I signed up with Coinbase to buy some bitcoin and it is already day 4 and it is still in pending status. They are having problems. I can't afford to have such delays all the time and would like to know what other alternatives there are similar to coinbase? Obviously you can't outright purchase bitcoin with a credit card so that's why I added my bank account to coinbase to buy that way. Are there other places that allow you to add your bank account for funding to buy bitcoin right from the same place? I do like Coinbase because everything is right there and it is very easy and well priced but the delays are too much sometimes.

Is there an Armory request thread?

Not having a viewable conversaion rate or balance on what I'm putting it against makes me have to do math when I don't need to be. Being that BTC against USD changes so quickly, it should be a priority to put at least an average value of what each BTC is worth. There is plenty of screen space to do this, is it something difficult to program in?

Thanks Armory

I'm looking to buy some shares in maybe ASICminer. Is this still a profitable venture? I've never bought shares via/through bitcoin before so it is all new to me. I've purchased and sold shares of standard companies in the US but very low key and small return. Nothing big or risky. I have some money saved up, my BFL refund money which has tripled and of course some savings that I've held on to for a long time now. I won't blindly go into it without really knowing how it works, but what is a good place to start if I wanted to look into buying ASICminer shares? Would signing up with trading sites be advisable? I have signed up with a couple, but any that you guys prefer? I'm NOT looking to trade/buy/sell all day. I'd basically want buy some shares then long time after that...or until I want to sell. Thanks.

I find this thread interesting. I have a small forum that I run and have asked for donations to pay for the hosting fees. Once I accumulated  enough for the year I asked to cease donations. Is this forum just stashing money away from donations to pay for hosting services of course and for what else? If you guys have so much bitcoin and you are looking to divide it up because you have so much you really don't need to continue to take donations anymore, do you? Unless you are personally profiting your pockets with the donations. And this site also had advertisements on top of that. Looks like this forum is a money making machine here.

How are potential trustees properly vetted? Not by word of mouth or how much assets they currently have, I hope not.

What the hell? This forum is NOT on a dedicated server?

Auto starting services/programs with Windows is horribly easy.

The only thing that I can see people going for Linux is because it is free. With today's OS you can pretty much do anything and everything you can as with Linux. Mostly everything today is cross platform. Don't get me wrong, I run several Linux boxes at home, even my Newznab server runs Linux and my web hosting VPS run CentOS and they are great for that. I was just curious as why mining people opted for Linux, that's all.

Maybe one day Microsoft will release a FREE OS to the world.

Where are people seeing this $5000 price? I've checked their site out and don't see anything that says $5000. If anything all I get is a prompt asking me for a password.

BFL has taken the pre-order game to a whole new level. I've never seen so many people dump thousands of dollars into something that was just an idea that could so easily fail.  And here we are, months and months later at the same point as back then. I already got my refund back a little while ago and bought BTC right away. Since then it has risen to over 60 and I've made quite a bit of money already. I'm thinking of buying a couple Avalon's if I can and other things right now. If you order from BFL today you don't have to pay them anything, they just give you an order number...and if you don't pay you will lose your place in the queue if someone gets ahead of you. I'm far from being analytical or smart in the way the bitcoin economy works but in my opinion if you order from BFL now you will most likely have to wait maybe 6 months before receiving anything. By that time their first batch will have been out and delivered, Avalon's 2nd AND 3rd batch will be out hashing away too. So that $300/day money making machine is equal to a low powered video card at that time. Maybe you'll get $.50/day and that is being generous. Is it worth it? Not to make any money, but to fool around with it and do it strictly as a hobby.

Why does everyone want to use Linux with their mining gear? These days a Windows 7 machine can run just as efficient and stable as any Linux distro out there and you have all you need. What's the reason for using Linux at all besides being old school and really just liking Linux?

It is quite difficult to learn something by blindly reading a forum. Since you are unaware of what you are reading one post can point you into 30 different directions to learn more about the content in that post. Also when trying to figure something out or ask a question since you don't know it is hard to search the forum on something you don't know what to search for. That's why a lot of people just post the questions regardless if it has been out there or not. The forum has purge features and moderators to take care of spam, so let everyone post what they want, in the correct area if possible on this PUBLIC forum. If you don't like the forums "filling up" with nonsense then just skip over the thread. It's not like downloading on a 300 baud modem. Threads pop up almost instantly and isn't really wasting anyone's time.

I think Ebay is one of those places that needs to get shut down. If you want to buy something from someone, post it on Craigslist and take a chance of getting killed when you meet up.

I saw the first photo of the power plug. I get the end that plugs into the AVALON, but the other end that plugs into the wall is not what I use in my home - USA.

The attached picture is what I have at my home and that doesn't seem compatible with the power cord picture.

Ok, very nice. I did make a paper backup and have locked a couple copies away in very secure places. One thing I would have liked to see is at least what 1BTC is worth somewhere on the GUI. Just for informative purposes. That is one feature that Multibit has that I do like.

Thanks for the response.

That's just the payment processor, right? I'm not sure how it happened when people bought their Avalon's but weren't you taken to a payment processor like Bitpay or given an address to send the funds to? Bitpay is for merchants and I don't think they want everyone trying to make merchant accounts (because that's all they have) just to make a payment.

What is the speed of a 7970? MH/S? 600-650, I found it.

Thanks very much. Just over the last few hours I've gotten very familiar with CGminer and some of it's command line switches. Thanks.

I thought this was just another bitcoin client trying to wiggle its way through, and even as a novice/intermediate level user here with wallets/clients I have found this program to be very good. Before adding funds I'll always mess around with the client and see what does what. I see that I can create a paper backup from the wallet properties window, which is nice. I do have a question though, of course. When I clicked on "Receive coins" it keeps creating a new address. Is it always going to keep creating a new address when I want to receive coins? I did notice if I wanted to receive coins using an address that was already there I had to go into my wallet properties and select that address, then click on receive coins or right click and select receive coins. Is that the proper way to do it? Let's say I have 5 receive addresses in there. 2 have funds and 3 are empty. I can send funds to ANY of the addresses in my wallet, right? Is there a way to remove an address? Completely delete it, not just hide it. Is creating a new address everytime I select receive bitcoins a good thing to happen and is it a normal thing to do? I mean is it the norm to receive coins on a new address every time? So far, with my Multibit wallet I've been using the same address to receive my coins. I can almost remember the address by heart. Is that a bad practice to do? Is there a disadvantage to using the same address? Also, I did make a paper backup of my wallet am I now FULLY protected if I blow up my computer or my house goes up in flames? Can I retrieve my entire wallet, with ALL those receive addresses with just that paper backup I printed out? I did read something that said if I have multiple addresses and even if I did a paper back up I would still need to backup the keys. That confused me because I thought the paper backup of the wallet is for EVERYTHING, even including addresses that weren't even created yet. Which brings me to the next question. I make a paper backup of my wallet on Monday. Then I receive coins on Wednesday with a new address. Will that address be able to be restored with that paper backup I created on Monday?

Ok, sorry for string on with questions but from using and fooling around with this new client I worked up a little excitement and wanted to get all these questions out before I forgot. I'll be running into a lot of transactions soon with possibly a lot of coins so I want to be prepared for what is coming. And no, it has nothing to do with mining.

I'm also liking the cold storage feature here. I'm not sure I understand that %100 yet, but to me it seems like I can have like a savings account where I can't spend any money from but just keep an eye on it. AND still receive coins at that address. Is the cold storage feature for an entire wallet or just an address?

Ok, that's about enough for now. And I do want to say I was very skeptical before using the program but it does look like a winner in my book. I think once I get more used to it I'll switch everything over to this client and send all my current funds over to my armory wallet address.

Thanks

If I get my Avalon miner, what CGminer parameters will I need to use when to start mining in this pool?

I'm in the US. Will one of these work on my 15-20amp circuit? I have all 110V lines of course, regular house. Do I need to install a 240 or something?