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1841  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Ann]Purchase ASIC chips and assembly now:1,433 chips left. on: May 28, 2013, 06:33:52 PM
Since Avalon released their reference design does that mean it could be used to make 10 chip boards instead?  Would that be easier / more reliable than the Klondike design?
1842  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Klondike - 16 chip ASIC Open Source Board - Preliminary on: May 28, 2013, 04:01:34 PM
Where are you located? I might be able to loan you a scope if you're local.
1843  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Again, a block with 0 transactions is accepted on: May 28, 2013, 03:53:18 PM
I think DannyHamilton is right. If a non-empty block is mined right now, then the time distance from now until the next non-empty block is (which will include your transaction), on average, 10 minutes. If an empty block is found in between, then it's still 10 minutes.

If a miner has just mined a block which includes your transaction, and is about to broadcast it, but then it receives an empty block, it doesn't say "Oh dang. Someone found a block. Now I have to wait another ten minutes until I'l allowed to mine another block. Better shut off the ASICs until then so I don't waste electricity" No. It just keeps on mining and will mine a block with your transaction much sooner than that (on average, because it's already been mining for a while).


The miners producing empty blocks increase the difficulty.  So they do have an affect.
1844  Economy / Services / Re: [WTB] Mortgage Cosigner on: May 28, 2013, 03:49:15 PM
The mortgage company will ask to see your stubs or previous statements.  You can't just invent 2 years of income.

I don't follow. It is entirely legal to create your new company, as a sole proprietor, and then hire yourself to work for it. He hired himself for two years and paid himself x amount per month. He is paying taxes on this income, therefore it is all legal. If this weren't allowed there would be no small business owners.


Yes, but you'd have to start now and pay yourself for two years. He wants a more immediate solution.

1845  Economy / Services / Re: [WTB] Mortgage Cosigner on: May 28, 2013, 11:07:52 AM
The mortgage company will ask to see your stubs or previous statements.  You can't just invent 2 years of income.
1846  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Unverified transactions in Electrum on: May 28, 2013, 03:56:37 AM
It just happens sometimes, it can take hours, especially if your fee is low.
1847  Economy / Goods / Re: Radiation Free Air-Tube Headphones on: May 28, 2013, 03:46:00 AM
Quote from: grue
You can be sure that he'll ignore this post:
The frequency is the only thing that matters.  Frequencies above (or equal to) those of UV light cause cancer.  It's that simple.

holy crap you get more EM radiation at a higher frequency with a 60 W lightbulb (assuming 5% lightbulb efficiency and 100% antenna efficiency).


No, light bulbs output visible and infrared radiation.  And perhaps some 60Hz line noise.  None of which cause cancer because all of those are lower frequency than UV radiation.
1848  Economy / Goods / Re: Radiation Free Air-Tube Headphones on: May 28, 2013, 12:56:45 AM
The frequency is the only thing that matters.  Frequencies above (or equal to) those of UV light cause cancer.  It's that simple.
1849  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Ann]Purchase ASIC chips and assembly now:1,433 chips left. on: May 28, 2013, 12:41:33 AM
They're your change addresses.  Which wallet do you use?
1850  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Again, a block with 0 transactions is accepted on: May 27, 2013, 04:32:41 PM
the more likely explanation is that the block is mined by a botnet owner. if you don't include any transactions, you wouldn't need to verify them. if you don't need to verify them, you don't need to store the entire blockchain, which decreases detection.

Ah I've always wondered about those bitcoin botnets and how many computers they have working for them.  (And what percentage of compromised computers actually have a decent hash rate)
1851  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Again, a block with 0 transactions is accepted on: May 27, 2013, 04:27:06 PM
Does this just mean the transaction fees aren't high enough?  Shouldn't the fees be such that it's worth the overhead to include them in a block?
1852  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Should I run my $12,000 Mac Pro Xeon as a rig? Worth it? on: May 27, 2013, 04:21:57 PM
Didn't read most of your wall of text, so hoping I didn't miss something relevant. CPUs have been made obsolete in BTC mining, except in some cases of free electricity (unless you count pissing your landlord off) -- but even then, it wouldn't be worth your time.

You want the Radeon HD 5870s. 2 5870s = ~800MH/s = ~.0331BTC/day until difficulty changes. If you can run the cards for significantly less in electricity than revenue you'd be bringing in, then yes - it's worth it.

Yep, you'll make about $4 / day minus electricity.
1853  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: QR-Codes for addresses on websites on: May 27, 2013, 04:18:34 PM
What's wrong with just pasting the address into blockchain info and using the code that comes up for the address?

Am I missing something?

That works fine, e.g.:  http://blockchain.info/address/1PBH8ywfTHuS6qyxW8oSqaZb5w7spgWHwo
1854  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Just had 39.70 bitcoins stolen from blockchain account! on: May 27, 2013, 04:08:54 PM
Google authenticator should work just as well as a yubikey. Just remember to keep a backup of your key, or some one time passwords.
1855  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Will I be able to dual-purpose a mining rig for productivity/coding work? on: May 27, 2013, 03:44:25 PM
if these computers are being purchased from a grant, then it's not worth the risk.  it sounds like you're non tenured on soft money, and getting caught using NSF or NIH or even university equipment for financial gain and not to mention your grant overhead goes toward power.  it's one thing to run folding at home, but once you're trying to make money off of the computing power it's a bad idea.  imagine if you rented out computation time to other universities and just pocketed the money.
1856  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Will I be able to dual-purpose a mining rig for productivity/coding work? on: May 27, 2013, 03:44:35 AM
Yes it's all possible, just be careful -- if your company pays for the electricity they won't be happy if they find out.
1857  Economy / Services / Re: [WTB] Mortgage Cosigner on: May 27, 2013, 03:42:50 AM
So you have the money for a down payment, but no real job?  It's going to be real tough finding someone to cosign for you.  If you do find someone to do it, don't forget that you have to justify where your down payment came from.
1858  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What are you doing with your bitcoins? on: May 27, 2013, 12:35:06 AM
Here's my plan.

Buy 1 BTC through MTGox (when/if I get approved).

Trade/mine until I can afford a better miner.

Then I'll mine/trade/invest, and save 50% of the profits.

Use local bitcoins instead, much faster.
1859  Economy / Goods / Re: WTS pair of RARE Google Glass for BTC! NONE FOR SALE ANYWHERE! on: May 26, 2013, 11:13:23 PM
I read that Google wasn't allowing people to sell their glasses and was going to remotely disable them somehow.
1860  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcoin-qt - encrypted my wallet, now I can't get in on: May 26, 2013, 11:07:58 PM
http://www.btcpedia.com/secure-bitcoin-qt-wallet/

I'm sure the method for cracking bitcoind wallets will work on bitcoin-qt.  I'd recommend using something like electrum instead of bitcoin-qt, it seems to be much easier to use.
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