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881  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Barrier to Entry on: February 15, 2013, 06:35:27 AM
Well, i guess i'll just have to start over, because i'm perpetually stuck at 9223 blocks remaining. goodbye, .002 BTC...

Fire up MultiBit and post an Address. I'll cover your loss this time.
wow, thanks a lot! 16UywcYyhHWRtQtijS2qmi13BCdSFUQVrb. it's still pretty crazy that lost btc are pretty much lost forever.

fe74ac03c5385ec6a64115d75654820bce47db0132d7faf9d7806cce70d21693

That should more than make you whole. You can keep the Qt client running and see if it ever syncs up and recovers those coins. It's kind of crazy that lost coins are pretty much lost forever, but it is vastly preferable to the alternative where it would be not much harder than trivial to rip them off of an address.
882  Economy / Gambling / Re: Statement: BFL ASIC is a scam: (TRUE/FALSE) Wager. on: February 15, 2013, 06:07:23 AM
I am going to say a big false, but I'm not willing to randomly send away money (for some of the same reasons you haven't).  So this will just be a gentleman's wager I guess.

Or you could outsource escrow to another service

http://bitbet.us/bet/7/bfl-will-deliver-asic-devices-before-march-1st/
883  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: hello all on: February 15, 2013, 05:43:55 AM
I am new to this bitcoin thing my son has charged 800.00 worth of them any way to get cash for them? thanks for the help buggirl@gmx,com

There are many ways to get cash for them.
884  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Barrier to Entry on: February 15, 2013, 05:41:38 AM
Well, i guess i'll just have to start over, because i'm perpetually stuck at 9223 blocks remaining. goodbye, .002 BTC...

Fire up MultiBit and post an Address. I'll cover your loss this time.
885  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Barrier to Entry on: February 15, 2013, 05:10:43 AM
Electrum does not download the blockchain, so there's no real syncing concerns to worry about. MultiBit is my favorite since I personally like the design and features of it better. To my understanding, it only downloads part of the chain, so syncing only about a minute (I've never had it take more than two at the very most).

Both are great options, and they eliminate the barrier of entry. Wink

I've run through the gamut of clients and I love Multibit. I leave the reference client running on a home server to act as a good node, but my laptop travels too much for the bitcoin-qt/armory combination to work for me any more. I can't wait for 0.8 release and BitcoinJ (the Multibit backend) to get deterministic and encrypted wallets. I'd have so many strong client choices.
886  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What I'm starting to feel about BTC on: February 15, 2013, 05:07:35 AM
Thanks for PMing your address you should be getting coin soon.
887  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Applying Ripple Consensus model in Bitcoin on: February 15, 2013, 04:58:25 AM
Please, no.
888  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: Small MP needed for BTC ASAP on: February 15, 2013, 03:56:56 AM
I need a MP to load my pre-paid debit card ASAP so my mother can use it to pay for her doctor's visit expenses today.

We should start thinking like Roger Ver. 

Something along the lines of.

"I see you don't yet accept bitcoin payments.  I prefer to use bitcoins to pay for stuff.   Here's my payment in bitcoins.  [Sends a coinapult e-mail with bitcoins in the amount of the purchase].  We cool?"


I like this thinking.
889  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: How long does withdrawing GBP from Intersango take? on: February 15, 2013, 03:54:18 AM
Good luck getting your money from Patrick Amir and the crew Roll Eyes

Whys that? They look trustworthy at https://intersango.com/about-us.php

I am a bit worried now... theres 400 pounds in there.

They used to run Bitcoinica. If I were you I would get my deposit and get out

Pretty much. Intersango is on the list of things that haven't quite been trustworthy for some time, but weren't quite as obvious about it as GLBSE when things got out of hand.
890  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Working for Bitcoin on: February 15, 2013, 03:14:20 AM
Hello,

I am currently looking to earn 0.5 btc and will do so through performing any job or menial task you need completed. If anyone is interested let me know!

Here is a drawing for people who may of not seen it: http://imgur.com/tiVRfg7 Smiley

Check on Rugatu from time to time. Half to full bitcoin bounties aren't that common on there but they show up from time to time. There were a few 5BTC bounties a couple months ago.
891  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How long should we give Wired magazine to retract their story and apologize? on: February 15, 2013, 03:05:59 AM
Link to the story?

If you need a link to know which particular Wired story would be talked of in such a way, you need to lurk moar...
892  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: 11.19oz .999 silver bar for sale for LTC on: February 15, 2013, 01:01:57 AM
You plan to sell this bar ever? lol  Tongue

Ugly bar sure is ugly.  No wonder nobody will too pay much over spot for it.

OTOH, if Tec melted it down into shiny 1oz rounds stamped with a BTC/LTC logo they'd sell like sweet iced tea in a Texas summer.

Oh shit! I smell a business idea. Bitcoin's probably going to intersect with silver soon and what would be better than commemorative coins to remember the occasion.
893  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How long should we give Wired magazine to retract their story and apologize? on: February 15, 2013, 12:50:05 AM
and to start accepting bitcoin. ahaaaa

Well, Conde Nast owns both Wired and Reddit as well as Ars Technica (some fairly positive coin coverage there)... The place you probably need to search for an apology is probably the story author.
894  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Devcoin on: February 14, 2013, 09:28:54 PM
Devtome seems to be down...
895  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: NVC killed BTC-E and Coinotron? on: February 14, 2013, 07:43:21 PM


Interesting times
896  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Malicious ASIC - What's the cost? on: February 14, 2013, 07:39:52 PM
No I mean, is the part of the code of a miner that deals with adding transactions and building blocks according to the rules backed into the chips and an attacker who would want to do a 51% would have to get new chips or is that part of a miner just software that can be easily changed to perform the 51% attack?

That would be in the software. The ASICs would just hash whatever they are fed. Feeding the ASICs values to hash is all in the software.
897  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: gtx 460 (768mb) profitability in mining TODAY on: February 14, 2013, 07:36:36 PM
Okay, so if I ran dual AMD cards in Crossfire mode, would that work?  Or was I reading right on another thread that each card had to have a monitor?

They shouldn't need monitors and crossfire should be optional. From what I understand you ought to be able to just fire up each one as an independent opencl device. I've only ever just dabbled in mining, so the mining forums should be able to give you a better walkthrough than I can.
898  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: gtx 460 (768mb) profitability in mining TODAY on: February 14, 2013, 07:21:01 PM
I really don't understand how BTC mining works.  Why is GPU power so much more important than CPU/RAM power?  I have an i7 Quad-core 3.09GHz with 24GB DDR3, but I'm not a big gamer, so I just put an EVGA 1GB GTX 460 in it.  I didn't even know what a bitcoin was 3 weeks ago, so I'm still just screwing around, but you're telling me that if I just put an $800 video card in my rig, I can make my own?

The calculation to mine BTC blocks and process transactions, SHA-2 works very well multithreaded and parallelizes readily. This means hardware with a lot of cores like an AMD GPU can excel at it. Nvidia GPUs with less cores that each have a higher degree of sophistication such that they keep up in graphics processing lag behind AMD GPUS, because more cores and more threading helps more than the increased sophistication of the Nvidia cores. The i7 with its core count and being near the peak of sophistication doesn't stand a chance.
899  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Does anyone still want to invest on ASIC? We need a coordinator and copartner on: February 14, 2013, 05:31:16 PM
Thanks for your reply, the capital may come from several personal investment, now I have not known if internet forum has enough financing capacity, so I just consult here. But internet is not only finance tunnel so far.
Your question is very good, for IP core, I think there is no problem and 2 projects are done at China. whatever we write our own or use others.
Otherwise, we will give a clear report before we decide to gather any coin from internet.
And before that, we have to know if internet can meet the schedual and capital requirement.
All the things will be clear in next months.

Well, it sounds like now is the time where you need t start asking questions. Until you can come up with more details, I don't think you are going to find much on here.
900  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: A letter to Advanced Micro Device on: February 14, 2013, 05:05:23 PM

I don't see any mention of bitcoin on that website. Am I blind? Ctrl-F isn't working?

They don't mention bitcoin by name, but they mention "mining" when they start talking about HPC applications.
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