What username do we use? Checked my PMs and I don't think I was given one.

The question then becomes who owns the spendable coins in the buffer and how much should they be rewarded for maintaining these coins readily available?

It may be possible to build a buffer if P2Pool miners who don't need their coins NOW lend coins to the buffer at a certain % rate for a certain period of time (or number of blocks). People who need the coins immediately can do so by exchanging unconfirmed BTC for confirmed BTC out of the buffer, but they won't get the full 100% value. The % interest rate could self adjust dynamically based on the current size of the spendable buffer.

I could see this happening as an service independent of P2Pool. However this moves away from its decentralized nature and probably won't be a popular concept with P2Pool miners.

It is probably not prudent to expose port 8333 on an IP address behind which there are actual coins. If anything, people will start attacking that IP address in an attempt to get to your wallet. They may not get in but they will probably slow down your firewall/router especially if it is just consumer-grade.

I lease a couple of cheap $30/month VPS's to exclusively run bitcoind with maxconnections=200 and empty wallets. That way, I always have access to a couple of well-connected that I control and trust. My quiet clients (from where I do my real transactions, p2pool, etc) connect directly to these. Since other people also relay transactions through my public nodes, I also buy myself some anonymity with this setup. In fact, most of the transactions originating from my nodes are other people's.

Although bucketshops in equities were outlawed a long time ago, there are plenty of bucketshops around today in forex trading.

E.g. OANDA

I am pretty sure Rackspace does not send passwords over emails - just the password reset link to the list of authorized emails on the account. They also use opportunistic TLS so if the recipient email server supports TLS the in-flight data will be encrypted.

However, in this particular case it didn't matter because it appears that one of the authorized email addresses was hosted on a compromised server.

I've "lost" a wallet with about 30 BTC due to a hard drive CRC error and me not having made a backup. Does that count?

Just a comment: these monthly forced updates are not really practical for people who don't engulf their entire lives in Bitcoin. I was fortunate to have caught this update and the previous one because I just happened to check in here.

I will be away for the next 60 days. Hopefully my miners will still be working when I get back.

I assume the miners are running OpenVPN in client mode and connecting to your OpenVPN server located somewhere outside the firewall?

If that is the case, the traffic that the client sends to through the tunnel is contolled by the static routes that your OpenVPN server pushes to the client. This is configured in the server's config.ovpn file. Push only the static routes back to your private subnet. As long as you do not push the route to 0.0.0.0, you will have your split tunnel.

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately there is no more RDP session 0 ever since Server 2008. Microsoft removed it for security reasons.

I also don't believe XP compatibility mode is possible on the Server 2008 R2 product (without a lot of hacking making it look more like Windows 7 which I don't want to do).

It is almost as though when the windows session does not see the GPU the card goes into some kind of low-power mode.

Hi,

I colo a rack of 2U servers as part of a side business. Electricity is "free", because I already pay by the number of 20 Amp circuits to the rack. To support the bitcoin network, I decided to outfit some of my servers with HD 7750 cards because they fit in the unused 16x slots and don't require power cables.

These servers are headless. With the new 12.2 and 12.3 drivers Diablo miner can see the GPUs and I can hash without a monitor or resistor plug. The problem is this:

1) I have a startup script where Windows will auto-login and start up the miner. I only get a 40 Mhs.
2) Similary starting the miner from remote desktop session I get 40 Mhs.
3) When I connect to the exisitng session using VNC (or any other console based remote control program) the hash rate jumps to the expected 120 Mhs.
4) Similarly when I start the miner from a VNC session I get 120 Mhs.

Another observation is that GPU Caps View shows a blank GPU tab when the rate is 40 Mhs (while this is happening it still sees the correct OpenCL information). When GPU Caps viewer sees the GPU, then I get the full 120 Mhs.

Can someone explain what is happening?

Thanks.

No blocks solved for 24 hours?

(I am on the 275GH/s fork)

CPU mined 50 BTC back in mid to late late 2010 using the Bitcoin client's built-in miner. A few days later I think I mined another 50 BTC. Shortly thereafter I reformatted the computer (a Dell PowerEdge 2970 server) and lost the wallet.dat. I think it was around the time somebody paid 10,000 BTC for a pizza so I didn't think much of my 100 BTC then.

Somehow I think we should stay away from a solution where some central authority has the ability to arbitrarily devalue any individual's collection of coins. Today, it may just be stolen coins that get tainted. Tomorrow, coins could become tainted by activities related to terrorism, child porn, prostiution (which BTW is legal in many jurisdictions)  and who knows what else? Who has the right to declare that a crime has taken place involving a certain set of coins?

I think the effort should be focused on giving people the right tools to keep their coins safe - not on rerieving stolen coins after the fact.

Is there any reasonably way in which someone can make these transactions get picked up by their own miners when they solve a block?

Yes, you'd probably end up with an excess of Iranian Rials which you'd have trouble converting into usable currency.

How about modelling it around a gambling website where people place bets in BTC on the future marktet values of real world securities?

Otherwise, I can't see a way how you would do this without getting entangled in all kinds of regulations.

What happens if you just buy BTC outside on another exchange and transfer in?

I put this card 5 months ago in my Shuttle home theatre PC with a 225W power supply. Mine draws under 40W and gets 99 MH/s with the max OC allowed my the BIOS. It is so silent and cool that I forgot about it till I read this thread. I had actually stopped most of my mining when price went down and difficulty went up but I forgot to shut down this particular non-dedicated miner because it was so non-intrusive (configured it to auto start, etc.).

Hey, whatever happened to the double major in computer science?

http://blogs.suntimes.com/shinyobjects/2009/05/5-questions-with-christian-verdun---how-did-he-create-his-lincoln-assassination-image.html

Stopped selling for USD until price reaches $25 again. However, I am spending quite a bit of the mined BTC on semi-legitimate stuff ...