Just be careful with used Sapphire 5830s with the single 92mm fan. I see plenty of those on Ebay. I bought a bunch of them new 14-18 months ago and about 40% of them have failed within the last couple of months because of seized bearings. It may just be my luck, but something to consider when buying used cards.

Last one for me took 4-5 days to hit my Dwolla account. That was 2 days ago, so it seems to be moving in the right direction.

Update: I just checked my Dwolla account again and and a more recent withdrawal just made it in less than 2 days. Let's hope this is permanent.

How would you architect a distributed trading platform with low latecy, atomicity of transactions and no double fill of orders?

A long time ago I was involved in a project related to automated trading on CME GLOBEX. I seem to remember the other guys at work mentioning that latencies above 2 ms (or it might even have been 0.2 ms) between our execution engine and GLOBEX was unacceptable. That was the standard back then 10 years ago. I would bet that a global distributed p2p platform can't even do 200 ms.

The recent BTC price drop of 40-45% over the weekend is a reminder of the real risk of holding BTC even for the short term. In light of this, maybe the yields of these investments are not that high after all relative to the risk?

That is not true. Please see the following link:

http://www.egoldclaimsprocess.com/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.aspx

It was primarily shutdown for suspected unlicensed transmission of money.


If you have been following the case closely, you will know that the "certain illegal activities" referred to suspected money laundering and child porn. HYIP was rarely mentioned.

However, after seizing the accounts and examininng each one they even admitted that it turned out that most of the e-gold was legit.


I have a large sum of legit funds tied up in this mess, and I am still waiting to be contacted about my claim. Never again.

If you want it now it is probably best to do it yourself through their API. Or pay someone to do it.

As others have pointed out due to the volatility of the BTC market what you'd really want is a sell stop-limit order. You enter a trigger price (say $11.50) and a limit price (say $10.50). When the price touches or drops below $11.50 the $10.50 sell limit order is placed. There is still no guarantee that your order will be filled, but at least you know you won't be selling at 0.02.

A trailing stop or trailing stop-limit order would be another useful feature to have. In this case the stop price will be expressed as some percentage or offset of the peak price. Typically you'd set this during a rally. You'd use this to get out of your position with a profit when the current rally ends and begins to reverse.

There will always be people spending $30K on mining, whether on a small GPU farm or an SC rig. If you can't afford $30K you could begin to build your ASIC mining power in steps of $150 starting with the Jalapeno. If today you've spent $2K on GPU mining at year's end you could spend $2K on 1 SC single and 4 Jalapenos to get 54 GHash/s.

You can easily compute the hashes-per-second-per-dollar on the 3 BFL ASIC products. They are: 23 MHash/s/$, 30 MHash/s/$ and 33 MHash/s/$ (based on claimed numbers). As you can see the advantage of buying at the high end of the scale is not that much.

Basically if you are a dedicated GPU miner today migrating to ASICs would not be a problem if you have $150 or more to spend. You still need to worry about being profitable though - the ASICs may be overpriced if you get yours late after difficulty has already gone up.

What's this private server DNS? I just noticed it on my account. Can I use it for all my miners or just my fast dedicated miners.

Is this always true? What if the market was overbought, or due for a correction/crash? In such a situation it would be reasonable to expect that a smaller amount of BTC would be needed to trigger the crash and you would likely be able to cover the sale without bringing the price back to the original. The key is knowing when the market is in such a condition. Now according to the economists and their Efficient Market Hypothesis it is not possible for any one market participant to have an information edge in determining this type of condition. In practice many successful traders will tell you this is not true - especially the liquidity-provider type traders who are in the market 100% of the time.

Edit: to make some use of my stupid nick Google the following for a couple of examples where the George Soros made a killing shorting at the right time and destroyed economies in the process:

   - soros shorts pound 1992
   - soros shorts bhat 1997

And NNTP was the biggest time waster instead of todays forums.

That makes some sense, but is still places unnecessary burden on that particular class of investors vs. those that have pulled out completely and those that still haven't recovered their initial investment.

That's not possible. Some accounts have already withdrawn more than the total principal deposited.

"I'm thinking this scheme only has -1 or 1 week left"

I guess the sarcasm was buried in 2 characters?

You could use a javascript timer to browse away from the login page to a "session expired" page just before the csrf_token expires.

It used to be that in many US states you could buy privately owned firearms without any paperwork. I remember acquiring a Glock 19 from a (non-FFL) guy who advertised in the local Penny Saver. Went to his house, paid him cash, I didn't ask for a receipt and and he didn't ask for ID. So I got an off-the-books firearm by accident. That was many years ago in the mid-west.

Is this still possible today? I wouldn't know as I now live in NYC where you can't even touch a handgun without a permit and you can own at most 2 registered handguns. Looking up the regional gun laws on the NRA-ILA web site it seems like it is still possible. However I would imagine that today most private sellers would always ask the buyer for ID.

Why is ciuciu still listed in the OP? Didn't he return the entire principal for all his 2% depositors a couple of days ago. After a few hours, many of those people redeposited at the new rate of 1.5%, but there was a short period where he was holding only a few hundred BTC worth of deposits. Hardly a ponzi.

Somebody should link to "Association Fallacy" on Wikipedia. It would be a welcome change to all those "Ponzi" links (like we've never heard about it before).

But there were about only 20 connections on his chart (10 outgoing and 10 incoming).

It's got to be something else.

The gains per hash might be distributed equally amongst pool members, but the hashes are not. Depending on the technology available to the different members of the pool they will be generating hashes at different rates and at different joules per hash. The large FPGA miner might be the equivalent or your real-life CEO and the CPU miner the equivalent of your real-life slave laborer working for minimum wage (with an even larger disparity). Our economy IS already working like a pool.

They do. My company delivers financial SaaS to banks and we have to write our web pages to work on IE7 because some clients haven't upgraded. Other clients tell us that they still use XP SP4 (as if that really matters for web-based applications that don't intend to deliver malware) and and demand that our app must still work on XP. We started charging those clients extra fees to support old JScript and CSS code.