True, twice the price of OWC RAM but a quarter of the price to get to 12 GB if you're buying new from Apple. I'm certainly aware of Apple's tendency towards fantasy pricing...

Make me an offer and I'll probably entertain it

Up for sale are six (6) 1GB sticks of 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SD RAM from a QUAD CORE Mac Pro tower.

I recently purchased a new dual 2.4GHZ Mac Pro Dual Quad Core model and upgraded the ram on my own with some that's not compatible with the OEM RAM that Apple ships with their machines.
Thus, you can buy this RAM which is BRAND NEW and has never been used outside of the factory. I pulled these out before even switching the machine on.
No problemo.

It's worth in the area of $100-$115 USD I figure, so perhaps ~20 BTC but I'm open to offers. Shoot me a PM if interested...

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Whoops, still learning a few of this ins and outs. Much appreciated though...
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I'd love to be whitelisted!

New to BTC, I've spent the past two weeks learning a few of the ins and outs of the community and am terribly fascinated by it. I've begun mining and have registered myself on the OTC:



As a working graphic/web designer, I'm eager to begin marketing my services to others here within the "Marketplace" forum and begin trading in BTC. I've registered by own PGP key and have learned the basics of how to use it. Whitelisting would allow me to sell services and buy products within the best BTC forum that I've come across and become a functioning part of the BTC community.

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Everyone has their own tolerance for risk. Look at the Eurozone, we really don't know what's going to happen there over the near and medium-term future. Likewise, we don't know what will happen with BTC. As in the world of "real" finance (not that BTC isn't), you balance your risk. I'm personally fascinated by the BTC concept and am eager to begin buying and selling items and services with it but wouldn't stake my retirement funds on it! I can see myself keeping a few hundred dollars in a BTC at all times for transactions but too much more than that out in the ether, that pushes my risk tolerance a little bit at this point. But I'm new, so what do I know The figures coming out of these big mining rigs are quite attractive though, I can certainly see why some have invested in that path...

While I'm new and my BTC grand-total is a whopping 0.1ish, I wonder if BTC, over the last few months anyways, is really all that more unstable than actual currencies like the Euro with what we've seen politically this winter...

What's for certain is that we can look forward to a market flood of used-up video cards in about a year's time as the miners cash out the last value of their now-unprofitable rigs

Or if you're a graphic designer with a nice new mac pro at work which you "accidentally" leave running with Diablo Miner in the background overnight and on the weekends. Only a few Bit cents a day but I'm not paying for shit, so... pure profit lolz...

Fascinating, but what I have yet to hear in any of the chats or forums surrounding BTC mining at these profitable levels, is what does this stress do to hardware? Say you actually have ~260 video cards running full-tilt and cooled adequately. What's the rate of attrition, are you going to be replacing a card every week that fails? That's math that hasn't been taken in to account... 4 dead cards/month maybe and you're still way ahead but I never seem to see this addressed. Maybe it's not an issue?

When you look at all of the data from bitcoincharts.com, you can see those huge volume spikes correlate to the depressed value after that bizarre spike last spring/summer.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd imagine that as the BTC community started to ramp up in 2011, the value spiked as people realized the longevity and viability of the currency and flocked to it. As more did the same and rigs were developed to produce and trade, the volume started to spike and the value stabilized (the highest volumes correlate with the lowest values).

From what I've heard, as the difficulty of discovering more blocks (which will only be worth half what they are today, 25 BTC), the volume wouldn't fluctuate so wildly and the price would recover slightly since there would likely be less interface with the USD with an amply supply of BTC to go around.

If I had to hazard a guess as I say, I would peg BTC at 6.65 USD in the 4th quarter of 2012.

I'm pretty new so please put this amateur technical analysis through some rigor...

My very first post 

About myself:
Dude from Canada pushing 30
Enjoys the great outdoors and the magnificent highways of North America
Web/Graphic designer by trade, currently chained to a desk and seeking his freedom

Why I'm interested in BTC:
Hoping to do my work remotely some day soon and am intrigued by the concept of a borderless crypto-currency
Did an undergraduate thesis 3 years ago on The Pirate Bay and its departure from the traditional means of online consumption. How fascinating that would be to revisit now in the age of Anonymous, Wikileaks, BTC and SOPA...