BFL's is the same mhash for half the non-preorder price of that Enterpoint board. Thats why I say that.
BFL is very expensive to import to Europe due to taxes and stuff, and European power is often very expensive as well. They will probably have buyers aplenty. |
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OP should send it over to Cryptome for them to host, since all they have is the unreadable version. |
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Bitcoin will be the lowest form of “mining” we will do. We clearly will use the GPUs for something else if it pays more. As many of you know bitcoin is not the best thing to be “mining” right now. The few of you who are large enough to rent out time to universities and private labs know how profitable this can be. It might turn out that mining with GPUMoney will gain the user a higher return than mining bitcoin at a pool. Having a very large centralized and reprogrammable specialized supercomputer does get a premium in the market today. I am an American citizen and will register the company in the USA so we will be able to access this market more effectively.
Sweet, a legal password cracking botnet! |
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I make a magazine.
Surely he will delivar. |
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What's the smallest Linux install that I can have that will mine at full speed, and how little RAM can I assign to it? If I have to have 2 devices per VM, that would mean 17 VMs in a dual-GPU situation, which would suck. And, since I have only 8GB of RAM, I will have to have fewer than 512MB RAM per VM. I don't know how much RAM PVE uses for Dom0, but if I assume 1GB (like XenServer), that leaves me with 7GB divided by 17 VMs, equals ~420MB RAM per VM. I suppose that should be enough for something that is stripped down, but I doubt it would run BAMT with all its monitoring and stuff.
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Having to unbind it from the host first makes perfect sense, I didn't really think of that. I'll have to try those steps and see how I get on.
Played with it a little more. Unbinding and rebinding to PCI_stub seemed to work (Is this persistent? If not, how do I make it save these settings between reboots?), and I was able to attach a device to a VM. However, X segfaulted with error 11. I was able to lspci and see the video card from inside the VM though. PVE doesn't seem to like having more than 2 PCI devices per VM, and if you add more to the VM config, it simply removes them for you. I tried installing a new VM with the cards pre-attached, and the bootdisk just showed a blank screen and went no further. I tried installing Windows 7 x64, but it kept asking for a driver for the CDROM which I didn't have or know where to get. |
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Don't forget to participate in the raffle.
I can haz? |
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Thanks D&T
That's 4.5 BTC sent or pledged.
I am through page 15/20 at this point, on to the Endnotes (the most time-consuming portion).
Sent 1.5. |
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I have managed to get my hands on iMine botnet thingy and all it does is connects to a specified pool.
Of course I will not be using it as a botnet as advertised.
Are you able to determine who's code it is based on? Ufasoft, cgminer, etc? Can you tell what language it is written in? |
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Up to 70 FPGA devices have been tested on a little TP-link router, if that helps you to figure out how much resource you will need for your host.
Basically, there is little to no USB bandwidth needed, very little network bandwidth needed, and the drivers are almost universally compatible.
Do you happen to have a link to any resources about mining from a TP-link router? I've got one I was intending to use as a piratebox but could easily repurpose for miner control, assuming I don't have to write the software myself... Here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51371.msg815296#msg815296Unfortunately the picture that is linked in the post no longer exists, but there was a pic of the setup. In that instance, he is running 31 Icarus boards (62 FPGAs), and it should be able to handle more. |
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If I were to rebuild my mining operation using BFL units or FPGAs it seems to follow that the PC would only need to run the mining software, connect to the internet, support the drivers necessary for USB comms with the BFL/FPGA units and run whatever minimal OS is necessary to support the above. It seems like you could get away with a nettop or even a plug computer for the above, minimizing both PC cost and power cost - but there are some data points I don't have that might change that outcome.
Do the BFL/FPGA units require drivers that are only available for certain versions (or CPU architectures) of Windows/Linux that might limit my selection?
Do the BFL/FPGA units use so much USB bandwidth that throwing a hub or two on the one or two physical USB ports these computers have would be inadequate? Would I need to get a larger PC with more ports/channels?
Are there any BFL/FPGA units that use non-standard mining software that might require a specific platform, thus limiting my selection?
Have I overlooked any other important bits?
Up to 70 FPGA devices have been tested on a little TP-link router, if that helps you to figure out how much resource you will need for your host. Basically, there is little to no USB bandwidth needed, very little network bandwidth needed, and the drivers are almost universally compatible. |
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I wondered that too, I even generated a 1Freenode address for it but never got in contact with them. I guess they would probably want to generate their own address if anything. |
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Speaking of evangelism, has anyone gathered a collection of tips on how it should and shouldn't be done? That might be very useful. I did a quick search, but I couldn't find much more than "tell them how awesome it is and include a link to weusecoins".
This. Bitcoin reminds me a lot of RMS and free software except the motivations range from ethical to financial and the perceived threats to the reader are more serious if presented the wrong way. Since this will likely repeat itself 1000x, we need something like: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.htmlYes it would be good to have a comprehensive set of guidelines. I think in this case it was easy to see that there was an agenda (drive traffic to the guy's website, even if it wasn't taking a fee or anything), and that stood out like a sore thumb. Unfortunately, someone that is trying to recruit users really needs to know a heck of a lot about every aspect of the ecosystem, which is one reason that I haven't been discussing it much. (Still learning...) This is difficult because of the sheer volume of information that comprises a comprehensive knowledge of the system. |
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What a waste of 3 pages of forum threads.
We should be dissecting this report and going over it, not debating its legitimacy.
In fact, its extreme accuracy speaks for itself, I think its real.
I'll do that in the Legal subforum.
That begs to ask the question-- why would one dissect it if it's not legitimate? Because it is?  Or are you about to admit that you created it, in a spergy fit of madness due to the full moon? |
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@Meni
Why is the maker-taker model broken? I think it is good for liquidity, and lots of exchanges use it (Bitcoin exchanges as well).
I see there's now a thread for this, I'll continue there. link??? thx Fail, you quoted the link. Click it. |
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I think that all publicity/evangelising is good. The smart ones will always figure it out and start to use it.
You see, there is a clear market there. All bitcoin nerds are guys. They have the money, and they need something to fap to. Bitcoin removes the middleman here, these girls can just start hosting webcam shows anywhere and ask for tips for bitcoins.
Maybe, maybe not. Did you read those threads? At best, it was gross misrepresentation ("no fees at all", etc), and in the end the guy got banned after causing pages and pages of badmouthing due to his horrible PR efforts. Like I said - abide by other forums' rules! |
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After more digging. It seems that the loan is being asked for 300 BTC not 8 BTC. It seems that highlevel minor is just trying to rack up all the debt they can. No initial investment on their part. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79614.0lol, nice spelling slip. It seems like highlevel minor is jumping in with both feet before he really knows anything about finance or how to manage it. Maybe avoiding a summer job.  He has a decent voice for tutorials and commercials, but no need to make a huge business of it. I would recommend that he be retained for one-off videos about bitcoin and related entities, with an appropriate script or set of guidelines. |
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It's too boring to be a troll... This (or the boring-est troll in the history of the intertubes) I like the survey at the end. It seems to be scraped from a webpage accessible by run-of-the-mill LEO. |
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Fucking evangelists, that can't properly approach skeptics and noobs. Just STOP and let someone else that knows what they are doing do the dirty work. Those threads started by people with an agenda cause more people to spread bad things against bitcoin, and less to actually research any major amount and get converted and useful.
You have now successfully turned whole forums against bitcoin, for your failure to properly discuss bitcoin. Proper discussion includes but is not limited to abiding by the rules of the forums in which you are posting, such as that you must be a female in order to post, no spam or ads, or whatever.
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