Introduce yourself :)

[wakkawakka]

im wakka wakka , trying to get established so i can sell on the marketplace.... how many posts do i need?

[wakkawakka]

oh nevermind, i figged it out, 5 posts XD

[jorijnsmit]

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I have a question that I hope will be answered: Doesn't mining cause inflation?

Mining rewards are handed out at an exponential rate; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_bitcoins_over_time.png.

This curve is maintained by increasing the difficulty of the blocks to be mined when more mining takes place.

(Correct me if I'm wrong, I am - after all - a newbie ;-))

[jorijnsmit]

Here's a more in-depth explaination:

Because block solutions arise out of an independent random process, block creation by the Bitcoin network can be described as a Poisson process. The protocol adjusts the problem difficulty so that the distribution mean is λ = 2016 blocks per two weeks, so there are roughly ten minutes between the creation of new blocks on average (the wait times between events in a Poisson process follow an exponential distribution). The difficulty updates happen every 2016 blocks. The difficulty is set to the value that would have most likely caused the prior 2016 blocks to take two weeks to complete, given the same computational effort (according to the timestamps recorded in the blocks).[25] All nodes perform and enforce the same difficulty calculation.

[skidz7]

Ok so spammers are kept out by letting people spam this thread?

I don't think most spammers would last long enough to post 5 spams and it keeps the other forums clean.  I like the idea, even though I'm not up to my minimums yet.

[528491]

Greetings i come from 3DG Forums

New here :$ ...

[madsokrates]

the question about mining and inflation is a good one... had me thinking for a bit. Maybe btc avoids inflationary concerns altogether since the increase in supply is essentially fixed and public knowledge. Any fear of inflation should be quelled by the ultimate expectation of deflation when all the coins are mined. It's hard to test the idea empirically though since the flux in value is thus far is surely due more to it's widening adoption as a currency than to the increasing supply of btc. hmm...

[Stefanie Andrea]

Hello everyone

[triggs]

Hi everyone,

just thought i'd say HELLO!! and brace yourself for some noob questions

triggs.

[gnoll110]

*delurking alert*

Hi All.

Find all the bit coin stuff interesting.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36776.0 Creating a master database of honest traders

People talking about a master database.
Given bitcoin is distributed system, shouldn't any solution also try to be distributed too. Calculated from the transaction chain? Could the chain included optional extra info to enable this?

Just my 0.02BTCs worth!

[bearbalu]

Just another bitcoin miner 

[jasco]

Hi everyone!

Been lurking here for the past month or so. 

[SuperTramp]

Been around for about 5 weeks now. Finally decided to sign up. TONS of GREAT info on this site, thanks for those
who have posted and shared their knowledge and thanks in advance for future sharing.





-SuperTramp







Currently mining @ Deepbit.net
Running 5 x Sapphire Radeon 5830's.
GPU's - 975-990mhz, Mem -500mhz
Avg 305mh/s/GPU

[androsyn]

Hi I'm newbie from Italy, i'm following Bitcoin evolution since may 2011 and seems it will be a revolution, hope you'll give me level-up asap as i need to configure mining farm, have some problems with config files...

[prdtr23]

here is the predator

[Bit JaZ]

Hello!

Been lurking & mining for 2 weeks now...

[Lolcust]

Hi!

IRC lurker arriving at forums.

Will now look for ways to make necessary posts

[km3b]

Hello.

Been mining for a few months now at Bitcoin.lc(greatest pool ever). Time to get out of the newbie forum!

[Pendrokar]

Greetings,

I am a website programmer and found out about bitcoin not too long ago. Still haven't received a single request from a website owner for bitcoin support, though. 

[rafuter]

Hi,
I am a programmer (C++, ASM) and interested in opensource mining projects.