There are many ways that I could possibly recover my bitcoins but the fact is that I need to track down the thief first anyway so there really is no point to going into detail about it here.  Please, if you don't have anything to contribute to my original question then don't post in this thread.

 Ohh...don't mind me..I'm not trying to troll.. but I have a few suggestions...

If that is a cement floor..you should raise them up a bit.  It's too easy for bugs to get in your plants if they can just walk right in the drain holes.  

Here's what I would do... get a bunch of wood pallets and lay them on the floor to keep your shit off the ground.  I would also get some of those round plastic 4 foot wide kiddie pools, put that on top of a pallet to raise it off the ground,  and put your plants in there.  Makes it soooo much easier to catch the runoff when you water your girls.  You don't want the water to run onto the floor and create a breeding habitat for bugs and mold.

The roots will even thrive and grow right out of the pot bottoms if you keep a bit of water / hydro solution in the pool.  

Put your 600-1kw MH for veg or your HPS for flower on top and you're good to go.  It's kind of a hydroponic / soil hybrid solution that works great!  When you water your plants, most will drain out the holes in the pots at first...but if you leave some in the pool, it will suck it back up to fully moisten the soil.  Water often and make sure the same water don't stay stagnant in the pool for long.

But I don't know anything about this stuff so I'm just guessing.  

Check the manual for the Mobo, do a BIOS reset, try to boot from scratch with all cards installed at the same time (slots 1-3-5).  If that doesn't work RMA the board or call MSI directly and see if the techs can help out.  I have 2 of those same boards and one of my friends has another one...I would say its one of the most widely used mining boards for 4+ GPU setups...you may just have got a bad one.

I run Win7 but at the initial boot point it shouldn't matter.  Which slots are you using on the mobo?

I have 2 of the same mobo.
Not sure the problem with yours...I installed 5 cards all at once, installed drivers and ran it.

Maybe your PSU?  What OS? What driver version? Do you have ALL the MSI drivers installed?

I have decided to just go ahead and remove the remove the IP address recording of affiliates. I want this service to be truly anonymous, so if people use the site regularly enough to want a 20% rebate, while simultaneously promoting the site, I'm totally cool with that.

I will delete the IP address table in the affiliates database, and update the affiliate registration code to reflect this. It will be part of the next live update of the site.

And thinking along these lines, it might also be a good idea to introduce a sort of "subscription" service, where regular users of the site could register and get an ID # and a password, and avail of a higher-use, lower-fee based fee structure. Say, if a user downloads a total of 10gb, they would avail of a 20% discount in the future, if they download a total of 100gb they avail of another 20% discount of their current fee, etc.

Or something along those lines. Thoughts?


Yes, it is a very modest fee. Right now, the goal is to grow the business, and the best way to do that is to make it as inexpensive as possible. Once we have achieved sufficient volume, prices will determined at a level that the community and the shareholders agree on, and linked to the btc:usd exchange rate.

I have considered the possibility of the scenario you described; that users would redistribute the link. Right now, that isn't really a major concern, as the measures needed to implement an adequate solution would make the service less attractive to potential new users. I will reevaluate this if and when it becomes a problem that puts a large load on the server.

I'm glad to have been the one to pop your bitcoin cherry!

At various times I've pointed out that Mt. Gox isn't registered as a money-transfer firm in Japan, that Global Standard Bank's isn't a bank and pictures of their offices were Photoshopped images of a building in Seattle and a bank interior in Florida, that Dwolla is run out of a hacker space in Iowa, that Bit-Pay is two guys operating out of a house in Orlando, Florida, and that Bruce Wagner has a mortgage-fraud judgement against him in Illinois.

I get comments like "troll" and "hater" for that. The scammers here have supporters, or at least shills.

It's so weird you suggested that.

I was having a look at smokey mountain mining and saw the link to your finances spreadsheet at the top. I thought it would be a good idea to do something similar for my site. Then you suggested it, literally about an hour later.

I love the transparency of it, and your info/comments are so detailed. I especially like the comment on row 25!
You clearly run a tight ship! Fantastic work.

You update that spreadsheet daily? That seems like a lot of effort. I would prefer to have a financial statistics page integrated into my site directly so that I could automate a lot of the work of adding entries that way, without having to manually edit it every day. I might follow a similar format to yours, but do it via html/php and mysql queries instead.

Interesting...