Many AMD GPUs are already faster than this, for instance 5970 and 6990 can pull 1 TFLOPs. Yes but, as DeathAndTaxes said, i think that this Knights Corner will have more cache than a GPU. Sure, it will be slower, but by having more cache it will be useful for more things |
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Could it compete with an AMD GPU? Of course not. It's not a GPU. But it will be very useful for the socalled "cpu coins" like litecoins and others. And, more important, for scientific things that run bad on GPU cause of low cache. |
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What happens when the .bit domain gets officially used by ICANN? Has anyone thought about that?
Nothing? Since namecoin is a different dns system, the two can work together. Of course you need to tell your browser if the .bit address you are looking for is a namecoin one or a normal icann one. That situation seems decidedly un-nothing-like to me, and awfully browser-centric. As it currently stands, DNS resolver operators can add transparent support for the .bit space 'as if' it were the same as any other toplevel domain. Scripts/email systems etc can then resolve .bit names without specific configuration. The fact that ICANN may effectively yank this mode of operation out from under us (you can bet nearly all resolver operators will revert to resolving official ICANN names) is surely a risk which may make it hard to convince operators to support it in the first place. Just make a plugin or something like that for the browser? You want to use namecoin dns, you activate the plugin and all addresses will be considered namecoin addresses. Otherwise, well, normal ones. |
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I hope there will be live video coverage  And i mean a decent one! It's undecided yet, we are leaning towards releasing polished edited videos asap after the event. If we get some donations for a live feed then it would definitely help. feel free to make a donation. 19u7zkWMEFX1MqQ2HtxfBp3Bkr2iZpBv6J That is fine too |
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It's funny, if you look for "bitcoin forums" the first thing you see is a "I just got hacked - any help is welcome! (25000 BTC stolen)" thread... and you wonder why people avoid bitcoin? Sure, if you pay attention you never lose anything but still... reading that as first thing don't help. |
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Your numbers are wrong. Not going to waste any more time on them but "the banks" (there is no such single entity) don't have more computing power than Bitcoin. Bitcoin is larger than 500 largest super computers combined.
Bitcoin can be defined as larger than the top 500 only if you decided to measure power by the amount of one of the most basic form of calculation almost nobody has use for. For the purposes of attacking bitcoin that is exactly how we can and will define it. Because if you were to attack bitcoin with standard super computers you would need more then the entire top 500. You basically proved deathandtaxes point. Ye but why use standard supercomputers? Standard supercomputers are made out of cpu and have big cache (that's why they use cpu) and memory. Why? Because the problems they tackle, require big cache and memory. For bitcoin, such things are useless, a gpu is much better. Only an idiot would take 500 supercomputers made out of CPU to attack bitcoin. |
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Nice, but focusing on it as a way to avoid taxes can make people have the wrong expectations about bitcoin
Try to focus a bit more on the easy of use, you can sell everything everywhere and get paid instantly and then buy something instantly. If you are a gamer and you play mmo for example you can sell golds for bitcoins and use them to buy other games (Battlefield 3 for example, is awesome) for bitcoins.
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Your numbers are wrong. Not going to waste any more time on them but "the banks" (there is no such single entity) don't have more computing power than Bitcoin. Bitcoin is larger than 500 largest super computers combined. You forget saying that the 500 computers are made out of CPU, that have big memory and caches too, not of GPU  Comparing cpu with gpu is fail, they are 2 very different thing. |
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You need to download all blocks. You said you are at 139205 so it's downloading them. It will take some hours to download them all. Now we are at 153720 so, keep downloading.
Also you have only 8 connections, they are the default ones. Please open the 8333 port so the client can connect to other people too and download faster (also allow others to download blocks from you and relay transactions...you know, bitcoin is p2p!)
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As they said, if your computer is crashing then you have serious problems not related to bitcoin that you need to fix.
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Then why you are here? |
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Only scrooge can dive and swim in money, others get hurt |
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The Wikimedia Foundation, as a donor-driven organization, has a fiduciary duty to be responsible and prudent with its money. This has been interpreted to mean that we do not accept "artificial" currencies - that is, those not backed by the full faith and credit of an issuing government Ahahahah what an idiocy, then they should instantly stop accepting dollar, euro and what else Also they could simply sell bitcoin for their loved dollars, why they don't do it? full faith+fiat currency=EPIC FAIL Oh well i won't donate anything to wikipedia. Their choice. |
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Call me when this happens ok?
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If running the client provides a valuable service to the network, shouldn't that be rewarded?
What expenses there are to keep running the client? Almost none. Everyone can keep the client in background and ignore it. |
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