Well this stinks! Time to find an alternate pool  

Stats seem down, get this msg now: "Stats offline temporarily! Please check back shortly! - wizkid057 "

My Miner isn't getting work reliably from Eligius. Number of shares not increasing despite a hashrate of 1.8 GH/s. Tried both 3334 and 8337. Not sure what's happening.

BFGMiner is reporting things like:

"Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us"
and
"Rejected xxxxx OCL 0 pool 0- Diff xxxx (unknown-work)"

At the end of the day, whether you believe BFL to be real or a scam, either way it's only speculation. At best, just an educated guess. Same goes for the whole BTC market. As as with trading fiat currency and stocks/bonds, never invest more than you're prepared to lose.

So which wallet are people using?

I know there's the "official" Bitcoin-Qt, but also Electrum, Armory, MultiBit, etc. So far, I've been using Qt but am getting annoyed at the transaction fees I have been paying to send BTC.

Any suggestions, and please give a reason. Thanks!

I don't think this is true. The manufacturer's web page for this motherboard states:

- 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE2/PCIE4: single at x16 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE4) or dual at x8/x8 mode)
- 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (PCIE5: x4 mode)
- 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot
- 1 x mini-PCI Express slot
- 2 x PCI slots

They also state: "Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, CrossFireX™ and NVIDIA® Quad SLI™, SLI™"

To support quad SLI/xfire, you will need 4 slots. This would be the two PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots, the one PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot, and the one PCI-E 2.0 x1 slot. Note that for mining purposes, it doesn't matter if it is a v3.0 or v2.0 slot, and it doesn't matter if it is a x16, x8, x4, or x1. Bandwidth does not matter for GPU mining, only core clock speeds.

You could get a "riser card" to convert the PCI-E 2.0 x1 slot into a x16 slot with one of these:
http://dx.com/p/pci-e-1x-to-16x-riser-card-extension-cable-15-5cm-length-100061

Then plug your GPU into that riser card, and you'd be good to go. Similar to what this guy did:
http://home.comcast.net/~smklear/milk2.jpg

Would love to see this! Can you post some pics of your setup?

All businesses are ponzi schemes, in a way. What I mean is, they sell a product/service, generate revenue. That revenue is needed to pay their staff, overhead (electric bill, office space, taxes, etc), and that revenue is necessary to fund parts necessary to build more product to sell.

As with all ponzi schemes, if new customers stop buying into the scheme, the ponzi scheme falls apart. Well, if new customers stop buying a product/service, then that business also falls apart.

Now I'm not really suggesting that all businesses are ponzi schemes, but my point is that depending on how you define a ponzi scheme, all legitimate businesses could be classified as such. Obviously, most rationale people would not consider legitimate businesses as ponzi schemes. What distinguishes a true ponzi is that the "product" or "service" does not really exist. Madoff's ponzi was reporting profits that did not exist, and distributing profits that did not exist (he was just giving customers other people's money).

We know BFL jala exists. We have seen it on Youtube and developers' reviews.

Thanks Keyur. I can confirm that my $10 has been credited to my CampBX acct. And yes on the Transfer page it states:

"You can click on the link below to go to Dwolla page for CampBX and initiate a deposit. Dwolla deposits and withdrawals are processed every 6 hours. Please do not delete the system-generated comments (Username and Email) from the 'Details' field, otherwise your deposit may be delayed."

This info should also be included in your FAQ, IMHO.

Just tried depositing $10 from Dwolla into CampBX, to test the waters. Dwolla lists the deposit as sent and completed. My CampBX account still hasn't shown the money in my balance.

I read their website's FAQ, and nowhere does it state how long a Dwolla deposit would take to get credited.

Gotta say I was using BFGMiner with Eligius 8337 port and was getting very variable hash rates. For some reason was getting a lot of old work and rejected shares. Then recently just found out that stratum was working on 3334, and now my hash rates are high, stable, and mining is way more efficient!

I'm a late-comer to the Bitcoin world, and worried about all ASICs, as I'm sure many are. Especially when (some say IF) the 1500 GH/s miners are shipped.

Currently, I spent $800 to get two 7970s, which are giving me an aggregate of 1.2 GH/s hash rate. This is about 0.001 of the total hash rate of my current pool (Eligius, ~1500 GH/s), and 0.000015 of the total hash rate of the entire network (Blockchain.info, ~76,730 GH/s).

For the same $800, you could be lucky enough to get three 5 GH/s miners from BFL, netting you 15 GH/s or 12.5x my current hash rate. I'm sure there are early adopters out there who can afford the 50 or 1500 GH/s units that BFL is selling.

I wonder what my future hash rate will have to be in order to maintain the status quo (ie. keeping my hash rate 0.001 of my pool, and 0.000015 of the entire network) once ASICs are out in force. Even if you are skeptical of BFL, I'm worried that I have to buy an ASIC just to "maintain the status quo." I'm not trying to get rich, I'm just trying to stay above water!

Or maybe this is like Wargames movie with Matthew Broderick ... the only way to win, is not to play.

Nice update! Bitcoin donation sen, though admittedly it isn't much (just started BTC mining)!

Through fire and water. From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak, I hashed him, the Bitcoin Block of Morgoth. Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the block chain.

Darkness took me then. And I strayed out of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead and everyday was as long as a a life-age of GPU cycles. But it was not the end. I felt light in me again. I've been sent back to hash some more, until ASICs kick my azz.

LOL you rock! Not to give you more work ... but while you're at it, you can make CGRemote into an iOS or Android app and sell it in their respective marketplaces!  

PS> @katie ... currently I'm using LogMeIn which is free, to remotely log in and check on my miner. Not as elegant a weapon for a civilized age as CGWatcher however.

Got a pair of 7970s running at core 1075 (stock 1000 Mhz) and memory 1200 (stock 1425), stock volts. Card is voltage-locked unfortunately. But I cannot get memory ro run at less than 1200. Any lower, and system crashes.

Any idea why? Others seem stable at much lower memory underclocks!

Ah thanks for the clarification. So I should be fine using stratum with BFGMiner and -o stratum+tcp://mining.eligius.st:3334 then?

I've been mining at a constant rate, but my Unpaid Balance is static (or sometimes decreasing!), while my Shelved Shares are increasing! Can someone explain why I have been mining for past 12 hours but my Unpaid Balance is not going up?

Also, I understand stratum is not working on Eligius?

I thought Eligius was one of the bigger mining pools out there? But I dont see them even listed on this graph:

http://blockchain.info/pools?timespan=4days

What pools are other people using?

Agree with above poster. I have a desktop PC for my own use (gaming, etc), and a separate dedicated headless miner. I have BFGMiner running on the miner, and I have CG Watcher running on my desktop PC.

If I manually run BFGMiner on my headless miner with --api-allow W:192.168.10.69 (the local IP of my desktop PC), and configure CG Watcher on my desktop PC with miner address of 192.168.10.51 (the local IP of my headless miner) ... nothing happens.

But, if I run a copy of BFGMiner on my desktop PC, then CG Watcher will pick up stats on the headless miner!

If I'm interpreting this right ... I do have CG Watcher and BFG correctly configured, but CG Watcher won't search for remote data, because it thinks BFG is not running on the local environment (ie my local desktop), even though BFG is running on the headless miner that I've set it to monitor.

Confusing, no?

I would guess that a 240V outlet would have a higher ampere circuit breaker attached to it. If so, a lot of computer power supplies are capable of handling 240V. Example:

http://www.seasonicusa.com/NEW_X-series_1050-1250.htm