Same here, 3.2 BTC in limbo due to forced buyback on BF => forced xfer to WeEx.

I must say I had more than 100 BTC on inputs.io / CoinLenders at some point, so it could have ended up much worse.

I thought that I'd made the biggest loss of my BTC securities trader's life after buying BASIC-MINING at 0.7 (post-split) and selling off under 0.2. Then I realized that this 71% loss would have been 100% if creativex never shows up again (I'd still like to know what happened to him for what it's worth), and probably 9x% at best outcome if he comes back (after liquidating).

Should I mention LABCOIN? Naaaah....

I'm just too noob for the Pirateat40 and GLBSE shit, I guess some here still have the taste in their mouth

Wonderful Bitcoin World...

tl;dr: keeping your savings on online wallets = FAIL

HoboNickels (HBN) maybe? I've seen it on the list of Cryptsy altcoin...

Same here

Yes I would say minimum 500W, 600W would be better, to avoid issues when your CPU runs at 100% or stuff like this.

Also, they generally have enough PCI-e 6/8 pin connectors.

5970 are old but still good cards (for both games and mining), and they are rare and/or pricy on the 2nd hand market

Take the 2 7850 if you can afford both, or just one if you can't, as your budget seem to indicate. Then I'd go for the cheapest one as it seems the one with the best specs. And if you consider more hashrate I'd consider the 7950 instead of course.

Yes, but keep in mind that 2 cards will "cost" you 2 PCI-e slots (i.e. CPU, MB, RAM, HDD etc "shared" rig costs)

Long term holders FTW

Any more specific differences in core (engine) and memory clocks between these two?

If you want it cheap just go for the cheaper one, the differences should be tight

My experience is that 7950 are the best value (purchase and hash/W)

One 7950 GPU will get you between 500 and 550 khash/sec in scrypt, maybe 600 with extra tweaking and proper cooling.

One 7850 GPU will get you between 350 and 400 khash/sec in scrypt

I would expect ROI in roughly 6-8 months depending on the evolution of difficulty and exchange rate, and your electricity costs.

If alt coins or Litecoin fails (but I don't believe it will), you might never get ROI, just keep it in mind.

Don't panic guys... it'll probably be okay in a few hours at most.

EDIT: it works again, after a few... seconds! Magic

Bitcoiners have been Goxed too many times, presumably, yes, they are moving to better exchanges indeed.

I believe Gox is still a trend setter to some extent for the exchange rate, though.

Don't forget about my VAT refund request

Thanks

Congrats to you for creating the useful guide

Much better than the flyer manual (no longer?) provided with the Blades.

That works for me too, if the janitor can refund us

I am owed nearly $10K and counting in dividends, is a ping request every two weeks too much to ask? Jesus, that's terrible!

If they are no longer produced, and Bitcoin takes on in the forthcoming years, the USB Erupter and Blades might become collector items

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Please, give us a sign of hope

Unfortunately scrypt and GPU support altogether has been removed from CGMiner starting 3.8.x, as CK only wants to focus on Bitcoin now.

If you want to run it with an older version (up to 3.7.x I think), try without --shaders and -g first, and start with an intensity of 11 or 12 (to avoid HW errors), then start increasing and adding tweaks. I have bought a new R9 280X yesterday and I'm only getting about 610 khash/s instead of 750 right now, it still need tweaking. For some cards (especially the high end ones like 79xx) it took me hours to get anywhere near the maximum scrypt hash rate, while SHA256d was super easy.

The syntax seems correct, you should paste the error by copying it from cmd.exe, use the app menu (upper left corner on the icon) to select (mark) the error text and hit Enter to copy, then paste here.