I'm still in the green 'til BTC hits $3, but I have faith that it'll bounce back eventually.

File server, media center, web server, automated torrent bot...

Any file or cpu-based task that is easily offloadable, really.

I'm awaiting the panic sell to spread to the Marketplace forum.

I'm loving it. I sold mine at 13.6 to buy back in at 7.4. Let's see where this party ends up.

As much as I'd love to think the difficulty would stay in this area for the next 12 months, I don't think that's how it works.

Instant here being x0.92, "Next" being x0.95. But a lot can change by August 16.

Because we all know it's the miners who are buying up all these cards. But for some reason the difficulty is trending down.

You can see just how many of these recently purchased 6970s are mining by looking at the next difficulty prediction. If we did drive them out of stock it was a poor purchase decision it seems, because we're pushing it back towards 1784732 at the moment. Maybe if you wait a few days you'll be able to buy an open box version cheaper when all the panic sellers return some hardware. 

I'm looking forward to not having to use my heat at all this winter.

I'll break even with my personal rigs at the $3 point, but I like the idea enough that I'll probably keep 800 Mhash/s at least up even if it goes below $1.

Personally I wouldn't, but with the 5k series getting harder to find I figured I'd pass on the deal info if someone was strategically positioned to pull the trigger on one.

There's also a [H] deal on the XFX version that includes a mail in rebate with it. After using the code HARDOCPX727B it comes to $129.99 with free shipping.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150505

Fermi's a beast for computation. Sadly, just not simple stuff like massively paralleled hashing.

Unless Dwolla wasn't the only website that performed such a service, and something else could step in to fill the void.

Y'know, something like: http://tradehillblog.com/2011/07/28/tradehill-is-now-accepting-paxum-transfers/

I'm not real sure where they copy/pasted this from, but it's pretty bad when they have to tell you they strive to provide you with a "store." Heh.

Oh come on.  That's on the exact same page.

Sounds more like you didn't have the OpenCL drivers installed for your card. AMD has/had at one point two different versions of their driver packs, one that included OpenCL support and one that didn't.

Looks to be running really smoothly since the update, and it seems our lucky streak is holding up still.

I've only noticed one thing that's funky and even then it's only aesthetic. The "Current Day Shares" column differs for me between what's shown on the Pool Stats page and the Lifetime stats page.

stats.php:


statsAll.php:


But really that's just nitpicking. I love this pool.

You're going to have one hell of a time fitting 3x6990's in a 1U case.

This should help you though: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3504.0

Sadly... +1.

I happened across an article about it that piqued my interest, then found out I (as a gamer with AMD cards) was in the right place at the right time. Now I'm pumping out ~900 Mhash/s without having invested anything (yet) into hardware costs.

Video card upgrades that pay for themselves? May even turn a profit? Sign me up for that.

A random acquaintance of BitCoin a few days ago, I've already converted what was my hawt little gaming rig into a pretty dedicated miner. Turns out luck was on my side when I picked two 6950's and unlocked them to 6970's. If only I had started hashing with them much, much sooner.

Definitely +1 to that. My only regret after lurking for hours on end is that I didn't sign up right off the bat, so now I have to lurk for four more hours.