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141  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Painting a wall "Orange Bitcoin". From RGB specs to paint brands colors. on: September 25, 2013, 10:06:26 AM
The paint shops systems allow you to match equivalent between brands but not from RGB.

To get an accurate color paint I compared every Brand/Collor pallet available at the paint shop vs those at at easyrgb.com

I then searched the 5-6 matching brand for the closest color match.

I endup choosing Benjamin moore equivalent of SHERWIN WILLIAMS SW 6894 FORCEFUL ORANGE
(This one was also very close : SIKKENS COLOUR COLLECTION 3031 Match = E4.60.60)

So 3 layer of Benjamin Moore Aura
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Paint and Primer Together
Extreme hide
Low VOC/low odor so you can return to using your room more quickly
Provides a mildew resistant coating
Color LockŪ Technology, no color rub-off
Stains wash off easily
Excellent touch up
Self priming
Easy application
Long lasting fresh look appearance

Result :
*No Color metering adjustment.  Color is actually very similar.


142  Bitcoin / Meetups / Re: [Montreal] Bitcoin Embassy's second official meetup. September 21st 2013 on: September 22, 2013, 06:41:52 AM

143  Economy / Securities / Re: [PicoStocks] 100TH/s bitcoin mine [100th] on: September 18, 2013, 11:07:43 AM
Hi guys,

Just want to give you an update from the floor.

1. We have a lot of hashpower deployed now- should keep us above 50TH.  More M-boards arrived, which should enable us to ship out the remainder of August customer orders.
2. A lot of the issues we are encountering now are software based- my domain.  I've ramped up to full time starting Monday of this week, so this should start getting better fast.
3. The bitfury devices are very finicky.  We can lose over 10TH without any devices going offline.  Rest assured that we aren't removing hardware and getting this smoothed over is our absolute highest priority.
4. Per 3, there is a huge amount of room for us to gain in performance without even adding hardware now.  I can't say how fast it will happen because software bugs & issues can be completely random on the resolution time, but it will come with fits and starts.

Thanks,
Jared
Not sure what customers orders we should care about.

What about a plan that goes to 200th??
144  Economy / Securities / Re: [PicoStocks] 100TH/s bitcoin mine [100th] on: September 17, 2013, 05:28:27 AM
We've had two problems with the pool since Friday - we are starting to push the design limits of some of these parts of the system.  On Friday we had a brief outage that was quickly fixed by Eleuthria, related to hitting the upper limits for shares accepted for a single worker.  Another issue cropped up Saturday, in which a portion of the rigs were getting an error returned by the stratum server, which wasn't coming from the pool.  This issue seems to have been related to share difficulty returned through stratum(s) to the rigs.  We've alleviated the problem by balancing the rigs/hashrate across workers, while also managing worker diff settings.

We have received more hardware today that will allow us build another 20 - 25TH.  We continue to work towards optimizing the rigs and getting everything run at top speed...
Pictures ?
145  Economy / Securities / Re: [PicoStocks] 100TH/s bitcoin mine [100th] on: September 14, 2013, 06:28:15 AM
Just hit 50TH!

\o/

Awesome!

Are people adding hardware over the weekend?

Not hardware, but optimizing will continue (swapping out bad cards, tweaking rigs, etc.)  We want to run every rig at 400G, which would give us 65TH even now.  More hardware deploys next week - I expect we'll surpass the original 100TH goal.

Current stats are low due to a little issue at the pool, resolved, no shares were missed.
Isn't the updated goal 200TH ?
146  Economy / Securities / Re: [PicoStocks] 100TH/s bitcoin mine [100th] on: September 11, 2013, 01:36:13 PM
We managed to put up 10TH in un-optimized rigs today.  We fought networking gremlins early in the day, but still put together almost 50 rigs.  Tomorrow we'll swap out bad cards and should see another 5TH (reaching 35TH total for the mine).  More team members arrive tomorrow, so I hope to hit that 60TH mark.

Cheers,
Dave
Fist, do you realize how late we are ?

And just now realizing capacity is being withed by lack or personnel...

If there is not right now at least 10-15 people relaying each other 24/7 to do whatever repetitive tasks you've failed hard.

We/You are loosing about 120 000$ per day this 200ths mine isn't at full capacity.

Thanks for details though !

Edit : Shares now at 0.1 btc  , some support at 0.06 ... then nothing.

This isn't really a fair evaluation.  It was only ~1 week ago that Dave got any boards at all, and those needed to be shipped to customers.

The primary blockers are shipments and devices, not personnel.  Even then, you are talking about a facility storing/running several million dollars of equipment, and you want him to hire 10-15 people off the street?  I think that might be a bad idea.  Discounting theft, just accidental breakage or damage would cost the mine more in delays.

Hiring qualified & trustworthy people takes time, especially when you have only rough estimates on delivery volumes and timelines.
So he would have needed personnel to ship the boards too and he didn't plan for it either. That's reassuring.

It can takes less than a week to find qualified people. This project was know to require a significant workload for months and yes, at this point, people in the street stealing some board would not impact the mine as much as 1 hours of not mining at 200th,  (low density)
147  Economy / Securities / Re: [PicoStocks] 100TH/s bitcoin mine [100th] on: September 10, 2013, 11:14:07 AM
We managed to put up 10TH in un-optimized rigs today.  We fought networking gremlins early in the day, but still put together almost 50 rigs.  Tomorrow we'll swap out bad cards and should see another 5TH (reaching 35TH total for the mine).  More team members arrive tomorrow, so I hope to hit that 60TH mark.

Cheers,
Dave
Fist, do you realize how late we are ?

And just now realizing capacity is being withed by lack or personnel...

If there is not right now at least 10-15 people relaying each other 24/7 to do whatever repetitive tasks you've failed hard.

We/You are loosing about 120 000$ per day this 200ths mine isn't at full capacity.

Thanks for details though !

Edit : Shares now at 0.1 btc  , some support at 0.06 ... then nothing.
148  Economy / Securities / Re: [PicoStocks] 100TH/s bitcoin mine [100th] on: September 09, 2013, 07:49:54 AM
Transisto, did you ever read the 100TH-mine business plan?  (http://picostocks.com/businessplan/19)
From page 5:
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The 100TH-mine project is managed by Dave Carlson, Maciej Kaźmierczyk and Leszek Rychlewski.
Leszek is known here as "tytus", Dave as "buzzdave".
Why you ask tytus to post, while you ignore buzzdave posts?
Especially when it is buzzdave who is building 100TH right now.

My apologies, thanks for the information.
149  Economy / Securities / Re: [PicoStocks] 100TH/s bitcoin mine [100th] on: September 09, 2013, 02:27:25 AM
I'm not of the type to be reading between the lines and speculating on success of the project though weird transactions at an address.

Can't you provide any update past that "Failed production and change of investment parameters" from 1 month ago ?

Also how does one explain that the OP, Tytus, hasn't posted on anything since 26 June 2013 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140366.msg2589595#msg2589595
With a last sentence being "I will write more about the chip sample program in the next week."

In the meanwhile the exchange went down for close to a week.

Q1 : Is it mining or not ?

Q2 : If not at full capacity, WHEN ?

Q3 : What the fuck ?

Sorry for my ignorance.
150  Economy / Services / Re: John (John K.)'s escrow service (previously known as johnthedong) on: September 08, 2013, 07:52:53 PM
What's happening with John K. ?

It doen't take long to post a status update.

He hasn't logged into bitcointalk since sep 4.

Starting aug 23rd,  Bitdude and I have sent him about 10 message asking for escrow services, No reply.

151  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [ANN] CoinLab Protected Pool on: September 05, 2013, 04:07:04 AM
Why is it that one can spend 45 min searching everywhere for what pool and parameter to use to redeem points ?

Haven't found it yet,,, Look like obfuscation / scam.

pool.coinlab.com:8332
redeem_yourusername
Thanks
152  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [ANN] CoinLab Protected Pool on: September 05, 2013, 03:50:23 AM
Why is it that one can spend 45 min searching everywhere for what pool and parameter to use to redeem points ?

Haven't found it yet,,, Look like obfuscation / scam.
153  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Official CaVirtex.com Thread on: September 05, 2013, 03:38:21 AM
Q3. Where are the dividends ?
154  Economy / Securities / Re: [PicoStocks] 100TH/s bitcoin mine [100th] on: September 03, 2013, 07:32:33 AM
Where is the statement for this outage?

Down for 3 days at the exact time the mining start... And no eta...

This exchange cant require much more than a netbook to run.   Hardware issue,  how serious?

155  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: PicoStocks, bitcoin stock exchange on: September 03, 2013, 02:07:20 AM
down for now 3 days
156  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / [XPM] mtrlt Primecoin OCL GPU Miner, Communication problem ??? on: August 28, 2013, 02:07:48 PM
I've no stake in the game but I think when you're months late communicating efficiently should be the least you can do.

mtrlt has blocked his two thread to comments and the last update was :

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New update!!!

The GPU primality tester works now! Finally.. Testing the first, very much unoptimized version on testnet, a HD6990 seems to be about 2x as fast as a Phenom x6 1055T. On mainnet, there's still the problem of having too few candidates left after sieving, which leads to GPU underutilization.

I'll write a better update in the morning, it's 4 AM..
(4 days ago)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273637.msg3008508#msg3008508

Correct me if I'm wrong but how is a 100% increase on a GPU (HD6990) that is 400% more expensive than a Phenom x6 CPU an improvement in the slightest ?

Unoptimized preliminary results,, But still... any real world expectation at this time ?
157  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Block Erupter Blade]Low Price, Limited Quantity on: August 28, 2013, 01:33:43 PM
I'm eager to see the free market price these things,

How about a no-reserve auction for ~500 blades ?

It seems like your prices are still based on the first auctions, where people would buy into it mostly for the novelty aspect of it.
158  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Need help finding video about computing power currencies issued by amazon on: August 28, 2013, 12:32:12 PM
Good one, Thanks Wink
159  Economy / Securities / Re: [BitFunder] IceDrill.ASIC IPO (500 Thash Mining Operation powered by HashFast) on: August 28, 2013, 04:58:09 AM
Buying IceDrill shares one does not have to pay electricity, keep the equipment running, if it brokes have to replace it, and so on...
It still seems a good deal to me...

Of those only not having to keep the equipment running is correct.  Any electricity costs come out of the gross revenue.  It is no different then mining your own coins and putting aside enough to pay the power bill.  Any damaged equipment has to be replaced from gross revenue and reducing the revenue until replaced, once again the same as hardware you own.

I think IceDrill is a good project but come on, if those facts came as a shock to you, maybe you shouldn't be an investor, generally speaking.

I think he is somewhat right in the sense that :

  • Hosting the equipment safely,
  • Providing sufficient electrical load,
  • Finding best electricity cost
  • Keeping it running
  • Dealing with the noise
  • Cooling the equipment
  • Replacing equipment,
  • Making sure the company is liable to ship on time
  • Negociating equipment price
  • Doing the best decision on how to spend that 25% reinvestment.

All of those thing benefit greatly from an economy of scale.

I find the management overhead cost of IceDrill to be well priced. Sufficient to handle the worst cases, making this investment as safe and potentially profitable as the market conditions allow.
160  Economy / Securities / Re: [BitFunder] IceDrill.ASIC IPO (500 Thash Mining Operation powered by HashFast) on: August 28, 2013, 04:32:07 AM
They will. def make an ROI given that insane large number of hashing power. ROI and timing become very important when you have very little hashing power, as the network keeps growing you pretty much become useless, this process is much slower with huge amounts of power.

Now to my question, is IceDrill legit in investing in? I read a good majority of the posts, some people were talking about getting screwed and wish they never bought these shares? Also, is Bitfunder safe, I read they don't keep a good account of actual owned shares from people?

thanks

BitFunder has a public asset list https://bitfunder.com/assetlist (Funny they are in maitenance mode right now) But normally all shares are listed here for the world to see.

HashFast is a legitimate company and have said they are doing business with IceDrill, DeaDTerra has done these types of things in the past. Their IPO seemed pretty shady at first with wording and what seemed like changing of terms as they saw fit, but in the end they made some changes and allowed people to opt out with a share buyback which was the correct thing to do and brought integrity/trust back to the IPO.

How good are they with updating and keeping good records on the assetlist? I always hear people saying they want a security on btct
I trust BitFunder as much*, if not much more, than BTCT and with the JSON asset list it's possible for everyone to view every share ownership at every moment.

The IPO seemed shady for the same reason that telling the truth about ASICMINER two week ago would earn me 12 down-votes on reddit.
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