I have never used bertmod.

I have a stock Saturn running stock firmwares, currently 0.98 I think.

I do not know for sure but it seems possible that the problem might not have started until they put a real cgminer from ckolivas instead of their own version.

I do not know though, I just vaguely have impression that at first it went many days but lately I am lucky to get a day or two out of it without it dying, and sometimes it dies within hours of a restart.

-MarkM-

Then code it. Once people see working code maybe they will believe you are not just another bullshit pie in the sky idea-person/marketer trying to get other people to work for free on some crazy crap idea you think is so great.

-MarkM-

Since all the birthday collision solving algorithms one can find on Wikipedia do without using massive memory, usually just using a couple of pointers they call "hare" and "tortoise", why is it that this momentum thing does supposedly need lots of memory? Do none of those standard efficient solutions found in Wikipedia actually work for some reason?

(For example, the methods for finding the cycle time of cyclic things such as pseudorandom number generators and hashes (hash of a hash etc until it collides thus cycles).)

-MarkM-

There is still no sign of a fix for the out of memory condition killing cgminer. I wouldn't be pleased to have a nice shiny new november order Jupiter dying periodically for such a simple well known reason, losing hours sitting there waiting for me to wake up and notice because they neglected to include a watchdog to keep the thing running and/or neglected to ensure their software fit into the amount of RAM they saw fit to build into the unit...

-MarkM-

So are confidence chains ready to run yet? Got a github or something where folk can download source code?

-MarkM-

That sounds like a good reason to have more cryptocurrencies than just bitcoin, so some can go for being cheap and good for low value transactions, others go for being good for massive transfers of significant wealth with high security even though maybe taking longer to confirm, etc.

-MarkM-

They don't want just any decentralised exchange, they want one that has to purchase and use Mastercoins in order to function.

So yours, for example, would almost certainly not be a candidate for the bounty.

-MarkM-

Why do you? There are other coins with lower transaction fees...

-MarkM-

So what is the problem, then?

We can make mistresscoins, monstercoins, whatever we want. I don't see how that is any more of a problem than altcoins in general?

They might even increase the determination of some folk to make it very expensive for such things to use the bitcoin blockchain.

Maybe at some point someone will decide using the most expensive blockchain in the world for their new toy currency might not be the most economical platform to choose...

-MarkM-

If bitcoin is open source, why can't I issue a new set of bitcoins?

-MarkM-

How about actually solving some of the real technical problems before running around soliciting money on the strength of seemingly nothing but a bunch of wild blue yonder pie in the sky ideas that if only you the marketing genius were provided enough money you'd solve all the problems of the world?

So far I have seen othing from you indicating you are even aware of any of the actual technical problems that all previous discussions of monetising bandwidth, transsmission, storage etc have stalled on.

But maybe you actually are aware of the problems and are deliberately avoiding mentioning them because if people know the thing could not be done they might not send you money?

I guess that is maybe what marketing genius is all about though, eh?

-MarkM-

To me this sounds way too much like just a bunch of marketing-speak and propaganda without any indication whatsoever that the author has even the slightest inkling of any of the hard problems that previous discussions looking into this kind of thing have ground to a halt on.

But hey maybe the author did read all those previous abortive brainstorming sessions and this marketing-speak gobbledegook is totally deliberately avoiding all that because its real goal is to rake in all kinds of money and the fact the actual concepts it babbles about turn out never to get solved is irrelevant given that this way the money has already been raked in before the suckers contributing the money become aware that the goals have already been put aside as not achievable?

I would prefer to see some actual solutions to the real technical problems long before this kind of apparent mere exploitation of those who don't know any better marketing-propaganda.

Not even a nod seems to be there to any of the hard problems. Just another manic "idea guy" raving about how wonderful it would be if someone else solved for him the big problems the people who have actually looked into this kind of stuff have already noticed and are waiting to hear about solutions to. But oh, just send this idea-guy money to research "his" idea - the same idea so many have been researching for so long - and all will magically work out!

No solutions here, it seems, just another greedy idea-guy wanting people to send money while he possibly deliberately fails to address any of the real technical problems...

-MarkM-

Well go pollute their threads then instead of this one, this one isn't about them.

-MarkM-

Can that miner be used to solo too, or does it only work with pools?

-MarkM-

How does it affect memory (RAM) use? As I am already having cgminer killed periodically by lack of RAM so anythign that makes the system use less could be useful but bloating the RAM use to get graphical dials on a web page would seem counterproductive given that RAM is a scarce resource and running out of it can lose mining-time.

(Totally getting rid of the whole webserver / webpage stuff entirely might be much more productive even, maybe...)

-MarkM-

But it was a custom car! Cars are hardware!

Oops, not mining hardware though.

So what the heck lets outright ask...

Biomech, are you long bitcoin?

Or did you mean if you had bitcoins you'd blow them on mining gear but don't even have as many bitcoin as a rig cost then or even as it would cost now?

-MarkM-

I think he (Biomech) sounds correct, especially if you pay attention to the part about being long on bitcoin.

He didn't say bullish, he said long.

It even seems possible that he didn't mean he didn't have the number of bitcoins it would have taken to buy a miner but simply that he was not long enough on bitcoin to buy a miner and still be long in bitcoins relative to how long he'd have become in ASICs.

If you have shitloads of bitcoin already, enough that bitcoin going to $1000 a coin isn't going to leave you thinking damn I should have saved just a few more coins instead of playing the mining game, then going long on ASIC tech in addition to staying long on bitcoins sounds not unreasonable at all.

If bitcoin had gone up to $1000 in the last few days instead of not having even reached $500 yet I'd have snapped up another Jupiter most likely, because we are on the get there for real followup wave following the bubble to $266 that happened a while ago. So even up at $500+ I'd expect a crash back down to $266 or below because I expect a bubble up to the next big step or plateau above the $266 previous high-water-mark first before a get there (the next big step above $266) for real wave. So somewhere up here above $266 I am going to be thinking hey we are into the next bubble already instead of merely being up at the got there ($266) for real plateau signaled long ago by the $266 bubble. Maybe the next bubble is coming so soon after climbing back to $266 because it took so long for the climb back, or something.

So maybe at around $500 I will buy a Jupiter rather than find myself regretting not having done so when the bubble crashes back to $266, maybe momentarily even below that, then settles at around $266 or somewhere above that. But settle at $500? I doubt that, a bubble all the way to $1000+ without stopping at $500 seems more likely based on previous bubble activity. Still maybe crashing all the way back to $266 or even momentarily below. So I am kind of thinking the top of the bubble is the moment to go long ASIC while bitcoins still buy a lot of ASIC... Others maybe had thought aha we are at the $266+ plateau, might as well buy now, its going to hover here for gosh knows how long before the next bubble, thus already snapped up a november jupiter in last few days maybe before noticing hey another bubble might be here already lets see how high it goes before snapping up some more ASIC.

Remember, holding bitcoins and mining are both wild exciting rides, so I'd not take his car story as implying throw all your bitcoins into mining gear but rather as throw all your fiat into getting long on bitcoins and if you have money left over go long mining gear too for the sheer heck of it if buying a rig or few won't be a big bite out of your bitcoin long-ness. (Heck it is what percent of your bitcoin to buy a rig or few? Why have shitloads of bitcoins if not to enjoy spending some when they peak in exchange rate? What would be more fun to spend a few on than a rally car or a mining rig?)

-MarkM-

Oh good! Bitcoin will have to be exchanging at a very high price for the lancelots to still be paying their electricity bill by then, it seems likely.

I expect I will be buying, I just have to come up with the portion of the price that won't be covered by the Lancelot trade-in; I'll want to trade in all my Lancelots and get whatever product costs enough for that many Lancelots to all be used as trade-in against so I have some accumulating of pocket-money to do before I order.

Oh and to the poster who kept asking if Blackarrow is for real, one supposedly cannot base future expections on past performance in investing but for whatever it is worth some of us have nice FPGA units known as Lancelots that we got from Blackarrow that have been serving us well for many months. So they have for sure delivered good products in the past. Oh and I bought in as they were jsut getting rid of the last of the Lancelots to anyone who still wanted one despite the difficulty bitcoin had risen to. Other people have had them much longer. They've been making mining hardware quite a while.

Though I cannot recommend the power bricks that were supposed to power four Lancelots, for me I never did get four to work on one brick, and one of the bricks seemed only able to handle two, at least some of the time. Maybe household power here is lower than they expect to be fed or something but for whatever reason buying one per four Lancelots left me needing to use an old leftover power supply from a scrapped PC to power a bunch of them and thinking if I had known that in advance I'd've used more such PC power supplies I have a pile of instead of ordering the pretty power-brick things.

-MarkM-

Doesn't it compile on both platforms, and maybe even on mac too?

Aren't all the compilers etc etc required free open source software?

(Or free anyway, if you are forced to use some proprietary compiler on Windows?)

-MarkM-

Gee, a tough choice... double your money by just sitting tight with your bitcoins, or hope for a few percent profit by risking a many percent loss...

-MarkM-