Ha.. Topiary just got arrested today.
Turns out he's a 19 year old scottish kid living with mom.

Seems to have a high traffic ranking on Alexa (near top 1000).
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/realitykings.com#trafficstats

Say I want to resell these accounts mostly to US, SA & Russian users on a pretty big forum where I have good rep (no risk of shared accs, I'll screen only trustworthy people, I sell tons of services, virtual commodities and various accounts).
Are there technical reasons [like banning of people with IP's significantly differing from the registree's] why this would not be feasible.

Or would the profit margin be too low for you to consider re-reselling them through me. I'm thinking $1.50 per sale at least to make it worthwhile. I'd still do it for the convenience of having 'anonymous' accs to sell instead of bulk ordering personally.

Will they give you 'flexible' discounts the more accounts you order at once? You can also PM me at any time.

Seems weird someone would bother setting up 2 accs a month apart just to scam 13 dollars (though the other acc does only have 4 posts)

Did you send him the code but recieve no payment? Or was it flat out canceled. If he simply canceled then it's prob. not a scammer as Myrond is really selling a bulk of dirt 3 coupons, or at least claims to.

True, 10% of what? The world population?

Paypal is king because it's the oldest e-currency around & has big capital backing it, they have 100m total accounts (of which *at least* 50-60m are active). That's still only 1.4% of the world's population even in the most optimistic scenario (all PP users belonging to unique users who have been steadily registering since the 2000's)

Even if we take the total amount of internet users, 2 billion (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm), that's only 5% of the users who, since the dawn of the internet, have registered on PayPal.

Will bitcoin ever surpass 200 million active users (or much more, given the amount is constantly growing) to claim a 10% 'mindshare'?

Nothing which is fringe has support among women. Women tend to concentrate in averages in everything. Female bitcoin users are of above average intelligence, capable of understanding concepts like cryptography and hence rare.

Bitcoin will gain the support of women when it's not 'unknown', 'new' or 'scary'.
That is, when you can use it to buy coffee at starbucks or pay your groceries.

Or when your grandmother can use a swipe-card to buy medicine by bitcoin in a physical pharmacy.

I don't particularly care whether it's evolutionary biology, hormone levels or brain differences, but that's reality.
I'm only interested in profiting from reality rather than judging or profiling people with no gain. Since most women behave this way it must be natural behavior.

So while it might be entertaining to make fun of their pettiness, conformity or general lack of 'guts', there is nothing to be gained from hating them. If those traits have survived for millions of years in the DNA chain then there must be *some* benefit to them.

Women with internet access have money just as men do. Which means tapping into an uncharted market (female e-currency users) can potentially yield huge profits if done and marketed right.
Emphasizing the safety aspects of bitcoins. The fact you could use a mobile phone to send money to your kids, friends, relatives, etc.
Being able to pay for everyday, but also finer products and services women use. Definitely start with something like women's handbags or brand shoes. Jewelry. Cosmetics. Yes that's shallow but that's what women like in general, the end.

Heh, it's doable.. Up to 1.35V+
But the method was only discovered a couple weeks back by a german modder.  

You will have to make physical changes to the card so this is not for the faint-of-heart.

230SA variety extreme card's' voltage contr. can't be controlled by software atm, even Trixx.
So you are right they cannot be modified in any way via a program (until Sapphire or a 3rd party does something about it)

Like farfiman, I prefer to diversify especially to small startup pools (well, before the difficulty increases and stagnating btc price) and liked your pool.
I actually posted to save you from a financial ruin, not to be negative.

The fact is, it only takes 1 long round like this one to bankrupt you.
The big PPS miners cash out and disappear, but you have no block to show for it. Maybe it keeps going on & on to 6, 7, 8 million shares.

Meni Rosenfeld's PPLNS idea is good, even a small pool can successfully adapt it & you don't have a personal risk. It could work with btcpool24

I'm saying this instead of exploiting your feeless PPS, because I don't think you deserve to lose thousands of dollars.
But someone else might not be so 'understanding'. They wont be sticking around with the pool, they'll drain your reserves and run.

0% pure PPS with automatic payout is like a free lunch for the wolves (& a huge gamble for the operator)

Looked long and hard to find confirmation on whether anything would come out Q3/4 this year,
only to find potential problems with the manuf. process of 28nm chips.

http://lenzfire.com/2011/07/nvidia-kepler-2012-and-maxwell-2014-release-date-official-2-84329/

It seems Kepler is pushed to 2012 earliest, since AMD uses the same company (TSMC) that could mean delays. Other sites also report the problem with making 28nm chips.

Sucks for miners, things are already getting pretty unprofitable in the short term with current hardware price/performance + electr. costs.

I found this news article which was just released a few hours ago.

http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/AMD-CFO-States-They-Will-Have-28-Nano-meter-GPUs-Out-Year

Hoping he's right and they beat Nvidia to 28nm this year & it's not just marketing

No he's right, mining at this difficulty in a 7gh pool is insanity (just look at http://btcpool24.com)
Difficulty increase coming up in a few days which will just make things harder.

There are pools 100 times larger which are already struggling with 20+hour rounds and 8+ million shares,

it will be weeks and months before a tiny pool can overcome a 95 percentile or worse round now
In fact, 35-50 days @ 7ghash for 95-99 percentile
http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/old_calculator.php

During that time difficulty will also rise ~3 times


Would you stick with a pool which would likely get their next block in a month if ever?
Maybe if you're into mining as an ideology rather than something that costs a lot of real money to operate

lmao..

Are these companies building PSU's from recycled electric waste materials and quick-glue?
No wonder even their 600-1000W psus cost only 20-30 bucks on Newegg, read the reviews

http://bit.ly/qi0YHq

Are those even legal to sell, stay away...

Stales seem to follow some sort of pattern dependant on the server's behavior.

During the writing of this post, literally everyone in the top 25 has 0% stale shares over the last 15 minutes, and under 2% overall. That applies to my miners as well over the last 15min




A few hours later it ranges based on each address, from 1 to 4%.
Just wondering where it's coming from / if it can be solved. Can't be random because the 0% streaks happen to everyone at the same time & end at the same time.

Edit (10 minutes later): Now everyone on top25 is having about 3% stales again.

Nothing besides rumors, expectations are only based on the fact 28nm lithography allows for 30% more transistors.
Biggest news bomb is the fact they are abandoning VLIW based stream architecture and moving onto SIMD instead of VLIW3.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-core-next-preview-amd-architects-for-compute/1

Most sources incl. donanimhaber & chinese leaks confirm what m3sSh3aD posted, the powerful 79xx series GPUs will arrive Q1 2012 at the earliest. Hoping Nvidia will release their Kepler arch. fast to pressure AMD into an earlier release.

Consumer level GPUs (76-78xx) are slated to arrive much earlier, Q3/4 this year.
Mobility radeon's (laptop) will be among the first

Try 'force constant voltage' (settings tab) in Afterburner & set PowerTune slider to 20.

Knew right from the title you had 69xx cards running..

Go to catalyst control center, write 'overdrive' in the search field and disable PowerTune by setting the slider to 20 on each GPU.

Otherwise the card will constantly throttle down and go back up in an attempt to 'save power' (a mechanism which might work for gaming but is useless for mining as you want constant peak performance)

This is why people should never buy no-name PSUs. In the worst case scenario you ruin all of the components in the system. In the apocalypse scenario your house will be on fire when you return home.

Spend the extra $100-$150 on a robust Corsair/Seasonic/Silverstone PSU, have it last for years and get peace of mind.

That's exactly what happened with 6750 and 6770 cards :|

They are literally 5750 and 5770 Juniper chips rebranded as a 6xxx series card, only the BIOS is different.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4296/amds-radeon-hd-6770-radeon-hd-6750-the-retail-radeon-5700-rebadge

I guess it can really be done during the winter (as it is now in NZ and Australia), great for mining. If it's a home operation though, living in that room would be nearly impossible

Try decreasing in 5-10mhz increments and see when it eventually gets stable 24/7. Or if you just want to 'play it safe' try about 880mhz right away, it shouldn't be crashing if you can already push to 900 and run it for hours.

Even if the chip and VRM are stable, it could just be a bad card which doesn't OC well

You can't increase the voltage past 1.088V (stock) with any program on the new batch Sapphire 5xxx cards except Trixx.

The voltage regulator on the new sapphire cards is a custom budget model (not made by Volterra but some random company in mainland China), as well as most other components on their shortened PCB. The design is entirely different from the reference 5830 and 5850 cards and is also used on some cheap motherboards.
http://datasheet.eeworld.com.cn/part/NCP5395T,ONSEMI,302990.html

Afterburner, aticonfig and other tools are not designed to support those components and probably never will.

Obviously, Sapphire was the only company with a vested interest in the matter (being that they made the cards) so they updated Trixx to allow access to voltage increases on the 'extreme' cards a few months back.

One of my sapphire 5830's does this, the reason being too low fan speed. Core stays at a stable 55-60c but the VRMs are overheating due to a lack of airflow to them (fan speed is about 35%). It crashes when the VRM gets too hot.

Also, even relatively low overclocks or voltage increases can cause these cards to crash after a few hours.

Crappy design but you get what you pay for....