it should sicken you much more to see some of the hodge podge "rigs" people are using to provide the power to the network.  Some of these are unsuitable for even simple hardware testing and people are running 1000W through them 24x7 and have 4 cards at 80C+ without any worries

The hardware is much more alarming than the OS choice. 

holllllly shiiiiiit

is that exhaust for a whole room or will it be used in ducting to supply cold air?

Yeah I was just going to caution people against using location-aware phones and posting pics to the internet. 

Anyone can view your EXIF data and view the GPS coordinates.  Boom, they instantly know where you live.

Either turn off location services or convert the jpg to png before posting to strip the EXIF.  Or spoof your location data to somewhere else.

Picked up the last of those acrylic test benches on amazon (the non-stackable ones)

that is freaking awesome.  what kind of enclosure is that?  is moisture in teh air a problem?

you should have skipped hte water cooling and instead used the money on a camera that can focus

 

Lol the motherboard box=case is great for most stuff but i can see it being a little dangerous for mining rigs.

However, we're generally talking about temps below 100C for the CORE of the GPU, and I'm sure the air is quite a bit cooler than that.  Paper burns at ~541F (thanks Bradbury) and cardboard is closer to 800F.  I'm still new to this but fire seems pretty unlikely if you keep your setup free of clumped dust.  If anyone has any horror stories than please share (not to correct me, but because i want to hear them )

a proper bare bones miner

what do you think the combustion point of wood is?  it's much much higher than what even the core of these cards gets up to

haha I love the motherboard sitting on a newegg box.  also, read what I posted a few posts back about EXIF data on cell phone pics

Bumping an old thread to add my $.02

Storing your seeds online is no good. 

I personally use lastpass for all my passwords.  The data are encrypted client side and never transmitted or stored unencrypted on Lastpass's servers.  They were hacked a year or two ago but the databases storing the encrypted passwords were not compromised.  I believe they only got user information.  Lastpass caught the hack themselves (either in progress or shortly afterward) by detecting an abnormal traffic pattern between some of their servers. 

So while I trust my encrypted passwords to lastpass, I don't trust the clients that decrypt those passwords (including my own computer) with my seed.  There are vulnerabilities in Lastpass clients that essentially trick the lastpass extension into filling hidden form fields on a website with all your passwords and posting them to their server behind the scenes.  This may be fixed already, but it doesn't mean another zero-day exploit won't be revealed in the client that can do the same.

Don't trust your seed to an online computer if you care about the BTC that the private keys can access.

Or because they didn't want to base the entire future of their electronics manufacturing business on a highly volatile currency. The USD is probably not going to crash in price overnight, but bitcoin could and has.  You're telling me you'd trust a company *more* if they kept their holding entirely in BTC?



So the prices were all posted in USD?  And customers who want to purchase the devices saw a price in USD that they agreed to?  

lol excellent

My mistake, you are correct.  Didn't realize there were multiple options for what happened with your funds.  
Can someone point me to the post where BFL says they kept the funds in bitcoins?
Also, I can't seem to find a screenshot of BFL's page showing the prices in bitcoins.  Link?

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I'd never be so stupid to pay 200BTC for a product if I knew the same BTC would be worth 1600% more a year later.  What were people thinking?  Why wouldn't they just pay in USD if BTC was going to skyrocket?

BFL did not receive bitcoins for preorders.  BFL received USD and allowed customers to exchange BTC for USD using BitPay for their own convenience.

When a customer placed an order they immediately exchanged their BTC for USD and used that USD to pay for the order.  This is exactly the same as if you sold bitcoins for cash, deposited cash into your bank account, then used your debit card to pay for the preorder, except that it is much much easier and quicker.  BFL did not gamble on any currency, they did exactly the opposite.  

At this point I can't tell if some of you are trolling or if you're actually this moronic.  

5 @ 2.6 via JohnK

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Wait, you're selling coingator now for 15BTC?  What gives?  Nasty emails from Paypal?

I would love one if you have any left.

Thanks!

Well that escalated quickly