yea. i found that rather odd... this is what i get for running an nvidia card and an ATI in the same box...

running latest p2pool software, which is up and running problem free. attempt to connect to http:127.0.0.1:9332 with the proper name and password results in "handshake timed out, disconnecting from 127.0.0.1:51084"

hey guys. having a little difficulty getting setup here. my miner (ufasoft, through guiminer) isn't able to complete a handshake with a locally running p2pool node. the handshake is timing out. any thoughts?

alternatively, could offer the rig for sale.

weirdest thing - been using this sucessfulyl for a few weeks now without issue. today i hooked up a new vid card, and when trying ot connect a guiminer using poclbm to this, it fails. error message "at least one server is required." yet my other miner, which is running on my nvidia card through ufasoft's miner, works fine with p2pmining.com. for a lark i tried phoenix - that worked too, however through poclbm in guiminer i get a good 20 mhash more.

any ideas what's going on?

ok, so i've got me my radeon 6870 installed. but clearly i've got an issue somewhere as it doesn't show up in dxdiag or as an available device in guiminer (openCL backend). thoughts?

ignore the above. sorted.

you people and your rigs make me jealous.

this thread has just cost me 200 bucks... bought an ati 6870 to run in conjunction with my nvidia 560 se. hopefully my 750 watt psu can handle it. if so, i'll finally be profitably mining!

maybe i'll even be able to save enough for a Lancelot fpga before the Great Reward Halving...

note to self, read the bloody board first... someone answered this not ten posts earlier. ignore me.

so, i have an nvida 560 in my gaming/3d modeling/work rig. when i'm not doing anything intensive i let it mine. might as well, since it doesn't interfere with whatever i'm doing.

but i'm wondering - i've got a second pci-eslot on my mobo. (asus p755d-e, fyi) and i've read that i could run BOTH the nvidia card AND an ATI at once, under windows 7. the ATI would of course do nothing but mining day in day out.

thoughts?

so, just to make sure i understand this: we send you some btc, you do the mining, and in something around ten months or so, pay us back, with a 5% (or 10% with referrals) reward added on, correct?

don't currently have a credit card. unemployment before my current job ruined my credit.

i'll look into GLBSE some. thanks fellas.

so here i am, using my lowly nvidia 560 vid card in my gaming rig (when i'm not gaming...) to mine for me. i've got a little handful of BTC. i am very much interested in boitcoin in the long term and it's potential, hence my current (nearly useless...) mining. so eventually, i want ot buy some fpga's and really run with this.

unfortunately, my real word USD job pretty much only pays enough for me to get from paycheck to paycheck. so i'm trying ot think of ways to use my meager BTC to raise the capital to buy at least one FPGA, to start off. to that end, i'm wondering what ideas the community has. my thought, initially, is forex trading, since i have btc, and could easily exchange them into usd, GBP, what have you, and right back to BTC ad neaseum, adding a few cents at a time here and there. obviously this would be a cautionary thing, since exchange rates fluctate and have various fees.

so, thoughts on this or other ideas, besides a bank heist, to get a few hundred bucks to buy some FPGAs?

all my BTC are belong to zhang, i think. (meaning, do want lancelot as my first FPGA.)

i can't imagine this sort of thing being remotely secure. but then, i'm bias'd by some of the wonderfully unscrupulous people i know.

is there any theory as to WHY p2pool's having os much trouble lately? is it pure probability playing out?

a link from p2pmining.com to this thread might also be worth considering, at least until you can get the FAQ updated.

also, thanks for this. usefulness.

ok, so been on p2pmining.com for a bit now - seems ot work well as i said previous. but... how do i get the payout? a block was completed, and the payment confirmed according to the website. i've tried the instant payout tab corresponding to my address, but i haven't the foggiest what to actually enteras a signature to get it to pay out. i assumed it was the provided "sign this message", like "pay-123456789" but that just returns invalid signature.

clearly, i'm some kind of ultra newb here... little help?

EDIT: ignore all that, i figured it out.

will do. thanks.

EDIT: checked it out. wow! excellent. easy as pie to set up and instantly earmed some payout. ...a very tiny amount mind, but every penny counts. er... every... uh... bit-penny?

well like i said originally, only 80mh, the payment is really basically costing more then my electricity anyway, so, oh well to the lost day.