Here's a question:

With the IRS deeming that bitcoin would be considered property(?) wouldn't the value of a bitcoin be directly tied to the date that IRS deemed it so, and not the date it was actually acquired?

For instance, say the OP mined and acquired his Bitcoin when it first came out and it's value was really 0, and then it started moving etc. He would only be on the hook for the value of his bitcoin on the date the ruling was made going forward correct? As I recall the day the ruling was made, Bitcoin was 550+, I can't remember but it seems to me that the values cannot be grandfathered. Maybe Im wrong, but if my assumption is correct if he sold them all now, he would be able to file a capital gains loss on the value of the bitcoin from the date the ruling was made to todays value.

Is that wrong?

Added:

RUR. Yes, the Russian Ruble(Rouble) is now live. For our Russian friends please test it and let me know if there are any issues.

Cards:

One of the biggest requests I get is the ability to add cards to the line-up. Well, it is now live. However, I have to write the pages or extra space for older AMD cards, Nvidia, and CPU. I will be doing this over the next few days. So feel free to enter any AMD, and NVidia cards. For now I have duplicates turned off, the reason for this is because one person might get great results while another might get tremendous results.

Coins:

I have added a form for adding your own coins. It's a simple form for now, and mainly a test for another project I want to start on soon. For coins there are some things to be aware of however. I will be verifying the coins that are entered before they show up in the calculators. Why? A few reasons. One for each coin I have to use an API from off-site, like
most sites do. So those coins will need to have code written for them and integrated into the pages. Please note, I will only be accepting coins that follow scrypt. I'm excited to announce a few updates today.

Major Update this morning.

Yes, the site has been completely redesigned again. I'm learning to code, so I find this to be acceptable. So let's get to the update information.


Removed:

Pricing information. While I firmly believe having prices working in the calculator, without vendor support from affiliate programs, keeping up with the maintenance on pricing is way to much work for me to want to undertake, especially for free.

ROI - Because of the removal of pricing, having the ROI information was redundant.

Added -

New layout using bootstrap css. While I am quite proud of the work I did prior, it just wasn't enough to keep peoples attention. It was also necessary to add bootstrap for mobile functionality.

Better sort ability. Each card brand and card id have their own tabs. This sets it up for further development for sorting tables.

Euro currency page. I'm excited about this one, I won't pretend to be from anywhere else then Southern California. What information I have on EU comes from history books, and Dr. Who(relax, it's just some humor.)

Cash value added for total coins.

Added a ticker to the top of the page to better track coin prices.

Coming soon:

Russian, Chinese, and a few other currency pages. In fact if you have a currency you would like added. Let me know here. The site pages themselves will be in English, but the currency will be in those languages.

I'm working on a form to enter cards. Most of it is done, I'm just working out a few bugs, and working to prevent sql injections. 
NVidia cards
CPU calculator.

I hope you guys enjoy the calculator, I've put a lot of work into it. Thanks for looking!

Added adbit.co for advertising. Am still using bitads.net, hopefully they can get their stuff together. Good day!

I just signed up on adbit.co, I am still using bitads.net, which I've had an advertiser bid on my site. Anyway, hope this goes better then that did.

I have decided to go ahead with making the calculator available to coin developers.

However I need some feedback.

For the calculator to work properly the coin needs to have a value. Either coin to BTC, coin to LTC, or coin to Fiat. I could redesign the calculator and strip away the value parts of it, but it would render the ROI properties of the calculator useless, especially where new coins are concerned. I would also need to change the way the calculator works. Currently it is designed to tell a user how many cards they are projected to need based on the daily value they want to make. If the coin has no value to speak of yet, then that part of the calculator really isn't needed.

In the case of developers who already have an established coin, there really would be no need to change the calculator except where it pertains to their coin, as it would be only one of two coins listed. The other being LTC, as that's the godfather of scrypt mining.


So with that said, my current plan is to redevelop the calculator for distribution usage for new coin developers. I haven't worked out exactly how it will be distributed, but I think the easiest way is to do an iframe base. Unless I can figure out how to make it into a download, which would probably be better for you guys. Problem with that is compatability with other languages.

Anyway enough rambling. Im open for suggestions.

Hi Zim,

To be honest I don't know.

Currently Im thinking that I would just hand code the calculator to the coins color specifications. I'm not sure if charging for the service would be a good idea or not, especially with new coins. But I would like to generate something from it.  I'm open for ideas. Adding the calculator would be fairly easy and would probably just run off of iframe tags. Thoughts?

Would any of you have any interest in adding my video card calculator to your coins website?

www.cryptocardcalc.com

Issue regarding Dogecoin has been fixed.

Does anyone have any feature/coin requests?

Bug report:

I have found a bug in my calculator. Although I'm not sure it has to do with the calculator as it was working fine yesterday. For whatever reason, it is showing doge as being valued at $.00002. It's suppose to be getting this information from cryptocoininfo.com. Which btw is amazing. However, dogecoin.com is showing the value at $.00096. It's still not stellar, but I'm not sure what the issue is. Right now the results for what a card generates is showing in an exploded form. Im combing through my code, and through my db to make sure everything matches up. I will get this resolved ASAP.

I need some advice.

I set up the links from the cards to be sent to Amazon. It's the only place I have found that has all the cards I have listed. However, I got an email this morning stating that my application for the program has been rejected, due to lack of content. I really wanted to have the pricing information in there, as I think it's important in the research process for mining and as a not so in-your-face way to monetize the site. I have an affiliate account with TigerDirect, but they don't often have a lot of the cards. And also you almost need to be a rocket scientist to use them. I don't want to load the site up with ads to produce some revenue, and the donate addresses have so far gone unused.

Does anyone have any suggestions on other ways I can monetize this site? Note: I am already using bitads, but that isn't really producing anything either. Thanks in advance.

Major update today.

Added:
To the form:

• Fields for misc. wattage. i.e. cpu, hdd etc.(Can remain blank.)
• Field for current trade value of your cards. So if you're looking to upgrade cards, now you can check that against the value of your cards.(Can remain blank)

To the results app:

Cards

• Program information(i.e. cgminer), and settings.

Coins

• Automated coin values
• Added fields to reflect difference in total price versus your card value

To Do List:

• Add more coins!
• Automate Difficulty
• Automate Pricing per card
• Add an older card page
• Add an entry form for older card page
• Add an entry form for your cards
• Add support for NVidia cards

I did it all in PHP. As far as the pricing situation goes, I am going to be looking into adding a currency conversion tool. This would eliminate the need to try to add currencies I know nothing about. I may just add an actual currency converter so you can just compare the US prices vs the rest of the world. For the PSU's I am considering the best way to go about that. There are a few things that are keeping me from doing that right at the moment. 1. How to implement it quickly and effectively. 2. I need to find other ways to monetize the site before I completely restructure it. While I have no expectations of making any money off of the site, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to find a reason to keep doing it. Not sure if that makes sense or not, anyway. I will look at ways I can get your suggestions in. It might be a few weeks though.

1. Total wattage is just the cards. The only reason I did the cards only is because there are literally millions of configurations that could be included as a total system.
2. I will look into adding efficiency rating or at very least some fields for your other components.
3. The price information is just for basis information. I still haven't figured out how to get my amazon affiliate thing to automagically update the prices without doing a huge ad, which I am trying to avoid. It's also why I didn't include cards like the 5950 etc. As they aren't as readily available as the cards listed. What I may be able to do is offer a field to override the price in the calculations so you can have a more accurate statement.

And thank you for the compliment, I have only been coding for about 3 weeks. =)

I have gone through and completely redesigned my site. Have a look around. Any feedback is welcome.

A few notes: Pricing was manually verified from Amazon this afternoon, I currently don't have a way to automate that process. I have an email out to amazon to see if they can help me with that issue. I will be adding more coins tomorrow, and I am still working on getting those coins automated. Currently I am updating the coins once per day at midnight PST.

www.cryptocardcalc.com

Thank you.

As I understand it.


Block Reward/(difficulty*2^32)/(cardhash*1000)/3600/24

Block Reward = the coins reward for finding a block. In the instance of litecoin it's 50.
Difficulty = current difficulty, which I believe is 3508
2^32 = 4,294,967,296
cardhash = the khash that your card(s) can do. Like a 280x can do 750 khash/s for example.
1000 = the conversion from khash to hash/s.
3600 = how many seconds are in an hour
24 = how many hours are in a day.

so using those examples:

50/(3508*4,294,967,296)/(750*1000)/3600/24 = 50/(15,066,745,274,368)/(750,000)/3600/24)=.22 Litecoin per day.

Hope that's what you're looking for. If not someone may get use out of it.

Vertcoin added to the calculator. I will be working this weekend to get as many cards as I can added to the calculator. I am also working on a sort function for giving you the best mining-> earning ratio.

If there is a coin you guys would like to see included into the calculator feel free to request it. I will see what I can do for you. Thanks!

Hello all,

Added:

RUR. Yes, the Russian Ruble(Rouble) is now live. For our Russian friends please test it and let me know if there are any issues.

Cards:

One of the biggest requests I get is the ability to add cards to the line-up. Well, it is now live. However, I have to write the pages or extra space for older AMD cards, Nvidia, and CPU. I will be doing this over the next few days. So feel free to enter any AMD, and NVidia cards. For now I have duplicates turned off, the reason for this is because one person might get great results while another might get tremendous results.

Coins:

I have added a form for adding your own coins. It's a simple form for now, and mainly a test for another project I want to start on soon. For coins there are some things to be aware of however. I will be verifying the coins that are entered before they show up in the calculators. Why? A few reasons. One for each coin I have to use an API from off-site, like
most sites do. So those coins will need to have code written for them and integrated into the pages. Please note, I will only be accepting coins that follow scrypt. I'm excited to announce a few updates today.



www.cryptocardcalc.com