Assume that part of all the subsidies you have received cover the 0.5% default donation, get over it, and continue mining with p2pool, keeping the 0.5% donation enabled.  I also agree it should be added to the first post for people who don't read basic instructions for software they are running. |
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Damn, you people are fast. Maybe the OP wants to update with their statement:
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http://bitcoinmedia.com/juice-rap-news-joins-bitcoins-struggle/Juice Rap News joins Bitcoin’s struggle
Juice Rap News relies heavily on viewer support and is fortunate to receive donations from people all around the world – it helps us to remain completely independent.
Most donations, however, come to us via PayPal (booo), and since the illegal banking blockade on WikiLeaks, in which PayPal still participates, we have become more and more uncomfortable with this situation. Over the past year we have also been receiving regular and sometimes rather insistent emails asking why on earth we were not accepting Bitcoin donations. (“Do you accept them?! If not, will you?” – is one of the latest).
It was awesome to see so many people being passionate about the value of a system which allows them to support causes they love without enriching the Reichstags of PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, etc. Whilst we can’t yet afford *not* to accept PayPal entirely, it still being the most popular form of donation, we understand that Bitcoin at least gives people the choice to use other methods to support us.
We want to thank the many people who took the time to write to us to explain how the system worked and to Amir for helping to set ourselves up. Apologies for having taken so damn long to join the Bitcoin community; had we realized just how incredibly easy it was, we would’ve done so a lot sooner. Importantly, if alternative currencies like Bitcoin can gain traction and become increasingly accepted worldwide, this could become a true source of competition for the current monopoly.
The internet and people’s passion and creativity have made possible new and ingenious systems – like Wikileaks and Bitcoin – with the potential to seriously challenge and reform the monopolies on the flow of information and wealth which have ruled the world for centuries, and which are now tightening their grip on anyone who threatens their hegemony and the political structures that prop them up.
We figured that the only way to make this alternative future a reality is to join the movement and help the Bitcoin community grow. We are excited to finally be part of it and hope to play a part in increasing its popularity amongst all those who are not yet aware of it. Thank you for all your support: we’re proud to finally be able to accept Bitcoin donations.
Giordano & Hugo ~JuiceRapNews
Juice Rap News – the news show for the Internet nation, delivering a bulletin to restore your faith in the fourth estate, make you nod your head to the beat even as you shake it in disbelief. Juice Rap News is co-written & created by Giordano Nanni and Hugo Farrant in a suburban backyard home-studio in Melbourne, Australia.
The "Rap News" folks are officially accepting bitcoin donations. http://thejuicemedia.com/donate/For anyone unfamiliar, they have a long running series of really smart news broadcasts and social commentary in a creative modern format, with some refreshingly honest insight! They have featured appearances by guests including Julian Assange and Noam Chomsky, as well as others.  http://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia
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Bitcoin will be really useful as a "crypto gold standard" to back alternative currencies and barter systems like this. You could seed new currencies with a fixed amount of BTC. Of course you would have to establish trust in the issuer of the currency not to spend the balance, but there are various means to do so (combined keys, multi-sig, etc) and that is independent of how bitcoin could provide a value base. It also enables valuation and global use of any such currency.
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Hi guys, I created a fork and branch (comp_wif) with a few changes to add support for compressed public keys. Bitcoin 0.6+ utilizes compressed pubkeys when generating new addresses and the dumpprivkey/importprivkey commands support both formats. Naturally I wanted my favorite bitcoin utility to support it as well. This is actually the first time I've used github, and it's been years since I did any java programming, but I think it was trivial enough to implement without making too much of a mess! I really only changed the "Wallet Details" tab. It now accepts and displays WIF keys with the compression marker and displays the corresponding compressed public key and bitcoin address. I think I managed to avoid introducing any errors but if anyone would like to give it a second look I'd appreciate it. Latest commit: d2ba2803 0ebfba0b https://github.com/coretechs/bitaddress.org/tree/comp_wifI used the following test cases: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28648286 |
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The original blue heatsinks seem to work pretty well, do you have any remaining? What brand are they?
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If one of 3 VRMs is missing in GPU-Z that is a good (well bad but clear) sign.
It's better than electromigration because you can still use the card and go for max hash/watt on air by underclocking/undervolting as long as the functional VRMs don't get overloaded. It's unfortunate for your water-cooled setup though. Good luck in either case. |
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One of my 5970s has a similar problem. It wont mine at 725mhz/150mhz mem/1.05v without crashing, but it runs fine at 690mhz/150mhz mem/0.95v. I always assumed it was a fried VRM because the GPU temps are fine.
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 Much better. I might make a hood for it out of cardboard or something, but there is good airflow over the top and bottom of all the boards as it sits. I used 1 1/8 in. standoffs ($6 for a pack of 25 on Amazon, might be cheaper elsewhere) that seem to be almost the perfect height for using 2x 80mm fans. edit: +1 piece of card stock  |
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On an unrelated note, I ran the 180mhz bitstream for about 8 hours with no invalids so this afternoon I switched to the 200mhz bitstream. FWIW these are unmodified and are still using the thermal adhesive tape for the heatsinks that they were shipped with. The room is about 60F (16C) which is probably helping a lot.  |
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50% is a damn lot. Both the board interface and MPBM itself currently aren't really optimized for P2Pool, but I wouldn't expect that there are more than like 30% stales. I hope we get down to those usual 10% one day...
How did you determine the number of stales? How many of them are dead on arrival? Can you paste the p2pool output, ideally an excerpt containing some dead on arrival stales, to get an idea what the timing of those looks like?
I've had p2pool running for the rest of my farm so I'd probably need to isolate the FPGAs to their own p2pool instance to get clean data from the p2pool side. The rejected numbers I saw were just in MPBM - when total accepted shares got to 80 there were 40 rejected. This is with the FPGAs on the same machine as p2pool / localhost connection. |
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+1 excellent trade with user Pipesnake. I sent BTC first and he shipped everything as promised. Thanks again!
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fizzisist - I don't mind if you use the pic of my setup but as mentioned I don't plan on running them like this for long and have plans for a much improved layout. I have everything running on linux and my only problem was that I had missed the step to run "rmmod ftdi_sio" prior to loading the bitstream because I was too eager to get started! PEBKAC
TheSeven - I'll definitely be tinkering with MPBM and p2pool once I have some time. Right now I'm running MBPM on the same machine as my p2pool+bitcoind instance and each x6500 is connected to native USB port, so that should rule out most latency issues.
edit - I was able to set up p2pool using the defaults but was seeing 50% of shares rejected. After reading some comments on the MPBM thread it seems this may be expected behavior.
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I just set up MPBM yesterday and have to say I was impressed. I will definitely be using this software in the future. Donation sent, thanks!
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Hi guys, happy to join the X6500 miners. It's a little hacked looking right now but I have 4 units up and running. I'm waiting for parts to build a proper/permanent case but for now I just loaded the 166mhz bitstream and will run them overnight. MPBM is showing 1333MH/s with ~400 shares accepted on each board and no invalids so I think it's looking good so far.  I'm just mining with gpumax & abcpool right now because I haven't looked into what is needed to get p2pool mining working properly. Any tips on configuring MPBM for p2pool? Long-polling config, etc? |
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If you are worried about your memory consider that pass phrases can also be easily printed. There doesn't need to be any indication that it is a bitcoin wallet/PK either, just gibberish on paper. You can spend it pretty easily by importing the key with pywallet or the native privkey import coming in 0.6. edit: I do agree that a lot of people may screw up using passphrase wallets but for the rest of us it's very easy and very secure.  |
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