is it all mined? if so then you have generated new cash right? how can that be an investment if you have not paid for it? the mining hardware is a capital investment sure.
If on the other hand you bought into it and made profit then it would be no different to any other commodity such as gold, silver or other.

how much of the new ASIC devices do we think will add and how many would replace older ones. If you have cheap power, there is no real need to shut down he older ones so the hash rate and therefor diff would rise yes?

nest is predicted Anyware up to 24% I believe.

I am not a tax agent and bar far not an expert however I have a theory on this.

Since no government (I think) has acknowledged Bitcoin as currency, so long as you hold it in BTC, it essentially does not exist. When you cash it out, it's like receiving a lump sum cash payment form someone, which would need to be declared as income.
So at worse you would only pay tax once, unless you declare the BTC at it's fiat value as capital and have to pay capital gains tax.

Lots of q's around this obviously but with the right accountant you should be able to limit to paying tax once.

i'm in for at least one, possibly two.

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check out this good egg! haha. I have an ac duct on the back of it cheekily and it sits in the server rack. one thermaltake 90cfm fan on the back pushing in and the stock fan sucking out the front. heatsinks on all asics and the vregs.

I wondered this myself, but for Windows Phone. Multiminer is ok but not as up to date. I've got a cheeky nat rule to expose my ant to the internet so I can get to it from outside.
What do you think mdude? I could have a go at the windows phone version but my skills a pretty limited. it's all vb right?

yes still using those, that is important for p2pool from what I have discovered and been told. Still not sure what impact that would have on other pools. Can anyone comment on the impact of these settings on other pools?

haha yeah not bad huh? I got a nice payout from that last one too.

After running overnight my conclusion is the settings don't make a huge difference. regardless of diff the shares and payouts looks to be pretty stable and the hash & reject rate is right on where it was before when I had the diff set in the miner Config.

The difference is minimal and it all depends on whether you want consistent diff or variable diff. I'm going to hold off changing my recommendations until I have a bigger sample size.
My worry was that I have a miner in my node 3 times faster than mine and I also have a smaller miner that I use. Always looking for options to optimize those. So far the differences have been pretty small.

Nice one Patman.

I still find it ironic that we see pool rate drop and blocks fewer but we seem to be getting more traction on code development. I can't help but speculate what that means for p2pool.
Will petamine add their hashing to p2pool effectively pushing us all out due to diff rising or will a change come that no only avoids this but even perhaps takes advantage of it, as in more blocks for miners on p2pool. and the even stranger thing is the number of donations made to p2pool of late.

Funny times we are seeing right now.

I think I have an idea and have observed on my own rigs over the last few months but what effect does diff have exactly on payout. If diff increases by 20% is it exactly 20% less payout? or is it proportional?
My own observations, be they anecdotal at best, seem to show diff in crease doesn't have as high an effect as it first seems.

Interesting, thanks for that. I've removed it from my S1 and it seems to hash a little bit higher now and can see the diff adjusting. will let that run for a it and see how it looks.
Just when you think you are starting to understand it all, something pops up and you re-evaluate your tactic lol

my understanding is it ensures your lower hash rate doesn't get lost in the higher hash rate of other miners on your node. If you are the only one on your node it shouldn't matter.

btw a bock! yay!

you mean lower the diff?

ha! I have 15496 and that just the unread emails in my inbox not including subfolders.

EDIT: and no, my desktop does not look like that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEdiC-W4L7c

I've got a front end also in my sig below.

nice update. btw your notification icon shows as "NotifyIcon1" as the tooltip label.

cool cheers, yeah I figured that was the case but it seems out of the ordinary with nearly 1th/s to have so much time between shares. All good, still learning the nuances of variation and p2pool.

hmm my node hasn't picked up a share in over 5 hours. hashing at 700gh/s+ and usually a share comes up every couple of hours. anyone else seeing this?