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Keep in mind that if you choose "instant sell," make sure that the quoted price is what you expected it to be. I made the amateur mistake a while back of assuming that the quoted BTC/$ price would hold for all of the coins I sold. Rather, the quoted BTC/$ refers to the highest bid.
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K thanks guys I'll keep you posted when I get to it this weekend.
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user 72289 scammed me for 15BTC Here is his profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=23426He promised I would get a megaupload lifetime premium account in 24-36 hours and that was 9 days ago and he hasn't logged into his sock puppet in 6 days. It's sad that we are trying to bring to life a new currency and there are these shady traders on the forums wrecking it for everybody else. My intent in saying what I'm about to say is sincerely not to say anything negative about Bitcoin. But, I really think that you can't just have a good currency and expect people will be good. I was talking to someone today about how interesting of an experiment Bitcoin is in the context of scamming. I think most people would confidently say they could find a way to scam someone out of BTC without worry of any consequences. It's interesting to see how many actually do. I'm sure there are probably mediating factors, but still. |
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when you say shut down, do you mean restarts ?
does it bluescreen ?
If you've tried all that hardware, maybe its something like the IDE setting being set to AHCI ?
It's flashing blue screen very quickly before it restarts, yes. Not sure if it's 100% of the time, but I know I've seen it at least a few times. For like 1/10th of a sec u can see blue screen with white font. I admit I don't actually know what the blue screen of death means other than your computer is temporarily fucked. |
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Start with a real memory diagnostic. Run memtest86+ overnight and see what you get. If you have 2+ memory sticks, pull all but one and see if that fixes it; then try a different one.
Try a different GPU if you have one.
After that it's the CPU or board.
What's memtest86+? The 10-minute memory diagnostic ran successful sweeps both times I believe. I could try the memory swap thingy. Interesting you mention the GPU. When I removed my GPU the first time and then tried to load Windows (this was before I reformatted my hard drive; see above post for more info if you didn't read it), I was able to load Windows once in safe mode. But, I had no idea what I was going to do in safe mode anyway, so I rebooted it "normally" to see if it would work. Never again would it work...not in safe mode, not in normal mode, not with a gpu, not without a gpu. One thing I didn't try was go back to my nvidia card. |
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Up to date bios version?
Are you doing a windows installation from the cd? How old is the cd? Any scratches? You may want to try a usb installation of windows
Yes, I'm doing installation from the CD. CD was received with computer on March 31. No scratches or extremely minor ones to the point where I looked at it and was like "yeah, it's fine" almost instantly. Keep in mind that this problem started occurring before I reformatted my hard drive. Windows had been operating fine since March. My activity on the computer consisted of mostly music production and some gaming from March-June. From June until the problem (about 3 months?), I was using it almost extensively for mining and some school work. For a month of gaming, I was using an NVidia 9600 or something and was getting crap m/hash, but I wanted to stay involved. So, I bought a 6970 because I knew I could use it for gaming later on and it also had nice resale value. When I bought the 6970, I upped my psu from a 450 watt to a 750. I noticed after a while of mining, my computer would randomly shut off and restart approximately once every 2 days or so. I experimented with my mining settings, and although I might not have had enough time to establish a good correlation, I think keeping less work-intensive mining settings resulted in fewer random restarts. So, this means Windows (or something) was already weird to begin with. Then again, I don't know much about computers at all, so maybe they were power surges from an overworked psu or something. Then, Windows stopped booting altogether. The computer restarted, but this time it failed and from then on wouldn't start again. This was when I had all my data on my hard drive. It was only after I had already tried all the different hardware, BIOS, software, and repair options I could think of that I decided to reformat the hard drive. I assumed at this point that my copy of Windows had gotten totally fucked up somehow, possibly by a hacker or trojan. Ironically, this was all right after I downloaded Geist Geld (45 GG gone forever), though the restarting pattern began before I downloaded it. So, I bought a USB/sata cable, transfered my data, files, wallet.dat, and whatever other crap I needed to a laptop. I transferred the data successfully, so I knew at that point the hard drive was semi-functional at least. I reformatted my hard drive, tried reloading windows, and now we arrive at the current state -- Windows extracts but doesn't complete installation setup. And, about the up-to-date BIOS settings, no idea. |
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System hardware specifics needed.
Sounds like it could be multiple things
Also what version of 7?
MSi ms-7549 motherboard Corsair HX 750w psu AMD phenom II quad cpu radeon 6970 some optical drive that came with a tiger direct comp bundle not sure what memory...4 gb Windows 7 Professional anything else? |
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If anyone can offer any advice that solves the problem, you can have the 1.06ish bTC in my wallet.
My problem is that windows 7 won't load, thus prohibiting me from mining.
It's not the hard drive. Tried 2 hard drives, one is brand new. Memory diagnostic came back fine but the computer reboots or shuts down inappropriately afterward. Actually, restarting and shutting down inappropriately seems to be a common theme -- I wanted to start fresh with a new hard drive, so I installed a fresh copy of windows 7...almost. It gets to the point where all the files are extracted, the computer is asked to restart, and windows attempts to complete the installation process upon restart. At this point, windows always fails to complete setup and the computer restarts automatically.
I ran a 'repair computer' test that informed me that the "OS successfully loaded" or something along those lines, but it also said something like "problem detected during windows setup."
I've tried different PSUs, hard drives, disconnected video cards, ruled out the optical drive, tried different sata connections, restored fail-safe BIOS settings...The only thing I can think of is that it's my motherboard. That is my conclusion, but I might be wrong. I don't want to buy a new motherboard if I don't need one, and I don't want to pay $50 for someone to look at it if I don't have to. So...any ideas?
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Again, I fully agree with you. In no respect am I in denial about the falling price of bitcoin. I have not invested any money, so I have no reason to be emotional. Bitcoin would function as a currency whether it's price was $1 or $100, I am simply frustrated by the short-sightedness of some of the investors here, because this short-sightedness may doom the widespread adoption of bitcoin before it even has a chance.
Ok, good. There are literally people here (many, many people) who will say "Speculators can go to hell," "Shorting the market is despicable," and "Rally! up up UP!" in the same breath. And yet, I think you're still missing the point. You've said it right a number of times, but now you're getting confused again. It's not short term speculators that are the problem. It's big-scale short-term speculators. I know you know this, but keep these two separate. It's an important distinction. Speculators in this market are bigger risk takers than bulls. |
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Up 600% since the end of June.
I began trading 2 days after the Gox debacle.
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My guess is that with the resources the US government has at their disposal (both manual and fiscal), not only could they probably find any silk road user if they really wanted to, but they could also probably locate the 1934 s penny that the user lost in a Walgreens parking lot on May 14, 1996. Having worked as a defense contractor I would say the capabilities of the US govt are often over estimated. It is more like: The govt contracts to have a machine that locates pennies built. It takes a couple years and millions of dollars but finally a contract is secured for $128M to have DOD penny locating machines mission ready in 5 years. 4 years into the project the administration will change and the new Secretary of Defense will make significant changes to the scope of the project (they now want it to locate dimes also). Significant work will need to be scrapped and redesigned pushing the timeline back 7 years. A couple years into the new project the CBO will report that prior estimates were invalid and the project cost has exploded to $1.3B. Shortly before the project is completed major components will be completely redesigned and a new contractor will take over because now there is a "need" for penny locating machines to be "stealth". Our enemies might be using stealth so we need to also. Now nobody even knows what this vague requirement for "stealth" means so the project will be put on hold (but still burning $24M in taxpayer funds each year) while a separate project is launched to develop "stealth" technology. Some years later (now two decades after original proposal) the stealth technology will be ready but it is incompatible with existing penny locating components. Since that was outside the original contract it will be an additional cost. A side note contractors are much better at writing contracts than the federal government. The good news is integration will "only" cost $12M and take 18 months. However ironically this is where Congress decides to put their foot down. They end up spending $50M over 3 years in investigations, outside analysis, and contracts for alternative designs before concluding that while mistakes were made no laws were broken. Finally the penny locating machines are deployed nationwide however 5 years prior the US mint had already stopped minting pennies and they are out of circulation. A final contractor gets a juicy contract to securely remove the penny locating machines, dismantle them, and store the parts in case they are needed at some point in the future. All together the project will take nearly 3 decades, cost $2.2B and never locate a single penny outside of testing. My speculation is based upon the assumption that there is a lot of top secret stuff that some extremely intelligent people are working on. If they can process the human genome, they can find some dude that leaves definitive traces of his actions through a computer. I worked in a SCIF with TS SCI in the military and the incompetency and waste I saw daily was astounding. I often had imagery of taxpayers gathering up piles of cash for the government to come pick up and truck to a facility where they paid workers $5/hr to shovel it into a furnace. I was told it cost $50k to do the background check for my clearance. After about a year or so I was told that administration lost all my paperwork (whoops!) and I got to be a paper shredder / groundskeeper with the seabees for a couple months while the whole thing was re-done. As an experiment, one day I went the whole day without touching my mouse once to see if I could do it. I'm sure there are groups in the government that are efficient and organized, but I believe that to be the exception and not the rule. Everyone I trained and worked with had TS clearance and most weren't that intelligent. Let me re-clarify my assumption... I think that all top-of-the-line governmental agencies/personnel/projects are likely classified. While I think agencies like the DEA are legitimate in the sense that they are given either objective or general goals and are expected to achieve them to a certain degree, I think the true capabilities of the government are kept hidden such that the general population only sees the broad surface rather than the dense underworkings. I suppose a speculative analogy would be science -- we can read all about on-the-horizon technologies in magazines like Popular Science, but my guess is the government has brilliant scientists who are well-aware of (or who have already developed) technology 20+ years ahead of our current time...the fun stuff like teleportation of poly-atomic substances or cloaking. I also speculate this is true in the field of intelligence gathering, and I seriously wouldn't be surprised if the government has the ability to listen to and track any conversation had by virtually anybody, anywhere, at anytime. Now, keep in mind I understand the fine line between paranoia/conspiracy theories and simple plausibility. But, seriously guys, tracking Bitcoin transactions can't be harder than much of what the government has already done. If we can blast into space and STAY there or build a plutonium bomb, we can crack cryptographic hash functions. |
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Anyone want to buy my flexIDs yet?
BitcoinBusiness and BitcoinBank
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Never heard of a restaurant without humans serving etc. Good luck though.
What about fancy sushi places where cooks prepare the sushi, but the food comes by on a conveyor belt? Can you build a catapult for delivery? |
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All I want to know is, WHY in HELL did you CHOOSE to take a government propaganda class?
It's a substance abuse class? And it's an elective? And it fits my schedule? And it's easy? |
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My guess is that with the resources the US government has at their disposal (both manual and fiscal), not only could they probably find any silk road user if they really wanted to, but they could also probably locate the 1934 s penny that the user lost in a Walgreens parking lot on May 14, 1996. Having worked as a defense contractor I would say the capabilities of the US govt are often over estimated. It is more like: The govt contracts to have a machine that locates pennies built. It takes a couple years and millions of dollars but finally a contract is secured for $128M to have DOD penny locating machines mission ready in 5 years. 4 years into the project the administration will change and the new Secretary of Defense will make significant changes to the scope of the project (they now want it to locate dimes also). Significant work will need to be scrapped and redesigned pushing the timeline back 7 years. A couple years into the new project the CBO will report that prior estimates were invalid and the project cost has exploded to $1.3B. Shortly before the project is completed major components will be completely redesigned and a new contractor will take over because now there is a "need" for penny locating machines to be "stealth". Our enemies might be using stealth so we need to also. Now nobody even knows what this vague requirement for "stealth" means so the project will be put on hold (but still burning $24M in taxpayer funds each year) while a separate project is launched to develop "stealth" technology. Some years later (now two decades after original proposal) the stealth technology will be ready but it is incompatible with existing penny locating components. Since that was outside the original contract it will be an additional cost. A side note contractors are much better at writing contracts than the federal government. The good news is integration will "only" cost $12M and take 18 months. However ironically this is where Congress decides to put their foot down. They end up spending $50M over 3 years in investigations, outside analysis, and contracts for alternative designs before concluding that while mistakes were made no laws were broken. Finally the penny locating machines are deployed nationwide however 5 years prior the US mint had already stopped minting pennies and they are out of circulation. A final contractor gets a juicy contract to securely remove the penny locating machines, dismantle them, and store the parts in case they are needed at some point in the future. All together the project will take nearly 3 decades, cost $2.2B and never locate a single penny outside of testing. My speculation is based upon the assumption that there is a lot of top secret stuff that some extremely intelligent people are working on. If they can process the human genome, they can find some dude that leaves definitive traces of his actions through a computer. |
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I think what I would say to law enforcement is this: money is information and as such can be sent anywhere on Earth instantly, with almost no cost, and in complete privacy. Bitcoin or no bitcoin, this ability exists. There was a time, not that long ago, when it was nearly impossible to track criminal activity using the financial system. Law enforcement needs to understand that it's becoming increasingly difficult (if not impossible) to track criminals using the financial system and they need to adapt to that reality. There are aspects of the legal code I don't agree with (in particular, I believe the war on drugs does more harm than good...and locking up people for prostitution is beyond ridiculous), but I do believe that we need a system of laws and law enforcement. I want our legal system and law enforcement to be effective while at the same time respecting and protecting human liberty.
We need to recognize that honest people have a right to private transactions and that this right is essential to our liberty. I believe that the founders of the United States could not comprehend a day where it was practically impossible for two parties to engage in a private transaction, yet that day is upon us. Had they conceived of such a possibility, I am sure they would have taken measures to protect this right. I find it ironic that a tool such as a computer and the internet affords us so many freedoms of communication and yet, it poses such a dangerous threat to this most very basic human right. I believe that the next amendment to the US constitution should be one that protects the right to freedom and privacy in financial transactions.
My guess is that with the resources the US government has at their disposal (both manual and fiscal), not only could they probably find any silk road user if they really wanted to, but they could also probably locate the 1934 s penny that the user lost in a Walgreens parking lot on May 14, 1996. |
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You would be a good fiction writer.
As far as I'm concerned, TradeHill is the closest I've seen to a responsible Bitcoin business, especially when taking into account the scale on which they do business. Are they the largest Bitcoin business behind Mt. Gox?
Anyway, I've emailed them on at least 4 different occasions...and that's not including follow-up emails with things I had forgotten to mention or new concerns I had; frankly, it could have been seen as annoying. They have responded timely to every email, even the follow up ones. They have consistently addressed every problem or question I have had, and I believe I may have actually been the catalyst for TradeHill's implementation of permanent deposit addresses on every account.
This implementation was added less than 24 hours after I had exchange of emails with TradeHill about an error I made during a BTC deposit -- using the old method, I requested to deposit 3.5 BTC but accidentally deposited 3.72 BTC because that was all the BTC I had in my wallet rounded to the nearest bitcent. I wrote to TradeHill about the accident, and not only did they quickly cancel the transaction and refund my BTC, but they implemented permanent deposit addresses so you no longer had to request to deposit a specific amount.
Keep in mind I'm very skeptical of the Bitcoin community, especially people trying to sell me a product or service. I guess it's risk assessment. Anyway, I'm not saying I 100% trust TradeHill...that will probably never happen with any Bitcoin business unless my BTC are FDIC insured or something. All I'm saying is that they have done the most to earn my trust, though I realize my sample size is rather small.
If TradeHill wants to get large enough to the point where they can afford to put up collateral to back our BTC, that's fine by me.
They aren't responsible as should be clear by the fact they're trying to make a bitcoin client with integrated tradehill, preventing the free market from working. That prevents the free market from working...how? I actually made a thread where I suggested that the client should be a client, wallet, miner, and exchange account rolled into one. Realistically, this is one of the many things needed for Bitcoin to catch on. It needs to be ergonomic and people need to be amused, not irritated. |
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You would be a good fiction writer.
As far as I'm concerned, TradeHill is the closest I've seen to a responsible Bitcoin business, especially when taking into account the scale on which they do business. Are they the largest Bitcoin business behind Mt. Gox?
Anyway, I've emailed them on at least 4 different occasions...and that's not including follow-up emails with things I had forgotten to mention or new concerns I had; frankly, it could have been seen as annoying. They have responded timely to every email, even the follow up ones. They have consistently addressed every problem or question I have had, and I believe I may have actually been the catalyst for TradeHill's implementation of permanent deposit addresses on every account.
This implementation was added less than 24 hours after I had exchange of emails with TradeHill about an error I made during a BTC deposit -- using the old method, I requested to deposit 3.5 BTC but accidentally deposited 3.72 BTC because that was all the BTC I had in my wallet rounded to the nearest bitcent. I wrote to TradeHill about the accident, and not only did they quickly cancel the transaction and refund my BTC, but they implemented permanent deposit addresses so you no longer had to request to deposit a specific amount.
Keep in mind I'm very skeptical of the Bitcoin community, especially people trying to sell me a product or service. I guess it's risk assessment. Anyway, I'm not saying I 100% trust TradeHill...that will probably never happen with any Bitcoin business unless my BTC are FDIC insured or something. All I'm saying is that they have done the most to earn my trust, though I realize my sample size is rather small.
If TradeHill wants to get large enough to the point where they can afford to put up collateral to back our BTC, that's fine by me.
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If you see this cop again, please tell him that last portion of ganja I purchased in Silk Road was the best and strongest I ever had. It made me into clueless zombie.
you got it |
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I'm sure my username is strictly a coincidence.
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