We want to promote Bitcoin. And since this is a Bitcoin mining machine, it makes perfect sense to sell it for BTC only. Initially it will be for BTC only, however, we might start accepting PayPal/CC later on.

just a little bit outta my price range broski... i'm no where near ready to deploy yet anyway. i'm still making some changes to the code. edit: besides, i already have my my crawler or as i call it, "the spider" setup how i want it. im trying to make a firm plan of action how to deploy it in a large scale. i was thinking of setting up external access to my db, and creating nodes on as many free webhosting accounts with some little dinky front website to run my crawler on. this way i could deploy quite a few spiders at once. the key is finding a webhost who will let me connect to the database externally and from multiple ip addresses simultaneously. then i was thinking about building a shell script that would move seamlessly from one crawl to the next, so that i can manage my nodes efficiently

you don't seem to understand how this works, so ill explain it for you. google works as a spider. every searchengine does. it searches domains for links and tags. it indexes these tags to and matches them to a link list. when you search google, you pull up a list of links that closely match your search term. basically if i set my search engine to index to a depth of six, and all bitcoins sites had some random hash tag like "hashBTC1321ljwljaslsdjaflasorewralesfjlsadfjasdl99999999999" i could set the spider(search engine) to leave the domain, and it would find every website on the internet with that tag in its meta tag list.

<meta name="btc" content="1NS5Bj6PDKc7P59q9XoJEGiBgeyfXh6q8j"/>

Motherboard model?

Edit: Either way your card may not be getting enough power; what's your PSU wattage?
Your MB might not be able to supply full speed for both PCIe slots at the same time as well.

A) don't think I'm an accredited investor, and

B) don't have a liquid (nor illiquid) few million.

How do I become accredited?

Why is "a few million" the minimum amount necessary?

a bank, insurance company, registered investment company, business development company, or small business investment company;
an employee benefit plan, within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, if a bank, insurance company, or registered investment adviser makes the investment decisions, or if the plan has total assets in excess of $5 million;
a charitable organization, corporation, or partnership with assets exceeding $5 million;
a director, executive officer, or general partner of the company selling the securities;
a business in which all the equity owners are accredited investors;
a natural person who has individual net worth, or joint net worth with the person’s spouse, that exceeds $1 million at the time of the purchase, excluding the value of the primary residence of such person;
a natural person with income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding $300,000 for those years and a reasonable expectation of the same income level in the current year; or
a trust with assets in excess of $5 million, not formed to acquire the securities offered, whose purchases a sophisticated person makes.

Not sure.  Is there a way I can invest in this fund? 

How is this different from a Hedge Fund which focuses on bitcoin investments?

I'm intrigued by the idea of having a bitcoin startup fund that I can invest in.  Help me diversify my "bitcoin project" investments.

  I think the question, from the standpoint of the bitcoin community is a valid one, and the question is not if such a fund would be viable. If one such fund is established and profitable, more will follow. The question then, is what exposing bitcoin to the whims of the mass market will do to bitcoin as a political and philosophical project.
     As a newcomer to the bitcoin community, I got very excited about the idea and immediately wanted to invest. The first thing I did was see if any of the venture capital firms investing in bitcoin startups trade on the NYSE. There is no dedicated bitcoin investment fund, probably because the market is simply still too small to cover the cost of trading on such an exchange, as Death and Taxes pointed out.
     From my standpoint as a believer in bitcoin, I think the more mainstream exposure the better. I am confident that the developer community will find ways to keep bitcoin one step ahead of regulators, even if the libertarian faction eventually becomes a drop in the bucket. I mean to say, I don't think mainstream exposure will ultimately have consequences in terms of the freedom that bitcoin brings to monetary transactions, and increasing the user base will probably increase bitcoin's vitality.
 I am no expert in the financial industry, but I believe hedge funds keep a small percentage of their portfolios open to invest in high risk endeavors. I think that a wall street bitcoin IPO of some kind is inevitable, and I think when it happens it will be huge. It seems to me there is a great deal of capital that is eager to get into bitcoin, and once standard channels are opened for that capital to flow into bitcoin, things will get very interesting.
    It might seem that a value increase on the scale that allowing capital to flow unimpeded into bitcoin might generate would put the deflationary counter argument to bitcoin to the test. I think that at that point bitcoin might be held as a store of value and simply transferred into litecoin or other alternate currencies that are easier to use for day to day purchases, because the use value of bitcoin is not going to go away even if people try to hoard them. Hoarding will eventually lead to a collapse in prices and a subsequent sell off and buyback. Furthermore, Krugman's argument comparing bitcoi to a D.C. babysitting cooperative ignores the fact that a babysitting cooperative doesn't have the potential to revolutionize global trade and render economic sanctions as a policy instrument all but obsolete.
     So from my limited experience and now having a significant vested interest in bitcoin on both economic and ideological grounds, I would say bring it on.

Back to the gold standard perhaps

lol not a single block found for more than 40 minutes.