The new fan for the 5870 has arrived and is installed. Applied some fresh MX4 and thermal pads and its hashing again like new. As it will keep doing until one of the window shoppers actually buys it

yours was incorrect anyway (at least if mine was correct, S1E13)

Have to say, this is the easiest 0.5btc Ive made this year. I googled "power rangers computer virus", then hit video's, and it was the second result. Took all of 1 minute  plus the time  to watch it .

Received, thx a lot.
You can download it using :
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

YW.

I got .3 BTC, thx for that, but I thought the clip was pretty decent quality, didnt you offer .5 for that ?

here you go:
http://seekcartoon.com/watch/8265-power-rangers-zeo-13-mean-screen.html#.UUHeuklu0gQ

(from 2"20 onwards)

15ZPNczbVbmuP5XjnaBGNVVLSAaWRaPF62

The goal of the game is to test your market prediction abilities, not one's (theoretical) ability to manipulate the market with a huge amount of coins or dollars.  The game should work as well with $50 base capital  as it would with $5000.

I dont believe in LTC, but that wiki paragraph should be edited or removed. You could make the exact same argument against BTC to call it a ponzi scheme;  That bitcoin has "significant potential" whereas LTC might not, regardless of its merrits, is not how you disprove a ponzi. LTC might be grossly overvalued, its no more  a ponzi than BTC is.

Against existing offers, so there is a spread. However, I dont take depth in to account, so if there is an offer on MtGox for 0.1 BTC, you will be able to sell all your coins at that price. There is no way around that really, if I would take depth in to account, then my prices would begin to diverge from MtGox.

Eternal fame and glory, bragging rights,..  I dont plan on paying prizes out of my own pocket. but once its working and there is enough interest, I will probably let  players play either for free (no prizes) or  pool like 1 BTC per week or month, and the winner(s) will collect the prize(s).

As for the VPS, thanks, but I just ordered one. Barely more expensive and lots more Ram .

Hadnt considered that.
I could keep actual trade history secret (well, to all but the player and me) , but the result should be public.

Meanwhile I finished the dynamic charts (quite happy with them)  and applied a tiny bit of eye candy. Updated screenie above.

I will probably need a host for this tho, my new provider's router/fw is a real nightmare. Anyone know of a cheap mysql/php provider?

Im working on a (fairly simple) bitcoin trading simulation, called GoxGame.

The idea is simple; every player gets a certain amount of virtual dollars and can use those to trade on a virtual exchange which follows MtGox prices more or less in real time.  After every 2 weeks or so, a winner is declared and the amounts reset.

In order to make sure people actually trade rather than buy and hold, players will receive a penalty if they do not meet a (to be determined) treshold in trading fees (set at 0.6%).

Players will only be allowed to register with their forum names, so 1 account per forum account.
Here is a screenie of the WIP:



About the chart:
The chart is updated in realtime.
You can click the legend to show/hide various elements.
Depth 2500 shows the price swing 2500BTC would cause in either way.
Also note you can download the chart as bitmap, vector, or PDF if you want

As for trading, history, ranking limit and stop loss orders are being worked on.
I will also make something to visualize how you are doing  compared to others

You can have a look here:
http://goxgame.sytes.net/demo/

Chrome recommended.

If you have some good ideas I may not have thought of, feel free to share.

Under load they will be somewhat close, but the C2Q should idle considerably lower.
Anyway, thats your choice. Ill add the p4 so you have something that works, you can always replace it later. But id rather not send the cooler, because its massive copper beast.

yeah same socket, and its supported by the mb according to this:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5N32E_SLI/#support_CPU

edit: may need a bios update, not sure what version it has.

You are going back on  your offer, but as I said, it was generous and this one still seems fair still.

As for riser cables; I have 4 PCIe 16x to 16x cables and  two 16x to 1x cables (to use in a pcie 1x slot)
If you buy the whole lot for the above price, I will add them for free on top of the new fan for the 5870. Or we deduct the price of the fan and you order it yourself.

As for motherboards, there is only one I can offer, a socket S775  asus  P5N32-E SLI which has 3 PCIe16 slots and 1 PCIe1 slot. It will come either with no cpu, or an old Pentium 4 3 GHz (which works fine, but I wouldnt recommend using it if you pay for electricity). There is 1.5 GB ram installed. This board is running now for 4 months without reboots with the three 5850s.

I dont know about easier, but  arduino boards with ethernet and usb/wifi that Ive seen cost more than a Pi (and they are not going to do double duty as HTPC).

Hey all,

I wonder if there is an interest in a dedicated raspberry pi based device that lets you follow gox (or other exchanges).
Im looking in to the possibilities of  the following options:

- Basic LCD
Something like this


But in a prettier case that will just scroll gox prices and volume.

- low power LED projection (night)
This would work like a projection clock:



Realistically this will only work in a relatively dark room and will be limited to 4 digits. But  it would be very neat to run in your bedroom, project the gox price on the ceiling at night, without being as bright as most displays that would keep you awake.

- Persistence of vision floating display

Since I cant find commercial providers for this, this will be by far the hardest to accomplish, but also the most eye catching. For those who missed the hype a few years ago, this is a POV clock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYNgomrDePo

- LED sign
You all know what these look like:

Available in all sizes and for indoor and outdoor, but the programmable ones are surprisingly expensive.


Since Id be using a Pi, other than showing exchange rates,  the device could do double or triple duty for just about anything, from file server to alarm clock to internet radio (if you connect active speakers), to media center (XBMC), to display email or tweets or bitcointalk forum posts, or well, you name it.

Rough price targets;  
Pi with LCD and buttons in a  nice enclosure: ~120-150 euro
Pi with LED projector: ~150-200 euro
Pi with POV display:  unknown. components are cheap however.
Pi with LED sign: depending on size, ~250 - 500+ euro

I wanted to add a poll so you can vote which of these, if any, you might be interested in, but it seems like I cant, so I will just read your replies.

I visited the site a few weeks ago and was willing to buy, despite my doubts about its customer support; however all the items I was interested in (nothing spectacular, a sata drive,  a spare android phone or tablet, and something I dont remember) where either very, VERY difficult to find, not available or seriously overpriced.

Bitcoinstore is a bold attempt, but its probably too bold at this point, especially when its not executed better than this.  Just accepting bitcoin isnt enough.

I wont lie, thats a generous bid, even if you are bidding dollars which I assume.
Id have to weigh them to be sure, but I think for ~1 btc I can ship them in one box which makes for almost exactly 10 BTC total. Shipping would take ~5 days.
As for the fan, it still hasnt arrived and I cant say if it will be a few more days or a few more weeks,  you would have it much quicker if I just a buy you a new fan on ebay thats shipped from the US. If you buy all my cards, id be glad to.

why would it be hard to keep them honest?
And yeah, it would be a bit of work, especially if you want to do it right, but a basic implementation might not be that hard. I think I will look in to it anyway.