Btw you can push that rate 3% higher by just modding a single file in the miner directory, if you are using poclbm.

Go to kernel.cl & edit
to

Found it on the forum some time ago. Prob. integrated in some newest miners already, but worth a try.

Motherboards usually have horribly placed PCI-e slots. Maybe to discourage the use of tons of GPU's.

With risers, you can actually utilize all 8 PCI-e slots on a board like MSI BB Marshall.
Which would be impossible normally, because a single card (even a 5770) takes 2 slots on the board.

No comment on whether it's safe to draw 8x75 (600W) from the board 24/7.

People tried tracking him back in 2010, turns out some of the emails he sent originate from internet cafe's and public libraries in Tokyo. So the person at least physically resides there. I'd say there is a high likelihood he is of Japanese descent as well.

Why does perfect English have to mean he is not natively Japanese?
Considering his staggering expertise in cryptography, programming and mathematics I wouldn't say it's too far-fetched to think he is extremely well-educated, maybe even self-learned.

Not being from the UK or USA doesn't automatically mean you make grammatical errors, spelling mistakes or use poor language.

I'll sell you 5 first, perhaps more later if the trade goes o.k.

BTCrow is the best option at http://www.btcrow.com/

Simple trade which is safe for both parties without risk of scam:

You only have to release funds when blockexplorer confirms the 5 BTC arrived to your address you specify on the site, so you have zero risk me not sending you anything (or if I didn't, the funds would be simply returned to you)
 
I also can't be scammed because after the transfer shows in blockexplorer, it can no longer be disputed.
It's a win-win, post here or send PM if you're interested.

You can also propose any other reliable escrow service you are familiar with, or a forum admin/Morpheus.
Nobody will trust new members in a blind trade so I think the terms above are more than fair & 100% safe to you as a buyer.

That fluctuates based on difficulty. Currently a single 6990 produces about 0.58 bitcoins per day, or $9 dollars worth of them (at $15.5 exchange rate which also fluctuates).

At the next difficulty of about 1.6m, it will generate 0.50 BTC per day, or about $8 dollars daily.

Price would have to increase by quite a bit, or difficulty would have to stagnate, if you want it fully paid by mining.
It will pay itself off partially in the long run though, even after counting in electricity. Maybe even fully if price appreciates in the near future.

Why would you pretend to be Japanese? You must watch naruto and say 'kawaii' in public.

God I hate that cartoon.

Anyways, nice blog.

IMO mining is only dependent on profitability. Hobbyists and for-fun miners are a minority.

If price catches up with difficulty, people will have their farms online even at 10-20m difficulty for 0.10 bitcoins per day.

69xx cards are notorious for locking up if you do other stuff with them
while using an OpenCL application such as a bitcoin miner.

The collective hashrate seems to bounce up and down randomly.

For example it was at 500ghash/s for hours, then suddenly, it dropped to 410. Too big of a swing happening to everyone at once to be pure variance IMO.

I checked my total hash rate and it went down about 20% for no reason
 
Edit: It happened again, all miners suddenly went down 50%, not a coincidence because total pool rate also halved

Not surprising considering he spams every possible 'gig' site on the internet to get $5 bucks for designing a website.

He also sells operating system licenses scavenged from public or abandoned computers.

Maybe a homeless guy.

Having a field day with the first Big Mac meal ever in his life with those few bucks, maybe you shouldn't hate him

Why would anyone pay $350 extra to some scalper scum for a used item?

Hint for buyers: These items restock every 3-5 days, check a site like nowinstock.net to buy at around $709-729 new.

Switch PCI-e slots and use dummy plugs.

Or you can try just the 5830 alone & see if it will boot all the way to desktop

Well, that was a nice 24 hours.
My guess is his tiny pool got lucky & found an early block at 20-30k shares, and he ran away with 50BTC & will claim technical difficulties, then re-open a few days later.

Then again I might be paranoid.
I'd avoid small startup pools like the plague at current difficulty.

Heard the world is crashing in 2012.
You should sell everything.

Even your dog.

That board can only house one GPU.

If you want to use more you will have to spend on 3 riser cables and a chassis that can lift-mount the GPU's because they wont be able to function next to each other. There isn't even a guarantee the mobo can supply power to 4 GPU's, it's only specified for one.

X1 lanes on cheap boards are primarily for sound cards, ethernet cards etc. that take next to no wattage at all. Drawing 225W 24/7 will probably kill them.

What's with the referral prostitutes lately?

 "triple mining" is the new Tradehill

Instantaneous BTC transfers wont be happening, just as instant wire transfers from one bank to another wont. Both need time to be confirmed to be genuine.

That's what payment processors are for.
The "Paypal" of BTC could be backed by bitcoins instead of fiat currency.

The important thing is that the funds can be debited from one account and credited to another in a split second.

My point is that it doesn't even pay off to pad the stats now.

If you joined after 28.6 there is no top 3 bonus for you. Those guys pumping 3-10 ghash will get no extra reward because they joined 2 days ago.
 
There is only 1 miner in the entire pool capable of being in top 3 who joined before that arbitrary date.

Crocodile Dundee knows no national boundaries.

"You call that a currency? This is a currency."

Any chance of SMPPS? To fence off 4+ day blocks such as the last one.

Beside that, nice pool if you're looking to diversify miners to various sites. I'll keep a few GPUs here.