64bit would be better imo, but yes if it is just you that would work fine, enough space on hdd for operating system and (currently) 10Gb of blockchain
bitcoind will run on desktop or server version
so you are saying that the pool software that is available, like stratum or the others, uses bitcoind? I thought bitcoind couldn't keep up with the higher hash rates. I kind of assumed that the pool software had it's own, faster version of bitcoind built in. |
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eleuthria: How is things looking? I had notice the eu server is down.
The servers in EU are still completely down (by IP). The DNS for EU-Stratum is pointed to a US proxy currently, and it's working. There's some extra filtering happening at the moment that may be impacting larger mining farms trying to access the pools via stratum/eu-stratum.btcguild.com where there are multiple stratum proxies or multiple machines connecting individually. Eleuthria, what are your thoughts as to who might be attacking you and why? It seems to me that one would need pretty extensive resources to put on an attack like this. I'd think that your run of the mill Botnet jockey would have better things to do than annoy the largest bitcoin pool. What might their motive be? |
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If one were setting up a private pool to use as a fall back when the big pools are attacked could they use pretty much any computer? Would an old dual core with 4 gig of ram, running 32 bit ubuntu be good enough? is the application memory intensive? cpu intensive? does it require a large hard drive? would you need ubuntu server or just the desktop version?
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Hi guys - all pending BTC refunds should be done now - Kat usually does CC refunds immediately. Except for a few wire transfers that I will arrange tomorrow, thats it. If you requested a CC refund and haven't gotten word back, please check with Kat at accounts@megabigpower.com. Some trolls made a forum-factoid about us favoring 200TH over shipping to customers: not true - I am waiting for product. I don't make shipping promises until I know product is on the way and I have a sense of when we will have it tested before shipping. At this time, I can guess mid-October. I'll have something more specific as soon as I can. Of course we are watching the KnC situation. If there's anything to announce there, I'll surely do so. I not understanding the CC refund part? I'm still waiting to pay you guys with CC for October order 8##. My e-mails and forums posts go answered. I'm waiting to pay too. The refunds they are talking about were from before their CC processor dropped them. They are still trying to find a new option. |
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Basically, these could be used in any application that requires enryption and decryption. A low cost solution with the right software.
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Happy 1000 posts Trongersoll    How did you catch that? i don't see that info readily available. |
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well I got 4 fail overs now. have you been able to figure out where this is coming from?
Who stands to gain from this disruption? Follow the money? Yea. Looks like a classic block grab. What i'm about to say is probably wrong, but that has never stopped me. The size of Pie is more or less fixed. if you lower someone elses hashrate, you potentially increase your own share of the pie. Even if this isn't true, it is quite possible that those behind the attacks think it is. Also, with the difficulty set for a higher hashrate, lowering the hashrate would cause fewer coins to be mined which could potentially cause a rise in the exchange rate. |
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your post is blank. appears the eu server is down. my miners are back 100% on BTCGuild fixed it. |
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well I got 4 fail overs now. have you been able to figure out where this is coming from?
Who stands to gain from this disruption? Follow the money? |
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With the KNC equipment producing such high numbers, why would anyone buy any more bitfury at the current prices?  They will have to come down in prices. Most November (or October) orders will go to KNC. November deliveries would have to be below 4K for full kits. Now, nothing will stop KNC to just open the gates and produce in numbers. Thanks to KNC, the norm is now $10 per Gh/s. Bitfury is about $20. I'm sure KNC has room to lower their price as well. |
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With the KNC equipment producing such high numbers, why would anyone buy any more bitfury at the current prices? |
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I have a feeling the little miners have just been screwed by this release. The amount of hashing power coming from this is going to make what is already out there insignificant. The unprofitable miners will see what little they are making dry up. People who spend hundreds because they can't afford to spend thousands have just lost everything. When two machines produce over 1 terahash... Gigahash has just become unimportant. I hope the pools can support all this hashing power. This release is a significant game changer. I think that the Hobby aspect is going to disappear.  |
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I called to congratulate and ask about it. They are still at factory and all. I don't think I will get my miner before midnight GMT. Maybe some hosted people get it and it counts? Orama? Have no idea. did they specify Oct 1st where? |
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and how many of the 500 Gh/s machines are they shipping?  |
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BTCguild is under attack again. Fortunately i finally got my Bitfury to mine on Slush. Damned if i know, but it is working so i ain't touchin' nuttin'. |
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if anyone has the ability to also dDos ghash.io and 50btc right now.... they could control 51% of the network.....
DDoSing half of the network does not give you control of the other half.. no, but i bet it upped the income of those who weren't attacked. That's not true. Think about it: if the network hash rate (say) halves, then all network blocks (on average) will be solved at half the rate (20 minutes instead of 10 minutes at the default rate) but any particular hash rate that somebody can throw onto the network is going to earn the same that it did before at the current difficulty (obviously, people who are not hashing because they're attacked are going to earn nothing). DDoSing affects the block rate of the entire network, it doesn't affect an individual miner who is still hashing. Another way to think about it: if BTC Guild's rate halves (and you keep hashing because you switched to the private server), then your payment per shift will double (because there are half as many miners to share the reward between), but there will be half as many blocks to pay for them, so overall earnings are the same. The main effect of DDoSing is that the next difficulty rise will be lower, but every miner is affected by that in the same way. I can't help but think that having fewer people trying to find the block that i'm working on will give me more time to find it. I won't have to start over on a new block because some one found the current one. yeah, i know, it doesn't work that way, but i can't help but think it does make some difference. It is the fault of that stupid butterfly in china. |
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That looks interesting. I saw eloipool and it looks also good. My problem really also is how to implement it with a website.
As cool as running a pool sounds, it is a lot of work, it can be technically challenging. If you can't figure out the various aspects of getting the various available software parts up and running on your own, who are you going to turn to when you need to upgrade or make changes. You will be your own tech support. If you aren't technically savy it is best left to those who are. |
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if anyone has the ability to also dDos ghash.io and 50btc right now.... they could control 51% of the network.....
DDoSing half of the network does not give you control of the other half.. no, but i bet it upped the income of those who weren't attacked. |
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Geesh, it isn't bad enough that there is going to be a ton of new hashing power coming on line over the next week, they hafta take away what little i earn now with an attack? stoko!
Sorry, but there shouldn't have been any point during this attack when you couldn't hash (apart from the few tens of seconds taken for the rollover). My miners went from BTC Guild to 50BTC to Slush without missing a heartbeat. Now I've manually configured the private server as first in the failover chain (last is solo mining). You need to make sure you have an effective failover strategy in place. I'm mining here because my Bitfury rig wouldn't work on slush. I don't think that they can do rollover either. The attack sure did reek havoc on my charts. How to turn 25 Gh/s into 16 Gh/s without really trying  Are you using cgminer? no, i'm using the software that was imaged with the pi software. With cgminer there would be no problem with rollover. |
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Geesh, it isn't bad enough that there is going to be a ton of new hashing power coming on line over the next week, they hafta take away what little i earn now with an attack? stoko!
Sorry, but there shouldn't have been any point during this attack when you couldn't hash (apart from the few tens of seconds taken for the rollover). My miners went from BTC Guild to 50BTC to Slush without missing a heartbeat. Now I've manually configured the private server as first in the failover chain (last is solo mining). You need to make sure you have an effective failover strategy in place. I'm mining here because my Bitfury rig wouldn't work on slush. I don't think that they can do rollover either. The attack sure did reek havoc on my charts. How to turn 25 Gh/s into 16 Gh/s without really trying |
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