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161  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is Dropbox a safe place keep my TrueCrypted BTC wallet backup? on: June 22, 2013, 11:51:24 AM
Truecrypt? LOL ... it can be cracked in no time with some Radeon GPUs:
http://hashcat.net/forum/thread-2301.html
Seems like a shitty encryption if it's that easy.
I guess it was a short password to prove it is working, as it was done in 40 seconds with two 6990.
This is only the beginning, the programmer has speed up the whirlpool hashing now by 58% and yet to work on cascaded modes.
But the times where Truecrypt was secure will be surely over soon, when you now can hack every windows password with a 25 GPU cluster (10x HD 7970, 4x HD 5970 (dual GPU), 3x HD 6990 (dual GPU), 1x HD 5870):
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-cracks-every-standard-windows-password-in-6-hours/
162  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is Dropbox a safe place keep my TrueCrypted BTC wallet backup? on: June 22, 2013, 10:58:55 AM
Truecrypt? LOL ... it can be cracked in no time with some Radeon GPUs:
http://hashcat.net/forum/thread-2301.html
163  Local / Biete / Re: Verschenke 1 Copperlark on: June 22, 2013, 09:52:33 AM
Bevor ich mich schlagen lasse nehme ich gerne auch noch eine Kupferlerche  Grin

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Danke  Smiley
164  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: 7970 thermal paste replacement on: June 22, 2013, 08:44:10 AM
I've searched the internet for repasting GPUs a while back. First thing I found is that it is strongly not advised to use arctic silver 5 (9.0 W/m•k, which I wanted to use first), as the cooling result isn't that much better than standart grease because it is very thin and that it takes a long time to get thick and therefor could be a troublemaker (it should only be used for CPUs). Then I found a site with an older test where Thermaltake TG-2 was the best paste with a 6°C cooler running GPU compared to stock paste. So I searched for a cheap supply of TG-2 but found out that there also it TG-1 and TG-3. TG-2 has only a thermal conductivity of 1.5 W/m•k (temperature range -40°C to 150°C) while TG-1 has a thermal conductivity of 3.0 W/m•k (temperature range -40°C to 150°C) and TG-3 even 4.7 W/m•k (-50°C to 250°C). So I went with TG-3 and my ASUS HD7950-DC2T-3GD5 is now 11°C cooler than with stock paste. The only problem with TG-3 is that it is very thick, it's like plasticine and a bit hard to apply.
Maybe I will try be quiet! DC1 (7.5 W/m•k) or Phobya HeGrease Extreme (8.5 W/m•k) soon to see if I could get even better results.
165  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Question for GPU miners on: June 22, 2013, 07:13:49 AM
We are going to have a bitcoin oligopoly, with only a few getting the big amount of coins and being able to control the price of the bitcoin. We are now haveing a market that needs a constant flow of bitcoins to keep their bussiness (shops, gambling sites, etc.) running. If a big player like ASICMiner, with already 20% of the hashrate now, decides that they won't put their coins on the market for a while, then the value of bitcoin goes up. They also could decide to throw their stack of coins on the market causing a bitcoin crash. After that they could buy cheap bitcoins and controll the market even more. Just imagine Apple would do the same with their stock shares to get richer and richer... Luckily we have stock market rules that prevent this. I agree that Satoshi probably never thought about the possibilty that an oligopoly might rule the generation of coins and the market and it's now to late to add regulations to keep the market healthy and fair (like a transaction cap: nobody could do more than 5% of all market transactions, if you have to do more transactions then you have to wait. And a coin generation cap, nobody should be able to generate more then 10% of the coins. If one generates more than 10% of the total hashpower, then all generated extra coins are given away to all other miners). We need social market economy instead of turbo capitalism to keep trust into bitcoin  Wink
Let's face it: Now we are in the same situation as mom and pops little general store when the big whole salers (like walmart & co) crushed the market. We can either believe into bitcoin and put all our money into things that generate more hashpower (GPUs, FPGAs and try to get ASICs) or sell our little general store and do another bussiness (Litecoin, PPCoin - not one of the bullshitcoins), which isn't controlled by a hand full of big players yet. But history will repeat when Litecoin mining will become profitable. Sooner or later we will see scrypt FPGAs and ASICs when the Litecoin market is big enough. PPCoin with it's Proof Of Stake is a good concept to prevent pump'n dump of the small miners (why should they invest lots of time for selling their coins when they get an interrest rate for holding them for a longer time) but the big boys will still do pump'n dump. Freicoin on the other hand isn't the real McCoy either: 4.89% demurrage is to much to get the small miner interrested, but the big boys with lots of hashing power will dump a lot and controll the coin. But I believe we are still in the time where lots of concepts are tried on the way to find the ultimate stable and trusted coin. I think we need a new hashing algorythm (like SHA3, but there is already a GPU miner for Copper Lark. Scrypt is no option either as there are people already working on FPGS and ASICs), Proof Of Stake to stabilise the market a bit and market rules (trade cap, coin generation cap) to prevent an oligopoly or even monopoly. Until then history will be repeating....
166  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcoin Give-A-Way! on: June 21, 2013, 08:38:49 AM
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thanks a lot
167  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Cheap PSU (2x 5850's or 1 5970) on: June 21, 2013, 08:06:00 AM
You can calculate the needed size of a PSU with http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

But remember: You want to run the PSU at 50% load to save energy. So if your PC needs 300 Watt, go with a 600 Watt PSU, especially if it's not a 80plus certified PSU. If you can go for a 80plus platinum PSU.

Efficiency drops by 4-5% at 100% load compared to 50% load, it's not worth paying extra for a 700W bronze unit just to run it at 50% load.
That is true for 80plus PSUs, a cheap noncertified cpu will run at 55 - 60% efficiency. Let's say your computer needs 300 Watt. The cheap PSU will pull 545 watt (at 100% load and 55% effiecency) from the socket, while a 80plus platinum PSU will only pull 319 Watt (at 50% load and 94% efficiency). If you run both 24/7 for a year then the differency per year is 1974.34 kW/h. Here in germany where we pay around €0.26 (about $0.19) per kW/h, so a platinum PSU saves me €513,32 (about $375,12) per year over a cheap PSU at full load. From that money I could buy 2 more platinum PSUs.
168  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Cheap PSU (2x 5850's or 1 5970) on: June 21, 2013, 07:31:42 AM
You can calculate the needed size of a PSU with http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

But remember: You want to run the PSU at 50% load to save energy. So if your PC needs 300 Watt, go with a 600 Watt PSU, especially if it's not a 80plus certified PSU. If you can go for a 80plus platinum PSU.
169  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: Mining-app for Android/ARM, you must be kidding me... on: June 21, 2013, 06:38:58 AM
Is that with Neon support compiled or without? Neon should give a big boost in hashrate.

Code:
./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=native -mtune=native  -mfpu=neon"
170  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: Mining-app for Android/ARM, you must be kidding me... on: June 20, 2013, 10:21:46 AM
Code:
root@beaglebone:~/cpuminer-master# ./minerd --user xxx --pass xxx --url http://xxx
[2013-06-20 04:19:41] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2013-06-20 04:19:41] Long-polling activated for http://lp2.abcpool.co:8371/longpoll
[2013-06-20 04:19:42] 1 miner threads started, using SHA256 'c' algorithm.
[2013-06-20 04:20:08] LONGPOLL detected new block
[2013-06-20 04:20:08] thread 0: 8449741 hashes, 316.41 khash/sec
[2013-06-20 04:21:07] thread 0: 18777202 hashes, 317.71 khash/sec
[2013-06-20 04:22:07] thread 0: 19095459 hashes, 319.49 khash/sec
[2013-06-20 04:23:07] thread 0: 19095459 hashes, 319.31 khash/sec
[2013-06-20 04:24:07] thread 0: 19095459 hashes, 319.48 khash/sec
[2013-06-20 04:25:07] thread 0: 19095459 hashes, 319.56 khash/sec
[2013-06-20 04:26:07] thread 0: 19095459 hashes, 319.50 khash/sec

That's using the generic C crypto.  It should do a little better using arm extensions.
Try poolers CPU miner, it supports ARM and ARM Neon extension (Cortex A8 and upwards)
https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer
maybe even the stratum support may work correctly now (it didn't when I last checked a few ago)
171  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: GUI MINER CRASHING! Solution? on: June 20, 2013, 07:03:00 AM
That's a very common problem with Guiminer. Better use some real mining software like CGminer or BFGminer. Those will give you a better hashrate than Guiminer.
172  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: Brand New GUI Mining Program - Need Opinions on Bitcoin Mining Strategies on: June 20, 2013, 06:58:40 AM
It looks like a mixture of Guiminer and CGminer or BFGminer. MPTS and MPDS sound like good strategies, I'm not so sure about the Found Block Strategy. I will give it a try when it's available.
173  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: How to use low performance mining devices on: June 19, 2013, 10:10:35 AM
I was running AndLTC on my HTC Desire HD for a while. It is submitting a share every 3 hours and sucks the battery empty in a short time. IMHO its not worth the hassle
174  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: How to stop a GPU from throttling? on: June 19, 2013, 10:02:55 AM
try playing with
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-target" : "75",
"temp-overheat" : "85",

in cgminer.config or bfgminer.config

and rise intensity as high as possible
175  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: How to stop a GPU from throttling? on: June 19, 2013, 07:01:42 AM
Set Powertune to +20% and rise the temperature limit to an insane level.
176  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Megacoin New Logo Contest on: June 18, 2013, 02:49:35 PM
177  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Free 0.1 LTC from Litecoin Kamikaze on: June 18, 2013, 08:39:38 AM
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178  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Computer crashes with three graphics running at the same time despite 1200w PSU on: June 18, 2013, 08:28:44 AM
Use a horizontal case (like Coolermaster HAF XB), not a vertical tower case. Or try watercooling your cards.
179  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is Linux Ubuntu the most secure OS to store my BTC on? on: June 17, 2013, 04:43:24 PM
The most secure OS? Probably OpenBSD or FreeBSD using jails. But I don't know if anyone has ported the wallet software yet.
180  Local / Altcoins (Deutsch) / Re: Neues Projekt (Münze) aus RU: Copperlark on: June 16, 2013, 07:39:48 AM
Im GUI Clienten. Im Config File weiss ich leider nicht was ich da eintragen soll.
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