Mining is no longer profitable.  GTFO, casuals.

Is it the validation code, or a physical box+DVD?

Too much network capacity right now, and my lowly 1.3 GH/s doesn't go as far as it used to.  I hope this downward trend in BTC price (are we calling it a correction yet?) leads to shake out of the casuals and fly-by-nighters.

Oh hey look, bitrebel just discovered Wikipedia.

So much for "difficulty follows price... with a lag" 

What kind of PSU do you have?

Damn, that's some vintage stuff right there.  $300 is low IMHO.

415 MH/s @ 950MHz with what config?  It takes me 1010-1020MHz to hit that MH/s number.

WTF, I was getting 495 MH/s @ 985/300 for about an hour.  I'm not sure what it is I did, but was mining Namecoins in GUIminer, then switched back to mining Bitcoins with Phoenix.  I've done it 2 or 3 times now and it will mine around 495 MH/s for about an hour before it locks up.  I wish I could repro this stably.

Finally a new round!

SPEND $10K TO BUILD A SYSTEM THAT WILL MINE 700 BTC/DAY WITH BREAK-EVEN TIME OF 12 YEARS





OMG YOUR TWO $110 5830'S WILL TAKE 60 DAYS TO PAY OFF! MINING IS NO LONGER PROFITABLE

I love it when people wait until mining is finally profitable to post these "zomg mining is no longer profitable" threads.

Yeah I don't think this is going to be a hugely successful thread heh

lol probably true.

Damn, that's a nice looking watch.

1,000 BTC might buy you a half a slice of laszlo's pizza

Yes it was.  Before GPU mining came along, in order to increase your hashing power, you had to buy more CPUs, which meant an additional mobo/PSU/memory/etc.  And back then top of the line Core i7s were (still are) more expensive than 6990s... yet people still did it.

No idea.  I'm guessing some time in 2009?

niemivh, the simple solution to this "insurmountable problem" is to mine your coins and wait til they're valuable enough to cover your HW cost and THEN sell them.

Because Canada is in Europe.