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421  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: [Poll]Will you be switching to ASIC? on: July 08, 2012, 06:24:47 PM
I intend to keep GPU mining in addition to a BFL J ASIC. My goal is 1GH/s for GPUs. Currently at 0.8GH/s.

Are you going to heat your house, or water? Because otherwise it will be just a waste of electricity. Basically everyone who's planning to continue with either GPUs or FPGAs can be placed in "quit mining" section.
That's your opinion.
422  Other / Off-topic / Re: Yes, but what if? on: July 08, 2012, 05:57:06 PM
Haha. I've never looked that closely at the UN flag. That's a good idea.
423  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: [Poll]Will you be switching to ASIC? on: July 08, 2012, 05:53:50 PM
I intend to keep GPU mining in addition to a BFL J ASIC. My goal is 1GH/s for GPUs. Currently at 0.8GH/s.
424  Other / Off-topic / Re: Yes, but what if? on: July 08, 2012, 05:51:08 PM
Here's a thought. Combine the Globe idea with the gold coin you posted earlier. A kind of globe in the background but drawn with circuit traces.

Traces on a green circuit board would work well for continents. Kind of showing a digital world connection and placing the bitcoin logo in the center.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j6FLgqaYfgw/TdU1QyasHwI/AAAAAAAAAAA/1Dx4OuoTuzk/s640/IMG_3593.jpg

When I googled, I couldn't find quite what I was looking for. A lot of globes where circuit traces were in the background, but none where the continents on the globe itself were traces.
http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/wklzzz/wklzzz1108/wklzzz110800128/10252215-electronic-printed-circuit-board-with-technology-style-against-fiber-optic-background.jpg
The only issue with a globe is that if this is a worldwide organization, only one side of the globe can be shown at a time. Perhaps two globes, one each side of the earth, slightly overlapping the the bitcoin B in the middle. Or perhaps the orientation of the globe could change depending on the location of the people using the logo at a given time?

I would totally draw something like this up but I have no artistic talent or much photoshop experience. So here is a pixellated draft of both ideas:
http://42.251.111.16/freecoinerdraft.png
If you are able to tell which continents I drew where, you will have impressed me Tongue

If you need extra help with the website, I've recently taught myself some PHP and Javascript. Not sure if I'll have much free time though.
425  Other / Off-topic / Re: Yes, but what if? on: July 08, 2012, 04:03:15 AM
This is interesting. What exactly would be the purpose of said organization?
I can offer proof of BFL purchase.
426  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Quick Question on: July 07, 2012, 09:46:33 AM
You would increase your electric bill and not make enough coin to make the effort remotely worthwhile.
thanks lol
What he said is more than likely. But without your specs, we'll never know for sure.
427  Economy / Lending / Re: [Withdrawed Offer] Butterfly labs & solar loan on: July 06, 2012, 12:35:05 AM
I'd like to point out that in Ontario Canada, the current electricity cost is around $0.15/KWh (it's all tiered so hard to calculate accurately but it's around there)

Where in Ontario do you live?
http://www.hydroone.com/RegulatoryAffairs/RatesPrices/Pages/default.aspx

There is absolutely no way to pay even 0.12/KWh at any time ever. According to the link, even if you are using the non- "time of use" based pricing...

Or am I missing something?

Edit: I know my link is for after May 2012 but prices before then were still not that high.
428  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: looking for people wanting an own FPGA bitstream on: July 06, 2012, 12:06:53 AM
My knowledge is not enough to join you but I support this.
429  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Hey, I'm new here. :) on: July 05, 2012, 11:51:49 PM
Thanks but I'll pass. Really cool that you started a pool though. The more the merrier.

Here's a list of the hardware everyone has tested mining with. It's fairly accurate.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

AMD/ATI video card >> Nvidia card >>> CPU
For example,
a ~$100 Phenom IIx4 955 will get 12MH/s
a ~$100 Nvidia GTX460 will get 90MH/s
a ~$100 ATI Radeon 5830 will get 300MH/s
I'm going by overclocked settings. but all by about the same. Prices are what you could expect to find these cards for used.

Water cooling is a matter of opinion, and mine is don't bother. The effort is greater than air cooling and vs properly implemented air cooling, the benefit is debatable.

CGminer is what I use but I used to use GUIminer. Both are good programs. Use GUIminer if you are less comfortable with the command line. I am assuming Windows OS and both work well with their defaults. GUIminer also has CPUmining enabled, unlike CGminer. Both will work as best as they can on Nvidia and AMD video cards but the performance hit on Nvidia cards comes down to architecture. AMD's is best suited to mining. Basically, there is something AMD cards can do in one clock cycle that takes an Nvidia card 3 cycles that happens to be an important thing in Bitcoin mining.

You can mine CPU and GPU at the same time. CPU isn't worth it unless you have free electricity.

The ideal mining farm with electrical efficiency in mind is multiple AMD GPUs and a weak CPU (like a sempron) on a motherboard with lots of PCI-e expansion slots. But if you are gaming too, you will want something like the i5. If you want to keep CPU mining, I've found the one you are using to be the best so far although I only recently started looking into CPU mining.

There's lots of resources as well as the hardware comparison on the wiki I linked.
And of course, this forum is a good resource too. If you have any questions, ask. Or give the forum a search for some keywords and see if there are any existing discussion topics.
430  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Hey, I'm new here. :) on: July 05, 2012, 11:22:25 PM
Cool welcome.

A bit of a suggestion if your computer will be for mining and bitcoining only: forgo the Xeons. They will benefit neither.

I've got 12 CPU cores total mining right now to keep my hashrate above 800MH/s because I am OCD and have free electricity. Combined, they mine at 30MH/s. Higher clocked, they might get 40-50. My $40 radeon 6450 gets 32MH/s and consumes ~1/20th of the power. (My other hardware is a 6950, 6770m and a 5830).

Gaming will not benefit from the Xeons because most modern games will not benefit from more than 4 CPU cores. A lot still don't benefit from more than 2-3.

You're better off with a Core i5 2500k or 3500k. Overclockable (unlike all Xeons). Games will benefit from the high clockspeed.

Spend the extra money saved on a second video card. A single 7970 gets over 600MH/s  Wink

Out of curiosity, what CPU are you mining on and what CPU miner program are you using?
431  Economy / Lending / Re: Requesting 500-1000 BTC Loan on: July 05, 2012, 11:03:43 PM
Am planning to join in on the ASICS revolution
If you went to a bank and told them you wanted a loan to buy a house, do you think they would give it to you immediately? Be reasonable. You need to work to show you are reliable and are legitimate. You need to give us all information on your mining experience and various other things. This includes your personal information. If you intend to do this once someone PMs you, please say this in your post. A one sentence post will get you nothing, except being called a troll or scammer.
432  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Ufasoft Coin - Multi-currency client for Windows 0.30 on: July 05, 2012, 04:03:20 AM
What's with the weird wallet files types? I can see a way to import a regular wallet.dat but what about exporting?

To the OP: Why haven't you responded to the open source question?

To everyone else: Are there any other clients out there like this one?
433  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Ufasoft Miner 0.30 - Windows/Linux, x86/x64, SSE2/OpenCL/CUDA, Open Source on: July 05, 2012, 03:32:31 AM
Nice. How does one go about configuring mining with pools etc with this program though? I mean to work with the rightclick>mine method in the client?
434  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Worth it to get bank loan to mine? on: July 04, 2012, 12:23:55 AM
yes i can afford to lose and dont know how you're going to maintain them? only way is if I make them water cooled?
What do you mean? And what are you talking about water cooled?
435  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: VirtEx Bitcoin app *UPDATE* MtGox Widget and Orderbook with Liquidity Highlight on: July 04, 2012, 12:18:58 AM
Cool thanks.
436  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How much do you make a day? on: July 03, 2012, 12:57:44 AM
I've been switching calculators a lot until I found this one. My personal favourite:
http://98.201.170.173:81/btc_calc.php
437  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Freicoin: demurrage crypto-currency from the Occupy movement (crowdfund) on: July 03, 2012, 12:47:23 AM
Interesting.
438  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: [7.3 btc bounty] Implement demurrage in an alternative chain with merged mining on: July 03, 2012, 12:19:06 AM
So is Freicoin dead now?

No, it is still only a concept.
There's another campaign to try to implement it (and more things, like a web and a video).
nodemaster if you want your 2 btc back just PM. I will maintain the rest of the bounty for the minimal things I ask for here, just in case.
If they code it they will take this too. If they don't, I will eventually do it myself when I have the time. Not for the bounty (well, nodemaster's 2 BTC), but because I really have faith in the currency.


2BTC? What are you talking about? I just heard about freicoin recently and it interested me. With all the other coins that have been created since bitcoin, I thought maybe the forums had been abandoned and work had gone ahead. So I figured I'd ask.
439  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Worth it to get bank loan to mine? on: July 03, 2012, 12:15:56 AM
50-100k loan

Impossible to maintain it myself

So about 2-3 mini-rigs = 2-3TH/s?
I'll maintain it for you Tongue
440  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: CGMINER GPU FPGA overclock monitor fanspeed GCN RPC linux/windows 2.4.4 on: July 02, 2012, 05:56:12 PM
May want to take a look at the windows binary.

Getting 1.5Mh/s on my 5870s with the new 2.4.4.   Undecided

I haven't checked my intensity level but I have the same thing on my 6770m (a 5000 series card technically with add-in 6000-series features).
My 6950 and 6450 are enjoying an additional 10 and 4 MH/s... Interesting ratio...
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