Hi folks, just wanted to say hello and that I'll be around for awhile. I've been a lurker up until this point and I've been following bitcoin for quite awhile.
Cheers!
Nice to meet you! |
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After some Googling it seemed to me that mere mortals cannot use it. But soon most (all?) of the functionality should be available from the website.
So no one knows how to use it? xD |
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I've been wondering the same thing since day 1 lol...
Do you connect through the client, in some sort of command prompt, what? *confused* |
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Okay, this is going to be a newbie question, I apologize in advance. How do you use the RPC interface?
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Looks like it's back up now. I'm pretty sure it did go down though, but not for too long, fortunately.
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I can't access Deepbit right now. (And my internet works, I tested it) Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Did they get DDOSed again?  |
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last night at about Midnight the GUI miner stopped mining. I restarted the computer to see what was up. Now I can not connect to any of my pools. Slush, BTC guild, and BTCmine. They all say connection problems. When I try to start the standard wallet miner (3.22 or 3.21) it says that it can not connect to the Bitcoin RPC. What am I doing wrong.
Try to ping the websites you cannot access. (win-R, type "cmd", type "ping examplewebsite.com") If that fails to connect, you have an internet problem or the site is down. If that succeeds, try redownloading and restarting the guiminer client. |
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Sounds like a good idea to me. I think people might be unnerved at the vast fluctuations in the exchange rate, though.
The only problem I see is that most credit card companies have transactions that are reversible, unlike Bitcoin, and we might run into problems where the user reversed the transaction after receiving Bitcoins. (this is the reason why Mt. Gox and such don't use Paypal)
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hi,
I'm super new, but i really love the idea of a decentralized currency that can be controlled by corporate entities.
In any case I want to adopt this as a form of payment at my shop: xcubicle.com
We've been in business since 2007 and repair mainly game systems and do web dev on the side... We would be the first repair shop in the city to accept BTC's I believe...
Are there any stickers of some sort to promote BTC at our physical location?
Also how do i get out of this newbie status? I would like to apply for the contest that Mokrul is having about giving away BTC's if my company adopts it.
Thanks
You need 5 posts to get out of "newbie" status. Great to hear you're going to accept Bitcoins! I don't know anything about stickers, but you could certainly create some. |
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These will be gone in no time... Thanks!
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Well, your theory is interesting, and not without merit, but I do see a few gaps.
Number one: In order to significantly affect mining, the government would need a lot of computing power. I don't know how much they have, probably enough, but a lot of that has to be devoted to other tasks.
Number two: Because Bitcoins are divisible up to eight decimal places, if Bitcoins are removed from the system, it just makes the value of the others go up.
Number three: The US government is VERY unlikely to accept Bitcoins as tax payment, and if they did, I don't think many people would choose to pay with them. The government certainly can't tax Bitcoins.
Who knows, though, it might be possible, but even if they did find some way to break through, I think the Bitcoin community would be able to outsmart them.
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So i was wondering myself if this can be done.
I started mining a while ago and dont have a second rig yet for constant mining. My Goals are:
2 Modes:
Multimedia mode: Mining in the background and gaming / watching vids in the meantime.
Mining mode: gpu clocks at max (for me 1005) ,gpu mem clocks lowest (225) and CPU to forced idle mode (like this CCC option where you have 3 steps for cpu performance, 800, 2800 and 3200 for me there)
I want to have like a file on my desktop which i open to switch modes.
Any ideas how i can realize that?
This seems like it would be fairly easy to program, I'm just not sure how you program overclocking. Does anyone know how to do that, for example in C++? |
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I'm a newbie so I can't post in the appropriate location... but
I was considering the issues of linux vs windows, and how easy it is to OC and monitor the video cards within windows...
Would there be any advantage to running linux virtualized within windows; using windows to control OCing and monitoring and linux for the actual GPU mining? or perhaps even vice-versa with windows virtualized?
No, the performance hit is significant. Just choose an OS and run it. You can overclock on Linux too. |
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Wow, that's... scary. I think the bottleneck here is download speeds. Computer storage capacities will increase at at least close to the pace of Bitcoin, and I don't mind dedicating some hard drive space. But internet speeds are dependent on big money-hungry companies, for the most part, and that's what worries me. What we really need is a fast Bitcoin-funded internet service; hopefully that will happen before network congestion becomes a major problem. |
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I'm not going to sell my graphics card and buy a new one just for mining...I'll just pass on Bitcoin.
You don't need to mine in order to participate in the Bitcoin community, and even with that setup, you'd make a little bit. Don't give up just because you have an nVidia GPU!  |
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I think the Atom would have plenty of power, the GPU miner clients use barely any CPU at all. You can probably pick up a Sempron 140 and board for cheaper, though.
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If I remember correctly, it was the default bitcoin client, i.e. the one downloaded from this site.
Yeah, the default client used to have a basic CPU miner built in, but CPU mining became really inefficient, so they removed it. |
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I started mining yesterday, the same day I discovered Bitcoin. Not sure how profitable it will be, but I thought it would be fun to try. Personally, I think the heyday of mining is long gone, but there still is money to be made from it. The people who really profited were those who mined in the early days and kept their Bitcoins.
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I would like to request to be whitelisted. I just got onto the Bitcoin scene yesterday, so I can't cite years of dedication, but if you look at my post they are not spam or trolling, and as such I would like to be able to continue my contributions to and learning in this community. But I will understand if you don't want to whitelist me just yet, no hard feelings.
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