Lots of speculation around the place on this coin, and a few pools hashing pretty hard. Are we going to see any solid proof of it being put on an exchange or just more speculation?

Very cool, i might take some of those tips into consideration when i play the markets a bit too =) thank you for the detail, it's much appreciated.

FYI try reproduce the issue in a variety of IE versions (incase you haven't already). IE tends to not work well with the interwebs on many occassions.

EDIT:: Well. Nevermind that idea. I decided i'd try as well. I went to the site and pressed "all categories" on the left hand side, it then brought up a blank page. I tried with IE + Firefox + Chrome, all browsers experience the same issue. FYI i'm australian.

I use to use auto refreshers bacccccccck in the day of neopets =D they figured it was an excellent idea to push out completely random events to some of their pages, so if you had a refresher going, you'd stock up on tonnes of valuable freebies.

Bitcointalk = Neopets? =p

Jesus o.o i'm not sure who's a troll and who's RL anymore. T_T

Very cool, something that isnt a scam in the Newbie section, this would be pretty darn useful to a lot of people i'd imagine. Excellent work =)

Hm. Horse-sized Chicken. I aint no pussy. Come at me bro-chicken.

Seriously, imagine the chicken wings on that!!!! You could eat delicious chicken meat for ages by taking one of those out. On the other hand, if you kill 20 chicken-sized horses - are you going to eat horse meat? Really? HMMMMM.

Someone has got to try it out i guess :/

Btw, pardon my noobidity, but i've heard the term "shills" used frequently around the forums but i've got no idea what it means, do you mind enlightening me?

That's rather interesting, i'd almost be willing to bet its because you've put different settings/flags in your guiminer perhaps? If you select the default flags for your card in guiminer, it might be different from the flags you've set in cgminer, worth checking.

Kind of, think of it this way; there is no real security in the world.

Why do people have fences? To deter people from entering their property of course.... but i can just jump your fence if i wanted to. (hence extra effort required)
Why do people have firewalls? To stop people from Trololololing their servers yo. But i mean hey, if i wanted to, i could physically make an effort to break into the property of X business, plug in my ethernets into their ports, and hax0r their servers. (hence extra effort required)

The "Newbie" restriction sort of works in the same way. It prevents nothing for sure, but what it does get rid of is auto signups by bots and if bots get through, theyll be restricted to the newbie forum and go crazy. So someone would have to write up a specific bot to hax0r these forums if they wanted to do it that bad. But then there is the passphrase step as well which bots have a hard time getting by on the signup phase. (notice all these steps to put a whole bunch of extra effort required in for the hax0rs out there?)

Just because a legit newbie posts on the newbie forum doesn't mean they're trust worthy at all. I've been lurking these forums for months now and i've seen lots of untrustworthy idiots posting on other subforums on bitcointalk. Even people that were recently labeled as "Scammer" when they had over 300 posts on their account.

What the newbie forum does do, is hopefully direct us noobs here so we read up on all the stickies and random bits and peices, so we can respect the rules put in places by the moderators - this is their home afterall.

I've also heard similar things. I can't provide links or any extra info, the only reason i've heard this kinda thing is due to the fact that im a massive forum lurker and i've heard way too many cases of people getting charged back when trying to sell bitcoin via paypal. Obviously paypal/ebay (owned by the same company fyi) doesn't like this occuring a bunch, so i'd imagine they would try to do anything in their power to stop fraudulent things like this occuring.

Admittedly bter and mtgox are part of my routine checks whenever i open an internet browser. As well as how well my rig is going in the coin pools i mine with =). I'd estimate probably every 40-60mins. Just a quick check to see what's happened.

Lol, that's actually rather amazing, you do realise you've technically made an absolute killing in terms of % profit. If you were cooking with actual numbers then you could have made a lot more. I've been tempted to try something similar as well in terms of slowly trading up, but i feel like it would involve too much time invested in constantly monitoring exchanges.

Please check out http://dustcoin.com/mining - if you do some basic calculation, you'll find something like Litecoin mining to be plenty profitable at the moment. Sure, there is always the arguement that once the difficulty increases, it'll no longer be worth it - but do you really think thats the way its going to work? You dont think the market price of Litecoin will adjust to the difficulty of the coin? As scarcity increases, price will also increase. You're allowed to say anything you want and speculate anything you want, but mining simply wont be unprofitable until FPGA or ASIC farms come into play for scrypt, and that wont be for a long while.

FYI there are no asics or fpga's for Litecoin at the moment. A few FPGA's are being developed (check out the altcoin section) but they simply are not around at the moment, so everyone is running multi-gpu rigs.

Any new ATI card. My recommendation would be 7950's - they get you the most hash for your money and power consumption so imo they're very worth it.

I'm currently running a few of them and each gets 600KHash minimum on Scrypt coins (litecoin included). There are optimizations if you look around to get 7950's to 650ish KHash with lesser power consumption - imo definitely worth looking at.

This is the reason you should read this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177133.0

Looks like the newbie thread has it's uses =)

I think its a decent system, it encourages the use of the newbie forum which is here for a reason. TBH i'd prefer a system which requires a unique email domain ie, can't be from gmail or yahoo. I'm a member on another particular forum that goes by this approach and it works well.

I'm currently checking out www.bitmit.net and it seems cool, i'll try use it for something shortly and see how it all pans out. FYI i found it via www.spendbitcoins.com which seems to be a decent site with a list of places to buy stuff with bitcoins.