You can install from a flash drive, but not run windows on it, from my research and experience. Ubuntu can run off a flash drive.

Congrats. My order # is in the 14,000s 

If I actually get it by August/September, I would be delighted. I think the odds are probably 50/50 though...

Cool, I think bills are are a big step towards mass adoption.

If I can walk into a store and hand them a tamper proof bill for goods or services, I think it will be a huge step forward.

I would love to hear more details ASAP.

Cool. Congrats. I wonder how many total Singles have shipped, and what BFL's per day output is at this point?

Very interesting, how life mimics art and vice versa...

Relatedly, there is a new Shadowrun game coming out next month published by the original creator of the tabletop game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun_Returns

First of all, why would the miners who hold a lot of coins want to sell, when the value is clearly about to begin another long term upswing?

We dont want dollars. We want to hold our LTC or start spending them on goods and services. Selling them for $5 isnt part of the plan.

Secondly, when LTC hits Gox, its going to open up LTC to a HUGE group of traders who would never goto BTC-e or other sites.

Ive been setting the difficulty to 100,000,000 I think its more realistic, but BFL could easily go under before anyone receives anything.

Thats the real issue, not ROI but total loss of investment...

Guys, the payment in BTC/$USD/Euro/Bitpay/Blahblah issue has officially been beat to death. Then stomped on. Then put through a blender.

Please, PLEASE let it go guys. Or take it to PMs or another thread. This thread is about a 50gh miner that shipped.

#1 question is, you obviously ordered a 60gh unit as an early preorder, so where are your extra 10gh? Have they contacted you about this?

#2, did you tell BFL that you were going to auction it? I think if you had, they probably would not have shipped it to you. What do you think?

#3, It has been 1 year and still only a handful of units have shipped, mostly to media outlets and various BFL "friends" who gladly promote for them. Now, we have also been asked to "confirm" our preorder which removes the ability to cancel it or get a refund. All of this seems fairly shady and ponzi-like. Old customers now cant get refunds, and BFL spends 99% of their time and effort securing new preorders. Granted, BFL may have had the best of intentions when they started their ASIC project, but at this point Im highly concerned because:   

#4, BFL is now looking at myriad lawsuits and local/state/federal investigations, at some point its fairly reasonable to speculate they will get tripped up on one of these and may be forced to dissolve, with all remaining customer funds being lost. Aside from the fact that its clearly not worth it to order anything from them now, in my view its clearly now a race vs time before their company implodes.

Whoever can get their hands on your paper dollars can steal them! The point is not using the internet.

I think we need bitcoin bills. 1BTC, .1 BTC, .01 BTC. If we had 1million BTC in physical bills in circulation, things would get interesting.  

Anyone got a printing press?

How can you compete with botnets that have virtually no expenses to run?

I want to support the security of the network, but its wont be long until Im mining with a negative expectation at this rate...

We cant stop the hash power, so lets try to get more merchants accepting LTC. This will help this price. We need real adoption.

This isnt news. Its PR hype.

Wake me up when they are shipping 200+ singles per day, until then zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz back to sleep

Good thing people in this community arent in the game just to make a quick buck

Ive noticed now that its really hot out, a lot of my LTC mining rigs running much hotter and some of the cards are hitting 100-103c and begin to thermal throttle. The effect is that the hashrate goes down, because if I add external cooling (extra fans etc) the hashrate goes back up to around normal when the cards are at 80-90c.

So basically I need a lot of external fans to keep my cards at a high hashrate, but Im wondering how much of the heat is related to scrypt rather than SHA256 mining, and what you experiences are with thermal throttling, GPU fan death and heat related component failure, and overall the best way to run rigs in the heat.

Right now I have a 80mm case fan on one of my GPUs that had its fan die, its works OK but still not as good at the OEM fan + shell which seems odd.

You are better off buying a 7950, and its not close

If you want to know more about the IMF, this is an interesting read: http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081

Sounds like you had reservations about BTC to begin with but realizing that buying some wasnt as easy as swiping your credit card at Walmart was the final straw.

Im sure you will regret this decision one day so I recommend reconsidering it. Do some research and have patience. Early adoption isnt easy.

Doesnt everyone study English in school?

I think its because mining isnt really viable given high electricity prices and highly limited space in the urban areas...

Had a pretty brutal May on Seals With Clubs where I lost around 20 BTC, but considering I was playing mostly games with a buyin of 5 BTC it really wasnt that bad from a variance perspective. Played mostly pretty well, spewed off in a few spots, Im not so much running bad in terms of all in EV but more running into the top of people ranges a lot.

Im recovering OK so far in June, sticking to the 1 and 2BTC buy in games unless I see some really juicy spots.

I dont really gamble outside of poker much, aside from random flips and prop bets.

Agreed get it out of here.

Ripple is NOT a distributed exchange by a long shot. It presents some good ideas but as implemented currently by OpenCoin, its worthless.