My wallet.dat is located in default place on my computer running Windows 7. But you will never get it! I don't make mistakes like other users and I don't run malware on my computer.

The next big thread will be when someone securing wallet.dat will get lose all of his coins, when some piece of Rube Goldberg machine of security breaks.

1. This bald guy have no understanding how Bitcoins work.

2. He smoked way too much marijuana and made a sceptical opinion.

3. EPIC LULZ!

Overall chain difficulty, not quantity of blocks makes longest chain. Read the wiki!

No antivirus is going to protect you from being hacked. The malware writers use packaging and encryption to make payload undetected.

I feel somehow sorry for you if this is true story. Learn about real security, but I have no idea where. The books and online sources are misleading. I got my experience on computer security as computer repairman/gamer/nonstandart server hoster/disruptive scriptkiddie/botnet owner. More than 10 years of such activity btw.

I'm reading this and I'm somewhat surprised how large portion of bitcoin users is computer illiterate and talk about encryption, reversing, etc, to help in this situation.

The Windows can be secured, it's only misconfigured out-of-the-box.

Almost all hacks today happen because of user running the trojan executable file. Windows is only making this easier, no dependencies needed for TrojanDownloader.deb The author of this tread is no different. The infections in Temp folder are the actual remote access trojan files. Try to remeber what files you downloaded and from where. This might lead to initial source of trojanization.

Planing opening online Bitcoin business but unable to keep your own system secure? Probably this will be happening anyway, but this time it's only our own money, not your customers.

And you must stop using the infected computer and disconect it from network. As you are making this thread, the hacker might be watching your actions in real time and masturbating. He defineatly got epic lulz from your desperate and ineffective actions.

You will not know how the particular card behaves when mining unless you run the card with miner. If you can get the cards for cost of a beer, go get them. Or if you can RMA the card, you can also buy it. Otherwise the card is dead junk.

Artifacts in theory can cause work to be corrupted, such as missing found blocks and corrupted data. Faulty memory also can cause corruption and few MH/s slowdown.

You not only need 51% of hashing power, you also need software that have malicius behavior to disrupt Bitcoin network. 51% with corectly operating miners and pool software = no difference at all. And maximum you can do is denial of service for whole network. After some time people will leave the compromised pools and network will recover.

Best way is silently gain remote acess to owners computers. Smart people have measures against babuins with guns, such as disc encryption and other stuff.

Better create your own large pool and DDoS the others. There is no protection against powerful DDoS. Or even better don't do anything malicius to Bitcoin.

Other> National Socialist.

"Grassroots" will not appeal to me and my people. The grass is mostly useless plants that grows on uncultivated places. Roots is part of the plant that sticks into dirty soil. So it will associate with dirty and weak part of useless plant.

Internet money also will not work. For people still learning how to open Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, the "internet money" is all that can be manipulated by computer, from homepage of your online bank, to paypal and bitcoins. They don't get the difference at all.

My suggestion is to continiue call Bitcoins simply Bitcoins. When people ask what is so special about them, then start to tell all the unique differences one by one at the time. We call Bittorrent the Bittorrent, not small piecedistributed downloader or grassroots filetransfers.

Today buying .com .net or .org domain is a waste of money and can get you in trouble. The USA is confiscating the domains who are involved in practices not liked by us goverment. The bitcoin will sure be outlawed in usa if it became sucess.

Go for regional domains in second world countries. bitcoin.ch bitcoins.is bitcoins.se are viable options.

I see only four slots for double slot videocards. And yes, it is meant for GPU calculations in first place, thats why it is preconfigured with Tesla cards. I can imagine how these machines can be stacked for serious computing power and maximum of 50 bitcoins every 10 minutes.Bitcoin price is not tied to difficulty. Only available supply and demand for bitcoins drives the price.

If You have use for the hardware after mining become too dificult, it might be. But the dificulty is increasing rapidly and bitcoin value is uncertain.

You can add the other card for computer just fine. After all you just can go crossfire or sell the card to someone else.

80C is normal for HD5850 on full load. I have XFX 5850 Black Edition 765MHz running 79C at 80% fan speed. The card have Phoenix fan, not the stock one. I removed the case fans because they made noise when my computer is working idle without mining, so I need to manually increase the fan speed to 80% to compensate for poor airflow.

You are processing previous transactions and proofing them against attackers. Read the Wiki and or FAQ https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Mining

Edit: To the peiece of your mind - Bitcoin is open source software, so are the GPU miner software. You can examine the source code and compile it for yourself. No bruting or botneting.

The difficulty is high and getting even higher. I'm not sure the dedicated rig will pay itself of, unless you are intending to use it as 4way crossfire gaming computer after it became unprofitable.

Start flooding posts and offend administrators. You will get banned, works for me every time.

I got the new version working! What I did:

1. I run the DiabloMiner-Windows.exe from command prompt with all arguments needed such as -u and -p

2. I need tu manually specify -v 2 argument to use vectors. Without Vectors I have 248Mh/s, with -v 2 I finally got 282Mh/s instead of former 260Mh/s. The BFI_INT is a huge improvement.

3. I created .BAT file myself to run DiabloMiner-Windows.exe with all necessary arguments.No, I'm not so stupid. I know how to use and edit bat files from MS-DOS 5.0 times. I check they contents before I run them.

And Thank You DiabloD3! If I ever find coins with Your miner, I will send you some of them!

DFI boards have them, and high-end ASUS. There are few select models of MSI also. You probably just want to buy Gigabyte motherboard with fout PCI-E slots, this is more cost efective.

How can You get 350 MH/s from HD5850 without overclocking?

I was expecting large jump, but not so huge.

I was expecting to get my block about now, predicted by bitcoin calc average. I am past the 50% chance.

For some people it is get rich scheme. They invest real money in GPU mining hardware, but forget that there is only 50BTC generated every 10 minutes, and in preset time the reward will decrease to 25BTC and so on. Pumping large power in network only makes the whole network stronger, the powerful miner will enjoy his sucess for maximum of 2 weeks.

Better invest something in the real market. Not many of us are ready to sell expensive items or services for BTC. Yet selling your old computer for BTC can be more rewarding than mining and hoarding bitcoins, because if everyone start to sell valuable items for bitcoins, the value will skyrocket.

Now the odds for me getting one block is pretty small.