If it's MSI you could put installer source along with the included binary files somewhere. Otherwise it's just another executable without source.

By default it seems to put my location based on IP on the map. Which may be very misleading. I don't want to share it, and I don't seem to be able to put marker elsewhere.

Idea is very nice.

Somebody sell me t-shirt with this.

I would say it may not work on a different machine that has many GPUs without xorg.conf modification. Or have you done something to avoid this problem?

The question if it's rational depends on your goals obviously.


My confidence depends on what kind of consequences we're talking about. If it succeeds, which would mean becoming very popular and staying secure, I assign high probability that it will be used as a savings storage (from which, unlike bank account, gov cannot steal). I do not assign high probability it's gonna be used much for quick micro payments for stuff that is legal (at least not directly).

But you understand that if I move bitcoins between my wallets you may think somebody is trading bitcoins? If such graph exists and becomes popular, I would possibly write a script to move bitcoins between fresh wallets every day, because well, I want bitcoin to become popular, so it's good thing when people think it is used more and more often That's why I think such graph is useless.

It's pointless. It can only fool people. You can look at random number generator output instead.

(you can take a look at http://blockexplorer.com/)

I think it may be worth trying marketing to investors, as an investment with high risk and possible very high returns, but I would vote for some less naive way.

But as it was repeated 100 times here, what we really need are not investors, speculators and miners, but people buying and selling stuff with BTC every day.

It does sound very interesting and I haven't thought about something like that.

But if you buy hardware just for mining you do not want it to mine only 30% of the time, and most of datacenters that may have some "free cycles" to spend, are not GPU based currently  (as far as I can tell, and even if they have some teslas for sci computing, that's still not really what you want).

You have very interesting conversations with your mother. I think if I tried it with my mom the second question would be already different. It would be like "And are you sure you're not hungry?"

Lately when I was trying to explain as quickly as possible to somebody not really technical (kind of a person that uses computer mainly for ms office), I simplified that it's kind of currency, where instead of coins, you have files. And you exchange these files. It obviously raises tons of questions for a technical mind, but for the one I was talking with, it was more like "ah, I see".

When I really want to tell somebody something more about it (usually somebody more technical), I often run into problem of trying to convince him it's secure, without describing all protocol details.

I agree there may be many people who have it for "free". Those living with their parents, those working at universities, those that can put it somewhere in their office.

But the problem is that it doesn't scale. When you want some decent amount of computing power, someone will notice these noisy boxes And I think that assumption that maybe it does not have to scale, because there may be many many people having just single machine, is wrong (I think we can already see power-law computing power distribution in the network). When you are doing something on a bigger scale you cut many costs. Just configuration is copy&paste instead of hours spent on checking wtf is it not working right, and then cheaper components when ordered in in higher quantities, maybe some more optimal cooling, and so on.

I just want to say I also think UDP is a weird/bad idea here.

And even though I have not yet time to dive in, solution looks very nice.

Isn't some plugin like FirePGP enough? (I don't know if there's something like this but actively developed) Standard forum script can be used then.

"Hey people, BUY NOW!!!" sounds like you've already bought some

Oh, haven't seen that in the original post. Interesting. So to work on the proper block, everybody should receive a getwork after anybody finds this smaller share? Am I getting it right?

So knowing that most people who use bitcoin are rational, why would anybody report a block that he just mined?

You cannot hope for other people good will, when it's anonymous.

One of my friends once said he liked matrix revolutions.

I like the idea very much. 10% sounds ok for me, mostly not because of risk associated with variance, but because this pool is going to be used rather by slower miners, so higher server maintenance cost compared to income (many getworks, not so many blocks). Also using bitcoin address as login is very clever.

About forum improvements:

I'd love to be able to track responses for given thread (for example with e-mail notification). It's kind of a common forum feature, and with amount of posts that are here daily, it seems really useful for somebody who does not have time to track all threads.

edit: sorry for not reading thread carefully, but as davidonpda mentioned, any kind of stats would be nice. Your site is very handy for monitoring miners performance.