Yes. This is what I got: http://www.pc-adapter.net/products/321.html
Though like I said, bought 2, lasted ~4 and 2 months respectively.

You may also want to try first putting the converter in the PCI slot, then putting one of these powered risers in the converter:
http://cablesaurus.com/PCIe-x16-Extender-Cable-w-Molex-Connector

*Then* connect the PCI-E video card to the powered riser. That little white molex connector has to be plugged into a PSU somehow. But like I say, couldn't get that to work at all  whilst at least with an unpowered riser, I got some work out of it.

AFAIK there aren't any PCI cards, or if there are they're extremely ancient and no good for mining.

There *are* PCI->PCIe adapters, but I have had bad luck and/or stupidity with the ones I tried (my first rig has two PCI slots, I use one for the wireless NIC and didn't want the other to go to waste). I ordered an unpowered one, worked fine for about 4 months and then all of a sudden my rig wasn't detecting any card in that slot anymore. Saw no obvious signs of damage on the adapter, the riser or the card. Then I got an adapter with a molex power thingy from Cablesaurus but I couldn't get that to work at all, so I ordered another unpowered adapter (I think they were both on Ebay from a Chinese outfit called Sintech) and that one lasted two months before, again, apparently just ceasing to work with no obvious signs of damage.

Nitpick: tax avoidance, not evasion. Evasion is illegal, avoidance is just (arguably) unethical.

Whilst I don't generally cry a river for people with huge sums of money who end up somehow having slightly less huge sums of money, I do have much sympathy for the OP in this case. That was a business account - a bunch of people putting their time and talent into providing goods and services for a larger bunch of people. Who are now all fucked.

One thing though: how much of that is really 'blocked' blocked? That amount looks like a helluva lot more %-wise than all the newspapers I've been reading suggested.  Just read "Cyprus Finance Minister: Uninsured Laiki Depositors Could Face 80% Haircut". Well fuck that!

I was earlier going to express my disappointment with the tastelessness and over-the-top-ness of the OP's avatar. But now I can see where they're coming from, so quite frankly, Merkel can suck it.

I expect farlack is simply pointing out how the USD/BTC exchange rate is likely to soar over that timeframe.

Just seen it. Yeah, Paxman, he's gotta be worth +$5 on the Mtgox price all on his own!
And I don't think the 'anti-bitcoin' guy was a muppet. He made reasonable points, but Trace Mayer countered them effectively.

Ugh, I keep seeing this pseudolibertarian bullshit. Look, it is not a free market. It is a monopoly. The two concepts are opposites.

Monopoly: it's my way or the highway.
Free market: people can buy similar products elsewhere.

Monopolies are generally bad, though that need not necessarily mean the monopolist is bad. As in this case, Avalon is the monopoly because they got their shit together and bASIC and (so far) BFL haven't, not because of any anticompetitive practices from Avalon (ironically, BFL tried the anticompetitive shit).

Don't see what the problem is, 3% (or even 10%) of a lot of money is a lot of money, but 97% (or only 90%) is still much more money. And the pool operator is providing an essential service.

That said, I do think it would be best for Bitcoin if P2Pool can be made ASIC compatible. Decentralisation and all that.

I hate you.


But I love you.

Actually, apparently a kind-of asteroid has indeed crashed into the internet:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636

Though I can't say I've noticed any slowing down today. And BTC still keeps going up.

:Golf clap:

Could any TV pundit/commentator/interviewer/newscaster actually HAVE that level of self-awareness and intellectual integrity?

Actually I rarely watch Newsnight. Can someone just tell me, is it Paxo or not?

I agree, but what I think TierNolan was getting at, was just that the spec should count all blocks prior to (say) 250,000 as valid, even if some of them would not actually be under the new spec, i.e. they should be 'grandfathered in' even if the new spec would otherwise reject them. But the spec shouldn't allow future blocks to have the same 'deformities'. Assuming of course  there turn out to be any in the first ~250,000. So iron out the bugs going forward, but keep the blockchain, imperfect though it may be, up to a certain point. (Actually, not that I have much of a clue about these things, but isn't that kind of what the current system of checkpoints is for?)

Excuse the tinfoil hat, but, notwithstanding Eleuthria's correction of your percentages, did we just see an attempt to sabotage Bitcoin? I know Eleuthria has had the occasional DDOS before, but this particular one at this particular time? I sure hope the dev team and a few pool operators are busy combing through transaction logs with forensic attention to detail...

Kind of, but don't confuse the hash that a miner needs to find, with a bitcoin address.

A bitcoin address is the thing that looks like a string of uppercase/lowercase letters and numbers (frinstance, the one in my sig). It always starts with a 1, has (I think) 33 or 34 characters, and each character is one of 58 (not 62). 26 uppercase letters + 26 lowercase + 10 digits = 62, but four are disallowed (I think 0, O, 1 and l) and you can probably see why.

The hash is a 256-bit number, which must start with a certain number of zeroes. The more zeroes it must start with, the harder it'll be to find. Back when the difficulty level was 1, the first 32 bits had to be zero. That meant that on average you'd have to make 4 billion hashes (actually 2^32) to find a valid block header. Now the difficulty is six-million-and-change, which means the upper limit for what's a valid hash, is six million times lower than it was back in the day. So your miner has to do six million times as much work as back then.

For more info on what's actually being hashed, check out https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_hashing_algorithm

I really liked Intersango. Then one UK bank after another stomped on them! 

There still appears to be a small GBP market on Intersango, but it has absolutely huuuuuge spreads at the mo. And you can withdraw GBP to your own bank account with a bank transfer, but no way to get GBP into Intersango. Either have to use MtGox, or keep hold of my bitcoins.

OTOH: silver lining, it means I have kept hold of my bitcoins over the last year, instead of selling them off in batches to pay off my mining rigs. This has turned out to be an exceedingly good thing! 

If you EVER lose any bitcoins again in your entire life, I will gloomily concede that I was no help at all.

So are you basically saying, you wanted to carry out a transaction using John K as an escrow service, John K told you to send the BTC to 17ifsWDxf1JmaCvqjhufnUvJM9fUBAD2Cr and you typed '17ifs' into some database that shows first bits of previous addresses that have been used in transactions, it came back with 17ifsBMD96wHNgEmhwPkMhhepWkjX4jrQ5 and you hit the send button...? Because using the copy and paste function that's part of any modern OS was too much work?

If so, you are truly an imbecile. And now around $3000 poorer. But thank you for making the rest of us bitcoin owners a little bit richer.

So you'll be checking those long jumbles of letters more carefully from now on, yes?

ETA: just seen your sig. You're asking people who send you money to hold your hand while you try to keep track of all those difficult strings of letters. Fucking hell. Look, if you genuinely have Alzheimer's or something then I apologise for my remarks. If you don't, then consider them written in stone in 6ft tall letters outside your house.

  I hope you've learned your lesson. Do NOT tempt the server fairies, they don't like being taken for granted.

Best post/avatar combo evar.

Just to clarify... my miners ARE working now, it's just that the hashrate and submitted/rejected shares aren't showing up on the web interface or the main gpumon screen. Lots of other info is... temperatures, fan speeds, volt/mem settings.


As above, yes, and yes.
Is it possible it has something to do with my API settings? Here are the lines I've got in cgminer.conf:


blah.100 is my laptop for everyday use, blah.10{2,3,4} are my rigs.