I have over 2 dozen cards.  And alot of hardware that was bought haphazardly when I originally started.  Like 5 750TX power supplies which was originally bought but then replaced with 1200 watt ones.  Alot of extra 'others' sitting around as well.  I never bothered to return them and just keeping them cause I'll find uses for them eventually.  Including some good cases that was bought as well.  UPS, a very good quality dell switch, KVM and some extra AC units... basically everything I needed for a data center install.

Everything (even the extras) all bought new from newegg.  Been running for awhile and I've been running pure profit now.  Everything I've bought has been paid for.  So it's all just free money now.  (Electric is free for me)

I don't even bother tweaking or overclocking my cards.  Stability is rock for me.  I've only had to touch the rigs once in the past 2 months.  I was worried about Irene, but nothing.  UPSes kept everything going strong all week long.

I know things can be improved easily.  Lots of things I got are considered 'wasted' for bitcoins but I like toys.  UPSs, KVM, smart switches were all a completely unnecessary expense but what the hell?  I figured after everything is done I'll still have those left over which can easily be used elsewhere.  Figured at the time I bought it, if I recouped my costs, then it's just free hardware.  I calculated everything very conservatively at the time of purchase and figured it be great if I can break even.  But to cross that line and now actually make money... GRAVY!

I would think he'll be User 1.

I found 7 blocks at difficulty 1.  Zero in the last 10 mins.  

6 blocks accepted.  Still 99% stale rate tho.

A++ Will Relaunch AGAIN!   

Been mining for months, never a word and I'm not expecting any either especially since I've been living here for years.  What's funny is electric use from my actual bitcoin machines is not even the bulk of my electric use.  Like I said before (since Angelus has so kindly commented on the same thing from earlier forum posts), I have plenty of other machines at my home which are using more electric then my bitcoin boxes.  I've had to kill-o-watt them out to make sure my circuits are safe and balanced to prevent them from tripping.  And those have been running 24/7 for years, again without problems and even approval from the only people who care.

But the answer to your question, I guess someone is paying.  Do you live in the US and pay taxes?  Then I want to thank you for your continuing (indirectly) support of my electrical use.   

So how can I answer?  Will I mine at a lose?  No.
But I will still mine FOREVER!  mwahhhhh

Since I have free electric and already running dozen of boxes, they just chug away in my currently spare room (with the air conditioning there on 24/7 as well) out of sight and out of ear range.   

I guess it'll become 'unprofitable' to me if/when bitcoin hits zero.  I'll end up stopping when I want my spare room back tho.

When they start asking for ID?  I've gotten a call from then like a week or so ago.  Figured it was because I added and started to use another bank account.  Since my normal account funds was getting added more rapidly then I've liked.  Wasn't any problems with it tho.  I've moved many thousands through them since bitcoin started without issues.  Guess we'll see next time I cash out.

In theory no.  Because difficulty goes up based on current network hash as people join.  It should be believed that the same proportional number will join btc.  So the time for found should remain the same.  6 mins/block to the whole network.  And if btc hash remains the proportional as total network, it's at 50(something)mins/block here currently.  I don't know what the exact time is.

In reality it won't happen that way tho.  If more people join the network and less proportional joins btc (or none of the new miners) then btc will end up taking longer and longer.  That's why it's so hard for new pools to start off.  Getting people to join so it can hit critical mass and be large enough for people to stay.

Actually made more then 2 full BTC then usual.   

I wish my GH/s was that much.  Hehe

Well, holy crap!  LOL.  I have read it and I guess it didn't register.  PSA.

I would assume a -minus% Luck would mean just that, a minus or less less then what you expect luck.  Oh well, since I get it now it's fine.  Either way.... GOOD IS GOOD! GO GO GO!  =)

Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on.  DEFINITELY not complaining tho.

Is the 24h average correct?  Cause in the last 24h box, I'm 2BTC over what I normally get in a normal 24h timeframe.  Even tho the statistics page says -% luck.  Even the estimate PPS calculator is bringing up what my 'old' BTC (-alittle bit) estimate is around.  Well, whatever it is... KEEP IT UP!!!!   

Did the difficulty drop?  Maybe my time machine is working.   

Pornography tends to push edge stuff.  And even helps the adoption rate of many of those things.  Just looking back.  Photography, Video, VHS/DVD and Bluray, Internet/WWW.  Seems they always in front of things before 'mainstream' does.  So it's not always such a 'bad' thing.

Yes.

Started just shy of 2 months ago.  Dropped *LOL* many thousands of dollars on hardware.  Would EASILY have more if I was able to drop more power into my place.  I'm nearly at my limit and more machines will end up tripping fuses.  =(

I'm limited by electrical supply.  No problems with space, noise or heat.  I would need to go commercial or move my machines out of my residential to grow if I wanted to.  Regardless, I'm quite happy with this whole operation and even if everything collapsed today, I wouldn't care much.  I don't know what I'm going to do with this many 5xxx/6xxx cards after bitcoin tho.  I'm going to have alot of happy family and friends tho.  I plan on just giving them away to them.  They can duo/tri/quad them.  =O

Thanks.  That was it.  Working now.

This isn't a bash against the pool.  I'm just asking maybe someone else has a solution for this or something to try for a fix.  It's probably my end or my FF.  I've restarted FF and cleared cache as well without it being fixed.  This has been happening for a few days for me already.  FF is my main browser and I need to use chrome just to view DB.

Is there something special on the site or something I'm blocking?  Just with firefox.  It loads with chrome fine.  It's strange.

All I get is:

Please wait
Site is temporarily down for maintenance.

And then I get logged out.

Because it's not worth it to them.

They earned 5.6 BILLION this past quarter.  The entire bitcoin market cap is under 100 million.  Yes, those numbers are big for us but they don't even bat an eye when looking at it from their view.

I've been with btcguild since they were up.  After tonite, I'm finally getting around to moving my miners elsewhere.  It's a mess now.  My GHash is more then half wasted on idles, rejected and disconnects.  I hate moving miners around too since I have 30 boxes I need to adjust. 

I'll try back at another date, hopefully they'll have everything sorted out by then.

I was in the middle of wondering wtf when el posted.  Unfortunaly, I'm still getting loads of errors.  Hope it's fixed soon.

You also need to explain about uswest?  You mean the server is going away?  Will people have to go and switch their miners to point to another new host again?