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8481  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Nyaa Videos! - nyaavideos.appspot.com | New BitCoin Earning Site! on: June 15, 2013, 07:21:52 PM
It's awesome to see another earning site out there! How many videos are there on average though?

Depends on how long you are willing to wait for them to pop up. Most people only pay for small amounts of views, so the videos only last a couple minutes or even seconds sometimes.

This explains a lot, lol. I've used other video sites in the past and was wondering why I'd see 10 available videos, then 2m later 0 were left.

Let me know when/if you get an affiliate system up!
8482  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: new obvious scam http://merlinsmagicbitcoins.com/ on: June 15, 2013, 07:20:32 PM

Here is the definitive list showing how many gifts you receive back in return for sending one to nine gifts.

Send 1 gift... Receive 2 gifts back...

Send 2 gifts... Receive 5 gifts back...

Send 3 gifts... Receive 7 gifts back...

Send 4 gifts... Receive 10 gifts back...

Send 5 gifts... Receive 12 gifts back...

Send 6 gifts... Receive 15 gifts back...

Send 7 gifts... Receive 17 gifts back...

Send 8 gifts... Receive 19 gifts back...

Send 9 gifts... Receive 22 gifts back...

As you can see, the more generous you are and the more gifts you send to other people, ultimately the more gifts you will receive back. As the old adage goes; what you give out comes back ten-fold, both good and bad.

Now I know why it's called magic Bitcoins, they just magically appear out of nowhere!

Ugh, so this is why the Bitcoins I got from Merlin smelled like feet, =/
8483  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: WIN FREE BTC - LIFT's Bitcoin Lottery 2.0 - we need your feedback on: June 15, 2013, 07:12:34 PM
Small update to our policies Wink

To minimize transaction fees, payments are only processed once enough payable pending balances have been collected (~0.004 BTC) by all the players, currently that's the case roughly every 2-3 days.

Yay! Less small payments, :p.

BTW, any chance of an affiliate program?
8484  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: new obvious scam http://merlinsmagicbitcoins.com/ on: June 15, 2013, 07:08:51 PM
O ye, of little faith......
What a sad and pitiful existence it would be!
There are more than 2 million new internet users coming online every day and what is happening in practise is that members are regifting all the time so no one is the last one to gift.
There will always be another kind person to help you out when you are in the gutter.

lol, you're ridiculous. Someone has to be the last. No ponzi scheme has ever gone on forever.

It is not a ponzi you numpty

O.o, then what is it? It's definitely not how normal businesses/investments work.
8485  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: KNCMiner and their 'magic' SHA256 alogorithm on: June 15, 2013, 07:08:15 PM
It's called trying to inflate the actual performance of your product and/or design knowledge. If your product is good, quote firm numbers based on hard, verifiable FACTS rather than allude to 'improvements' to a mathematical process which has data dependencies which cannot be changed or improved.

The academics who wrote the paper quoted are experts in their field - Dadda has an adder type named after him - and designed a method of reducing delay paths on an actual asic. They did'nt change or say they could change an algorithm. KNC claim to have an 'improved' algorithm, and that is just plain rubbish. Ask any mathematician.

Any respectable company would not make such ridiculous claims, if KNC have indeed used the methods from this paper in their design,then they should acknowledge it. Hence my annoyance.

Incidentally, Dadda and co. got their SHA256 engine to run at 'a clock speed of well over 1Ghz' on a 130nm process.

I meant... you should refer to what parts you're saying KNCMiner is lying about, :p. Especially in a newbie area, most people will have no idea what KNCMiner even is, much less what you're talking about.

So what you're saying is they are overexaggerating the ability of the chips/miners they are supposedly creating?
8486  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: 1yr Domain Reg .com/net/org/biz for $0.98 / 63p + 9k Satoshi btc accep on: June 15, 2013, 07:06:05 PM
I have a whole lot of domains so this look interesting to me. I'm mostly at godaddy but not fond of the CEO's practices so I'd look at this for sure. My biggest concern is ease of use and customer service. I don't want something where I waste my time doing something that's should be easy like a DNS change. Any feedback on this?

I know that Namecheap is one of the bigger, more well-known companies so there should be no issues with anything in relation to ease of use. I haven't used them myself but I know on webmaster forums they are referred to a lot.
8487  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Anybody else getting spammed by asic-technologies.com? on: June 15, 2013, 06:56:15 PM

Ohh, cool. Thanks for the clarification. Gmail seems to catch 99.99997% of the spam I get automatically, lol.
8488  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: 1yr Domain Reg .com/net/org/biz for $0.98 / 63p + 9k Satoshi btc accep on: June 15, 2013, 06:55:03 PM
Just wanted to say that this is an awesome deal! What is their renewal price though?
8489  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Nyaa Videos! - nyaavideos.appspot.com | New BitCoin Earning Site! on: June 15, 2013, 06:46:06 PM
It's awesome to see another earning site out there! How many videos are there on average though?
8490  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: KNCMiner and their 'magic' SHA256 alogorithm on: June 15, 2013, 06:44:55 PM
Knew I'd find this eventually:

"An ASIC Design for a High Speed Implementation of the Hash Function SHA256 (384, 512)", Dadda, Machetti, Owen (2004)

These guys came up with a re-timing pipeline which increases Maximum Clock Speed on a regular SHA engine by 36%. No new algorithm - you cannot 'improve' the existing one, this is simply an exercise to reduce critical path delay on an ASIC (not an FPGA)

So to any of you that are prepared to swallow the shite that KNC put out: Beware.

I'm not saying they are scammers, but they are dishonest with their information, to put it mildly.

Read into that what you will.

Forgive me for my newbiness but... I'm lost as to how this makes KNCMiner look bad?
8491  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Recent decline? on: June 15, 2013, 06:43:27 PM
I agree with that. However in the short term the price dropping means somebody or some group of people suddenly decided to unload a substantial amount of Bitcoin. Assuming that this is not some large holder dumping a bunch of coins to purposely lower price isn't it feasible that the BFL asics shipping triggered some sort of sell off from existing GPU miners who were just hanging on until asics shipped?

It was only a passing thought as I've, and I'm sure most of us, have been following BFL for a while now and they've only started shipping in quantities in the last 2-3 weeks.

Mmm, this is a really hard one. While that is definitely a possibility, another idea I saw the other day (that I think is likely more plausible) is that it has to do with the recouping of funds used to purchase the asics. People have had their money out of their pocket for a year or more with absolutely nothing to show for it, so this could be their way of trying to get financially back up again.

Also, keep in mind that something we see (at least in games, but I think it should apply here?) is that if one person drops their price, by say 10%, someone else will as well. It turns into people undercutting each other, lowering the prices until someone (or a group) manages to buy the wall back up again.
8492  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: why does my pc seem freeze everytime i try to playback a video file while mining on: June 15, 2013, 06:37:13 PM
i've already install flash software so it shouldnt be an issue.
furthermore, i can playback flash files or even those stupid flash adverts when i am not mining.
same goes for video playback.


Then the issue is that you're mining (using all your video card) and then trying to use more of the video card. It can only support so much.

Set your intensity down to like 4 (sha) or 12 (scrypt) and you should be fine. I do that for gaming as well.

alright then.
let me google for info on that because i've no idea how to use this cgminer sw.

When you start it, you add a -I flag, right? If you're mining BTC, you'll want -I 4, if you're mining anything else, -I 12. If you are inputting all the server info and such in cgminer itself, push g, then i, then 4 or 12 and hit enter.
8493  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: why does my pc seem freeze everytime i try to playback a video file while mining on: June 15, 2013, 06:29:32 PM
i've already install flash software so it shouldnt be an issue.
furthermore, i can playback flash files or even those stupid flash adverts when i am not mining.
same goes for video playback.


Then the issue is that you're mining (using all your video card) and then trying to use more of the video card. It can only support so much.

Set your intensity down to like 4 (sha) or 12 (scrypt) and you should be fine. I do that for gaming as well.
8494  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Building an open frame rig on: June 15, 2013, 06:25:47 PM
The fans at the back are 120vac and 100+ CFM each. The card temps range fro 67 ( with aftermarket cooler) to 77 on the 4 gigabyte cards and 75 to 89 on the MSI Twin Frozer cards.

Greg

Nice! How hard was it to get everything together in it? Basically just throw down the mobo's and PSU's, stick the cards in and done?

And how much were the risers/where from?
8495  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Recent decline? on: June 15, 2013, 06:22:15 PM
It may be coincidental but BFL has started shipping increasing difficulty even more. Maybe miners who don't want to move into asics or alt coins are selling their coins forcing price down.

It's coincidental. The opposite is what should happen under normal circumstances (supply goes down and can't meet demand, so price goes up).

The mining supply of Bitcoins is constant as difficulty compensates for increase in network hashrate.

My thought was that miners who can't / don't want to continue mining because of asics are getting out while the price is high. They are selling, increasing the supply of bitcoins forcing price down. Or maybe just general uncertainty of what's going to happen when all the asics come online.

The supply, in the general sense, is constant. However those with the highest hash rates are undoubtedly holding on to their coins. It's the people with lesser hash rates that usually spend theirs. This means that more coins are ending up being held by a small subset of people, lowering the supply to everyone else. In a sense, you can view it as the "1%" situation.
8496  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: why does my pc seem freeze everytime i try to playback a video file while mining on: June 15, 2013, 06:20:42 PM
no flash. it needs your gfx card to play. on youtube switch to html5 mode on your account settings and you're good to go.

You have to change it on your settings? I thought it was automatic.

And wouldn't HTML5 video still be using the video card for playback (codecs), therefore still causing the same issue?

Maybe HTML5 doesn't need to use the hardware acceleration, or it's turned off by default, dunno. I think you can also turn hw accel. off in the flash settings.

Yeah, through Flash you have the option for sure, although I still think for videos it has to use the codec... Not 100% sure on that one though. I guess it's worth a try, XD. Hope the OP reports back because now I'm curious.
8497  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mtgox safe to keep coins on: June 15, 2013, 06:17:46 PM
HI everyone,

do you think mtgox is secure to keep bitcoins?

Regards,
ilpirata79

The general consensus is that you should never use exchanges as storage. Most say to transfer to exchange -> do whatever trading you want to do -> withdraw it. This reduces the risk because then you have full control over all the security protocols.
8498  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Thinking of selling.. on: June 15, 2013, 06:16:24 PM
I was thinking this would be the best place to actually sell it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=51.0

I was just curious on the best way to make the transaction secure before i posted on there - it seems escrow is best.

Yes, definitely escrow. It's a somewhat risky situation otherwise. And the cost of escrow, vs. the security of it, makes it well worth going for.
8499  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is anyone building Avalon clones in the US or Canada on: June 15, 2013, 06:15:23 PM
I would like to assemble an Avalon clone but assume that someone is doing a bulk order of boards. Since the avalon unit is tested and working it seems to be the safest route.

Let me know if you are doing so or looking to do the same. If no one else is, maybe we could put together a joint effort to get the economies of scale needed.

Greg

P.S. My apologies for posting this here, this is the only place I can post at this time.

There is a thread here somewhere with someone that has created a board clone (IIRC it's a cloned board but with the Avalon chip). Past that, I'm not aware of any cloning going on currently.
8500  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Building an open frame rig on: June 15, 2013, 06:13:55 PM
For those looking at building an open frame rig I thought it would be worth passing this on.

Go to ebay and search for "80/20 quick frame" (no quotes). That will take to the 80/20 inc. list of quick frame products. This stuff is great for building an open frame rig and the Aluminium extrusions can be purchased with a 1/4" lip for mounting the bottom edge of the PSU, fans etc.

I built one with 8 7970s, 4 850w PSU, and two motherboards. It does 6MH on litecoin.

I hope this helps others.

Greg



That looks awesome, but isn't the spacing between the video cards pretty small? How are your temperatures going after a day or so, and what cooling are you using right now/ambient temperatures?

And what is the cost of the frame?
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