I'll keep an eye out and see what's coming regarding the payout, when the discussion opened I was excited to see what developed but as a few said I voted with my feet and took my 5GH/s elsewhere but I'm interested in coming back depending on what develops.

Ummm, this is somehow news, it's happened many times before with much more than $1M dollars, it's a risky bet in either case but the basic throught process is that if you own the domain that is easily identified with the thing then you will pickup a huge amount of traffic.

I agree with the assessment that Dwolla didn't assume responsibility for people scamming their system and instead placed the blame on the customer, this is something one accepts if they accept credit cards but the sole reason many in the community use Dwolla and one cannot fund Dwolla with credit cards is the risk a merchant assumes, in addition to the fees of course.

I currently use Dwolla to move money between Mt. Gox and my accounts but as of today I'm going to pull back, primarily because I think Dwolla did some underhanded things to try and cover up what happened. In the end they might have done it for survival reasons but it demonstrates a real lack of character and integrity.

I don't have the BTC to spare but I'll go $415 USD.

$400 USD

Are you serious with these comments, you are playing in a market that is disruptive by it's very nature and therefore non-conformist in many ways and you are going to use age as the reason to point out a loss. I'd be more impressed with the fact that a 17 year old is liquid enough to cover his losses.

In short thanks for letting me know I need to keep myself and my resources far away from you.

I've seen a fair bit of traffic since I got into bitcoin talking about encrypting one's wallet if it's used for backup, etc. The initial articel I read indicating Linode was used only to hold a copy of the wallet but in reading the posts it sounds like it was the live wallet used to make transactions on the running systems, I guess I'm curious regarding which it was.

I have the funds to take a lot off your hands if you decide to use multiple buyers at 25K or so but in that other thread you quoted 6990s at about $200 above market price for singles so not sure what your expectations really are.. In any case if you decide to split into a couple of large shipments I'll be standing by..

Interested in both, any bad sectors on the drives?

Well said..

Have 2 OEM 5970 only opened with 2 hour benchmark to make sure they are working..

Sadly between XFX, Sapphire, Gigabyte and MSI cards my only failures have been Sapphire cards. I used to run mostly Sapphire for the reasons mentioned above but have since jumped to XFX and have had much better luck. Might have just been my bad luck but after 3 I decided it was more than that..

Let me be clear then, you used the analogy of new coke specifically referring to a lack of market research.. My point was this very thread is just that so my point was that you are not saying anything that isn't understood yet you tried to make that point in the very thread surveying the pool's userbase (form of market research).

It's funny you say that, I'm by no means unique but I am one of the users that asked to re-evaluate and I'm in the top 25 for all time shares submitted, I've supported Jine since the beginning. I don't think you are saying anything that isn't understand, one of the first methods to determine how the community feels is market research, so here we are (referring to "new coke").

I'm not sure exactly what the best method is but I think something needs to be done, if anything to help stabilize and work to grow bitlc. If miners that are unhappy vote with their feet the pool will definitely loose some real hashing power but I suppose that must be balanced with the fact that right now he attracts a large number of hoppers, is that good for the consistent users, I say no. Is it good for the pool operator, I can't say but I assume because of the 0% fee the answer is no.

I do like the point about hoppers earlier in the thread though, if I were one of the 200+ Gh/s that hops I guess I would vote to stay on the current method.

Jine,

Wondering what your current and long term plans are for pool hopping, I'm watching the hash rate trend from 400+ to 170 or so as a round gets longer and the obvious question is should I bounce on this train also since it appears you have more then 50% of your hash rate hopping.

I'm not using a json config so I'm not sure what that may be. On the latest version it recognizes the config option gpu-vddc but doesn't seem to apply it to my 5970s.

Has any successfully used gpu-vddc on Radeon 5970 cards? The GPU results when looking at details are providing the correct results at 1.050 but if I change the voltage to something else it still reports the stock voltage. I'm running 8 GPUs (4x5970) so I am using Linux due to stability issues in Windows so I cannot use MSI Afterburner or similar Windows tools.

Bad form hijacking a thread about a different exchange to advertise yourself..

You are rationalizing the statistics in a way that does not fit with the very irrational reaction when bitcoin got mainstream press and trended up the way it did.