Talk about a bad day to bring this topic up on.  Yesterday maybe but today, oh no 

From a personal standpoint I agree but from a community standpoint this is a good thing and press is not a bad idea only to show that the process is working as described.  If it did not then the whole effort would be in question.

Ya I have wondered about this too and realized all the address work, new and old but I wounder why they do it?  I would think that the database housing this is just getting bigger and bigger.  I am sure the size is minimal but I am thinking what if something happens to the table due to some unforeseen glitch.  

Just saying,  

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Mtgox is good but so is bitfloor and competition is good for us all.  Having all your eggs in one basket usually ends up with a mess so right on to this buyer of bitcoins.

Not sure if you earn points with the "cool-factor" by mobile mining.  Interesting yes, cool no.  Now cool factor would be mobile mining that results in greater number of coins produce then can be done standing still.  Everyone here would be all over you and saying cool even though it is not realistic, or is it Mr. flux capacitor.

Right that is my point, see all of us are enjoying the free low hanging fruit provided by Google because that helps them get NSA and other kinds of contracts that pay very large sums of money.  Google is no different then any other company and what is worse is that a majority of people are just following along thinking what a great group of open minded folks.  Just wait this dog will turn and bit you, it is not a mater of if but when.

So tell us something we don't know, if it is not Google then it is Dell or Apple followed by the weak Microsoft trying to control all content.  See the fiber they are putting in in Kansas kind of has me scared because they will develop something that is direct competitor to the current, open and basically free internet.  We will still have our old fashion internet but now we will have Google's internet which will be very fast and really provide for significantly different content that they will control the rules to.  Could you imagine no HTML 5 just some Google script that is only allowed to work on their system and nothing else.  Or some crazy board that checks your code before access to their web which will have a fee on top of the access fee.  They are not going to lay down all this fiber along with the money and not charge. 

For once I am really glad that the feds are working on something that down the road we will be able to use and not allow Google a Monopoly the next type of internet.   Granted it will take some time before we get access and Google's solution will be better but I am sure it will be free just like the first version. 

http://energy.gov/articles/three-doe-labs-now-connected-ultra-high-speed-network-10-times-faster-commercial-internet   

Oh and on an NSA note, who do you think is hosting email and other Cloud solutions for a large number of government agencies and has contracts in place with various branches of governmental, Google!  Since AT&T rolled over like a trained dog during the 9/11 search what makes you think Google would not do the same and basically build the next NSA system?   Look up Google’s government efforts to date, they are trying to be the next Microsoft and do even more then what Microsoft dreamed of.  Google is trying to make the US IT world over in their vision and they keep giving away the stuff they don’t care about to get the really big contracts to control everything.  Google is basically using the best practices of Apple and Microsoft against all the IT world. 
Basically I am saying Google is the devil, .  Happy holidays!
 

Ah but how was the food?  Also someone should pass this along to Bitcoin Magazine so they can do an article or something.

Is anyone on here using a Dreamplug?  If so PM me, got some questions.

This is an interesting post from the perspective that I would say difficulty would stay at the highest level acchived when the last coin is mined.  As for mining for fees I don't understand that statement so if a little more can be offered up maybe that might give everyone some more feedback.  I would thinkd that mining would not be of value for bitcoin once the last coin is mined.

If you wanted to try it and do it as a test for the price what the heck but if you want to go all out then put a little more in.  This thing looks like an HP reject from back in the day.

This should be a very interesting turn of events.  Now when that data gets out lets see the fireworks start.  I am sure allot of folks figured this was a dead issue.

What I was asking is that international currency is based on global fiscal maters and what you think about the clif it is still somthing that effects economies arround the world.  The flight to safety is folks who are liquid looking for somthing to convert their funds into somthing like gold, bitcoin or somthing.  So what I was asking is with the clif we are talking about it now how will it effect the value of bitcoins do you see going forward.  That is what I was trying to pull from this discussion.

You can always mine other coins with the rig after the ASIC.  I would say just maintain you want a gaming rig first and a mine second and not the other way arround.

Kind of a chicken and an egg thing here, without mining you don't have bitcoin but without bitcoin you can't have mining.  Ponzi is a bit harsh if you ask me and so trying to compare this to that is not a very easy thing to do.

So there is whole bunch of negative issues with the cliff and there are some positive items but from a Bitcoin angle what good do you all think will come of it?

From my point of view, this will cause a flight to safety for individuals and organizations and they may find this offering as a low cost and unique way to grow their revenue or business.  Your thoughts?

What would you pay for 6990 with an artic cool fan setup?  Also if only one of the chips are acting up is there any way to fix it that you know of?

Neat idea, I would like to see something similar to this but using dry ice.

If this was done on a scale that could be manufactured I would bet you would have a second classification similar to man made diamonds.  A lot of men would be happy to buy man made gold for their ladies. 

US won't go back to gold.  Not enough and it has many other issues that would limit the US from expanding it economy.  Digital currency could replace current forms and we should remember history, in the early 1900 gold was illegal to own and you were to trade it in for paper currency notes.  What would stop the US from developing their own digital currency that they make with their equipment and then pass a law calling all other digital currency illegal to own and or trade in?