You shouldn't make your ulterior intentions so clear. Either man-up and prove the point in your OP or quit this holy crusade of yours.

The easy way is to just flip the boards. That gives the highest temperature decreases.

Personally, I removed the stock fan and use two Cougars without PWM in push-pull and its both silent and cool (well cool enough atm). Right now since the ambient in my apt is less 68F(20C), I see 43-44C pretty consistently with a 375mhz clock. Anything above that and I see a fairly linear increase in temps. Depending on how summer goes this fan combo might not work, but man is it silent.

For the price, they should just ship us one with our orders.

Also try just powering one blade at first instead of both. It doesn't start hashing until it sees a connection so it won't use much power until then. So you might have been able to log in before it fully powered up.

I always use 20% for worst case scenario estimation. That way any price increase and or lower difficulty just adds to my profit. This release is cutting return way closer than their S1s though. Without power they will take 5 months to start RoI with April 1st start. With power you could possibly never make a return unless you sell after couple months. If they ship a week early it should barely break in 5 months with power. Hopefully the S2 is just as OC-able. Even a small 10% gain is worth the power increase. I figure the fans will have to be upgraded anyway (for noise mostly) , but i hope the PSU has some headroom.

Sushi could you please give us customers some more information on the fans (size/temps) and the PSU ?

Juan at 112bit.com had a few left several hours ago even after bitmaintech sold out, and I managed to snag one. I could of gotten 5xS1 for the same price but it'd be at twice the power consumption. Every day that the S2 ships early helps on the return though. If it doesn't ship until the 1st I think its going to have to be OC'd just to make a return. Which also probably means its going to need an new power supply and maybe fans because I doubt they are silent. A week early would be nice. That way it'll RoI without OC.


If your outlets are on the same circuit, its irrelevant.

Luckily I snagged a S2 pre-order earlier, after seeing it was sold out in like 5 hours on bitmaintech main site. So glad I decided to check the news around here today.

No discount for S1 customers? Or even an email to old customers to notify them know you were releasing S2 soon?

ETA on batch two? I'm sure you've got a full stock just sitting on the shelves mining like you did with all the S1s.

Also can we get some info on the fans and how hot the run on average? Also can you give your local average temperatures currently so we can compare with our own local temps.

You shouldn't ever accept 0-confirms as receipt of payment. If you need instant-confirmations, you need to adapt your PoS (PointofSale) to accommodate this with external means.

The only ones that are remotely agreed about are a Bitcion (1e1) and a Satoshi (1e-8). Though satoshi is just really slang.

The metric system naming convention doesn't need to be reinvented and works quite well. In fact, most kids should have learned them all by the 5th grade. Maybe 9th given that some public school children learn really slowly, but they still learn them. I can't vouch for other countries, but seeing as the US is bottom of top 25 in math, there's at least 20 other countries that should understand it just fine as well. Scratch that we slipped outside the top 25 this year to 31st. hahaha. So there's a few more countries in that list above us. 

IMO, Professionalism is over rated. The idea of professionalism is just political correctness drained of emotion wrapped up with corporate politics, and we need less of all of that.

I just read through some of the previous articles about him and man there's some interesting stuff in there besides the bitcoin related stuff. The article about his repost of a question set from a reporter with his own responses is particularly interesting and just makes me the like the guy even more. (http://www.deepcapture.com/tim-mullaney-and-patrick-byrne-discuss-20-businessweek/)

Depends on your time scale view.  For the day, its flat as hell, For the week its slightly down. In the bi-weekly look, its flat. On the month, its slightly down. And on the 3-month its slighty down. From 6 month though and we are up. We were pretty stable at 800 for a month, and we've seen a pump back up to almost 700. It wouldn't surprise me to see another pump to 750 peak and then flat line around 700 for the next few weeks after.  This no-volume period right now though is just waiting for something to happen.

Localbitcoins.com is pretty painless so long as you have some clue about what you're doing. Nice people generally.

Lost coins would really only become a problem if amount of coins get really high, like over 50% of them are lost (though by that that number someone would need to put some serious thought as to why all these are being lost), then even then its not a huge issue . Why? Because lost coins only cause the value of all the other coins to go up. This combined with the fact that a single Bitcoin is divisible by 8 decimal places (currently though this could possibly be expanded), and you're 21 million coins become 2.1 quadrillion satoshis (the unit name of choice for 1e-8 bitcoins). If you lost half of the coins you'd still have 1.1 quadrillion satoshis. That's still a lot of monetary units to divy up and use.

If you're just starting to delve into bitcoin, Don't be afraid of the search button. It can be your friend. Lots of topic here have been repeated and beaten into a pulp over the years.

EDIT- If you lose your password then you are SOL. If you are terrified of your backups becoming corrupt, then move all your savings to a single address and print out a paper wallet address and store in a fire-safe lock box. If you need a daily wallet, write down your password and only keep a small balance in it. Every so often (depends on how many transactions and addresses you've generated really) back up a copy to a flash drive, one to a CD/DVD and third zipped up and dropped on dropbox/cloud host of choice. If that still doesn't satisfy you. Then a digital currency just might not be for you.

If it seems like people are being mean, its because they are tired of hearing and answering the same questions over and over. So I kindly refer you to the search button once again. Please use it.

There are other methods to dealing with fast transactions, ie. fast food, restaurants, that could be adapted. As soon as a proper bitcoin credit union or bank appears, we'll see proper bitcoin debit cards. Or you could offer gift card sales online, that don't need the fast confirm time, like Gyft. Or you could be like starbucks and have a specific app or card that's balance loadable. There are ways around it that for most quick transaction businesses.

You don't have to have the protocol always adapt to the consumer. Just let PoS technology adapt to use bitcoin. Its already there, its just not widespread yet. 

In time there will be collisions because the probability is not 0. However, not only do you have to match an in-use key, that key also has to carry a balance.

By brute-forcing keys, the probability is the lowest. Anything related to a vanitygen that's not truly random, is at risk of being brute-forced as it seriously diminishes the keyspace. As time goes on, if people do not adhere do the rinse-and-don't-reuse address policy, the collision probability will increase. People are already generating lists upon lists of private keys just for the sake of generating them. As hardware and storage technology increases, its less of a monetary drain to just let a computer go to work generating Millions upon Millions of addresses every second.

The probability is non-zero, but thats also why they say its improbable not impossible.

Fat Tay Choon went to the Mining Academy in Brazil, east of Satoshi's yurt, where Gavin was kidnapped by the CIA's goons and forced to pretend fucking an anonymous decentralized biscuit—better than all the fish in the Pacific Ocean—but also to defray leeches intelligently with ECDSA fighting qubits for 16.8 dree12, or Phinnaeus must fling toilets towards psy‐ops, without potato smoothies mixed with fried chicken wings from BitMunchies.com, urbanchickennj.com, and Popeye's Bitcoin wallet, which deleted Satoshi's premine ability to cheer very victoriously, none like Butterfly Labs better enabled, but also Pirate crashing AIR applications without the express use of interest-free scams, conspiring with fraudulent sockpuppets and PPTs and..., you troll-herding piece of Shiitake mushroom, go lick Goat's horns until Theymos admits to having a quite erotic fetish involving honey badgers wearing thongs composed of soggy burlap waffles dangling from cosmic linoleum-based iphones running quantum chips explodes spewing deadly acid! b!z screamed out "Light is bright like...like... stars." When Markjamrobin opens the isolated window, he sees three pigs together in bed. Kouye and myself laugh when chinese food falls the impact kills Obama Bin ladin whoever thinks he may be terrorist, is correct but hates the bitcoin logo. Earth has snakes. Currently, the other species have decimated to tiny groups called "marko solo" whatever time it all comes and ends? However, Bitcoin's acidity level dipped causing catastrophic double-spends!

Meanwhile, AntiOps was confused by the awkward change to his penis melting uncontrollably. Vanilla Ice perfume spritzed onto cheese and greasy slime covered with babies boiled in a smelly old heatsink. But it tasted like shit therefore it poisoned his blood although he did survive. Reproductive organisms attacked the internal testicle which caused terrible congestion somehow. Evolution then terminated the smelly old business thank the inability of AntiOps to lock Satoshi's thread. In a transactional forum there was a debate about hacking unprotected accounts, however the debate shortly ended.

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Altcoin suck on apples and oranges too. Megacoin is the most shit sucker of apples and  melons ever. Most people love to troll others. Evolution is a slow process which created forks. It is beneficial to wash your feet because it distributes bacteria and oil, notwithstanding the beneficial attributes which are how chocolate arouses some of the miners brains. Today was an abysmal event which caused many abnormal but not smart bitcoiners because many of them are cute animals who were insane because of excessive oreo consumption. One watermelon is not love how people try me explotation Maybe Heisenberg Breaking bad control guy director or masturbation my time vampire drinks urine not lemon tek and water supernatural.

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The universe is populated with many planets which were destroyed by Taras. Cyborgs then warped to the zoo and ate mushroom with a aerospace technician. Bitcoin has used a lot resources from peoples although people smell like melons.

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Vitamin D is important to scam Taras and raise taxes which would cause the world to go crazy but not insane. Obama is the president now. Alot of gamers will illustrate sony that nintendo is leading the infiltration of Iran. Microsoft Windows was salivating pedophiles of the coastal farts. Yet the banana shrank. What was doge poo doing under the bridge with bridge cleaner?

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This disappoints satan more than

The conversion to Fiat is one of the biggest weak points, if not the biggest. The second is keeping the txs off the blockchain and keeping them fast.

The idea i've toyed around with is splitting the exchange into 3 separate main parts: A local user wallet, A third-party trusted escrow, then the Orderbook(audited/run an altcoin).

You would force users to deposit into a local wallet the user keeps that produces a certificate that funds indeed exist. Then in order to use the funds on the exchange, the funds are sent from local to escrow with a certification. On send and receive to the escrow, the orderbook would 1:1 carbon copy assign all inputs to an Altcoin exclusively run by the exchange (with audits). This could even just be a couple wallets containing all the pre-mined altcoin/orderbookcoins and let the wallet handle all transactions internally. This would keep trading at a real-time input level. Then when someone wanted to 'cash out' or even after a set amount of time after not making any trades, the altcoin/orderbook would push out the current account information to the escrow and then verify and move the bitcoins in escrow accordingly. This would of course create a delay for verification from blockchain but only on deposit and withdraws. Everything else inside the orderbook would flow in real time.

The methods opens up fractional reserve, but its bound to happen at some point. But ignoring that. You would set the altcoin wallet accounting to always check for 1:1 match to the coins in escrow, and whenever coins left escrow the would leave the orderbook/altcoin wallet as well. No matter what with Fiat involved, a third party is going to have control over your money at some point. You can keep bitcoin txs almost completely out of it, but at some point you need to verify that the bitcoin balances are real and unspent.

Can we get some moderation up in here? Holy hell. Like 15 different topics all spreading the same FUD.

Also, there is a huge logical fallacy in your argument OP. Your homework is to reflect on it and stop posting before you proofread your statements. 

For the most part, I would accept stolen funds in any currency. That said there is a big difference between me having to physically check if its stolen versus a customer being like 'man, i totally broke into this guys car the other day and he had all this cash lying around. what an idiot. so yea its $100 for the 4 rims right?' That's what got those Floridian localbitcoiners in trouble.

The concept of 'dirty money' is just a fallacy created to enable governments to improve their ability to track, find and arrest those who they deem as criminals. It's not always a bad thing, but its not something that needs to be forced on Bitcoin. There's already plenty of features and barriers to minimize the risk of theft. At some point though there has to be some personal accountability.