Sorry, most cards use same profile for booting and 3D. Generally it's a bad idea to flash with values you haven't already tested using Afterburner or similar.

I can't say I'm impressed by your refute of his arguments.

Actually, the reason why I use Deepbit is that all the others I would consider are so small. Size is one of Deepbits biggest competitive advantages, because the whole point of using a pool is to get a regular flow of bitcoins. More pools means that the remaining hashing power is spread even thinner. That just increases Deepbit's advantage.

It does, but if you do an instant payout you will get all the bitcoins you've earned up to that point. That includes bitcoins that were earned after the full hour balance update.

I just realised that Bitcoins future depends on using an algorithm that is not possible to put in hardware like this. If it is, there will probably only be one mining company left after a while because of the economy of scale.

It's possible that my impression of your pool is wrong, but you seem to have a lot of invalid blocks every now and then. 21 in the last 1000 blocks right now means 2.1% fewer bitcoins for me. The lack of long polling also takes a bit off the top. All in all I believe my profit is higher at Deepbit.

You probably have to make that bounty about 1000 times higher to make it remotely interesting to those who have the know how and money to make this stuff in the first place.

Problem is the others just aren't good enough. Slush is too unstable and I never returned to BTC mine after not getting paid for a block that took forever to finish in April. The rest are just too small, which makes it too easy to pool jump.

All IMO, of course.

Read the messages from dinox. He never talked about the fee, only the compensation (to the miner).

It was also on Slashdot.

No, they didn't. Most of the time nobody generates a block, so it's an average.

Seems to me that all those services sell miningpower for more than the bitcoins it will generate is worth. That means you don't even need the mining rig. You can just sell the "hashing power", use a share of the money for the sale to buy enough BTC on mtgox, and feed those BTC back to the customers at a rate that corresponds with the hashing rate they were promised.

If you want Bitcoins to go mainstream I don't think it's a very good idea to give people the impression that it's illegal...

That only makes it possible to go below the limits, not above.

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A case is also nice to have if you don't like short circuiting the power pins on the MB with a screw driver to start it.

I suppose there were a lot of new miners in the mail this week, and people used the weekend to configure it.

And as I said, that is exactly what happened to the difficulty when the price fell back for a while.

So why do the big increases in difficulty come shortly after the big increases in price?

No, you do. Do you really think that when if people see that the difficulty increase, they think "wow, now I've got to buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins, so the price keeps up with the difficulty". The miners consider the price, and if they think it's profitable enough to mine they will buy more mining hardware, which will push up the difficulty.

Just look at the difficulty after the price sky rocketed to $1. The difficulty jumped from about 30 000 to about 75 000 in three jumps, and then pretty much leveled out while the price fell back.