Bring a vaguely thought out point to debate, we'll debate. It's difficult to have an intelligent conversation with idiots. Not a single thing you just posted makes any sense whatsoever.

Well, looks like ebolajax is on day release again.  

Must be hell for him in his cell, little brain full of DRK thoughts all day long, only gets access to the ward computer if he takes all his meds like a good boy, and doesn't soil himself too often.

One finger of whiskey would kill these nancies.  

This isn't the croak thread. 

Just ditch the HDD, both PIMP and BAMT are dirt simple, personally I prefer BAMT as it's even dirt-simpler than PIMP. 20W saved right there, more if you've got Win running off the drive with hundreds of vampire processes you can't turn off.

170W? Have you got i7's and multiple terabyte HD's in there?

My cheapest-available-Celeron, Asus H61 and BAMT on a USB stick rigs all pull about 96W idle, and 460ish with 5 270's running.

edit: a brief perusal of the intertubes seems to indicate that you can't connect anything PCI/PCIe to a Pi, they only have a USB bus. You can however attach FPGA's... if such a mythical beast for X11 is ever proven to exist.

We need some way of attaching GPUs to a Raspberry Pi. 20 at a time.

Evan continues to rock and roll: https://darkcointalk.org/threads/v0-15-testing.2611/page-8#post-24713

If MN numbers increase with increased MN block reward, profitability will stay the same. Still, ~20% after costs is pretty damn good.

I need to watch that.

I've got a basic working p2peer market that uses a DHT, but security is a hard problem (for me, I'm a noddy) with my model - I can think of a dozen ways a bad peer could bugger things up, kind of like bad torrent files etc. Evan solved this problem (or a similar one anyway) largely economically with the MN network, I'm still trying to come up with something viable... 

Yeah I had a bunch deleted recently too, yet racism and homophobia are perfectly fine apparently, they should change the message you get -

"Your post was deleted due to insufficient hate, poison and bigotry. Try not to let this happen again!"

Metadata? This word should not even exist in the context of anonymous currency. Zerocoin looks like a misguided academic project at best.

Anoncoin proposes to use zerocoin/zerocash if it ever gets released. It hasn't been yet AFAIK. Plus it's a non-starter in many respects anyway, quite apart from the newfangled, untried and untested cryptography, for example check these gems out from the zerocoin website:

"there are promising techniques for preventing money laundering without violating the privacy of legitimate users (e.g., CHL06). Roughly, the idea is to build the cryptographic protocol so that, once the total amount paid between any two users (over any number of payments) exceeds some public threshold, the payments are not private."

"More generally, the underlying zk-SNARK cryptographic proof machinery is flexible enough to enforce a wide range of policies. It can, for example, let users prove that they paid the taxes due on all transactions, without revealing those transactions, their amounts, or even the amount of taxes paid. As long as the policy can be specified by efficient “nondeterministic” computation, it can (in principle) be enforced using zk-SNARKs and added to Zerocash. This can help to verify and enforce a wide range of compliance and regulatory policies in manner that is non-invasive to privacy. Morever, once codified, policies will be enforced even in the presence of corrupt employees among the authorities."

source: http://zerocoin.org/q_and_a

Only anonymous if they let you be anonymous, centralised control and enforcement. I couldn't decide which parts of the above paragraphs to bold, it was all equally repugnant.

No fucking thanks.  

It doesn't exist? 

Mintpal was a tool for insider trading and the botrape of its customers. Like all the other unregulated centralised exchanges. Banditry with a pretty UI is still banditry. Good riddance.

p2p exchanges will dominate within 12 months, the current pack of crooks will not be missed.

Agreed, although I would have gone with, "The people who know how bad it really is have all either killed themselves, been killed to stop them telling anyone else, or are buying DRK and ammo," instead of "Amber Alert."

The price of all my DRK is already 1000X higher than that.

Indeed. But then, why not, eh?

Size isn't everything. But it certainly helps.   

Auction them. We need dev funding, bounties, we need to get shit done, and it costs money.