True.dat but you can get an extender shipped for somewhere around 1 BTC.

I bought four of these 5830s last month for $109 each from Newegg. They are decent miners. The average hashrate I get out of them is 265. That's using:

One of them failed on me and I replaced it with a 6950. The rest have been going strong for over a month with around a 50mhz overclock.

You are going to make about the same amount of money from any pool, depending on the fee. A pool with a larger hashrate will find blocks faster but you'll get a smaller cut because there's more people. A pool with a small hashrate will find blocks much slower but your cut will be larger. Stales can be a result of a bad internet connection on your side or other factors that are beyond the control of the pool server itself. It can vary greatly from person to person even on the same server. Of course, it could also be the result of a server with something going on. I'm just saying that a high stale rate doesn't necessarily point to a bad pool.

You can mine with a PCIe on a 1x slot with extenders, in case anyone gets confused by the statements above about 4x.

Join this pool http://bithasher.com and in the referrer field put googleplus and I'll invite you to google+

That's currently all I have to offer!

The estimated date for the last bitcoin mined is somewhere in 2150 something. So we have a while to wait. Also 1 btc is not the highest precision of the currency. They can actually be measured in 0.0000001 btc. So if for instance there were only 1,000,000 btc left in existence, they can actually be measured from 0.00000001 btc to 1,000,000 btc. So in the event that 0.00000001 btc is equal to $1 USD, 1 BTC would be worth $100,000,000 (I could be off a zero). At any rate, there's a lot more precision there than 1. There are 8 decimal places of precision that should be accounted for as well.

I hate it. It is too depressing. J/K, great work!

I'm new to forums, and I've only been mining for about a month. I decided to start a pool for the obvious reasons. If they aren't obvious...

• I love to code
• I love servers and Linux.
• Money seems good in the pool busines (still up for debate)

At any rate, I downloaded and compiled pushpool. I was about to give Simplecoin a go but found that I had to modify parts of the actual code just to get it to run. This wasn't a very good sign. Looking through the code made me cringe a bit. The bitcoin class includes look great, and were written by a very good developer with good knowledge in OOP. Much of the rest of the application isn't as great. I don't want to offend (though I'm sure the developer is in here) but part of it appear to have been written by a cross-eyed monkey with a 2-inch paintbrush. It works, at least for some people, and it's good enough to get a site up and running, but having looked at the code, I was apprehensive about its reliability. Thus I started writing my own frontend.

I have to say that there were parts of the code that helped clue me in to some of the calculations I needed to find hashrate and such, but none of the bad code was copied. The only part I used was the bitcoin class include which simplifies working with bitcoind. It's a great file.

Have any other developers done the same thing?

I wish I has some invites to give. I've been on there over a week with no opportunity to invite anyone I know.

Hi, my name is Randy, and I'm a n00b.

I've been suffering from n00bism for quite some time. I'm on step 1 of the 12-step program.