Yes, when you send a payment to coinpal using credit card, paypal takes from your credit card and sends to coinpal basically instantly.  If you do an e-check debit to your checking account there is a 3 day delay. 

All of this assumes you have a standard verified account with paypal.  If you have a checking account connected to it you probably do.  Again, you want to pay by credit card through paypal if you want this to be fast. 

No, for $5000 I would decline 1%.  It is irrational but I would do it. 

For $100 million I would take 1%. 

If your paypal is connected to your credit card (checking account one you mentioned) then you should be able to do this quickly in a few hours.  I used this service and got my coins in 30 mins or less.

If you are running multiple cards in a Windows box without monitors you might find a dummy plug convenient.  

You can do this with three:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=200444

Or this with one if you want to it quick and dirty.

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=11

For 1 BTC I will ship three resistors in a standard first class mail envelope for US customers.  Email me for a bitcoin address to send to, do not use my signature or I will not be able to sort em out.  For each additional resistor over three add 20 bitcents.

I am just sending resistors, it is up for you to put them into a connector if needed.  

If you need a DVI to VGA plug I can sell that for 2BTC along with a resistor order but I think most of us got em for free with our video cards.

can the SSD.  I use laptop sata hard drives in some of my dedicated mining rigs.  I pull the DVD drive out or at least the power plug when done loading. 

Using 1gb ram, 1 slowish laptop hard drive, and a single core CPU with a dual x16 slot MB and dual video cards is a dedicated mining rig, where the job of hashes is king and one does not care about user level system response.  You do not do anything bad that would actually slow down the hash rate, but you do nothing more then required IF it takes more power OR adds more cost.

If I was using it as a desktop on the side the machine would be different but then it would not be a dedicated mining rig.

For me it is 10%.  I would need at least 10% of the money to take the offer.  I would offer a 50/50 split myself if I had done absolutely nothing and the money was free and clear. 

http://coinpal.ndrix.com/

Coinpal is the way to go!

Is this a first for BTCMine.com?   Two blocks in a row!   

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It is confirmed at 120 blocks, at 6 blocks per hour that is 20 hours.  You can go to bitcoincharts.com and see the current blocks per hour and find a very close estimate of when the payout happens.  BTCmine.com pays out pretty quickly in the bitcoin world, it takes about 15 mins after the block is really confirmed for the payment to start showing in YOUR bitcoin wallet.  For the next block just about 8 hours 45 mins from now. 

Yes.  A 5970 is basically two 5870's in one card.

It is possible that flaws could be exploited to alter or crack a single BLOCK.  This would take a huge amount of resources and the result would be maybe changing the ownership of 50btc.  If you had that power, there would be many other better places to use it. 

1.7g from a crazy assortment of 5830's, 50's, 70's and one 6950 coming this week.  I may sell off some of the 5830's to replace them with 5870's if I can find them at a good price.

And the free market seems to be working well here.  Difficulty increase has slowed but is at a pretty high level.  I think it will slowly increase now as miners start in areas with cheaper electricity and force those out in areas of expensive electricity.

yes, VERY lucky.

The problem with the law as it was before Obama thankfully repealed it was if I bought (as a small biz) a $700 computer from newegg I would need neweggs taxpayer ID and file a 1099 for them.

So companies are not smart enough to differentiate themselves from the generic and still make a lot of money?  After all clorox sells bleach at 2x the cost of others and people buy it. 

First to market is worth a lot, and you can build an advertising campaign around it.  You can also have contracts with generic manufacturers to have them make the product under a contract where they get the REAL recipe and pay a fee. 

I am not sure things would be much better with ZERO IP laws, but right now they are pretty screwed up.  IP laws allow big pharma to charge US citizens 5x or more what others pay for the same thing.  Something needs to be fixed.  Certainly copyright and patent should not be longer then 3 years, that would fix many problems. 

Maybe this should be put into the betting pool.

Something like.. major online shop like newegg or tigerdirect to have a card readily available (not just a fluke sale) that can hash at 240mh/s for $100 by 10/1/2012

When I say 6950 level I mean a card that can hash at a similar level, I do not mean the exact card.  They may come out with a new line lets say the 7000 series with a model that fits in at that hashing performance.  I do think in 1.5 years it could happen. 

There was a spike in Feb from Slashdot and now I think the spike is from a Time magazine internet story. 

Now there is a good one.  So why is a drug 'recipe' copyright but a food recipe not copyright?

Both the fashion industry and the food industry are areas of very little copy-right and both seem to flourish without those artificial controls. 

I think this is a dead end.  Yes, FPGA's are more power efficient but for bitcoin mining you need BOTH power efficiency and cost efficiency.  If you need to pay 10x per mega hash per second the guy with the GPU is going to have a payback way before you are.  GPU's are also a moving target as well, the price of 6990 will decline and within a year or so a new faster card will take it's place.  6950 level cards will drop to around $100.