Keep rooting for me, then!

Unfortunately I've had to turn most of my hashing power off for the rest of the day; hoping to bring it back online after a few hours.

I guess that makes me even more of an underdog!

I never needed coercion.

For me the defining moment was when I believed that security and law were services that could be provided by the free market and should not be monopolized by force.  I realized at that point I had completely fallen over the edge.

That's my point - he wants something, provided at somebody else's expense.  The people who have actually invested time and effort to investigate this issue have determined that the risk is not worth the reward to them.  Without truly investigating it, all he can say is how disgusting people are for not giving him what he wants, even though it is not in their best interest to do so.

haha, former right-winger here.  So glad to meet you in the middle, friend!  I made the journey in the years leading up to Bitcoin.

I would agree with that, in principle.  I think when people discuss their differences with each other, they ought to be respectful.  That precludes name calling like you are doing, calling people robots and saying they are not conscious beings.

When people have different viewpoints, they can have a meaningful and enlightening exchange about those viewpoints that is a benefit to one or both sides.  Somebody or everybody can see and learn more than they would have alone!  But judgment and disrespect makes that impossible.  That would include calling people names to try to force them to adopt your point of view.

No, never have, but I advocate legalization.  (And oppose regulation and taxation.)

What you are basically saying here is "People are stupid and disgusting for not already doing what I wish they would do."

This is not very motivating to the people who might want to help you.  They would probably get more reward (financially, and emotionally) from helping people who are more respectful, more appreciative, and less entitled.

So by having this emotional outburst, you actually diminish the chances of getting what you want.

Emotional outbursts during the feeling of frustration usually do not get us very much in life.  They result in us showing disrespect to the very people who might help us.  (Or even injuring them!)  They route our mental creativity into making a creative outburst, instead of creatively solving our problem.  But they usually do not advance our cause so much.

Why don't you go through the exercise of developing the service you are looking for?  Then you could provide a valuable service to others, and reap the rewards of doing so.

Bump because pool luck really turned around tonight.

And we're nearing 280 TH.

lol - stop trying to dictate the laws of economics.

(Love me some Bytecoin, but testnet3 is still a good idea.)

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Real wrath of God type stuff.  A disaster of biblical proportions.

Seriously if you don't like Bitcoin - don't use it.

Yes, but I was mining in the pool that produced this one.

Of course minutes after I posted this, I discovered I could get this information from the transaction history page.

Still, the reams of payout data on the block page is kind of hard to plow through.  Might be good to have some sort of search or sort feature there.

lol, thanks, DrHaribo!  I was wondering about that!


That would be nice.  Another thing I was noticing was that on the block page, it shows all the payouts, but this data is really hard to plow through if you are looking for something specific.  I wanted to go see what my exact payout was on that block with the gigantic 36 BTC fee, and finally gave up.

That's only if you're looking for something extra to do...

That was the world's most awesome block.

I'm happy to announce I'm now hashing at a higher rate.

I get the feeling that if that many people were all using pre-defined formulas like that, the system would be easy to game.

No, no mining site is going to dramatically change your mining income that much.  What you need to change is the amount of power you are throwing at it.  You will not be able to do that with just computer CPUs.

Do the math - if you find a mining site that has 1% lower fees, how much more will that get for you?