So you have your monitor(s) connected to your onboard video card? That sounds like a good way to avoid the display lag if you didn't want to play games or otherwise leverage one of the discrete GPU's. In my situation, my primary desktop is used for gaming a fair amount, so using the onboard video card isn't really an option for me.

If you also have a discrete GPU, my understanding is that you could use Mining Controller against that instance and mine on both!

When I started mining using cgminer on my primary desktop's video card, it soon became apparent that the graphics lag it introduced when running at maximum hash rate made the computer practically unusable.

In the interest of making the mining act more like an unnoticeable background process, I created a .NET 4.5 application to cause it to "throttle down" when the computer was in use, and even completely pause mining when "important processes" (e.g. games) were detected.

After spending some time to polish it up and add a few extra features (like window hiding and a historical hash rate graph), I have released it under a permissive open source license in the hope that others will find it useful as well.


Latest Version:

MiningController-v1.0.1+2.stable.git5c47e93a



Note that Mining Controller controls the miner through its API - it does not do any mining itself.

Screenshots (click for larger version):

Automatically reducing hash rate when computer is active:


Automatically pausing mining while playing a game:



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Cool, I think I'll try that out, thanks!

You're using Teslin with the tri-fold design? How many mm thick is that product, does it fold OK?

Awesome. I'll be ordering some of these along with some stickers as soon as they're ready. How many wallets per bag would you recommend, is it 1 per?

Also I am very interested in the combo design you posted earlier. The use case for me is the left hand side (private key encrypted with a passphrase) could be kept in my actual wallet or somewhere reasonably accessible and the tear away part (with the plain text private key) would go in a zip lock bag in a secure place (e.g. a safety deposit box). Is that idea something that is still in the works?

First of all, this is my favorite paper wallet I've seen by far. It has had a lot of thought put into it, and it shows. They look so good I am considering buying a color laser printer so that I can print these in color!

A couple of questions:

• The tamper-proofing is nice, but I intend to store these securely and so it is not as important to me as being able to trust the wallet generation code itself. Are there any plans to get a third party to post a hash of a vetted version of the offline wallet generator (and/or of the upcoming official Live CD)?
• I am currently using the technique of booting a Ubuntu Live CD from a non-internet connected computer which has the offline version of the paper wallet generator available on a USB thumb drive. Once opening this in Firefox, I print to a B&W laser printer (connected via USB). Once finished, I remove the Live CD and reboot into my normal OS, and reconnect the network cable. Would the official Live CD provide more security than this?

A few suggestions for the back:

• Typo in third point "until you are ready import"
• The last warning on the back of the wallet could be misinterpreted to mean you can't partially spend the funds you have on the wallet (i.e. so how do I ever use this to buy something less than the value on the wallet?). Since you mention How to Deposit as its own step, perhaps you should also have an entire step on How to Withdraw?
  
  Current:
  When withdrawing your funds from this wallet you should remove the ENTIRE BALANCE.
  If you attempt to spend only some of the funds you will likely lose the remaining bitcoins forever.
  
  Suggested (feel free to condense):
  To withdraw your funds from this wallet:
  1. Prepare a software wallet to receive the funds. This could be a bitcoin client on your computer or phone, an exchange, or an online wallet.
  2. Transfer the ENTIRE BALANCE to the software wallet. See http://bitcoinpaperwallet.com for instructions on how to perform this transfer. Note that it is important to transfer the entire balance in order to avoid losing control over the remaining bitcoins.
  3. Wait for the transaction to be confirmed. This typically occurs in under 10 minutes. Once confirmed, the funds are free to be spent as desired.
  4. Do not reuse the paper wallet - there is now a software wallet that has knowledge of its private key.
  

The reason I'm suggesting referring the user to the website for instructions on how to perform the transfer is because there doesn't seem to be a good way to do this just yet. There are several manual ways, some more complicated than others, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a feature common to most/all wallet software to sweep funds from another wallet, so the idea is that the current "recommended" ways of doing this could be maintained on the website, rather than out-of-date methods being printed on the wallet itself.

It seems to timeout pretty quickly, maybe around 5 minutes? You can see your total time logged in at the top of this site, I'm guessing that is what the four hours is based on.

It's probably best to talk to an accountant about the tax part, as they'll be familiar with the tax laws in your country, but in general, anything that has value is probably eligible for being taxed.

It turns out you can't send PM's either. I should have four hours logged here pretty soon now that I've made an account though.

I keep stumbling onto posts from this forum so I thought it was about time I registered.

Radeon 6950: 338 MH/s