Yup. He said he was going down for maintenance before he went down completely.  The notice said that mining would continue on the back end - this downtime is only related to growing his website's load-handling capability.  He also said there'd be updates here. I'm sure we'll see something when he's not in the middle of whatever he's doing, yes? 

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There's a charity that I might be able to talk into accepting bitcoins, one of the few remaining opera companies left in this area that is accessible to up-and-coming singers and to the community by engaging families, and especially kids, in their productions, AND offers Met-calibre training to the cast at no cost to them. Some of their singers and most(?) of their coaches/music director have performed at the Met and other places at that level. I've only recently gotten involved with them, and they have such passion, and yet such money woes. When they cast an aspiring singer, they provide hours upon hours of free coaching and training, something that just does not happen anywhere else. It's frankly not on the scale of saving lives like some of the other organizations mentioned in the thread.  But it does bring joy to a lot of people, and has for about a quarter of a century. With all that history, though, it's in danger of dying soon, and this grant would make a huge difference to their bottom line.

I don't know that I can convince their Board of Directors to get involved with this newfangled idea.  But if it might be judged to be an acceptable NPO here, I will give it my best.

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Thanks!

I support this as well. There's a tradeoff between things being too granular versus too general, but I think that at least in the case of most of what's been mentioned, it's worth a look.

Heh. You and my husband, both.


Gonna look into that. I am geeky, but utterly unqualified to be a geek. Nevertheless, with all the DDOS going on, maybe it's time to graduate from easy mode.

Thanks for fixing the apostrophe issue. More importantly, BIG GRATS!!!  Also, many thanks from the rest of us. This is an important step in establishing Bitcoin as a means of exchange.

Just a data point from a non-VIP peon - I am getting a lot of stales now too, whereas I wasn't when I started earlier today.

(PS - I sure don't expect to be a "VIP" the day I join anything. But now that I know that there is a Super Speshul club that is somewhat occult (I don't see a Path to VIPdom, just the comment above about a magical message containing the secret), I am left to wonder what I am missing out on, and/or how I might be subsidizing the Annointed Ones. Kind of a sour taste.)

Down significantly, but 13-15% is still too high.  I'll mess around with settings a bit more, but open to more ideas.

Switched over, as the pool I use is suffering today (ddos maybe?).  Easy enough to get rolling, but my stale/invalid rate is incredibly high, pushing 30%. I am usually sub 1%.  Any insight?  I'll be switching this machine back to btc if the rate continues.

Thanks for the referral - continuing the share-the-love:

https://vircurex.com/welcome/index?referral_id=817-11933

litecoinpool.org is also down...

"Me too." 

When I wake up and the bedroom is cold, I know there's a problem with a miner.  Unfortunately, it's beyond my capability to do an automatic failover from my LTC miner to my BTC one.

And I've been on the forums for < 6 mos, and I won't scam anyone.  But then, I don't expect to be believed, either.  Be careful out there.

I'm keeping an eye on the math between the two, but right now I am running everything on LTC, also on GPUs.  Sorry.  I'm sure more will be headed this way. But I found it no where as easy to set up as Bitcoin is. Unless I am particularly dense, that should slow down the influx somewhat.

The Expensify interview was a set-up job, and 2 vs 1 to boot. I think both guys are good spokespeople for how bitcoin is becoming a presence in ordinary, non-geeky people's lives.

Way back in the Dark Ages, I had a marketing professor who said that it generally takes 7 impressions of a new brand before the light bulb of recognition begins to go off. In general, more people spend a lot more time watching CNBC than they do reading Reddit or Mashable.  Or bitcointalk.  

A lot of fingers are crossed for you.  I find it very encouraging that you were denied on the basis of rules that apply to anyone, not just to Bitcoin projects.  Good luck!

Or both - and with that, I am headed out of here for an opera rehearsal. For real!  Ciao tutti

And the guy who did have a clue was bright enough to point out that there are people who know more about bitcoin than he does.  The two idiots were too full of themselves to be able to suggest someone more knowledgeable.  The anchors were totally overparted in that interview. They should have been the ones to have reined in the idiots.

The more people who google "bitcoin" the better the market stands to become. The quintessential example of "any publicity is good publicity."

That said, it's also interesting that no one mentioned today's security breach.

Works beautifully, and is at the source for the screenshot-or-it-didn't-happen crowd that we all probably are.