I'm a miner but I only open the Bitcoin-QT once a day to download blocks and then I immediately close it.  It's open for approximately 90 seconds of any given day.

Yes, but as a counter to that you have the Greek embargo of Iranian oil beginning soon unless a deal can be reached at the bargaining table.  Greece is shooting itself in the foot.  No other countries want to stop buying Iranian oil, including China, because they know that Iranian oil is among the most easily accessible.  The USD might get another lift from this in the short-term.

I'd still like my digital copy, Matthew.

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Edit:  Noticed you have 666 posts currently.  This is getting very deep.

LouPGaroux?  Ah yes...

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Edit:  Yowza!

This is my idea for 1,000,000 users:

Create yet another attempt at a viral Bitcoin video.  The premise is as follows:

People submit very short (3-7 seconds) videos of their Bitcoin purchases.  For example, if I were to make a submission, I would likely show some of the gold and silver I have purchased with Bitcoins.  Others may show computer hardware, t-shirts, gemstones, food, trading cards, collectibles, etc.   Each person in each submission would say something like "I bought THIS with Bitcoin!"

So, you'd have a several-minute-long video of 50-100 people saying "I bought THIS with Bitcoin!" and then displaying their purchases.

Thanks!

This is what I've wondered too.   If you know a given, known input x results in output y -- despite the fact that changing one bit in the input provides a different output -- couldn't this be useful if you know input x resulted in output y which solved a block?

I don't know much about cryptography, but let's say at current difficulty 1,000,000, input x results in output y that would solve a block at difficulty 1,500,000.   Knowing this, why couldn't you simply input known x repeatedly to provide output y and solve blocks repeatedly until the difficulty adjusts?

Sketchy posters in sketchy thread...

No, that doesn't confuse me at all.  What does confuse me is how you reasoned that the efficiency of FPGA mining compared with GPU mining would prohibit BTC price doubling after the rate of supply is halved.

I was trying to help you.  It was clear that you made an error in any case because the rationale that followed (i.e. FPGA mining being cheaper than GPU mining) would not have anything to do with prohibiting the price from doubling after the halving of the supply rate. It would, however, be relevant to a scenario in which the entire supply of BTC is halved.

Check...your...language.  If you don't make sense out loud (or in type), then chances are that you are equally confused in your head.

Don't get pissed at me because you made a serious linguistic error.

Temps here in IL were near 90 the past couple of days with a heat index in the mid-90's.  I had to downclock my 3x6970 rig to 840 core to maintain sub 80C temps.  At night, I can crank it back up to stock.

The supply will not halve when the block reward halves.  All that will happen is that the rate of supply will halve.  It does not mean we will suddenly only have 4-5 million BTC.

As if.

Obviously.

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