Cool, nice going.

That's an interesting suggestion. I don't think 10% will be enough to make a meaningful difference, though, even assuming all miners cooperate.

Seems to me like the great influx has died down and that the situation is more or less stable.
The Newbie posting rules are quite harsh. Is it time to make them less so if not eliminate them altogether?

Is your second card connected to a monitor? There's an issue where windows won't start a card unless it's connected to one. Search the forum, there are plenty of workarounds, the easiest being detecting the monitor in the screen resolution panel and then extending the desktop to a virtual monitor.

I believe "Instant" is the difficulty increase that would take place based on the current block-find rate. It doesn't take into account the average find-rate since the last change.
E.g. find rate is 7.2 blocks/hour -> instant difficulty is 20%.

Mine seem to downclock well using Sapphire Trixx.

Going from 11.6 to 11.7 gave my 6990 a boost from ~360 to ~374. Nice.
No change on 5870s.

WOW, WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS EXCITING EVENT

This is definitely an issue that can be addressed using game-theory models. The Prisoner's dilemma is just a simple one that's easy to explain.

For our personal benefit - and assuming Bitcoins continue increasing in value for the foreseeable future - the best strategy for each and every one of us holding Bitcoins is to hold onto them until we're starving. The person who does this and doesn't spend ANYTHING until that point is the clear winner - unless the market crashes and Bitcoins become worthless. This will happen if the aforementioned strategy is used by EVERYONE, which is why it's not a stable strategy.

A stable strategy (meaning the market lives and benefits it users) is one where people use Bitcoins despite their best interest (if their interest is defined as having the maximum amount of resources) and instead operate in a manner that also ensures the interests of other users and the market. There's no sweet spot: some will hoard all their Bitcoin, others will spend it all, and most will operate along this continuum. The market will continue functioning if enough of us contribute to its existence in a sufficient manner.

the rational strategy, then, is to:
1) Hold on to as many Bitcoins as you can afford
2) Contribute to the market (by participating in it, exchanging Bitcoins for goods) when your cost of doing that is low
3) Create incentives for people to spend their Bitcoins, making this option more lucrative for them than hoarding


Right now, I would DEFINITELY spend more Bitcoins if I could purchase more things I actually needed rather than simply use them to benefit the market.

I don't see your point.

Anyway, there's absolutely no reason not to spread Bitcoin all over the place. The sooner we reach the critical mass of people interested in - and using - Bitcoin, the more likely the system is to survive.

Yeah?

You're describing this as if the community decided to publicize Bitcoin rather than the press finding interest in it and blowing it up all over the net.

That's a wonderful idea!

So what you're saying is that you want to be an "early adopter" despite only coming into the game now?

I don't think so. The economy should grow, more participants should join, and the word should be spread to anyone who's willing to listen.

This pool is unfair towards anyone not actually referring anyone.

Just join BTC Guild. No fees, proportional payout.

Assuming you are wise and bought an ATI card,
get the latest Catalyst drivers (11.6 at the moment) and the ATI Stream SDK 2.4 package. This will give you OpenCL support.

I am wondering how many people use Bitcoin (i.e. have a wallet with at least 0.01 BTC in it) and how this has changed (and will change) with time.
I know that there were only ~3k users on MtGox 3 months ago and when the DB was leaked there were 60,000, but that's just one statistic.

Is there anything more accurate?

One way to make it more widespread is to make it so people don't have to rely on Linux to secure their wallets.

Certainly it would be nice not to be advised by Linux fanboys that it's the only way to go in every thread.

Is anyone else getting a "The site's security certificate is not trusted!" from GLBSE, using Chrome?

I support this notion!
As well as many of the people who've posted in the thread I started in the Marketplace on this very subject: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=21670.0

The forums facilitate the community. We need a strong community for Bitcoin to grow  - it's one of the most important things to have in place if Bitcoin is to become financially relevant.

Each forum has sticky threads that all newcomers can start with and they are informative enough for all but the most hardcore users, who probably don't have a problem finding information in a public forum.