As most of know the us dollar has lost spending power ever since the Federal Reserve (A group of private banks) took over printing the dollar. With QE unlimited and no gold standard seems it will only get worse. Could the national debt have something to do with it?

Agentina is dealing with similar issues right now with their peso.

It happened right before WW2 in Germany with the Weimar Republic and then 2008 with Zimbabwe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe

Whats stopping history from repeating itself by having another hyperinflation incident but this time with the US Dollar?

Are are so many good documentaries out there i figured we should share our favorites.

1. Inside Job
2. King Corn
3. Farmageddon
4. The four horsemen
5. Who killed the electric car
6. Yes men
7. Supersize me
8. Super High me
9. The union

With so many mass shootings here in America and abroad, many are quick to say banning of certain firearms is the right way to approach this issue. Though where you find heavy control on firearms you find higher levels of stabbings, death by hammers and clubbings.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/03/FBI-More-People-Killed-With-Hammers-and-Clubs-Each-Year-Than-With-Rifles

Then when you look deep into the mass shootings you often find these active shooters were on, or got off shortly ago psychoactive synthetic pharmaceutical drugs.

http://www.ssristories.org/

http://www.sott.net/article/279716-Nearly-every-mass-shooting-in-the-last-20-years-shares-one-thing-in-common-and-it-isnt-weapons

Funny how the media almost never makes those correlations.

IMO: These pharmaceuticals affect peoples brains much more than what we currently understand with science, and society thinks we can help the sick by just prescribing them these new drugs (created in the last 50 years.) But then wonder why people lose their mind.

Alot of us bought BTC when they were *cheap* and been holding them since. Hoping they will keep climbing in value. And at the same time many altcoins rise and fall, people buying low and selling high, or even shorting BTC on sites like Bitfinex... Or mining new coins and then dump them as soon as they hit the market. There are also many securities out there to invest in like ASICMINER and HAVELOCK and now some mutual fund types investing in many altcoins, bitcoin and shares in crypto companies.

I am not talking soo much about Pool operators, or people with massive ASIC/FPGA/GPU/Rent-A-Server Farms, nor people that are just hodling. Looking for people invested in buying, holding and selling coins short / semi long term and or buying securities in groups that mine and give out dividends on their output.

With all these options out there, to invest in. Where you can possibly get a monthly, annual dividends, or as stated trade on the exchanges. Has anyone made this their full time job and been successful at it?

Certain names come to mind like Chris Dunn and Johnny Roquemore.

[Cloakcoin:]

It seems there is alot of argument of which coins are "better" though each have their pros and cons. One is more established, the other has some features promised with new technology. See below for the Pros and Cons i have found for each, if you can give me more to add to the list i will. But please provide sources to the information you are giving.

Cloakcoin:


Pros:

Trading volume is much higher around 3 times the amount. https://coinmarketcap.com/
Uses a architecture for anonymity. See PoSA, Point of Stake Anonymity. https://mega.co.nz/#!1c9UnKBI!BdEaoBuYDAr5F4nwltpYjYNOrZt7Jretk07eGc-oPDc
Cloaktrade: Working on an exchange system built into wallet using an API code from Bittrex. http://altcoinstrader.com/cloakcoin-cloak-announcements/
Has a feature of Stealth Addresses. http://sx.dyne.org/stealth.html
Plans on having a built in Marketplace on the wallet called OneMarket http://www.cryptoarticles.com/crypto-news/cloakcoin-development-update-onemarket-posa-oneledger-ciara

Cons:

Traded on fewer exchanges. http://bitinfocharts.com/darkcoin/
The developers are completely anonymous.
Cloakcoin ANN on Bitcointalk is self moderated, many critical comments have been deleted. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=637704.0
Very short mining period, Mining will stop after 10080 blocks (7 days). https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=637704.0

Dark Coin:


Pros:

Is more established, has been around since January 2014. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.0
Has a higher Market Cap of currently 20 Million dollars. https://coinmarketcap.com/
Very low bloat in the blockchain. http://wiki.darkcoin.eu/wiki/FAQ#Is_Darkcoin_going_to_implement_ring_signatures.3F
A higher network hashrate. http://bitinfocharts.com/darkcoin/
Is more commonly known in the crypto community and social media. http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=darkcoin&q2=cloakcoin&via=Topsy


Cons:


Was instamined over 2 million DRK on launch, due to only a few having access to the windows mining client and not publicly released for some time. And due to problems with the difficulty readjustment. http://wiki.darkcoin.eu/wiki/FAQ#Was_Darkcoin_Instamined.3F

XCurrency:


Pros:

Known dev team http://xc-official.com/the-xc-team/
Decentralised trustless Privacy in several layers, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=630547.0
Encrypted messaging XChat https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=630547.msg8119953#msg8119953
multi-path implementation that employs multi-sig to route fragments of transactions down separate paths through the network, compounding anonymity while adding redundancy and security http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/xcurrency-unveils-cryptographic-privacy-technology-wake-nsa-xkeyscore-outrage/2014/07/04

Cons:


Premine of 125k (2.27% of all coins to exist in the form of a premine) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=630547.18800
ANN on Bitcointalk is also self moderated (after unmoderated thread turned into a fud fest, so requested by community) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=630547.0

Supercoin:


Pros:

Supersend feature http://cryptocoins.co/supercoin-supersend-feature
POS superblocks http://cointelegraph.com/news/112195/supercoin-a-trustless-decentralized-anonymous-p2p-network

Cons:

Supersend based on Coinjoin www.super-coin.net/SuperSend.pdf

It would seem the price of the R9's should be dropping soon, states Forbes..

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/05/13/retail-pricing-for-radeon-r9-graphics-cards-back-to-normal-amd-promises-stability/

Im glad, ive been waiting for this.. but the 290X's still in the $500 range ill wait.

Whats with the low intensity mining requirement in alot of altcoins?

Lottocoin gets HW errors over 11
Mincoin and Grandcoin are the same way.

Bitcoin and Litecoin do not have this issue, as long as your video card does not overheat I19 works good.

Any experience with mining two alt coins at the same time both using Cgminer?

I have found with lottocoin you cannot set the intensity higher than 11, leaving alot of bandwidth in my video cards to mine something else. I tried running a 2nd cgminer of lottocoin but it dropped both my hash rates.

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Hello all,

I am looking to trade 50 xpm for .1btc

Any takers?

I have two 6900s yielding about 900kh, using about 700w of power. With current power costs it seems i would be loosing a couple dollars a day.

With the price not rising and the difficulty rising is anyone else feeling this pain?

I thought this is some premined coin, why is it 2nd to BTC right now?

Hello all,

I remember a thread of a pool where you could connect to one pool, and the pool would decide which currency to mine based on which is the most profitable at the time. And then whatever you earn is exchanged for BTC.

I looked over the Pools but cannot find it anymore, is that pool still around?

EDIT: found it.... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=259649.0

I am taking it the blades put out more heat than the usb miners. Only operating about about 120w i would think not so much.

What about the usb miners? Do they get warm to the touch? Need a fan blowing on them?

With pictures like these i would say quite a bit:

Hello All,

Since stopping BTC mining i have redirected my GPUs to mine LTC. I have about 50 LTC that i would like to trade for BTC. Anyone would like to trade or point me to a good place to do the trade?

Hello all,

I may have acquired 5-6 VisionTek Radeon 7000 64mb PCI cards (VT-RAD7K). They are not supported by windows 7 so i would have to run them on XP or Linux.

I looked in the mining comparisons but no one has seemed to log these cards. And search here did not find anything. Does anyone have experience trying to use these, and 5-6 of them on a single rig?

Edit: i found this thread but it does not say if it works or not.... just speculation.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=32239.0

So i am building a new rig with two 5870s/6870s and i followed the guide below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gw7YPYgMgNNU42skibULbJJUx_suP_CpjSEdSi8_z9U/preview?sle=true

once i use command

Code:

./cgminer -n

i get Segmentation Fault (core dumped).

I have tried:

Recompiling CGMINER
Removed flgrx deps and upgraded to Video driver 13.1
Reinstalled SDK 2.5
Restarted many times.. can only get to --help nowhere else in cgminer.

I have searched this issue and it seems no one gives an answer to what is causing this.. i have followed others instructions to no avail.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170273.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89302.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201840.0

Update: Now reinstalling ubuntu and trying new guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175757.msg1829691#msg1829691

I have recently installed a 3rd video card in my ATX case rig, since then the new card and the card below it have been overheating.. Before i put the 3rd card in i could hover around 80-85c without issue. Now im over 95c on two cards with the new setup. See pictures below, the new card is quite wedged in there, there is no more room for anything else. I run my case fans at 100% and the GPU fans kick up to 100% without making much of a difference.

Why is the autogpu and tempoverheat commands not working? I specified the temp-overheat at 90 and i thought the auto-gpu option is suppose to back down timing to lower temps?

Code:

cgminer --scrypt -o [address] -u [username] -p [password] --thread-concurrency=8000 -w 256 -I 16 --temp-overheat 90 --auto-gpu --auto-fan

As you can see i probably have no more than 5mm of space where the middle card is (Powercolor 7790) and the two cards at the top and bottom are 6950s.

I just heard on some MSM TV channel that AMDs stock is going up and up right now, in about the last 3 months. Could anyone speculate this is due to more GPU miners coming into the game?

The news station stated its due to them getting on competitive on the gaming scene, though i dont think that is the case. The Nvidia titan card has been kicking ass for awhile...

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AMD+Interactive#symbol=amd;range=3m;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/AMD

As most have heard Gox has been under a slew of DDOS attacks, and lvl 7 app attacks at that.

Has Gox or Ozcoin, or others been able to find the group responsible? Or maybe a pool of IPs from a certain ISP that is responsible for attacks?

*tinfoil hat on* or maybe Gox is working with hacker group as some sort of inside trading affecting price *tinfoil hat off*