Moore's law applies to all technology, not just CPU's and transistors. Of course it would apply to GPU's. Despite their different architecture... I am not familiar enough with it to argue with you on the specifics... but new generations of technology make development of subsequent, more powerful, technology possible. That is the essence of the way moores law should be understood. Not a precise relation to CPU speeds.


That's "Murphy's Law" you are thinking about. Anything that can potentially go wrong, WILL go wrong. Essentially. I love this law, as it is true on so many levels. I've spent way too much time thinking about it, probably because my own surname is Murphy and I am a narcissist. 

LMFAO!! I was thinking pretty much the same thing.
$1 million is chump change, even to some individuals these days, let alone the entire population combined.

But that's besides the point. People are SOOO fixated upon the value of bitcoin-USD conversion rate. Why the hell? If you were a true believer in the bitcoin movement, it should not matter what the exchanges are willing to pay for bitcoins. You shouldn't even be exchanging them for dirty, useless fiat currency. I wouldn't trade a sword for a stick, that's for sure.

People just need to realize that the value of bitcoin is not in it's value as an investment vehicle to realize future fiat currency profits. These people deserve to lose money, and I hope they lose lots of it. They are driving up the cost of mining the coins themselves, when this need not be the case at all, if everyone just agreed to use less power to mine. But it won't happen, because people want short-term rewards in fiat currency.

People need to start realizing what bitcoin is ACTUALLY about, and not how much fiat currency they can make from it.

At this point, I'd just take it to an expert to have a look at it. You seem to have done a lot already to no avail. If you need it back up and running soon for college purposes and whatnot, just pay someone who knows what they are doing to fix it.

Can you not return it to the manufacturer for repair? Or have you voided your warranty by all that tinkering around?

Oh yeah, and btw, I mentioned it already but something similar happened to an old machine i was using to mine. Crapped out, wouldn't boot from HDD or CD, so a friend of mine who is an electronic engineer looked at it and said that the BIOS battery had been fried. He replaced it and everything was working fine again. Maybe not relevant to you, but just thought I'd pop it in since you are running out of ideas.

This site is running off a wordpress backend that you have removed all copyright statements from. I'm pretty sure that's a violation of their open-source license. I could be wrong, but it's besides the point. Wordpress is blogging software, it's not designed for the purpose you are going to use it for. If you are going to set up a secure, trustworthy e-wallet, you're going to have to do better job at programming it than modifying and tinkering around with an open-source wordpress blogging CMS.

Pedantic? Yes. But I was just about to post the exact same thing.

If you opened the correct port in your router configuration, that would probably increase your speeds. Not being fully connectable means you will never reach decent speeds. However, it is highly unwise to do this and then download torrents from public trackers.

Many rights-organisations, ISP's or other agents monitor pretty much every public tracker for torrents that are copyrighted, and compile lists of IP addresses of those who have downloaded and seeded the file. This can lead to you losing your internet connection, and potentially large fines. I'm sure you have heard of more than a few cases of this. Many people find this too risky, so they don't download illegal movies and copyrighted material using public torrents.

On a completely side note, our service is completely anonymous.
We keep no logs, and the server is located in europe, connected to a high speed internet backbone.

This is starting to turn into a sales pitch I think... meh

Anyway, bitcointorrentz is very useful for people who are blocked behind proxies or firewalls that prevent them from using torrents completely. Others have blocked ports meaning poor connectivity resulting in their download speed being miserable, despite having fast connection. Others may just like the convenience of being able to watch video files within minutes by streaming them directly from the server, without having to wait for a large torrent to complete on a slow home connection. There are plenty of other reasons...

Importantly however, I would like to point out that bitcointorrentz.com and it's owners (i.e. ME), do not condone intellectual property theft in any way. This service is to be used solely for the downloading of legal, open-source and non-copyrighted materials only!

Thanks and no problem!
Next thing on my to-do list is to sort out the unique wallet address system.
That may take a little longer to do however.

Just a quick update to inform users that the status page has now been updated with detailed information on the torrent download statistics. The page will update every 5 seconds until the download has completed, at which point you will get the download link. See the screenshot below for a better idea of what it looks like:

I would like to invite as many people as possible to try out the service. I need to earn enough to be able to pay my server costs, which are quite significant. So if you find it useful, please USE it, in order to keep the bitcointorrentz service alive into the future.

And if you don't need this service, but would like to support it, donations of any size are greatly appreciated:
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A secret-question type feature, similar to western union, may help to overcome this.

No, I meant megaBYTES. So you were only pulling about 1/10th of the capability of the server. I am downloading from it now at 2.6mb/s. My broadband connection is 30mbit. It may be due to the fact that the server is located in europe.

I am already in the process of obtaining a US based gigabit server to run this service on, along with some other non-resource intensive websites. So that should ensure maximum speeds every time. I need to raise some capital however to pay for a dedicated server with Gbit speeds, so I will let the service run on the current 100mbit server until it's capacity has been exceeded, or users begin to complain of slow download speeds.

Could this be a problem with the BIOS battery perhaps? I know a machine I was mining with died and failed to boot in a similar manner to you describe. After the bios battery was replaced, everything was hunky-dory.

Thank you for your feedback. It is greatly appreciated.

Out of interest, what is your normal maximum download speed? The maximum my server can upload is on the order of 10mb/s. So unless you have 100mbit home broadband, it should max out the average user's connection, given the right circumstances.

And with regards to the single address issue, I am working to transition to a unique address payment system. But for the present, I think the small possibility of government or rights agencies querying the bitcoin blockchain is quite remote, meaning that this system is still miles ahead (in terms of privacy and liability) than downloading the torrent yourself.

I have already reflected on this. I considered just allowing this exception to occur, because to be honest, as long as people are using the service, I don't really mind if they do it by getting a 20% rebate each time. It's still revenue at the end of the day, and it still leaves 80% for me. It makes sense to have a smaller share of a big pie, than a big share of a smaller pie.

But in saying that, I have actually implemented methods to prevent it.
It is stated in the referral control panel that using your own referral link will not gain you any credits.

The service is 100% anonymous for end-users, but to ensure that the scenario you have alluded to does not occur, the IP address of those who sign up for referral accounts is recorded and checked against if they try to use their own referral link. I do not see the problem with this considering they also have to provide their email address.

Referrers are not breaking the law by pointing people to a website for legitimate use.
They are not responsible for how the service is used by third parties.
So they need not worry about their IP or email address being stored.

It remains that no IP information, or any other means of identification, is recorded for those who download torrents.
Even if a referrer downloads a torrent, they cannot be linked to the download, and can therefore be assured of privacy.

I may transition to a cookie-based method of identifying this type of behavior in the future however to ameliorate the need to record the IP address of those who sign up for referral accounts.

Thank you very much for your offer of assistance. I'm sure I will take full advantage of your expertise. At the moment, I am actively developing another service (see my sig) but once that is all polished up, I will move on to the bitcoinmailer project.

I have your contact details stored for future reference.
Thanks again mate.

I have fully implemented cookie tracking for referral idkeys. I have tested it on an isolated local server, and it is working. I have not tested it live however, but if you want to try yourself, make a note of your total hits in the referral control panel, then go to the website using your referral link and check again. Then close your browser, navigate back to the site without your idkey in the link, and check if it increases your hits. If everything has gone to plan, it should work perfectly.

Your key will bring you commission for up to 10 years after the user clicked your referral link. it is not possible to set a cookie that persists indefinitely, but 10 years is probably longer than the average computer lasts these days. And in 10 years, I suspect cookies will no longer be relevant anyway! Haha.

One thing however, if a user you have referred to the site clicks a subsequent link with a new idkey, your existing key will be replaced for the new one. I'm not quite sure if this is a good policy or not, but I suppose it is probably the fairest way of doing it. What do you think?

Also, if users have certain browser options that block cookies, or delete them each time their browser closes, there is nothing much I can do to work around this fact. The majority of us though accept all cookies except those from 3rd parties, so I think we're good.

I have just registered the domain: http://www.bitcoinmailer.com
I think I'm going to have a go at it.
See how it turns out.

Flattery isn't going to earn you a higher commission! :p

But in all seriousness, thank you for your kind words. I do believe that I provide a useful service to the bitcoin community. p2p filesharing and bitcoin are very much alike, in that their shared purpose is to break down existing perceptions of the status quo, and take power away from those who would wish to control us. They go hand in hand, and I am glad to have brought them together in this way.

The banners would just be an optional extra. What I meant was I would provide various different formats that people could use to post the link. Such as a pre-prepared bbcode link for forum signatures, a bbcode banner link and maybe some html formatted options too. My goal is to make it as quick and painless for people to post their referral link, wherever they like.

I also found this site earlier. It's a bit unprofessional looking if I might say so.
Not an intermediary that I would have much trust in.

I said I was not concerned, if you reread my post.
I have no qualms about running the client on my machine whatsoever.

I was simply pointing out the fact that AVG was falsely reporting bitcoin.exe as a trojan, and why this would not be a good thing if we are aiming for bitcoin to be scaled to population-size levels.

I fully agree. I am implementing this now.
I might also throw together some referral banners that people can use, rather than a boring link.