Looks like someone has been doing their financial reading.   I like this, if I had the risk capital to spare, I would actually take you up on this contract.   Love seeing organic financial innovation on here, its a beautiful thing.

Make sure your in your user's folder as well.  That is what threw me off, I forgot how much I love BSD.

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Well put.    Either you are here to support this community and this movement or not.  Getting into an debate over whether marijuana should or should not be federally legal and then justifying your position by using Bitcoin to further it, in my opinion, its political and not for the betterment of bitcoin and what we are trying to do here, provide a truly viable alternative international medium of exchange and measurement of value (atleast that is why I think).

These types of ideas of course could be done with this and another of other means but you should really think hard about how that would reflect on the rest of us.   I know you think I am wrong about this but trust me, I am correct if you are looking after the interests of our group and not just some members.   

That is the key statement, Linux.   In a Windows I did a bunch of research and it seems to point to issues between the jump to the 7XXX series.

Hope that helps, time to whip out BAMT.

Dalkore

You might want to consider putting the 7970 into a separate machine.   From what I have read, the drivers that are optimal for the 6XXXX series cards are different that what is best practice on 7XXX series cards, especially the 7970.   Just a thought.

Dalkore

Found it, thank you so much.  I love the command line, I forgot about that find command.  Worked like a charm.

Hello,

I am having a problem with an old version of the Bitcoin client I installed when I first got involved with the project  (0.2 for OSX - came out in early 2010)?    I have opened the container of the app to see if it was in there but no luck.   Where would it be?   I have some bitcoin that were sent to it but it now will not update the block-chain (I am at block 168K, and its hung-up there) far enough to get the coins so I can send them to another wallet.   

FYI:  I have tried wireless and wired network connections, along with port forward to see if it was that but it will get connections to the network, just will not grab anymore blocks.


Thank you in advance,
Dalkore

I just logged in and its online (1:07pm PST)

I don't want to weigh in on the political statement you mentioned, not my place.


I will say, yes, think Barbra Walters and those types doing a story on this.    We don't need more bad press on how Bitcoins can be used for another <insert random illegal or quasi-legal transaction>.  We want to put a foot forward that shows we are pushing into the light and we are behind Bitcoin because of the financial alternative system it provides savers and businesses.   Being this is the in the epic-center of the movement, we need to assume people are following the development in Bitcoin from here.  

I really want Bitcoin to succeed even more than it has, this doesn't help.   Things like this will force agencies to try to disrupt one of the most important and vulnerable elements of Bitcoin.   FX exchangers like Mt Gox, Dwolla, Bit-Pay, Bit Instant, etc...   They tie this solidly to things like this and it will be all the justification needed to block or make it really hard to get currency in and out of the economy.

Dalkore

Do you even understand why I made this statement?  Think about the average person that has no opinion of Bitcoin and then reads about how people are using Bitcoins to fund a operation like this?   Stuff like this will just bring bad press to the community.   If you don't even understand that is a likely possibility, I don't know what to say.   For me, someone coming here to fund this type of project is not coming to the community because they support the cause of the reason of expanding the transactional use of Bitcoins.   

You may want to throw it back at me, with myself and partner running a mining operation but we do process transactions and provide extra security to the network at the same time.


D

See this is what is going to make it harder for all of us.  STAY AWAY.   Can't you just hear Barbra Walters doing and expose using this as content.  Smarten up people, please.

Dalkore

This worked and I am now at 685 memory clock and 1050 gpu clock with a good temperature and 630/Mhash per card.   Thank you much.  I learned a bunch and now feel much more comfortable.   I am going to work on more tweaks and I'll post updates if I get anything note-worthy.

Dalkore

I am close to finally having my specification to where it needs to be.  The last item that is giving me problems is this:

I can not seem to be able to lower the voltage in a windows 7 (32 bit) environment.   I am using CGminer and Catalyst 12.3 with no afterburner.   I did have AB on it before but when I lowered the voltage, it never actually changed with the GUI interface.   Is there a special order of operations or a certain way I need to do things to get the voltage down?   The same goes for lowering the memory clock as well.

Suggestions? (People with 7970s only please)

Dal

UPLS?

Dal

Ultimately, you don't need them.  But having smart money invested and talking positive about Bitcoins, makes it more accepted and harder for real hardcore regulation.  We really to take the reputation of BTC very serious or it is going to continue to get this label of unsuitability.   Once you can label something negatively, it makes it easier to conquer because the average person won't give a care when they try to hamper operations. 

You have to realize what direction the wind is blowing and that direction is more tracking and control.  This is in exact contradiction of this policy.   


Dalkore 

@proudhon

Well one of the biggest and vaild complaint Mr. Bromberg had is that there is no floor under Bitcoin which institutional investors can depend on so they could make long-term investments in Bitcoin.


Idea:   I think we should think about creating an actually Bitcoin Bank that would use part of its capital to actually back the Bitcoins they hold.   I was thinking Miners could donate 1% of their BTC income to help get it stated.   I would actually purchase gold bullion and store them and have the backing the bitcoins in the bank's digital vault.  As these deposits increase, we would use traditional vetting processes to assure that these bitcoins are not being used for any illegal transactions.   Making a chain of custody would go a long ways.  What is nice is this would be a central institute that could operate but not take away from the anonymous nature of Bitcoin.


Thoughts?
D     

You have to remember that is in its essence is a political movement and much as its a commercial movement to bring power back to individuals.   

With that said, you need to have a intellectual group in this movement to help give guidance and work through issues that will come up at some point.

Case & Point: Occupy movement, it was doomed to fail because it was a movement with attributes that doomed it.   1.)  A leadership-less movement, no consensus, no real goal to achieve, means there is no endgame place.   2.)   No real straightforward message, it was a movement that had no single purpose so that is could be anything to anyone, this means in effect it was nothing to no one.   They had many low hanging fruit they could of went after to build credibility and that would increase exposure and in the end, give them more political power to affect change.

We need attainable goals politically as well, ones that we generally agree on.   Something we repeat to all media so it is to give us a consistent message.   Almost daily I read more "hit" stories on Bitcoin about all the bad things it is or can be used for.  If we don't stand up and say, yes that can happens in dollars and bitcoins but that is not what or why we do this, we will just be branded that way and that makes it all the easier to bring draconian regulation against this growing movement.


Thoughts?
Dalkore

It is safe to say that all those miners are aware of this and have plans in place for that announcement.  I am going to check the charts and see the damage.

-D 

Even if this was the case (certainly there are signs supporting this), I would see this area as something they would come after Bitcoin and other alternatives with force.  This is really powerful stuff we are trying to make work here and because of its highly disruptive nature to the existing power-base, we need to be smarter than most.  I see too much bravado on this issue in here to give me any comfort.   I support this movement like you don't know, if you saw my reading list, you would understand. 

Dalkore

When is comes to money and how it is controlled and who controls is, philosophy and ideology are all the matters.   The powers that be "will" have something to say about this and it will determine if this is an above ground, underground or some sort of grey area in the future.   The more we are proactive on accepting this and doing something, the better the future will be in the long run.

The argument you give is part of the standard personal liberty argument.  The is fine and dandy and I personally have sympathies in that manner after being a serious student of history.  BUT, that doesn't matter when your not the one making the rules we are to play by and the rule-makers have enforcement power as well.   Don't think standing strong and being brave means no one will get run over.  We need to be smart and work together to get a solution at least a large majority of us is willing to accept.  I think about this on a daily basis when it comes to Bitcoins future.

P.S.  If anyone would like to discuss this in a more private manner, please contact me and we will set something up.


Dalkore