Please avoid this Windows bullshit. Those are Windows boxes because noobs use Windows and not Linux. And, since they are noobs, they keep their computer NOT secure, unprotected and vulnerable to everything
The problem is the user, NOT the operative system.
A skilled person is safe with Windows or with Linux A Windows Security Experts advice to Noobs: Noob: What can I do to improve my Windows security? WSE: Install Windows ($150) latest updates ASAP. Make sure you are running a good up to date Anti-Virus. ($59.99) Make sure you have a good Firewall turned on. ($39.99) Don't click on or install dumb shit. (Priceless) A Linux Security Experts advice to Noobs: Noob: What can I do to improve my Linux security? LSE: Install your Linux (Priceless) distro's latest updates and fixes. Don't click on or install dumb shit. (Priceless) The cost of being secure on W?ndows? $250 The cost of being secure on Linux? Priceless   |
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By my Calculations, even at a measly 5% difficulty increase per re-target, the hardware wouldn't have paid off even after a year.
And that's assuming you could get $5000 worth of Mini-rig Value hashing power delivered today.
From my calcs, you'd only have 821 BTC after a year, whereas you could buy 1000 BTC now and save yourself the electricity/heat/hassle of dealing with the hardware.
This calculation is assuming:
$5000 worth of "MiniRig Value" hardware
No Delivery Wait Time
No Electricity cost
Difficulty increase of 5% every 13 days
Block split in 210 days
1000 BTC bought today at $5 ea Your calculations are flawed because they utilize a fixed value of Bitcoin based on today while all of your other numbers vary into the future. If you want a more realistic profit profile then you need to project the growth in Bitcoin value to coinside with your other projected growth variables. Drawing a line from the beginning of Bitcoin value to todays Bitcoion value and then extend into your desired future cashout date, say 12 months, will give your spread sheet a more realistic perspective of Bitcoin mining profitability. Of course, this assumes the projected growth of Bitcoin value is constant. How do you do that? $0.4 per MHs sounds unrealistic. mufa23 is only quoting the cost of the GPU's because he may have utilized existing MB/PSU/CPU/RAM. So for mufa23 he only had to spend $800 to become a miner. His next 2 GH/s will cost $.60 per MH/s.  |
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LOL. I hope some libertarian goes to Somalia, and makes documentary about how great the somalian society is.
Didn't Dr. Danger already do that? |
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I'd invest it all in Matthew. What could go wrong?
Are more masks a good thing? |
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Sometimes even Bing results are terrible and I have to use Yahoo depending on what I'm searching for. If I look at the results and believe the first page is shit I switch search engines.
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Right now I would buy coin and look for somewhere around $0.25 per BTC to sell at, study the markets to see when to sell and which price. Buy hardware from your profit. |
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Something important for Windows users...Notice in the pics, W7, VS, XP. Every machine listed in the pics are Windows boxes. He also said he binds programs uploaded to usenet. At the beginning it happened, my crypter got flagged and I had to rearrange the code to re"FUD" it. Now everything is automated, every victim gets a regular update, just for him. And because the polymorphism happens on my side, AV vendors can't get a detection for all modifications, it's game over for them. I wonder if he has compromised any linux boxes? |
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Is Blockchain.info timestamps GMT?
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Would TPM have stopped this?
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Sorry, this forum does not support those tags. You have to link as usual.
Just a test, 'ehh'. With SMF they are add-on modules not standard build items. |
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You're suspecting there are hundreds thousands of bitcoin botnets. I think what seriouscoin is trying to say is that in order to see the difficulty increases we've been seeing, there would need to be a hundred thousand PCs inside one single botnet. Of course those PCs would only be capable of ~2-5MH/s so a hundred thousand of them would be 200-500 GH/s. Most modern CPU's have a hashing power of 10 MH/s to 66 MH/s. See Column 3, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#CPUs.2FAPUs4x Opteron 6174 - 115 MH/s Phenom II X4 810 - 11.5 MH/s Core 2 Quad Q9650 - 18.67 MH/s Core i5 2500K - 20.6 MH/s Xeon E7450 (quad) - 60 MH/s From the numbers above it doesn't look like the botnet would need to be 100K strong, just 70K at 18.67 MH/s. Koobface and TDL were in the 1 million range each, I think. For actual figures on botnet sizes you can check Damballa or Threat Expert. |
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What is their offer so I can bid accordingly?
$650 - amazingrando $670 - trouserless Since amazingrando PM'd me first, I took up on his offer. If he backs out, then I'll move onto trouserless... etc. So it's first come first served not best offer? Are you allergic to accumulating more money? Now I just have to learn to configure my RSS reader to alert me when a post selling 5970's is made so I can be first in line to offer $300 shipped.  |
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Calling Bitcoinica a scam after they get robbed is like calling a woman a whore after getting raped. Have some class, and contribute something positive to the problem instead of busting out the S word just because something went wrong.
More like a bank that left their vault doors open and is now pondering over whether or not they should refund customers. I got the tag for refusing to refund - Bitcoinica/zhoutong/genjix should as well. Good lord. How about we wait and see what happens before burning the witch. So you agree Bitcoinica is a witch but disagree when it should be burned? Checking Blockexplorer I found no results. What's up with that Theymos?  Address 182tGyiczhXSSCTciVujNRkkMw1zQxUVhp
First seen?: Never used on the network (as far as I can tell)
Received transactions: 0
Received BTC: 0
Sent transactions: 0
Sent BTC: 0
Hash160?: 4d24195c443c9efbee47e842d7f67de035896fde
Public key?:
Unknown (not seen yet) Putting in the transaction hash gives the response, Let Theymos know if this is a bug. 7a22917744aa9ed740faf3068a2f895424ed816ed1a04012b47df7a493f056e8 2012-05-11 12:18:15 Is this GMT? |
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If I'm shopping for a pool to join, how do I use the information on a pools page to calculate my expected payout? If a pool is hiding information that would make comparison possible, then why should I join their pool when they are not being transparent enough for me to be comfortable? I've been parametrying alot and I just scratch my head. |
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Just before 00:00 GMT there was a volume of 220,000 dropping BTC to $4.80. It's back to around $5 now but someone is certainly making a lot of moves.
How do you set the computer to make loud annoying buzzing alarm when the wiggle like that? I don't want to miss the action.
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I think it's exactly the opposite: Bitcoin is being damaged by the existence of MtGox and the centralization on them.
I think if MtGox went down Bitcoin would have more to gain than to lose.
+1 Alpha Exchange to the rescue! Restoring decentralization to trading. |
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I thought Alex Jones was scary until I watched these videos. He was only scratching the surface of the true depth of the crime. The Beast is already active and his law is about to come into effect. Since the Constitution was based upon principles in the Bible it appears the first thing to be attacked by the UN was the Constitution. "A Declaration of world Citizenship", WTF. We are in some deep doodoo. |
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$325 + $13 shipping for 1 5970
There is currently one other member interested in both cards. If for some reason they both drop out, I'll go up on your offer. -Mike What is their offer so I can bid accordingly? |
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Cgminer hangs again. Could this be an issue with Sempron CPU's? Running a Sempron 145.
I doubt it, I've been running rings on 145's for several months now. Never had a cgminer hang that wasn't directly related to a card settings bork up. You aren't trying to run it with an unlocked core or odd frequency settings by any chance? I have a 5970 with one unstable core. I run it at 825 engine and 260 memclock. Any engine clock higher than that or memclock lower than that and the system freezes. The other core is happy at 875/220. SSH/screen other terminals are fine but unable to kill the cgminer process and restart. Could it be other processes interfering with cgminer or confusing it? What would cause multiple sshd's to run, multiple udisk to run? |
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