I'm going to need a big quantity of these either way so I thought the best way to go is just to order a couple of hundred off Alibaba, so if anyone on this board has prior experience with any vendors they can reccommend - please let me know

Oh, and I'm thinking of getting server PSU's and breakout boards also, so any input on that would also be appreciated.

Longs story short, I have a friend who works at a factory that mass produces and welds all sorts of metal.

So through him I'm ordering a custom mining rig frame and there is (of course) a few things I need to feel sure about before ordering 100 of those suckers.

When it comes to the measures, I think I got it down.

BUT!

How many GPU's do you guys think such a frame should support?
My instinct tells me that I should make room for 20x GPU's due to the latest motherboards coming out, but I'd love to get opinions from anyone here before I make a decision  

I though I had come back here to give an update but I see I was mistaken.

Anyways. Bitstamp support has settled all issues now, they did however take their time and while waiting I could have invested a whole lot of money in BTC while the prices were below 70¤ but I could not as Bitstamp did not fund my account in time.

Quite frustrating, but at least it worked out in the end...

seems down again, anyone know how long its been that way?

cause?

http://pastebin.com/QAPxhEbP

And now a contradictory twitter update:

"We are under attack. Will be back as soon as possible."
https://twitter.com/Bitstamp/status/326295596963090432

 

You should also consider using Twitter for situations like this.

A short status there will calm a lot of people.

Support got back to me and said they were "working out" what had happened to my transfer. Which is .. something, I guess..

They're probably swamped with all the new activity coming their way, which is fair enough.

The case is still not resolved but some attention has been given to me, at least. Just too bad that I had to get upset and send them an "angry" message in the support ticket system before they bothered to give me a proper response.

But like I said in my original post, I've had nothing but positive experience with the bitstamp support up until now so I have no reason to believe that this won't be resolved.
I just don't like to wait too long when it comes to a transfer of this size, a few hundred dollars would be OK. I could let that slide for a while and let them sort things out, but this is a fairly big transfer (for me) and I'm kind of depending on it to pass through sometime soon so it has been annoying to not even get proper responses to my many requests

Just wondering if anyone are experiencing any issues with Bitstamp and its support services recently?

I have an issue they are not really focusing on solving, regarding what is for me a large amount of money.
I'll spare the details and give them the rest of the week to sort it out (although it's been 2 weeks already) but I'm wondering if anyone else have had any issues here the last 10 days or so?

Hopefully its just the extra work and business that came in their direction once Mt Gox fucked up (again) that causes these delays, but when people have control of your money and seem not to care much about your support requests regarding that money - it is QUITE frustrating.

That being said, up until about 10 days ago their support service was excellent. So hopefully this is just a result of a lot of extra work being done on their part... but I still would like to hear from other Bitstamp customers if anyone has had to contact their support lately?

I most definitively would be interested

thanks, I guess it helped just giving all the password guessing a rest for a day .. when I tried the day after I got it right after 12 times

aaahhhh , I finally remembered the passphrase it was one stupid character added that made no sense at all, I got it right on the 300th try or something , MAN THAT FELT GOOD

Thanks for the well wishes and have fun playing with the script I really wish I had more insight to computer scripting

Good to hear


This thread got kind of quiet but riX said he would help so I'll trust him and send him my wallet.dat file including what I believe to be very close to the complete password and I'll just have to hope that he has the ability to sort it out for me.

was offline for a few hours while on my way home from work but I'm glad to see that more people have replied although it seems as my intentions are still under questions, thats fine I guess - I've never been a member of a BTC forum before and I have no idea whether or not people actually come here to try to get other peoples help to steal money..


DeathAndTaxes: not sure what you mean by me serving misinformation? but I would imagine that you surely do see my wish to not conceal any part of the password on this forum? not that any of you would gain access to my dat file or that I have used the password other places, but I kind of consider a large portion of it to be my "fundation" password on which I build other secure passwords and passphrases.



greyhawk: I'm glad to see you're finally warming up to me, or getting closer at least :p and yeah, I think I have a lot to go on to reduce the computation needed to crack this one so thanks for the tip, I'll have a look around the Services section !!

DannyHamilton: If you would like to give it a try then I would be really grateful no matter what the result! Your assumptions are pretty much correct, the only thing would be that it might even be necessary with a "thirdphrase" part where after trying "firstphrase"+"secondphrase"&"thirdphrase" with all upper & lowercases, one could switch and try the same with "firstprase"+"thirdphrase"&"secondphrase".

I hope I did not make that to hard to understand but my passphrases are usually built up by a few words I find suitable for passwords and then I do the basic password tricks like replacing an o with an 0 or an s with a $ etc ...

I also PM'ed riX and Revalin from the thread I linked to in my original post as I feel like Revalin's script might just need some adjustments and as I told both of them - by BTC account isn't huge (66) but its half my damn rent so I would love to get it back - and if anyone can cook up a script for me where I can actually figure out what the hell I used for a password when I changed it the last time I'll gladly send them 16 BTC..

I see your point

However, I still have some things that might work to my advantage:

I am pretty sure that I know all of the 15 characters and in what order - what I'm not sure of is where the upper and lowercase should kick in, if you take a look at the forum post I linked to in my first post, Revalin made an excellent script to try and replace every character in a password with an upper- or lowercase letter or a special character - so what I need is an "improvement" of that script where the first 20 letters are left intact, but the last 15 are treated like Revalins original script treats the entire passphrase.

EDIT: I had 660 BTC in my account so I figure its worth spending a few hours online to see how far I can get while I try to kickstart my brain

Yes, but I know the contents of these 15 additional characters ...

So if the first part of my password is without a doubt "Password" and I know that the last part of my password contains the characters "0123456789abcdf" but not necesarrily in that order, there must surely be some talented people out here in the world who can assist me with a script that only tries to add random selections from the last part of my password and sequentially tries to append it to the first part of my password.

And in that case, I think there are possibilities to cut down on your 1,313 quadrillion year estimate.. at least slightly

btw, greyhawk - if you have any valuable suggestions for me as to how I can recover my BTC wallet & funds - even without bruteforcing the wallet.dat - then please by all means contribute.

if you don't have any idea but all you can help with is to suggest that I'm trying to steal other peoples money I'll do just fine without more posts from you..

thanks...

Wow, wish there were anyway I could help - ATm I am looking for a way to retrieve a password I set on one of my BTC wallets a few weeks back but my loss of 60 BTC can't even compare.

I hope your situation turns out for the best.

So, greyhawk - have you remembered to restock your nuclear apocalypse shelter lately?


No, its quite simple - I have 4 BTC wallets and one of which is refusing to accept the password I thought was the right one for it - luck would have it that I have approx 600 btc here and I need help to find a solution as to how I can try and bruteforce the latter part of the password.



Mikej0h: thanks, a bit too technical for my part - but I understand the scepticism you have with helping out.