Did he just try to prove that modern birds all came from the velociraptor?
Not necessarily the Velociraptor but dinosaurs. And not prove but simplified explain. The Velociraptor is just the one where good feathered Remains have been found. It sounds like you've read up a bit on dinosaurs but have some stuff confused. Birds descended from theropoda, okay. Not all dinosaurs. Yes, I meant those. Of course not all Dinosaurs  are you serious? Nobody can't be that hairsplitting. Sorry I'm not looking up every exact name. 2. Dinosaurs on two legs (like all birds today are on two legs)
a suborder of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs Birds evolved from Dinosaurs and are their direct descendants. In Fact a T-Rex is more closely related to a Turkey than to a Stegosaurus.
I'd love to see some scientific journals or something backing up such a bold claim. Or is that merely your conjecture? It not states the closer relation to the Turkey, but look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur#Taxonomy ( Tyrannosauridae ; Aves ; and Stegosauria)  What better proof could there be than a xkcd about it  I hardly call that hair splitting. A lot of people think dinosaurs are all part of the same family, many have no idea. How do I know that you aren't one in that mind of thought? And I hardly consider xkcd a scientific journal, and even they are specifically talking the sparrow, not the turkey. |
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Definitively bad day for semeone when he realizes whats going on. Probably 20+ Monarchs Someone? How about BFL just took the BTC they mined with your equipment and cashed out. |
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Did he just try to prove that modern birds all came from the velociraptor?
Not necessarily the Velociraptor but dinosaurs. And not prove but simplified explain. The Velociraptor is just the one where good feathered Remains have been found. It sounds like you've read up a bit on dinosaurs but have some stuff confused. Birds descended from theropoda, okay. Not all dinosaurs. Birds evolved from Dinosaurs and are their direct descendants. In Fact a T-Rex is more closely related to a Turkey than to a Stegosaurus.
I'd love to see some scientific journals or something backing up such a bold claim. Or is that merely your conjecture? |
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I think it's called "irreducible complexity" if I remember correctly and there are other examples of it.
That's also such a Phrase, but Creationists always think new species just pop into existence. That's not how it works. Let's go with you example of the feathers. 1. Dinosaurs had no skin like we, but scales. Now their where warm bloods, just like mammals. And like mammals have hairs their scales evoved into something to keep them warm. This where the first feathers. We know today that many Dinosaur species had feathers, of course by then they weren't as complex as the birds feathers today more like the feathers of the Ostrich  2. Dinosaurs on two legs (like all birds today are on two legs) where all hunters. They became very fast runners and jump attacked their prey. Like the Velociraptor. We know (from finds in China) that the Velociraptor didn't look like in Jurassic Park but more like this:   see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptorhttp://www.sdnhm.org/archive/exhibits/feathered/3. From there on the Creature evoked to make longer and longer and more precise jump attacks using their feathered arm to navigate the jump. And the feathers evolved with it. 4. Eventually this leads to the point where it was able to make short glides. From there real flight evolved. Birds evolved from Dinosaurs and are their direct descendants. In Fact a T-Rex is more closely related to a Turkey than to a Stegosaurus. Did he just try to prove that modern birds all came from the velociraptor? |
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I unlock iphones.
I have a cousin that is an "Apple Genius". He works at the retail store, at the genius desk I think they call it? Or the bar or I don't know wtf it is. Would that be the type of idiot you are looking for? He thinks bitcoins are stupid though.
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Time to update the thread.. 1PH.  1 PH/s party!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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PPLNS is *3%*, not 2%. My bad. Typo. But my point being, is it is less than the 5% PPS. Use PPLNS if you are with BTC Guild. |
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Would I benefit from a pool with no fees to get the most out of while I can?
Is there such a thing as 0% PPS? I think the closest you have is eligius's CPPSRB pool. Which of course isn't PPS. A few things to remember about BTC Guild IMHO. BTC Guild shares the transaction fees unlike many other pools. PPLNS only has a 3% fee. You get the NMC with it (1% ish bonus maybe) Pool has been lucky  103% average since difficulty change. That wipes out any fee. Of course, luck is subject to change. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools |
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I started mining just a few weeks ago with my new KNC Saturn. It hashes steady around 275-285Gh/s. I've noticed my 24 hour earnings just dropping like a dead horse. Is this because of the added hardware that is being introduced to the network and the difficulty rising so fast?
Would I benefit from a pool with no fees to get the most out of while I can?
Difficulty did change a few days ago, you will mine 40% less now. Pool choice is your own. If it is not 0% PPS you will have a high variance. BTC Guild being as big as it is smooths out variance a lot in it's PPLNS format, plus you get free namecoins. |
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I think that Bitcoin is as big as I think it is - a $2B economy with >10K businesses and hundreds of thousands of users. Based on data from http://www.similarweb.com/website/bitcointalk.org, it looks like the forum gets about 1M pageviews per day. Google:
how do I buy
look at what comes up
You do know that Google search results and autocomplete are targeted? If you look at Bitcoin all day, it will give you Bitcoin-related results... It has little to do with Bitcoin's popularity. ^ this I though people already knows this ^^ this again because it's important. That's true only if you allow Google to keep your search history That's not true either. Even if you don't have it keep your history, it keeps a history based on IP address. Try using a proxy and see how different your results are. |
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PH/s.
did we finally tap 1 Ph/s I haven't seen us cross it, it's hovering just below it. |
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It's (to me) more plausible that they are just incompetent They are very competent crooks. BFL was a scam from the very start. Depends what you consider a scam. I think BFL did a poor job delivering these products but it's not a scam. They did make advertise their product to perform under the most optimistic situation they didn't put a warning saying that performance and ROI would change by the time the products flood the market. I love how their website still lets you order products for delivery in 2 months and there is no way they can deliver in 2 months when they still haven't shipped April's orders yet. Then of course, they are taking preorders for their next gen stuff. I wonder if they can improve on being 12+ months late for this next set. |
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Vanity Pool is currently undergoing a big update. We are moving form BitcoinQT to Blockchain.info for our wallet services to speed things up. If anyone has unpaid work that they wish to be publicly available on the Pool, please check your work URL for the newest address.
How long will the transition take? |
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Right now, today, if you have no mining gear and a big pile of dollars, how many dollars would you have to spend to achieve 1BTC/day today?
(For our purposes, we can ignore the two-three-day shipping periods for existing equipment, and will not use pre-orders for equipment not yet built)
What is the cheapest we can do it today?
(Better hurry, in 3 more days it will cost a whole lot more)
I missed that part sorry. Still, you can pick up Asicminer blades for about 1 BTC right now, brand new, quick shipping, and that is a similar price point as the used stuff on ebay. 40% jump Sunday is gonna make some miners very sad. |
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"Price and difficulty do not follow each other"
you mean nobody found a relationship between them yet, doesn't really mean it doesn't exist
So... you've figured it out and are going to share it with us? Or, no one has found that relationship, so the answer to your last question, is still... surprise! no! |
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So, given all this data, how could we compute the best price for a BTC in current mining conditions?
Since the price or difficulty do not follow each other, no. And why are you assuming that BFL can deliver a product for that amazing price, and have it delivered before the next, say 4, 5 or 6 difficulty changes. By the time you sink 10 or 20 grand into generating 1 BTC a day, you probably won't generate 0.1 a day by the time they deliver. A better estimate, if you are trying to calculate it this way, would be someone who can deliver in 2 business days. That would probably be AM miners, but your cost is going to be higher. |
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Casascius has the same software in C#, to calculate everything, with 5 minutes of work you could have it loop to find any given key. Why would someone not pay $20 to have his code modified and accomplish the same, impossible feat?
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Doesn't surprise me. Absolutely craptacular bullshit only thrives in the absence of skepticism. And this is nothing if not absolutely craptacular bullshit. Nothing tops a conspiracy theory, where the theorist tries to control conspiracy theories on their theory. |
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The OP is right the fees are ridiculous, it essentially makes microtransactions impossible
Since bitcoin's entire purpose was to make microtransactions possible... |
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I think I've seen a complaint - is that the same as an arrest warrant? (I honestly have no idea what I am talking about here!)
Even if they aren't the same, an official complaint alleging all of the stuff, sure is a huge step to their story being much more than a conspiracy theory. The other thing, is the story has been picked up across huge publisher's across the globe. You don't imagine that a single one of them didn't do any due diligence? And if one of them happened to and it was complete bs, that they wouldn't publish that all other articles are bs? Again, fun conspiracy theory. But for me, I need a little more umph behind it before I start getting a hard on. You can't just say so. |
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