So how do I know what I actually mined then?  Is it the "Maximum Reward" line on the graph?

Quantum computers might crack it some day.

I've been mining with eligius for about a week now and I'm still baffled how the payout system works.  I read the description but I guess it's just not sinking in.

When I started mining I was being paid some small amount per block, around 0.002 BTC/block.  It's been slowly building up and is now 0.01378841 BTC/block.
I have a small mining rig running around 200 MH/s so I normally get about 0.12 BTC/day.

Where has all that mining effort been going?  I'm up very little for the week but would have about 0.84 BTC at a normal pool.  Am I missing something?

Sorry to sound cranky, I'm just trying to understand.

Ask the sender if he sent it.  If he says yes, ask what address he sent it to.

I'll bet it's the wrong address.

Just curious.  Any reason why the hash rate has been steadily declining?

Prolly easier to just buy BTC at this point.

Obviously this depends on your understanding of the word "money."  Since BTC does in fact fall under "any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services"  I would argue it IS money.

Don't assume "money" only refers to government-issued currency.  Money is a more general term.

Another point.  Professionals frequently engage in what's called "service swapping."  e.g. a lawyer represents a doctor in a malpractice suit in exchange for the doctor giving the lawyer's wife a boob job.  No money changes hands at all but the IRS still views the doctor and lawyer as having received income.  This sort of thing is done all the time off the books but if the IRS finds out, you're both charged with tax evasion.

Is a service money?

That's the thing with BTC: no charge-backs.

1) Is your bitcoin client is running and fully synced with the network?
2) Are you absolutely sure you entered your correct wallet address for the bitcoin central transfer?

If 1 and 2 are yes, then your transaction should have appeared in your bitcoin client especially if it's in blockchain.info.

What good does that do?  If I found my IP was banned for any reason I could easily change it in literally 5 minutes.

Where's that passive cooling rig from and how'd you adapt it to the board?

*edit*
Never mind.  I saw it's a giga that comes passively cooled.  I'd love to change the cooling arrangement on my howling Sapphire.

Dood I already explained to you in another thread that there is no keylogger in cgminer.
It's a false positive caused by the tool that the author uses to build cgminer for windows.

Just download it and use it.  If you get tired of having your AV program complain about it just add it to the whitelist.

25 BTC

It's like driving a car:  You don't have to know how an engine works to safely operate one.

Sorry charlie, you're screwed.  You didn't know where the wallet file was stored when you ran the cleaner and blew it away.

These cleaners are a waste of time and money.  You can't make your computer faster by deleting the contents of the app cache.  Stop doing that.

If you can't recover your c: you're screwed.  Just consider it a tuition payment to the School of Life.

Woo hoo!  Happy days!

They'll go for whatever people are willing to pay for them.  Warmed-over leftovers aren't worth much.

I'll wait for the current gen singles to hit the refurb market for $100 each after the trade-in program gets started.

I'll gladly pay $149 for any used BFL single that comes out of the trade-up program.  Just sayin.