it's usually something like this 011100000110110001100101011000010111001101100101

Mate, have you ever been to London? I'd even hazard a guess he grew in east London

You could read about it on wiki
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bitcoin#Block-chain_and_Confirmations

In practical term it's a record of all the transactions that occurred and your client can only participate in the network if it's downloaded all of it. Currently it's block 123335 and is increasing ~every 10mins




edit: oh, and it means that the very first time you start your bitcoin client it may take a little while before you can use it.

Everybody who wants to live on an island, I think we should all chip in so we don't have to wait that long.
Here's my take on how life should be:
https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=6297.msg100801#msg100801

venom,

Is your blockchain up to date? If it's not the right balance should appear once all blocks are downloaded.
If it is and you still can't see your balance, try starting bitcoin with -rescan switch.

Bitcoin transactions are recorded on the network. wallet.dat is where your keys are held

Hello fellow miners.

So today I received my 5870 and tried several miners.
Currently I am running on win7 32bit. The only one that doesn't crash my computer is Diablo miner and I'm getting ~300MHash/s. I assume the problem is with my power supply, so I ordered a new, more powerful, one. With other miners at stock card setting except increased fan speed, I get 350-370. I'm a bit reluctant overclocking. Well we'll see. If all goes well, I think I'll be getting few more cards 

Already got 0.05 BTC  It used to take me around 12 hours with my other 4 computers using CPUs.

bitcoin2cash I run a small company fixing computers from home and the owner of the place knows that I have to run 5-10 computers everyday. As a matter of fact I just had a glance at my watt meter and the change in readings barely changed 

I like any beer 

Thanks for the answers guys.

What I meant buy the best miner was the software. We already bought 5870 and it should be with me tomorrow.

gmaxwell, our logic that evening might have been a little flawed - I admit  Nevertheless, it's a start to my new society

bitcoin2cash, I am renting an apartment and paying a fixed price all bills included.

I noticed similar behavior. You have to be patient - on my computer win7 32bit it takes 30s-1m from the click to start the program to gui appearing. Try starting it from start menu - there should be a shortcut.

My friend and I were enjoying beer when suddenly it dawned on us - we could have beer for free every day for the rest of our lives. So we bought this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-147-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1711

Anyways, my questions are:

1. 32bit is windows or linux better? (xp/vista/7/ubuntu/centos/other?)
2. What is currently the best miner. Electricity is free so we are looking for the fastest miner.
3. What are the best setting for it. edit: it's going to be a dedicated miner
4. Is it worth overclocking? How big is the risk of damaging the card? Does it invalidate warranty?

I tried searching for answers but there are millions of post contradicting each other and I know that miners get updated frequently so they probably out of date too, hence this thread.

If you could post what speed you're getting with what settings, that be cool too.

Thanks

Even that is unnecessary. Anyone can use mybitcoin.com eWallet.

Slowpok3, freenode is an irc network http://freenode.net/. You can download irc client and connect to it. Detailed explanation on how to do it is on that page. If you have any problems or want to know more about it feel free to ask here or pm me. I can walk you through the process

He's either stupid or lives in another universe where tax payers haven't bailed out banks for the second time recently.

Silk Road 

Once blockchain is up to date, you'll see your balance.

Regarding connections, your port forwarding obviously is not working. I'd suggest disabling manual port forwarding and enabling it in the bitcoin client. You can find it in Settings>>Options>> check "Map port using UPnP"

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability

Plus you can name your file whatever you like e.g myporn.avi

Buy an external drive and set a cron job. You'll never have to worry about it again 

No more free calls
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13343600

or maybe tor network ran out of IPs 

I heard a rumor that mndrix sent paypal a letter. In the envelope there was nothing except this picture:

I emailed these guys http://www.bytelove.com/ yesterday about accepting bitcoin. We'll see what they say..