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Bitcoin / Hardware / [Archive] BFL trolling museum
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on: December 20, 2012, 02:30:00 PM
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No one said anyones delays make anyone elses better.
What people have said and been deemed asshamsters for is noting that even people who took an easier route to make an ASIC have faltered, been delayed, or released far less specific information. Apparently noticing that some group who has previously messed up time lines, not every time line but over half, is the only proof someone needs to deem a so far fairly respectable company charlatans and schemers. To disagree with such blatant libel is to been insulted.
How does one disconnect from reality enough to say that people taking a short cut get delays too is unrelated and unimportant? Even more important would seem to be why is a render from a company that actually looks like a circuit board rather then shapes on MS paint not proof of a design or more of a design then the MS Paint version?
Yeah the power estimates, shipping times blah blah blah. I paid far in advance of when I could quickly get a BFL Single. Not because 10 weeks of waiting wasn't costing me money well potential money. I did it because when I worked the numbers even with a 12 month headstart icarus wouldn't pay for itself faster then my single. Yes worst case scenerio. Toms product wasn't any better nor was the europen one. Payback time sucked. For the delays I still got paid off sooner and with more coin at this point.
Some people have opinions. They will differ from yours. I would bet a lot of people believe far differently then you do even people you talk to daily. Well unless you run a cult. I suppose then people are required to agree with you. Disagreeing with a loudmouth online doesn't make someone an asshamster. At some point it's just the price of having an opinion. Well that and being at least literate enough to express it.
+3.14159 -- Smoov
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on: December 20, 2012, 06:28:09 AM
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A hell of a lot better than Tom's render of his board. Ya, his was literally a giant green square with 16 little black squares.
Oh please god, no. Not again one of those "BFL sucks but the others suck too" statements. Inaba does this all the time. Do you asshamsters have to copy him all the time? (for the record: Tom's render sucks indeed!) Serious question: Why is it ok for you to say that Tom's renders suck, but when I say that BFL's renders are better and more detailed than Tom's, which they are, I'm somehow sucking Inaba's dingaling and copying his posts cuz I wanna be just like him? Because you're not validating his greatness and acknowledging that you are beneath him, so he has to tear you down some so he can still feel elevated above you. No matter how wrong he is. It isn't about reality, it is about ego. Some people's egos are too fragile to cope with humility. -- Smoov
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Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [400GH/s] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool
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on: December 15, 2012, 12:44:55 PM
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Does any1 mining TRC found that something is wrong? NO block in 24hrs where expected time to block is about 0.5hr?
I also got loads of 'weird' output in my trc p2pool logs, after some investigation, i found this post : http://sourceforge.net/p/terracoin/discussion/p2pool/thread/3fe0acea/it looks like p2pool trc settings were updated, but not yet merged into p2pool repository. I temporarily switched to the source pointed by that post, i'll try to give some feedback after a few hours or days. There's apparently a pull request submitted ( https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/pull/54 ) with that code, i hope it will make it soon into p2pool repos, so my machine won't waste so much cpu/bandwidth retrying to send/receive the same shares over and over I'll have to wait until forrestv puts together a new w32 binary... I'm not working with sources... Sooo... I'll just keep my nodes isolated from the rest of the network until then. -- Smoov
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Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [400GH/s] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool
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on: December 15, 2012, 12:05:02 PM
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I run 2nd TRC node on my machine at work, killed that raise error message about "gentx" Looks like it is forked: Could be forked... not sure what that v8 peer was up to, but if it was someone to just edited their v8 client to connect to TRC's network, and if they had a lot of hashrate, it could be causing problems, since the rest of us would have been considered to be switched over to v9 already... It could also be intentional, experimenting with how p2pool could be disrupted? The existence of that v8 peer that kept trying to connect, when terracoin network wasn't even in the client until post-v9, just keeps nagging at me... wtf is that guy up to? Why use v8 if he could have just fetched v9 to get on? Did you isolate your nodes? -- Smoov edit: and another question comes to mind, with how short TRC's share chain is right now (and perhaps if a minimum # of shares in the chain should be enforced, if it isn't already) With as few nodes as we have going right now, it is possible for nodes to be disconnected from each other long enough, to end up with the forked chains, ending up with 2 valid share chains among 2 different groups... if those 2 groups, end up somehow finding each other again, and there is no common place left in either group's chains where both chains would have diverged from, how would the clients resolve that, to allow both groups to rejoin together again? and, could that be something that we're seeing the effects of with all those error messages, with nodes trying to resolve the shares shared by other nodes, and unable to do so? -- Smv
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Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [400GH/s] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool
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on: December 15, 2012, 11:40:11 AM
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Does any1 mining TRC found that something is wrong? NO block in 24hrs where expected time to block is about 0.5hr?
I was seeing a v8 trying to connect during the time I was getting tons of failure messages on the shares... which shouldn't have been possible... so, I was thinking maybe someone was trying to join wrong, with too much hashrate or something... I have nothing to back that up tho, other than "wtf is up with this v8 node?" Anyways, I separated my node from the rest to test a couple things out, see if I was still getting those share errors, and so far, it looks fine (except for my 2nd node not downloading shares from the 1st node) I have seen some payouts come in on TRC recently, which I know didn't come from my nodes tho, so somewhere, I'm still getting some payout. No messages on the irc-announce tho, so dunno where they're getting inserted... Are you still seeing errors? -- Smoov
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Bitcoin / Hardware / [Archive] BFL trolling museum
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on: December 14, 2012, 11:44:17 AM
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I looked at my confirmation, and no prices were on it at all. Just my order # and what product it was.
I do remember all the prices being in USD, with no mention on BFL's site about BTC prices whatsoever...
When I was going through the process to pay, I picked the option to pay using Bitcoin, at that point I was sent to a bitpay page, showing the USD amount of my purchase, and the equivalent amount of BTC I would have to send, and when it saw the transaction, I was sent back to the BFL page, and my order was completed as paid.
-- Smoov
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Bitcoin / Hardware / [Archive] BFL trolling museum
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on: December 14, 2012, 07:44:23 AM
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They may have used Bitcoin as the method of payment, but what you paid for was in USD...
The units were priced in USD, marketed in USD, invoiced in USD, with your payment method being via Bitcoin.
A refund, would be in USD, and if you chose to have your refund method being via Bitcoin, then your refund would be in USD, converted into Bitcoin at the exchange rate at the time of the refund.
Now if their products were priced in BTC from the start, and stayed in BTC, then insisting on getting back the same amount of BTC would be appropriate, but since they're based in USD, then conversion rates at the times of the transactions come into play.
-- Smoov
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Bitcoin / Pools / Re: P2Pool Server List
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on: December 13, 2012, 05:08:39 AM
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Your site needs a lot of bug-fixing... and also needs to add TRC as a choice so I may add my 3rd node... -- Smoov
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Economy / Exchanges / Re: BTC-E.com exchange Bitcoin, Litecoin, Namecoin <-> USD\BTC (fee 0.2%)
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on: December 12, 2012, 09:20:19 AM
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Is there a limit in the software system for trading prices at 5 decimal places?
For example ltc I ca buy for 0.00599 but not for 0.005985
same for NMC and possibly one reason you won't add PPC until its trading at 3x its current level (brings it to the next decimal places)
Different trading pairs have different decimal place limits in the prices... if they take in PPC, it'll be set to something appropriate to its expected trading range. -- Smoov
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Bitcoin / Pools / Re: P2Pool Server List
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on: December 11, 2012, 07:45:01 AM
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I have added a public node for TRC also...
Wyoming, MI::USA::http://imperium.getmyip.com:9350/::0.13%::TRC::SmoovPool::Smoovious
Also, moderator, my BTC and LTC entries are showing 0.1%... please update those to 0.13% too.
-- Smoov
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Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] BTCJam - Peer to Peer Bitcoin Lending
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on: December 10, 2012, 05:49:08 AM
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Not without giving your keys to BTCJam, which would defeat the purpose of being authenticated. There's no need to give private keys, any more than the need to give it to IRC. I'm just suggesting a web interface that is actually plugged into IRC at all times, which lets you register and verify yourself using the same commands you would use on IRC, but disguised with pretty web entry text boxes with "Copy and paste the decrypted text here" instructions and such, with easy to follow ratings options after you have registered. Is that possible? What makes this easier then logging on to IRC and following the same instructions they give you, it is legit the same thing. I suspect the 'difficult' part amounts to using the device with 104 buttons on it instead of the device with 2 buttons and a wheel... .. . (SO MANY BUTTONS!! AARRGGHH!!!!!) -- Smoov
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Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] BTCJam - Peer to Peer Bitcoin Lending
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on: December 10, 2012, 05:21:59 AM
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I meant that a lender can't rate someone using OTC through the BTCJam website. They have to go through IRC, which I'm guessing most people have no idea how to do. Not that OTC ratings aren't refreshed. Is it possible to somehow plug OTC things into the site, so that people can do all the registering and rating using simple menus? Not without giving your keys to BTCJam, which would defeat the purpose of being authenticated. Tho, perhaps BTCJam could have their own OTC name, and maintain OTC ratings with other OTC-verified people, based on some non-subjective formula... like, ratio of on-time to late and missed payments through their site. How much participation a lender has. Make it easy for the BTCJam to User rating to go down, hard to bring it back up... Then you could have a rating from the site as a whole, not between individuals using BTCJam... -- Smoov
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: A Complete Guide to P2Pool - Merged Mining (BTC/NMC/DVC/IXC/I0C) plus LTC, Linux
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on: December 09, 2012, 07:11:18 AM
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in my experience it's not possible to use a miner for both LTC and BTC, what I do is using cgminer on the GPU for BTC and use a second miner like cpuminer on n-1 cores of cpu for LTC, I leave out one core for the OS to handle everything else;)
and you need 2 instances of p2pool for BTC and LTC to work in parallel I just use pooler's miner for the cpu mining, and cgminer for gpu... switching cgminer back and forth between BTC and LTC mining depending on my whim that day -- Smoov
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Economy / Lending / Re: [BTCJam] Need a loan to cover a recent ER visit.
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on: December 09, 2012, 06:36:00 AM
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Smoov you have been a great communicator and have covered everything we have asked for. I have much appreciation for you. You will most likely see your loan filled soon!!!
Thanks a lot, man, I'm happy to work with you on it. And, I think yer doing a good job vetting people you are looking at to lend to. You've been nothing but reasonable about the info you wanted, and I was happy to send it along. -- Smoov
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Economy / Lending / Re: [BTCJam] Need a loan to cover a recent ER visit.
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on: December 08, 2012, 11:56:32 PM
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Please do not spread lies. There is absolutely no Ponzi Scheme of anykind. I buy and sell bitcoins, and mine bitcoins...I have plenty of coins, we offer others to invest in our exchange service. Ziggap does this too on BTCJam...and he is not a Ponzi Scheme artist. Also, how would I run away from paying, when IM LOANING HIM BITCOINS, only HE CAN RUN AWAY, not me. AND I am sure the OP would like it for this thread to be about his loan and not some speculation about a user you have never done business with. True... We already got hundreds of other threads covering scam/ponzi accusations already, don't need more -- Smoov
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Economy / Lending / Re: [BTCJam] Need a loan to cover a recent ER visit.
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on: December 07, 2012, 05:32:01 AM
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Are you on bitcoinotc?
Will you supply phone number to our company if we invest in your loan request?
Thanks and good luck.
SynOps
I idle in there a lot... am registered with gribble using my BTC address signature, but have never been rated... I didn't register until a few weeks ago tho. I didn't see the need to until lately And before I agree about sharing my phone #, I'd like to know what company it is you are referring to to begin with? Got any links to info? -- Smoov
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