Hmm, I have a payment of 2BTC due that still is saying "NOT SENT". Is it just waiting on confirmations or more funds for the server to payout, or has there been some sort of error?

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Edit: As for how long we should collect, that's up to you since you're handling the donation money. I say as long as there is a need and people are willing to help out... I wish I could do more but I'm virtually broke IRL and work for next to free.

haha, well said. Feels good, man.

I was thinking about what someone said earlier in the thread about finding a grassroots organization somewhere in Japan... A shelter or something local and small that will immediately be able to aid a community. It does hold some interest if someone could do a little research into that. I'll check back when I get home from work.

Any thoughts would be appreciated, I haven't had a chance to look into it, and now am heading for bed. Will check in tomorrow.

You are a bro. I wish I had that much to give, unfortunately my combined mhash is only about ~150. I'm going to try to push my rigs a bit harder though.

We have quite a unique opportunity here, to actually take our computing power and use it to do something positive for human beings. It's actually a pretty cool feeling.

Thanks for the prompt reply! I don't have much at all but I'm sending it, as well as what I can muster within the next few days. Thanks so much!

Hello everyone, now is the time for us to stand up as the good people we all are and help out our fellow man. We need a way to donate our spare BTC to the Japan relief effort. I suppose the simplest way to accomplish that would be for a well established member of our community (as in, someone we trust not to keep it lol) to accept the BTC donations and sell them off and send the proceeds to (I don't know, I'm sure there's something). I just wanted to get the idea out here, since I didn't come across any threads offering to help out. Give a little, give a lot, whatever you could spare. I don't have much but if we're able to establish something, I'd like to do my part. Maybe someone a little more experienced than I am can come up with willing candidates to accept donations and put it to a vote or something? Even if we as a whole cannot do much, at least it is something, and the effort is bound to make a difference, even if it is small.

I'm not much for economics, at all, but please correct me if I'm wrong... I believe through Liberty Reserve and (geez now I can't remember and its late) some other place you can indeed work exchanges for gold and silver. Bitcoin after all is a currency like anything else, so as long as it has a value, then there's got to be a trading market for it for anything else that has value. The sky is pretty much the limit. My opinion is that as the market undergoes the usual fluctuations, while the hash strength of the network increases (thereby increasing difficulty, heh we'll see  this summer when A/C bills get high), that the bitcoin may gain some serious financial clout (inflation?) in the money market. This is speculation on my part, but the general consensus supports my opinion. As I said I am not much for economics, and I'm sure more savvy people than I am may have a better answer for you. If I wasn't hard up for extra cash, personally, I'd hang onto every BTC I get and just see what happens 6-8 months from now. Parity with the dollar severely piqued my interest for something so trivial (for some) to acquire. As I've been reading and researching, only the tip of the iceberg of the potential of the bitcoin economy has been fully realized. I'll leave it to more savvy men than I am to figure out where that is going, but once again I say, the sky is the limit.

Welcome to the botnet

Hi, and welcome

I'm still pretty new myself, but most of these pools will only do a payout to your account every so often, and some of them you need to set a "minimum payment" threshold or they have a preset. I mine deepbit myself and it seems they pay out once per day I believe. Other pools are different, and keep in mind, most of them are still in development. Seems that all the pool owners around here are very trustworthy guys so don't worry about getting screwed over or anything. I've had payments show up in my BTC client that show as "unconfirmed" but after a couple of blocks they've been confirmed and the "pending" balance does indeed get added to the account. So, just be patient, you will reap your rewards. As far as I understand it, subcent amounts won't work outside of the pool you're mining in, so you can't collect less than .01 BTC. You wouldn't want to anyway. I keep mine set at .10 on deepbit, but since it doesn't pay out that often I get more like 1BTC every payout (well since difficulty went up). So don't worry, trust in your pool, and happy mining.

If anyone has an FFXIV buddy pass they'd be willing to part with, please shoot me a PM, I'd be willing to pay 10BTC, just need to save up for a few days. I'd be very much appreciative!

I agree in part where you said his comparison was flawed. Nvidia cards are no more stabler than any other card I've seen. The top end cards from both manufacturers are indeed great performing products. In most experiences I've had with ATI cards I have had extremely frustrating driver issues, but for the last year I haven't ran an ATI card enough to actually keep up with how their driver releases are maturing. The point I slightly disagree on is the 3d. While it's true ATI cards are now supporting stereoscopic 3d, from dealings I've had with some friends, it's a terribly frustrating experience trying to get it working properly. Although, it's no lie that Nvidia's 3D vision technology is a bit wonky at this stage as well. I'd really like to see ATI get it together with the 3D tech, as the 3D vision capabilities of Nvidia's hardware and software was the main selling point of my latest purchases (wife wanted home theater 3d projector setup, scraped it all up for about $1k). Otherwise I just might have jumped ship back to an ATI card this year. I may yet actually try and pick up a 5970 for my alt mining rig, for fun.

You're right about ATI not always being cheaper. Nvidia had to get a corner on the "poor man" market as well and we get the 460-560. Damned excellent cards and the bang for buck really holds up against comparably priced and slightly more expensive ATI cards. I guess it really depends on preference, but I am slightly bummed out that my 560 can't be put to better use bitcoining, when I'm not watching Avatar 3D over and over again with my wife

OP, here's how you make your $10k.

1. Code virus like program that upon infecting target computers, adds them to your personal botnet.
2. Have your zombie minions run multipurpose mining programs during idle cycles (cpu, gpu)
3. ?
4. PROFIT!

Oh, and don't get caught

Only 9 BTC on a 6870? Something kind of amiss there bud, I'm making about the same and my total mhash is only ~150 (dang Nvidia cards), you should be running twice that.

I'm going to try this one out to see how it is, but I do have a quick question, though I likely already have the answer. I'm mining from two different computers, do I need to register a different miner for each instance of my mining programs, or is it okay to log them all in under the same miner? Seems that it's okay to do it under the same miner, as I'm not getting errors, I would just like to be clear on this. Thanks

Found a block in 22 seconds.. NICE! lol

I've had some sort of mixed results similar to yours, using the same miner. My usual thing is to run it with aggression=6 while I'm at work and my wife is watching movies on the projector. It's not a problem and everything runs well but usage usually sits at %96 and even after VLC and everything is shut off, it stays the same and hashes will sit around 89. When I run my miner, I always set its priority to Above Normal. Sometimes it seems to keep this trend, even after other activities have stopped, of running 96% and giving me low hashes. I've found if I just shut it off, for a few minutes, then start it back up again, it seems to work just fine. Ask me why, I dunno, but it does. It'll go up to 99% just fine. Could possibly be a driver thing.

I'm not exactly sure what you meant by that, but you are indeed right in the point you make at Nvidia sucking at crunching numbers. I'm running a brand new MSI GTX 560, OC to 1003 core, and I'm getting ~100 mhash, lol.

Maybe if enough people from a certain place I will not mention get a clue as to how ATI cards are making great headway into the bitcoin project, possibly there would be less "hurr no drivers" arguments. In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy my housefires and flaming 1.7 wood screws. I made my bed and I'll sleep soundly enough in it.

I apologize if anyone takes offense to this, but Nvidia cards just aren't for mining anyway. If you're going to save up for another card, I suggest an ATI 5850 or 5870, excellent bang for your buck. I do use Nvidia cards myself, and while they work great for gaming or their 3d vision capability, I was disappointed to find out that they're garbage for mining. My GTX 560 with 1ghz overclock cannot manage 100 mhash/s without rediculously jacking up aggression.

Hmm, I was under the impression that a 6870 could do much more than ~240 mhash/s. If I'm correct, a 5870 will do somewhere in the neighborhood of 300m.

Oh lord, I read that. So much mad in one article. And also...

>implying anonymous can actually break anything besides their anime pillow beat off toys

sorry

Actually, the fact is that I came across a thread on /g/ about Bitcoin and it raised my interest. I'd just gotten finished revamping some of my other systems as well as my main rig so I thought I'd give it a try.

I'm pretty much certain the influx of new people in the last couple of weeks has been due to anon.  I notice nobody's posting about it anymore on there though, likely trying to keep it on sort of the down-low? dunno.