All this talk about capacitive loads, current draw and the like really has me glad that I use a PFC on my house.  Please tell me you are kidding. Whole house PFC are snake oil in a box. Completely worthless. Low power power factor increases phantom load observed by power company (and their cost) but power meters measure watts not volt amps so low powerfactor has no cost to residential users. High demand industrial consumers are penalized for having a poor PF but residences are not. PF isn't even calculated for residential users. If you wanted to you could intentionally reduce your PF to stick it to the power company (same amount of work at same amount of cost to you and higher cost to power company). Correct. The device saves the power company money, not you. Because some meters show the savings, demonstrations are shown using those meters to convince people to buy. http://www.nist.gov/pml/div684/power_121509.cfmThere is only one SLIGHT grain of truth to them.... they may make very old motors slightly more efficient and run cooler. But if your fridge or AC was built in the last 20 years it is probably not one of them. |
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It might have some collector value but I have not seen inkjet carts, even sealed, that work past ten years. They have dates on the boxes and HP expires them after two years or so but they almost always work at five years. Past that it gets iffy.
Laser carts work 10+ years with a good hard shake if they were not stored in a hot location.
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SOLD! For sale is a complete and nearly new looking iPhone 3GS. IOS 5.1 baseband 05.16.05 The back is brand new, the front glass is unscratched. Included are brand new headphones, charger and USB cable. Included is the manuals stickers and box as well in very good condition. I am offering this phone for $199 shipped in the USA and I will ship overseas but this phone is NOT UNLOCKED. FACTORY UNLOCKED! I am getting this phone factory unlocked through my account. International shipping is just 4 BTC more if you get it in the small box. You will not receive the original Apple box but everything else will be included.      |
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Looks like another opportunity to say: The silk road rules. Keep up the good work enabling medical freedom and keeping people out of the dark web of prescription narcotics and powerful drug pushing monopolies!
True. Maybe (in the Murdock way) he is just trying to promote the Silk Road as this article will bring new customers to bitcoin and the Silk Road for sure....... so next time he pays hackers he can use bitcoin and leave less of a trail to follow. |
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As much as I dislike being cunicula's sockpuppet, bitcoin retail purchases are dead in the water.
Think about PayPal. They have hundreds of millions of individual accounts. They are accepted by hundreds of thousands of online retailers. Yet, do you know of any restaurant where you are able to pay with your PayPal balance using a custom PayPal checkout solution ?
Actually you can now pay at Home Depot at the self checkout register with Paypal. I know Home Depot is not a restaurant but I do think it marks a coming trend. |
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I would skip the Meze grill if they don't take bitcoin. When I went with the NYC convention the food was ok but the service was quite bad. NYC is full of excellent restaurants.
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focusable? portable? manufactured by?
It is focusable and portable. It's a custom build. And yes, wearing safety glasses would be a very good idea when using these.  |
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How about a brawl to the wall beatdown between the two of them, and whoever is the last one with teeth walks home with Dwolla and Tradehill as collateral? +1 Mu money is on Jered. Agreed. |
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Yes. Better to spend a little more and get the more current AM3. When you retire the machine (switch to your asic powered MRBITCOIN) you can unlock the second core on the vast majority of them and run them at 3.0ghz as a dual core. I have done it to more then ten of them, only one did not work. When I mine, I have just one core going and have them slightly underclocked. |
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if you have 7000watts of hashing power down there do you really need a dryer.. hang a few lines  +1 You have are movement and heat from the miners, you just need to exhaust the moist air. |
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So I have this fantastic utility room with lots of space, great ventilation, and a big ole 220 volt outlet.
I would like to set-up some miners in this room, but I want it to fit in seemlessly with my wife's lovely (and massive) front loading spaceship looking washer and dryer.
Anyone have some experience splitting the power outlet so multiple appliances can be hooked up? I really dont want to have to switch back and forth everytime we have to do laundry.
It would be great to run the miners off of the same outlet without doing too much re-modelling!
Any advice would be great.
LOL, switch back and forth... Do you know how much power that dryer uses? You might be able to run maybe 1 card with it running.  I have the insanely efficient stuff.....the dryer might use 1800 watts, 2000 at most. I believe the 220V is on a 40 AMP breaker, so shouldn't there be PLENTY of headroom for some miners? I doubt the DRYER is all that insanely efficient. It is your washer that is probably energy savings (through less water use) but the electric dryer has not progressed much in the USA other then looks. The driving motor does not use much power, it is mostly the heating element I doubt you have more then 50% spare power from that outlet with the dryer on, probably much less. |
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Bought it here.
Came in as described and quickly!
Thanks!
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nice product, but the fees are...wow.
50% on a 1 BTC card
10% on a 5 BTC card
5% on a 10 BTC card
2.5% on a 20 BTC card (reasonable)
So the fee about $2.50 including shipping. You think that is high? I personally would avoid the 1 BTC one but the others are priced quite nicely. |
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Ah the old botnet argument again. Don't they realize that botnets are inferior at mining compared to serious mining rigs?
Actually they are kind of right about the botnet problem. It's not really a problem for bitcoin. It's theft from the bot's actual owners, but we can't really do anything about that. But he's right about botnets being inferior to serious mining operations, it takes several orders of magnitude more energy to hash at a comparable level to a high end graphics card, and when asic mining cards start being mass produced even the graphics cards are going to lose. Due to the nature of what we are seeing, actually I think that the 1 trans miner is using a small selected 'inventory' of one of the larger botnets that does have the appropriate ATI GPU hardware. |
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I'd be willing to bet $100 of my own real money that this is a botnet. I'd think so too, but during the height of the 2011 Bitcoin hype there were several mining botnets. This was extensively reported by AV blogs and tech news outlets. There was also a rush of infected power users joining this forum asking what was going on. The Magical Mystery Miner appears to have more power than any of the unidentified miners that turned out to be botnets last time, but MM have managed to stay completely under the radar... By harnessing only a portion of the GPU and doing nothing else on that p0wned computer other then 1/4 or so power mining they stay under the radar. No big fan noise. Email messages and irc control channel use are usually what gets a bot noticed and so you do not use those. Only finished work is reported with MAYBE a heartbeat every few hours. The computer could monitor any number of websites for new work. With a good cash cow computer you keep it unnoticed and under the radar. Greed looses you that machine. |
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Ah the old botnet argument again. Don't they realize that botnets are inferior at mining compared to serious mining rigs?
Actually they are kind of right about the botnet problem. The issue is that the flaw (which may be addressable) is not as bad even unfixed as the other options. Nothing is perfect. |
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1) are not hashes supposed to include transactions? If they don't, I see a kind of faking work.
For the rest, I stay with my case.
Legit miners are those who invest to produce useful proper output. The others are not.
Assume the botnet operator would pay the owners of his bots. Would you, as a miner, still feel like you are being stolen from? Yes. If someone is committing a crime to get an advantage over me I do. It is quite different then being beaten by an ASIC that someone spent $500k on. |
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