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1061  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Please test: New Experimental Pool "Eligius" on: May 09, 2011, 09:37:04 AM
The effect would be the same on Deepbit if he was showing the expected reward.
1062  Economy / Economics / Re: How Much Of The World's Gold Was Mined Before People Started To Think Of It As $ on: May 09, 2011, 08:15:51 AM
Gold has been considered valuable for thousands of years, and obviously it's always been mined purely because it was considered valuable. Bitcoins on the other hand started out as a political movement, and still largely is.
1063  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Please test: New Experimental Pool "Eligius" on: May 09, 2011, 08:02:50 AM
I made Coin Control so you can view your Eligius stats

http://coin-control.appspot.com/
Nice, but it would be more user friendly if you add a text field for the address and a submit button to this page, so people don't have to manipulate the address field.
1064  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: ATI SDK 2.2 to 2.1 downgrade problems [ubuntu] on: May 08, 2011, 05:50:10 PM
Your pyopencl is probably compiled against 2.2.
1065  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: If you're thinking buying mining hardware, read this first on: May 08, 2011, 04:33:49 PM
Mining just needs to get more efficient.  You don't need that much more attention.  Some technological breakthrough similar to GPU mining when it came out would destroy the difficulty.  New cards that are more efficient could come out.  There are a lot of things that can make difficulty grow fast.
That would give the opposite effect of what the messages I responded to were predicting. I'm saying that difficulty will increase almost no matter what happens.
1066  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: when is the exact month it will go from 50 btc to 25? on: May 08, 2011, 12:17:40 PM
It's impossible to say, it depends on how much the difficulty increases.
1067  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Is it possible mining on multiple instance with single worker username? on: May 08, 2011, 12:15:40 PM
If you use this pool you can use the same command on all the clients, and you don't even have to make a user: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6667.0
1068  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: If you're thinking buying mining hardware, read this first on: May 07, 2011, 10:39:00 PM
Bitcoin hasn't even had it's first publicity in a "big" media outlet yet.
The point is that the publicity has to get bigger and bigger to feed the exponential growth that is required to keep the difficulty at bay.
1069  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: If you're thinking buying mining hardware, read this first on: May 07, 2011, 09:18:03 PM
That's perfect!
As long as the price goes up before the difficulty the miners are in the money.
Unfortunately there's no guarantee for that. In February/March the price fell almost 50% from the top while the difficulty tripled. Unless there is a regular flow of publicity in big media outlets the difficulty will rise much more than the price.
1070  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: If you're thinking buying mining hardware, read this first on: May 07, 2011, 08:24:24 PM
Let's just hope the price follows the uptrend with the difficulty.  It has historically up to this point.
No, generally the difficulty follows the price, which follows the level of publicity Bitcoin gets in the media.
1071  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: GPU-cluster/mining venture partners sought on: May 07, 2011, 07:03:18 AM
If you buy that kind of hardware your price/Mhash is going to be way too high compared to the people you compete with.
1072  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Please test: New Experimental Pool "Eligius" on: May 06, 2011, 10:17:31 PM
any clues why it pointed the wrong time and cannot retrieve my details ?, i have installed json-perl and libio-all-lwp-perl.
The parameter can't be read with
my $acc = $1;
it needs to be
my $acc = shift;
or
my $acc = $ARGV[0];
1073  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Turn miner on/off on: May 06, 2011, 09:06:50 PM
so on a dedicated mining rig without other python called processes running "$pkill -9 python" would work fine from cron. I've always wondered what the difference is between using the python prefix command or just the $./process.py ... doesn't seem to make a difference to hashrate but who knows ...
The only difference is that if you do python <file> the shell will execute python which then loads and runs <file>. If you run ./<file> the shell will read <file>, see the starting #! characters (pronounced shebang) and then execute the program in the first line of it (often /usr/bin/python) with <file> as parameter.
1074  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: HD5850 @ 340Mhash/s on: May 06, 2011, 06:15:31 PM
2. The other option is to find a BIOS someone has already modified (or use RADEON BIOS Editor) to set different voltages from the existing voltage table within your card. This can be dangerous, but is achievable as I flashed my XFX 5870 with a modified ASUS BIOS. I didn't get software voltage control, but the BIOS was reporting that it was using a higher voltage than before.
If your XFX isn't a reference card it probably uses a voltage controller that isn't compatible with the bios you flashed. If that's the case it may look like the voltage is changed, but it's actually using preset values.
1075  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go. on: May 06, 2011, 11:39:04 AM
Have you checked if you're allowed to distribute the AMD/ATI software?
1076  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is it "Bitcoin", "BitCoin" or "Bit Coin"? on: May 05, 2011, 09:49:34 AM
It's Bitcoin, because it's more work to type the other alternatives.
1077  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: poclbm/phoenix crashing, nothing works on: May 05, 2011, 09:00:48 AM
You sir are a god damned idiot.
Although I agree that the PSU is more than powerful enough, this kind of reply doesn't exactly encourage people to try to help you.
1078  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Optimizing ATI performance, 6950 in particular on: May 05, 2011, 08:45:30 AM
Since I've no windows machine around I would like to know if there is a way to unlock my Sapphire HD6950 under linux.
There may be easier ways to do it, but I would make a bootable USB-stick with Free-DOS or similar and a flash utility. Boot to it, dump your current firmware to "original.bin". Boot back to Linux, run the attached script on it, and boot with the stick again to flash it.
Code:
<?php
$file
=@file_get_contents("original.bin");
if (
$file===FALSE)
{
        echo 
"Could not find input BIOS. Put it in this folder and name it original.bin\n";
        exit();
}

$search=chr(0x4A).chr(0x8D).chr(0x54).chr(0x22).chr(0xFF).chr(0x0F).chr(0x49);
$idx=strpos($file$search);
if (
$idx!==FALSE)
{
        
$idx+=strlen($search)-1;
        
$file[$idx]=chr(0x43);
        
$file[33]=chr((ord($file[33])+6) & 0xFF);

        
file_put_contents("modded.bin"$file);
        echo 
"BIOS has been modded successfully and saved as modded.bin\n";
} else
{
        echo 
"Could not find byte sequence in file.\n";
}
I've used this script with my Sapphire 6950 2GB and it works. Wouldn't do it if you don't have one of the original 2 GB cards, though.
1079  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: HD5850 @ 340Mhash/s on: May 04, 2011, 10:00:19 AM
The 5850 can be unlocked to a 5870 with a simple bios upgrade. and I think they have a dual bios so you can't brick them either.
It's the 6950 that can be unlocked, and even then it's only partly true.
1080  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: HD5850 @ 340Mhash/s on: May 04, 2011, 09:45:40 AM
At the Sapphire page says that TrixX can do that, but it's false... I try a flashbios, MSI Afterburner, GPUClock, etc... and not... not posible.
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showpost.php?p=55110741&postcount=80
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