Hi,

(also tried sending this through PM, but I think the forum ate my PM).

Have you considered “syndicating” your pool and client to other communities? What I mean is allow other sites to host your (but custom branded) miner.

Here is my thinking;  Im a member of battle-fields.com, (BFS) which is a gaming community hosting a bunch of game servers. They need donations to survive.  I had been thinking of getting them to set up a bitcoin mining pool, but frankly, thats why over my head and Im not sure I could get enough people to join to make it worthwhile. You already have all the pieces.

So my suggestion is, allow communities like BFS to put up your miner with a (eg) Battle-fields logo and skin and a configurable donation %. So members of BFS or similar communities could support their community by simply clicking the miner on their site and select how much of their profits they want to donate to that site.

All this requires for you to do -I think- is:
-custom skin
-2 wallet addresses, one thats preconfigured (in our case, BFS wallet), the other, the personal one,  being optional. Not everyone will even bother to create one.
-User configurable split between both
- optionally, but probably a good idea, some community statistics, both within the community and between communities.  You could add some identification to the customized miner so communities stats can be shown.
- If possible, have this work without any individual registration on your site. Let each community register and have a password, and for each community, accept any worker (which would probably be the community username) as given.

I cant promise this will get you dozens of miners from Bfs, but I suspect at least a few (after all, they all have gaming cards and a willingness to help their community, particularly when it doesnt involve sending money ), but Im sure there would be many and bigger communities like BFs that could be interested, but lack the knowhow to setup their own pools.

Cheers,

Yep, in the new beta it works now. Unfortunately,your miner makes my desktop laggy as hell, so Im sticking with diablo for now.

I tried  this  on my 5850 running ubuntu and I got this error:

Failed to map output buffer(code -12 = CL_MAP_FAILURE) on Cypress (#1)

Happens with both the beta and regular version. CPU mining works. Any clues?


edit: also, I wonder if your mhash calculation is correct. Im using Diablo miner now, and it reports the usual ~290 Mhash for my 5850 at stock speed. When I check my status page on your site, it shows me 357 Mhash/s for the past 100 shares. Whats up with that?

As bitcoin becomes more popular, mining isnt going to make you any non trivial money. Difficulty is adjusted automatically, so the more people mine, the harder it becomes to make any bitcoins  (and vice versa). Also the more prices of bitcoins drop, the less people will want to mine (and vice versa). What this means, is that it will find an equilibrium where BC mining just barely is or isnt worthwhile, depending ao how competitive your electricity rates are.

The only scenario where you could make real money is when there just arent enough miner rigs to keep up with BC demand growth, like it was earlier this year. Or if you have some competitive edge over the average miner, like by using FPGA's instead of GPUs.

I dont see anything improved worth mentioning. Looks like a case of bitcoin envy to me, someone who missed the boat with bitcoins and figured he'd just start over with essentially a perfect copy. I might as well start P4mancoins.

Of course, this was bound to happen, there never was a reason to assume bitcoins would become the only p2p cryptocurrency. Its one of its biggest weaknesses in fact, its a great idea, but anyone can run with it and if there are a 1000 competing and incompatible crypto currencies around, I kinda doubt any one of them will ever really take off. Almost makes me wonder if someone shouldnt patent it.

Anyway, on top of that, I dont feel like switching unless there is at least some tangible benefit. Solidcoins doesnt offer any.  A very low price isnt a tangible benefit, its a reflection of non existent demand.

Hello,

Newbie here. Not much to say, but since I cant post anywhere else.. well, Ill just post here a small thank you to ius for his radeonvolt tool:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10228.0

IUS, I doubt you will ever read it here, but cheers mate, works like a charm. Desperately needed something to monitor my VRM voltages under ubuntu and your app works flawlessly.  Ill be sending some bitcoins once Ive mined some more