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Hi the blockchain.info wallet offers automatic email wallet backups. As emails are just sent in plain text does this mean anyone sniffing your internet traffic could intercept the email backup easily and steal your wallet? If so is the GoogleDrive backup option a better idea then email backups?
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I don't know if this has already been mentioned but it may be good idea to add a Bitcoincard ( http://bitcoincard.org/product/) radio transceiver. As it may benefit both devices if they could ad-hoc in the same network. Maybe if the Ellet has 3G and WiFi then Ellet's could act as a mobile gateway nodes for Bitcoincard's? |
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I don't know if this has already been mentioned but it may be good idea to add a Bitcoincard ( http://bitcoincard.org/product/) radio transceiver. As it may benefit both devices if they could ad-hoc in the same network. |
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Haven't read all pages in this post, but simply creating a faraday cage around your card (simple copper sleeve) would eliminate a store "snooping" on where you have been in the store, outside, etc. That is... until you go to purchase something.
Yeah it should have the option to turn the card off or at least the tracking off. Yes simple cover sleeve to act as a Faraday cage would also be a good idea to protect the card. |
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What? Why? Who should pay you for running a gateway?
My understanding is that merchants should provide gateway for their customers.
I see no reason why you should be payed for credit card POS terminal or bitcoincard GW.
I was thinking about providing the gateway myself, but area I live in is not worth it...
I agree if they only sell the cards via buying gateway nodes at first that should help early adoption. If they could sell each gateway node with five cards for <=$10 delivered that would really help early adoption. Also if they could do a deal that physical bitcoin merchants could give them out free or the change from a purchase on a free card that would help adoption two. |
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It's only a small amount of GBP/BTC on Intersango and today bitcoin is at its higest price in over five months  I voted that you wait until the weekend, but I actually just buy when my money gets to the exchange, and I do it pretty much regardless of what the price is doing. Once the bitcoins are bought I send them almost immediately out of the exchange. This for a few shares on the GLBSE and a very small hoard I've started. |
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It's only a small amount of GBP/BTC on Intersango and today bitcoin is at its higest price in over five months |
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There be no dividend this week as we had to send board #1 back to get it replaced with a new Rev4 board. So two of the new Rev4 boards were shipped on the 9th of June. On a good note the new Rev4 boards hash at 840MH/s up from 800MH/s and once we have the new bitstream the hashrate will be >1GH/s per board. So as soon as I receive them we'll be mining at 1680MH/s up from 800MH/s and then as soon as the new bitstream is released >2000MH/s.
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You can use "Anonymous Ads" can't you?
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The guy who sells it announced that already  How long until that new bitstream to take the boards to over 1GH/s@50W be ready?
That depends on E.T. and how soon he makes the bitstream available |
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What about Icarus boards - any chance we'll see a version of the bitstream for them?
I'd like to know when this bitstream will be available for the ModMiner - http://www.btcfpga.com/ |
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@||bit : hardcopy is lower NRE, with higher price per chip and lower performance, compared with a custom full ASIC. YMMV with different technologies and economies of scale.
@Shadow383 : no more news until we have final quotations from manufacturers. Each manufacturer has a different approach, which may lead to different price / performance on the final design.
Well my GLBSE listed mining company RSM will keep buying FPGA's until you have pre-orders ready. Hopefully you will take a better approach than BFL. Opensource hardware for opensource software for the win  |
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Project is alive and kicking. Not much news lately, so no posting. We are talking with 3 chip manufacturers.
Each need specific technical details before giving a quotation. As soon a manufacturer is elected, we will build a prototype to show. Pre-sales will come after that.
Any news on pricing/performance? Think they have stated ~8GH/s@~100W@~$3,000 Seems kinda high. Would such pricing be initial pricing to recoupe startup costs? I'd like to see it lower of course. My understanding of ASIC's are that they can be like 10+ times faster than FPGA (correct me if I am wrong). I'd therefore expect ABOUT a ten times H/$ ratio. However, BFL could produce FPGA's that hashed at 8GH/$6000 (i.e. 10 BFL Singles). That is half as good as the ASIC H/$... not a tenth (or fifth since they seem to have a supplier trick in how they acquire the Stratix III's). But even some of the other deals imply only a four times advantage of the above project versus 10+ times what I'd guesstimate. Any thoughts on that? I'd like a 4GH/s@50W@$1,500 or even a 2GH/s@25W@$750 version to make the initial cost outlay lower to attract even more miners in and not just a "few" big players. Hell, I think we'd all love to get 2Ghash for $750 Yeah if when ASIC's first come out if they can release an ASIC under $1,000 most (a lot of) hobby miners in the western world could jump on the bandwagon and not just the people with the prices of a BFL Mini-Rig to invest. Therefore keeping the blockchain diverse and not in the hands of just a few miners. Which could spell the end for bitcoin adoption. If they offer amazing rates like 100GH/s@1kW@$10,000 only it could kill bitcoin mining for most people and its bitcoin miners who are they biggest supporters of bitcoin. Reduce there number and reduce the number of bitcoin promoters and then also users. |
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How does the merged mining payouts work? I understand - It is very easy to start mining at P2Pmining. Just point your miner at: http://p2pmining.com:9332 and use your Bitcoin address as your username. Use anything for your password.- but where do the merged mining payouts go? You can register alt-coin addresses on your miner's tab. Where's is and/or what is your miner's tab? I've checked the website and there is no where to registrar. Thanks. -> 'Current miners' tab -> select your address/miner -> 'Register Merged Mining' tab N/p Thanks  |
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How does the merged mining payouts work? I understand - It is very easy to start mining at P2Pmining. Just point your miner at: http://p2pmining.com:9332 and use your Bitcoin address as your username. Use anything for your password.- but where do the merged mining payouts go? You can register alt-coin addresses on your miner's tab. Where's is and/or what is your miner's tab? I've checked the website and there is no where to registrar. Thanks. |
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Project is alive and kicking. Not much news lately, so no posting. We are talking with 3 chip manufacturers.
Each need specific technical details before giving a quotation. As soon a manufacturer is elected, we will build a prototype to show. Pre-sales will come after that.
Any news on pricing/performance? Think they have stated ~8GH/s@~100W@~$3,000 Seems kinda high. Would such pricing be initial pricing to recoupe startup costs? I'd like to see it lower of course. My understanding of ASIC's are that they can be like 10+ times faster than FPGA (correct me if I am wrong). I'd therefore expect ABOUT a ten times H/$ ratio. However, BFL could produce FPGA's that hashed at 8GH/$6000 (i.e. 10 BFL Singles). That is half as good as the ASIC H/$... not a tenth (or fifth since they seem to have a supplier trick in how they acquire the Stratix III's). But even some of the other deals imply only a four times advantage of the above project versus 10+ times what I'd guesstimate. Any thoughts on that? I'd like a 4GH/s@50W@$1,500 or even a 2GH/s@25W@$750 version to make the initial cost outlay lower to attract even more miners in and not just a "few" big players. |
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With it being opensource hardware anyone else can commission their own production run of the hardware so after the initial release get ready for loads of cheap(er) (official) copy's being released. Yes as the years go on production runs will get cheaper and hardware advances following Moore's law should happen. As with it being opensource hardware anyone can pick up on its designs to improve it and produce a new version. That is one of the main advantages of this project over other closed-source alternatives. With opensource hardware making this design cheaper so more widely used. Then if the bitcoin protocol is changed (which could wipe out any ASIC) it will more likely take into consideration the dominate hardware design of the blockchain.
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Once we get the new boards I'm moving the pool over to p2pmining - ( http://p2pmining.com/index.php - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66202.0). As its 0% fees and uses P2Pool so were supporting the bitcoin blockchain diversification. Also they merge mine BTC, NMC, ixcoin, i0coin and Devcoin blocks. One of the benefits of using P2Pool is >100% payouts as well as supporting the health of the bitcoin blockchain. I will continue to donate 0.1% of coins found to support the server. |
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How does the merged mining payouts work? I understand - It is very easy to start mining at P2Pmining. Just point your miner at: http://p2pmining.com:9332 and use your Bitcoin address as your username. Use anything for your password.- but where do the merged mining payouts go? |
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Project is alive and kicking. Not much news lately, so no posting. We are talking with 3 chip manufacturers.
Each need specific technical details before giving a quotation. As soon a manufacturer is elected, we will build a prototype to show. Pre-sales will come after that.
Any news on pricing/performance? Think they have stated ~8GH/s@~100W@~$3,000 |
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