These might get you some coins, but...

What's the maximum resolution on your monitor? If it is 1920x1080, the 6670 should still be great for running many games, but anything bigger and the 7970 is the stronger choice.

The 7970 is going to offer you a higher hash rate which is better for mining, but if you are just now getting into mining with a GPU make sure that you have an alternate use for it. If you just want some bitcoins, you might as well just buy them from BitInstant or mercaBit.eu because return on investment from mining is a long term proposition. Mining isn't a bad investment if you are counting on the value of bitcoin to continue increasing, but throwing everything you have into it is a risky proposition.

I don't have a horse in the ASIC war. Avalon who's been mostly silent is apparently shipping, bASIC who was apparently some paradigm of virtue is passed out in a ditch, and Butterfly does have an awesome looking Box of Fans. I hope for the sake of this current upward trend in the BTC/USD rate that BFL ships something eventually and doesn't crush everyone's confidence like Pirate and Nefario did.

I might try that this time. Six confirmations isn't really that bad of a wait, but I guess I do have the time.

Awesome.

It'll be my third purchase from you in as many weeks, and each week it gets better and better.

Any idea when you'll get some $100's back in stock? I'm hoping to get some beer money for this weekend.

Fans. It's fans all of the way down.

BoxofFanLabs (at least for now)

Offered price rescinded due to volatility and continued appreciation of bitcoin's value.

Hence the need for a matching receipt.

Eh, throw in a bit for the MoneyPak fee. It's less of a premium than BtcPak. It's not a great value paying the fee for so little, but if he has a receipt showing cash it is more than most MoneyPak traders offer. I'll probably revise the offer if BTC swings up some more while I'm sleeping, and rescind it if I'm not comfortable with the evidence my Greendot isn't going to get closed/frozen. Getting the small MoneyPak this week though would give me more BitCoins for betting on the SuperBowl (The Ravens have a killer defense with Ray Lewis).

I've offered to buy MoneyPak in the Newbie thread before, but I haven't been comfortable with any offers yet. I figure this transaction won't make it to the purchase stage either, but I'll entertain an offer.

Honestly the OP is probably better off sending a MoneyGram to BitInstant if they are serious about getting some coins, because it is about my bedtime and my offer probably won't be as generous in the morning. I've got coin on breaking $18.35 this week. http://bitbet.us/bet/152/btc-usd-at-mtgox-will-stay-below-18-35-and/

I'll take those 50NMC off of your hands for 500 DVC.

I don't think BTC100 is enough to start a panic considering BTC12,000 dumps don't really phase MtGox anymore.

It could probably work with Bitcoin as long as the machine is online to resolve the results of play at the end of the session (as long as it wants to output the results of play as a single transaction), using the Satoshi Dice method of using the player's input transactions to construct the output where any coins won would depend on the player's coins not being double spent. (note: there's probably better ways to do this)

With the pervasiveness of wireless data connectivity and the assumption a cryptocoin operated gaming or vending machine would be permanent enough to maybe merit a wired connection, there are probably a sufficient number of ways to allow for relatively safe zero-confirmation transactions. Making sure payments include a fee, broadcasting outbound transactions only while peering with well connected vendor controlled nodes, selling Coca-Cola and not Cristal, etc.

Well, for the newer Virtex-6 and Virtex-7 chips Xilinx had to release a new tool set, because the number of gates made their existing programming tools intolerably slow and impractical. With the 28nm process used on the latest Virtex-7's there's even a decent chance that they would be capable of competing with the ASICs that are (Avalon) and might be (BFL and post buy out bASIC) shipping.

The catch is though that for these chips we are talking about a $6,000 to $10,000 per chip cost, so there probably aren't too many of these just laying around waiting for people to check them out from work, appropriate them from a university lab, or filtering down into hobbyist hands for quite some time. There's also the matter of how much of a pain in the ass it would be to program these for mining seeing how long it took for simpler FPGAs to get configured for this purpose on any substantial scale.

It would be awesome if someone could so this as a proof of concept though, maybe someday SHA-2 hashing will be a benchmark FPGA manufacturers use to express the relative performance of their products. If this were the case in 2011-2012 the mining landscape would probably be very different, because someone might have seen a business case to run with high end FPGAs over GPUs and even low end FPGAs.

We are probably talking in that range, but damn the price of those chips.

Well, he seems to be a financial terrorist.

Generally you want to think about confirmations as protection against getting pain in a double spend or having your transaction contained in a blockchain fork that loses and gets pruned then forgotten. It's all about the number of confirmations.

That being said generally a confirmation on the bitcoin blockchain can be considered stronger than one on the alternate chains, because the network is stronger. What that doesn't mean is that you can come up with some equivalence where X LTC confirmations is equivalent to Y Bitcoin confirmations, because there is no reasonable way to compare multiples of confirmations between the different altchains.

Time doesn't play into it that much.

It's a safe bet that any marketing offer to install an app in return for bitcoin, bonus points, or any other internet money is going to compromise your computer and open it up to all kinds of badware. A few months ago I fired up Windows XP in a virtual machine to see what kind of diseases the downloads offered on the freedigitalmoney.com site were carrying and it wasn't pretty, none of the downloads I tried actually installed the software they promised. It was adware and trojans all of the way down. Not once did I get the chance to play Aaron Rogers Football or Frets on Fire. I'm pretty sure neither of those games actually exists now.

I'm not an expert, but I've been following the development of these multisignature escrow systems like the big C offered you and this looks pretty tight, to my knowledge it would be ok to post the generated address. That's probably the only way to test what might be the most interesting bet here, that the escrow system works and no fourth party yoinks the coins.

I like how this is two wagers in one. The first between you two on the ASICs and the second on perhaps more interesting bet on the escrow solution.