Reading around it seems like they are probably a bad investment. The difficulty is going up too quickly and its unlikely you'll get your money back, seems to be the consensus. Anybody have a counterpoint point of view?

So, when it's running properly the green LED is off except for when sending a burst of data.

Okay, with the B.E. tucked into the air conditioner outlet and the RPi on top of the AC and the net a nearby switch for my WDTV, it's running:



 cgminer version 3.3.1 - Started: [1969-12-31 19:00:26]
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 (5s):133.4M (avg):138.3Mh/s | DA:4  DR:0  HW:0  WU:2.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 1  LW: 14  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to xxxxxxxxxxxxx diff 1 with stratum as user xxxxxxxxx
 Block: 00966e42400b20a1...  Diff:26.2M  Started: [19:00:26]  Best share: 10
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 [P]ool management .S.ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 AMU 0:                | 300.9M/279.5Mh/s | DA:4 DR:0 HW:0 WU:4.03/m
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 [1969-12-31 19:00:25] Loaded configuration file /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf
 [1969-12-31 19:00:25] Loaded configuration file /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf
 [1969-12-31 19:00:25] No devices detected!
 [1969-12-31 19:00:25] Waiting for USB hotplug devices or press q to quit
 [1969-12-31 19:00:25] Probing for an alive pool
 [1969-12-31 19:00:26] Switching to pool 2 xxxxxxxxxxx- firs
t alive pool
 [1969-12-31 19:00:26] Pool 1 http://xxxxxxxxxxxxx:3333 alive
 [1969-12-31 19:00:26] Switching to pool 1 http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:3333
 [1969-12-31 19:00:26] Pool 0 http://api-stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 alive
 [1969-12-31 19:00:26] Switching to pool 0 http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx3333
 [1969-12-31 19:00:26] Network diff set to 26.2M
 [1969-12-31 19:00:31] API running in IP access mode on port 4028 (12)
 [1969-12-31 19:02:08] Accepted 1895e4cb Diff 10/1 AMU 0 pool 0
 [1969-12-31 19:02:15] Accepted 195fa067 Diff 10/1 AMU 0 pool 0
 [1969-12-31 19:02:15] Accepted fe3f5bb0 Diff 1/1 AMU 0 pool 0
 [1969-12-31 19:02:16] Accepted 1b280425 Diff 9/1 AMU 0 pool 0

I was wondering what will happen to all the ASICs in 18-24 months when they are no longer profitable. Can they be used to mine other sha-256 cryptocoins, or are they absolutely specific to Bitcoin? Could the firmware be updated usefully?

I hope and pray that the 4 Th/s never comes back ever again. It vanished after causing the difficulty to skyrocket. I am sure the pool luck will improve in the hours to come.

Could be a problem with the pool - from my experience tho' slush is usually on things like a rash.

We do seem to have bad luck after a big diff increase - people panick and switch pools for a few days while the hard core carry on. Then things get back to normal for another 8 or 9 days. Then it starts again with another diff increase.

So OZcoin pays the transaction fee to get it quicker? Quicker is nice but that doesnt seem to be a good reason to pay 1% vs 0%. I also noticed maxbtc does not support ASIC. Am i wrong to assume eclipse is the best pool?

Is there an advantage over USB? Surely bandwidth is not a problem?

I want a PCIe ASIC miner. Some thing in the $400 to $800 range.



 

Have more details? Did not see anything on my runthrough of the site.

we talking block erupters or BFL stuff?

I was also going to suggest this.

Some researchers at some economics department have probably sent out multiple transactions like this and are mapping where the money is going.

Perhaps they choose the 'random' addresses in the list to be change addresses on purpose (easy enough to find).