My local radio station - a true local station, not some mega corp - has signed up for part of Chase's Mission mainstreet. They're giving away a few $250,000 grants. This grant would allow the local radio station to get new equipment to do live High School football and basketball sport coverage and even stream those over the 'net.  To get a chance to win a grant they need lots of support. If you want to support this station please follow the link and click on like. FB account required.

https://www.missionmainstreetgrants.com/business/detail/99530

Why the conspiracy theories? In the US the gov could do it the same as they did with online poker - make it so it's illegal for banks to send money to bitcoins and to not allow US firms to accept them. If we can't do wires, dwolla, moneygram, etc it becomes exceedingly hard to buy / sell bitcoins. It wouldn't shut it down entirely yet without the convenience of being able to use them the appeal would rapidly bring the value down and no real value as an online exchange medium.

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Linenoise, 10 USB, 20.4454 BTC, 94f580068f3d970482293b1c9453671aa61ca9e529cb9e02e827668485c081b9

Sent you a PM with details also

Not sure the exact Mhash/Watt on these but it's far better than any GPU. I feel I'll get the value in BTC back in time.

Could me in for 10 of them.  Sending payment now

For the heck of it I ran cpuminer through emscripten and it almost compiled. However there were 4 bugs that put a stop to the compile. It was more than I wanted to try to figure out at the moment.

You can kind of gamble legally online in 38 some states, if it's a game of skill. VirginGaming.com lets you gamble on your ability to beat someone with online games - mostly EA sport titles. If the virgin media company is backing this then you know their lawyers think it's legal. Although I don't see any poker games being played at virgingaming, even tho poker is a game of skill.

If dwolla can reverse across the board why would anyone continue to use them? They've been pushing the 'as good as cash' for quite awhile, they even still have FAQs about how easy it is without the worry of chargebacks. They want brick and mortar merchants to use this, but why would I want to sell even a cup of coffee via dwolla if it may end up being a fraud transaction later on.

I was about to start accepting dwolla for a non-Bitcoin online service to hopefully avoid some of the 3% fees paypal and CC processors take, along with the hassle of those payment system chargebacks. But why try to get people to use another service if Dwolla will be just as bad as what's out there already.

I've got it working, so thought I'd post my experience

I ended up updating the entire system and then the driver worked fine. I did run into a few other problems I'll comment on here.

In order to install pyopencl I had to manually configure,compile,install the numpy lib. The prepacked python-numpy did not include everything for some reason.  If you install the package, be sure to remove it before installing it yourself. It will not necessarily overwrite the package files.

Some of the package names differ from ubuntu if you're used to those directions but that's not a huge deal.

Actually I would be happy if they rolled the 'worthless' cycles into something like folding@home. An online currency that helps the fight on cancer would be even better.

So you create a domain on June 22 and start spamming? Nope, not even worth a penny.

I have set up ubuntu for mining before but I needed an opensuse system for work.
The system has dual 6970s with a MSI board. I installed AMD SDK 2.4 and the latest catalyst drivers. As opensuse is a default supported platform for ATI drivers it was a piece of cake.

The system works alright for X, web browser, etc.
aticonfig --list-adapters shows the cards.
clinfo only shows the CPU.  I thought this must be a driver issue so I tried the last few catalyst drivers but same issues.

It's a head scratcher and any suggestions would be helpful.

Am I reading that right, a 300K and a 400K chunk of bitcoins? If so that's a significant portion of the entire pool.

It makes tradehill look bad. I know it's not them but an idiot user but if they don't have strict rules . They should cancel any commision program for that account otherwise we'll start seeing this spam show up all over the place.

Their current info on the referral program doesn't specifically mention spam. They better get to changing that ASAP.

I would not suggest you run bitcoin on a computer that has untrusted people around. Do you let people who may steal from you into your home where you keep valuables they may steal?

Fraud is everywhere. Go to an open market or garage sale and buy something, no returns are usually accepted. Buy something through one of the many international trading sites like alibaba and pay with western union, you may very well be defrauded. If you don't trust a company you're working with then don't buy through bitcoin.

Think of bitcoin like cash, keep your pile of cash safe from thieves, and only buy from companies or people you feel are trustworthy.

Your wallet can have as many addresses as you wish. You don't have to change addresses each transaction and you can have multiple transactions to and from a single address.

I've got a linux box running a few cards just fine without anything connected to their video ports. Is that a widows only issue, or specific card or MB problem?

I'm not a tax person at all. From my understanding the IRS considers any barter as taxable income. If you spend bitcoins for a service or goods, it's taxable at whatever rate you use. Of course you can consider anytime "real" money hits a bank account the feds will know, patroit act ensures sharing of all financial info. Now if you're sitting on a pile of bitcoins that haven't been used then it's not a currency so not sure how that would be handled.

This is what eligius US has started phasing in. It doesn't let lucky pool hoppers get a disproportionate share compared to the steady users.