I was wondering if there were plans to remove old inactive accounts. I know that I've had a couple accounts on bitparking and that I haven't mined on those for a couple months. But when I go to register a new account because of the additional coins (which I'm not complaining about other than the 2 new ones, I can't find an exchange I like for them) I have to come up with some kind of faceroll for a name. I think that as this pool grows, you will have more faceroll names that make no sense to anybody and they will be fairly hard to remember. Just my little thoughts.

How long have you guys been running your block eruptors? I just got mine yesterday and I'm not having an issue. But I'm only running 1 due to a lack of funds. And it took me a long time to get my .6BTC with an Nvidia card.

I'm Ryan. I attended the July (?) monthly meeting at Boulders on Broadway. I am new to this bitcoin thing. I'm the guy who's trying to mine using an Nvidia GTX 560. Since then, I've ordered one USB Block Eruptor and it's being shipped now. Full time student at MCC.

Hopefully that jogged some people's memory. Now on to why I'm posting:

I would like some of you to at least entertain the idea of coming to MCC and giving a small talk/presentation on bitcoin. Just start off with the basics and talk for maybe 45 minutes or so. I would love to see a Raspberry Pi or something similar hooked up to a couple of the block eruptors and have them mining for the talk. I know that there is at least one person on here selling a set up like that. I just can't remember who. Anyways, if someone would be interested in doing it, please get back to me. I am thinking sometime in September or October. Maybe we could work something out where you (the presenter) would divy out the BTC mined during the talk (it would increase interest in BTC) in exchange for food at the school. We might be able to get our hands on some petty cash to have some food delivered.

Anyways, I hope that this interests some of you. Get in touch with me and let me know. Thanks.

Ryan

I've seen good things with people working with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and cgminer. But seeing as how Mint is also a debian variant, I'm not sure why it wouldn't work. If you are trying to steer clear of Ubuntu like I am, try it on just plain old Debian Wheezy. It's the same commands as you're used to with Mint. But to get the funcitonality of Mint with all of the media working "out of the box", you'll have to install all the packages for it including the restricted extras. Just my 2 cents though.

I've got an iMac white that I can only mine with the CPU. Any suggestions on altcoins and pools I should join? it's running 10.6 right now.

I'm looking at your site and of the spare phones I have, it offeres me 0.00000000 BTC for one and $30 for another. The payment methods are paypal or to donate it.... Am I missing something here?

Edit: BTC address: 131RwCXn6HGwxVf4bL6eADSJCg45BNLk8T 

It's got me thinking about DDOS attacks and what they are really capable of doing to a crypto currency.

is vircurex down or is it just me?