When BTC started jumping up to $50 on BTC-E, it seem like this trend had finally started accelerating.   I quickly created an account and deposited a block o' BTC to sell into the spike.  It turned out LibertyReserve was hacked and flooding BTC-E with fake dollars.  So of course my Paypal withdrawal was never processed, and I thought the BTC50 were gone forever.  But BTC-E kept its promise and refunded my lost coins!  /coolstorybro  tldr:BTC-E is the best (high volume LTC friendly) exchange because they care about their users and doing the right thing.
I'll be a customer forever!  |
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lol
and the small hashers are the ones that usually take the most support
ppl over 10Ghash generally have it sorted and are low maintainance.
They also tend to have well setup systems that operate at high efficiency. I'd bet the average 5 GH/s+ miners put less load on the server than an average 1 GH/s user  . All of this is true. Plus we big dogs have usually been contributing for a year or more. I'm the only three digit Guild member still in the top 25; eleuthria should give me a discount or something |
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I've never seen set-your-own diff, but litecoincash uses a nice high value.
You could use it for the fast hardware and an easier pool for the slow stuff.
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Hey as long as the music is good I'm happy!  |
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We are in the business of building a a world-wide distributed computing service. If this is true, stop piddling around with weird PPS+insurance schemes and get the client out ASAP. You've got much bigger fish to fry than starting yet another pool. Keep it (your business model) clean and simple, we have enough pools with strange Byzantine rules (cough, BonusPool, cough). This thread is already getting filled with ZOMGPonziScam drama. To prove that you can scale, try competing with DeepBit and BTCGuild. You don't want to be Gimmick Pool of the Week. If I was an investor and saw you using my money for obscure rinky-dink ventures like this, I'd be hella pissed.  I admire your ambition and having Con aboard is an invaluable edge. This is an emerging trillion dollar market, so go big or go home.
tl;dr Love the main idea, can't wait for the client, not interested in the pool. Refocus plz. |
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Very good idea for a unique PPS pool/monetized distributed computation hybrid. As regular reader of gpgpu.org, I've been waiting for something like to come along. Can't bother doing it myself, so cheers to the LazyNet. Bitcoin establishing a price floor for the market is an incredible catalyst for suchlike. You're going to need lots of $$$ to be competitive in this space, doing Big Science and whatnot. Are you talking to VCs yet? I suggest starting by supporting a couple of well chosen proprietary products, such as Schrödinger Suite 2012. http://www.schrodinger.com/news/63Run it cheaper than EC2 and profit! There's also plenty of open source platforms to host, like GROMACS and BLAST. CloudBroker was moving towards creating an open market for this stuff, but seems to be down ATM. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XLHUSI0BwDUJ:www.cloudbroker.com/&hl=en&prmd=imvns&strip=1Be careful. I've seen many companies enter, fail, and leave this space. But since Bitcoin, conditions seem ripe for revolution... |
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Funding Status (last updated 08/09/2012 12:00 EST) | Dwolla | Funds exhausted (no payout possible) | Additional funds expected 08/08 ? ? Not sure what is going on w/ Dwolla. |
You want to know what's going on with Dwolla? What's going on is that they suck ass and need a scammer tag + boycott. Earlier: "Dwolla is a shiny new startup armed with disruptive technology that will cut out the PayPal middleman, empowering people to exercise their right to exchange money with their peers." Now: "Dwolla has realized that freedom is illegal, and will spare no expense making sure that we comply with our fascist bankster oligarch master's laws designed to protect the banking monopoly and prevent simple, easy, fast peer to peer transactions. You are presumed to be doing something illegal and must prove your innocence. Because money laundering. And 9/11." |
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Mine! Gimmeh!
Screw escrow I want them now.
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isitup.org says "mtred.com seems to be down!" Everybody panic! Edit: OK it's back. Everybody CALM DOWN! |
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As an anarchist, I'd say bitcoin is not capitalism. Bitcoin is simply a means of exchange. Capitalism is a historical and complex structure that involves extremely powerful actors (corporations, billionaires, the state and its military) -- destroying democracy and ruining the lives of regular people. By contrast, Bitcoin is peanuts =)
That said, most of the people on this forum are pro-capitalism and there is a disproportionate number of right-wing libertarians. In my view, neither of these groups should use riseup.net
The recent victories of bitcoin in the ongoing Darwinian contest between media of exchange is capitalism in action. As a right-wing libertarian, I'd say that you are confusing capitalism (which is an abstract ontological/philosophical/economic theory) with History (ie what happened in The Past) and Statism (which distorts free markets with coercive interference). Blaming a concept for actual events doesn't seem productive to me. It's like blaming the laws of physics for starting a war and killing people. Sure, a chemical reaction was the proximate cause of the deadly gunfire but the ultimate cause lies with individual Kings, Popes, and Bankers. I'm going to use riseup.net, just to provoke a hierarchical, dominating response from the supposedly live-and-let-live sysops. But isn't it nice how bitcoin provides economic interoperability between the various tribes of individualists, regardless of particular ideology? |
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"We ask that you do not use riseup.net services to advocate any of the following: Support for capitalism, domination, or hierarchy."
Is Bitcoin considered capitalism?
Yes, but no. Yes in the sense that bitcoin supports True Capitalism's qualities of protecting individuals from coercion, thus empowering free minds and free markets. No in the (jaundiced hippie anarchist) sense that Actual "Capitalism" is a statist neo-imperialist, mercantilist, centralized, coercive, oligarchical ponzi scheme. |
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OMG, just what we need, another bitcoin disaster.
IKR? It's been at least 12 hours since our last incident of absolute mayhem. I was starting to get bored.  |
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Right, so you are ignoring the actual case law rulings (granted, Dutch law, but so what), and instead pointing out other parts of the article that don't have any bearing on Bitcoin outside of games. I would say you are the one that is failing here.
You are extrapolating the actions of one quirky judge in Holland, who made some bizarre ruling about virtual amulets and online runes, four years ago, to mean that a generic District Attorney and average Grand Jury would accept an indictment based on accusations of Magic Internet Money fraud/theft? Wow. Please, for the love of comedy, provide us with a transcript of your conversation when you report Pirate or whatever Bit Bandit to (what passes for, in your feverish, cloistered worldview) the Proper Authorities. |
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Does this scrypt varient of cgminer support -c cgminer.conf for multiple pool failover?
I'm away from my rig or I'd experiment and find out myself.
Thx.
PS Con, you are the best!
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Oh really? http://www.talentzoo.com/digital-pivot/blog_news.php?articleID=6221 In general, courts globally seem to be treating virtual crime just as they would any real-world crime: If a person is found guilty of stealing, killing, ruining, or otherwise destroying an online-gaming experience for a person or group of persons, the penalties enacted will be similar to punishment of real-world crime, with noted exceptions. For example, killing an avatar will not be met with a life sentence in prison. However, the monetary loss sustained by the player will be comparable to real-world money loss, and criminals will end up with fines, probation, or even jail.
Hedge #1 "In general" Hedge #2 "seem to be" Two hedges for one sentence = weak sauce. Then there's the part you didn't quote: "Complaints about people’s identities and possessions being stolen within a game have been made before," said Rob Fahey, games analyst and former editor of gamesindustry.biz. "But because it exists only in a virtual world it is hard to say whether they are of any real value in the real world.
The resale of characters and their possessions is often against the rules set down by the makers of the games, but there are no criminal laws banning it. tl;dr U FAIL |
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I really don't understand your fury.
The LTC price is back to where it was.
LTC demonstrated it can mitigate the threat of a 51% attack.
There is one less person on the internet pretending to be something they are not.
Seems like win win to me.
If you are not furious, then why do you follow BCX around and respond to every one of his posts with 72pt red font capital letters that say "SCAMMER"? That is textbook internet rage.
You read a post that said I was a sock puppet and you cannot change your mind. Anything I post that disagrees with what you wrote you presume that because k9quaint wrote it that it is from BCX. You are not actually capable of internalizing the content of my posts. Psy made that same mistake, and that is why he doesn't like me.
At this point, if BCX said 2+2=4 you two would be out burning math teachers at the stake for scamming people. You would probably come after me too because I would point out that 2 plus 2 did actually equal 4.
I know right? These people are acting in way that is ridiculous and deserves ridicule. Let's turn their own twisted logic on them and conclude that 1) pekv2 is a sockpuppet for Psy, because they both refuse to entertain the notion that BCX's actions have merits and those seeing them are not merely her posting under a different name. 2) pekv2 should get a STALKER tag, for following BCX around and hurling Big Scary Red Letters at her. 3) pekv2 needs to buy a thesaurus and stop overusing the label 'jibberish' as if it was an actual refutation of what was said to him. |
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And Vladimir used to be so level headed. This sure has got his panties in a bunch.
He's not the only one that's started living full time in BTC Fantasy Land. You can tell which ones have gone off the deep end easily. They're the ones who actually believe that the Police Cops are going to ring up Interpol's cybercrime unit for the sake of tracking down their stolen/scammed BTC. As if any law enforcement agency in the world has a Cryptocoin Recovery Division, or cares in the least about their Magic Internet Money. They've completely lost it ('it' being contact with consensus reality).  |
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Huh, I had no idea Wales was an Objectivist. Glad to hear it. Guess it makes sense, given how empowering the Wiki concept is to individuals operating in a meritocratic environment.
I had him all wrong, pegged as some hippie dot.communist type. Oops, my bad Jimmy!
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I give a fuck because I'd like to use LTC pools without them being DDOSd. I'm talking about a stupid forum tag.
I give a fuck because I'd like to use LTC transactions without them being forked with a 51% attack. I'm talking about a stupid forum tag.
See notes above in red.This thread is about the question of whether or not BCX Should get a SCAMMER tag? I didn't realize that when I voted NO, BCX Should NOT get a SCAMMER tag I didn't realize that when I explained why I voted NO, BCX Should NOT get a SCAMMER tag. Thanks for keeping us on topic, sometimes I tend to digress and threadjack! The red text was especially helpful, and your amateur pedantry quite impressive. |
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