^- LOL love that

And her picture! 

For those noticing that some of their units need to be warmer for better rates, I have no doubt about that. I have the same issue with my GPU farm of MSI TF 7950's. Some of the cards don't like being cold at all. The cooler they get, the higher the error rate and the lower the hash. The warmer, the inverse occurs.

For these cards, the sweet spot seems to be 75-82. Error rate is less than a percent, hash rate is easily 690+. Below 75 they slow down and error rate doubles or even triples.

It's the 28nm architecture.

lol... until one day you hit a block, and you explode

I love slush's pool, been using it exclusively for months now. I happened to see something about the POT (pay on target) method on Ozcoin where you get more shares if you're the guy who finds the block, than with PPS. Intrigued I decided to give it a shot, and I'm liking it.

I'm wondering if slush would consider adding this in as an option for workers to choose?

Has anyone else tried POT long term? So far my results are favorable.

I dunno if this is directed to me or the OP, but just a couple days ago I found a block.

Of course it was just hours before switching to solo.. that's my luck.

This is actually a hilariously good idea. And most are free, but most people don't think twice about a free keychain.

One with a usb connector, anodizing, a random B with a circle around it, and it cost $15? Now that's an amazing keychain!

"buy your blockchain keychain right here!"

It definitely doesn't hurt to go solo with something like USB BE's, or even a blade, especially if the electricity was already being used. Honestly for someone who wants the least investment with the best potential payout, the best bet is to do exactly that.. grab a few USB BE's or a blade and just let them sit and work.

I've been going solo a few times lately with my equipment. Here's to hoping.

Ya never know.. I've found 2 myself through Slush, kinda made me wish I was going solo lol..

Thanks for the update, loving the pool.

I might've also been looking at the exchanged rate vs the exchange rate, I'm still not quite awake, so pardon that. The thought of it having been .05 jolted me though.

Of this, I have no doubt. I also believe it still has a ways to go beyond that.

:/

Bragging rights I suppose.

This next one is going to have even more variaiton within the unknowns than the last, I'm finding it hard to estimate with certainty. My math comes up with:

Worse case scenario: 2,235,934,660

Likely scenario: 1,915,001,512

My gut says 1.7b, but I'm going to stick with my 2 above. Just wanted to note my gut's feeling in case I need to take that more into consideration for the next go-round lol.

I didn't expect any answer at all, I just figured it would be a shot in the dark.

What are your top offers so far? These things are heaters which will provide .00x coins a week. Have any on ebay?

Is there some sort of global cryptocurrency group? If not, there needs to be one, which would help gather this information into one place. There has to be some sort of basic organization of it all. Doesn't mean more coins can't pop up, but being able to provide central meaning to all of them would help.

Is it possible to show the source of the exchange rate info? I ask because MEC is showing LTC/MEC .05 but when I checked Cryptsy it was .005. Had me excited for a second lol..

Also, I do like the idea of coins for a purpose as you mentioned, with a single main 'line' of coins for all purposes (bitcoin for example). Value is derived from purpose and use typically, so take altcoins and give them particular purposes, and you'll have inherint value.

Who wants something they can't use? That's the point I make.

You can use gold and other forms of payment in the US, you don't have to use the Reserve Note (dollar). Yet--how many retailers and merchants can take gold or other items in place of the dollar? Practically none. Similar issue with online payments, unless it's a vetted and well-known industry standard, few online systems will employ it simply because it's not easy to do.

I agree, scanning a qr code is stupid easy, and I love transacting with cryptocurrencies. But tell a grandpa or any of the other folks you mentioned to go buy bitcoins, and I bet you'll get the question "what do I use it for, can I get gas with it, how do I buy stuff from stores online with it".

Again, people will want it when they find uses for it--easy uses.

Otherwise you're just pushing gold/silver/diamonds/bullets on people and telling them it's amazing to use for transactions. They simply won't be interested...kinda how the situation is right now.

Edit: Also, everyone has not heard about bitcoin or alternatives, nor what it's about, or how they can use it. That's silly to propose. I'm fairly well versed in the IT world, and despite hearing about bitcoin since its inception and how it could be used for transactions, none of it caught my eye until recently. Many other IT folk I've talked to haven't even heard of it.

Yeah.. if you could make it as easy as 'do i use my visa, my bank card, my paypal, or my bitcoin card..' then you'll be golden. Until that point, I picture cryptcoin transactions as something similar to the first few days of PayPal.. lots of potential awesome, but it has a long way to go before there's spread adoption.


What would help get around this, like I said above, is if it were simply easier to pay with--because the coins will then go to merchants and get in their hands that way. It will spread slowly.

Get some sort of simple interface going, especially for multiple coins, which a merchant can adopt, and you'll see the embers start to pop up.

What would be even more amazing is if a central online merchant or retailer, Amazon comes to mind, were to allow cryptcoin payments.. oh my gosh, could you imagine how awesome that would be? Overnight there would be a surge.

And a huge jump in the value of BTC. This is what I hope for, because if the value skyrockets much quicker than difficulty, then the "no ROI ever" troll will be put into a box, at least for a short while.

Solo mining or pool?

Yeah, let us know if our offers are at least interesting you.