The block explorer seems to suggest the average block time is around 20min. for the last dozen 10 blocks or so, it will get 10% faster every 12 blocks until back to normal.

Like KNC they are ASIC manufactures that supply big farms, and contributed to an oversupply of BTC hashing power that's killing most miners ROI.

Um, the post I will commenting on above. Also I guess you haven't heard of things like ASICminer and 100TH

So how much is 300TH/s going to cost them to buy and run? I punched the figures into http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/ and it reckons the 300TH/s might make ROI in a couple of months, but it's a gamble because you don't know who else is coming online, the estimates are only at the known current growth rate. If it were me I would simply put the $millions into buying bitcoins, I don't see economies of scale.

I think it's quite funny that KNCminer talk about the ethics of ROI and taking a break until March for the net hash etc. Yet they are happy to support mega farms that totally fly in the face of the distributed hash concept of Bitcoin.

When the Hashfast, Cointerra, Avalon gen2, ASICminer gen2 all dump onto the market, 300TH/s will be a small player. BFL probably  still have 300TH/s of back orders to fill as well on their current 65nm products. The ASIC vendors are releasing too many TH/s per day, that's going to kill their own market, as the net hash is growing way faster than moores law, meaning they will rapidly run out of efficiency gains from technological advances, and the farms will collapse under their running costs. ASIC hardware is a classic pump and dump, it's didn't need to be that way, the hardware vendors have made it so, they could have sustained a sensible rollout for years.

Someone called gothicnoble just threw 250GH/s at the coin on http://tgc.sonicrules.org

Would that be an attack?

Looks like there are several 100THs+ farms going online not far apart, killing each others ROI. Just look how much of the net hash ASICminers have now, it's dropped right off. Each of their business plans doesn't know what new farms are doing online as competitors. I still feel the future of mining will be thousands of small backyard setups that need no aircon, datacenter rental, or staff wages. Bitcoin is designed to eat the margin of big players.

I am testing http://tgc.sonicrules.org:3334 and the shares don't seem to be found very often by anyone there for such a low diff coin atm. Is the pool set up correctly? In bfgminer it's saying diff 15, where on other busier SHA256 pools like the ones for ZET it says diff 3, sometimes diff 1.

The formatting of some text is a bit strange for me in firefox, it seems to wrap over itself.

Whats the heat like?

The OP says "160 million coins will be mined in around first year" we are already up to block 152,459
which is (80,640 * 1,000) + (71,819 * 500) = 116.74million does that sound right?

I don't understand why so many coins are mined in the first couple of months, what's the philosophy behind that?

Some people are reporting their Cryptsy balances are screwed up, negative numbers etc.

Can you add Zetacoin ZET please?

It's traded on Cryptsy, Bter, Coinex.

Block explorer http://bit.usr.sh:2750/chain/Zetacoin

Discussion thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=267545.0

You can buy hybrid inverters that will grid feed and charge batteries so you can continue to mine if the grid goes out. They obviously wont feed the grid from the batteries for safety.

What address do I put into BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS= to join the other p2pool nodes, and what port number are they using?

Any idea when an exchange will be available again?

Gamecoin (GME)  would be nice to see.

julz tell us more about this promo:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291112.0

Any exchanges back online with GME yet?

Jaycar have a powered 10 port hub, it's only 3A though, anyone know of something better without having to import?

Are Avalon chips even available?