Right, it turns out that almost EVERY piece of shallow water on this planet is owned by some country.
It's all because of "Exclusive economic zone" that stretches for 200 miles from the shore.




This leaves only incredibly deep oceans for a potential new country.

I think, that Dogger Bank would be a good location to start an anarchist country/society.
In it's shallowest place it's only 15m deep.

Does anyone know how much it'd cost to reclaim a land from a 20m depth?
Effectively to estimate a price per square meter of such an artificial island.

Chodzi mi o lokalne sklepy: restauracja, spożywczy, stacja benzynowa... Nie chodzi mi o internetowe.
Ktoś wie o jakimkolwiek sklepie w Polsce gdzie można płacić bitcoinami lokalnie?

Let's assume [for a moment] that PayPal adopts Bitcoin this month.
You can deposit, withdraw, convert and pay with Bitcoins.

How much one Bitcoin should be worth at the end of this year?

In the past [gpu mining] there was one company that made chips for mining:
- ATI [> 50% chip power]
Small part of the network belonged to Xilinx, Altera and Nvidia. [less than 50%]

So in order to 50% attack the network in the past you'd need to:
- buy ATI
- modify their GPU's to not suit SHA-256 (just like Nvidia)
- sell GPU's not suited for SHA-256 to customers
- make miners for yourself to reach 50%

Today we have at least 4 manufacturers competing for the crown: [and more coming to the market]
- ASICMiner
- Avalon
- BFL
- KnCMiner
And all of the above companies sell chips to smaller manufacturers. [They can produce more chips that they can make miners with]
[Except for KnC for now]

Right now you'd need to buy at least 2 companies [more in the future] and make them stop selling chips.
In the past you needed only one.

So I think that SHA-256 offers better decentralization than scrypt.
What's wrong with my logic?

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Highest bid:
0.15BTC/chip = 9BTC/60 chips

I'm willing to sell 60 chips from batch 2 of Avalon ASIC Chips (SebastianJu) Batch 6 ordered (Closed)

Proof of ownership:
bcdev ; 62; 5.332 ; 1aTJa6dhYax5uHV249FA732BQDxABjSPd
You can look up my order here.

Ending:
24 hours from post time.

Bidding:
Starting price for chips: 0.15 BTC/chip = 9 BTC/60 chips
Increments: 0.01 BTC/chip = 0.6 BTC/60 chips
Bids only for all 60 chips.
Instant buy price:
0.3 BTC/chip = 18 BTC/60 chips

Winning and accepted bids must be paid within 24 hours from auction ending to 1aTJa6dhYax5uHV249FA732BQDxABjSPd, after that i will contact second best price bidder or reopen auction.

I will request every winning bidder to sign message
with sending address before i will send Sebastian a message with winner nickname.

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I heard that you received a sample chips to build a miner?
Yes. This sell will not affect the miner. I'll still have 75 chips, and the miner that I'm working on will be published as soon as the first nonce is generated.

Anyone interested?
Great offer, might be worth more in the future.

That was EPIC!
I'd really, really thank you for one minute of pure ROTFL.

Block 33000 of FTC was mined to an address: 6pFeathercoinSucksCBTuauhTGi8cdDCV.

For everyone interested, there's a proof: http://cryptocoinexplorer.com:5750/block/008f984ec69398248088f7f372368b2eb58d1462945ed190d355ae07e3c0c7d4

Not yet, but I don't think it's complicated. [As you didn't review the document - uC<-->ASIC communication is also preety simple]
I think that the biggest problem can be the interference on data/clock buses.
Just hope that there will be enough chips for both of us. :-)
Yes, let's do the rest of the technical communication elsewhere once we start building our Mighty Minerz :-P

I really, really think that you should use something more powerful. There are plenty of arm developement boards that can be used. [Like the one I plan on using]
While it can be done in 2 AVR cycles [hopefully], it'd be VERY hard to implement. Do you have enough experience in AVR ASM?
Sorry, but based on your technical knowledge [who'd use 8-bit AVR for this task?] and lack of research [you didn't look for datasheet], I'd assign lower priority to give you sample chips. [Just my opinion, no offence meant.]
Sorry, didn't read your post properly.
You're right, ATxmega will be sufficent for this task.

Are you planning on using AVR or AVR32?
In my opinion: 125ns is too fast for normal AVR. [It's only 2 instructions/second at 16Mhz and while I do think it's possible, it'd have to be written in ASM].
What's your opinion on this subject?

I'd like to apply for one [1] single (or 2 :->) chips from Avalon test batch.
I'm planning to make an open-source design for a miner that could be made at home.

What'd be so special about my project?
Simplicity - especially designed to be made at home

Use of development board Texas Instrument Stellaris Launchpad [or compatible version http://www.ti.com/ww/en/launchpad/tiva_c_head.html?DCMP=tivac-series&HQS=tivac-launchpad-b] - this will take a lot of complexity from the board - programmer, USB as well as [possibly] 32Mhz clock.
PCB's that are 2 sided [or 2 sides + 1 layer - they can be made at home], that could be etched using photosensitive spray [or even laser printer if someone can make small enough tracks reliably].
Common components, not some strange chips that must be ordered from china.

I plan on making a 16 chip version, this uC should handle that without problems. However scaling down won't be a problem.

What will you get in return?
Both PCB's and firmware will be distributed in open-source fashion. So if you like to make homemade devices [or just have a know-how, but don't want to pay anyone to build it] the design will be available well before the start.

Note: I still plan on making a design and open-sourcing it even if I'll don't get the chips. Just the designs will be available few months later :-)
Note2: I don't have any plans yet for making the miners for other people. I might consider it after I make a batch for myself. [knowing the costs, timeframe, etc.]

If you consider people to send sample chips, I'd volunteer too.
I'm planning on making a design using the Stellaris LaunchPad and opensourcing it.
One [or better two] sample chips would be very useful.

[I'd even pay extra to get my hands on one of the samples]

I want to sell one Nexuiz steam coupon code. [ofc. from GPU :-)]

Payment only in LTC.
Escrow: None. It can't be used for steam codes.
If your reputation is higher > 0 [mine], I'll send first. Couple of $ is not worth scamming.

Method: auction. Post your offer below.
Starting price: 0.000001LTC

Auction end: 20:00 GTM [approx. 10h 6min from now]

It's a good idea to have a reputation thread on this forum