How many times is this going to come up. Unknown is all unidentified entities. If you solo mine, you are Unknown. If you have a private pool for you and your friends, you are Unknown. It is not one person or group, although some of the people in Unknown may be large miners.

i think it is people that bought bitfury chips and came up with their own hardware. that is my take on what i've read.

not necessarily true. If the hashrate goes up, yes more Blocks will be found than should be, but your share of the pie will go down proportionately. The difficulty just tries to compensate for the current condition where blocks are being found too quick.

Well, i managed to make this go away, how? by rerunning the two comands for installing this. I hate when this happens. So now i'm fighting with making the computer's ip fixed. i found a few howto's on google, but no joy yet. i have a couple more to try tomorrow. This is on ubuntu 12.04 lts.

TL;DNR

Firstly, this is the Custom Hardware Forum, I envision seeing posts about people modding hardware, or developing their own. Once something is in production, it is no longer Custom.

Secondly, Manufacturers are not Hardware. I expect to see discussions about how the hardware works, or doesn't work. etc.

if there isn't already someplace to complain about manufacturers/resellers, make one?

Thirdly, i really hate seeing the same people saying effectively the same things in multiple threads. I'd pick one to leave open, make the last post in the others a reference to the open one and then lock them.

considering how little power ASICs use, the little guys will only get shut out if we run out of decimal places. you may end up mining for dust, but you'll still be able to mine.

Of course nothing ever goes simple, anyone have a clue for this;

~/slush0-stratum-mining-proxy-52e6fd2$ ./mining_proxy.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./mining_proxy.py", line 49, in <module>
    from stratum import settings
ImportError: No module named stratum
 

They must have heard me! I want Blue ones!!!!

Don't they realize that every refund that they deny not only alienates their customer base, but denies them the opportunity to sell that item to someone else joining the end of the queue? possibly for more money than the original purchase? Do they really believe that their equipment will become obsolete before they can sell it all out?

As long as our good luck is someone else's bad luck, it won't affect difficulty.

I got a couple of these, and wondered if the seller modded them. heh. they were black, but the bevel was metallic. i also noticed the cert.s bottom right. They look good, but a functional imporvement would have been more impressive.

Thank's for the reply. Yes, i just acquired an ASICminer Blade which is why i'm asking.

SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)

How much of a load does this put on the CPU? Is it light enough to co-host on a rig running cgminer with USB Erupters? What is important to this program? Is it RAM intensive? Disk intensive? I/O intensive? Can it run well on a 12 year old laptop running win XP.

I'm just trying wrap my head around this. Is Python interpreted or compiled? never used Python.

The only way to get into Bitcoin mining now is as a HOBBY. ROI isn't likely. That being said, ASICminer USB Block Erupters are an easy, expensive way to get started. ASICminer Blades are a little less expensive but cost more over all. GPUs seem to be acient history.  everything else seems to be a dream.

just as an aside, GLD is the stockmarket symbol for a Gold based ETF. Confusion factor or copyright infringement?

More than you want to know about Hubs: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253749.0;all

that is earnings minus expenses. 

Yeah, what he said, besides, production hardware isn't custom.

Go to USPS. they will help you do International shipping. basically, it is just one short from to fill out. easy really. just watch cost, go cheapest way or it might cost more than what you are sending.