I like the picture of the Camaro.

Get real, most of the pools are one man operations. No employees to get disgruntled. Also, no matter what a hacker or anyone else did, it would be countered rather quickly. Everyone would just stop mining for that pool. Instant shutdown. If BTCguild's hashrate is down now as compared to others, it is because the others grew. I doubt that the attack had anything to do with the current size of the pool relative to other mining concerns.

Sounds like a Mining Tax, or Software Usage Tax.

This is true, except that this particular rig is it's own worker. the Worker's hashrate is, i believe, based on the shares found for the current round. If you start in the middle of the round, yes, the hashrate could appear low. But, in this case the hashrate remained low over several rounds and the the payout was correspondingly low.

Odd, for the last couple of days now i've been fighting with my Bitfury 25 Gh/s rig to get it to mine at the appropriate rate. The best i was able to get today was 18 Gh/s on this pool. it has been varying between 12 Gh/s and 16 Gh/s mostly. The miner itself reported 25 Gh/s. Today i pointed it at BTCguild and immediately saw 25Gh/s there.

I can't help but wonder where the extra hashing power disappeared to. eww... that sounds like i'm acusing Slush, I'm not. I think there might be a problem with the pool though. My USB Erupters are still doing fine here. 

so do a manual payout. 

Cool!! I have something similar that i built to hold two ASICminer Old style Blades. Just to let people know 80mm case fans can be fit pretty well in to LEGO walls.

You are sort of right, they should have given a date +-4 weeks. That would have been more appropriate.

Personally, i blame the people who were in such a hurry, that they screamed bloody murder when things were a day or two late. As I've said before, there is always time to do it right the second time. You all wanted them so bad that you were willing to forego proper testing. So now you are seeing the results.

I wonder what percentage of units shipped are failing. I'll bet it is a statically acceptible number and would have been weeded out during burnin, if you had given them a chance to do burin. When i was in the AF we always said "you throw aways serial number 1." When i was in industry, we always kept the first items produced for support and further development.

Instead of second guessing them and telling them how to do their jobs, leave them alone to do what needs to be done. I doubt any of you could have done any better. If you could do better, then why aren't you. It is easy to be a mondy morning quarterback.

You people make me laugh, you gamble thousands of dollars and then piss and moan when some of the risk that made it a gamble becomes apparent. I can just imagine how you would have cried if they had delivered 100% working equipment 2 weeks late.

If this is true, Dave won't get any more of my business. He should produce enough H cards to fill every V1 & V2 Motherboard out there and a few spares. Otherwise the cost of the Starter Kit can't be spread over all the cards.  If they can't be bought in the future, people should be refunded $700.00, making the cost of the $1300 starter kit $600. a fairer price.

Gee, that's just great! 

Bitcoin is still in it's inflationary stage, increase in price is not guarunteed. Bitcoin acts as a commodity, you can't bank on price. a spike would only help if people acted on it but most will miss the peak, expecting it to go higher. Playing the exchange market isn't mining.

ghash.io. BTCguild. everyone who is bigger than us.

At this rate, today's bad luck, will be tomorrows bad luck and today will have no luck at all.

I was just thowing that out there, I did not say it was true. They are just a china interest that could afford to do it.

I'd laugh if we found out ASICminer was buying kNc's to expand their mining pool.

Dilemma. They have a number of people who have ordered H cards for Oct. Delivery that want to pay by Credit Card. So, these people have ordered but not paid. If they lower the price and charge these people the price they ordered at they risk alienating them. On the other hand, if they charge these people a new KnC adjusted price, they risk alienating the people who have Oct orders that already paid for them. If they charge everyone the same price and then lower the price a week later, they risk alienating everyone. If they don't lower their price, they risk losing sales. But, since their unit price is lower than KnC's they are, in my opinion, justified in charging a higher per Gh/s price than KnC. I know i can't afford KnC's rigs even if they are half the price of a H board on a per Gh/s price.

I don't envy Dave the decissions that he has to make. I do feel that he has been fair to us so far and i feel he will continue to be so. He just isn't in an easy position at the moment.

I will be upset if there comes a time that we can't get H boards for V1 & V2 MBs, at least before i fill mine out.  

actually, it is 186285 miles per second in a vacuum<sp>.

You see, now this doesn't make sense to me. When starting a block, I see it like a lottery. There are a finite number of possibilities to test. Granted it is a large number, but finite just the same. When you test one possibility and it fails, the number of possibilities available to the next test is one less. Until the block that you are working on is found, your odds against finding it would decrease. When the block is found, you are starting over in the sense that you have to create a new input to hash and go back to having that very large number of possibilities to work from. I'm told that this way of looking at it is wrong, and i accept that, it just doesn't make any sense to me.

I thought that the "relayed by" the first node to relay the block data, not the miner that created it. But I could be wrong. 

I need to think on this. thanks for being patient with me.