I recently bought some physical silver localy, during the spot price dip on the last few days of the year. The larger your piece of silver the closer you can get to spot price... 1000oz bars should be nearly at spot price but who's trading in $30k blocks of silver?

I got a 100oz bar for aprox $1.50 above spot, and some silver Maples for about $3 above spot (bought a low volume). I could have bought it all in maples but wasnt interested in the "coin" more the comodity. Being local I was able to get it right away and the only thing resembling shipping was a drive across town. That same timeframe an order from Kitco or Apmex would have been 5% more plus shipping.

If you're going to compare Coinabul to any of those services you might as well skip it and use the other services...... as soon as they accept BTC. Different people got their BTC in different ways, over the past year you could have BTC at a cost of anywhere between $2 and $30, so your purchase is the realization of any profit/loss in your BTC as well. You just cant do that with buying it in dollars elswehere, the swing in the silver price is only around $25-$50 since the run up over a year ago.

So far Coinabul has been very quick in answering any questions I've had through his contact on the web page, I'm just hoping he's on a week off cuz I've not heard from him for 5days after plaing an order and asking a question again.... we'll see.

I had to find out the hard way that the builder of my condo cheaped out and wired the wall outlets from both bedrooms on the same circuit.

I cant run 2 miners (7x6950's) a Folding @ home Quad G34 rig, and 2 14000btu AC units, with 1 AC off, I can blow the breaker just by turning on a plasma tv thats on the same circuit.....

So My next rig is getting build in the kitchen, yep cuz each outlet is on its own breaker.

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My laptop has an Nvidia gtx480m that does about 44Mhash, very not worth it.

If anything becomes of the "mine for gold" could we also impliment "mine for silver"?

Recently got out of the newbie doghouse...... first chance to comment in this thread.

Love the pool, the setup/workings/stats are great, a step up from where I first started. Stability recently as mentioned leaves something to be desired but I can understand how/why its where its at. I'm in no position to help/takeover but would hope if BT feels the need he can find someone trustworthy.

Started with Eliguis
Later added Ars as a backup pool
Couple days later switched, made Ars the main
Switched my backup from Eliguis to Slush last week, unfortunatly it hasnt reverted back to Ars (main) since then, its just up all the time.

Love the underdog, will continue to hash for Ars when its up/stable

Ouch on the cases for heat, but dang it looks a lot cleaner then anything homemade or worse yet, open air.

Also check (I assume since you talk of the total for the month, you're the one paying the bills) that your electricity isnt on some sort of budget program. Natural gas usualy is so you arent paying $10/mo during summer (maintenance fee, admin fee) and get whalloped with $300 bills during winter, they average it out and you might end up paying $100/mo all year. Something like that probably only re-calcs a couple times a year at max.

Maybe list the makup of your systems along with their draw according to the meters and others can chime in if its on par with what one should expect.

Hi friends, my name is fourd00rgtz and I have a problem....

I'm obsessed with computers, so much so that I build them to sit and do calculations all day. I started off in a charity thing called Folding @ Home from Stanford University, I started by running it in the background of my desktop when I wasnt using it. Soon I joined a team and became competitive. Then I added hardware, Overclocked and left it on 24/7. The bedroom became warm, the fans hummed away and I was helping cure Cancer. Then I got a job, earned money and was still interested in building computers. I started to build machines for "folding" and folding alone. I'd put them in the basement so the heat/noise was of little concern, through google I taught myself linux because it was x% faster at folding, my points were climbing

Then my dealer introduced me to Bitcoin, and I suddenly had a better (ehem, selfish) reason to run machines 24/7. So I consolidated all my F@H machines into a single powerhouse and started bitcoin mining. So far I've only been hitting up the blockchain for 2.5Gh/s, but couldnt help myself in the recent firesales. I'm expanding, I'm enlarging the farm, I'm blowing circuitbreakers in my condo left right and center (mostly cuz of the A/C that has to run 24/7) I have more Gh/s sitting waiting to be built into rigs then I care to admit, I need to make friends with an electrician

/end AA intro 
/end lurker mode since June
/end newbie status (soon I hope)

I do believe such a thing happened over the summer when hurricane Irene hit, I think it caused a tiny difficulty drop, but could have been due to the giant pullback from June price highs.

I resemble the above remarks.