We don't know how it works. I'm a gun enthusiast and there could be a valid and legal market place for this. Why would this market be any different from any other? I've bought a gun online before, legally.
Pretty much there are 3 steps.
1). find and pay for the gun via paypal, credit card, OR BITCOIN
2). That FFL ships it to an FFL dealer near you
3). you go to your FFL and do the required paperwork. If you fail, you don't get the gun.
OR, if you have your C&R (curio and relic) FFL (federal firearms license) then you can get a C&R firearm sent to your house directly.
Or, in other countries it may vary.
Until we get more information on how it works, it's not fair to the market to automatically assume it's illegal.
if the mark up is 2 or 3 times or more than a FFL transaction then it's probably black market or 'buyer beware' a LE entrapment sting - that can be international personally I'm all for a free market in just about anything, but if this site facilitates postal kids going mi vida loco or the psychotically deranged tooling themselves up where as most country's jumping through hoops regulations would make this less likely then I'm not too sure that the benefits out way the potential losses though as always, what ever can be done will be done & things evolve to take account of that - ie, I don't see that if this is a problem then it's a Bitcoin problem, if it wasn't BTC then it would be some other form of semi-anon transfer made of which many already exist Like cash  I've not been on the site to see price. If anyone knows how to get on it, I'd like to check it out. If guns are shown with the serial number filed off, it's pretty obvious that it's black market. Fully automatics won't show up on here unless they're from outside the country. I'd be able to judge it better if I knew how to get to it. Also, Portnoy, they killed the registry because it's too costly to keep running and serves no purpose. Of all of the police I talked to, I got the same response. The registry does not matter to them because they have to go in expecting a gun regardless. If they go inside with their guard down because the registry shows no gun at that residence, then they may be in for a world of hurt. Also, I don't appreciate the snarky comment about gun owners being red necks. |
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Having a government keep tabs on who owns what guns helps solve crime? maybe...
16 year olds should not be allowed own a fully automatic guns? maybe... Registration, like one does with their cars, is another matter. Helping to make people responsible for the guns they buy. You are perhaps a Canadian like I am and disagree with the neocon Harper killing the gun registry. but still, [ come on ]... "drugs, guns, and gambling for anyone and everyone!" is this our new slogan?
No, but something like "Its your money. Do what you want with it" would work for me. If someone commits an illegal act... murder or assault etc. then charge them for 'that'. The fact that someone owns this or that type of currency shouldn't be cause to assume they will commit an illegal or immoral act. Dont want to steer this too far off topic but why would anyone disagree with killing the bloated, inefficient, and ineffective Canadian long-gun registry? Handguns are still registered and still are subject to a different license and other authorizations to transport. The long gun registry did nothing to prevent crime. Some say that police would know if someone has a gun before they show up. There are two issues with that. 1). many people never registered their guns and 2). criminals don't register their illegally owned guns SO police need to go in expecting to see a gun regardless. It was a total waste of tax-payer's dollars. I'm glad it's gone. |
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We don't know how it works. I'm a gun enthusiast and there could be a valid and legal market place for this. Why would this market be any different from any other? I've bought a gun online before, legally.
Pretty much there are 3 steps.
1). find and pay for the gun via paypal, credit card, OR BITCOIN
2). That FFL ships it to an FFL dealer near you
3). you go to your FFL and do the required paperwork. If you fail, you don't get the gun.
OR, if you have your C&R (curio and relic) FFL (federal firearms license) then you can get a C&R firearm sent to your house directly.
Or, in other countries it may vary.
Until we get more information on how it works, it's not fair to the market to automatically assume it's illegal.
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No that will be when ASICs come out. (soon)
do you have information on ASICs currently being developed? on a side note, total cost of ownership as you scale needs to be looked at when comparing FPGAs to GPUs. with GPUs, your going to have to invest far more in support hardware (motherboards, cpu's, ram, etc) than you will with FPGAs. as an example, apparently you can run 100 of these singles off of one computer (1 CPU, 1 MOBO, 1 HDD, etc) where with GPU's, every few that you want to expand to, you have to buy another MOBO/CPU, etc. so comparing them 1 to 1 is only valid up to say 3 units (or whatever number of pci slots modern mobo's have generally), after which the cost of FPGAs seems to become much cheaper than expanding with GPUs. But you can use a computer with 4+ GPU's for something else. Good luck using the FPGA for anything else but BTC mining. |
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You should start rolling out pre-compiled compressed files or something. It's getting above my knowledge, lol!
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I wonder if the value is going to go up now  |
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I wonder how much power it saves not having 100% cpu usage on one core. Probably worth more in savings than the 8-10mh/s drop per card.
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gotchya. So uninstalling and reinstalling CCC 11 would resolve it then I assume? I wonder what they screwed up, lol.
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I just updated to CCC 11.12 and I'm getting about 10-15mh/s less now. Anyone else experiencing that? The only other changes I made was maybe a .NET update and a smaller PSU because my other one died.
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When I run both 5830's, the PSU fan speeds up so it's audible. Running only one does not cause any issues. I'll just run one card for now. Yay ultra.
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So my Ultra 1050w PSU died and I swapped in my old corsair 550w. The question is, do you think a 550w will hold up on a system with a core 2 duo running at 2.4ghz, 4gb ram, 2x radeon 5830's, a 10,000 rpm hdd, and a 7200rpm hdd? I don't want to kill the machine but I do want to try mining. According to the calculator here ( http://educations.newegg.com/tool/psucalc/index.html) I'd be running at 659 W. What do you think? |
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Anyone selling any minecraft giftcode?
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I didn't read the notes before upgrading. Just backed up my wallet and installed. It's all working fine or seems to be. I'm not worried about having been hacked. Is there anything that I could have bungled up? RTFM fail |
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and it's over. I missed the whole thing. I thought this was going to take a lot longer
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When are we going to be seeing 25btc/block? I can only imagine that the difficulty is going to go through the floor when that happens.
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so, how about those site upgrades?
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I'd say that's a first. what rate were you mining?
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