how does one get to be a 'top tweeting' mouthpiece like the all-knowing bram cohen anyway? is it just based on followers? http://mobile.twitter.com/bramcohenbramcohen Will the Bitcoin fiasco make Libertarians realize they know diddly about economics? No, it will not. bramcohen Everybody wondering what Bitcoin fiasco I'm talking about: Don't worry, you'll know soon enough. that's all i ever see on twitter in that 'top tweet' position. do we even need to play the game and fight this? should we bother getting top tweeters and other nonsense to spew negative vitriol? what a show... He has (in his mind) a 50/50 chance of being right... so why not write it? |
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You will have the best of luck booting into windows and using "RBE".
Look it up, far too much to explain here and they have a great tutorial on their website.
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Progressives are raving on Twitter about how Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme founded upon faux-libertarian economics. Apparently the UK Serious Fraud office is looking into Bitcoin. A German lobbying group wants none of it. It keeps only getting better and better. How are things going to pan out. If you were a power-hungry government seeing Bitcoin as a threat, what would you first do to see to its destruction? Make it taboo in the eyes of citizens (a threat to freedom, etc.)? ...or raid households that seem to be running a Bitcoin node?
I have a feeling in my gut that things are about to get really exciting.
No offense OP.. but are you not like 17 years old? Have you even finished high-school yet? I remember what my "gut" thought in high-school... and it was usually 100% wrong. |
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Looks like the difficulty is really taking off! I wonder if that has anything to do with bitcoin's difficulty..?
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Hi, i'm a Java programmer and i found out of namecoin just yesterday.
I think a distributed dns system like this would be amazing, but still the client has no gui, being therefore difficult to operate.
I'm thinking of making a Java GUI for it, and sell it for a symbolic price of like, maybe, 0.1 BTC/copy.
What do you think of this?
This place isn't keen on asking for money in return for software coding. Usually somebody starts a bounty if there is enough demand... try doing that first. It would be a great addition however and I would definitely donate some btc/namecoins to the cause. I wasn't asking money, i was going to see if this interested someone  @mother of another: No, this is gonna be a whole new GUI, made in java so that it's cross-platform So ok, i'm gonna do this. Awesome!! Be sure to let me know! |
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i wish you people would stop with the 'speculating on bitcoins in the current block chain is the opportunity of a lifetime' nonsense. it doesn't just provoke negative reactions; it provokes legitimate negative reactions because what you're doing when you say that is functionally turning it into a scam. 'get in before it's too late' isn't something that legitimate investments need to have people say about them. the hn people would be right to filter all bitcoin discussion; that's what i'd want to do if i were a regular there.
It's called expressing optimism. I am sure that's not a crime. i've said it before, but i'll say it again: i own a large number of bitcoins in the current block chain that i simply won't sell at the moment not because of my own desire to speculate but because it's just not ethical given the dishonest way people have been promoting it. your greed has gotten the better of you, and that's likely to have unfortunate results for the adoption of bitcoin as a technology.
I, too, don't speculate. However, the HN population is not all the early adopters we will ever have. In case, you have not noticed, the posting rate last month doubled over April. I noticed that, which is a great thing... but does not detract from the fact that we are almost causing an entire community to turn their backs on us and that is never a good thing. |
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Ummm what..? I highly doubt that a police force and/or "the man" is posting these stupid write ups - but maybe. |
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sorry if I sounded like an idiot. But I was just trying to figure out a way to actually get started with the mining. I wanted to know what would benefit me the most for bitcoin mining if money was not an issue.
You are better off asking in the mining sub-forum |
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Hi, i'm a Java programmer and i found out of namecoin just yesterday.
I think a distributed dns system like this would be amazing, but still the client has no gui, being therefore difficult to operate.
I'm thinking of making a Java GUI for it, and sell it for a symbolic price of like, maybe, 0.1 BTC/copy.
What do you think of this?
This place isn't keen on asking for money in return for software coding. Usually somebody starts a bounty if there is enough demand... try doing that first. It would be a great addition however and I would definitely donate some btc/namecoins to the cause. |
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I warned you, whoever you are... (Can't find my original post but I have talked about this before...) HN is not a group you want to piss off. They are highly skilled, tightly knit, technical bunch that could do wonders for Bitcoin. Stop posting all of this drib-drab about "what is bitcoin" and "my stupid simple bitcoin writeup". They do not fucking care.Check out this story that is getting mad upvotes right now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613271And check out all of the hatred seen over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2612688People go to HN to read about HACKER NEWS. Which bitcoin/economy/monetary related information is not. Whenever we come up with our own open sourced ASIC chip project or we find a collision in the SHA-256 algo or something... by all means post it to HN. Until then.... Smarten up, you are doing none of us any favors. There is a wonderfully active sub-reddit that is perfect for these kinds of posts. |
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Nope, you're right on.
The only thing people are using to justify investing large amounts of money into this...
Is Bitcoin price speculation.
I justify my miner purchases knowing that I will be able to sell them for at least 50% of what I paid within the year. |
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It is back up and running now apparantly... many miners slowing coming back online.
I have switched to deepbit.net until they get things figured out however. Going to see if I can benefit from more frequent block solvings perhaps...
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Everybody is offline! but all my miners are still sending shares?  whew, glad its not just me. everything is borked why does it say there are 7 miners rather than 0? who are these mystery miners immune to titsupness I am seeing 6 miners connected now... None of them showing in the top miners list... odd. |
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No fee is nice but not when I get 4% stale and multiple false positives on miner down notifications. And now this. Yeah, jumping ship back to slush.
Agreed :S According to the website "news" section they are moving servers... still no excuse for this however. I would be pretty pissed if I had of donated anything. |
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I wonder if 100C is enough to ignite dust laying on the heatsink?
Spontaneous combustion of most solid materials doesn't occur until at least 500-600 degrees celcius. |
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Yea seriously... what is up?
Speed of the network has dropped almost 25% from yesterday too...
And apparantly it took over 7 hours to find the third last block..?? from 400 ghash/s?
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So I have been troubleshooting this problem with my friend over the phone for the last hour... He has 4*5830s squeezed onto an MSI 790fx motherboard and fanned apart. Average temps do not go above 80 degrees celcius so he is good there. The other day we had a scorcher... it hit ~41 celcius almost and one of his rigs turned off/froze/stopped working/whatever. Now whenever he tries to start a miner through linuxcoin v0.2a (poclbm or phoenix)... his mining window "flashes open, and then immediately shuts". I have only noticed such behaviour when I forgot to enter a kernel for phoenix, but he assured me that he was typing everything in correctly. Anybody have any ideas as to what's up before I waste a ton of gas?! Notes: - he can see all of his card temps through aticonfig (and set all of their clocks) - he is using sapphire 5830s - he is running linuxcoin v0.2a - he is freaking out  |
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More miners = faster block finds = faster payouts.
More miners = smaller payouts. (Because you are doing proportionately less work than before.)
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The answer of resitance is the villian. On a standard setup, you can loose about 10k per card with an entension cable due to the increased time it takes to send a signal. It may also prevent a bootup.
Then why would it work with another cable, arguably exactly the same materials/length/makeup/manufacturing processes... etc etc..? |
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