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241  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Virtualminer - upgrading to version 3 on: November 20, 2012, 04:31:54 PM
Ok.. the Rig code is ok now.
Just a typo in a last minute code snippet in various functions that have to do with rig managment.
242  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Virtualminer - upgrading to version 3 on: November 20, 2012, 04:19:47 PM
Upgrade and Database conversion ran smooth.. doing a shakedown now.
The game should be playable. So - just come in and try it.
Doesn't let me register.  Gives a fatal error.

Typo in the registration function. Sorry.

It's fixed now.
Also, I figured out I had an account already.  When I try and assign a rig to a chain (I put a single in it), it says I don't own that part.

Now thats what i call a shakedown ><
There are some more things broken on the new server.. gonna fix a few things.
243  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Virtualminer - upgrading to version 3 on: November 20, 2012, 03:10:28 PM
Upgrade and Database conversion ran smooth.. doing a shakedown now.
The game should be playable. So - just come in and try it.
Doesn't let me register.  Gives a fatal error.

Typo in the registration function. Sorry.

It's fixed now.
244  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Virtualminer - upgrading to version 3 on: November 20, 2012, 08:57:40 AM
Upgrade and Database conversion ran smooth.. doing a shakedown now.
The game should be playable. So - just come in and try it.
245  Local / Mining (Deutsch) / Re: Bfl jalapeno asic on: November 20, 2012, 12:20:42 AM
In den nächsten Wochen wird sich viel Ändern. Die Diff wird effektiv verdoppelt (durch die halbierung des Rewards) und ob der Preis mitzieht kann dir keiner sagen. Es kann sein, dass Bitcoin darüber sogar sterben könnte - oder aber ein allzeithoch erreicht.
Dazu kommen die hartnäckigen ASICgerüchte.. aber da gebe ich persönlich nicht viel drauf. Aber WENN es sowas wie ASICs bald gäbe würde die Diff ins unermessliche steigen und alle existierenden Hashingrigs über Nacht unrentabel werden.

Kurzum: im Moment würde ich mir nichts kaufen, was eine ROI von mehr als 3 Wochen hat - und sowas gibt es nicht. Das sinnvollste wäre, wenn man geld ausgeben will, immernoch eine gute GPU. Sollte irgendwas wirklich schlimmes passieren kann man die immernoch abstoßen und minimiert seine Verluste. Bei FPGAs ist das wesentlich schwieriger..
246  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Virtualminer - Changing to Version 3 on: November 19, 2012, 09:22:05 PM

Hi,
Some things just need their time and so did Version 3 of Virtualminer. To be honest - it took far longer than i wanted it to. I restarted the whole thing four times, each time starting from scratch. There are a lot of changes and i want to go into detail a bit more in this newsletter.

- Rigs
Since all of you have been familiar with the original system i need to give some introduction into the newest version. As of now you only were allowed to upgrade some Rig with a few upgrades. No turning back, no real.. variability. Most of the users just added 1000mh upgrades to each slot and thats it. Looking at the database i saw a lot of rigs looking equal. This was to be expected but well.. it wasnt realistic. Not all of use the same rig at home - so why should we do this in virtualminer? The new system aims at some more realism. As of now there are multiple Mainboards (with various slots for rigs). I had to make a tradeoff between realism and compatibility here. So dont be suprised to find mainboards with 9 card slots Wink
So rigs have to consist of a mainboard and a virtual GPU - one of a dozen now available vGPUs that try to mimic the ones you find in real life. I have just taken the information from the bitcoin hardware comparision wiki page and translated it into game values.
To counter the possibility that everyone just buys the fastest possible VMD vGPU those GPUs in the 'Shop' have limited supply... but you can use that to add yet another way of earning real BTC through this game: Users can now sell their equipment! And rare hashing devices can therefore be seen as some new commodety..
Converted Rigs and GPUs from previous versions will be 10x slower now (so a 5000vMH is now a 500vMH) - but since this affects every rig the 'loss' happens to everyone and is just an adjustment i had to make for the transition into the new system.

- Chains
Chains didnt change at all except that chain owners can now choose wether their chain is vASIC compatible or not. Therefore i'd like to ask Chaincreators of existing chains wether they allow vASICs or not.

- Exchange
The exchange is all new and all shiny.. it is based on Virtualminer's sister project altcoinexchange.com (which is in hibernation at the moment). You will now be able to trade every coin into any other - or into BTC. Whatever you want.

- GUI
The 'ingame GUI' is gone (as of now) but it will eventually be implemented again. It didnt serve any purpose anymore but since it was just nice to have it, it will come again.. someday when i dont have higher priority features to add.

- Shares
Since the old System was faulty i have completely removed it and consider it a feature to be added in the near future. Most probably the shares will be traded through the normal Exchange like any other coin. But until then i gonna test a few things.

- DOWNTIME
Yes.. there will be a downtime. After this E-mail is sent i will take down Version II and start to convert users, chains, coins.. everything into the new system. SInce you can imagine that this is not a simple copy&paste-procedure.. A lot of stuff has to be converted and rewritten - and that will take time. Once the conversion process is done i will take a snapshop of the database and let the game run for a few hours in production state. If by then nothing happened i will start reopen the game for the public (followed by another newsletter..).


So much for the V3 update. See you when the game is back up again.

Cheers,
Nachtwind
247  Other / MultiBit / Re: MultiBit on: November 19, 2012, 04:06:49 PM
Hm.. i got some problem here..

I am trying to import an old wallet after i had to format my PC and get the following error while loading:
Code:
Öffne Brieftasche "blubblubblub.wallet"...
Datei mit Brieftasche ließ sich nicht laden "blubblubblub.wallet".
Die Fehlermeldung war "java.io.InvalidObjectException enum constant OVERRIDDEN_BY_DOUBLE_SPEND does not exist in class com.google.bitcoin.core.TransactionConfidence$ConfidenceType"

I guess even though its german its understandable :/

248  Local / Mining (Deutsch) / Re: Bfl jalapeno asic on: November 19, 2012, 01:00:20 PM
Nein. Nichts wozu ich dir im Moment raten würde. FPGAs sind eine Alternative, aber aufgrund der derzeitigen Lage würde ich diese nicht empfehlen. Ansonsten: Gute GPU kaufen, auf das beste hoffen und ansonsten wieder verkaufen..
249  Local / Anfänger und Hilfe / Re: Fragen zu fpga´s on: November 19, 2012, 12:55:30 PM
1. Du brauchst ein Gerät mit USB und welches CGMiner-tauglich ist. Besser noch ein Computer mit JAVA. Aber beides ist Grundsätzlich möglich

2. Schwer zu beantworten. AUch wenn die ASICs noch nicht existieren stehen doch andere große Änderungen bei Bitcoin ins Haus. Ich habe es vor einigen Wochen geschafft meine Kosten, die ich im Februar für meinen FPGA hatte wieder hereinzubekommen - also musst du mit fast einem Jahr rechnen um das Geld wieder reinzubekommen, was erstmal weg ist. Und gerade zu diesen Zeiten ist es verdammt schwer vorherzusagen, was passieren wird. In 4 Wochen werden nur noch 25 statt 50 BTC Pro Block ausgeschüttet und was dann mit dem Preis passiert ist völlig offen. Sollten die ASICs wirklich irgendwann mal fertiggestellt werden hat man als FPGA nutzer nur teuren Schrott auf dem Schreibtisch, da dieser genauso langsam ist wie heute die CPU im vergleich zur GPU..

Kurzum: Spar dir dein geld oder kauf dir eine gute GPU. Wenn da das schlimmste Eintritt (PReis sinkt, ASICs kommen, BTC zerfällt) hast du wenigstens noch einen Wiederverkaufswert.



..und das sag ich als FPGA fan..
250  Local / Mining (Deutsch) / Re: Bfl jalapeno asic on: November 19, 2012, 12:47:02 PM
Hoi,
ich hab mal ne Frage. Ich bin noch neu beim Bitcooin Mining. Und ich bin jetzt dabei auf die Jalapeno von Butterflylabs gestoßen.
Da hab ich mal ne Frage. Kann ich den einfach am PC oder mac per USB anschliessen und los Minen? Oder brauch ich da noch was andres?
Weil über mein PC oder Macbook komm ich ja nich wirklich weit was das minen angeht. Und das wäre echt ne günstige alternative.
Wäre super wenn mir da mal jemand paar Infos geben kann Smiley

Du KÖNNTEST den eventuell möglicherweise sogar vielleicht an einen Mac anschliessen...
Insofern der Japaeno keine vaporware ist.

Dummerweise gibt es weder den Jalapeno zu kaufen noch einen funktionstüchtigen Prototyp (afaik). Insofern Nein. Du kannst ihn nicht an einen Mac oder PC anschliessen und loslegen. Wenn er mal existieren könnte, dann vielleicht.
251  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Virtualminer - Looking for testers! on: November 14, 2012, 10:20:08 AM
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252  Bitcoin / Project Development / Virtualminer 3.0 - The Virtual mining game on: November 14, 2012, 10:18:59 AM
What is it about?

„Virtual Mining“ is a game unlike any other currently found in the BTC community. In contrast to most other games VM is neither a gambling site, nor a Ponzi scheme to give most money to only a handful of people. In VM every user has the chance to make the same amount of money, no pyramid anywhere.
So in just a few words – what is VM?
As the name says: Virtual Mining is virtual mining.
It seemed to become sort of a trend to spawn new forks for fast pump and dump. This lead to some serious opportunities to make money but It always had an impact on the BTC network since it had drawn computing power away from the real network. Also most of the chains were rather short lived. So this game is meant to put this on a different level. In VM you are meant to create virtual rigs and point them on virtual forks, here called “chains” (short for Blockchains). As of now there will be up to 5 parallel chains around and everyone can mine with as many virtual rigs on those.
As in real BitCoin you earn coins from mining which can be traded for Bitcoins on the site’s exchange. Therefore this game is basically a virtual *Coin network.

So what are the rules?
Currently the game is running in a testing phase – therefore all of the rules are negotiable, except the one about cheating

-   Every user may “Buy” as many mainboard, virtual asics and other hardware components as he wants.
  o   A mainboard has a fixed number of card slots
  o   A virtual ASIC cannot be upgraded with vGPUs nor does it need a mainboard to be attached to
  o   vGPUs and vASICs speeds are taken from real life values where possible
  o   The amount of Devices available is limited depending on the devices real life availability (a 6990 is less available than a 6850)
  o   Users are able to sell their devices on the "flea market"
  
-   Users can create new Chains
  o   There can be a maximum 20 parallel active chains
    x   A chain is flagged inactive after 24 hrs. if no one is mining it anymore
    x   A chain is deactivated (unminable, 48hrs after flagging inactive)
    x   Every new chain costs 0.125BTC for every Chain already in existence. The first one is free, the 2nd costs 0.125, the third 0.25 and so on..

-   Users can create Pools
  o As of now pools are unlimited in size
  o A pools founder can set any fee he wants as long as it is less than 25% (to prevent cheating).
  o The chain a pool is mining can be set at any time.
  o Pools always pay proportional
  o Users NOT on a pool mine SOLO

-   Deposits are handled with a unique address every time.
  o A deposit is “valid” and added to the account after 4 confirmations.
  o There is a small fee of 0.01BTC on withdrawal. This is to keep the server alive and cover transfer costs.

-   “Cheating”
  o   “In theory, as the service operator, I could keep the bitcoins for myself. I'm not going to do this, but I completely accept that people do not trust the service operator. It is their freedom of choice, and Bitcoin is about freedom.” (slush)


Website: http://www.virtualminer.eu

Screenshots:


253  Other / Off-topic / Re: Let's nominate Chairman Byron Micon for BTC Peace Prize on: November 11, 2012, 10:30:31 PM
Now that some time has passed, and it has become obvious that Byron Micon was 100 percent right about Pirate, Patrick Harnett and all the other scammers on this board, I think it's high time that he is properly acknowledged and feted.

I hereby nominate Byron Micon for the BTC Peace Prize.

Congratulation for him spotting the obvious AND being a pest while telling people over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again what his opinion was.
Honestly.. that guy was at the best of times a major pain in the ass when it came to reading Pirate-realted posts.
254  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: Bit Moose - v1.0.0 - Run Bit/Lite-Coin Miners as Windows Service on: November 10, 2012, 11:32:40 AM
Nice idea.. how do i add other mining software to it? I am running ZTEX's BTCMiner and cant seem to find a solution on adding it..
If that did work i would use that tool asap.
255  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: VirtualMiner 2.0 - Mothlabs vASICs have finally arrived! on: November 06, 2012, 11:18:18 PM
Progress report:

Real life struck yet again and i had to take a break for a week.. still rewriting core parts of the game but i can say that much: It will become awesome ;0)
256  Local / Mining (Deutsch) / Re: Bfl jalapeno asic on: November 01, 2012, 01:46:55 AM
Inwiefern bin ich nun vertrauenswürdiger bzw unglaubwürdiger als BFL? Ich habe eine Presseankündigung, viele Kunden und ein Foto meiner next generation Mining Rig..

Wieviele Kreatel IP-STB haste denn auf Lager die zum ASIC Bitcoinminer umfunktioniert werden können?

Das Kühlpad vom ATI-Chipsatz hättest du ruhig entfernen können   Grin

Hab nur noch diese Kiste... von meinen dreien habe ich leider zwei auf dem Weg zum Miner gekillt Wink

... nicht gekillt !

    nur virtualisiert ...

 Grin

Das auch Wink
257  Local / Mining (Deutsch) / Re: Bfl jalapeno asic on: October 31, 2012, 03:24:45 PM
Inwiefern bin ich nun vertrauenswürdiger bzw unglaubwürdiger als BFL? Ich habe eine Presseankündigung, viele Kunden und ein Foto meiner next generation Mining Rig..

Wieviele Kreatel IP-STB haste denn auf Lager die zum ASIC Bitcoinminer umfunktioniert werden können?

Das Kühlpad vom ATI-Chipsatz hättest du ruhig entfernen können   Grin

Hab nur noch diese Kiste... von meinen dreien habe ich leider zwei auf dem Weg zum Miner gekillt Wink
258  Economy / Digital goods / Re: ★ ★ DON'T MISS ★ ★ S> Minecraft Accounts • 0.5 BTC • 77% OFF Official Price! ★ ★ on: October 31, 2012, 12:21:27 PM
After testing an account for a bit more than a week it looks like ti is ok.
Thanks for the account.
259  Local / Mining (Deutsch) / Re: Bfl jalapeno asic on: October 31, 2012, 11:57:55 AM
Egal wie , hauptsache sie funktionieren und sehen irgendwie nett aus Cheesy


(Bild entfernt)

Oh ja.. Ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte, ne?

Hier ist übrigens mein Ansatz für einen ASIC (ja, jetzt lasse ich die Katze aus dem Sack..):


- 2 ASICs (einer mit Kühlpad versehen, sorry)
- USB Port am oberen Rand dient einem Daisychaining System, dabei können die ASICs im Verband rechnen und exponentiell schneller werden
- Ethernetport mit PoE Fähigkeit für einfaches Nutzen des Mothlabs Habanero

Zudem sieht man im unteren Bereich das Prunkstück meines Designs - einen Kartenleser, der dafür gedacht ist in Zusammenarbeit mit Bitinstant und VISA aufladbare VISA-Karten direkt mit den Coins (in Eur natürlich) zu befüllen, die man auf Pools herstellt.

Das gesamte Pressrelease dazu ist folgendes:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77833.msg989128#msg989128

Quote
Largest Virtual Mining solution ships new vASIC Mining rigs

(BITCOINTALK) June 25, 2012
Virtual Miner (Virtualminer Inc.), the market leader in virtual mining services, is unveiling today the technical specifications for three of its next generation virtual mining products:

1)    Mothlabs Habanero: a single vASIC driven unit hashing at 10vGH (guaranteed!), priced at 0.07BTC

2)    Mothlabs Single: a standalone unit providing roughly 40 vGH/s, priced at 0.25 BTC

3)    Mothlabs Bug Bomb: a single unit containing a whopping 50 vASICs and running at 500 vGH/s, priced at 2.5BTC


"Virtualminer has always considered itself a serious simulation of real world crypto currency structures and scenarios and our customers are leaders in providing virtual hashing for great technological challanges," noted Nachtwind, head of Virtualminer. "I know that our vASIC linup is simply outpacing all available products currently available and I am proud we finally could make this giant leap forward."

Venture Capital Funding Acquired, Record Rate of First Quarter Growth
Virtualminer, the largest virtual mining game, is now backed by private venture capital, and looking forward to continuing its operations in what some have recently labeled the “Silicon backwater” of Germany.
Founded in 2011, Virtualminer is a worldwide leader in virtual mining gaming. The Game offers a lot of fun, a real mining experience, and a community of gamers who know that they spend their time at the right game.
“Virtualminer” and “Mothlabs” are trademarks of Virtualminer all arround the world.

Nachtwind
Virtualminer inc
49 010 0110


Inwiefern bin ich nun vertrauenswürdiger bzw unglaubwürdiger als BFL? Ich habe eine Presseankündigung, viele Kunden und ein Foto meiner next generation Mining Rig..
260  Local / Mining (Deutsch) / Re: Bfl jalapeno asic on: October 31, 2012, 09:29:30 AM
Man kann über BFL sagen was man will, aber deren FPGA haben von allen Anderen auf dem Markt das beste Preis-Leistungsverhältnis. Wers nicht glaubt muss einfach mal nachrechnen.

Da hast du recht, keine Frage.. aber hier ging es vorallem um deren Werbelügen in der Vergangenheit - auch da sind die ungeschlagen..
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