At £344.58 one might be better off buying several smaller power supplies, name brand 500W and 550W power supplies seem to cost about £40 or £50 or so so one can have 7 for the same outlay in cash.

My first rig used an expensive 1200W PSU... which lasted about 18 months.

Subsequently, I have used multiples of 500W and 550W power supplies without any failures. I have a spare 550W Antec standing by for when one does go down, and have still spent less cash than if I had bought big PSUs.

Some sort of unbacked online currency international internet security expert detective?

+1

You can be sure that ngzang is honest guy and he keeps his promises. Other option is probably to try BFL and there is a big chance for you never to see your ASIC and your money also:)

Betting on Avalon is safe in terms that you either will get ASIC (in case we reach 300 pcs preorder amount) or your money back to the last cent - coin.

If the reason for Amir and co for not distancing themselves from the conference is in fact that it's their own conference aka "Intersango's Bitcoin conference" you shouldn't ask yourself why the conference wasn't cancelled (next necessary step imo) but what the hell you are still doing there to support it.

On an upside, this conference will give people a chance to confront team Intersango with the issue in person. They really must have balls, I'm telling ya.

A good rule of thumb is to assume anyone with a "VIP" is a scammer

After hinting at this for months on BTC Guild, I have released a full spec of the new mining protocol I have been working on with ArtForz.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108441.msg1178526#msg1178526

If you are a mining software developer or pool operator, please take a look at the new spec, and give any feedback/suggestions if you have them.  It is not yet set in stone, though we've gone to great lengths trying to keep it as trim as possible while providing all the features miners expect out of mining software these days.  We've also added some server management features that can greatly assist pools for load balancing and maintenance restarts.

What a load of foolishness this is.

First, that we have an obvious well developed sock-puppet posting this kind of crap. And secondly, that anyone would sign on with this garbage. Bitcoin Magazine without Matthew as the spiritual figurehead, AND THE ONLY STAFF MEMBER DOING FUCK ALL ABOUT PROMOTION is dead. It may hang around to cough up a couple more furballs of issues, but it will be gone before Issue #8. And all the poor saps who paid for a year's subscription will be posting threads calling scammer and meanie and how can we not have a bitcoin advisory oversight board that prevents this kind of heinous crime from happening...

This is bullshit. Checking through the body of work by elux, I am struck how this user only ever chooses to quote one other member. A member whose opinions elux seems to hold in very high regard, one would almost suggest worshipful regard. And coincidentally, that same adored member seems to post with startlingly synchronicity right around the same time elux decides to pen another love letter.

So the Hate Matthew circle jerk is desperately seeking validation by crafting puffery and blowing smoke up everyone's ass in a play to remove Matthew? Gosh, doesn't that just sound like the way we do business around here at the Bitcoin Corral? Always making sure we have somebody to blame when we look stupid, and always believing the fairies that promise us untold wealth. You better hope that the Nigerian 419 scammers never hear about this community, you dumb fucks would start pooling bitcoins to get that $45 billion in gold bullion that is stored in a trunk box out of the Prince's father's office so fast it will our heads spin.

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Well if thats the case..  I guess its an issue.. lmao..

But if there is a way.. Im happy to sell it...