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4901  Economy / Speculation / Re: Could I drive up the Bitcoin price with a clearing purchase? on: March 13, 2012, 05:10:36 PM
Guys thanks for all of the sweet replies. The IQ on this board is some of the highest I've seen on a forum.
True story.  It also leads to some interesting (and sometimes obnoxious) intellectual arguments between all the members who know everything.  Wink
4902  Economy / Services / Re: GPUMAX | The Bitcoin Mining Marketplace on: March 13, 2012, 03:49:13 PM
I just look at the payment from GPUMax + the 24 hr estimate from deepbit.  My "calculated" earnings should be .97 BTC, and so far, since beginning to use GPUMax, my combined earnings from the two has always been over 1 BTC.

I'm happy.  Wink
4903  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Magazine on: March 13, 2012, 03:40:42 PM
Thanks for the post(s) Matthew.  I appreciate hearing the update on progress, and am very glad to see you putting quality before quickness.
4904  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: IT Administrator Mining on: March 13, 2012, 04:11:33 AM
I posted this thread to Facebook

A friend of mine posted this in that thread


Quote
"Hi Don, hope this is your real address, thank you for bringing this to our attention, it has turned out to be true and Daniel has admitted these crimes.

The matter is being dealt with by our HR Manager Julie Beckett.

Best Regards
Michael Boardman
IT Manager & SAP Administrator
Weston EU Ltd"
That's pretty dang hilarious.
4905  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: so_stupid & I: in re. The $1K Bounty on: March 13, 2012, 01:44:04 AM
You didn't provide him the original, unedited version of the thread. You guys are being ridiculous.
Would have to agree with this.  It's just a print-view version of the CURRENT thread, not the unedited thread.
4906  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [BOUNTY] 1 BTC for creating "bitcoin users seen by..." meme on: March 12, 2012, 08:45:20 PM
Haha, the "what they are" is perfect!
4907  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Private enterprise bankrupting America? on: March 12, 2012, 03:23:51 PM
In the case of your pill, a solution is to allow the government to tax things which cause people to need the pill, thus reducing demand for the pill (shifting the demand curve left), and then use that tax revenue to subsidize production of the pill, while moving the supply curve until it gets enough pills into the hands of those who need it.

Thank you! That makes a whole hell of a lot more sense than "set a price ceiling and don't worry about deficits" or "read the article." My confidence is restored.

I don't get it.  Once a person needs a drug, they need it.  You can't change the demand unless you kill them. 
I think that's the whole issue.  At what point do you let a person die because their healthcare is costing too much?
4908  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kony 2012: Is this ethical, morally just but questionable, or just plain wrong? on: March 12, 2012, 03:38:22 AM
...snip...

If Emperor Barry the Historic First actually had balls he would take action. Instead, like every other candy-ass bullshit way he has conducted his Presidency, he sees an opportunity to gain popularity with the brain-dead mindless lemming demographic that suckles at the media teat of Souros.

...snip...

The US has had troops in Uganda and the surrounding countries for about 6 months:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15317684

That's from well before this current media feeding frenzy.  And long after the video is forgotten, there will still be US troops providing "training."

Unless you are seriously proposing occupying the place, I don't know what more you hoped for.

A training cadre in-country is hardly taking action. We have training groups all over the world. If President Buckwheat was genuine there would be nothing but a smoking crater and some residual DNA left of Kony. But instead we have a delightfully managed media campaign created virally, and scoring over 2.7 million YouTube hits in the first 24 hours!!! (Which would have crashed the YouTube servers FTW) immaculately conceived by some bleeding heart production group that nobody has ever heard of before this sham leading the blind and intellectually impaired to the well and telling them how to drink of this latest load of tripe.

This is the foulest agit-prop Wag the Dog bullshit I have seen in quite a while, and the slobbering cretins who are falling for this bullshit sicken me.
You just killed your credibility with posting that part.
4909  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Why do you mine on deepbit? on: March 11, 2012, 08:51:52 AM
No one uses prop anymore unless they don't know what they are doing..All those people have small miners. The exception would be pool hoppers.
Why would a pool hopper go PPS?
Proportional is not pps
Yeah I misread... why do you say no one uses proportional anymore?  AFAIK, no one uses PPS anymore.  Huh
4910  Other / Politics & Society / Re: OWS Holding a Conference on Alternative Currencies on: March 10, 2012, 06:29:07 AM
"...quantitative anti-market..."

The fuck is that?! 

What's an anti-market? I'm lost...
I read it as "anti free market".  But yeah, pretty poor choice of words if their goal was clarity.
4911  Other / Politics & Society / Re: OWS Holding a Conference on Alternative Currencies on: March 10, 2012, 04:09:52 AM
"...quantitative anti-market..."

I lost all interest right there. Whatever these gentlemen come up with is going to be hopeless.

If you enjoy living in hippy communes and squatting in abandoned office buildings, this crap is for you.

They literally want a system where profit cannot be made, where growth is limited to a consumerist product or two in somebody's home. Thus the incentive for these systems to flourish is little to nil.
Basically, +1.

Equalizing benefits is a great way to completely kill off incentive to anyone to do anything productive.
4912  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Why do you mine on deepbit? on: March 10, 2012, 03:58:50 AM
No one uses prop anymore unless they don't know what they are doing..All those people have small miners. The exception would be pool hoppers.
Why would a pool hopper go PPS?
4913  Economy / Services / Re: GPUMAX | The Bitcoin Mining Marketplace on: March 10, 2012, 12:18:33 AM
Thats true and harsh on the one suggesting the idea, but i am also surprised on occasion at how personal the presenter seems to take the response.  Nothing shakes my faith quicker in a venture than a leader who starts to loose it when there is a little heat.  I gotta admit, pirateat40 has been good at keeping his cool.
I too was impressed with this, even when I was one of the critical ones.  pirateat40 turned me around on this one.  Smiley
4914  Other / Off-topic / Re: Butterfly Labs - Bitforce Single and Rig Box on: March 09, 2012, 10:57:18 PM
See if you can put a multimeter on the power input to the single and get the actual current draw. That'll be very useful.
You need an ampmeter specifically (not usually included on most multimeters), and it only works if you can separate the wires.  Otherwise, the positive/negative power draws cancel each other out, and you'd see 0 amps on the ampmeter.
4915  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Why do you mine on deepbit? on: March 09, 2012, 09:23:34 PM
Deepbit's website recently stated that it had reached 1M BTC mined.  They take a 3% fee, so 1M is 30,000 BTC, or about $150,000.  I wouldn't be surprised if half of that was taken up by hosting costs on anti-DDOS servers and refunding people for rejected shares and bad blocks.  So I don't think Tycho has a ton of money from this.
Ummm... about that fee...

It's 3% only on proportional. It's actually 10% (TEN PERCENT) on PPS.
Right.  And I bet PPS mining on deepbit makes up a very small percentage of the total miners.
4916  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Private enterprise bankrupting America? on: March 09, 2012, 09:22:43 PM
It looks like malpractice insurance only directly accounts for a small percentage of the total cost. The idea in limiting malpractice claims is more to reduce ordering extraneous tests.

I think what is going on here is a culture of defensive medicine. Defensive medical practice is "sticky". Once a doctor is trained, and used to running many tests, they are unlikely to change this practice just because of limited liability. We may have to wait for the next generation of doctors before we could expect to see an effect.
Well, when it's not coming out of the doctor's pocket, why NOT order all the tests that they need?
4917  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Why do you mine on deepbit? on: March 09, 2012, 09:20:44 PM
Deepbit's website recently stated that it had reached 1M BTC mined.  They take a 3% fee, so 1M is 30,000 BTC, or about $150,000.  I wouldn't be surprised if half of that was taken up by hosting costs on anti-DDOS servers and refunding people for rejected shares and bad blocks.  So I don't think Tycho has a ton of money from this.
4918  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: MINING: Adding up the sellers and holders on: March 09, 2012, 06:09:24 PM
Total BTC generated/day:  0.1BTC
Total BTC sold/day:  0
Total BTC held/day:  0.1BTC
Posters, please include the "Everyone" tally.

Everyone:
Total BTC generated/day:  79.85
Total BTC sold/day:  8
Total BTC held/day:  71.85

4919  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: MINING: Adding up the sellers and holders on: March 09, 2012, 04:30:50 PM
Anonymous:
Total BTC generated/day:  7
Total BTC sold/day:  0
Total BTC held/day:  7

Everyone:
Total BTC generated/day:  79.75
Total BTC sold/day:  8
Total BTC held/day:  71.75
4920  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: MINING: Adding up the sellers and holders on: March 09, 2012, 06:25:24 AM
Please also include the "Everyone:" portion in your post as well, so it will be a running tally.  I've added in the posts so far though.

Everyone:
Total BTC generated/day:  72.75
Total BTC sold/day:  8
Total BTC held/day:  64.75
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