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Any recently lost forever coins?
Also, bitomat lost 17k BTC... is that confirmed for certain? Are those addresses public so we can confirm they have not moved yet?
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So if I was to...  Yep, it works! |
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Does a user on this forum have to defraud another forum user in order to earn the 'scammer' badge?
It'd be nice if mods would stretch to tagging this guy for self-admitted ongoing fraudulent activity.
If he has no qualms about stealing from his employer - he'll likely have no qualms about stealing from other bitcoiners whenever he thinks he can get away with it.
Better yet, I hope the forum admins turn his IP in to the cops of his local area. Even better if he's posting from work, and the IP leads them straight to it. We admins are dicks, but not those kind of dicks. Unless its Friday, then here comes the bourbon. Well, that's too bad. |
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Heh We are sponsored by the ads that your adblocker is blocking ;-)
Spot on. I wondered if they detected adblock somehow, and reloaded the window in an autonomous tab without adblock, and the text still appears - they just did a lucky guess, it's static text. (I don't know if it's even possible to detect adblock) It is very much possible to detect adblock. |
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Does a user on this forum have to defraud another forum user in order to earn the 'scammer' badge?
It'd be nice if mods would stretch to tagging this guy for self-admitted ongoing fraudulent activity.
If he has no qualms about stealing from his employer - he'll likely have no qualms about stealing from other bitcoiners whenever he thinks he can get away with it.
Better yet, I hope the forum admins turn his IP in to the cops of his local area. Even better if he's posting from work, and the IP leads them straight to it. |
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I can tell you guys are anxious for something, so I'll throw you some entertainment regardless of how off-topic it may be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhB6T7oYopsI'll be rewriting, rerecording and singing this for judges at American Idol this fall. Let the ripping begin. This is mother fuckin' nuts! I can honestly say you have a shot, Matthew. I've emceed many a shows in Nashville, heard many bad singers among the good ones, albeit they were all song writers and not necessarily promoting their singing abilities, therefore know a decent voice when I hear it. As far as your looks/image in that video, that's not bad either. Seven Tyler: What's your name? Matthew: Mattew N. Wright. ST: What do you do for a living? Matt: I'm the Editor in Chief of Bitcoin Magazine. ST: Really! I subscribe to that magazine. Matt: Really? ST: No! What are you going to sing for us today, Matthew? Matt: My Little Pony Theme Song. ST: That song makes me cry. Matt: Then I'll do I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserable. ST: Have at it, and good luck. Matt: Thank you. As an aside, I don't have Steven's phone number, but my brother-in-law does. What I do have is all the personal phone numbers of most every major song writer in Nashville. I may consider helping you out if you ever apologize for taking my Thunker idea, then using it as your own as I have so many times pointed out that fact on this forum. ~Bruno~ Thunker is yours. Along with the debt that went with it. Sign here X.___________ Matthew is asking for one more hop to be jumped. I had always worked with Matthew and I do not understand why Matthew can not work with me. What should I tell him? "Matthew would like me to sign this agreement"? How about this, you type in this thread exactly what you want me to do, I will copy paste it in an e-mail to you. If I do this the problem with be solved? ? I am willing to do this just to end this absurd mess. I have expected to come home and see this issue solved. How foolish of me. The idea to take this public was Matthew's and he went first without even telling me(check the dates). We both had our threads and I think anyone interested will read both. This issue between Matthew and I is in no way reflects how I feel about Bitcoin Magazine--a great idea--and his singing abilities--also great. Only if I knew for certain, though, that if I sign what he wants me to sign, this issue will be done with. ~Bruno~ Hahaha! Phinnaeus, you make this world a better place. |
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I find it incredible to believe that BFL is making so little that they are enhancing their margin using shipping costs.
Why does it matter how much they make as to whether they want to enhance their margin using shipping costs? |
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They wouldn't be the first company too bad shipping costs.  Hardly a sin. Isn't it funny shipping costs are always either too high or too low? I can get a 60" HDTV delivered from Amazon for $0 shipping and sometimes a fan on newegg can have higher shipping cost than purchase price. I think their shipping was $24 before and they raised it. Yeah its not a sin, it just strikes me funny when businesses in general publish their shipping rates and because I am an online retailer I know they are just full of it. They imbed their margins into shipping costs. Every company does that. Often times, it's because it also includes the wages/labor hours used to package, any packaging materials, cost of boxes, etc. And then some extra to pad the revenues. $15-$20 just seems a bit excessive for one product when if you ordered 10 the shipping rate is the same. Maybe that's how their method of giving a bulk order discount to people? |
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They wouldn't be the first company too bad shipping costs. Hardly a sin. Isn't it funny shipping costs are always either too high or too low? I can get a 60" HDTV delivered from Amazon for $0 shipping and sometimes a fan on newegg can have higher shipping cost than purchase price. I think their shipping was $24 before and they raised it. Yeah its not a sin, it just strikes me funny when businesses in general publish their shipping rates and because I am an online retailer I know they are just full of it. They imbed their margins into shipping costs. Every company does that. Often times, it's because it also includes the wages/labor hours used to package, any packaging materials, cost of boxes, etc. And then some extra to pad the revenues. |
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Maybe the US needs twice as much healthcare, because everyone's so dang unhealthy here?
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It's especially weird since anybody who's mining as a business (i.e. reporting your mining income) would be deducting their mining hardware purchases but when reporting their state income taxes for their mining business you'd have to have paid *your* state's income taxes. Which would be handled by the filer. They really shouldn't be charging sales tax on anything except Missouri sales especially since they're a pretty small vendor.
Say what? If you buy an asset and pay sales tax on it, that doesn't exempt you from paying income tax on the revenue it generates. Neither does generating revenue and paying income tax exempt you from paying sales tax on business expenditures. I'll agree with you that they shouldn't be charging sales tax for anywhere but the state they reside in though. |
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We have those racks at my workplace (US). So yeah, suppose it's a worldwide phenomenon.  |
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I noticed on Butterfly labs' website that they say that they're collecting sales tax for all US orders...how can that possibly be right? You'd have to have a business presence in all 50 states to be required to collect sales tax in all 50 states, and you'd have to remit sales taxes to 50 different states for which you'd need to have 50 sales tax certificates. Unless they're actually sending sales taxes to 50 different state tax boards plus calculating the tax rate for every county in all 50 states they're breaking the law. You can't just charge Missouri sales tax on an interstate transaction.
For people who ordered, what sales tax rate did they charge you?
Technically, they only need to collect sales tax for states in which they have retail presence, or in which they operate. I don't know why they are collecting sales tax for all 50 states. The government is trying to change the laws so that sales taxes would have to be collected for all states even for online sales, but last I checked, they had not come close to pushing that through. But yes, if they are collecting sales taxes for all the states that charge a sales tax (even though they don't have to), they'd better be submitting those taxes to those states or they'll be heftily fined! |
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f) you want to mine in your regular computer while you use it
Has anyone confirmed that a computer game could be played just fine while a BFL single mines in the background? 5970 would be a good one to look at. I think it pulls something like 600 MH/s.
I get 750 mhash/s with my 5970 and I think that 700-800 mhash/s is typical. I've always played computer games while my computer mines. I use an old guiminer though, so it's not quite as fast in terms of MHs as some of the latest and greatest miners, but it lets me play games while mining, so I don't have to try and remember to turn it back on when I'm done. |
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Ok, good to know. Maybe I'll give them another try down the road.
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As long as you don't touch fiat, you should be fine. Exchanges have to comply with AML and such because they interface with fiat currencies. Since Bitcoin isn't considered a currency by any court of law in the world today (yet), then I don't see how AML/etc could apply to it.
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5970 would be a good one to look at. I think it pulls something like 600 MH/s.
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What's the latest Matthew?
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Over the past 9 months, I have test-mined at well over a dozen pools...many 'top-tier' and some not so much, but regardless of what they boast as being their strong suit, or what sets their specific pool apart from the rest, 99% of them end up on the FAIL list having been nothing but a waste of time and I find myself returning back to the first pool I ever mined at as well - BTCGuild (although Slush's pool is a close 2nd for very similar reasons as listed below). Say what you will about fees (blah blah blah....) BTCGuild is worth every bitcent that it costs to mine there. Why I like BTCGuild: - Good Control Panel/Front End ( just the right balance of eye candy and functionality). - Top Notch Security Features ( anyone here is welcome to have my control panel password because the ONLY thing you can do is mine for me....my funds are locked SOLID). - Instant Payouts (no confirmation delays). - ROCK SOLID performance (the best I have experienced in the community to date, although YMMV). - Attentive and knowledgeable Pool OP. - Constantly moving forward with both hardware and software upgrades. Unfortunately the best things in life are not free and often more times than not, you always get what you pay for. I bet the bulk of Deepbit's Russian/Eastern Euro Miners feel the same way about Tycho's pool  Do they have a 24h BTC mined counter yet? That was one thing that bugged me big time when I tried using them... I love being able to see exactly how much BTC I have mined in the last 24 hours. The other issue was that they went down numerous times while I was using them. I'm sure they've used that time period as a lesson and have improved since then, but it turned me off for the time being. |
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