Something sounds extremely illegal about this.

So, if you had less than $50 in your TradeHill account they are essentially telling you "too bad, we're keeping it"?

Whoa dude...

I think you need to do this to the MSIAfterburner.cfg file.

On my 6970s, I wasn't able to go to 685 until I modified this file.

I haven't even gotten around to reading the Bible.

You must not be a musician.  Computers, if anything, are the death of music.

How bout some metal where the dubstep is in the guitars?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pMVAgTdiE

60% efficiency gets better over time yes?

This thing deserves a name when you're done with it.

$100k?  Damn dude, congrats.  You have as much mining equipment as my student loan debt (edit:  excuse my horribly constructed sentence).

It MIGHT be lower.

Keep in mind that no matter where you go, buying small quantities of (especially) silver or gold coins will cost a good amount above spot price (5-10% or so).  The closer you get to 1 oz., the closer to spot price you will pay.

Local coin shops in the area are selling silver American Eagles for $45-$50.  Spot price is ~$37 for the same coin.

Credit card fees + trade commission fees + withdrawal fees (and, don't forget deposit fees for exchanges -- even if you've kept your money sitting in there for months, it's still a factor) and you're cutting it really really close.

You can sometimes find some good deals in the marketplace section.  I got a great deal on an auction and was able to get some silver shipped for under spot price.

Psh, I can beat that.

Without killing your card.

If it's anything like my non-reference 6970s, then the best you can do is a 150 clock mem-diff unless you flash the BIOS.  Afterburner let me get my memory down to 685 on my 6970s and that was the best I could do without flashing the BIOS (which I won't do because I don't trust myself to do it).

I honestly think someone is fucking with the market simply because they can.

There is absolutely no reason to sell when holding and buying with an equal sum of money would have sparked a rally on a number of occasions.  The only thing that's prohibited rallies over the past few weeks besides this guy has been Bitcoinica's little star-friend.

Something ain't right.

You could do a cash deposit at a bank through BitInstant into an exchange like Mt. Gox, CryptoXchange, Intersango, or Bitcoinica.

Edit:  I think...maybe it only applies to US banks.

Do you have anything interesting to sell that you think we might be interested in?

I think wire transfers are with CryptoXChange are temporarily down due to changes/updates they're making with the site.  Otherwise, when they get back up and running with those, it's a good option because it's a $5 flat rate in and out of the exchange (they swallow the typically-outrageous wire fees).

You could also consider selling something of value on this forum first to get BTC. 

Buy!  Tear the house down.

I stand corrected.

Because one successful brick-and-mortar establishment like this could improve the sales of many other Bitcoin businesses, especially if everybody converts their BTC winnings into prizes they purchase at the online kiosk.

Won 20 BTC playing laser-tag?  Admire some new silver while drinking some Bit-Brew coffee.  Local places like this that utilize Bitcoin could have huge impacts on the Bitcoin economy if they were linked together.

I think you're misunderstanding my point.  This wouldn't be advertised with Bitcoin as a selling point.  The selling point is a gambling-based laser-tag model which, to my knowledge, doesn't exist yet.  The other selling point is the ability to purchase valuable items with the winnings.

You're right, I don't know many people who, on a Friday night, suddenly decide to say to their friends, "Hey!  Let's go play laser-tag at this new place, I hear they're using...Bitcoins?"  But, I know dozens of people that would say, "Hey!  Let's go play laser-tag and try to win some money!  If we lose, so what?  Everyone pays for laser-tag anyway and they don't get anything in return."

It's simply a model that would add an extra incentive to play laser-tag.  If you win a laser-tag game these days, you get a lousy scorecard that says you won.  Well, now you can brag about the new 1 oz. silver American Eagle that you won playing laser-tag.  And, if you come in 4th place and barely miss out on the winnings, at least it was still fun, and at least you can still go grab a drink at the bar and have a pizza with your friends.  Thus, emphasis IS on the brick-and-mortar establishment, and not on Bitcoin.