I've found the extension to be quiet useful, sent you a donation.

They are a small but reputable FPGA provider, done a good job so far.
It's sad they choose to go the pre-order route of purchase with all the bad feelings BFL gets for doing it.
The one positive is there is an increase in competition in ASIC.

If you are having stability and a lot of rejects, I have found hashvoodoo 175 to be really reliable. I am abit jealous of those who can get Mak's 220 to work.

I have the experience in this field, just not the reputation, so I have no problem if you choose someone else.
Goodluck.

You've handled the whole debacle of owning a stake in pirate stocks very well.
I look forward to the next venture.

I could investigate the code.
However I'm sure you were hoping for someone with more reputation for doing such things.

Thanks for the feedback.
I'll correct that.

I guess people are using it. The next auto index increment has definitely gone up a lot.
Well I'll respect people wanting to stay anom and keep adding the features I'd planned.

After doing the survey, I can smell the bias almost every question asked.
As with any research based work you do at university level, if it's seen as biased you better have a really good reason to be able to still use it as supporting evidence for you opinion on a idea or statement.

Currency is not the problem, it's the people involved that is. You don't see people blaming the British pound or US dollars since it sometimes is use to buy drugs, buy weapons or hire hookers. Some is illegal or at least controversial, the people are doing the act, the medium of currency doesn't matter that much.

Might want to look into what percentage of transactions SR ends up really being any part of bitcoin.
Realise that % is pretty damn small. Compare that to the value of those transactions to estimates done in local fiat of almost any country.

Bitcoins is a method for some skirting the law yes, but it's nothing in comparison to those who just simply pay cash.

It probably went all pear shaped when he got his paypal account shutdown. 
They'll probably release his funds in 3-6months.

Just put up a quick idea out there to see if anyone in the community likes or has a use for this kind of thing.

http://anomsg.lethosdesigns.com/

It's just a bit of fun, but if you have any useful feedback I'll be glad to hear it.

Enjoy, stay anom.

Leave a "code" of your message if you really want to be cryptic, just remember only one person will see it.

I'm sure their is a multitude of reasons why they have not, it is more of a guess, just like everyone else's.
Most likely they were not high profile members of any community, thus aren't going to be noticed if they say anything concerning pirate they might not even be here any more. A calculation I'm sure he factored in when he choose those trades.
Meh, doesn't bother me what he was doing or pretending to do. All that matters now to the investors is they get what they feel was owed, back.

I haven't given it that much though (Being honest here), but it would not surprise me, if it was a simple case of just buying Bitcoins really low from private trades (sometimes the exchange market) and selling higher later in private trades (sometimes the exchange market). Manipulating the market alone would of been too hard, but manipulating individuals would of been a lot easier. Especially if someone was eager to buy or sell and pirate gave them a means to get it done quickly. Most exchange are still pretty slow when it comes moving fiat currency to bitcoins, that premium of speed might of been his way of bridging the gap to earn that 10% or what ever a week. Maybe after almost a year of doing this, people got smarter and it became harder to get those bargain deals.

His own OTC rating shows he has feedback of people trading with him in various forms privately, like via paypal, dwolla etc. I'm sure on a small scale it's easy to see if someone didn't know the market price that well you could low ball them and buy at 9 when they could get 10 or 11. With the inverse being true as well. This could be pretty profitable if he swooped up enough of the lending market regularly at a good price.

How he managed to scale this up I don't know but the lending forum is filled with trades which occur suddenly and quickly but no public info is posted about the trade that actually occurred, or if it did they individual preferred to be anom.

Lets face it, very few real life business' could manage the profits he promise, the few that offer 5000+% annual returns are payday loans here in the uk. They get away with it, for the risk they take, the ease and speed in which clients get the loan done. Stands to reason it's possible the same vaguely similar thing was being done. He took advantage of those who needed a cash out now and did his best to make huge profits. While I don't think he got involved in high interest loans, he did below market value trading to have the exchange happen in a matter of minutes instead of days.

I've been experimenting with d2, 4, 8, 10, 16, 20 and 32.

All work fine, the variance is abit wild with 32 on my CM1, it all works out over 24 hours of course, it's no bother. It's just funny to see it say I'm doing 2.1Gh/s sometimes. I believe it be more stable on for higher performance system like ASIC, that is all.

I've been mining quiet happily on diff4 recently. Might keep it there or go back to 8. 8 matches the number of chips, seemed like a nice thing to do.
*waits for someone to point out that makes no mathematical sense*

I'm not saying it was a problem.

Didn't know the exact math, so went with a generalisation. So yeah, it's apparently a bit higher than I thought.
It is fun to experiment with many different difficulties and I've found it provides just as much over 24 hours.

I've played around with all kinds of difficulties now. 32 works fine, not ideal, I'm sure but does not make it worse.
I'm sure when I get some ASIC's this will be ideal.

Bitcoin difficult still seems on the rise if anything, so I would just knock that up the variance in submitting a few shares quicker than expected in an hour, than you did last time.
Variance can be quiet abit higher than predictable diff 1 shares, when doing diff 32 shares.

I think keeping it simple has worked out quiet well.

Trying out difficulty 20 for my my mining rigs (CM1) and difficulty 2 for my testing laptop.
Seems to be performing okay.

Might try higher difficulty later on my CM1 since luck with variance seems to be pretty good on the CM1's so with a higher difficulty, it could swing a lot further.

Good quick change there, seems to work no bother, what I found funny is sometimes I notice the default changing. Is it possible that people asking for a different difficult from default temporary are changing it?