not many people selling BTC at the moment.... come on people, I wanna buy some  Offer a better price. eh, that was just a brief period when only one person was selling and that was at £10 / 1 btc... And I'm not interested in waiting around on the orderbook, I just wanted to own some ASAP =) But never mind, it's all go now. Want to buy some bitcoins? Tempt me! Put a decent bid on britcoin and I or someone else might just decide to fill it. At least it is a bit more constructive than complaining that there are no asks. i am sooo freaking <s>bad</s> glad you're still posting, vladimir. (  ) you had me worried a couple of days ago, when you said a post might be your last. we need you russians - especially the best of you: so practical and strategic... american tinkers and russian chess-players. we could ("dare i say it" [see: beatles; 'help'; movie]) rule the world... I think he's English... he's in england. a whole different thing. |
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not many people selling BTC at the moment.... come on people, I wanna buy some Offer a better price. eh, that was just a brief period when only one person was selling and that was at £10 / 1 btc... And I'm not interested in waiting around on the orderbook, I just wanted to own some ASAP =) But never mind, it's all go now. Want to buy some bitcoins? Tempt me! Put a decent bid on britcoin and I or someone else might just decide to fill it. At least it is a bit more constructive than complaining that there are no asks. i am sooo freaking <s>bad</s> glad you're still posting, vladimir. ( ) you had me worried a couple of days ago, when you said a post might be your last. we need you russians - especially the best of you: so practical and strategic... american tinkers and russian chess-players. we could ("dare i say it" [see: beatles; 'help'; movie]) rule the world... |
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never let 'em see you sweat...
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Can't find the "PowerTune" in my CCC (11.5). But i don't belive it would impact that greatly on your bitmining performance since functions like the one you described usually are made to save energy and not increase performance.
Yes, save energy by lowering the core speed which decreases performance. Anyway I have found how to set PowerControl under linux. There are 2 undocumented functions in libatiadlxx.so int ADL_Overdrive5_PowerControl_Set(int adapterIndex, int percent); // percent can be between -20 and 20 int ADL_Overdrive5_PowerControl_Get(int adapterIndex, int *resultPercent, int *yetUnknown); // don't know yet what is the third parameter, seems always 0 Using HD6970 setting core speed to 950Mhz and PowerControl percent to 20% significantly increases performance. I think this will be added to AMDOverdriveCtrl soon and maybe AMD will release a CCC or aticonfig where these values can be set. This can be useful for mining as well. interesting. "Using HD6970 setting core speed to 950Mhz and PowerControl percent to 20% significantly increases performance." what does it do to your temps? |
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hey!
there's somebody older than my creaky 59!
huzzah!
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eh. so what?
ten bucks is the issue, i believe - quite an important and psychologically daunting barrier. there's nothing as noticeable as a zero...
when it gets close to $100, it'll flirt up and down even more.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
for the win! |
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I should have figured that this is the meaning of a cloned drive! Of course! I am dead-scared about going into mining, but I am better off buying a rig, as it is still usable even if the US GOV decides to shut this thing down (: At least I will have a sick gaming rig  I'm actually a broke student, with bills to pay - but I BELIEVE IN THIS SO MUCH, that my body is BOILING with excitement! you are officially... a miner. |
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Wow thanks! I don't even know what cloned drives mean - but I will look into that!!!
cloned drives are like burning a .iso image onto a USB drive to install an operating system - except they come completely configured with the suite of programs one needs to do the task at hand - in this case, mining. |
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the 58xx series still reigns - if not precisely supreme. nevertheless, it's the best bang for the buck, if you can find them.
linux is the best operating system - although windows has some overclocking utilities that are better. i use linux, and prefer GPUs of the Sapphire brand - they come with a *much* better over/under-clockable range, using the linux tool: AMDOverdriveCtrl.
your electric bill estimation appears to have a misplaced decimal. a thousand-watt system (GPU + CPU + fans + HDD, with no CD/DvD drive [what for?], speakers, etc) might cost two or three bucks a day... tops, in the US.
read this forum until your eyes cross. it's all here...
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AMDOverdriveCtrl will set up a profile that you can configure and load; tailored to your particular situation. by 'situation', i mean your case and the air-flow in it. it's an invaluable tool: http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/(if you ain't using linux, you ain't using.) if you use Hashkill as a miner, it will cut your card out for a rest period (of 20 minutes, as i recall) if it hits 90 degrees. really - 90 is pushing it too hard. take care of your tools... |
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that 5 PCIe motherboard is next for me. i've got 3 miners up with MSI two-slot motherboards, and they're tremendous - very good quality. i have an ASUS one-slot that i couldn't pass up - openbox for $20.00 and i had a bunch of parts laying around (like a 20 Gig IBM IDE HDD - ) - so i put a frankenputer together around a lightly-used 5870 a gamer friend didn't like. works OK, but not as configurable or as... hard to explain, but i've been a hardware network hack for thirty years... stable-feeling as the MSIs. oh yeah... nice motherboard. it kinda needs a pretty frame around it. like this: http://www.pugetsystems.com/aquarium-computer.phpoh hey - i don't care what you do for a living, what you do for fun, or how you justify combining the two for investment purposes: there's always room for a little fun. or you're doing it wrong... |
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how does one save, without income?
Income isn't something handed to people by fiat. Income is something people get by working. And even in poor countries there are some jobs that you can do which don't require capital. So you could work even harder than you otherwise would have to, and live even more frugally than you otherwise would have to, and save the difference as bitcoins. Providing for a better future. I'm not saying it's easy. Just that it's desirable, and for many people is possible. agreed. but it is also possible to earn more - and save more thereby - with one's own business; and the higher income implied by that. and i don't make any money from somebody in the third world gluing sneakers together for nike. i do if they owe me interest... and are capable of paying it. |
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Much better to promote Bitcoin in the third world as a system for micro-savings rather than micro-borrowings.
how does one save, without income? |
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re-read the whole thread...
vladimir looks like the only close call.
i'll go with that - $100 by the end of the year.
right now it looks like $10 is a not-terribly daunting psychological barrier. i'd say $10 by the end of the month, easy. and $20 sometime in july, at the latest.
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if we want acceptance, we therefore want numbers. massive numbers. micropayments is not so much the issue - what about micro loans? have you approached kiva ( http://www.kiva.org/ )? has anybody? Neat idea! All sorts of chicken-and-egg hurdles to overcome (what good is a bitcoin loan if there is nothing to spend the bitcoins on?), but microlending bitcoins would be great. I'm spread a little thin at the moment, but if you think a conversation with kiva right now might be worthwhile then go for it. You don't need anybody's permission or advice to become the Bitcoin-Kiva Liason Officer. Just a word of warning here. Loaning in a deflationary money like bitcoin is hell for the borrowers, since they will probably exchange it into the local currency and then when they come to convert back to pay it off they will get hammered on any appreciation in bitcoin value. For poor people to be loaning in bitcoins right now would be very, very tough to pay back later. It is like what happend to the Eastern Europeans who loaned "low interest" Swiss franc loans. They got killed when their local currency depreciated and they are suddenly saddled with huge loans they will never pay back. you're right about borrowers getting hammered - if they're required to pay back in Bitcoin. what i was thinking of was more along the lines of getting Kiva to accept Bitcoin, do the currency conversion themselves, loan the money out, and re-payment would be in fiat currency at the basis value. i.e.: i send Kiva 1 BTC, valued at $10. Kiva loans $10 to a borrower. the borrower pays back $10 plus 10% interest. Kiva sends me $11. sure, i'd take the deflationary hit, but the cause is good, and what the hell - if i'd sold the Bitcoin for $10 i wouldn't enjoy the [potential] increase in value anyway, would i? this way, i get $11... BUT - more to the point, getting Kiva to do business in Bitcoin (even if only in one direction) would be a huge (thank you donald...) win for Bitcoin. i mean, the guy who thought up Kiva won a Nobel Prize, didn't he? serious press... |
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The maximum amount of mini-bits Happy-bits can be determined, but not the maximum value.
Maximum value relative to what?
For example: BTC/Gold might eventually stabilize, much more than BTC/USD.
EDIT
The answer:
.00000001 = 100 Million mini-bitsHappy-bits/BTC
If I'm wrong I'm sure someone will let us know.
i think you forgot the two places to the left of the decimal... no? EDIT: oh - sorry - " single Bitcoin". |
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You're missing the point.
Canada is the top "country" making those searches.
Russian is the top "language" making those searches.
Russia itself isn't even on the list of top countries.
it doesn't matter what country is listed as the top country - if a significant number of users are hiding their country of origin by masking their real IP address. look - if you're a russian, and you're manipulating your IP address to show that it's originating in canada, then that's one more 'canadian' connection - right? and one less russian. but the language you use cannot be hidden. right? |
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Interesting that Canada is leading that, followed by Australia and then the US.
And yet the top language is Russian? Those stats don't look very sound... sure they do. the russians are generally *much* more security conscious - more likely to use Tor, etc. so even though their connection cannot be traced back to russia - and may in fact indicate that any given russian user has a tcp/ip address originating in guam or costa rica - they're still *speaking/writing* in russian. makes perfect sense. |
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