+1 to herbertfilby, traded BTC to him for Second Life L$.

Going to try to get the following to accept BitCoins. Will use a personalised e-mail to each and every company in order to try to get the best chance of succeeding.

Bold = Sent
Italic = Successful
Strike = Unsuccessful

I'll put replies at the bottom so that you all can see.

Online Games
S2 Games - Heroes of Newerth
Riot Games - League of Legends
Nickelodeon - Neopets
Mojang AB - Minecraft
Jagex Software - Runescape
Trade Games - Miniconomy
Flying Lab Software - Pirates of the Burning Sea
BW Team - Blood Wars
Star Vault - Mortal Online
Meridian 59

Digital Service Providers
Rapidshare
Megaupload
Imageshack
Dropbox

Organisations - Donations
Ludwig von Mises Institute
Adam Smith Institute
SourceForge
Ayn Rand Institute
Libertarian Party

Replies So Far
Trade Games - Miniconomy:
"A couple of weeks ago, I have read about Bitcoins. The principle is clear to me and I really like the idea. I will certainly investigate the possibilities of accepting Bitcoin payments."
Jagex - Runescape:
"Thank you for your suggestion regarding Bitcoins.
We will pass the information onto the correct team and they will look into the payment method and make a decision.
If we introduce any payments for any of our services, we will inform our players via website."

If I get any of them and/or if you just want to reward my efforts, please send donations to the wallet in my signature.

I can get ahold of 20, but they don't come cheap sadly (I live in EU, awful sales taxes).

What's the highest offer for any number of XFX Radeon 5850s?

I don't currently own these, but I can get them within 1 working day for the right offer. Don't offer anything below 14 BTC per.

I'm no airflow engineer, so I wouldn't be confident propping these cards up somewhere and hoping.

I can tell that there will likely be some kind of space issue which is going to be hard to solve, but as I'm not particularly good at DIY, I'm not sure that my attempts to engineer a chassis will be more of a solution rather than a problem.

One option I was looking at is just running the whole thing open-air, but that'd give me storage woes.

I assume that resting two of the cards in the empty 5.25 bays would create a cooling headache?

The inline connectors are something like this: http://bit.ly/l2eEBX

Just to clarify:

1. I'm planning on running Arch Linux.

2. I was hoping to run three graphics cards in the motherboard using low-profile inline connectors, and two on cables. The case would be an Akasa Freedom Xone or an Antec One Hundred.

Given that 'professional' economists are bred out of rational economics in a university hall and into neo-keynsianism, it'd be better to ask a banker for their bet.

Hey all,

I'm thinking about setting up some rigs, but really struggling to come up with solid data on a few key questions.

1. I found a motherboard which has 1x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot and 4x PCI Express x1 slot. If I got four riser cables, would this be capable of running five ATi HD Radeon 5870s? The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-770T-D3L.

2. I've heard that as an alternative to a single very powerful PSU, it's possible to run two smaller PSUs. This would definitely be an attractive option for me. Can anyone give me a solid tutorial for this? Preferably with images.

3. What's the best way of keeping said riser cables and the five attached graphics cards tidy within a case? What's the best way to keep them cooled without resorting to water cooling?

4. How easy/difficult are the XFX HD-587X-ZNFC 5870s to overclock? I've been basing on a 950/300 clock, which seems possible from an 850 core, but I'm just trying to be cautious.

Thanks for any help.

Happily on Blackberry.

Google has a reputation for tracking its users moves and has bowed down to pressure from carriers to keep their phones locked.

And not gonna lie, there isn't a droid with typing capability like the Torch.

No particular love for 4chan but currency isn't an elitist thing. As long as they follow the forum rules, I don't see why you'd care if they're here or not.

I'm currently doing the numbers for how many Bitcoins I can crunch, and struggling to work out expected increases in difficulty, and how long they're going to last.

Can anyone tell me how they're modelling difficulty?

Right now I'm using one change every two weeks, by 20% each change.

Oh wow, I've never even seen that site. Thanks.

Seems really hard to get BTC for PayPal, noticed all the threads and nobody's getting an offer.

I don't want a proxy-sending mechanism like buying someone's software off a link and them sending me Bitcoin instead, because then I've got no protection if they don't send me anything.

I'm not looking to scam anyone. Just trying to get into BTC.

Can I confirm that the rewards are:

Shop - 4 BTC
Mahkul - 2
slush - 1
cw - 1

Organisation 1.1
Mahkul - 1
cw - > 0.1

Haven't seen any posts from Mahkul recently to confirm he's still a part of this.

I'm considering offering a site with free hosting for Bitcoin-related projects.

Could include a git repository, svn for your project etc.

Just trying to gauge a) the demand for such a service and b) the features people would want.

It'd be something like SourceForge for Bitcoin projects.

Ultimately the success or failure of Bitcoin will be the success or failure to get major retailers to take it, particularly online retailers.

You realise you can spend tiny fractions of a Bitcoin right?

It's not like a dollar, you can't only break it 100 ways.

Not very, yet, but I'm about 80% confirmed buying two dual-5870 rigs this weekend for dedicated mining, so then I guess I'll be pretty committed.

Check whether the pools are actually reporting a payout or a reward. Most pools pay out when you've got 1BTC in their system.

If they are reporting a payout, there should be a transaction ID with it, so look it up.

I'd like to buy 5 BTC for $80 US.

Just starting to dabble in Bitcoin and would like to do something that doesn't take days to verify and have exorbitant transaction fees (I'm not in the US so I can't use a lot of Mt Gox's options).