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It's sort of a bummer that I woke up this morning and we are still at 10 GHash/s. Especially with all that SC has done for the BTC community. After all, tens of pools use the open source interface that SC developed.
Anyway, I am going to hang in there through the weekend at least, though I wish that we had 5x the hashing.
And after all, a 3 BTC bounty should make it worthwhile for some people to switch over.
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If I win I will only take one of the BTC as a bonus. I will donate one to next round and one to the round after.
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I am back for the time being  |
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What is the cost of the cases with all fans?
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Delaying stats means also instant payouts if donating 2.5% are gone then, right?!  I suppose that is true, because as soon as you see that you got more btc, you could switch back to guild. I have to say that I am very happy you are relooking at the whole payment issue. The only reason I do most of my mining on BTCMine is because they do a score based system. I still do throw one of my boxes at you and have 3% donations set. |
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Do the cases have extra fans installed? I see the case looks like it only comes with two.
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after you specifically warned them not to?
My one friend bought cards at inflated prices after I ran some numbers and told him that the break even point was too far in the future. $800 for a rig that gets .4 coins a day is ludicrous.
What? He has under 100 MHash/s of power?? I have 320Mhash/s going and make between 0.2 and 0.25 per day. How do you get 0.4 with 100Mhash/s with today's difficulty level? That's what I get for posting before the morning coffee... My bad, carry on. |
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after you specifically warned them not to?
My one friend bought cards at inflated prices after I ran some numbers and told him that the break even point was too far in the future. $800 for a rig that gets .4 coins a day is ludicrous.
What? He has under 100 MHash/s of power?? |
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I actually lost .02 bitcoins (my first ones from the faucet) with them because I forgot my username and password.
But I don't blame them for that.
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It is simply a good idea. SHA-2 is still holding up, but it seems that these hashing functions generally only last so long before someone figures out a way to decrease the attack space enough to make you uncomfortable, or to find a collision fast enough to make you question the theory (MD-4 being the worst).
Updating the client would be a huge mess though. There would have to be a hard coded block (probably) when all the clients switched to whatever the new algorithm was.
Old clients still would be made absolutely useless though, and would create their own block chain at that point.
It would not be good.
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i have a noob question: if i have backups of my wallet file, and someone steals my wallet file, are my backups useless if they spend my coins?
Yes. If someone else gains access to your wallet, it is a race to see who spends the coins first. |
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May I ask if it is legal to sell Key codes for activating programs to run on your pc ? On your web site I see some of them being sold. Just a question before I decide to buy one of them.
Thanks.
Most of the codes are MSDN or other types of 'non-resalable' activation codes. They usually work for a few weeks to a few months then de-activate. I do not recommend buying any codes that do not come without the physical genuine certificate with the code on it. I agree, I would imagine they are MSDN. |
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I did test this driver release on Win7, and the CPU bug bit again - 100% CPU on one CPU core while running phoenix phatk. Going back to 11.6, and the CPU usage is back to 1%.
unless you're using only one GPU, I don't see how this could be true. One CPU's usage is pegged at 100%? And yes, that Win7 machine only has one 5830. I also have 11.7, and am dealing with the 100% CPU bug. |
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Any chance a trusted member can provide a windows binary for this? I can not compile things on windows for the life of me!
Not sure if I qualify as "trusted" but here is a quick Cygwin build: http://www.sendspace.com/file/yzsf0zThanks a lot for this! |
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Both my pools are down and I won't be home for a few hours  |
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I know they exist, but I don't think they are super prevalent...
If I were a pool operator, I would be score based... but if I were a PPS pool operator, I would not be very friendly to those who left at around 800,000 shares every round.
And yes, if everyone was a pool hopper, there wouldn't be much of an advantage to doing it.
The only thing I do, is if I know I need to take down my hardware to do something (reboot, or whatever), I try to do it in a longer round if I can.
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The idea is that you want to maximize your return per block... since the likelihood of finding a bitcoin is independent of when a pool found its last coin.
Think about it... you have 10 equal size PPS pools that you can choose from, and you have 1/10th the hashing power of each... you always want to be mining at the pool with the fewest shares in the current round.
Why? Because each share you submit will increase your bounty more...
For each pool, you have two options. Mine, or don't mine. Mining should either increase your estimated bounty, or keep it constant (if it is already at 5btc). Not mining can either decrease your estimated bounty, or keep it constant (if it is 0btc).
You want to maximize your marginal bounty, by mining at the place where it would have the highest effect (either increasing your bounty the most, or not decreasing it the most). This is done by mining at the pool with the least number of shares currently.
Think about it, what you do in a pool with 10000000 shares already submitted really doesn't matter. What you do in a pool which just started a new round has a massive effect on estimated bounty.
The important point: the likelihood of finding a block is INDEPENDENT of how long the round has been going.
Make sense?
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It's a completely unregulated market, so you can do whatever you want.
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