Yeah I went to his site the day he started accepting btc. His stuff is awesome and perfect for the bitcoin crowd. Its just too expensive for the goals I have. First bitcoin lambo, then bitcoin brass art  |
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I've given up and I'm mining altcoins at this point. If you don't put down $5,000+ you can't make ROI and even after spending all that money the difficulty:price ratio is rising quickly.
If I was going to buy an ASIC today I guess the Cointerra one looks ok, but who knows what's going to happen by April then it's delivered?
The thought of even waiting for April to get delivery on an ASIC is ridiculous, presuming its even delivered then. Might as well chuck your money down the sink  Like you say, altcoins are a much safer bet at thist time. By that logic, everything is ridiculous as there are no ASIC options that could possibly make ROI that will ship out. Assuming Cointerra actually does ship their January batch it will push the difficulty into the stratosphere. If then don't then maybe KNC makes sense. Just checked, Q2 2014 which means by May 31st and the price/performance is slightly worse. If even half these guys deliver what they're promising then the difficulty is going to explode, so if the price of BTC doesn't explode as well it will all be pointless. Yeah, I remember why I gave up on this. This is true too... The only gamble im willing to make is on KNC. They delivered the last ones on time and way above chip expectations. So that 3 TH could be up over 3.5 when it arrives. And this being their second time around, they know exactly what they have to do. I was in the first 5 seconds of the VIP KNC orders. So I only paid 10k and will be FIRST day at least. So Im happy with that. |
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Hello,
in the past I mine for some experience with my laptop....but it´s not really profitably ^^.
So I decide to spend some money into mining hardware. I´d like to have min. 1000 Ghash/sec, lovely some more :-),
Did one of you have some tips for some mining hardware?
NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM BUTTERFLY LABS!!! or HASHFAST aka HASHSCAM |
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Check out http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/ for a descent start at a list of hardware and their hashrates, costs, and delivery dates. If you're looking for the best, I'd look for the 28nm or smaller miners. KNC Neptune, BFL Monarch, or a Cointerra TerraMiner, to start. Did you really combine "If youre looking for the best" and "butterfly labs" in the same sentence. Your bitcointalk membership should be revoked |
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Check out http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/ for a descent start at a list of hardware and their hashrates, costs, and delivery dates. If you're looking for the best, I'd look for the 28nm or smaller miners. KNC Neptune, BFL Monarch, or a Cointerra TerraMiner, to start. Did you really just advise someone to look at BFL miners and youre a Hero Member?...thats such a noob move and pretty shameful actually |
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Im not that computer savvy either...but my litecoin QT wallet wont open anymore, and i think there is a bounty out to fix this...like 15 bitcoins
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they also sent out an email today to non customers saying that they are about to ship so purchase now before the prices get raised Could you share that here.? Edit : here ; Don't Miss Out!
As shipping is about to begin, prices in the HashFast Store will soon increase dramatically.
Take advantage of the prices of Baby Jets and Sierras available now. They won't last long!
Payments must be received by 5PM PST Jan 3rd. Now THAT is a ponzi scheme. They are trying to take new orders to pay back the people that want refunds, and there is your partial. Just despicable... |
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THere is a lot of information on reddit? THey are saying to take it immediately to a data recovery specialist. http://www.reddit.com/search?q=dat+file+recovery
So one of the guys in the dorms had bought some bitcoins (14) over a year ago when they were ~$7 and recently remembered about them. But a little over a month ago he formatted his hard drive and reinstalled windows. Is there any chance to recover his wallet?
EDIT: Ok so I ran some recovery tools on his computer and we got some wallet.dat files but all of them are corrupted. Any way to fix this?Possible, yes. The data is still there as long as it hasn't been overwritten, but the pointers to the data have been deleted. If you have a friend who is skilled in using a Linux terminal you may want to make an image of the drive and attempt a recovery using Farmer's boot CD. Tell him to using how computer in the meantime if he's serious about this though. He could overwrite the data on the disc (if he hasn't already). This would make recovery almost impossible. Take it to a data recovery expert ASAP. Turn off the hard drive and don't turn it back on. Every time you do, you're reducing your already low chance of recovering them. You can try using pywallet on them, there's also this tool which I've never used, so I can't really help. Alternatively there's people who would be willing to take a look at them for you, myself included, but there's no guarantee of recovery even then and handing over your wallet.dat is the same as giving away the keys to spend the coins, so it would require massive amounts of trust. In your place I wouldn't give the files to anyone and would try to recover them myself. Worst case you can sit on the files until some future time when hopefully someone makes a point and click wallet recovery tool, although that could be a year+ from now. permalinksave A slim chance. You'll need data recovery tools. I'm no expert though. permalinksave On modern HDDs (2001+), one overwrite is enough to make data permanently unrecoverable. At this point it sounds like a forensic recovery would be the only hope, and with the format, Windows install, and 1 month of use, I would say even then the chances are slim to none (as in there is a chance the place might laugh at you for even asking). permalinksave I do not believe so. Unless you take it to a data recovery specialist and they tell you otherwise. Your friend may have just made a contribution to the "coins that will never be spent fund" |
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Wow, that's exactly what I'm planning to do in the US. Very cool
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Id probably go with Larry, Moe, and Curly |
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probably, i have about 25% in just in case something crazy happens with bitcoin. But Im always looking to buy more. I just stiil see credible bitcoin enthusiast say it could go down to $300 or even $200 again. So Im waiting for that, if it happens. But it all depends on how much you have in savings i think. If you have 1000 in savings and you use 50%, $500 is a lot different than $1000. But if you have 100k, dropping down to 50k fluid isnt too much of a kick in the nuts. It helps not having a wife and kids. For, most bitcoin horror stories I read start off with, " Well, my wife/gf was complaining" and that usually is the beginning of their "why im still poor" bitcoin story.
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yeah i want a site like that too...whats a good ball park price for that?
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Very cool, but very expensive |
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so nobody interested in the second neptune batch for 10k usd?
they look good, but i already got 3. |
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