Any suggested powered USB hubs from Amazon? I'm running out of ports on my eeepc.

Do we need to stock up?

http://www.overstock.com/#rubber-chicken,/k,/results.html?count=60&sort=Relevance&landingPage=false

...Overstock takes bitcoin...

2 R-Boxes

Schildbach "bitcoin wallet" is nice because it connects directly to the bitcoin network.

Site back up for me.

As of this past Sunday, I was mining at an all time reward of about 105% compared to what I am calculated to mine based on my hash rate. This doesn't indicate profitability in and of itself, but it does mean I'm making slightly more than expected.

Note that this number is tracked since first week of July or so.

As for profitability vs. electrical cost, I guess the answer is if you can't get it here, you probably can't get it anywhere.

And no, this is not like a lottery pool. Ita just that on a smaller pool you have more variance. The longer you mine at any pool, the closer your rewards will trend towards that 100% value.

And another one!!

Someone order a keg!

Block!?

I'd love to fire up the grill and grab some cold frosty beverages for a block party. Make it happen!

Nice. Now let's hit some bright green!

OK thanks.

Edit: I see a lot of this is answered on the help page. Sorry for asking questions already answered. For some reason what is written there didn't exactly click for me, but I get it now.

I guess what I meant was, when a block is hit, does the window of time/shares/shifts that determines how the payout is split go all the way back 5x difficulty all the time or is that a maximum? I think it's all the time but I wanted to check.

A follow up is if "5x difficulty" is 5x the difficulty the block was hit at, the expected difficulty, or something else? Or is it calculated using shifts somehow?

I was thinking there is a 500% "wide" window stretching back 500% from the time a block is hit (500% = 5x expected difficulty to solve block based on network difficulty), and that's the N shares, but I wanted to check if this is how it works. Wasn't sure if hitting a block at 50% meant the window was 250% back, for instance. Or if 500% was a Max value but the window only goes back to beginning of block.

N value crosses backwards over block boundaries right?

Damn that's awesome

Yeehaw.

If that's accurate, it gives my solo miners a little hope!

So you're saying there's a market for a trustworthy, transparent hash rental site?

After giving it more thought... Couldn't any pool be manipulated in a similar way?

Ditto

Block!

Lots of different sectors of the economy rely on scarcity of information or unwillingness of consumers to shop around. Off the top of my head, I can think of auto mechanics (not all of them obviously, but $80+ for an oil change with an extra $80 on top to replace the cabin air filter after they show you the external "dirty" side of it is a common scheme among the "drive thru" style oil change and maintenance shops), most things related to home maintenance and improvement (windows, doors, HVAC equip, roofing, etc), medical care, etc. Basically anything you cannot easily and readily do a cost comparison of is an industry that (at least from a sales aspect) relies on scarcity of information.

Put differently, they rely on the laziness of the consumer.

Sidehack I really like everything you have done and am excited to see what you come up with in the future, but you gotta realize that the price of goods is equal to what people are willing to pay for them. Full stop.

Am I advocating people try to rip off unknowing consumers? No. but I'm also not advocating overt hand-holding for the sake of "fairness". There's an aspect of Darwinism at play here I guess is what I'm arguing. If someone wants to "get rich quick" on this "bitcoin thingy" and is too lazy to do their research, then maybe they didn't "deserve" (from a survival of the fittest standpoint, not from a morality or "fairness" standpoint) to be sitting on a bunch of cash to begin with.

All that being said, being a white knight and pointing out bad deals and attempting to educate consumers is fair game as well.

It's unclear if the existence of XT actually drove that though... If overall correctly there were several large margin calls that hit yesterday.