Why don't you allow for sending checks or ACH for people in the USA.  You would make more profit due to no paypal fees on your end.  Sure, not everyone wants that, but it would work for some.

Sorry, I feel like I am now flying blind and deaf.

MTGOX is down due to DOS attack and coincard is closed due to paypal.  I used to use coincard exclusively. 

My 900mhz clocked dual 5870 system with a sempron 140 CPU draws 600w at the wall as measured by a kill-a-watt.

You would need to be running 8 6990's for that to pay off vs buying another card.


I am glad your price is so high. If it was lower it would distort the mining market and I would be
Forced to buy it to keep up.  At that price so few people buy it there is little impact.

Difficulty does not drive price, price drives difficulty.  Right now bitcoins are going up in price because more people are using them.  If interest continues price will continue to rise.  When price is steady, difficulty will rise until it nears a place where mining is only marginally or not at all profitable for people with average electricity. 

With bitcoin exchange rising my prices are seeming higher now.  I wrote this for bitcoins at lower prices.  At 2.20 to a bitcoin I would lower prices 10%.  

New store at:

http://cryptoanarchy.com/store

I add GIFTOMATIC on Biddingpond.com to the scammers list.  He has taken by money on an auction and not shipped or responded.  I have proof of payment as the payment was forwarded by the site itself.

A few things for sale:

Black Bitcoin bumper stickers 3"x10" 1BTC plus shipping.  Shipping is .3 btc for however many you want (not each).  These are true outdoor bumper stickers made from vinyl and they have a UV coating.  They have shipped to me (after two weeks of waiting!) but have not arrived, I will update this message with a true pic instead of the current art copy when they show up.

Bnotes - Baltimore local currency.  You can pick these up if you are in Baltimore or even mail order them from the site below.  I am selling them for BTC.  1 bnote is .7 BTC , a 5 bnote is 3 BTC plus  .3 btc shipping.  Shipping price is for small amounts only over 10 value of bnotes would need to be shipped with tracking at a higher price.  

http://baltimoregreencurrency.org/

Resistors for VGA/DVI dummy plugs 1BTC shipped.  See http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6274.0

and finally x16 PCIE extenders - 7 BTC shipped

All shipping is to the US 48 states only first class mail unless you want to pay for better.  

Bitcoin is more free market oriented then that.  We have a pretty good choice of pools now with more on the way and the option of solo as well.  We could have bitcoin.org donations but then we would need someone to manage them. 

Dummy plugs are not too expensive or hard.

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6274.0

I may do that.  So far no response from GIFTOMATIC.  Biddingpond said they would email him too and no response from that as well.  It looks like I am being screwed.

I am using one MSI 870U-G55 and next week will have a second.  It is too early to tell but it really seems well made.  The first one has been going for about 10 days with two 5870's. 

You would save money on the MB if you went with less 5870's. 

For me the 5870 is the sweet spot.  I would love to have a 5970 but I never run into them cheap.

c:\ph>phoenix.exe -u http://littleshop@miner1:mypasshere@btcmine.com:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=0 AGGRESSION=3
[25/04/2011 14:51:18] Failed to connect, retrying...
[0 Khash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC]

Windows 7 64 bit problem here:

I extracted to c:\ph and am running the command with arguements but I get Failed to connect, retrying....

Are there other components required?

The only software on the machine is the full ATI drivers and GUIminer (which I have closed)

When I was solo I solved eight blocks, three had transaction fees of .05 or less, the others zero.  I do think trans fees will become much more common as time goes forward.

Remote monitoring is another reason I pool. The 2% commission is worth being able to see all machines in one spot.  I have a variety of smaller machines , my biggest single machine is a dual 5870

When I was solo I had no hits for 20 days on one machine.   That was bad!

A+!

Someone could write a story about the $18,000 pizza!