It was pretty obvious that there was an organized attempt by some outsiders to spam the board with panic posts from brand new accounts with <5 posts.

So with dark pools you don't get to see the USD/BTC exchange that is being done right? Has anyone out there analyzed data from the block chain? I guess that wouldn't help shed any light on dark pools since you don't see the USD portion of the transaction right? How would one get in on a dark pool in mt. gox? Do the people in a DP get to see the ask & bid?

The drop today had me thinking. Should exchanges automatically halt trading if price changes more than a certain percent in a small enough time window, say 5 minutes or 10 minutes?

I'm guessing there are a lot of people with massive amounts of bitcoins hoarded. Whenever the price rallies and one of them decides to take some profit they can crash the market. With the market this shallow this kind of cycle can only act to scare off more mainstream audiences before it ever gains significant adoption. What do you think? Mt. Gox, c'mon.

The captcha and email verification would not work to deter all the spam posts. Maybe reduce it a little but not entirely. All the posts were from people, not bots, who wanted to fuck with the community for some reason. Whatever they were doing wasn't having any impact but annoying people who wanted to read the board. The price drop has been attributed allegedly to one person selling a huge cache of old bitcoins.

If what you're saying were true, that person would have to be either really dumb (to sell high and buy low, hoping the market would climb back high enough and stay there long enough for him to recoup his losses AND make a profit on top of that), or really confident that he could manipulate it into going back up to take his profit.

I'd lean towards the former.

You could simply google "bitcoin USD exchange rate".

But to humor you, here's just one of many places you can get the rate: http://bitcoinwatch.com/

I volunteer to help with this as well. You can check out my previous posts from before the 50 post rule was enacted. My posts were constructive, and I also posted at least 3-4 times ragging on the annoying incomers trying to spam with garbage panic posts and stuff like that.

I'm glad the policy was put in place. I encouraged this in the meta section and unbeknownst to me the policy would affect me! I can't post outside the newbie section since I too have less than 50 posts. I think the ones I have been making have been positive contribution to the community for the most part. I'm willing to follow the rule if it means getting rid of the annoying influx of chicken littles screaming "the sky is falling".

First, I call shenanigans, because no one would be foolish enough to invest 30,000 in bitcoin mining without trying it out on a small scale first. Second, asking if the price is going to go up is pointless. If anyone knew the answer with certainty they would buy up all the bitcoins they could right now so they could sell them if/when the price went back up. Third, you paid way too much per Ghash/sec if you really spent 30 thousand!

You might have to start considering whether or not you should start selling the hardware. Your chance to make a profit in this still exists if you got the video cards at a decent price. There are tons of people who will pay inflated prices for them right now.

What jumper? What setting is this jumper supposed to control? And is the jumper on the video card or on the motherboard?

I would support this. The forum is becoming cluttered with annoying posts from people with <25 post count. A ton of them are people trying to fabricate panic.

I've been on several other message boards where new users must have 10 or 20 post count before being able to post. Or they can only post in certain areas. Point taken about topic creation being a useful tool to the community but it's a tradeoff if you want to keep the quality of the message board high. If not, eventually someone will start a board of higher quality and people might migrate from here to there.

Your first post. This poster is yet another of the swarm of people trying to cause panic.

There is no source that anyone is drafting legislation about bitcoins. All that happened was Schummer and another senator sent a letter about Silk Road, which mentioned bitcoin as the digital currency being used on silk road. Then every blogger and news site for some reason picks on bitcoins instead of the silk road aspect.

His prices are also ridiculous. Last time I checked his monthly charge of ~400 euro is around $700USD, for ~1Gh/s/month. That's more than twice what it takes to build a machine capable of the same mining power yourself. At least going by the prices I saw in his post (I only looked at it today), the only people paying him must be those who haven't done the math themselves. And what does it say to you when someone goes around charging people for various things related to a fad instead of putting his money where his mouth is and mining for himself? I'm sure he's mining too, but he's making a killing by charging people crazy prices and then either pocketing the profit or putting it into his own hardware. Even if the market crashes he can sell the hardware and still make out really well. I can't say there's anything wrong with what he's doing, just not sure about the judgement of anyone sending him money.

NOTE: i'm basing that solely on the 400euro/month price i saw in his thread today. Maybe also everything costs more where he lives than where I live.

I would not run this without the source being released. How do oyu know he's not stealing 1% / 1/2%, 1/4%, etc, of your compute cycles? Or some other nefarious thing?

Not sure why you think he's a troll, but there is at least one 8 slot motherboard: MSI Big Bang Marshal.

Why not just set up a BTC mining non profit? Need 2 things:

1. Mining clients that can alternate between all available pools automatically. So like a distributed mining proxy pool. (distribute that to everyone will help security overall as people get bennies of large pool + danger of too much power in single pools is reduced). 0.025% (quarter of a percent vs. 3.00% for deep pool) of mining through this pool of pools goes towards the BTC nonprofit.

2. BTC mining non profit. Team of guys in each city get together (would work best if they were in the same city) to set up mining operations. Multiple per city, even better, but efforts would need to be coordinated. After their fund reaches acceptable starting point they start mining, and all profits go back towards mining. Maybe a cap on mining power for each such team, to spread out power for a more robust network. A way of halting funding once each team reaches self sustainability would be needed as well.

Just a thought.

Maybe do your own research? There are already tons of other similar threads if you just search.

I don't think that's quite accurate. You are either ignoring the currently inflated prices of the graphics cards it would take to build such a system, ignoring some of the parts required (extender cables, ram, hdd, cpu, mobo, case, shipping, etc), under-powering the PSU, or assuming that everyone will overclock (which I would argue you shouldn't do because people need an apples to apples basis when discussing hardware power/costs).

Ah, the OP asked for cases that fit in a rack.