+1
GPUs can and will be reused for something else. If people are selling their GPUs to get FPGAs, then it's a good time to get some cheap GPUs and keep them until the reward halves, or the ASICs are out (not this year I guess), or it's not profitable any longer to run them. Buying and selling (probably) at the same price is a win/win deal in ROI terms.

I just looooove such threads!
Soz for the off topic

I can understand BFL for not posting delivery times for devices that are still under development/construction. But the fact they don't post every single detail about the trade program, makes me think there is a (possibly) shady reason for that.

I use a spreadsheet as well, that takes care of the calculations. I suppose more advanced methods do exist... Anyone else?

Glad to hear that Bitcoin has gone IPv6! Unfortunately I don't have IPv6 equipment just yet, to test but soon (I hope...)

I'd be interested if you supported Greek carriers at some point. Looking forward....
Congrats for the useful service

I really like the Open idea of this project.
I too would like to see devices for smaller-scale miners. Devices priced close to $500, attractive to a wider audience.
Last but not least, I'm in favor of the bitcoiners' direct investment in the project.
A project made from us (open source), supported by us (direct investment), targeted to us (lower cost of ownership).

Watching closely.

Node upgraded with version 3. I too would like to check the Win64bit version if possible please.

I haven't used this chip you're talking about. Considering though a GPU like 5750 hashes for about 170MH/s and the APU of AMD A8-3850 (which is 6550) does a 65MH/s, I seriously doubt this Intel chip can go up to 100MH/s.

Waiting for XX55XX to post real life results from his new laptop

Agree.
With a price per KWh 0.08 EUR the electricity bill will be:
1.152 EUR per month for the FPGA
9.734 EUR per month for the GPU

The only reason I use GPUs (yet) is their resale value.

phantomcircuit,
Thank you for the clarification.

miernik,

I respect your opinion, just two questions:
1) Did you check the graph I'm talking about?
2) What was your first impression of it?

Lastly, if no one should view the sum of BTC bid orders as a measure of BTC demand, then what's the point of having the graph?

Dear Intersango,

I paid a closer look at the EUR order book today and noticed that over 75% of the total BIDs are “fictional”. People are placing large buy orders with ridiculously low bid prices creating that way a false demand of bitcoins and are a bad influence on the market itself. I don’t see anyone selling BTC for 0.0011 and 0.00010 EUR per BTC any time soon.

I propose BIDs and ASKs that are over or lower than 30% of the average market price, to be excluded from the graph at the top, so we have a clear picture of the supply and demand of bitcoins. The bids will stay on the order book of course, they’ll just not show-up on the graph.

Your thoughts?

Sweet! Thank you

Looks good now, no errors :)

EDIT: Any plans to support Unicode character set? I tried to add an advertisement with comments in Greek but the characters were converted to ?????

Brilliant idea, well done.

... but unfortunately I get a 500 - Internal server error right now on the http://localbitcoins.com/ Please note that other URLs work fine, like for example http://localbitcoins.com/location/DE/Berlin/

EDIT: By the way, would it be possible to sort by price? When you get too many results close to you, you might want to pick the best price ;-) (unless it will only display 10 results at a time, so no need for sorting)

Smoovious, you're absolutely right! The usage of the insurance service itself does not pose any risk.
If eliale meant only that (i.e. using the insurance does not pose any risk), then please accept my apologies... Because he talked about both cost (i.e. no cost) and risk, I thought he meant that if you get insured, you will not have any risk of losing your coins, at no cost.

According to your terms, you will not pay the insurance certificate if Bitcoin will be declared illegal by the USA and/or The European Union. So there is a risk for customers, it just depends on two things instead of one (pyramining closing down AND Bitcoin declared illegal). Please don't get me wrong, I do believe your service is innovative and useful, I just disagree on the no risk part ;-)

Apologies to all for the offtopic but if you think about it, it's not.
We're talking about a major password leak at LinkedIn, but we're comfortable to have ALL of our passwords stored on an online service (!). Reading more about LastPass and watching the video on how to use it, I understand that LastPass saves the passwords online, so it can "restore" them to another browser on the same or another computer. Moreover, there are features to store auto-fill information (address, email, etc), so you don't have to fill it every time on every site.
Can you imagine the impact if this site has a similar leak of user data?

Local storage (encrypted ofc) or even what Steve suggested is the way to go IMO.

Useful, thanks!!