Ok, so I like the fact the machines wifi ready right out of the box but for the life of me cannot find the existing antenna. I can only assume it's part of the wire coming off the back with the LED. Assumin I'm right, I dont need the LED bit so the whole wire could get tossed.

If it is somehow replaceable I'd like to get somethingg way better like whats seen on the below pictured machine (not mine, ebay image).



So ya, anyone ever replace an antenna on an Avalon or at least look in to it out of curiosity ?

So I just got this damn 200-220Gh/s Avalon miner I ordered. Seller didn't tell me it came with this damn chinese plug or w/e it is.

The listing states it is 110v/220v operation, so after I spend all day trying to get a US style plug for a computer PSU. This in theory means I should just be able to plug it in to the PSU and wall and get going right ?

The ass end that sticks in to the PSU looks how you'd expect it to, and so does the other end except the pins that would otherwise go in to the wall plug are "boxed" in. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that what would otherwise be the ground pin is flat like the others and that the three pins are extremely close.

Actually, I just looked again and the part that looks like it would go in the wall is a mirror of the port on the PSU so I can take both ends of the plug and snap em in to each other so it looks like that snake that eats it's own tail.

Ty.

I was looking to get a killawatt and the different models are mind raping me.

I don't need anything too expensive with bells n whistles coming out the ass. I just need something I can use for about 5 minutes or so to measure the kWh of some BTC stuff to calculate it's 24/7 operating costs.

I want to basically find something that can handle equipment with room to spare so I don't go plug something in one day and burn out the meter.

I do notice a lot of people keep their killawatts plugged in all the time and this intrigues me. Why do this when you only need the measurement once of a single item ? I mean, if somethings running a 1000W or w/e I doubt it's kwh is going to fluctuate any if it's on 24/7.

Trying to finish up some work to display BTC info on my site but this damn rounding up that number_format() does is driving me nuts. Anyone know what I need to do to sop the rounding up but still get he x.xx result ?

   $formatted_blockchain_wallet_bal = number_format( $unmodified_blockchain_balance, 2 );

[Sales Made]

Just finished coding a signature card to show BTC Guild pool & user stats !

There's "two" cards to choose from, one where the dust "last 6 digits" are smaller than the rest of the text as seen on some other sites, or a normal same text size all around version.

http://www.eojmarket.com/BTC-Guild_Stat_Sig/btcg_stat_sig-MoreBloodWine.php



http://www.eojmarket.com/BTC-Guild_Stat_Sig/btcg_stat_sig-MoreBloodWine.php?base=minidust



Then there's this one I almost forgot about but it doesn't have the minidust thing built in,.

http://www.eojmarket.com/BTC-Guild_Stat_Sig/ba-btcg_stat_sig-MoreBloodWine.php



All included figures are updated via a cronjob being run by a user selected time starting at no less than every 60 seconds on up to whatever you, the buyer would like (by default it is every 5 mins.) !

Questions, comments, thoughts ?

No, well ok then...

So ya, If anyone's interested in getting a sig like mine to display your BTCG stats please PM me to get the address you need to send the funds to, the cost is BTC 0.01 for each user name / api key.

Once your payment shows up in the wallets address that I give you, I will PM you back usually inside of 30mins (if I am infront of my system) with the link to your signature. If not within 30mins then at least by days end guaranteed, I can usually give a definitive answer when giving you the payment address.

Now some might say asking BTC 0.01 is too much or whatever for something so simple as an image with stats on it. However, there's a few things you have to keep in mind which is the work that went in to the code to create these signatures, the time it took to write the code and bug test all of it as well as the fact that everything is hosted on my own cloud VPS using resources that I pay for on a monthly basis which allows your stats to always auto update.

I may also be able to adopt this for other pools API's so PM me if you would like me to try and get it to work on another pools API, to which I cannot guarantee. I will say that even if I can get it to work on another pools API that I cannot promise it will have all of the same stat figures. So that will need to be discussed before any work is done.

Regardless of data shown, if I am able to convert it to another pools API the fee will go up another BTC 0.005 for a total of BTC 0.015... this covers time to rework the code since this was originally made for BTC Guild.

Edit 6/4/14: Just wanted to add some new info...

1) Price lowered from 0.02 to 0.01 per sig / user API now that BTC is starting to rise again.

2) Users can now choose what sort of info they would like to have shown in their personalized signature which includes any of the already seen bits above.

ex. It can be as simple as just showing your earned, paid, owed & avg. figures.

3) I created a node stat image to show base bitcoin info, see below.

http://www.eojmarket.com/BTC-Node_Stat_Sig/BTC-Node_Stats.php



* The above node stat image, whos data is provided by my personal node on my cloud VPS, is provided free of charge by using this link and can be used by anyone anywhere they wish.

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Sales Made
1) 7/4/14 1246bbaa7d557d99b1e0c0a8fd1ffc8a95d4cad39a803a459688dfac5590ccf0

$blockchain_final_balance

Ok, so the above variable pulls my balance from the blockchain API ok but this is what it looks like.

6725

Which in reality it 0.00006725

If it had a 0 on the end it would be showing 67250, so what the API "blockchains fault" is doing is omitting the preceeding 0.0000

So... what bit of PHP do I need to wrap around $blockchain_final_balance to get it to display the current and all future values right.

By future values I mean if my balance was 101930240, I would expect it to show 1.01930240

Or if it was 023496380 I would expect it to display 0.23496380

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Basically what the blockchain API is doing is omitting all preceeding 0's, but there's always 8 digits ater the decimal. So I guess the code would have to count backwards, and aftr the 8th number add the decimal.

4829 becomes 0.00004829 etc.

0's at the end are never omitted, just the preceeding ones.

I just need it to always display the full, mind you correct, decimal value even if it includes an ass load of 0's in weird places.

ex: 000000500

If my wallet value is...

sprintf( '%.8f', $btc_guild_earned )

and the gox price is...

number_format( $btc_stats[ 'avg' ], 2 )

What would be the math to find my wallets value which right now in BTC terms is 0.00265926

Ok, so it seems our cable company has changed some things in how they handle bandwitdh for their users etc. by adding monthly limits based on your level of service.

Well, this got me to thinking... just how much combined data (in / out) in MB might I see per month with 600Gh/s ?

One of the other members here has agreed to do some work on my site for a 0.1 fee. Which is fair for what's involved except that I only have 0.01 and change right now. That said, I'm only mining with two USB ASIC's right now and have 600Ghs due here by late Feb / early March. I can show a processed invoice for a paid in full order. I don't have anything in the way of collateral so chances of this loan being filled is slim, I know. I'm just hoping someone here still has some trust left in them that they might please lend my way, Ty.

Ok, so first check out this site: http://bitcoincharts.com/

Notice the following top left ?

Difficulty 1,180,923,195
Estimated 1,344,395,037 in 765 blks

Well, I asked the staff of that site if they could tell me the code used to produce this info and this is the reply I got.

It's the same algorithm used in bitcoin-qt to calculate the next
difficulty. You can find bitcoin-qt's source code on github.

So I looked on github and found a lot of things mentioning bitcoin-qt.

Anyway, as to the reason I am here...

If anyone can help me get this info displayed on the sites of mine I'd like it dpsplayed on without having it scraped from an existing site even if it means me hosting some bicoin client on my server I'd greatly appreciate it, Ty.

Current: 1,180,923,195
Next (Estimate): 1,345,007,299 (+14%)
Increase by: 164,084,104

Taken from: http://www.bitcoindifficulty.com/


If the increase estimate was truly 14% it (the increase by) should be around 165,329,247

Mind you when it (next est) was about 60k less, it still showed 14%... I was wondering if anyone might be able to help figure out what the math used that gets them their % increase figure. Best I can tell is they use two diff bits of code that are slightly out of sync with eachoher hence the percentage not being quite right.

This is what I came up with as suggested math after a yahoo search but it's not even anywhere close ;-/

current / next est * 100 = 87.80%

For someone in it for the long haul and never being offline baring any unforseen issues like harware fail or power outages. What should one consider when chosing a pool, I mine with BitMinter right now and don't have any thoughts on changing but I got bored and was looking at some other pools and their "systems" and it got me to thinking.

What should one look at / consider when choosing a pool ? I mean they all seem the same other than the fees assessed and then their pay method be it DGM, PPS or PPLNS and any others I may not know about, Ty.

I have an original early model of the PS3 that is fully backwards compatible with PS1 & PS2 games. Even though yes the PS4 did just come out. I do know for a fact that my PS3 still has great value. So I am curious what it might be worth to some of you if I were to sell it for BTC.

Full S/NM: CM094077247-CECHE01 MG

Contents / items included in this query...

1) 1 x Original MGS4 box, game no included.
2) 1 x HDMI Gold Cable
3) 1 x BlueRay Remote missing a battery cover, still works.
4) 1 x Power Cable
5) 1 x 80gb System.
6) 1 x Two Controller charger that also has two USB slots to allow for the simaltaneous charging of up to four controllers.
7) 2 x Dualshock 3 controllers, one functiong while the other just needs a battery.
-7a) Consider it to be one working controller for righ now until the other one that just needs a batery is found.

Also not too sure on how a deal like this would work if I did sell it for BTC since trust has to go both ways and start with someone.

I use the blockchin app on my android to monitor BTC wallet balances an even send out payments. I was wondering what the Nameoin version of blockchain would be assumingg one exists.

Ty.

Right now I have just regular DSL, but am ontemplating ADLS2+ / giigbit internet. I am curious though, when might a gigbit connection be good for BTC mining. Like if someone is just doing say 100Ghs or w/e, regular internet might be fine. But if say someones doing 600Ghs then gigabit might be sugested.

Hope I made sens, Ty.

If this is a loan you can accomodate please PM me and we can discuss the details of why I am asking as well as more of a payback should the .5 BTC not be enough which given current pricing I feel is fair (yes I know pricin can be worth less upon payback), I can say this much publicly though.

It would be paid back sometime late April, possibly early May of 2014... I say this to scare off the lurkers even though this timeline is accurate. Anyway, as for reassurances... I have no collateral to speak of that would be worth using. What I am willing to do is all of the following, and anything else you might suggest that would make you feel comfortable loaning me 1.5 BTC.

1) Provide full name, address and home landline number
2) Copy of photo ID & SS card with everything but the first three digits blacked out.
3) Goto a lawyer of your choosing in Meadville Pa, 16335 with a statement of your writing declaring terms and have it signed in witness of said lawyer and notorized by said lawyer.

The last one should if anything get some of you considering this but I will quite literally put my ass on the line for the 1.5 BTC loan.

Ty for, if nothing else... taking the time to read this.

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Edit: Full details disclosed... figured it's gonna ome ou one way or another and it might help me in some way get the loan. Invoice image removed to protect personal info. Image will / can be provided via PM to genuinely interested lenders, Ty.

I would ike to request a loan of 1.5 BTC to be paid back around April, possibly early May of 2014 if not sooner meaning sometime in late mid to late March.

The reason I am looking for the 1.5 BTC loan is to pre-order 4 more of the prospero X1's from Black Arrow. I already have 6 fully paid for giving a total of 600Ghs at the cost of $1,867. So as you can see, the ability / means to pay back is there with what I have already ordered and paid for in full, the other four units which would give me 400 more Ghs for a total of 1Ths and that only goes to shorten the payback time frame making it sooner rather than later as mentioned above in the first sentence.

Image removed to protect personal info, will provide invoice copy to genuinely interested lenders via PM.

With the four I would be buying with the loan, that will as I just said give me a total of 1Ths, now yes, I know difficulty will be signifigantly higher by this time when the equipment is received sometime in March 2014. However, 1TH of mining though is still more than enough to pay back a 1.5 BTC loan with a gratuity / interest of at least .5 for a total of 2 BTC inside of 30-40 days if not much sooner. This is also why I said it would be paid back by late April, early May 2014. To make sure enough time is had to generate the amount to be paid back plus accomodate any possible shipping delays. Realistically, if the equipment is received by Marh 14th which allows for a little over 2 weeks to deliver with BA's mentioned availability date of 2/24/14. I don't see any reason why the loan shouldnt be paid back by early April, again though to accomodate for any shipping delays and difficulty, this is as I said before why I mention late April, possibly early May.

Now I don't have anything in the way of collateral and I know from your perspective that taking a chance on someone can go either way but you can see I have already put out a signiigant amount of my own money and am just seeking a small investment to increase my power some.

Ty for your time and consideration.

http://www.bitcoindifficulty.com/

I really like what this site shows, but I sorta wished it had a next increase on / in line. Anyone know of any sites that have the info shown on the linked site with the next increase in / on line ?

If I knew the PHP to use I would make my own file that I conrol to show those three lines of info, two on the linked site and next increase line.

If I have wifi upstairs but need it downstairs on a wired only device, what's the best thing to get ? I've looked at things like wifi extenders, bridges and adapters but not sure what exactly it is that I need.

Basically I wana be able to connect some mining hardware I got downstairs to the home network upstairs without the need to run cable.

Ok, so I got to thinking about new mining hardware, electric consumption, breker tripping and all that shit... we've had our fair share of breaker trips due to three rooms bein wired weird. Thats worked around though just by watching what we run.

Anyway, I got to thinking about everything we currently have plugged in with each room and started smellin smoke coming from my ears. I just dont see how we dont trip more with what we use other than thinking each item has low amperage. But this got me to thinking, most people have what... 20amp breakers with about 12+ per panel dependin on the size of your house with usually 1 room to a breaker based on suspected room usage.

So... lets say someone has 4 of those chinese 20 port USB hubs on ebay, each with a 20V 4.5A power supply. That means they would need to have a new breaker put in for those four or spread them out accross different rooms right ? I know that might seem like a dumb question since I did kind of answer it myself stating that mosts houses use 20amp breakers per room but this watching electricity usage is all new to me. So laugh it up or whatever you need to since I know this probably sounds like the bs ramblings of a mad man that has no idea in hell wtf he's talking about but as it stands. Based on the answer I am waiting on about the amperage of the new equipment I plan on getting, I'm thinking I might need to have 2 new 20A breakers added just for the equipment I want to get with room to spare for future adds.

Ok, time to go drown myself in cold water to cool down the brain that has no idea what the hell just went on lol

Edit: Plus you got people who don't generally think about this stuff and get two new 1250w computers in the same room that don't seem to trip, but that could just be luck in hitting two different breakers.