Strawman transactions for political contributions are expressly illegal in the US. Although a corporation apparently has unlimited rights to donate as they please. See Citizens United. Or the American Crossroads group. Republican groups have long figured out how to dump millions of dollars into their candidates' coffers by cirumventing the law, so look to them for guidance.
That's all true, but don't forget to include a study of George Soros and other limousine liberals' use of Foundations to fund Democrat BS. There's no way, short of sting operations, to prevent BitCoin billionaires from using poor Ron Paul supporters as donation cut-outs. Maybe it's easier to just contribute to the grassroots and meet-ups than the official orgs. That's all true, but don't forget to include a study of George Soros and other limousine liberals' use of Foundations to fund Democrat BS. oh. did we forget that the left side of the aisle learned the foundation-funding trick from Cato, and numerous other conservative foundations - all of whom were there first? however, it doesn't really matter to me. and my compliments on your correct usage of the apostrophe. |
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i'll be 60 on saturday. i've been an antiquarian bookman since i was nine, and did twenty years as a network designer and admin.
i've got a spare room papered in stock options.
"conservatives" think i'm a liberal, and "liberals" think i'm conservative. i like that...
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Heres a plan: 1. Acquire island (anyone selling an island for bitcoin? I hear greece is hard up for some money these days) 2. Set up a technate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_Incorporated3. Make bitcoin legal tender of formed technate (bitcoin is in many ways an ideal currency for a technocracy, atleast ideologically) 4. Invite bitcoiners/techie/hacker types to live on said island. Create the first technology oriented society. I'll quit rambling now. then get Hari Seldon to create psychohistory. PROFIT!!! |
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the truth is - and really, it's not a slam - if i had ten grand to invest, and didn't have a total handle on how to construct and install a mining cluster, without having to ask anybody a thing, i'd buy Bitcoin and let 'em sit for a couple of years.
if you spend ten geezers without the kind of experience that'll let you put all your parts together in one day - and start mining in 24 hours - you'll lose one, and maybe two difficulty levels. it's all down hill from there.
my rule of thumb is that anything i buy must pay for itself during the difficulty level i bought it in.
if you can do that, you shouldn't be asking for advice.
again - this is only an observation, not a condemnation. and i wish you the best of luck.
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The fee CANNOT be too high, because if it was, the market would react.
OR the market is stupid and didn't know and therefor didn't reacte. that why i wrote this post to make people know how much MtGox is earning. "earning" would be the operative word. what's the fee for exchanging currency at the average airport? |
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Hi, thank you, I was finally able to start it from the command line, and here is the result: C:\Users\Marco>C:\Users\Marco\Desktop\trunks\btc\DiabloMiner\DiabloMiner-Windows .exe -u XXX@gmail.com -p XXX -o pit.deepbit.net -r 8332 [02/06/11 19:26:11] Started [02/06/11 19:26:11] Connecting to: http://pit.deepbit.net:8332/Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.libr ary.path at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(Unknown Source) at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:73) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:66) at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:82) at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:99) at org.lwjgl.opencl.CL.<clinit>(CL.java:51) at com.diablominer.DiabloMiner.DiabloMiner.execute(DiabloMiner.java:379) at com.diablominer.DiabloMiner.DiabloMiner.main(DiabloMiner.java:127) C:\Users\Marco> really - the place for this is in the DiabloMiner thread. Diablo is quite responsive and helpful, generally (as are we users of his miner) - but it's nice to give him the stuff he needs to deal with in one place. |
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my basic rule is that if i think a fee for anything is too high, i don't participate.
and i never get emotional about it. life's too short to get angry at anything that isn't trying to kill you - which is, itself, a poor idea...
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this thread may be approaching the matter from the wrong direction.
has it occurred to anybody that probably the most effective way to stop Bitcoin would be to end cash?
governments hate it anyway - printing the stuff is a huge loss. it fosters hidden income, and untaxed transactions. and the electronic payment systems (visa, etc.) already in place could easily handle the extra workload.
what happens to something like Bitcoin if governments phase out cash, and decree pay-by-wave, phone-to-phone and bank cards? maybe keeping coinage for gum machines and laundromats. that strikes me as a much more likely scenario. instead of being issued a social security number at birth (like in the US today), you are issued a bank card number.
in a case like that, all the advantages of Bitcoin would go away unless merchants were actually willing to accept raw (i.e., non-exchanged) Bitcoin. which at that point would be unlikely, no?
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I think the term is anarcha-capitalists.
anarcha-capitalistas. |
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except that USB flash-drives have a data half-life of between 2 and 10 years... (depending on the quality/type of flash chips used).
yes. i'm looking into that. my USBs are not quite like vladimir's - truecrypt partitions with an external copy of the program for each OS - but that's not really the issue. R/W CD/DVDs aren't any better, in terms of reliable longevity. and magnetic tape is awesome as a rotated back-up media: it's gotta be utterly bulletproof for... what? six months? fully encrypted RAID systems made out of notebook HDDs are probably the best option. but they're not pocketable, or (and while definitions vary, the point is valid) particularly clandestine. generational back-ups are a bitch, aren't they? |
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slush's pool has about 18% of the current network - and (although he's recently removed the 'connected miner' number) probably about 4-5,000 mining accounts. many are multiple accounts - so call it 2,500 individuals.
extrapolating, that would be about 12,000 miners for the entire network.
now... how many use the system, but don't mine? a tougher number to estimate.
my suspicion is not as many, but growing much faster than the mining segment.
so... my pure, wild-ass guess - without anything particularly factual behind it - is something on the order of 25,000.
by the end of summer, i'd expect that to triple. or more. i think that right now is the make or break moment for Bitcoin.
20 USD/BTC by the end of july is a lock.
I checked my addr.dat file a few days ago and found over 130,000 unique IPs, so I think 25,000 is probably nowhere close. awesome! i would be so pleased to be wrong by that margin. |
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daily counts of nodes seen (within 24 hour period)  hmmm. so my wild-ass guess wasn't so bad, if you stop to consider that not every node will be active every day... |
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This has me thinking about what the biggest threat to bitcoin's value is at the moment. In my opinion the biggest threat is that some early adopter wants to buy million dollar+ house and has to sell off all of his bitcoins to do it. Conclusion: we need a bitcoin real estate company.
and a ferrari dealership... |
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Yeah but is the performance per watt ratio good?
800 SP. should get about 180 Mh/s or so - for 50 W. the closest hash rate you can get to that in a desktop PCIe slot is a 5770, for 120 W the closest wattage in a PCIe slot is a 5670, for 75 Mh/s or so. theoretically, it looks pretty efficient to me... Nice so what's next, strip apart a bunch of laptops and solder some 5870m chips on the same card, build a PCI express bridge and voila... maybe this? http://www.twinind.com/catalog_detail.php?id=7eh. life is seldom that easy - and i'm not the guy to do it. i'm a network hack, not a hardware developer. still... i'd bet you could pick up that mobile GPU pretty cheap, if you went about it right. |
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huh.
nifty gadget.
how would it work with a GPU?
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nice to end with regina spektor.
hey...! any music groups that sell their stuff on their own websites take Bitcoin?
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