Covered, please only repay 5.5B to 1LgJfyNohgkyzogxksENpNTy1vafZP9T6

Has anyone else noticed that people with the avatar posted below tend to come off as the most bitter AWESOME?



*bows to RM*

I'm taking this offer. Imsa doesn't live too far away from me and I've worked with him on other stuff.

~650MH/s here, maybe 3kb/s being used on average.

ETA: Probably very relevant to note how many mining "threads" are active on the rig. 2, in my case, but Phoenix 2 dumps all the work in the same work queue.

ETA2: After reading TRL's post below -- noticed something was wrong with my numbers. Realized I'm running Skype + the BTC daemon which probably contributed to higher bandwidth use in my guesstimate (just looked at total bandwidth consumption on computer over 10 seconds or so). 140/24 = 2.333MB/hr, /60=.0388/min, /60=.00064814/second, *1000=.65KB/s -- Either way, it's probably insignificant consumption for most.

Yes, depends on miner -- you either want to lower "Aggression" value or increase "-f" value until Skyrim is playable.

No, "the market" is currently only interested in bear indicators because this is a bear market. Everyone important (who appear too poor to move the market where it ought to be and pocket all the profit) agrees -- BTC will drop short-term (beyond the dip a couple days ago, possibly as low as $2), then rise to $20+ again.

Unlikely. They all monitor and regulate their power input independently, AFAIK, but I'm talking out of my ass. 

My first guess, too.

I recall a while ago, someone noted they are fine paying multiple times more for electricity than most because most of his electricity purchased is generated through relatively clean, renewable sources.

I was wondering, then, if there would be any interest in paying a premium for mining contracts where minimal electricity is used, and all electricity used comes from solar, or another relatively clean, renewable generation source. Let's say the current going-rate /share @ GPUMax is .001/share at the time. If you would pay a premium for "green" bitcoins, how much over .001/share would you pay?

Talked to imsa about this -- I hadn't decided to sell all 6 cards yet, and this offer was for 4 cards, so ~$118.75/card + cost of shipping. I'll probably accept this offer by the end of tomorrow if nothing better pops up.

I have no idea where my camera is, but here's an old image of the mining rigs at an old residence. You can see the 550W Antecs as described in the OP -- think that should be sufficient proof.



As additional proof, here's an image of that room in the house listing :p http://www.trulia.com/property/photos/3075206391-1576-W-36th-St-Erie-PA-16508#item-5 (P.S. Also selling house, and taking offers!)

Bump.

The primary wireless router's open!     

It'd be surprising if any of the neighbors were able to get a signal, though, they're a good distance away. WinMHR suggested all computers (including relative's) are clean. Repeater router (which is protected) still not reporting any traffic on :25. Putting curiosity to rest, for now... Won't have to deal with Comcast for more than a couple more months, anyway.

Just the facts.

I don't know of all pools, but of all I've been on, you have a master account you control (this is where all the BTC/LTC/ETC goes -- pool ops typically hold the money in your master account until you request a withdrawal to a wallet), and then you have workers (sometimes referred to as "slaves") which are the PCs. However, I don't believe there's any reason you couldn't just have all mining clients point to the same worker. You could start your own mining server, but then all of your "legitimate-use PCs" would point somewhere specific and possibly associated to you, a legitimate user.


Typically, the scheme to connect to a server in your mining client (this varies both by mining client and pool) accountname_workername@pool.com:8080, and then a person creates a different worker for each PC, or each GPU, or each CPU, or whatever they want -- but AFAIK, that's just for the purpose of measuring performance of each component. You could start an account on a pool with just one worker and point all of the mining clients to the same worker/slave account.

Keeping me awake the next day wondering how I went from the dingy homeless shelter where the mugged man went (he was mugged while it was dark & raining -- in the homeless shelter, he bunked with another fellow who had all sorts of high-tech gadgets set up who was clearly gaming the charity of others) to being in a high-contrast outdoor area with bees perched on vibrant green trees. I'd guess the connection between being in the store and near the mugged fellow was that I walked outside, into the dark fiat world, away from the comfort of an extremely volatile currency used by oft-hostile individuals. (and why was the inside of the store so sterile-looking?!)


Oh. Duh. Everything became vibrant and bright when I came near the bees. Bees->honey. I recently purchased and enjoyed honey caramels purchased from a merchant who handles Bitcoin. Anyway, there are many apparent flaws in that dream I'd like to re-imagine so they can be fixed. IMO, most things in the dream were backward. The store should have been empty due to frequent looting, evil people taking the joyful labor of others.... or could it be that, sub-consciously, I am really so naive as to believe free markets work, and are just not taken advantage of (though this is contradicted by the fellow gaming the charity)? I'd at least like to see that argument played out.... and maybe tonight will be the night given I can't seem to fall asleep and am typing garbage without the sense to click the mouse's back button after writing.

If I were a pool-op and someone called "digital2ape" suddenly initiated many hundreds of connections and requests from PCs across the globe, I would assume it was a DDoS attack, not a friendly botnet.

ITT: say when government (or "any protection agency") should (directly or otherwise) punish people for saying they'll (directly or otherwise) punish people.

I am confused by this -- perhaps it is being taken too far. If Bitcoin is a dead cat being scraped off the driveway, how can its exchange rate still be @ ~$4.50/coin? (I assume USD value is to literally translate to the cat's altitude in meters?) It appears the cat is levitating. Now, perhaps the cat is able to control his altitude, and death would result in falling onto the driveway, which could occur if the cat is shaken violently enough due to extreme market volatility, and THEN he could be scraped up, but at this point, the cat has fallen only 4.5m, and died recently (in fact, we are predicting his death and would be able to respond immediately, and possibly even prior to the event's occurrence, in which case we could catch the cat), so it's unlikely we would need to scrape him off the driveway and could instead merely pick the cat's body up (assuming we did not catch the cat during the death-fall)... perhaps have a nice funeral service.

Now, to my point.... If we are going to use hyperbole to describe, and perhaps influence, Bitcoin's value - how about something more graphic and extreme? Maybe instead of "even a dead cat bounces when dropped from great heights," we instead say "even when shovel-dog is hit with the mightiest of shovels, his muscles spasm rapidly"? Or, what's the other one currently in circulation? The fellow getting his head chainsawed off, I believe.... "Even a man with his head detached by chainsaw will still spray life-force up into the air, and in a zero-gravity (or near-zero-gravity) environment, may be able to propel himself upward if upside-down, but will eventually run out of blood.... which may or may not affect the speed at which he moves." Hm... that last one might be flawed.

So charge for access? I thought you were a man of business!