Lol.  What I mean is that soon its gonna take a room full of GPU's to make any amount of profit worth mining.  I haven't done the math but it would take a lot of money to get that started, and even more money to keep it going. It could talk a few months to make your money back at the prices that where happening at 17:00 utc.  Prices have rebounded but I still wonder at what point the casual miner will be squeeze out of the market.

You are a lucky one then who must have a huge amount of rigs and free access to power. This is not intended a an offensive statement.

Excuse my ignorance, but if the price continues to drop will the difficulty to mine BTC drop as well?  I mean if the the difficulty is increased next week, how on earth could anyone make any money on mining vs. electricity cost?  CPU mining has been rendered obsolete and soon it will be uneconomical to mine with GPU's.  It seems soon that only the rich will be able to profit from BTC mining.

Lol, funny and very relevant.  Lets hope that this the trend when I actually have some money to speculate with.  I mean peeps need money for the weekend right?

I really don't think that MtGox's charges are exorbitant, any who have experience in stock or bond trading would probably agree with me.  I'm mean maybe I've been broke to long but I would be happy to recieve $800 and pay the deliverer 1%.

I'm starting to get quite a few of these messages from GuiMiner using Poclbm:


2011-06-16 12:59:49: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 12:59:49, warning: job finished, miner is idle
2011-06-16 13:00:58: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:00:58, long poll: new block 00000b2fc502b15e
2011-06-16 13:01:12: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:01:12, long poll: new block 000006d043689583
2011-06-16 13:02:22: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:02:22, long poll: new block 00000f2ef239bbb8
2011-06-16 13:03:55: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:03:55, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
2011-06-16 13:03:59: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:03:59, warning: job finished, miner is idle
2011-06-16 13:06:00: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:06:00, warning: job finished, miner is idle
2011-06-16 13:06:01: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:06:01, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
2011-06-16 13:10:54: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:10:54, warning: job finished, miner is idle
2011-06-16 13:10:54: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:10:54, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
2011-06-16 13:13:25: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:13:25, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
2011-06-16 13:13:25: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:13:25, warning: job finished, miner is idle
2011-06-16 13:15:25: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:15:25, warning: job finished, miner is idle
2011-06-16 13:19:15: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:19:15, long poll: new block 0000008e02cfb5b9
2011-06-16 13:24:41: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:24:41, warning: job finished, miner is idle
2011-06-16 13:24:42: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:24:42, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
2011-06-16 13:26:14: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:26:14, warning: job finished, miner is idle
2011-06-16 13:26:14: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:26:14, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
2011-06-16 13:29:05: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:29:05, warning: job finished, miner is idle
2011-06-16 13:29:06: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:29:06, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
2011-06-16 13:30:07: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:30:07, long poll: new block 000000322cee8a77
2011-06-16 13:31:10: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:31:10, warning: job finished, miner is idle
2011-06-16 13:31:10: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 13:31:10, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC

For the last 1/2 an hour.  Is this normal or due to a problem on your end or maybe mine?  Any help or suggestions would be great. As I'm typing this it seems that the whole pool when down.

Just using this board a platform to get the fudge out.  See yall on the otherside.

In Slushes pool it tells you if you have solved any blocks under your account tab, where you worker info is.

Thanks for the help, I guess it was just due to network instability.  I've changed pools and had no problems since.

I'm really new to BitCoin, and although this is very exciting possiblity, I am worried that might my GPU overclocked to much. I'm using GUIminer to mine at a rate of 233mh/s on a Radeon HD 6850.  If my GPU is being pushed to far would it report an error to the GUIminer log?  Would the program just crash?  While pooling through Deepbit My gpu utilization is going up and down.  My fan is ramping up and down to accommodate the temp variations due to GPU utilization (very annoying).  In my console I've noticed that its giving a error connecting to bitcoin RPC.  Then it seems fine and then it errors again, is that due to a crashy gpu or is that because Deepbit's servers are still underattack?  Anyways I'm sorry if this question has been asked a million times.  I tried to use my google-fu with no avail. Thanks again for your help.

I just wanted to say hello.  It seems I'm really late to the party... but this is one of the coolest things I've ever heard of.