It seems to me GPUs will effectively make AMD into a federal reserve cartel of Bitcoin.  There is only one fab for making these devices which makes the concept of one CPU one vote less practical.

88 chips codes (32 + 56 from separate accounts). PM offers. Or post pointers to reputable buyers who are interested.

This is the last I heard too for the Mercury. I have just starting looking at them a bit more seriously, myself. Mainly because the Mercury finally brings them down to a more acceptable risk for me. Everything seems in order (pending the email I sent to Kennemar & Cole) but based on everything I have read, I somehow doubt they will be able to deliver the claimed power efficiency with ORSoC. That said, everything I am making my judgements on is hearsay. There is potential for another BFL fiasco.

For the sake of diversification, what is your reasoning for not ordering a BFL and what would be your reasoning be for not ordering KNC, assuming you decide not to? The same goes for the Open source Avalon designs and the other manufacturers. Essentially, as a shareholder, I am interested in what you are actively looking at and what you are rejecting, considering and moving forward with. I was really glad to see your acquisition of Avalon miners followed by an appropriate increase in market share price and dividends. What I thought would turn into a stale investment after the bASIC fiasco has started to become a valuable asset.

Moved in yet? Did he ever PM you?

I am interested. I have some chip credits I wish to potentially use. Avalon chips are already my self-assembly challenge and especially considering the BGA, I have no interest in assembling miners myself with their chips.

Wait, you are offering $17.50/ chip if I buy 100 chips but Terrahash is offering $15.13/ chip including assembly and components? And this is their lowest end model. When are you going to lower your prices?

So one month later... did this offer seriously expire 2-4 days before I posted? Or did I set it up wrong?

the Terrahash "4.5GH/sec" will do 90000MH/s (aka 90GH/s)


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What would they do with >50%? If anyone were to achieve >50%, I would hope for it to be ASICminer. Because I can't see any benefit for them to do anything malicious. So I wouldn't consider it a 51% "threat"

Don't get me wrong, having anyone at that point is a bit dangerous but it could be way worse.

Watching this. Paying USD for these is my preference and there's where you can provide.

Thanks! I'm just putting together a preliminary parts list.

On the K1 preliminary parts list, you list SL02-GS08, which is a 1.1A, 20V part but in the value section, you list it as 1A, 30V.
Was this a mistype or did you accidentally indicate the wrong part?

This will make an interesting read 5-10 years from now.

If you have to tell someone how they "should" think about how they use something because they are using it the "wrong" way, then the system is obviously flawed and badly designed for the intended purpose.

I don't quite understand. You find mining doesn't work for you so you quit the Bitcoin scene altogether?

You also misused the word "scam"

Says the guy who PMs me (and others "(Undisclosed recipients)") not 30 minutes earlier trying to get 9000XRP/BTC.

I have a problem with p2pool. It started a few days ago. I'm looking for some help.

Changes:

• added p2pool and litecoin in addition (reverted this change)
• rebooted the computer (didn't install windows updates

Specs:

• 1.9 AMD dual core, 3GB ram, Vertex 3 SSD, windows 7, QT 8.1, p2pool 11.4

Problem:

• restarted machine
• ran p2pool litecoin and bitcoin
• Getblock latency at 10-15 seconds and bitcoin-qt unresponsive. At this point, I stopped using the litecoin node and client
• restarted computer
• Now for the past hour, getblock latency has gone from <1s to 10s, increasing DOAs - after I finished this post, it is now at 12 seconds.
• Everything is now as it used to be before but getblock latency is still massive and bitcoin-qt is slow to respond.
• restarting p2pool does not reduce the latency but restarting bitcoin does - but then it creeps up for an hour or 2 to 10-15s
• My CPU usage graph looks like a sine wave with an extended top . It is mostly bitcoin-qt with a bit of run_p2pool.exe
• I've not had problems like this before with this exact setup.

trying a bitcoind rescan. not sure if it will help. - it didn't make a difference.

Reserved for answering questions asked by further posters:

Thanks in advance.

*I put this in hardware, but it also deals with software and mostly p2pool*

I've recently been working on a p2pool node. For the past 4-5 months, I've been running a node for myself which ended up being for myself and a friend. This might expand a bit more too.

The setup has been a dedicated older HP touchsmart tx2500 with a QL-60 at 1.9GHz, 3GB of ram and a 60GB vertex 2. I was hoping to reduce getblock latency with the SSD but it didn't help that much - still under a second though. Running windows 7 because I already had it on there. It is wired. My connection is a 30up/2down.

So recently I tried adding litecoin support. I successfully got the node set up and everything was running fine. Except for some reason the getblock latency for bitcoind shot up above 10 seconds and bitcoin-qt interface became unusable. So for now I've had to remove litecoin support.


Which brings me to the purpose of this thread, which is twofold.

1. I'm looking to set up a dedicated p2pool server that will start out supporting Bitcoin and Litecoin and perhaps add some alt-coins later. So I would like some suggestions from those of the community more familiar with p2pool.

What I am considering (please respond and comment):

• I want this machine to be cost-effective. I'm looking to spend under $500 total for sure but lower is better.
• AMD A4-5300 for $50. Enough cpu muscle?
• I will be running Linux. Likely Fedora Core. Filesystem recommendations, anyone?
• I intend to use a WD Black 1TB drive as a compromise between price, performance and capacity for the bitcoin blockchain over the next few years.
• 8GB of ram
• There are two possibilities. 1) Everything on the host. 2) Run each node inside a separate VM.  Suggestions?

2. Some questions for those more familiar with p2pool than myself:

• Could the getblock latency I am getting be related to my CPU at all (1.9GHz AMD dual)? It starts out low, but often can hit as high as 5 seconds, normally. There are large spikes but not much constant cpu usage (graph ends up looking like a messy sine wave).
• Does anyone else have any suggestions as to why my getblock latency is so high?

Additional information as requested by users in this thread:

Thanks in advance. If I add more questions, I will change them to a different colour so you know they are new.

Novacoins are indeed one of the few coins missing completely from my collection:
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