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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do we get the women on board?
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on: July 28, 2011, 11:27:58 PM
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If women want to buy shoes, purses, jewelry, makeup etc... Then let them. I'm not arguing women aren't different from men; They are like day and night when it comes to purchase patterns.
Men don't give a shit about purses and makeup, and women don't give a shit about electrical stuff or hardware. I find myself unfortunate to love ALL that stuff. I got as excited at the $189 5870 at NewEgg as I did when I found out that Dillard's started carrying MAC cosmetics (Lip Glass ftw!!) lol that just means that I'm always going to be one broke mouse. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 6,072,279.6165 bitcoin transaction HOW THE F...
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on: July 28, 2011, 05:15:50 PM
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Well, I don't see any multimillion transactions (and there isn't any on blockexplorer), only some ~ 100k ones repeating. I guess someone is flooding the bitcoin network with transactions  Btw, how much can you flood the network? Just generate shitloads of transactions. Would that be effective strategy to slow down the bitcoin network? That'd be one expensive DDoS. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do we get the women on board?
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on: July 28, 2011, 05:05:21 PM
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I'm going to say we shouldn't get the women onboard for now.
First impression makes a big difference and if the first few women decides the experience's awful, you can be sure the power of the Women's p2p network will pretty much give Bitcoin a stinking reputation that would take years to overcome.
There's nothing wrong with Bitcoin right now. However, we lack the infrastructure to make online BTC transactions as seemless and user-friendly as using Paypal, let alone buying things at B&M shops. I think one big piece of the puzzle we're missing is a Paypal-like entity to serve as a kind of escrow-slash-exchange which will encourage people to actually use their Bitcoins to buy things without fear of getting scammed. Add to that a secure, easy to use mobile app for POS transactions and we're almost "there". That's it... so simple, but yet as with many other things in life, simple doesn't necessarily mean easy. Whether you're a guy or a girl at this point in the game is largely irrelevant IMHO. |
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Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: 190$
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on: July 28, 2011, 05:25:56 AM
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so would it be a waist of money now, to buy the graphic's card?
the only way it would be a waste of money is if bitcoins collapse before you mine enough to pay off your card. if we assume that bitcoin will survive for at least the next year you *should* make profit from your card - eventually. just ballpark figures and napkin math here, but... lets say for $190 you could get a card that does around 300 MHash/sec (very conservative estimate) using deepbit's calculator you could expect to make 0.16 BTC per day.. as of right now mtgox has BTC at 13.7 so you would pay off your card in 86.7 days. p.s. these calculations depend on the price of BTC and the change in difficulty. p.p.s. I didn't add electricity into the equation. I don't pay for electricity, so I have no idea how much that might add to your costs.  ^^ while technically correct, this is probably NOT the line of logic you want to follow. If we all followed this advice, the early adopters (you know, the ones mining hundreds and sometimes thousands of Bitcoins per DAY) should have just shut their machines down and quit mining since it would have taken them 20+ YEARS to pay off their machines. |
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Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [~5000 Gh/s] DeepBit.net PPS+Prop,instant payouts, we pay for INVALID BLOCKS too
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on: July 27, 2011, 07:34:01 PM
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Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on. DEFINITELY not complaining tho. Is the 24h average correct? Cause in the last 24h box, I'm 2BTC over what I normally get in a normal 24h timeframe. Even tho the statistics page says -% luck. Even the estimate PPS calculator is bringing up what my 'old' BTC (-alittle bit) estimate is around. Well, whatever it is... KEEP IT UP!!!! Did the difficulty drop? Maybe my time machine is working.  Wait, you made 2 full BTC more than usual? Geez, you must be putting down close to 13 GH/s. |
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Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: How can you know which GPUs work as mining hardware?
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on: July 27, 2011, 05:26:43 PM
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Also dont expect to get the highest numbers you see on the hardware charts.. many of these people got lucky with their cards and can overclock even more.. not even all saphire cards are the same when it comes to overclocking.. some batches of the exact same card are better than others. I usually have no problem hitting the max hashrates reported in the Wiki, if not exceeding them. I figure I must have gotten lucky with my GPUs. |
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Oh well, I already got a Sapphire Xtreme 5850 last weekend from Craigslist. These cards FLY. OC to 1000+ easy at over 400 MH/s. Get them while you can!
