Sure, Im not looking to get into some kind of debate here of who is right or wrong, just adding my input. I think though you will find your comment still supports my original. Equal number of buys and sells, whoever it may be.

Nothing artificial about it, this is how markets behave. Also this comment: 'It's stable because no big sells nor big buys were made recently. Granted, the longer it stays stable, the bigger a buy/sell would need to be for prices to actually budge.' is not the right way to look at it. Price is not moving so much because there is equal number of buys to sells. When one side gives in it will break to make a new range. Often when price breaks out of consolidation they are big moves however quickly bounce back into the range as it meets fresh supply/demand. The fact is the market is in agreement at the value of a bitcoin, untill the market tries to agree on the new value..

 Btw when you mention trap, which side do you mean for? Is it a bull trap or bear trap? Tbh if you say either one or the other you will have 50% chance of being correct.... Nobody can tell whether its going to move up or down, unless they are big investor looking to buy/sell thousands.

Hi I still cant access and I have not recieved email. anyone else having problems?

I cant connect to slushes pool. It says the site was DDoSED and to look at the forum thread but I cant find it. Would be helpful if there was a link on the site to go to...

I would agree that selling some of your 50k bitcoins is actually a smart move. Being too greedy can leave you with nothing.

Just thought I would add my view.
The only real value of bitcoin at the moment is speculation. Everything always boils down to supply and demand. Eventually bitcoin will stabalise as the market starts to agree on the value of a bitcoin. Because it is early days, we will see massive jumps in price due to increase of market participents plus people holding onto their bitcoins selling when price looks tasty. Anyone that says there is no danger of bitcoin crashing and just going into the history books as a failed currency, should be carefull. I would however tend to agree that bitcoin is most likely here to stay, at least for the medium term. There would not even need to be an adoption of it as a currency/payment for it to sustain itself, since it has become a tradable asset.

its ok got it sorted now thanks. RPC miner comes with the option '-gpu=x' allowing you to set the gpu unit to process. It starts the index at 0 so the first gpu unit is default and the second would be set to '-gpu=1' just in case anyone else wanteed to know.

broker makes commission between the bid and ask price, its a part of every tradable market.
Of course brokers can manipulate the price to their favour however as said before reputation is key to success and most brokers are regulated.

ok thanks, stupid question answered!

I wondered if it would be possible and worthwhile to try and mine using xbox or any other console? Probably a stupid question and something someone else would have thought about before but you never know..

Hi, earlier today I had great help from someoneweird. I had to use the RPC miner to run my gefore GT240 ..

Now I have installed a second GPU I had lying around it is GS8400.

It is installed correctly and RPC has found both devices, however RPC says that it is using the first found GPU, which is the GT240. I wondered how I could get it to use the second GPU instead, and/or if possible use both?..

well I guess to use both just have two seperate .bat files one pointing to the first gpu and second to run the second...

Dont neccessarily go for the highest rated power output PSU. The reason being that peak output can be very different to normal output. You would be better off buying a lower rated peak output model at the same price because it would be more effecient.

 For example a $100 PSU rated at 1000w may actually only run at 600w 90% of the time. Whereas a 800w rated model for the same price may run at 700w 90% of the time because it has better tolereances due to better manufacturing and components.

 Of course you should look into what psu your going to buy because this rule does not fit all, you may even find it better to get a decent second hand PSU and save some money but get a better model. Also a more expensive model will be more likely to last longer.

 Just thought I would mention my view...

Nice work someoneweird! Thanks for your help, got it all sorted now. Thank you also mapwow.

Hi sorry I had issue with my computer and antivirus, have just added you now.

I have radmin and skype, but I wouldnt want to put you out over it.

Ok I installed the AMD sdk but still the same problem.
Do you think I should un-install everything and re-install in the c:\ directory rather than program files ?

rite... ok I am doing that now.

However on further looking into it, it also seems that because I have installed it into Program Files the spaces make it so it cannot find the poclbm.exe program...

Ok I have tried those and others ways around, now the black screen just flash up. So I enter these into cmd direct and get this:

Import Error: No Module Names linecache
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "poclbm.py", line 3 , in <module>
Import Error: no module named pyopencl
....

I have replaced sensitive with stars **

Also I know this is not the exact code as suggested for the example, since I am not using 'start /DC:/' and instead using cd to change directory first.
I have to do this because of where I have installed bitcoin, as I believe spaces in the directory at 'Program Files (x86) causing problems.
I have also tried to seperate the lines and same issue.

Thanks for your help..

Hi, I have gone through the very thorough installation guides to joining the pool and getting the rig set up.

I feel I am almost there but I have a problem:

I am able to run the bitcoin server client correctly.
I have the poclbm files extracted and put into a new folder within the directory of bitcoin folder.
I have created the .bat file to run the poclbm pool thing and used my correct username and password to connect with the server, all is set up correctly at the website as well.

However, when I try to run this the screen just flashes up and goes away instantly. It does not appear to be the command prompt because it is a white screen, at least I think so.
I have read about this could be an issue with the driver and not having OpenCL installed corectly....

So I downloaded the GPU caps viewer, which indicates OpenCL is installed.
Also I have just updated my driver for the GPU I have. But still this problem happens.

My system is:

windows 7 64bit,
GPU Nvidia GT240
Intel i5 3.20Ghz

There was at one point an issue with a file being missing, that was the poclbm.py file, but I have since installed that from gimphub. Now it has this screen flash up...

I suspect that it could be a driver issue with my GPU, but I am not sure what to do next.
I have also tried to change the driver=0 to driver=1 in the .bat file.

Any help appreciated..