1GB model.  Consider it the new 5850 at a higher clock speed.

You'll get 350 out of them, so a little more than 2kh/$ with what Newegg is selling them for.  The 2 fan design isn't as killer as the 3 fan design, but they're good cards.  However, if you can find them(they pop up every now and then), you're better off buying 5850s in the forums at half the cost.  I've been able to find used 5850s for < $75.

But the 7850s are stellar.  And Gigabyte is known for a trade up on an RMA when the model is discontinued(7950s are getting 280Xs in return right now).

-Fuse

Welcome to the thread, mate!  Enjoy your stay

If I had the BTC, I would snatch it up.  I'll probably offer some TAG up after this week's jackpot.  I'll split my portion of the payout between the server bill and the exchange.

I spent some coin today on some of those USB risers that I've been looking at for a while.  I should get them Friday/Saturday.  I'll let you guys know how they rate when I get them up and running.

Also:

Happy New Years to everyone!  Have a safe and joyous New Years Eve!

-Fuse

Mark has already expressed a desire to create a subdomain forum site for tagcoin/tagbond(forum.tagXXXX.XXX).  I'm not sure if that idea ever took off, but I agree that it would be a good thing to have in-house.  Not knocking TagYak(props to Centurion for stepping up and creating the forum), but I agree that the SM / phpBB / BB clones would be a better fit in the long run with the plugin/add-on capabilities.

I 100% agree with your ideas about the exchange.  I'm sure a lot of people here agree that getting the exchange up and running, with direct miner to retailer TAG sales, should be priority #1.  Mark has already expressed that this is one of the things that the development team are working hard on, so I'm guessing we just need to hang tight and wait it out.

+1 about 24Kilo... he's a pillar of the TAG community.  Not only is he actively involved on my pool thread, this thread, and LeftToeCut's pool thread on a daily basis, but he stepped up to help LeftToeCut get his pool off the ground, and now he's providing TAG to the community at lower than Cryptsy prices to stimulate trade.  My hats off to him.

-Fuse

Can you provide some info on how much, how to grow, how long they take to grow, etc?

I might be interested in Shiitakes if the wife wants them for cooking.

-Fuse

Purchased 5 with priority shipping.  TXID - https://blockchain.info/tx/762c6d7be5e298814a554df15e6d8798b5970ab4431e393633cc7966c1825f93

Will update trust when I receive them.

Thanks for taking the time to help the community out, ssateneth!

-Fuse

Very interested in this.  Keep us updated!

-Fuse

EDIT- damn, you're quick.

Sounds closer to reality now 

LMFAO... I have been wondering that all day!

Way too expensive, mate.  For $460(over MSRP), you can get a brand new Sapphire 280X Toxic that would do 100-150KH more than those cards.  You'd probably get some interest at about $350 or less.

Just my $0.02.

-Fuse

You might want to rethink your price on these if you want to sell them.  You're about double what the going rate is here in the forums.  Everyone is buying 280Xs and the market is flooded with these codes.  Same thing happened with the never settle bundles.  First couple went for good money, then they sold for next to nothing.  Sell them at the going rate now while you can, or you'll be holding $5 vouchers.

-Fuse

FYI, there is currently a small arbitrage opportunity between cryptsy and bter on TAG right now.  Probably about a 580TAG trade for a 0.03-0.04BTC profit.  I know it's not a lot, but it's there.  If I had the liquid BTC I would jump on it right now.  So I figured I'd pass it on to you guys.  If I see these in the future I'll let you guys know.

-Fuse

Another thing to consider...

http://davaocity.en.craigslist.com.ph/reo/4261750526.html

This is 20HA farm in the Philippines for sale for 5500000PHP.  So using the high end suggested exchange rate, it's about 55,000TAG.  So take a guy like Vesper, with 8-9MH on average on the pool everyday.  He's easily pulling 100+TAG a day(right now 168 at difficulty of 34).  So even at 100TAG a day, that's 550 days of mining and you pay that place off and own your own tropical farm.

I know that's a stretch of the imagination, but I'd like to think that one day I'm going to retire on coin and have my own place somewhere tropical, paid free and clear.


As far as LeftToeCut's pool goes, mate... do what you think is right.  It's a noble cause helping him out, so kudos for that.  You'll always have a spot here if you decide to swing back over.

I'll take a stab at these 2 key points:

a. The thing I think we overlook with Tagcoin is that the business model is already up and running.  Businesses are already using it, and people are slowly adopting the rewards system.  In my correspondences with Mark, he has hinted at expansion plans.  I can't go into that any further, but he has plans  .  So I think we'll see a nice steady growth of the system, and a long term economic model we can bank on... whether we're miners or rewards users.  I think you'll see things come out of Tagcoin far beyond what Mark is projecting for the next year.

b. I think we need to start thinking about the regional currency that this system is targeted at right now.  If you take the business model that Mark is shooting for- 1TAG = 80PHP-100PHP, you're looking at a conversion at about $1.80-2.25.  This is the buy/sell spread he is going to shoot for with his internal exchange.  I think if we were to focus on one thing that needs to be pushed for, it's the exchange.  Lets be honest, ATM our main exchange is Cryptsy.  There is BTER and Coinex, but try selling or buying more than 100TAG without moving the prices +/- 300% of where they are at.  I think once the exchange is properly operational, with the direct retailer buy options(where we can sell direct to the businesses), we'll see a better exchange rate for the coin.  I'll take a coin that I can mine for a year knowing that it will be a consistent rate all year.  I know almost everybody in crypto is about the big swing trades and wins, but I can see TAG being a long term solution for miners who like stability.



+1, and exactly how I feel about the stability.

But as far as using TAG on the farm, I think I look at Tag a little bit differently.  Why not use Tagbond, and tagverts, to offer your buyers rewards on what they buy?  Maybe if they buy X amount of veggies you give them X amount of TAG, but if they use Earthcoin to buy the same veggies they get 2X the amount of TAG.  Or maybe its a buy 10 with Earthcoin get one free, or whatever.  All of which is easily trackable through the Tagvert system.  You could even use RFID cards, like the TAG cards I have, to make it easier to track these rewards.  They don't even need to be the official Tagbond cards, you could have them branded for the farm, as well as with Earthcoin, and give them out as the farm's rewards card. 

I think we need to look further than just the coin, and really focus on the rewards system that the coin is backing.

24Kilo, if you believe Earthcoin is going to be successful, and widely used, maybe it's worth asking Mark to include it in the internal exchange.  Then you could easily exchange TAG for Earthcoin or fiat once the exchange is live.

Dabs, sorry for the late reply.  I've been sick the last few days, and I haven't been as active as I usually am.

Getting a regular MPOS stratum pool up and running is relatively easy to do if you follow the MPOS instructions to a t.  The only thing you need to remember is that Tagcoin is a POS coin as well, so you need to make sure you get the POS branch of the stratum-litecoin-mining git project.  Other than that, it's just a lot of configuration.  If you aren't running on high-powered servers, dedicated or otherwise, remember to shut off the live stats.  I learned the hard way that they take a toll on your CPU usage, especially if you start pulling a lot of pool workers(not accounts, but workers).

As far as P2Pool goes, I've never tried.  I would guess it would be as easy as setting up the wallet, pointing the p2pool service at the wallet, and testing it out.  I'll take a look and see how hard it would be.  I'll report back with what I find.

-Fuse


Edit- Dabs, take a look at https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool.  Pretty straight forward on the setup, assuming you some general knowledge in the services used.  If you decide to go down that road, and need some help, let me know.

Welcome back, mate!  Good to have you around!

My 3yo daughter gave me a late xmas present this weekend.  I've been battling a 102+ temp for the last couple days.  If I don't respond right away to PMs and such, it's because I'm probably passed out.  I swear she breaks my heart though.  She comes up to me, gives me her favorite stuffed animal, a kiss on the forehead, and tells me, "this will make you feel better, daddy."    like a hallmark Christmas commercial.

+1 for the info 24Kilo!

I had an interesting conversation with my dad today(FusesDad on the pool).  He asked, "what would it cost to buy 4 more cards?"  I tried to explain to him how even if there were 4 in stock somewhere, we'd probably be limited to 2, or we'd be competing with the quickest click in the west, Vesperwillow.  Vesper, I'm thinking you need to start a service where you buy cards on Amazon and sell them to me at a profit.  I honestly don't think I can compete with your 1-click-buy skills.

Even if he didn't he could have completed the order out-of-pocket and said "huzzah... here's your tracking".

I have also updated his post in the newbie sub-forum.

Too bad, too.  It would have been a nice service.

-Fuse

It is now 12PM PST.  TechResaleMonkey has yet to get in touch with me to provide proof of purchase or shipping information.  Until he provides a reasonable explanation and proof of purchase, I am going to go ahead and recommend that no one do any further business with him.

For all intents and purposes, please consider him a