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1  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: how can BFL still be advertising on the forum on: April 01, 2013, 04:38:18 PM
Ironically, you posted this right after I received my BitForce SC

People don't believe you have one in your possession.
2  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Price per Terahash? on: March 06, 2013, 07:31:36 PM
Also, that doesn't include the motherboard, cpu, ram, cables, power supply, network cabling, routers, etc, to jam $305,000 worth of GPU's together.
3  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU on: March 06, 2013, 07:24:04 PM
Mike, have you contacted mining pool operators individually ?
4  Economy / Economics / Re: Bitcoin market cap is now almost... on: March 02, 2013, 02:08:09 AM
The biggest players, aside from central banks, are pension funds, who manage tens or hundreds of billions. We will not be seeing them for a long long time. They move as a herd, and they haven't even really begun to move into gold in any significant way (my guess is under 2% of pension assets are in gold), much less the teeny tiny asset that is bitcoin.

They also tend to have very strict rules about diversification, and allowed % in certain types of funds.  For example, a given pension isn't going to be able to invest in anything that isn't AAA rated by Moody's or S&P, that means no chance of investing in bitcoins.
5  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Background checks on persons vital in the Bitcoin eco system ? on: March 02, 2013, 02:02:19 AM
Hi Herodes,

What is your address and social security number?
6  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Ex user re-interested in Bitcoin. Mining still relevant? on: February 19, 2013, 05:35:19 PM
5770 is about 200MHash.

You can put the #'s in to a calculator yourself:

http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/

I show that you'd be getting around 0.03 bitcoins per 24h (three-hundreths of a bitcoin).  Pretty far cry from 2.000 bitcoins per 24hr.
7  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Paxum Questions and Concerns on: July 29, 2011, 04:44:55 PM
I guess i should of made it known that i have seen that movie - i guess thats another connection for us  Roll Eyes

I think you mean 'should have', which then becomes:

Should've

Professional/grammatically correct writings will go far toward instilling trust in your users.
8  Economy / Economics / Re: Bernanke is Wrong - Default will help the economy. on: July 19, 2011, 07:56:33 PM
And food would be so expensive that you would work only to eat something.

Pretty sure I can grow my own food, and chickens.    Sure, I wouldn't be a beef farmer, but I can barter.

Financial markets don't impact my food, personally.
9  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Mining not ideal but not horrible on: July 13, 2011, 08:00:43 PM
Yes, if I take the year to date into account and assume difficulty stabilises at close to its current level when price stabilizes (which seems reasonable) then the situation looks a bit better actually.

It is not reasonable.  Difficulty will continue to rise. 
10  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: 90 minutes to next retarget? on: July 06, 2011, 08:37:19 PM

  def a welcome change to see it not friggin 50%

1 more blk to go. 1'562'245.69

close: 1,563,027.9961162
11  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: 90 minutes to next retarget? on: July 06, 2011, 08:15:35 PM
Well, 13-17% increase will be a welcome change from the two prior 50%+ changes.

How long does it take blockexplorer to get the newest one?
12  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: 90 minutes to next retarget? on: July 06, 2011, 07:12:03 PM
You guys guessing what block explorer shows as next retarget, strong guesswork~

If all were using same method to 'guess' a number one would assume if it was on the same block the numbers would all be much, much closer.

I used a tool for mine, but it certainly wasn't block explorer.

Guess we'll find out in a little while.
13  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: 90 minutes to next retarget? on: July 06, 2011, 07:05:27 PM
You guys guessing what block explorer shows as next retarget, strong guesswork~
14  Bitcoin / Mining / 90 minutes to next retarget? on: July 06, 2011, 06:36:49 PM
Blockexplorer shows about 5000 seconds left until next difficulty.

Think it will be closer to 1.5M or 1.9M ?  My guess is 1.9M
15  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: This should be kept secret! !!!!!!!!!!!! on: July 01, 2011, 01:26:25 AM
No one I mention bitcoins to seems to care.

As long as I get 10ish BTC by Sept, I will be content.
16  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: New Difficulty - 57% Increase. 1 GH/s = .656 BTC on: June 25, 2011, 01:43:48 AM
You are incorrect. Your method multiplies 57% by the current payout - this would mean that we now get 57% of the blocks we did before in a given time period. This means the mining rate is (1/0.57)-1 = 75% slower, which conincides with a 75% increase in difficulty.

Here is the correct calculation:

average time = difficulty * 2**32 / hashrate (straight from bitcoin wiki)

Hashrate is constant, only variable is difficulty. So in calculating increase in time per block for a difficulty we can simplify this to:

delta (avg. time) = delta (difficulty)

If difficulty is 57% more, then average time per block is 57% more. So if it took 1 day to get a block before, now it takes 1.57 days. Thus, your payout per day is now 1 block / 1.57 days or .636 blocks/day. Or in our case, payout was 1.146 BTC per day, it is now 1.146/1.57 = 0.73 BTC per day.

In the future it'd be good if you didn't insult before you knew you were right...

I stand corrected.  

0.73 is actually significantly more than .65 btc/day.  

Should have used the alloscomp calculator!

7M difficulty at 1.0Ghash is 0.14 BTC/day.  That is 75% more than I had previously calculated (0.08).  Looks like I will be in this game for 7 more difficulties, not 5 more : )

Thanks Talldude et al (srs).  I am reworking my #'s.  I might end up with 10 BTC after all at my 330mhash.
17  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Extended Difficulty Forecast on: June 24, 2011, 07:47:29 PM
chodapa, what do you think the odds are of hitting 7m difficulty before the end of August?
18  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Watching amateur finance types flail on: June 24, 2011, 06:58:07 PM
John, if these problems are as classic as you claim, then surely their solutions are also classic, and will be straightforward to implement.

What then is the issue here?
19  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: New Difficulty - 57% Increase. 1 GH/s = .656 BTC on: June 24, 2011, 03:48:47 PM

I don't know what math you use, but by my math 1.146 BTC / 1.57 = 0.73 BTC, unless I'm missing something...


A 50% increase in difficulty is a 1/3 reduction of mining speed.

You have to divide the difference between difficulty A and Difficulty B by Difficulty A and then multiply that by the mining-rate in Difficulty A to get the mining rate in Difficulty B

(1.379-0.877)/0.877 *1.146 = Your answer. (0.65)

I really hope people who are throwing money at mining are capable of 5th grade math
20  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: $300 Bitcoin "Guess the Price" Contest on: June 24, 2011, 03:36:46 PM
Aug 1st will see 3 more difficulties.

1.37M until July 2nd (current)
2.5M until July 12
3.5M until July 23
4.7M until Aug 3rd

So in the middle of the 4.7M difficulty, BTC will need to be worth $80 to remain an equivalent difficulty:price ratio.
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