Hi, I have received 64 bonds' worth of dividends, but I only hold 35 shares. Address: 1b2fS

Hmm, the list says my verification e-mail was not received. However, I did send the e-mail five days ago - to the address labratATlabratmining.com. Is this not the correct e-mail address, or are some verifications still pending? Thank you.

If you wanted to be correct, you should have used Kibibytes, Mebibytes and Gibibytes instead. What you have listed are SI prefixes of measure, which are always based on powers of ten, not two.

It sure does look like a dummy chip to me. It is required to balance the heatsink for parallel contact with the hashing chip.

The writing was on the wall. For those who decided to push ahead and part with their money, despite numerous irregularities with the project's information, as well as repeated reminders and warnings of scam suspicions from countless members here... well, I don't believe ANYTHING could possibly have been enough to persuade them away. May the same mistake not be repeated through this hard-learned lesson.

I understand that images of enclosures may be doctored to provide an idea of what the final product may look like - but blatant edits to a picture of a supposedly functional hardware simply does not instill confidence in the project's legitimacy. Ironically, this sham would have been more of a convincing one had the images not been provided... way to shoot yourself in the foot, "CedarTec"! 

Any person with the most fundamental levels of common sense should have by now deduced that this whole "project" is, at best, unsafe to get involved in, and at worst, a blatant scam. Ultimately, whether you choose to trust this project or not is your decision - but do not let greed cloud common sense and sound reasoning.

Sorry, I missed the original guideline about the divisibility.

5 @ 1.5

I do not know whether you, BTC guy, have true intentions of righting past wrongs and regaining people's trust or otherwise - but if so, acting with intentions to deceive, such as willingly posting under a different account to conceal your identity, would not help your cause.

This. Legally, an employee and a contractor are two very distinct types of relationships. Neither is a subset of another, and should not be mistaken for such.

On that note, Luke's relationship with BFL appears to be closer to the latter.

Which drivers are you using? On Catalyst 13.2 and 13.3 beta, I can pull 550MHash/s+ per card under BFGMiner. Also, make sure your power supply is sufficient and in good working order, and install MSI Afterburner to check temperatures and that the 7970 is being utilised properly. (When mining, GPU usage should be pegged at ~99%. Significantly lower values suggest that the GPU is being underused for some reason, and square waves suggest VRM throttling.)

5 @ 1.1

5 @ 0.75

In the absolute worst case scenario, it may just be a bogus/wind-up site - but I don't see how this can in any way be a scam. After all, you only need to enter your BTC address - it doesn't request any other personal information that can compromise your identity/wallet.

I've tried it, and it says no offers are available at my country (New Zealand) yet either. Regardless, I do like the idea, and am looking forward to those offers being made available.

 A working board by BFL was recently demonstrated, suggesting that it may not be too long until they begin shipping. Note however, that if you place an order now, there will be thousands of orders ahead of you which will be shipped first - so it may be a while before you receive yours. By that time, profitability will obviously be lower than today, so factor this into your consideration.

ASICs are very real, but just extremely limited in supply at this early stage. Avalon is the first ASIC to have shipped to customers, and Butterfly Labs is looking to ship soon. 1 GHash/s = 1000MHash/s - so a 60GH ASIC is around 100-120x times faster than a 7970. Yes, they are that fast! ASICs are so fast compared to GPUs due to them being "application-specific" (it's in the name!) - the entire chip is dedicated to computing SHA-256 hashes, and SHA-256 hashes only. It's an efficiency/flexibility tradeoff - compare CPUs and GPUs, for example.
Mining with GPUs (or even CPUs, for that matter) is/would be still worthwhile if electricity was free. After all, hashing power is hashing power, be it small or big - more hashes/s means more chances to win. Of course, electricity is never free, and power efficiency becomes a factor in determining which devices should be kept running, and which should be retired. CPUs have already seen the end of days as far as mining goes - even the extreme multi-core chips - as their high W/hash, combined with the skyrocketing difficulty, simply makes it not worth the while. GPUs still remain viable, but older models are not general purpose enough to be used for mining - the x800 is one of those, sadly.
If you just wish to see how mining works, then it is perfectly fine to give your CPU a whirl - just make sure to mine in a pool (preferably PPS - otherwise you may not see results at all!). As for buying 7970s, I would not do this unless you were planning on using them for gaming too, with mining as a secondary purpose. With the advent of ASICs and increasing difficulty, you may never make back your investment, unless you rely on BTC appreciating in the (very) long-term.

The worst they can do probably is cause BTC prices to temporarily become more volatile (by hoarding an extreme amount of coins, and releasing them all at once after prices settle - an extreme case). "Destroying" BTC (by destroying the wallet containing the hoarded coins for example) won't affect much in the long-run, as BTC is meant to be infinitely divisible - any remaining coins in circulation will take their place.
The only true way to destory Bitcoin as a whole would be to either hoard ALL 21 million coins (thereby completely removing it from circulation), or obtain and maintain >50% of the total network's hashing power. As ASICs are still rare, and with the current network speed of ~60 TH/s along with the increasing price of BTC, either option would be extremely costly endeavours, and realistically, I just don't see this happening.

Good day. I am a longtime lurker (mostly under the mining section and its subsections), and have finally gotten around to creating an account; I would like to be whitelisted, if possible. My reason for the request is because I wish to be able to use the marketplace, but would like to refrain from making unnecessary "filler" posts/spam just to be able to do so. Don't get me wrong - I feel more than happy to contribute by adding helpful, constructive replies wherever I can, but opportunities for such are rare to come by with so many knowledgeable people being active on the forums. Incidentally, I already feel comfortable and acquainted with the idea of Bitcoins (although not to the utmost technical degree); I am currently pool mining under BTCGuild using 7970s. Thank you.