Lots of boinc projects out there and for the CPU cycles you could sign up to those anyway (like malaria control or climate prediction).  Normally there is a project to suit most people.

For GPU it's divided into two camps: ATI and nvidia.  Nvidia goes well on primegrid and GPUgrid.  ATI works well on Milkyway (mapping the galaxy) or Collatz (math conjecture).  There are others.

Currently winter here and yes it does wonders heating the house, but beware that fan noise tends to annoy the rest of the family.  My main computer room sat at 24C (75f) last night with the window open, and runs 28C during the day.

With luck, I would make 50 BTC from every block and create 1000 blocks per hour - with luck.

Without luck, or something akin to the  law of large numbers (can't recall if it's the weak or strong version, but read average) you will on average get around 1/day.

Have you lodged this with Gox, or just here on the forum? 

Your point is valid, and it also depends on the person and what they are comfortable with.  Still, you don't necessarily have to be known by name to get into trouble - random people on the street can cause that easily enough.

Yes, but then I expect the current mayhem to die down, and in a couple of years it will be "normal" again and the paper losses will turn into profits.

My other hobbies are also expensive, that's why I have a day job.

Are you communicating with them directly, or hoping they will hear you from your front door?

Most exchanges are running a simple percentage fee and adding extra traps into their code like that could be a fairly major change, especially as they get paid on the basis of volume.  They would not lightly drive their revenue stream away.

btw - 20 or 50/day might be better - it's not actually hard to trade 10 times in a day when markets are moving.

If you want to find someone, the name on the internet doesn't hide much.  Is my name real? Does it matter?  I'm easy to find and I haven't been attacked by a psycho axe murderer (yet).

Um, I spend about $500/month on electricity (and at a minimum half of that is computers and probably closer to 70%).  Also, I am down a  few thousand dollars in the bitcoin market based on the current cash-out price.

But I do this for fun and that's the trade-off.

Just as an observation, OP was 2 June and now it's August - what happened to the police bust after one week?  Are we still waiting, or did the OP get jailed for some attempted framing.

I'm probably a "casual miner", and the computers do a nice job heating the house - at the moment I cover my electricity bill (for computers and other appliances), so it's ok.  However, I have more coins purchased with actual cash and watching the panic on the trading screens is fun.

There are over 50 BOINC projects and some are better or more "worthwhile" than others.  SETI might be well known, but many in the BOINC community dislike it for various reasons.

However, running computer time for things like SETI (normally CPU) doesn't pay their bills and feed the interns who often do the day-to-day work.  Donating some of the GPU generated coins helps.

Ride the roller coaster - it goes down, it goes up.  It's fun playing with something with this level of volatility (with real money).  The discussion about walls/levels is nice and fake as people can swap in/out their bids/offers.

I'm meeting some people tomorrow who run a "prediction" site locally who are thinking about adding BTC to their site.  They are licensed as a futures market/trader so could do it.

Yes.

There can be some mobo limitations, but I have several mixed rigs, including a HD5xxx/HD4xxx/Nvidia triple combo.

Konnichi wa.  Nihongo chotto  

edit: I don't have kana type installed on this computer

A quick search shows Joel is right (2 PCIe 8 lanes).

The other issue plugging GPUs into this (bandwidth should not be a problem) will be power draw.  The normal draw is 75W from the mobo, so if you plug in two GPUs it will need possibly double that.  The connections may not be designed to handle that power.  I suspect that's what burned my dell poweredge serve motherboard when I was playing with risers last year - i.e. too much current and slow over-heating = crispy fibreglass and lots of smoke => trash.

Many riser/splitters convert PCIe to PCI.  I've yet to find a device that does PCIe to PCIe splits.  Most useful I ever managed was PCIx to PCIe running GPUs in P3 servers.

Sorry for joining late.

As someone who actually puts money into ventures, I find VC analysts quite irritating - they don't understand what risking your own money is like and often suffer a gap between their models and the real world.

Personally, I find TradeHill ok.  In my dealings with them they are smart enough to listen and act as appropriate.  Dwolla have made a big mistake and it will cost them down the track.  Yes they have some PR from this event, but have not exactly covered themselves with glory either.  If I was investing on either/both sides of this, I'd be pretty pissed off with both companies, but would pick TH as being on the ultimately winning side.

If I work at paid employment for dollars (mining), and save some of my net income to spend later (not selling), therefore I am speculating dollars following the above logic.  Better go and tell the savings industry they are rampant speculators