I'd love to switch over to your wallet program because of the interface. Not all of us know everything about database software so unfortunately this answer means nothing to me. A google search for "tiny BDB-parser" returns this thread as the first result so... my question remains.

My concern is being able to back up my wallet in the same format as the default client. If this can be done, please let us know. I don't care if I have to use third party software to export as long as I can export it in the same format.

Looking forward to some competition.
Have you considered accepting payment in bitcoin? Or have you not gotten to the business model yet?

Bitcoin is the perfect currency with which to donate to causes due to the ease of sending the currency. I have never donated anything with paypal, creditcard etc. but I have donated via bitcoin before.

It is my assumption that most Anime sub groups are versed in computer technology. Therefore, my assumption is that bitcoin adoption would be relatively easy for them. However, none of them currently accept bitcoin. I would like to see this changed. This could be very attractive to groups. For example, one group even currently requests donations of no less than $5 to reduce paypal fees, which is something bitcoin avoids entirely... at least until the USD conversion. (http://static-subs.com/donations/)

I would like to propose sending several friendly messages to sub groups asking if they accept bitcoin as donates and where to send them if so. I've already started.

Problems:
The following are reasons a group might choose not to which might be something we could consider addressing in such emails
1. Conversion to USD
2. How much of a hassle is this to implement?

Emphasis:
The following are ways groups use donated money and therefore, if bitcoin can help with any specifically, it would be more attractive. Especially if, for example, they could use the funds directly without USD conversion and save money in the process.

1. server costs
2. hosting costs
3. domain name costs
4. computer hardware costs
5. purchase of anime DVDs and Blu-rays

Below is a list of all the sub groups or anime related groups I know that accept donations in paypal or credit card but not bitcoin. I will add to the list if anyone more knowledgeable can mention some groups. There are hundreds out there.

http://haruhichan.com
http://www.arigatouhell.com
http://doki.co/
http://www.elysiumsubs.com
http://anime.is-delicio.us/
http://hadena-subs.com/
http://coalguys.com/
http://ggkthx.org/
http://static-subs.com/

So 0.1 is JMiner-based? I get
18 H/s on an atrix (tegra 2, dual core (1 thread), 1GHz, A9, neutrino rom (android 2.3.7))
35 H/s on an atrix (tegra 2, dual core (2 threads), 1GHz, A9, neutrino rom (android 2.3.7))
16 H/s on a Galaxy S (hummingbird, single core, 1GHz, A8, cyanogenmod 9)

Both at normal priority. So the nexus 7 should get > 80 H/s on Jminer.

Is this a laptop with switchable graphics?

The above comments confuse me. Did I miss something? Anyway, you obviously know a lot from work and I'd probably learn something from a debate with you.

Cool. If you want to compile a list of devices and performance for your reference or others, I'd love to test it on my android devices so I'll follow this thread.

No need to insult me. I'm not talking out of my ass. I am talking as someone who doesn't use twitter. I sincerely apologize if I have offended or annoyed you or somehow seemed argumentative. My only intention was to convey my own understanding and ask for clarification. Can we please be civilized here?

Anyway, I don't see a link that says "27 retweets" (even ctrl+f on the page). I assume it's because I don't have a twitter account so probably getting a different kind of page. It's good news he's retweeting then


I'd love a debate but probably don't want to change the topic of this forum. If you want to continue, feel free to pm me. Metaphors are unnecessary (as I am a network engineering student) and I usually find them confusing and distracting. Not to mention the holes in your metaphor.

I thought that was forbes, some business news site, not him. Are you saying he owns forbes? I don't see the part from your link where it is him retweeting it.

As I said, I don't use twitter so I haven't seen any tweets. But I have seen the forbes article that was tweeted there.

My basis for what I am saying comes mainly from this thread, where I have seen no one say anything like:

"he's tweeted his interest in bitcoin"
"he's tweeted that bitcoin could be an option and has asked for more suggestions"
"he's decided to use bitcoin"

stuff like that.

I think I did exactly what you are looking at except I used a different case.
I get 321 with a 1GHz overclocking using CGminer inside BAMT from a USB stick on my sapphire 5830.


The specs are an Athlon 64 3200+ with an older ASUS AM2+ motherboard with an Nvidia chipset (avoid Nvidia chipsets... not that they make them anymore) and 2GB DDR2. The power supply is an antec VP450 and I would be more than comfortable to add a second card into the PCI-e 1x slot with an adapter and power it with additional molex to PCI-e power connectors. It has now been moved to my metal server rack and sits nicely with the power supply behind it.

I built with a used 5830, a new VP450 and the rest spare parts. I wanted to keep my ROI under 3 months at what was $5.50/BTC.

So my advice:
Here's my current list:

OS: Ubuntu
BAMT is a lighter-weight linux designed for mining off a 4GB $7 USB stick. Save you $$$ on a hard drive. But if you already have a hard drive, then all the power to you.

RAM: 1GB of DDR*
If this is the case, you will be looking in the used market for older motherboards that support DDR. DDR3 ram is cheap these days.

CPU: Some sort of single-core AMD chip
My recommendation is to build an AMD APU based system. You will get some extra megahashes from the GPU part of the APU and they are decently cheap. Something like:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130641
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819106013
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148147

Mobo:
PSU: CORSAIR 450W 80+ >> just got one for my server
Card: 1x Radeon 5830 (Overclocking and Underclocking memory) >>> I've gotten 1000/300 stable
Case: A slice of wood from Home Depot
-Slapping on a HDD, mobo, and PSU won't do the job
-Gotta find out how to secure parts onto wood...use pen to mark holes and power drill into wood?
HDD: Sata2 120GB (Only $10 so...)

It will reach $100 when the demand is sufficient. So the better question is "When will bitcoin become mainstream?"

There are enough. More than enough, even with rich companies hogging entire address ranges with their class A networks. It's called NAT.

So anyway, I've read through this and the articles online and it seems he is completely ignoring the bitcoin suggestions and everyone is ignoring that he is ignoring them. I don't use twitter though. Thoughts on this?

Interesting.

Probably best to close both threads, start a new one in dev and link to it from both. One official thread now that the idea has come to this stage.

Decentralize eh? Seems a good match for bitcoin. How about a new blockchain/"coin" whose sole P2P purpose is to keep track of members?

Hmm. I didn't think that through though... the nature of it seems to allow anyone with the software to... invite themselves...

Seasonic has extremely good test results on various sites (see also the well-known corsair brand... seasonic makes their >500W PSUs)
A lot of manufacturing places (like the company I used to work for that manufactured electronics test equipment) only use Seasonic power supplies.

So, not lower cost, not necessarily higher efficiency (they are as efficient as the rating on the label) but they are the most reliable in everything I have read over the past 3-4 years. That said, I have never owned one.

Cool thanks. Do you have ideas on how you plan to keep track of members yet?

Anyone feel like officially inviting me?

So you were able to take into account all factors of my personal situation in your calculations? Impressive.

But yeah, thanks for elaborating. The unpredictability of the future is what makes me hesitant to invest much. I'm currently only purchasing equipment that has an ROI of <3 months at current exchange rate. That limits me to some used video cards and using only the motherboards I currently have on hand. There's no way I could build a new system or even source a full system of spare parts on kijiji with that kind of ROI currently.

I can't disagree that what you are saying is a possibility but... BFL always seemed to have long wait times and slow production and shipping. I think your ideas won't come to pass for a while. Unless perhaps they were only doing low-volume before to test the market? Then there is the unpredictability of the bitcoin value.

You should be able to make just over 0.5BTC per day per GH/s at the current difficulty. I get 800MH/s and make ~0.45BTC/24hours at BTCGuild. Hashrate is approximate.