It's been all over Reddit and national news, I've seen ton's of pieces on it.  It's also getting a ton of coverage in the local media, there's quite frequently a line at the machine.

It's getting a lot of attention.

This makes me want to go back and look through all my old hd's I have in storage for some reason.  Thanks for the fun project!  lol

Mostly now just for fun, I don't pay for electricity here so I leave my eruptor's running, no reason to turn them off.  The amount they pump out is amazingly low however.

On the plus side they are a great conversation starter when I have friend's over!  I've taught many people about bitcoins after they see my little USB setup.

There are plenty of guides around to make mining btc very easy, there's no need to be an expert.  make sure you have a wallet, join a pool like btcguild, etc. and you should be good to go.

Mining has become very hard lately so make sure your aware of electric costs if you pay for your own electricity and factor that in.  It's a very fun hobby but one that is increasingly hard to see an ROI on.

There is much truth in the sentiment that it's now far better for an individual to buy btc with their money rather than mining equipment.

If you end up getting heavily into BTC remember that security is your friend.  Always use 2 factor authentication for everything related to bitcoin and preferably don't keep your wallet on the same computer you do all your daily web browsing on.

Yea it's pretty amazing how totally unprofitable mining is now, only people making money are early adopters and hardware companies. 

Any updates on availability?

That is pretty amazing.

Hi,

As a longtime bitcoin supporter and new forum member I need to voice my opinion on something very frustrating.  I understand the desire to reduce members posts overtime to ensure they are not spamming because you allow commissions based off posts.

I would like to point out the negative effects of it however. I just worked fairly hard on a post to try and respond to the community and provide information, probably 40+ minutes.  In another tab I made a quick response to someone who had responded to me. 

I then posted my article and was met with the your unable to post message of doom, deleting all my work.  I have no interest in wasting another hour of my life putting that post together, was very frustrating to see that.

Could I perhaps suggest your site saving the post as a draft or giving a message "please try again in 2 minutes" while leaving the content intact. 

Was very frustrating.

Agreed the D-Links work great and have suitable power, don't' use the cheap knockoffs, they will fail.

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This means you are 2.3 trillion times more likely to be killed by an asteroid than you are to encounter a similar bitcoin address, even at this hypothetically absurdly large number of transactions per second.  I'm not sure how to relate the actual current likelyhood but its like a couple hundred million times that 2.3 trillion?  lol.

So yea.........

at $15 they will never make ROI.....

Your last post you were trying to sell this poor soul USB miners, now you say that i have to agree that USB miners are not worth the money......I think I was fairly accurate with my "accusation"

I'm not looking at all for USB miners, this isnt 2011.   I'm saying that a good amount of previous group buys have proved out to only benefit the individuals organizing the group buys and not the general share holders.  I think that individuals like you providing dis-information to the community is a very toxic thing to bitcoin growth as a whole.

At cex.io as an alternative example, the prices may be above current roi but at least your in control of your own portfolio,can sell hash as a trader and there are no contracts.  I see most group buys as one of the riskiest things you could do in bitcoin.  

Full disclosure:  I have no interests in cex.io, think their pricing is still far too high to invest in, I'm using them as an example here.  They are a risky choice but far better than what these shills would have you take part in.

Group buys seem extremely risky to me, why not cloudmine instead where you can at least be in control of your own hashing?

I should mention that the ROI on both is crap, just asking.

cex.io is an option you may want to look at if you can get in at decent rates.  Right now i would be investing in the bitcoins themselves and not the hardware however.  Most group buys present risks and usually you are paying for someone else to profit so be careful with them.  Direct your own future.

There's a Newbie Readme pinned at the top of the forum.

It's definitely an interesting idea.  Trading a constantly deflating asset seems to have a limited timeframe to make effective however.  If your savvy with the market it's possible you could make some profit and free hash power to boot.  I would be fairly cautious with it however as many are going to get burnt overpaying for hash power that will never return what they paid for it.

300 is a long way off.  I see it getting there but there needs to be far more adoption by local business's for this thing to gain more traction.  It's wonderful that a lot of e-services are starting to accept it but we need far more real world adoption for it to really grow.  It's an amazingly fun thing to be a part of however, hopefully we get there!

I find it's only useful to own the alt-coins if your trading on the active markets and follow the bigfish (you have to know who has those large stashs of ltc).  There's ton's of market manipulation but you can make some good money if your sharp. 

I would never consider an alt-coin as a long-term investment, Bitcoin is the best for that hands down.  There may be volatility in it's price but it will increase heavily over time.