Some people take "lurk moar" seriously. The rest are either being paid eleventy billion monopoly dollars to support the company, or they pre-ordered and want BFL to succeed for their own sake.

Of course, there may be a silent majority that just never bothers to post while patiently awaiting their pre order.

Hmmm...


This is wrong. The nonce is highly predictable, since it is normally just incremented. You can get the nonce a couple clocks late and scan back in the mining software to find the true nonce.

What is the point of the article? "Open source project has minor flaws that are easily fixed?" I'm guessing that he/she didn't bother to submit a patch.

Also, the hashing ASIC referred to at the end would be useless for mining.

Yes. I don't care if 0.000001% of results are lost.

Edit: What failure rate would be acceptable to a "serious" miner? I'm guessing that 0.1% would not even be noticeable.

1) Community as a whole benefits from ASIC vendor competition. BFL's chips should be more efficient (due to 65nm).

2) I don't care, as long as they eventually deliver. The 65nm process is riskier but should keep their product competitive for longer, even if Avalon delivers sooner.

3/4) Obviously I also want to see Avalon and the others succeed. Competition is beneficial.

Um, it's an online promotion. They're all over the interwebs in various forms.

Edit: You have inspired me to participate. U mad?

As I recall, the BFL package size was 11mm*11mm.

How would one organise 88 chips? Would it be a good idea to put them all on one PCB, or stack PCBs with 22 or 44 chips?

I suppose that will mean they will miss their original goal of 15-30 chips per unit, unless BFL's chips are smaller than they say, or the Avalon chips can be clocked much more aggressively, or Avalon has a much better design.

Not necessarily. Four obscure words joined together may be beyond the length of what many popular cracking tools support, and of relatively high strength. Assuming each word is only found in 100k+ dictionaries, there are 100000000000000000000 possibilities.

If such passwords are not strong enough, you really need to reconsider how much of your life should be tied to computers.

What you mean is that it will not change enough.

Each hash will still take ten times longer, and remove a layer of script kiddies who can't be bothered finding cracking tools that support SHA-512.

Can you find a method that doesn't involve time travel and/or exchange-wide misfortune please?

The client appears to contain BigNum classes which can store arbitrarily large numbers.

I thought of a clever way to work "goxed" into the title of the exchange, only to realise that that is where the name came from.

Brain is goxed by lack of sleep.

That ship sailed long ago.

Cool story bro. You're only seeing this because you want to see it. Analyse most of the threads objectively (you'll need to get someone else to do this for you) and you won't find any of that shit at all (I just did it for you).

Since when does posting on a forum mean you can use a straw man?? 

ATI has 24% market share overall. Most of those would be low-end cards not very useful for mining. NVIDIA cards aren't very useful for mining, and low end ones are completely useless. Most PCs will have integrated Intel graphics. Unusable.

Botnets tend to target PCs running unpatched windows XP. These PCs tend to have older hardware.

GPU mining can take some effort to set up manually, and can have issues with driver versions and such. GPU mining causes very noticeable performance problems and in many cases system instability. Hardware-accelerated video (eg. on youtube) can sometimes completely freeze the system if mining at the same time. Other programs are guaranteed to freeze the system with certain setups. When someone's PC starts running like a piece of shit they tend to install firewalls/get it wiped/replace it with a mac. If the user notices a fan running loudly at all times they will probably shut down the PC as soon as they're done using it to make the noise go away.

So yes, including GPU mining in your botnet is a nice way to cause your botnet to shrink and disappear.

CPU mining on the lowest priority would almost certainly go undetected. (CPU fans tend to be quieter).

I am sure that with your phearsome programming skillz all these problems will magically vanish.

It's either a CPU botnet (equivalent to under 500 GPUs) or complete BS.

Then it will simply be ironic.

I don't know about your government, but my government is building a FTTH network for more than 93% of the population just to make sure that we have good internet. They have made suggestions that they consider it to be a "right". If they started terminating connections at random (and they don't have the legislative power to do this) then they would fuck up a lot of business and lose the next election.

If democracy doesn't work in your country, move to a better one.

BRB, shitting myself.

Mt Gox shares most of the blame for leaking their fucking accounts database with unsalted MD5 hashes.

If Mt Gox had a notice on the sign up page: "Warning: we will send your password to our accountant for no particular reason" then sure, I would agree that it is the OP's fault for not choosing something stronger/unique.

It is important to understand that the average user doesn't know why a strong password is needed. They assume that they only need something that won't be guessed. Even a knowledgeable user could reasonably assume that Mt Gox would actively protect their database, and not send it to anonymous strangers for no particular reason.

When it comes down to blaming a user who should have been more careful, or a someone in a position of trust who did something retardedly stupid, I tend to blame the latter.