I'm incredibly confused here. First off, why are you refering to yourself in third person? Second, not only has Microguy not agreed to pay you for your "work", but he also asked that you stop doing so. So may I ask why you think he is entitled to reimburse you for a project you took on yourself, and he asked you not to? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=286722.msg3069047#msg3069047Please close this thread.  The poll is intended to gauge genuine community interest in the coin. I would appreciate your cooperation in this matter. You may be having a serious lapse in judgement, or you may be a "troll". Either way, it would be best if you stop. |
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i've seen other forums run a similar way like this. personally i'd rather see more efford gone into stopping scammers on here. things like being able to openly buy and sell accounts on here still amazes me  If you go to the members tab, you will find that there are 145,235 members registered on BTCTalk right now. With that amount of accounts, it is very difficult for the 38 forum staff members to catch alt accounts and scammers. So rather than give people a false sense of security by saying, "No alt accounts or scammers are allowed here" we make it openly known that alt accounts and account selling is present, so people can use due vigilance to avoid scams. If we told people that they were safe here, and one, or one thousand of those 145,235 members got around whatever protection methods we put up, people would be off guard, and there would be far more scams, than if we told people to just watch out for scammers. |
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wasn't feathercoin (ftc) a litecoin clone?
Yes, Feathercoin is a Scrypt coin, and not mineable by ASICs. I don't think Devcoin is mineable either, it was a project that was completely mined and then given out for deving things. If you want to use your ASIC to mine a scrypt coin, you can auto convert your Mhs to Khs and mine LTC coins with our Eobot software...give it a try: www.eobot.comAlso, no... |
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14 Erupters, 4 fans and 4 hubs remaining.
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That's not true at all. USDA beef grades simply refer to the age of the beast when it was slaughtered, nothing more. Grade D means it was 6-8 years old, Grade C is 3.5-6 years, and so on. It's all equally safe (or not, depending on your point of view) for human consumption. Dog meat typically isn't graded at all, and in most cases can't even be legally identified as "meat", thanks to such tasty ingredients as "meat byproducts" (bone, hooves, fur, and other "non-meat" parts of the animal) and "meat meal" (recycled roadkill, zoo animals, diseased livestock, former pets - yes, your dog is quite possibly a cannibal).
Damn! Tricked by those fancy dog food commericals again. You are right, no more dog food for me then  |
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Neat tidbit, before chicken wings became a popular food item in the 1980s, chicken wings were considered scrap meat, like the necks. At the time, the rumors that McDonalds threw an entire chicken into a grinder and used that slurry in the nuggets was more or less true. Fairly recently, those scrap meats have become more expensive than chicken breasts, so now you will see all of the fast food commercials proudly boasting that their products are made with 100% sliced chicken breast, or white meat chicken, but in reality, thats because its more expensive to feed consumers that chicken that was thrown through the grinder. So just remember, they didn't improve their food quality because they found it was in the consumers best interest, it just became cheaper and more advertising friendly to feed people the people food.
Well except Tacobell. Going off on a tangent here, but Tacobell is an amusing creature. They use Grade D meat in their taco meat, meaning that it is just barely safe for humans to eat. However there have been some new large brand dog foods, that are now using Grade C meat, granted it is a more expensive dog food, but it is dog food that you can find at big retailers, not some specialty shop for nutjobs that spend more on dog food than they do on their mortgage/rent. So next time you are sitting with your dog, eating a taco from tacobell, just think, he may be looking up at you, judging you... before walking off to lick his crotch.
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You can get whoever applied the negative trust to remove it. For example, had I given you negative trust while you were hacked, and then you sent me a pm explaining and your alibi was valid with proof to back it up, I could revoke the negative trust I left you, and your score would go back to normal.
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I run mine off my Pi... What kind of hubs?
They are Generic 7 Port 3.5A 5V USB 2.0 Hubs, that technically can support up to 7 Erupters, however the way they are laid out, only 6 Erupters will fit in each. I personally do 5 Erupters on each, and then a USB fans. |
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21 Block Erupters, 5 Hubs and 5 Fans remaining.
0.1*21=2.1 0.15/Hub 0.1/Fan. So my offer be 2.1+0.75+0.5=3.35 BTC no thank you |
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21 Block Erupters, 5 Hubs and 5 Fans remaining.
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Taken off of Ebay for now, due to not wanting to pay stupid Ebay fees.
Price dropped to .25 BTC per Erupter or 1.4 BTC for 5 Erupters, a powered hub, and USB Fan
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I found a bent rusty paperclip for $.50 including shipping on Ebay and it came with a free surprise, so of course I bid on it. I told my friends about it, and they bid it up to $12. Yes they did pay for it, and it came with a certificate of authenticity and a fake $1,000,000 dollar bill. |
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Long ago there was a magical time where there was no Newbie section, and no user limitations for new members. No one needed X Posts and X time logged to post elsewhere, and all was wonderful. Except the literal thousands and thousands of spam bots and advertisers who would make 10,000 accounts and 100,000 posts in 10 minutes and advertise paypal and such all over the place, where it was hard to track and repair.
After that, the newbie system was added, so that before someone or some bot could cause havok to the rest of the boards, they would have to post in the newbie section, where the Newbie section moderators are ever vigilant looking for the likes of them. It is unpleasant for like 4 hours until you have full rights, and then after that the newbie restrictions are gone, and you are free to enjoy a less spammy forum.
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I'm aware that this is a FPGA which is doable with Scrypt, however I'd like to go off in a minor tangent. People seem to underestimate how difficult it will be to create a Scrypt ASIC. SHA256 Asics have been used for many many years. They were not new technology, meaning the billions of dollars of research that others had done getting SHA256 ASICs working is not there already for proposed Scrypt ASICs. All the BTC mining ASIC companies needed to do, was make a product that would work for BTC specific hashing, rather than what they were and still are used for, encrypting and decrypting files. The company that decides to start making LTC Asics will need a whole lot more than a few hundred thousand BTC to get their products out the door.
Back on topic, LTC FPGAs actually aren't that difficult to make in theory. LTC's Scrypt hashing requires actually a much lower amount of memory than other scrypt implementations (I believe its 196mb/cycle although I may be off) at that point, or whatever it actually is, I remember the math behind it, but not the actual numbers, you can provide additional hashing power at 1/2 the memory required, and you can still end up with a higher hashrate over current GPUs, while still using fairly inexpensive FPGA technology. So rather than needing to create a new FPGA board that can handle uneconomical amounts of memory, you can just work on designing a chip that will hash fast, and lose performance based on how much memory you can actually supply.
I'll look back over my research tomorrow, and get all of the numbers and such down. I'm tired so I may have said something dumb, I'll correct it later.
LTC uses the parameters (2^10, 1, 1) which results in a token 128KB max scratchpad size. That isn't a typo it is kilobytes. The default Scrypt parameters (2^14, 8, 1) result in a 16MB max scratchpad size roughly 128x as "memory hard". To my knowledge no Bitcoin ASIC company used existing SHA-2 IP and modified it. you are correct, I was thinking it was 196kb for some reason (as mentioned tired) all Bitcoin ASIC companies had to derive their works from existing the current SHA-2 ASICs, starting from scratch would have cost far more than the Bitcoin economy could have supplied, and far more than ASIC companies could afford to spend at their current price points. Its like if current ASIC companies decided to start using 14nm chips. It would be unimaginably expensive to create a technology that doesn't exist yet, its far cheaper to modify existing designs. I haven't actually sat down and talked to the ASIC manufacturers, but I'd say its a pretty strong gut feeling. I've got some super secret projects that would be neat if I could run by you tomorrow (ok not that super secret). I'm at the point where I have to read over my posts 30 times to make sure I spelled everything rigt, and should probably get some sleep. |
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I'm aware that this is a FPGA which is doable with Scrypt, however I'd like to go off in a minor tangent. People seem to underestimate how difficult it will be to create a Scrypt ASIC. SHA256 Asics have been used for many many years. They were not new technology, meaning the billions of dollars of research that others had done getting SHA256 ASICs working is not there already for proposed Scrypt ASICs. All the BTC mining ASIC companies needed to do, was make a product that would work for BTC specific hashing, rather than what they were and still are used for, encrypting and decrypting files. The company that decides to start making LTC Asics will need a whole lot more than a few hundred thousand BTC to get their products out the door.
Back on topic, LTC FPGAs actually aren't that difficult to make in theory. LTC's Scrypt hashing requires actually a much lower amount of memory than other scrypt implementations (I believe its 196mb/cycle although I may be off) at that point, or whatever it actually is, I remember the math behind it, but not the actual numbers, you can provide additional hashing power at 1/2 the memory required, and you can still end up with a higher hashrate over current GPUs, while still using fairly inexpensive FPGA technology. So rather than needing to create a new FPGA board that can handle uneconomical amounts of memory, you can just work on designing a chip that will hash fast, and lose performance based on how much memory you can actually supply.
I'll look back over my research tomorrow, and get all of the numbers and such down. I'm tired so I may have said something dumb, I'll correct it later.
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I don't understand why you can't censor his BTC addy and lock this thread.
I mean the scam is pretty obvious here.
Yep, I can warn people and help bring scams to attention, however I don't necessarily have the right to use my opinion towards applying a permanent answer to his thread aka locking it or editing it. For all we know, the whole operation could not be a scam, and just horribly worded and executed. If I lock the thread and such, the OP would have no opportunity to explain, if we were all mistaken, or rectify if we aren't. If people decide to send the guy Bitcoins without reading the 2 pages of scam accusations, and the warning tag, its on them, but everyone that has posted in the thread has done their part in neutralizing a potential scam. |
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Ebay has an anti Bitcoin policy, however selling mining equipment is fine. Paypal's main thing against BTC is that it isn't tangible, meaning its incredibly hard to confirm that the transaction between paypal and BTC has been carried out, so they just ban BTC related deals rather than figure out a new way on how to handle Bitcoin trades. However, buying Bitcoin mining equipment is no different than buying GPU's or other computer parts on Ebay. Its a tangible thing that can be proved to have been sent, and recieved, etc. However, there are still scammers out there and whatnaught.
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