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"A Lodging of Wayfaring Men" by Paul Rosenberg is necessary reading for those interested in the true power of an extranational currency.
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I couldn't find alipay's Acceptable Use Policy on their web site. I'm just curious if they have similar restrictions to paypal and paymate as to what you're allowed to buy. |
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Based on current USD/BTC and your kwh rate, what's your estimated investment payback period?
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As far as i know in USA you can happily go in a shop and buy more or less whatever weapon you want.
So what is the problem with that website?
That's not entirely true. State laws vary, some making it harder or easier. Plus there is a federal background check done on every firearm purchase regardless of state. Technically there is no gun registration in the US but effectively there is because they have your name and address once you buy a gun. What if you wanted to buy a firearm completely off the books? That's the key to this. |
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This whole situation is akin to eBay and gunbroker.com. You can't sell guns on eBay but you can on gunbroker. The two sites are otherwise similar to each other in terms of online auction functionality.
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Err, it should be greyed out, not invisible. Are you saying you don't see 4 grey buttons below the pay me option?
I don't see the words "pay me" anywhere on the web site. The only button I see is "Cash Out" I should say that I don't have any confirmed BTC yet, only unconfirmed since I only just started on this pool. |
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OK, I was just being my usual impatient self. I'll wait for the "Pay Me" button to appear when my balance becomes confirmed.
Having the "Pay Me" button visible but grayed out would be more intuitive than having it invisible like it is. I was left wondering when/how to collect my mined BTC.
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An electronic currency is only useful to people with computers and internet access.
In this situation some sort of physical bitcoin could be used. The second a physical currency note or coin is issued it becomes fiat money, even if it's ostensibly backed by gold or BTC. They could print/mint more money and who'd be the wiser? Sudan is a 3rd world country. |
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So is there some point where I can take BTC payment to my wallet without the 10% fee?
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I've been experimenting with the Eclipse pool and noticed something funny. The FAQ says there are no fees but the "Cash Out" button on the Account part of the web site says, "A 10% fee has been already been deducted from the displayed total." when I hover over it.
Are there no fees or is there a 10% fee? I'm not going to PayPal, just my BTC wallet.
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paypal is ebay.
so, until a challenger appears in the online auction market -
they can do what they want.
I've used PayPal quite a bit but amazingly never bought or sold anything on eBay. |
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This is sad. The thing is that all their restrictions don't matter; they're really just inconveniences to me.
If I want to buy things off the grid I use USPS Money Orders and send them via snail mail.
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Buried in the fine print of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy are all kinds of moralistic restrictions. Some examples:
1) No porn
2) No gambling (lotteries, online poker etc)
3) No weapons
4) No firearms, ammunition or firearm parts
5) No items "considered obscene" (whatever that means - up to them I guess)
I absolutely detest PayPal telling me what I can do with my money but unfortunately there aren't any real (i.e. widely accepted) alternatives. I've run into the part regarding firearm parts. They'll freeze your account without warning; good luck getting your money out after that.
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An electronic currency is only useful to people with computers and internet access.
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Why would a country do that if they can just issue a fiat currency?
Also, the viability of a currency is based on on the acceptance of a population. For instance in Eastern Europe during the Soviet era, the official currencies were only used for visible, above-board transactions. In the huge black market that flourished alongside the "normal" market, the only accepted currency was USD (then considered the safest, most fungible currency).
If people have confidence in a currency that's what they'll use. BTC knows no national boundaries as long as the internet exists.
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I'm currently playing around with p2pool, too ... so ne need to add --submit-stale as this is forced, if needed via SUBMITOLD, right?
The LPs occur quite often for p2pool, so what would you suggest as a good intensity, perhaps in relation to MH/s ... could that be an idea to let CGMINER compute the best value for -I with p2pool (and I'm not talking about the normal -I d switch).
Dia
I'm with p2pool and I've simply left the -I switch off entirely to allow dynamic intensity. With dynamic intensities running from 4-6, I've found almost no performance benefit to manually setting it higher than that (at least in my setup). |
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I'm running a 6770 at around 200 MH/s with 1 queue and 1 thread. Also I use dynamic intensity which usually sits around 4-5. Sounds like my settings are right where they should be. I'm thinking this discarded work metric isn't really that useful anyway. Discarded work isn't rejected. It is simply work cgminer requested and then never starting working before discarded due to LP.
Still it isn't "normal". The good news is high discarded work shouldn't be costing you shares. It is "work" that cgminer never started. It is for some reason requesting more work from p2pool then it could ever possibly finish and then discarding most of that before ever starting.
If you have threads per GPU > 1 and/or queue > 1 then change them both to 1. Also knock the intensity down 1 or 2 notches. With a "normal" pool I find the optimal settings for a 5970 to be
Queue: 2
Threads per GPU: 2
Intensity: 9
For p2pool I find the optimal settings for a 5970 to be:
Queue: 1
Threads per GPU: 1
Intensity: 8
LP are so short that maintaining a large queue of work is mostly wasted.
To complete nonce range in <10 seconds requires ~430 MH/s (per GPU). Using higher queue and/or threads really only makes sense if someone if using a > 430 MH/s miner. Not per rig but per chip. Using both queue and threads >1 only makes sense on some hypothetical > 1 GH/s chip.
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I wasn't referring to the rejected field but the "DW" field which is discarded work. My reject rate is 0.9%.
The DW field increments every time cgminer shows a long poll but not an accept.
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What kind of discarded work rates are people getting with cgminer on p2pool?
I read that it's normal on p2pool to have a higher discarded work rate than on a traditional pool. I'm just trying to figure out how much is normal to see if I have problems or not.
My discarded work is about 1.5x the accepted.
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I just want to reiterate my results with the diablo kernel under cgminer 2.3.1-2, SDK 2.6, WinXP.
I am able to consistently get around 207 mhs with diablo at dynamic intensities of 4 to 5 and -v 2 -w 256.
In order to obtain the same hash rate with phatk I had to run a fixed intensity of 9 with -v 2 -w 256.
I can no longer coax poclbm above about 165. Before 2.3.x, poclbm was my best performer at around 185 mhs with no special settings.
Based on some reading in the diablo thread, it looks like it's actually optimized for the 2.6 SDK. This probably explains why it works so well for me.
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