Unfortunately trying to do that would basically add taint to the vast majority of the network.  A block generation transaction is a single output of the subsidy+tx fees with no input.  So you couldn't trace it back through inputs, you'd have to basically consider every single transaction from the block an input if it had a fee, which would be extremely messy.  Additionally, you couldn't tell the difference between the subsidy and the txfee, so anything that was ever sent through that block's coin generation is now tainted.

Naw, that would've been about equal to BTC Guild 2 months ago .

I find USB to be very touchy when you start getting to the 50+ device range, especially when chaining hubs.  While it can be done, it gets very touch & go.  I personally preferred to use 4-port unpowered USB 2 hubs connected to the PC, then chained my hubs with erupters off of those.

As for colors:  Most of the recent shipments have been silver.  Blue has been sent upon request when possible.  There's ~200 left to ship as Silver, at which point it will resume being red.  I haven't opened them up to see if these are the older dark red, the lighter red, or the red with the circular rings.

Pool has been moving between 390 and 400 TH/s most of the day back and forth.  Will update the thread topic once the 24-hour average speed hits 400 .

ASICMINER delivered on time, on spec, and without taking preorder money (they did take investors for the solo mining operation/development, but the products that came out of that did not take orders until they were in production & shipping).

Although #3 probably doesn't count, since ASICMINER is more of a manufacturer and then the customer service is left up to the retailers.


I'm pretty impressed with BitFury though, it's nice to see a company not radically alter their specs after taking in a bunch of money.

Really curious how you tested this.  The math says BTC Guild will beat slush over any reasonable length of time.  1% fee difference does not make up for paying out orphans and paying out namecoins, neither of which are done by slush's pool.

One deceptive part on BTC Guild's earnings is you have to factor in that you continue to get paid for roughly 8 hours after you stop mining.  As a result, the 24 hour earnings statistic is not accurate until about 32 hours of mining has been done.

The red/green numbers are an average per 10 shifts, starting with the most recent.  The "important" number is the one above all those which gives you the average luck since the difficulty changed.  Neither mean much though since luck can only show you what happened already, it has no effect on future payments, and the luck across the whole difficulty swings up/down quickly during the first few days.

FYI: You can't just average all the %s together since the last red/green number is normally only a few shifts worth of data. Just take the black number directly above.

You mean the luck that is still positive so far this difficulty?  Our luck has been +\- 2% for the past 4 or 5 difficulty periods. You can't really get much closer to neutral outside of PPS.

It's been mentioned quite a few times:  Deepbit doesn't include appropriate transaction fees for payouts, meaning it's very rare for any Bitcoin node other than Deepbit to actually include the transaction in a block (most won't even relay it so they never get seen by most the network).

Basically the only way to get paid is to continue mining on Deepbit so they eventually find another block.

Sorry   I tried to make sure any order over 10 was mixed Blue & Silver, but depending on where I was at in the giant pile, sometimes the colors repeat between one box and the next.

I find very few people think of Bitcoin as a scam/ponzi when I talk to them about it.  But there is a HUGE difference between the way I talk to people about it and the way other people normally get introduced to it.  I do not use high tech terms.  I do not make broad generalizations.  And I do NOT talk about how they are created (mining) until after they show understanding of the underlying concept itself.

I have sat next to relatives and previous employers who are what I would call "computer illiterate", which is definitely the category that would be very hostile towards a high tech virtual currency.  Everytime I speak with them, I'm paying very close attention to their questions and their faces.  As soon as I see them getting lost, I double back and phrase it using analogies that people are more comfortable with.  It's not a market pitch, it's not a lecture, it's something inbetween.

The real key is to keep things abstract & concept oriented, so they have an idea of what it is and why it can be useful, before bringing in the concept of exchanges, market rates, and especially mining.  Mining is by far the most "scammy feeling" part of Bitcoin for the uninformed person, since it is literally printing money by running a program, and introducing Bitcoin and discussing mining before the groundwork is placed is going to have anybody feeling very uncomfortable about Bitcoin at the start of the introduction.

I have a few blues left that are being held for special requests (or until new inventory runs out).  I can never guarantee a color, but if you place an order and put a message in the address (Address Line 2 normally works best), I will try to provide that color.

Update on ASICMINER Products:

The extra shipping+handling charge on coupon orders has now been removed, and the base price for non-coupon units is now 0.19 BTC.  A batch of coupons have also been distributed, 100 coupons for anybody who has ordered from BTC Guild before.

I'm speaking with a few people producing them.  Right now the biggest issue is pricing.  I'm not willing to front $60,000+ in inventory on products that are only marginally better $/GH than ASICMINER, especially when the cost per unit is 6 times higher (much smaller number of users willing to buy products at that price).

Last units from the Blue &Silver batch are getting shipped.  DHL dropped off one package yesterday of the next 1000 units, but half of the delivery is missing currently (hopefully shows up today).  Have not yet opened it to see what colors will be shipping next.

I made a post in the main forum about it after the 106 BTC block hit, but there's not a whole lot that can be done to contact them.  At this point it looks deliberate (you don't make the same mistake that many times without noticing the money going missing).

It's actually 1CfsAiYaVfk12dnZpZALcRSP9jjWDk26FX  that is the really big problem.  This address has been paying multiple massive tx fees all day.

Unfortunately, unlike in the past, BTC Guild really can't do much anymore.  Over 90% of the pool is on the PPLNS system, meaning transaction fees are no longer sitting in the pool funds like they used to be back when the pool was all/mostly PPS.  We've refunded hundreds of BTC in mistaken tx fees in the past, but it's not an option when the fees are being distributed to the miners.

373M is not that bad of luck (only a little over 3x diff).  Just wait til a pool gets their first 1 billion+ share round (not even 10x difficulty to hit 1b).

Transaction fees are paid out to miners on BTC Guild.

I stumbled on it when someone in #btcguild told me the pool just hit a 106 BTC block.  The pool is nearly all PPLNS which is immediately credited for blocks including txfees so it's not something I can just refund like the pool has done in the past (used to be 50% or less of the pool on PPLNS, now it's closer to 5%).