Even with spam they're not removed. The person spamming will be punished but the ratings stay.

Police aren't (meant to) judge, juries do that. And juries are often kept anonymous to prevent threats or pressure to decide one way or another.

Added S4+, S5 and updated prices.

You'd be able to visually see if they changed as the S4 fans are distinctively unmarked. I think its an inherient problem with the fan rather than a life based failure as they do tend to give up at random points in their lifetimes. Not at the start, not at the end, just random.

Is this still a problem, if it is let me know (PM would be best) and I'll give them a poke. All the blocks coming in seem to be pretty small though.

No, you'll have to wait for the announcement.

Standard air cooled miner.

I think they wanted to protect their preorder money, and didn't consider they could do a Spondoolies and part refund. Maybe there is something else we're not privvy to that pushed them down this path, as as we've all concluded no sane person (with hindsight at least) would have replicated what they did.

That is never recommended, as soon as the other lawyer knows you're learning as you go they'll just string the case out meaninglessly until you withdraw. No one wins, just pay for a lawyer.

I'd really campaign against putting ads on the wiki, or if they are then there needs to be a much higher vetting process. Consider the wiki a gateway for absolutely green users to join bitcoin and read the initial information, and so any "look at this company" add is a vouch for its legitimacy. And that would mean no gambling, no HYIPs, no cloud mining and probably only a few exchanges.

Can you give us an estimate of wiki traffic and costs, how much is saved by opening that gateway?

You spend 50% of your time complaining everyone around you is a shill or an alt, so it seems hypocritical that you want a trust system based on a popularity contest / who has the most accounts.


Its not possible to simultaneously increase the quality of moderators while also adding casual moderators willy nilly. Choose one opinion, they currently contradict.


Was that entirely at random, just off the top of your head? And do you want everything posted on CoinDesk and hotlinked from bitcointalk? Because thats how you get everything posted on CoinDesk and hotlinked from bitcointalk. Not that I've had ads in my guides for months.


As was mentioned elsewhere, simply stating that your post is off topic does not prevent it breaking off topic rules. If you find yourself having to write "off topic" and you know its going to be disruptive, don't post it or find the correct home for it.

Should be okay. Hiding miners behind private networks / firewalls and away from publicly visible IPs shuts down this type of hack entirely.

Looks a bit weird, a 22 pin connector :-/ Maybe a picture of the female end would help? If you want something cheaper then the EVGA 1300W's are cheap in the US, else the Corsair RM1000 which is still pretty premium, else the Corsair CX750M. When you start moving away from the name brands, you increase your risks of a repeat PSU death drastically.

No, it won't. Guy 'knows' FC the same as any of us who have worked with him, or other principles that have met him.

Your best bet is to wait for him to surface naturally and wait for an appropriate moment. Make a basic report to your country's police (or FBI for international?) to get something timestamped and then wait. Check your statute of limitations and conditions under which it is and isn't active. Then wait.

I don't think I've ever unexpectedly restarted or turned off in the last 2 years of this Windows 8 build. I've black screened many a time, but it seems to still be able to shut itself down. Saying that, I too have also had to reindex a few times recently without unusual shutdowns or crashes. Is it possible there was a bug introduced?

Correct, gridseed has made 2 generations of scrypt chips, KNC made 1 and Bitmain designed but never used 1. The memory isn't expensive, it just takes up die space you'd have preferred to put another 1x10^x pipelines in.


Unfortunately there are a few things which prevent this:
1) CPUs have insane markups from $ to make to $ to sell, even amortising the huge upfront costs. Any company who simply manufactured their own chips would still have an insurmountable advantage.
2) Almost any of the non-super-exotic algorithms would be significantly faster on a GPU than a CPU because of their basic makeup. A GPU core runs 1000-3000 threads where as a CPU is of course 4-8 (with some smaller multipliers depending on exactly what it is). It would be amazing if someone could find something that is so inefficient on a GPU that you'd buy a CPU over one to mine it with.
3) ASIC design isn't expensive, making the chips is (in up front costs). That means you're free to theoretically prospect with designs and do small runs on older cheap processes to see if it actually works. If it does, you win. The cost barrier only comes when you then decide to make the chips on a modern process.


Same problem with 1) above. Even if you did a terrible clone of the core features required to mine, you'd have a huge price advantage when you self manufacture compared to retail. And then huge advantage in related components (you make your own mobo + OS + barebones), density, cooling, availability and centralised elec.

1) Irreversibility, ie if someone sends to an incorrect / dead address / loses keys then its gone. Or people injection malicious stuff into the blockchain leaving it there forever.

2) Theoretical anonymity. While we all like privacy, there is a problem when something goes from 99.99% untraceable to 100% untraceable (TOR based tumbling). There ARE cases were its important that criminals are traceable even with great efforts, else it makes Bitcoin users a target. Imagine how attractive users are when the goods they take are untraceable, unmarked 'bills' with no risk of ever getting caught. I don't like it.

3) Vulnerable to attacks. With no central body that can react quickly, things like transaction floods can temporarily damage the network. Because it takes a community effort or dev census to nullify the attack, its much slower than someone who can implement needed changes instantaneously. Ie Theymos pulling the plug on the servers when he noticed the intrusion.

You've stated a problem and its cause in the same post, so I'm not sure what we're meant to do here. Scammers and spammers are some of the worst people to deal with, and fighting scams attracts swarms of them to attack. Its not fun and its a thankless job, so who would bother?

Wow, that is literally a description of BFL. They had the chip, they had money, they had preorders and still managed to throw it.

I don't remember exactly when it was off the top of my head, but wouldn't the HashFast chip have been really competitive if it went out immediately, even underclocked? HashFast could have been one of the original big 3.