Hi,

I've got a spare key for Supreme Commander 2 on Steam

$5 in Bitcoin

If you have no trust then you can go first

Hi All,

I have for sale my partner's laptop that she bought a few months ago
It's a MSI GE60 2PL and it's in pretty much brand new condition

She bought it to play Dragon Age Inquisition on our holidays and finished the game now so doesn't need it anymore
Runs pretty much any game you throw at it.. more details are here on the actual model

http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GE60-2PL-Apache.html

Not really interested in sending it outside Australia and pickup (Sydney) would be highly preferred
Escrow is fine also for other states

These retail new right now for $1299 so looking for AU$1100 negotiable in equivalent Bitcoin of course

Hi All,

I'll be travelling over the Holiday break to a few different countries and want to take a few Bitcoins to try and spend

A few of the places I will be going are

Zurich
London
Reykjavik
Montreal
New York

Just wondering if anyone knows any good places in these parts of the world?

Mostly looking for things like Restaurants, Groceries and retail stores etc

Thanks

Andreas Antonopoulos is in Australia talking about Bitcoin

A story has made it onto the front page on one of our biggest online news sites

http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/bitcoin-dont-write-it-off-just-yet/story-e6frfmci-1227135549492

What do you all think of the article?

Hi,

Looking to buy an upgrade to Warlords of Draenor and some gametime

This will be for US region

Thanks,

As per the title after SC2 Heart of the Swarm

Will be doing this with Escrow only
Let me know if anyone has any offers?

Thanks,

Mining is in a tough spot right now.. I've been doing some calculations and for the most part if you want to come out ahead.. It just better to buy the Bitcoins and hold onto them

Here is a fairly accurate estimate of what you might make mining with the following parameters
If you want a faster or slower speed you can just divide or multiply the results

The thing is if the miner you want to buy is more than the BTC listed here.. You're better off buying the coins

Bitcoins Mined up to = 31/12/2014
Speed = 1000GHS
Power Cost = Not Even factored into these calculations because it's different for everyone

Average Difficulty Increase over the entire period

10% - 6.68643026BTC
12.5% - 5.76693502BTC
15% - 5.04956851BTC
17.5% - 4.48134362BTC
20% - 4.02480813BTC
22.5% - 3.65311067BTC
25% - 3.34673347BTC

If you want to estimate there will be a 15% average increase then if you paid 5.04956851 x $445 (Current Rate) = $2247USD you would break even on the miner itself.. without factoring power costs..

Unless my calculations are off this is quite depressing
The numbers look even worse for the Spondoolies group buy that just finished also

Of course if the BTC decides to rise then these figures become much more favourable...

Looking for a legitimate Windows 8 or 8.1 Pro Key

Message me with your offers

BTC via Escrow will be the transaction method for this one

Thanks,

Hi All,

I have a deal if anyone is interested in purchasing 2 miners that I currently have hosted with pcfli.

This thread is where all the information is
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514758.msg6347089#msg6347089

The good part about this is they are already online and running so as soon at the BTC is transferred he can change them to your account and you're ready to mine

I'm offering them for $2700 in equivalent Bitcoins at the time of sale and I'm even happy for you to send them to pcfli as the Escrow Agent
That's a $50 discount and no need to wait for delivery

I will be paying the hosting fee's up to the date of sale and the purchasers will start theirs from that date

Let me know if anyone is interested

Thanks,

Hypothetically what would stop something like the following being a real possibility in making the acceptance of Bitcoin a bit easier for Merchants

Having a Bitcoin "Credit Card" embedded with a static public address.. magnetically coded into the card like we have now
Having an organisation that works like an Exchange and can hold your Bitcoins on that address but also work as a type of "backup" if your payment doesn't go through

You could pay with 0 confirmations and the company would take the risk if for whatever reason the transaction doesn't go through..but charge an extra small fee for each transaction to cover the costs if they can't recoup them from the user

Of course there would be all the security concern on signup but it wouldn't be any different for signing up for a normal credit card

Magnetic readers are a dime a dozen it wouldn't be hard to set one up to transfer to a specific account with a displayed read out etc..

What's everyone's opinion?

Hi All,

Looking to sell my 3 Antminer S1's

I'm located in Sydney Australia and would prefer the buyer be local.
If I have to send them anywhere Australia would also be preferable.

Escrow will be fine with a reputable person

Will take COD for them
BTC or Bank Transfer

Looking for around $620 AUD for each but open to offers

The one on the left is not overclocked
The middle one in the middle is a 368 - 190GHS
And the one of the right is 375 - 195GHS

So stay with me here on this post and I will try and articulate my point the best I can for discussion.

I was watching this video on Youtube and it got me thinking about how we mine our Bitcoins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zShHRkwSoI

The central premise is that Trees don't necessarily have to be as tall as they are.. and from an evolutionary standpoint it's not advantageous as it required extra energy to send the water and nutrients further and further up the trunk to the light collecting leaves and branches..
During it's evolution though the trees that grew a bit taller than the others were able to collect more sunlight and able to have more energy to grow taller while shading the trees below.
Fast forward a few billion years and and you can see the outcome now as we have extremely tall tree's with no sign of the small ones that came before them..

Please also keep in mind I understand there are thousands of varieties of trees, plants etc I'm just referring to the varieties that are tall now..

And if you think about this in relation to Bitcoin mining we are going down the same path. If you think of it this way that amount of Bitcoins mined per 2016 blocks is roughly always going to be the same no matter what speed the network is at the moment. The security of SHA256 is rock solid whether you have 1 Petahash for 100 Petahash of speed.

We are slowly creating an environment where it's harder and harder for an average person to be able to enter the Bitcoin network in the terms of being able to use a Miner that is
A. Relatively low on power consumption
B. Has a decent Hash rate compared to the current difficulty of the network
And this is where I believe the this analogy comes into play.. The people with the resources to mine at high speeds and afford the power costs are the trees that grow a bit taller. They are the ones that are collecting more of the Sunlight (Bitcoins) are able to expend more of that energy growing even taller (more mining speed) and you see where I'm going with this.
Until we have a network that only contains tall trees and the smaller will no longer and can no longer exist.

Wouldn't it be ideal if like in the Video we have a Bitcoin Network of Friendship.. an agreement that we only each need to mine at a certain speed to make it available for everyone to be able into the Bitcoin network. I know something like this would never happen and it's sad to say I think it's purely greed that fuels the expansion of the network. You can see all over the boards as soon as the price rises of drops sharply there are posts all over these boards about why the VALUE of Bitcoin should be X or Y against the VALUE of Fiat currency. In a perfect network though It should really have very little effect on the core premise that Bitcoin should replace this.. not be compared to.. But this is just human nature I can't say I'm not guilty of looking at it this way sometimes as well.

I can't wait for the day where I can buy my weekly train ticket that costs $28 AUD for 0.00000028 Bitcoins

What do you all think of this?
I'm not looking for the solutions to all the problems just a discussion that might bring up new ideas

Thanks,

Hi All,

Looking for a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 .. doesn't have to be new

Criteria is
- Has to be unlocked and available to be used in Australia
- In Good condition
- No other payment method other than Bitcoins with Escrow

As a FYI I can get a new one for $569 AUD which i'll do if there aren't any offers

Thanks,

Hi All,

Not sure if its just the graph not updating but the 504 Block Gen time has dropped significantly as a percentage over the past little while

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

What could be the cause of this?
Are we at the end of the rush of miners coming online?

Thanks,

Hi All,

Being new to Bitcoin still I made a mistake and put my trust in a group buy that I shouldn't have
The thread is in the Hardware/Mining/Groupbuy forums if you want to look it up

I was an honest and civil as I could be and despite a few people being the opposite of that I have resigned to the fact that he isn't coming back

In lieu of that and still being new I wanted to track down what actually happened with the Bitcoins that were transferred to him

This was the address I transferred a total of 1.8BTC to https://blockchain.info/address/17pjDTzcLzMbsvFHD5yHSJvpSVMuMxnomm
And it shows 1 of those BTCs being spent. Does that mean he transferred it to another account?

This is also the account he is still using his miners on 14An2Q3wUtzcpCAD3Qt4AzUyLPGcdqiyrN on Eligius
Is there anything that can be done with that?

What has everyone that's gone through something like this done?
I'm going to assume though its a live and learn situation

Thanks in advance

I'm looking for a fairly new Android Phone

Something similar to the S4.. or Galaxy Note 2 etc

The conditions would have to be that it's completely unlocked
Compatible with Australian networks
In good condition

If you have something let me know and your price in BTC

Thanks,

Hi All,

I have 3 Antminer S1's running in conjunction and they are getting a bit loud
Unfortunately I have no where else to put them in a living area no matter where you go you can hear them

Has anyone successfully changed to fans that were quieter?
If so do they push the same airflow through as the stock ones?

A question as well I noticed both fan connections are the 4 PIN PWM type but the pins are quite close to the edge
I've been looking through a lot of fans and its very rare to find one with this connection.. even an adapter is hard to find

My second question would be if I just replaced the fans with a case fan (normal molex connection)
Would the unit freak out that it had no fans connected and not turn on?

Hopefully someone can  help

Thanks,