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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Bitcoin and the illegal activity among its users on: June 10, 2011, 07:58:50 AM
Since bitcoin has gotten known by some as "The anonymous currency for hackers, drug-(ab)users and criminals." I'd like to create a poll on how many actually have a drug/crime-related use of bitcoin.

I don't know what you think of actually creating a poll like this, I guess it could be a bad idea if the results get taken too seriously. Like "5% of bitcoin users do drugs!" or "3% of bitcoin users are criminals. Bitcoin should be made illegal!". For those with sophisticated thinking we know that this poll means nothing, attention gets drawn by the name of the topic. Perhaps only drug-users even read the thread. Well, I will try to come up with a good topic-name so that hopefully doesn't happen.

And then I wonder, am I really the only one interested in this?
I remember a thread in the mining sub-forum where the poll was something like "What is the better use of electricity?" and at least 3 options were available. They were something like "Bitmining", "Growing weed" and "Both". I recall "Both" being the most voted on.

I guess this is not especially strange, no one voted for just "Growing weed" but seriously, this is the bitcoin forum, who would not vote on bitmining?
The thread quickly led into a discussion about what was the most profitable but I don't remember the outcome.
Sadly, I can't find the thread with the search function. Is it possible that the thread could have been deleted?

Anyway, I would really like to have as many people as possible participate in this poll.
I'm probably going to nerd-rage on my F5 when I've pressed post. I really find this interesting!

Edit:
If someone notices any faulty grammar in any of my posts, please tell me! I'm from Sweden and Swedish is my main-language but since I barely passed any of my Swedish-classes throughout school and prefer a language globally used I'd rather learn proper English (which classes I've always aced somehow).
2  Bitcoin / Mining / Mining pools and bruteforce on: June 09, 2011, 09:28:14 AM
Since difficulty constantly rises and pools control more computing power than ever before the BTC/computing power will go down and so will the $/computing power if exchange-rates stay the same or lowers.
I was just wondering if the pool owners could re-program their system so that the computing power can be used for bruteforcing?

If it was possible they could just pay off all the bruteforce computing-power with the equal amount of BTC/share without the miner knowing a thing.

So, could this lead to a scenario where it is possible to buy bruteforce computing-power?
3  Bitcoin / Mining / Pool pay-per-share stats on: June 09, 2011, 06:24:08 AM
I thought it would be nice to have a thread where we can compare the pools pay-per-share.

I'm just thinking of how to calculate this since difficulty is rising so we can't use the total payout/total solved shares.

Any ideas?
4  Bitcoin / Mining / The limiting factor in CPU mining? on: May 17, 2011, 01:34:35 PM
I'm somewhat aware of the reason why GPU-mining is so much more efficient than CPU-mining but I just wonder whether it is impossible to make CPU mining more efficient.
So, where is the limiting factor in CPU-mining? Does the instructions per clock make it impossible to get a higher hash-rate with a CPU than a GPU? Isn't there any way to run several hashes through the same instruction?

I mean, the CPU is able to do a lot more complex instructions than a GPU, is it impossible to use this as an advantage?

Sorry if my question is stupid or illogic. But I can't stop thinking about it if I don't get an answer.
5  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / BitCoin and money laundering on: May 11, 2011, 02:34:50 PM
I was just thinking. Doesn't BitCoin allow money laundering?
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