I don't know if this has already been mentioned but it may be good idea to add a Bitcoincard ( http://bitcoincard.org/product/) radio transceiver. As it may benefit both devices if they could ad-hoc in the same network. Maybe if the Ellet has 3G and WiFi then Ellet's could act as a mobile gateway nodes for Bitcoincard's? But then MNW would have to play nice with the bitcoincard guys... |
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I'd much rather see a Bitcoin to Checks service... that way, you could issue me a new check and void the original with your bank if it gets lost somehow.
That said, I've been waiting for a service like this to pop up!
Most banks charge steep fees to cancel a check. For real? I thought it was a no-fees deal. Shows how often I cancel checks, I guess... Back when I worked customer service for bank of america it was $35 per check. And no, we couldn't do ranges if you lost your whole checkbook. It was either pay for each one, or wait and dispute it if any were used. |
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Hmmm... wonder what I got. To bad I won't be home to check until the weekend  . Sounds like I should bring the fiance to be on the safe side  . |
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I knew you got really hungry when you got high, but I didn't know you got crazy too  Haven't you seen reefer madness? |
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Are we witnessing the run-up to the 4th of July bubble right now? Will it be able to continue at this pace until July?
Yes... there is so much demand for silkroad drugs for the 4th of July that we will see the entire bitcoin economy increase in value by 10 million dollars.  |
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All this BS about ASIC early adopters being screwed is assuming asics will only be available in massive sizes that cost thousands of dollars. What's stopping someone from putting out a smaller device that only pulled a gigahash or so for $100? That's what I would do if I were selling them, but then again I wouldn't be in it for the money. I just like building shit.
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hey guys, go back a page where pirate addressed this
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FPGA hardware will advance at about the same rate as GPU hardware. Even if they only put more cores per chip, they should see the same improvements as GPUs which are doing the same: more cores per chip. The work you're referring to is all software, has already been done, and the situation is nearly identical to GPU mining software. Both GPU programming and FPGA programming is somewhat specialized, but I know where I got my undergraduate degree we had to code for FPGAs as part of the degree program, but not GPUs.
I just can't help but feel that the GPU market (as a whole) will move faster than the FPGA market due to demand and market size. This will not be true as long as high frequency trading is allowed. Investment banks provide a lot of demand in the FPGA market. |
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I think BitStamp is a good choice for traders in Europe. For those in the US, I think BitFloor is a better option. The reason is how easy or difficult it is to send fiat currency to these exchanges. BitStamp offer SEPA for both deposits and withdrawals. BitFloor offers ING Direct P2P and PopMoney for deposits and ACH transfers for withdrawals.
I just wish Bitfloor had more volume...! Chicken... meet egg. Chicken, egg, meet bootstrap. Now fly! Chickens don't have the proper physiology to fly more than a few feet. They need to fly by "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps"... its the joke from which the term "bootstrap" as a verb originates. Still, your proposing a very unsatisfactory trajectory for BitFloor if you you want to fly like a chicken. |
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Thanks... One thing that's always bugged me: why does the gravity equation use radius squared when electric field calculations use radius cubed? I was taught the cubed was because it spread out in three dimensions, but doesn't gravity also spread though 3 dimensions?
1. to keep this universe in balance so all matter doesn't collapse into nothingness like all the other universes, 2. because gravity is really the bending of space-time and not a force, 3. because you need some easy force math before we make you learn the quantum chromodynamics Lagrangian, 4. thee flying spaghetti monster designed it that way so that pasta-like strings of matter join together in meatball-shaped clumps in her noodly image. Electrodynamic force also scales with 1/r2, and it is due to exactly the same effect (spreading out into 3 dimensions) as with gravity. I.e. the total force exerted on a shell around the central potential is the same, regardless of how big that shell is (since the area of a shell is proportional to r^2). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb's_lawhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_law_of_universal_gravitationWell look at that... I wonder where I got that r^3 at? |
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I think BitStamp is a good choice for traders in Europe. For those in the US, I think BitFloor is a better option. The reason is how easy or difficult it is to send fiat currency to these exchanges. BitStamp offer SEPA for both deposits and withdrawals. BitFloor offers ING Direct P2P and PopMoney for deposits and ACH transfers for withdrawals.
I just wish Bitfloor had more volume...! Chicken... meet egg. Chicken, egg, meet bootstrap. Now fly! Chickens don't have the proper physiology to fly more than a few feet. |
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Buy a mac laptop for the hardware, then remove the OS  Or buy an ASUS... The transformer is very tempting for toting to class.... a bit small, but it's hard to beat 10 hours of battery for the price and weight. |
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A bitcoin exchange was hacked in June last year, resulting in around 500,000 bitcoins being stolen... That's not how I remember it. Me neither. |
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runaway train..
up up and away? runaway train's tend to crash. unless the track never ends  make track go in circle? centrifugal force man Make it a big circle:  |
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It'll certainly be variable - I don't think anyone is arguing that it won't be. But cablepair was trying to make the argument that, unless electricity was free, there is no way a GPU would be more profitable than an FPGA miner.
Now, I suppose that might be true down to the fractions of a cent for electricity if some level of difficulty increase was assumed, but assumptions are dangerous - difficulty is still in roughly the same spot as it was 10 months ago.
I agree. I would also add that once ASICs hit the market, I would expect there to be less development efforts being made on the FPGA front for Bitcoin mining given the cost / performance ratio of ASICs. GPUs however will continue to evolve, drawing less power and putting out more performance. So as GPUs continue to develop, I wouldn't be surprised to see GPU performance surpassing FPGA hardware, as it no longer is actively developed. So GPUs could actually become more viable than FPGAs. Just my thoughts though, and I'm sure someone will tell me why I'm wrong FPGA hardware will advance at about the same rate as GPU hardware. Even if they only put more cores per chip, they should see the same improvements as GPUs which are doing the same: more cores per chip. The work you're referring to is all software, has already been done, and the situation is nearly identical to GPU mining software. Both GPU programming and FPGA programming is somewhat specialized, but I know where I got my undergraduate degree we had to code for FPGAs as part of the degree program, but not GPUs. |
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It would be fine on my desktop, but I spend more time on a laptop these days . Liquidate some of your bitcoins and buy one of these. I do need to get a laptop for when I start back to school, but I don't know about a Mac. I could put Linux on it, and the retina display would be nice, but after I was forced into an iPhone for a previous job (they decided they wanted an iPhone app half way through the project) I developed a strong distaste for everything Apple. I suppose most of my complaints are with the poor software quality and lockdown/lockin policies though, so maybe it would be okay after I blow away OSX. |
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no, there is simply not enough to do any kind of speculation.
What about wild speculation? |
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It would be fine on my desktop, but I spend more time on a laptop these days . |
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I think BitStamp is a good choice for traders in Europe. For those in the US, I think BitFloor is a better option. The reason is how easy or difficult it is to send fiat currency to these exchanges. BitStamp offer SEPA for both deposits and withdrawals. BitFloor offers ING Direct P2P and PopMoney for deposits and ACH transfers for withdrawals.
I just wish Bitfloor had more volume...! Chicken... meet egg. |
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hey guys, add a width=800 to your img tag, unless you like horizontal scrolling...
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