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45 BTC for 5 5850s.. i'd rather do like 52 BTC..
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how many cards have you had running in the MSI? and which model cards
I've had all eight slots populated with 5870s and it's godly. Using BAMT 0.5a 64-bit. Here's a screenshot of 8 GPUs enabled  This screenshot shows 7 cards, one of them is a 5970 so 8 GPUs BUT I have ran the Big Bang with 8 5870s and it runs great! |
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Oh and I will throw in lots of fans if someone wants to buy a rig. I have three of these 30v fans, I have some crazy high cfm Delta 120mm fans, among many others.
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420: PM'd!  More info about the custom cases I had typed originally before posting: I have a case that can hold four motherboards, with a variable amount of cards per motherboard (one wide mount area), you could do like 6 or 7 cards per motherboard, probably. There are two of these chassis' that we have built, one of them can only hold two boards, and I have two Asrock boards on it, one has 5 cards the other has 4. One has a Phenom II and the other has an Athlon II. It has a 1400w and a 1000w PSU (both single rail). The other case is the one that holds four boards. I have the MSI Big Bang Marshal B3 for motherboards, the "only" board that has eight full size PCIe slots, plus they are LGA 1155 so they are very current technology. I have two of these boards. One of them is in the box as a spare, I had planned on putting 8 more cards in that rig (8 cards per side in that case gives tons of room between them so they stay breezy. You can't fit four MSI Big Bang Marshal B3's in that case, since it's bigger than ATX spec, you can only fit one per side. Right now I have two Corsair HX850s running the Big Bang and 8x 5870s. I have two i7 2600k's available but I'd rather sell you two i3's with it and sell the i7's on eBay, depends on the price we agree on. These cases are very valuable, and I was considering them *included* in the prices of the rigs, so if you bought the whole lot or one complete rig (mobos/gpus/cards) the case would be added at no charge, I'm hesitant to post pictures of the genius design of our cases because we were planning on making them available for purchase. They are sort of our "prototypes" but our final version would be made out of aluminum. They are awesome. The one that has 2 boards in it right now is 17" wide, 26" deep, and 12" tall, all the video cards sit horizontally so there is a full 26" to mount the video cards for both boards. The dimensions were chosen becuase it's the same footprint as a big rack server, except it's a rack mining rig. The Big Bang case is too wide to possibly fit in a rack, but it can hold more and is great for it's purpose. If I sell off all the cards and I'm left with mobo/cpus/psus and the cases, then they make the ultimate mining setup if you have a bunch of cards and they need a home, this is a palace. |
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The MSI Big Bang Marshal B3's have a 'low' of $400 because they are extremely rare, see if you can find one for under $500. They are the only board that have 8 full size slots.
< $400 new ? Or is that not the same thing? Someone on [H]ard|OCP pointed that out, too. I had no idea they were still available, or became available again. I was looking for one a few months ago and Newegg didn't have them, neither did any other online store, I thought they were entirely extinct. So I could see giving a discount on that one for sure. But it's $379.99 because of a $20 off right now. So it's not <$400 new, you still have to pay tax on that, making it >$400 new. I had my 'low' price set at $400, which I think is worth it still, but I would go as low as $350 probably, potentially a bit less depending on if you bought other items at the same time. All my prices are *current value* according to the market right now. Nothing is firm, but I set those ranges so you wouldn't say "how much for _____" a million times. If you want to make me an offer on the whole lot, of course I'll give you a deal. Make. Me. Offers. Just ask Darrell from Storage Wars:  |
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Cashed out, thanks guys! Cheers!
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Is there a place to get older version of cgminer? I need 2.5.0, I think 2.6.x is the problem I'm facing right now...
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Copying is not the issue. The issue is Con and Kano passing off others' work as their own.
At the end of the day it's just your paranoid (delusional?) opinon that they took your code, changed it then submitted it themselves. Since all this code is GPL, would the easier solution for them not simply be submit your commit, which would involve almost zero effort, rather then re-arrange your code? What is to gain? What's their motive? Isn't BFG a fork of cgminer? So he came in, added a few lines, and then now HE'S complaining about stolen code? |
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Neither of these two examples have the same, copied solution. They were both solved independently in similar ways as they are both soving the same problem. It's no suprise the timing is also similar as these issue are being found at the same time. I don't know why you're defending his obvious theft. They do have the same copied solution, even if Kano made a poor effort to obfuscate it; while the first one might have only had one or two ways it could be fixed, this last one has numerous possible solutions (the most obvious being significantly better than the one I ended up taking except for making merging from cgminer harder if cgminer hadn't adopted it too); yet in both cases Kano used the exact same solution - only trivial/non-substantial changes to the syntax/names were made. Neither of these bugs were in fact found in cgminer: the curlring issue was one I experienced myself personally, spent hours debugging, and finally identified a solution for; the only way Kano would have even known it existed was by reading BFGMiner's commit log; the JSON escaping issue only really affect BFGMiner because its compiled-in prefix on Windows uses backslashes. you have been told to get the fuck out of this thread several times. i'm no mod here but i have something to complain about... most of BigFuckingCunt miner is based on conmans work... CGMiner was based on Garzik's work in the same way: Con added GPU support, and I added FPGA support. Until ASICs were announced, Con had nothing to do with FPGA support. Aren't most of what people are arguing about code-wise GPL or similar open licenses? If so, copying is a non-issue and is to be applauded. It benefits the greater good.
Copying is not the issue. The issue is Con and Kano passing off others' work as their own. |
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When I'm dead, bury me with Casascius BTC. I'll be a trillionaire in a future life.
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"Let Us Exchange Profit togather here"
Absolute worst grammar/spelling from any site that I've seen (not counting sites that do that on purpose.)
And the social networking buttons at the bottom still have "MtGax" in the links.
my pointing out flaws, if the scammers read this, they can fix their scam to be flawless. |
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hi anyone managed to get the TP-Link WN722N wlank stick to work? It uses the Atheros HTC driver (ath9k_htc..). I tried several things but didnt get it to work (im a noob on linux though). i heard On kernel 2.6.35 drivers are already included, but bamt acutally runs on 2.6.32.. is it possible to update to a newer kernel? btw: bamt rocks  Do this at your own risk... From the terminal as root. mine stop
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get clean
sync
Then restart your BAMT rig. thanks in advice, but i fear those commands. Question: did you try that? Did anyone try that? I guess it will lead to another formatting and clean setup of bamt. Thatfore i wait untill i have some more time. Why not just make a backup image of the usb you have now, then try it. Nothing to lose. Why even make a backup? What could you possibly lose? If you plug your BAMT USB into Windows, the normal filesystem doesn't show up but you can still get access to the config. In the /BAMT/CONFIG/FROM folder, all your confs are there. Copy them to your PC, then you can at least not have to worry about losing your settings. Now try updating the distro. I think I might too! |
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at least it was only 2.3 BTC! could have been 23 BTC...
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Making my text blue so it's easier to read.. I think fixed limit of shares would be optimal because the original group of investors can profit from it the most, and you wouldnt have to go through motions and all that crap. Keep it simple, and keep profits up. If more investment is needed, I'm sure another asset can be listed.
Also, how will you verify the number that you have purchased? I was thinking that you could scan the ticket and post before the draw date, and then after the draw date have it validated at a lottery booth and display the receipt of whether the ticket has won, lost, or gained free tickets.
I'll definitely post the numbers as soon as they are selected, and posting the ticket scan will be a very easy thing to keep maintained: scan a piece of paper once a week and post it. Everyone will be informed before the draws take place, and then you know those numbers weeks in advance.
Knowing which numbers have winnings, and having eventually dozens of numbers running at any given time would become difficult to keep in order, but I think this entire process can be automated. The manual way, since I've purchased many 25-draw tickets in the past it's routine to me, is that you scan the ticket at the "customer ticket checker" thing, and it will say if there are any winnings and it will notify you that there are additional draws still to come. If there is a winning, let's say $10, you give it to the lottery teller and she scans it, machine says "$10 yay!" and then prints a new ticket for the remaining draws.
A script that checks our numbers against the winning numbers would be very simple. I imagine it looking like a calendar which has our numbers on every Wednesday and Sunday, and when there are winning numbers announced, it automatically posts them to the calendar and says how many matching numbers we had. This way we could have 10 sets of tickets in a draw, and the script will if we have won, without having to manually go over numbers twice a week. The script will be so easy to do that I essentially have it already. I have a text rpg game that has an internal lottery where people can play the lottery with pretend money, and it announces the winning numbers (picked at random) every week and if there are any winners, plus tells each individual user how many numbers they got correct on the tickets they purchased. The site is built on basic PHP and it checks numbers using cron. We could easily modify this script to do what we need, or create a new one.At least in my country (central europe, EU area) it is quite common to get snail-mail spam from lottery communities that offer something similar to the OP: You pay them e.g. 100€ a month, they keep 5€ from that and buy lottery tickets for the remaining 95€. Since a lot of people pay them, they can play a lot of different numbers, so they get the chance down that people are betting on the same numbers. Everything they win from their lottery tickets, they pay out to their customers again (let's say 100 customers with 100€ each, they win 1k€, so they pay each customer 10€).
Still in the long run the expected money to earn from that is (as always in gambling): "Total_money_played - house_edge" and in the case of lotteries, the house edge is easily in the 50% range.
Playing on Satoshi's dice would still be a far better thing to do, as the house edge is much smaller, there is no currency conversion risk and it's better auditable.
Playing Satoshi's Dice is a great suggestion, it would almost do what we needed to do. We would have to take the profits from the week and basically gamble it. There's no set amount to gamble, and we will know instantly if we won or not. Sort of takes the excitement out of the whole thing, but there is potential there. I don't know if we'll go that angle, perhaps if we reach a certain point of infinite sustainability we could play it a bit, but I would sooner just increase the number of tickets purchased each week in 6/49.
It isn't that I am mistaken, it's that the time between purchases does not factor into the equation. Whether you purchase one ticket a week, 25 tickets a week, or one ticket a year, all that matters is that over time, you purchase n tickets. Sure, we purchase n tickets. But our weekly profit will always exceed our weekly expenses.
Right now if we sell 750 shares @ 1 BTC, invest 20% into Gigamining and put the rest in the lottery pool. That 20% is going to make us 11 BTC per week, where our expense goal is 5 BTC per week. That number shrinks every week as the price of a bitcoin increases, as I have made clear so far.
If it gets to the point where we are only earning 5 BTC per week now, if we spend 5 BTC we will be breaking even. To combat this, we space apart the purchases so that we spend 2.5 BTC per week, this way we always have a net profit at the end of the week.
n = ∞
I know, which is why I said X.a and X.b. Whatever amount you have in mining will generate revenue as if it was invested into mining. Whatever you have in lottery will go to zero. It would be as if I took half the money in BMF and bought lottery tickets with it; BMF would lose half it's value.
There's no way to escape the fact that investing in your company will always perform worse than investing into just mining.
What we have in the lottery will not go to zero. The weekly costs are adjusted to maintain a profit, and tickets are purchased with a minimum balance.
Investing in our company will be a way for a person to buy a share once and have a chance at winning a big payout for as long as they are a shareholder. It's not like they should expect a dividend every week, but to look forward to a chance at a fortune twice a week, and that chance increases each week as more and more tickets are purchased. The change in your back pocket will probably not give you enough interest to afford to buy a lottery ticket at the end of the week, but surely if you had $10k in the bank you could afford it, plus the odds that bitcoin increases in value over the next two years is astronomically high, so our expenses go down every week. While I am not in charge IIRC this type of company simply isn't allowed on the GLBSE. If you were developing a lottery (legally), running a casino, or developing a casino game or website, that's different. But here, you're just buying lottery tickets. Again I am not in charge but if this is allowed to list I'll eat my hat. ;-) I look forward to the hat eating and proving the nay-sayers wrong, this will be a raging success. Will you eat your hat when 1 BTC is $100 in 2 years and we are sitting on 1000+ and we never have a week of loss despite routinely spending money? |
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wow, nice.. could i get you to post it on the litecoin forum?, or if you wont, give me the right to post it?, it would be very usefull !
Here's a link to the thread: http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1835#msg1835Feel free to share that link with whomever. To save time, see the script in the post to update cgminer with 1 execution of the script. I'm not sure if with my instructions if BAMT will start mining automatically or if the "export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100" has to be added to the internal BAMT scripts or something. If anyone has any suggestions I will add them. Someone sent me a wonderful PM which provided this info to me, I still have to go over it and add that info into the guide. would that mine at the same time as gpu's mining btc?
I'm not sure, definitely worth experimenting. I know cgminer can't do both at the same time. Maybe one card can be configured to cgminer doing LTC and another is configured to phoenix doing BTC, I see that as being a possibility. |
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Are you reflecting on Days of Future Past, wanting to produce a documentary for your Children's Children's Children, or is it only I In Search of the Lost Chord?
What is the Lost Chord? |
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Hey mc_lovin,
Being a Canadian, and a volunteer lottery salesman I was thing of this idea (kinda) myself, but in the respect of scratch tickets. I think your idea has much potential. You never know if you win or not. My boss just won $2500 in the lottery, so it isnt too bad of a deal if you are decently lucky.
Free plays are a great bonus too, as they only require 3 numbers, or 2 + bonus (correct me if I am incorrect). Prize amounts increase exponentially as so does the difficulty of winning such a prize.
I have been holding onto some BTC, and I think I will be investing into this venture.
Great to hear positive feedback! There's always that chance that we win. I like to think of it as if you had $2000 in the bank, and every month your bank pays you interest. That interest you could be spending on lottery tickets, and your balance would never go down. Your money would depreciate eventually, however, due to inflation of the USD or CDN. If the money was stored in Bitcoin, it would appreciate in value, potentially exponentially. The free plays, the $10 wins, and the decent chance that we get 4 or 5 of the 6 numbers and we share a medium sized prize, they all make it worth the while. What do you think about a fixed limit of shares available? I think that would make it more interesting, because it will reach a point where we have enough capitol to buy tickets indefinitely, and we need no more investors. Figuring out exactly what that number is tricky, so leaving some headroom, I think 1000 shares @ 1 BTC is overkill, 750 shares @ 1 BTC (or 3000 shares @ 0.25 BTC) would be a good number. At current difficulty, that would be 1.5 BTC per day in the fund that the 20% of shares creates. If the bitcoin price goes up by 2% a week, and the difficulty gets 2% higher per week, we would still have a net profit of 6 BTC/week after purchasing a 25-draw ticket. It's hard to speculate on numbers we don't know. But if the Bitcoin exchange rate goes up suddenly and our company is holding bitcoin, we will have enough funds to sustain ticket purchases with no further investment. Our ticker would be very interesting to watch as well, because once all the shares are sold, people would have to bid for them on the exchange. I was thinking about some of the technical things we can develop for this, like a system that grabs the new drawn numbers from the 6/49 using a sort of API and displays them on an interface, comparing them to the numbers we are holding, and how many of the numbers are matching. A user can set an alert where if we hit 4 or more numbers, an email alert is sent to them, just so they know to be excited about it, or even an email alert that we didn't win at all that week. |
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now where cgminer supports scrypt, can BAMT be used to that also then?
i've like to use BAMT on my LTC mining farm
I have a partway complete tutorial on how to mine LTC with BAMT on my forum. It works, it's tested, but I need to tune it a bit. Basically re-compile cgminer & blammo! It works. |
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i really like your site! so cool!
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