over to PPLNS? Or at least a timeframe for getting the pseudo-code written, so we can see what we'd be getting if we were on it?
I like the ARS pool since the owner is obviously intelligent and responsive, but it's a house of cards; once the payouts stop or slow, people running larger farms are going to bail.
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While I don't really doubt you're a "legal company operating out of Atlanta", we really have no idea what you're even attempting to do. What exactly are "unused products?" I mean, are you selling condoms, or are you selling oven mitts? Or are you selling everything? Are you going to be selling off the shelf products, for bitcoins, or are you knitting sweaters and selling them for bitcoins?
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I'm sorry but if you can't print a logo on a pen-size gadget and keep it readable, it's not a good logo IMHO.
Very true. It has to be usable in any number of sizes. Exactly what i said in the first reply...  In our defense, it *IS* the newbie forum, so we have to post here, and extra posts can't hurt  |
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I'm sorry but if you can't print a logo on a pen-size gadget and keep it readable, it's not a good logo IMHO.
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Hello,
My name is Rob. I own a music school. Someone was interested in finding out if I would start accepting bitcoin as payment. I said that I would be willing. But I am having serious second thoughts. So I thought that I would come here and try to figure this out. I am completely new to bitcoin and there doesn't seem to be anything out there to guide a merchant through a step by step process of being able to deal in bitcoins. I am not a computer engineer which doesn't mean that I'm not intelligent. But I am not interested in all of the technical stuff that I find on the net I just want to know how to use this stuff in a practical way. I don't need to know how money is printed to accept it. But what I have found about this system so far seems to exclude people who are not seriously into computers. If a currency system like this is to grow there needs to be a way for merchants like me to be able to learn to use it in a practical manner.
Interesting. Never really saw any posts from a merchant's perspective. Frankly, the only thing I can tell you? You get paid in BTC, then you'd sell the BTC on an open market, ie, Mt Gox, and then you have actual money. Now, in theory, you could use the BTC to buy something from another BTC-accepting business, but that's a little... awkward, at times, given the few merchants actually accepting it. It's a chicken and the egg thing. There's an entire sub forum based on the "economics" of it all, but that seems primarily focused on the "lol let's make a profit day trading" kind of thing. |
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Even if you had enough solo hashing power to find it, I can't imagine the huge delay between "starting" and "Eureka!"
Sure, you might lose some with the pool, but you can actually see incremental flow of BTC, which is always fun.
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The "locks" around the edge (at least, I think that's what they are?) would never show up clearly if the image gets much smaller. The coloring is pretty, but a bit.. "much". The "current" logo:  Is simple, it's not confusing (the "dollar sign" marks in the B itself lend itself to be viewed as a monetary unit), and... well, it works. |
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I tried it originally, back when I got into Bitcoin. I just had a difficult time seeing how it was even close to being worth it for a "normal" person; the amount of CPUs you'd have to throw at the damn thing to get any negligible amount of BTC out of it seemed insane, ignoring the "withdraw" fee completely. You'd be doing it forever and ever and ever to get anything out of it.
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Personally, I wouldn't worry about the temperature that much. 80-85-90-95 just doesn't bother me that much.
I'm personally running a mix of 5830s and 5850s, and they're all running at 85+ degrees, all overvolted. The cards are 'designed' to work that hot; it looks terrifying, but I haven't had any issues thus far.
FWIW, my 5850s, over volted, are running at anywhere from 775mhz to 850mhz; it's a crap shoot. Some will go farther, some simply won't. I'm striving for 100% stability though, obviously.
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Trying to sell Bitcoins on Ebay just seems awkward as all sin, given the other available options.
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Given the nature of forums in general, can't say I'm really shocked that this is in place. Makes sense. Annoying? Sure. But makes sense.
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