Much appreciated, yep sry for the recent low rewards, I gave away a lot of coins in other threads recently, like https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56562.0;all

Thanks for the offer, but one 1Lebanon is quite sufficient & thanks for the other ones solved recently - it was like 5 or so in the last couple of days.

With the silver price making a low of $28.22 per Oz = $0.87774 per gram last Thursday & Litecoin making a high of $0.8247 yesterday we are getting very close, so a small rules change, once the price of litecoins goes over $0.85 or if silver falls below $27.50 per Oz = $0.85535 approx per gram then entries on the 1 LTC = 1 gm Ag part of the competition are closed.

Necro topic, but can't be bothered to find which thread if any now would be more appropriate, so just leaving this ZeekRewards scam article here, as ZR looked to be what was behind this pass through.

For historical interest maybe: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/30/authorities-600m-scheme-incubated-nc-town/2037975/

Edit: Revenge is a dish best served cold, mine has been put in the freezer for 10 years, best by date: 2022 ~ Travers +/-

Many Thanks!

I know that you'd like to keep it as a simple price ticker, but a couple of basic alarms one could set on it à la http://www.bitcoin-tools.de/# would make it perfect imo, also is there a way for it to always open on comp start up - I find that I have to go to Apps & open it each time, but I'm geek lvl 0 so may have missed something on that.

Funny that you take it so seriously, do you shout out the same in cinemas that dare to play anything but documentaries? See OP please:


Oh! & thanks for dropping in, you will see from the OP onwards what my advise here has been & don't forget to get hold of a few too < $2 while you're about it  

Litecoin's April Monthly Forecast

Your April Monthly Forecast: When other people want things from you, you are usually keen to comply if you can. You take pride and pleasure in being helpful. But sometimes you start to feel as if you are being pushed too hard and too far. Where should you draw the line this month? What constitutes an unreasonable request? Will you be ultimately helping someone more if you stand up against them, than if you just meekly allow them to bulldoze their way past your doubts and reservations? Don't let a fear of conflict drive an unwise choice.

Ah yes sry thanks.

BFL - March 28th Update from Twitter feed - All together for readability.

I had planned on updating everyone with a video of a board hashing here in KC tonight, but I haven't been able to get that together yet, so I'm probably going to have to push it off until tomorrow. We are targeting a start of shipment next week, but I'm not quite ready to commit to that at the moment giving our past estimates. It's imminent, though.

We may miss our power targets, that's been part of the hold up. we think there's a problem with the power consumption and we're trying to figure out where it's having an issue. However, in the interests of time, we are going to be shipping what we have and going back and fixing while we are shipping.

The power is still far less than any other unit, so it's not like it's somethign crazy or anything, but it's not 1w/GH and we're trying to locate the source of the power drain.

The rest of the 6 wafers, we have been holding off on the last 5 layers for the rest of the chips to be sure we don't need to make a tweak in the metal layer due to the power issue. I think we've pretty much settled that the power issue is NOT in the chip.

If the cooling becomes an issue, like I said we'd scale it back and ship multiple units.

Worst case is 195w, but the power systems aren't rated to handle that, so we'd back off the hashrate before we'd let it get that high.

We will ship the purchased hashrate regardless of what it ends up costing us.


Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1b8621/bfl_update_maybe_a_video_tomorrow_shipping/ hat tips to milone & astrobleem on r/Bitcoin

See some interesting comments, like:

...which is a nice perk for those very early pre-orders. Plug in your own power supply and get two for the price of one if you don't mind monkeying around with it on your own.

... they're going to underclock the fully populated boards for the SC singles. So, if you were an early pre-order, you have basically two full units ready to go if you want to plug in a bigger power supply and hope you don't burn the boards out too fast.

Edit to add: Estimated next difficulty: 7248349 (+8.3%) in 7 days and 15.2 hours

Edit to add: Butterfly Labs (BFL) Bitforce SC ASIC Test 

www.astro.com works fine as usual for me, you can check here:

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/astro.com

or maybe try: http://www.astro.com or http://astro.com

You can only test concurrently any available work that has the same public key when it was requested.

eg my pub key is A & I request vans:

b, c, d, e, f

all these can be tested or searched for together, as my private key to A gives me the private key solution to them.

but someone else with pub key B requests van gens;

g, h, i

these can't be searched for at the same time as mine as it's a different pub key & hence priv key needed to see/de-crypt the solution.

(A non tech attempt at explanation as I see it - I'm geek lvl @ minus 10 btw, as I'm sure is evident)

I suspect that the universe may have taken you up on your (tongue in cheek) offer to pay a 1 BTC reward if someone would buy to $100, though it got you the double prize without needing to push the price up that far, for me one's potential behavior in the future totally influences events in the present & so how they turn out.

I am delighted that Scott J has won this & thank him for his very generous freely given contribution to my favorite personal charity, a savings fund in BTC/LTC for college fees etc of a child who's father died in a tragic accident in 2010 & who's mother's sister is a very good friend of mine.

Wishing everyone who entered the best of luck on my LTC comp, with a total of 500 LTC in prizes up for grabs.

Prizes sent & a PM too

https://blockchain.info/tx/f88f2a2a6dcb26298270596998a9470ade923c61ea95e90c30c6e51c9e9c3281

https://blockchain.info/tx/c03ca27cef8b30aa180b5c94a24111315e37e4e886c174f7b9d67450dff718a4

Cool, I'm afk for a few hours now but will send it upon my return & also PM you re a possible small favor.

Apart from what Cas has already posted, as soon as he loads his coin/address say 1GdySJP4 that creates a FirstBits address after a few confirmations which is the currently shortest unique prefix, it could be just 1GdySJ (expressed in lower case as all FB's are that's 1gdysj) but no one can get any other FB address with the same prefix until they have a different subsequent character than this first one, ie 1GdySJP4xyz would give a FB's of 1GdySJP4x (1gdysjp4x). Also it seems that FirstBits is down atm & has been for weeks so I'm not too sure about it's future, I like it though & hope that it re-appears.

A couple of hours ago I'm seeing Bitcoin monetary base is 10,959,250 BTC, which is worth over $1,000,000,000 USD at current price, so a $1B market cap (if that's the correct term), anyway a net market value for Bitcoin of $1B, later today when I've looked in to the exact block multiplied by the price when it was mined then I will confirm, it looks like Scott J scooped the double prizes for sure though, especially as the price has gone up to a high of $95.70 since, Congrats! Same address?

Mouse over shows total bitcoins mined to date = 10,950,975 BTC, or on http://www.blockchained.com/ it shows 10,960,050 coins, anyway it's over 1B$ at current prices, not sure exactly which block made it but it's confirmed.

I may be wrong on this but I believe you can pay $200 or so over the spot gold price per Troy ounce, with a minimum of $1,800 + the $200 as he made them when the gold price was around that & then just pay an additional 1,000 BTC for those loaded on to the coin, so really you will pay a premium of about $400 (as the gold price has fallen to around $1,600 atm) which comes to about 4.45 BTC (@ $90/BTC) so 1,004.45 + shipping/insurance. My apologies if I haven't recalled totally correctly or missed any changes on this though.

With the bitcoin price going bananas atm anything priced in them gets quickly out of date, Casascius was kind enough to refund a part of what I paid for shipping due to this as it had been quoted in bitcoins valued at when the price was lower per dollar.

It's a play on E= Mc² with BTC as energy being = to old fiat $ & cents to the power of 2, ie squared, or in another dimension of functionality, speed, freedom, appreciation, adaption, independence & security.

&/or BTC as equivalent to energy being = in comparison to old fiat $ represented as mass, times the speed of light squared, which to me is the difference between government/central bank currencies & the first really functioning P2P open source virtual currency with a fixed known total number being generated, ie Bitcoin, is in a totally different league in other words.

Re LTC = $c³  It's a bit tongue in cheek, but I'm a great fan of the main BTC Alt & see enormous potential for it's adaption & growth, especially in niche markets where ppl need faster confirmations & where it's more user friendly to have units worth closer to $1 - $10 each say than stratospheric as BTC may become & then having to deal is small fractions of a coin for most uses, so I called it to the power of 3, ie cubed, which I also believe may be the potential investment returns from it in comparison to bitcoins as things stand atm. I think that it compliments Bitcoin fantastically & is the ideal backup up currency. As soon as Armory wallet is forked for use with LTC or any number of other possible Apps or uses I expect to see the LTC price at around 1/10 of BTC's, there are 4 times as many LTC due to exist so this is quite a modest possibility for competitive price if things roll out well.

In this world everything is duality, nothing comes in to existence without it's counterpart, day - night, male - female, energy - matter, yang - yin, life - death, if you like then, Coke - Pepsi, PC - Mac, Etc Etc, I see LTC as being the natural & ideal counterpart to BTC atm., like a piece of paper always has two sides - that's how things are on the Elementry school of Earth & it's what we're here to master IMO..

While two represents duality, three shows the evolution of this, it's offspring or product if you like & so progress.

0. Cowrie shells, etc
1. Fiat
2. BTC
3. LTC