Bitcoinwatch.com was my one-stop site for a quick review of all the general Bitcoin stats.

Now that it's gone, are there any comparable sites?


EDIT: Just incase anyone comes looking, an excerpt from the link below


Looks like bitcoincharts.com is the next best thing.

oh right, ok.

Is there a way to make it keep trying to restart the dead card every X seconds?

I'm getting a "DEAD" signal after a few hours of mining on a card that works just fine if I close and re-open CGminer. I had the same issue with GUIminer where a simple stop/start (button in the program) would get the card going again, so the restart can be automated.

Kinda new to CGminer, so I'm guessing it's something with the code I fiddled with:


Is there a line I'm missing to restart dead cards?

EDIT: I should add that I've had a few lengthy conversations with a very experienced corporate tax accountant with regards to bitcoin.

You're bypassing the very channels the government uses to track finances. If they can't track or observe the money, they can't impose their rules and regulations on it, which is a threat to their tax base. One person doing this isn't an issue, but if everyone started to do this, there would be trouble, to say the least.

While I personally think what you're doing is great, I would also advise you to stay diligent in using caution.

I wish I had a more positive outlook, and I hope the community can come up with interesting ways like starting crowd-funding for charities and associating Bitcoin with the ability for people to collectively achieve great goals etc...

But personally, I'm planning for a worst case scenario.

The very aim of Bitcoin is to undermine the entities who control the world by controlling money. To say that there is no threat to Bitcoin is optimistic.



I'm amazed and at the same time disturbed at how much faith people have in Bitcoin. There are powers out there that can overthrow whole countries in the pursuit of their own interests.

While I wish Bitcoin was as strong as everyone imagines it to be, such carefree faith has brought down many a giant in the past.

The threat will escalate through all of the listed entities until either Bitcoin (or any other form of competing monetary threat) dies or those posing a threat are no longer in a position of power.


We have/are already seeing the "individuals" hacking and DDOSing bitcoin, though those efforts are mostly for profit, not necessarily aimed at killing Bitcoin.

Next we will see the "private" try to first beat Bitcoin, then failing that, they will enlist "government" to do their dirty work.

In the end, the big boys (bilderbergs/rothschilds/rockefellers) will pull whatever strings they see fit, usually under the guise of the above entities, to herd the rats back into the cage and onto the running wheels.

Thus the cycle of monetary control and enslavement that has been repeating over the past centuries continues. Good times  

My outlook has become very jaded, as every time I've come to expect some higher cognitive behavior from "the public" they always disappoint whenever an idea of such scale is presented.

The macro scale of Bitcoin is simply too extreme for most people to accept.

As with all things, time will tell.

Any word on when the next issue ships?

On interviewing Sheen for the Bitcoin magazine:

Defamation through association. That's an effective way to kill an idea.

Mark my words, that's how special interest's will attack decentralized crypto-currency.

I think the cutoff for "early adopters" will be the first block split. To think, half of ALL bitcoins to ever be mined will have been mined by the end of this year. And I doubt BFL will deliver any ASIC devices before new years.

ASIC will mark the commercialization of Bitcoin, as it is clearly growing, and investors are growing more confident and more bold. It will also be the end of of the "casual miner", but now that half the bitcoins will have been mined, they've had their time, so to speak, and can still buy the coins if they want to take part.

If anyone want's to mine casually, it will be time to move to another crypto-curreny.

I wouldn't hold my breath 

They are lost. Forever...

and a bump

The quote was referring to newly invented solutions, not the users. They used tivo, altavista, myspace, and xerox as examples.

First of all, the reason Bitcoin has been adopted so rapidly is because it used hardware most people already had access to, so just about anyone could mine themselves some coins, and those who could afford to invest money in something so volatile could simply buy more GPUs with the confidence that they would at least have some decent resale value if bitcoin flopped.

Once you require specialized hardware to mine bitcoins, you alienate a very large swath of your mining user base. Which isn't the end of the world, but it makes acquiring bitcoins that much more expensive for the curious public.

Then once you consider that hashing power is proportional to how much money you invest, and that there are some very big investors out there looking to buy ASIC devices, the bitcoins you can mine with a $150 device will be a very tiny fraction of the allotted block reward.

Remember, since the rate of coin generation is constant, buying more hashing power only increases your share of the reward, not the total amount of the reward. So if everyone buys more hardware, then you're right back where you started, just with less money in your pocket.


EDIT: As a great man once said, "you never want to be first", and in the case of decentralized crypto-currency, it's Bitcoin.
What people need is a CPU only currency. It's not the best solution, but in terms of evenly redistributing a currency, it may be the best option, and I'd love to hear a better one.