This would be all well and good if every wallet client (or even most of them) actually, you know, implemented BIP32! As it is, the best you can do is point me to a python tool? I'm capable of using it, but that just seems like a massive pain in the ass to go to. (Oh look, someone used another one of my addresses! Better boot to linux, generate the private key, and import it into my wallet!) And that's for me, a software engineer. What about the less tech-savvy users?

Moreover, most Bitcoin-related websites don't have BIP32 support either! They take one address for withdrawals. Some allow you to give multiple addresses, if they're a bit fancier, but even then, I'm supposed to post 50 addresses and log in to switch the address every time I get a payout?

And then there's Blockchain.info. Did you know Blockchain.info wallets reuse addresses by default unless you create new ones?

I appreciate the intent behind this proposal, but I don't think we're ready for this change yet. I do agree that we need to do this at some point in the future, but shouldn't we, you know, roll out the infrastructure necessary to make it actually workable first?

What about non-standard transactions? Isn't eligius the only game in town for that?

How would that cause the buggy balances we've been seeing?

Does this mean that you will cover the losses this time as well?

Also:


What about those of us who have attempted to make payouts through the current system which are now stuck "in process"? Will those transactions be carried out when the new billing software goes live?

I just tried taking a payout from one of my two accounts (the one whose balance was showing correctly), and it shows as "in process" now, with the amount subtracted from my balance (although when I submitted the payment, it said "some error occurred"). Will report back if I see a tx confirmed.

This. I'm very happy with the pool I switched to after this mess occurred, but I'd rather be on ltcmine.ru.

Right, but he's not asking if you would sell at a premium over today's market price, because as you said, everyone obviously would (and then most of them would buy back the bitcoins at a profit--I certainly would). He's asking what the fundamentals currently indicate as to what the "correct" price of a bitcoin is. So, if you would sell 50% of your coins tomorrow if the price hit $150, then that's your answer. If you expect you'd wait until $500 or $1000, that's the answer. It's a question of what would the market have to be willing to pay for you to sell your coins.

I'm not sure you do. As I understand it, he's not asking if you would sell your BTC right now for that much. He's asking how high the price would have to go before you would cash out.

Of course, I could be misunderstanding you here.

Yeah, I'd like to chime in here and say that I have more than half a bitcoin missing. I was last paid out on 02/09/2013 (six days ago) at 3:28 PM, or 9/2/13 03:28pm, as MtRed reports it. That was all of the BTC then confirmed. Since then, I have earned the following rewards:

0.0016706   0.00000839   215   97 req.
0.04080413   0.00020505   5349   95 req.
0.02030988   0.00010206   2627   41 req.
0.03147345   0.00015816   4040   Credited
0.02641037   0.00013272   3455   Yes
0.02196829   0.00011039   2863   Yes
0.00768603   0.00003862   1010   Yes
0.03758359   0.00018886   4783   Yes
0.00142602   0.00000717   185   Yes
0.01529278   0.00007685   1981   Yes
0.05134512   0.00025802   6649   Yes
0.00211016   0.0000106   272   Yes
0.04543045   0.00022829   5859   Yes
0.04251902   0.00021366   5562   Yes
0.06530097   0.00032815   8455   Yes
0.01162271   0.00005841   1492   Yes
0.06884674   0.00034596   8798   Yes
0.00047407   0.00000238   62   Yes
0.01397114   0.00007021   1828   Yes
0.00564581   0.00002837   725   Credited
0.0260326   0.00013082   3317   Yes
0.01126521   0.00005661   1451   Yes
0.01583164   0.00007956   2081   Yes
0.01332629   0.00006697   1714   Yes
0.00656988   0.00003301   854   Yes
0.00339039   0.00001704   443   Yes
0.00292814   0.00001471   381   Yes
0.00525306   0.0000264   691   Yes
0.04953845   0.00024894   6434   Yes
0.03161837   0.00015889   4080   Yes

The sum of these payouts rewards is 0.67764536. Subtract from that my current confirmed and unconfirmed balances, and it comes out to 0.58338730 BTC missing.

RSantana: I don't understand; why are you keeping your wallet on your server? Shouldn't it be kept on a different machine? As a retailer, you only need to collect payment except for the occasional refund (which you can do manually), which means your wallet doesn't have to be on the server at all, right? Or am I missing something here? I thought only exchanges like Mt.Gox that have to pay Bitcoins out in addition to accepting them had to worry that much about security, because they have to actually have a wallet file on a machine connected to the server. I mean, a hacker could still put up a fake BTC address on your site if it got compromised, but that's not the same degree of problem as losing your whole wallet...

The site is somewhat slow, so I gather the attacks are still going, but the website seems relatively stable to me, and my miner is connected and running. (I really should have looked into setting up backup pools earlier, but as it is the miner's pointed at deepbit and I've been busy lately so I couldn't mess with it.)

Back up. It's a bad day when I'm being told I'm 1% of Deepbit...

(I run 1.4 GH/s)

Only 2 of 4 cards running, but that'll be fixed, eventually...

I'm running only 2 of 4 cards, numbers 1 and 3 (numbering 1-4 from left), but with this setup I'm getting temps in the 66-71 range. These are the "open" style ones, right? (Sapphire 100282 Xtreme)

Well, unfortunately the rig is set up at school, and I'm about to leave for home, so I want to leave it mining. As such, and because there may also be difficulties with booting, I don't want to risk reboots at this point. So I'll be back in two weeks and I'll work on it then. I'm thinking this is probably a mobo issue, and the booting issues mean the hdd is suspect too.

tl;dr I'm going to just leave it running at half capacity for two weeks until I get back. (I have someone in town who can come and get it back up if it goes down.)

With no cards in the x1-x16 slots, I can't get any display, even though it appeared that the computer was functional (though I have no way of knowing that for certain without the display). Just moved the power arrangement around to see if that had any effect. While the power is distributed more properly now, I still have the same situation: only two cards read by poclbm.

I'm running an Nforce 570SLIT-A v5.1 motherboard. There are four 5850s, on riser cables as I said in first post. The two that are working (I can tell because they get hot) are the ones on the x1-x16 risers. These show up in poclbm and aticonfig, and aticonfig shows temps and clocks for both of them. The other two, both on x16-x16 risers, appear under aticonfig --lsa but I can't see clock speeds or temps for them, and they don't show up in poclbm.

jh1523:

So I looked at the manual, and it says that: "PCIE3 slot will be disabled when PCIE4 slot is installed." Thing of it is, PCIE3 slot is an x1 slot--one of the ones that works. PCIE4 is an x16 slot, which doesn't work. Huh?

Anyway, the issue has changed. Now all 4 show up in aticonfig, but I can only get temps/clock speeds for 2 of them, and only those 2 show up in poclbm. I've got 2 cards mining now so as to at least do some, but I'd really like to get the others going. All help is appreciated, and thanks to those who have posted so far.

Yes. See here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7514.msg366311#msg366311

Um yeah, so I wanted to post a question in a guide thread, but couldn't because you guys presume guilt, like some kind of third-world country. Can I not have to be stuck here? Thanks.