May I ask - what are you planning on using the RNG for? Because if it's for applications like generating passwords - it might not be that useful. If there are already quantumcomputers powerful enough to predict the movement of E.Coli..they will surely enough be powerful enough to just bruteforce the passwords.

Sound a lot like those cheats in the old pokemon games, should try it sometime. Thanks!

Could there be something wrong with the share counting? I'm only submitting 1 or 2 shares per minute with my 670kh, but the website reports a lot more.

just an idea: could you add Ghash to the graphs of what we are mining? if it's complicated - don't worry about it, but it'd be neat

The multiplier switch on Ghash just lowered to 25GH/s!

So you are saying we need reversability, to avoid hackers and man-in-the-middle attacks? Imo, the abuse of the reversability would be a lot worse. Instead take precautions so you don't get hacked or mitm'd.

If you want your transaction reversed, just ask the other person to send you the coins back!

/thread

Read Satoshi's original paper, chapter 7:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Explains how to prune the blockchain, to about 5MB/year. (removing transaction hashes, only keeping the merkle root hash in the end)
Now we just have to wait for devs to implement it!

Bandwidth is another thing.. Come-from-beyond has a good point, but if internet speeds keep rising, I personally think by the time BTC gets to 10000transactions/s this will be high enough.
A lot of home connections are already able to easily keep up with that speed.

1) A lot of very small amounts from trying out various coins, and mining on multipools. I trade most coins instantly for BTC though.
2) In march 2012 I mined BTC/LTC for a few weeks, but was very busy with university so lost interest. Started again in december 2013.
3) Yes

4) I don't have enough time to actively do research, and invest/mine very new pump'n'dump coins. I benefit in small ways from them by mining in multipools that adopt these coins fairly early.
5) As I am interested in the internal workings of crypto-currencies in general, I like the quality-coins (B) more as they may have an impact on the future. I even spent some time thinking about how to improve them myself. I see mining more as a hobby instead of a way to make money. Being honest however, for mining I just pick the most profitable coin. Sadly, those are pump'n'dump coins (A) most of the time. I think this choice is based on me thinking that my puny hashrate won't make a difference.

6) Yes, definitely
7) For the motivations mentioned, I would even pay a higher price. After all, that's what life's about, no?

I think alt coins have a positive influence on crypto-currency. A lot are copy/paste, but they raise questions and sometimes deal with problems. Eventually this will lead to improvements.
9) Yes, I think people that put a lot of effort in their job or elsewhere will eventually get noticed, and rewarded for it. Karma is a good way to motive yourself
10) Very sceptical about it. If what you say is honest and can be performed, it's a very nice dream/thought/idea. I think you have to provide some more info and certainty however to attract people in a forum filled with scammers.

What matters is the amount of accepted shares. So although you might have more rejected shares with a higher intensity, the thing that matters - the accepted shares - is also higher.
Do a quick calculation to see your effective hashrate (in previous posts called 'gross rate' and choose what's best:

effective hashrate = raw hashrate x percentage of accepted shares

with:
raw hashrate = what miner reports
percentage of accepted shares = 100% - percentage of rejected shares

my mom yesterday: my computer is slow, it's because of you mining bitcoins!

I don't know if this has anything to do with the pool or am I doing something wrong? started happening after the difficulty adjustment, hardly getting any shares through. "lost xx shares due to stratum disconnect on pool 0"

It seems I missed that post. Explains it, thanks!

=> Variance is the difference in profits you earn over a set amount of time. For example, with low difficulty you steadily earn xx BTC/hour. With high variance you often earn a lot less or a lot more, but it still evens out in the end.

there seems to be a problem with worker difficulty. my difficulty shot up to 512, i'm only mining at 700kh/s and have d=64 set as password, does anyone have similar problems?

coming from previous version, my gtx 560 ti goes down from ~168kh to ~144kh using the same settings: -H 1 -i 0 -l F8x16 -C 1

autotune is even worse (i redownloaded the hotfix!), choosing F16x13 for ~130kh

anyone else here with gtx 560 ti?