i was just joking.  If you search around the forums a bit you can find all sorts of stories of relationships ended or stressed out because of Bitcoin. As a married man my self I find that sort of thing funny. Sorry! |
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If hypothetically bitcoin fell to <$5 and stayed CONTINUALLY under $5 for 30 days (long enough for miners to get next electric bill) you likely would see some behavior change.
That's the key right there. Most people will stick it out at least until the next power bill hits and maybe even for two bills, hoping to see a turnaround in price or drop in difficulty that will keep mining profitable. There's definitely some people out there that will continue to mine regardless, but I bet some of the power goes dark after a while. For example, I'm running 11 GH or so and it's costing about $500/month with a great .085 cents/kwh power rate. If it gets unprofitable for me I'll still probably keep a GH or two running to help the network, but I can't afford to throw $400-$500 at it each month with no return for very long. You mean you're not one of those Folding @ Home guys, whose idea of fun is to spend their extra money on hardware to crunch numbers?  I'm not such a (what's the most derogatory word for geek or nerd?) that I'd spend even $20 on electricity for some silly distributed computing project. I'd rather take my wife out to dinner or ANYTHING I can actually enjoy. I guess I have a life... your wife was in the room with you when you typed that right? hahahhaha |
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if you are going to have enough mining rigs to justify spending $2000 of a setup fee, your going to need a decent amount of AC
run t
at least a 15k BTU window air conditioner if you dont have a central air system.
The cards generate a very high amount of heat, especially if you have multiple cards running together in the same rigs and in the same room. I have 10 GPU's for a total of 4 ghash and I use a 12.5 BTU fridgidaire A/C plus multiple fans.
You need to keep those cards cool not just to keep them going (they will crash if they over heat) plus they will die if you run them too hot for too long. Also the fans on the GPU's themselves will die if you run them too high.
I was lucky enough to start mining back when BTC was worth under $1 USD, I paid for my entire mining operation with the minings from one single 5870 (when btc hit $30+ I sold)
If you are looking for an investment you would be better to buy $2000 worth of BTC (or more ) than to invest in Mining.
the price of BTC is surely going to go up from this point.
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I have thoroughly tested all 11 of my GPU's with all different settings and conditions. I used to set memclock to 300, not sure why this has become the go-to number, but I have found 180 does not lower speed on any cards, increases speed on some cards (compared to 300) and of course uses less electricity and creates less heat. I have been mining for about 6 months now with these cards, and these are the optimum settings I have found. Hope this helps some of you as a reference. (GPU) | (Core/Mem/FanSpeed) | (Mhash/Temp) (4) Saphire Vapor-X 5870 | 970/180/75% | 445-470/60s(c) (2) AMD Reference 6870 | 1012/180/75% | 320-340/60s(c) (2) Saphire 6870 1012/180/75% | 310-320/60s(c) (1) Saphire 2gb 5870 Eyefinity Six Edition | 970/180/75% | 445-470/60s(c) (1) AMD Reference 5850 | 875/180/75% | 350-370/60s(c) (1) XFX 5830 | 980/180/75% | 305-315/60s(c) (note: the temps are low because I have very good cooling setup, including a/c and multiple fan exhaust system - you could never run this many cards in the same room as each other without air conditioning) and of course these speeds are all using CGMINER which is the best miner in the world. |
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im sorry that was a typo, the biggest and most recent wallet.dat I was able to recover is 608 KB
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Hi guys, I need someone who is really slick who can hex edit my corrupted wallet.dat - get the keys and rebuild it, I have another thread going I tried bitcointools, fixwallet.py and pywallet.py I cant even get it to load the wallet, I have been able to open it with hexedit but this is over my head please help! I have coins in that wallet and I am willing to share if you help me out! thanks, please pm me or email cnysensiblepc@gmail.com |
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thats not it, I wish it was that easy. I get the same error in linux I think the file is too corrupted i need some genius who wants to take the wallet file and hexedit it and get the keys out and rebuild the wallet
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i was completely wrong before when I said it was a permissions thing.
because its not the file is not read only.
I have no idea why, but when I use any tool at all on my recovered wallet I get above error
anyone can I help I will gladly pay you some coins, I recovered wallet.dat its 608 bytes but none of these tools will read it.
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damn, you know what I think the problem is? I can't change a system directory to not be read only, by default these tools look for wallet.dat in my user directory which is set to read only and which I can't change, not even on the command prompt with attrib -r
is there anyway I can run this fixwallet.py on a wallet.dat in another directory than the default one?
thanks
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as a matter of fact I get that same error when running any of the tools on wallet.dat  C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandr esen-bitcointools-45f5c00>dbdump.py --wallet ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this
again.C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandr esen-bitcointools-45f5c00>dbdump.py --wallet wallet.dat ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this again. C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandr esen-bitcointools-45f5c00> |
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Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
>>>
ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this again.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\fixwallet.py", line 61, in <module>
main()
File "C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\fixwallet.py", line 56, in main
rewrite_wallet(db_env, options.outfile)
File "C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\wallet.py", line 289, in rewrite_wallet
db = open_wallet(db_env)
File "C:\Users\Thomas Van Riper\Downloads\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\gavinandresen-bitcointools-45f5c00\wallet.py", line 26, in open_wallet
sys.exit(1)
SystemExit: 1
>>>
that is the exact error from the python window
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Hi cablepair,
Delete blk0001.dat and addr.dat. Then open bitcoin up again. Tell me if you still have the same error.
That did not work, thank you though yeah i had that happen, use bitcointools, run fixwallet.pytry what ineededausername says first. if that doesnt work there are a couple other tools, but that is how i fixed mine and had same error. i didnt do any of the striping "--noaccounts --nosettings --notxes --nopubkeys" but mine might not have been as corrupted. If you want me to fix it for ya, pm me. pywallet is a great tool as well. and you can just export your keys and import them in a new wallet. and then their is this tool, i havent tried yetwhen I try to run fixwallet.py it says ERROR:root could not open wallet.dat/main try quitting Bitcoin and running this again (but of course Bitcoin is closed) any ideas? |
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Hello
I have a problem for the Bitcoin geniuses. I had a Bitcoin wallet on an office computer with coins in it, well the network administrator decided he was going to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows 7 on it. So I used EASEUS recovery wizard and was able to recover wallet.dat. So I reinstalled Bitcoin and then copied wallet.dat into the Bitcoin directory and tried to run Bitcoin, bit Bitcoin wont run with all kinds of errors.
like this:
exception: 11dbexception DB:: open: invalid argument
I will gladly pay someone 2 BTC who can help me to recover this wallet and get the coins inside
thank you
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that is cool, except for the lie from Microsoft that they secured boot records in Windows 8 due to TDSS root kits / malware. Thats a super load of crap. Microsoft secured the boot record in 8 to prevent the Windows 7 loaders that provided free Windows 7 to anyone who wanted it. I love how Microsoft issues mis-information like this because they don't want to admit Windows is insecure. Now go download a penguin |
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ckolivas,
just wanted to thank you for this upgrade. I really like the way the temps/fan rpm is displayed in stats. I cannot say enough about how much I love CGMINER!
thanks again.
Mining at GuildMiners.com with 11 GPU's for a total of 4 GHash/sec
exclusively with CGMINER-2.0.2
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Considering I have been mining for about a half a year, I almost feel stupid for having to ask this question....BUT;
Why do some pools produce up to 10-15% stales at times, while other, using the EXACT SAME SETTINGS produce less than 1-1.5% ?
I have no clue what it takes to set up a pool for mining, but I assumed it was pretty standard yet I notice that some mining software is more friendly at certain pools than others.
On my PPS Pool, I am able to get away with about 1% stales (CGMiner kicks ass!), while on a Proportional Pool that I mine on, I get approx 10-14% Stales constantly and the only thing that differs in my settings are the login details......LOL
I used to notice the same while using Guiminer and switching between Phoenix & POCLBM, depending on which was faster on certain pools and generated the least number of stales.
Any comments ?
actually most pools are custom coded back/front ends many of the new pools use pool push but even with those they make a lot of modification and create their own custom front ends. Also large amount of stales could have to do a problem with the server that the pool is on cannot keep up or even connection problems. So to answer your problem it could be a number if different things and the best place to start would be that particular pools thread / operator. hope i could help... |
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