They really need to start adding hashing speeds to the Specs section 

Let me explain. We are strong when we united. Altcoins separate us. I propose attacks on altcoins not coz I'm a bad guy. If I were the state I would launch a lot of altcoins and promote them.

And now imagine that EVERYONE has an ASIC. How much coins will u get? I'm not sure it will be enough to cover the electricity.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/ridiculous-startup-ideas_n_3071538.html?ir=Technology#slide=2330831

Similarities?

Google
We are building the world's 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as commoditized money-losers. We'll strip out all of the ad-supported news and portal features so you won't be distracted from using the free search stuff.

Amazon
We'll sell books online, even though users are still scared to use credit cards on the web. Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. They'll do it for the convenience, even though they have to wait a week for the book

Facebook
The world needs yet another Myspace or Friendster, except several years late. We'll only open it up to a few thousand overworked, anti-social Ivy Leaguers. Everyone else will then join since Harvard students are so cool.

Twitter
It is like email, SMS or RSS. Except it does a lot less. It will be used mostly by geeks at first, followed by Britney Spears and Charlie Sheen.

Instagram
Filters! That's right, we got filters!

PayPal
People will use their insecure AOL and Yahoo email addresses to pay each other real money, backed by a non-bank with a cute name run by 20-somethings.

LinkedIn
How about a professional social network, aimed at busy 30- and 40-somethings. They will use it once every 5 years when they go job searching.

Mint
Give us all of your bank, brokerage, and credit card information. We'll give it back to you with nice fonts. To make you feel richer, we'll make them green.

Dropbox
We are going to build a file sharing and syncing solution when the market has a dozen of them that no one uses, supported by big companies like Microsoft. It will only do one thing well, and you'll have to move all of your content to use it.

iOS
A brand new operating system that doesn't run a single one of the millions of applications that have been developed for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux. Only Apple can build apps for it. It won't have cut and paste.

GitHub
Software engineers will pay monthly fees for the rest of their lives in order to create free software out of other free software!

Firefox
We are going to build a better web browser, even though 90 percent of the world's computers already have a free one built in. One guy will do most of the work.

Everyone who thinks that there will be not more than 21,000,000 bitcoins IS WRONG.

1. Fractional Reserve Banking. For example, MtGox, they do FRB. (I'm wrong? They don't do it? C'mon, even small kids know that MtGox loves FRB.)
2. Altcoins. Litecoin, Bytecoin, whatever. (I'm wrong? These are other currencies? C'mon, it's Bitcoin with other names, look at their source code.)

What do these 2 points mean?

Bitcoin is not deflationary  =>  One BTC will never be $1,000,000  =>  When the block reward becomes too low, miners will switch to other currency, because fees won't cover burnt electricity

So, how are we going to secure the blockchain in the future?

It's luck of the draw really. Yeah the power cooler one looks really cool. Although I don't see a reason why you would pay 1000$ for a dual gpu card when you can get better performance and cheaper by maybe 200$ by picking up 2 hd7970s. Unless you are PCI-E limited.

I have this view because I mine AND game. Currently running 7970s x 2 and a HD7850.

Litecoin uses a modified fee formula to discourage spam.  Spam is a significant problem in the Bitcoin network.

• Fees get smaller with coin age.  Usually that means "wait long enough" and it becomes free.  Depending on the number of inputs it can become a free transfer if you wait a few days.
• If your inputs are numerous and small, you might be able to fit only a limited number of them in a free transaction.  If all the inputs have sufficient coin age, you can make these free by splitting them into multiple transactions that are below 10KB in size.  There might be delays in confirmation.
• If your output is too small (less than 0.01), the fee will always be high relative to amount you are sending.  This is to prevent spam.
• Litecoin-0.8.x will have improvements to the fee calculation to allow "normal" transactions to have a lower fee while continuing to be hostile to spam.

I was wondering if you can put 2 or even 3 PowerColor AX7970's on one 500w power supply?

Thanks for the help, the suggestion of 6950 was really helpful for me. Can you suggest me the motherboard with (4) x PCI express x16 2.0 slots. and should be cheap about $150. IF not four slots then at least three should be present. Again thanks for advise.
 IF im just able to get three 6950s to work together I will be mining at about 1300-1400KH/s and that is a good hash rate considering the current difficulty of litecoins

Essentially 2 HD7970s on one PCB with lower stock clocks. 2 would be only a bit behind quad 7970s and use less electricity. Serious heat output though.

I'm running around at work ATM, so I have no idea what was said by the CNN reporter.

The amazing thing is, my wife has been tuning me out every time I ramble on about Bitcoins for two years now, convinced that it was just a harmless hobby shared by a few internet geeks (despite the fact that she tunes in regularly to The Good Wife and saw the bitcoin episode).

I will always remember today as the day Bitcoin went "mainstream" in my world.

i cannot habeeb that the lag was caused solely by traffic, and if it was, then they obviously are very behind on hardware and security for the amount the have invested.

Hey guys I'm new to the pool. Mining with a GTX 650 at a whopping 14MH/z. Just getting to grips with everything and thought I'd stop by and said hey!