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on: April 29, 2013, 10:36:22 AM

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on: September 11, 2012, 06:42:55 AM

It'd work out cheaper just to turn you computer off, than to mine with your CPU.

on: September 11, 2012, 06:40:38 AM

MtRED AND 50btc have fairly good PPS offerings. Proportionate always seems to work out less for slower miners.

on: September 10, 2012, 01:36:19 PM

Just a quick one, regarding the maths. Current consumption of electricity for a 5850 rig would be approx $1 a day per machine (300watt load running this card, mayhaps a bit less), assuming your paying the current average US price of 16c a kw/h and running it 24/7. (if your unlucky it might be more, but probably not less) Approx PPS from one of the big sites would mean you'd be pushing about $1 day of bitcoins from 1 machine, but consuming the same in power. I suppose if your not paying for power, then you'll eventually come out evens in 2 months or so for the initial investment in the cards, and then start turning a profit. If your paying the power though...well.....your just throwing money out the window. PS, you wont be mining from your CPU, so there's no need to upgrade it. I've got an old P4 3Gii running a 7950 and it pushes the same an i5 for just running the GPU.

on: September 07, 2012, 01:59:41 AM

Quote from: PirateHatForTea on September 06, 2012, 04:13:19 AM This is a great Howto, but I thought people might be interested in a sort of middle-path: 1. Install Linux inside a virtual machine, secure it, and lock it down using IPTables. Install bitcoin and create your 'íntermediate' wallet here. Use it for storing moderate amounts of bitcoins (more than hundreds of dollars worth say) that will involve frequent transactions. If you set things up well it will be more secure than running from inside your native OS for example. 2. Have a LiveCD image of TAILS (an anonynimity/security focused LiveCD distribution) available inside the virtual machine. Install a virtual machine within the virtual machine and use it to boot the TAILS liveCD. Apply the technique described in the OP using this tails distro. This wallet should end up being not only super secure, but relatively anonymous. For even more anonymity, configure the first linux VM (host for Tails) to use a VPN, with IPTables filtering all on-vpn traffic. Purchase the VPN using Bitcoin. This is the ultimate paranoia solution for both anonymity and security. Or just make sure have a decent virus checker installed, and copy your wallet to removable device that you can copy to from your computer when you need it. Although that might be suggested in one of the other 50 000 posts on this topic!

on: September 07, 2012, 12:03:22 AM

I've just started running diablo miner on a dedicated p4 box with a 7950. Best to use default flags? I've tried a couple of combo's with -v and -w but nothing really makes to much difference. I'd assume by default it runs fine?

on: September 06, 2012, 06:26:07 AM

Hi, I"m Techstrordinary, and i'm 0.2 bitcoins richer as of lastnight. Used to lurk a year or so ago, but no idea what my old username was! So its more of a welcome back

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