Good looking site you have here.  I noticed you doing some sort of affiliate program...guess I'll have to register to get more details.  Seems to be a pretty popular way to try and bring in more potential business.

I seriously doubt they will go for less than 5-7% above whatever current market price is.  Thinking a premium will be involved because the big buyers will know without any doubt the coins will be received.  Interesting site though.

Trying to take a quick look at it.  If this is 4X as fast I would've hate to have tried loading the old page.

*it just came up.

Very nice.  Clean and to the point.  I like it.

lol...boy I guess I just picked the wrong time to try out this pool's sha256 situation.  Talk about bad timing.  I'll give it another go this evening seeing as how it looks like everything is back up!

The short answer is no.  With the wealth of ad-signature campaigns going on right now on bitcointalk is by far a better payoff.

Welcome to the bitcoin community.  Aforementioned link suggestions are all good.  Would like to add Coindesk for good daily summary of goings ons in bitcoin ecosystem.

http://www.coindesk.com/

Given the amount of potential growth between the two I think I will stick with bitcoin thank you very much.

Great idea!  Education obviously needed.  My personal experience with people's attitudes regarding bitcoin I found very much inline with the CoinDesk article findings.  Education is always the key to dispelling fears based completely in ignorance.

Wish you all the best with your non-profit venture.

I myself have a couple of S1's running.  They are highly reliable and relatively easy to setup.  What the fella above mentions is true about being "better off" just purchasing some coins if your trying to make any real money but technically speaking you could earn a couple of cent's off a usb nanofury once your grand children have children and they too get old :p

Kidding aside, without overclocking you'll earn a little over half a bit penny per day at 180GH.  ~0.0065/day, and this next difficulty jump is a big one.

imho the title of OP should've been 'Be wary of buying the Any Miner' with the amount of Hash being added to the network of late.

Wouldn't recommend anymore than a 10/90 distribution (10% mining, 90% purchasing) at this point.  Difficulty jumps are getting pretty serious again and more than likely will be for next 6-9 months at least.  If profit is your motive mining sure ain't the answer.

Just got a response from Alpha-t regarding my asking for refund options.  According to the e-mail since I placed the order > 5 months ago I basically don't have any :/

Kind of curious given I made final 70% payment within the last few weeks.  Getting the feeling I won't be seeing these satoshi's again :/

Slippery slope bitcoin has entered insofar as Canada is concerned.  Will be interesting to see what other "developed nations" take from this if anything.

Transactions take place nice and fast but personally I'm not seeing much profit-incentive to continue mining this coin.  Will continue to do so for a few days to generate a couple of coins to sit on long term just in case it goes anywhere.

My [Open Orders] doesn't seem to be getting updated.  PM sent

Haven't heard anything.  And now it's looking as though he's MIA yet again! 

Confirmed.  I'm seeing it now.

Sure enough.  Will be shutting my square beauties down next jump.  Electric only 0.07/kw hour too :/

Oh well, maybe I'll get to turn them back on someday when bitcoin spikes again (yeah baby)

Jesus H. Christ somebody stop doctor evil here!!

Nice to see a little price stability...relatively speaking of course.

Have you done any sort of automated stress testing to test the upper thresholds for simultaneous users and trades executed at one time?

Maximum # of coins, users and trades/sec. capable of being executed on what kind of hardware type of data?