Yes, the effect on NMC price will be interesting, as I'm assuming most of the 80k of NMC will be instantly put up for exchange

I wouldn't have thought the NMC market had enough liquidity to maintain any sort of reasonable value, but we shall see.

well with 2ghps it took me 2.5 months of pool mining before I found a block, by which time I had made much more than 50BTC.

looking purely at statistics and probability (and taking into account the whole ethos of bitcoin being p2p) solo mining always wins over pooled.

Perhaps it sat at 50% because you have a dual core cpu and it was only using 1 core? Also, I'm not massively thrilled at a 5mhash increase, but over 10 workers that's potentially 50mhash, and I'm certainly not complaining at that.

Also, an hour? really?

Reduces cpu usage massively on my 6950s and gained about 5mh/s.

I won't be rolling it out on all my machines as I don't really trust rc drivers.

Yeah there are massive amounts of a low volume orders being filled, and I know it's the automatic option to be cynical and distrustful, but I can't help but shake suspicions...

Most activity I've seen in a while, though...pretty interesting to watch.

As far as I was aware, amd gpus are far behind nvidia gpus in terms of PPD (perhaps this has changed now - it's been a while since I folded).

Other than playing games on them, there are few uses. I guess you could try writing some fun opencl apps?

If a spider could live in the hideous vacuum and temperatures inside my cases, I'd feel obliged to let it stay there.

In terms of how much $ you get, then I guess BTC. You must remember there are two variables affecting this, though.

Sadly it'll be some time next year until the hilarious nmc difficulty comes back again and everyone mines it out in 12 hours.

Heat and noise, both in unspeakable proportions, plague me during the summer months.

Fortunately, most of the hardware is in the garage.

Only made 1 withdrawl which was to a euro bank. The transfer took 10 working days, which is not unreasonable.

Running a measly 1.4ghps with 2 6950s and 2 5830s with my other main mining rig offline due to PSU issues.

Leveraged financial products have long been used by brokers in order to offer traders massive exposure to markets for a relatively small percentage of the total position.

I'm sure many of us have noticed the 'Margin trading (coming soon)' on Mt Gox, and I wonder what the community thinks to trading BTC on margin.

• Will Mt Gox be able to implement such a product with the price of BTC fluctuating as it is?
• Will (or should) margin accounts be different to normal trading accounts and will margin traders have to have more vetting & maintain higher collateral?
• Will margin trading destabilise the market even more? Is there enough depth? Will leverage ultimately decrease market depth?
• Day trading BTC might become more attractive, but do the advantages of trading BTC outweigh the advantages of, say, trading forex with SBs and CFDs?

For mining purposes, it doesn't matter which series of cards you mix (compared with crossfire, in which you must use the same series of card).

You should be able to run two 5850s with that PSU, but certainly not two 6990s. CPU and ram can be almost anything - it doesn't affect hashrates.

Many will tell you not to bother, but to me (and to many others) mining is a hobby, though I think it's fair to say that those of us mining with big hashrates typically paid their hardware costs off a long time ago.