Hi All,
I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to bitcoin, but I am a bit of the origional computer geek, but we were called Whizz Kids back then
. I built my fist computer back when I was nine, back then you mail ordered a PCB and a large plastic bag of components (resistors, IC etc, not hard drives and video cards) and then attacked it with a soldering iron.
I still have it somewhere, here is a link to Wikipedia if you want the spec's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Scientific. Suffice to say with it's 4bit processor and 1k ram it would require some tricky programming and more tapes (Cassette back then) than I can be bothered calculating to generate single block.
Fast forward 30 years to today, I am still a geek! I am the "computer guru" for a small programming house in New Zealand (6 Developers, 2 Management, 1 Office Girl and me). It 's quite a relaxed outfit and I am responsible for "everything technical that is not codeing", so I spend most of my days working with my servers and services (mostly linux/windows on tin and cloud platforms), going through logs and "playing" with new technology.
I have been aware of bitcoins for quite some time and have run miners every now and then just for academic purposes, I even have a few coins in my wallet.
Anyway, I was reading this forum today and noticed this post about Amazon EC2 instances
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94024.0 and hunted around for the reply button because I have considerable experience in that area (involving running spot instances, its not only cheaper, but you can get a far better instance than a micro) and could not find it!
After that I read the board policy's and started the process of "upgrading" to a Junior account (this post).
So, yeah, Hi Guys and Gals
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