I donated a Bitcoin the moment I heard of this on their main page.

Guys, wake up. This is a great idea. Maybe Justin Bieber wasn't the best example, but this could very well work, done to the right person.

You are all blundering idiots for turning this thread into a bunch of misreadings, jokes, and going completely off topic.

Why not use Spideroak instead of an iffy service like Dropbox?

I'm at a loss here.

From where do I get an invite?

Have you ever wondered why it takes so much to generate a single block?

It's because all the rest of the computing power is being pooled into to virtualize a human brain perfectly. Satoshi Nakamoto isn't the creator of Bitcoin, he IS Bitcoin. He is the AI spawned of a network with massive computing power.


But not really.

I use my computer for much more than just Bitcoin mining, but I was just kind of lucky to have picked up a 5850 with wonderful cooling, that can go up to 865 mhz stable, a year ago. So, to make use of it, I have taken up mining in the background.

It works splendidly, barely if at all impeding on my daily use and gaming with the "-f 100" parameter. But when I want to do something that uses the OpenGL libraries, it BSOD's my computer with an error message singling out the OpenGL driver.

I'm wondering one of two things:

1) Is there a workaround that I can do to prevent this BSOD, other than pausing my mining task.

2) Will Phoenix cause this same crash? And if not, what are the recommended flags that I may use to get the most out of my card, and keep it at the lowest priority?


Thanks
-Recon

For the client to run.

Is it really that bad in these days of low-spec machines that come with four GB?

A good way to manage secure, automatic backups is through the established Spideroak storage service.

They give you a good 2 GB for free, much like Dropbox, and they also offer free sync and automated backup services.

But what I like so much about Spideroak, is the fact that not even the employees have access to your stored files. Unlike Dropbox, which plainly states in their Terms of Service that all they hold rights to use any material you upload to their servers, Spideroak stores all your files in encrypted server-side containers. It is much like a remotely mounted Truecrypt container, and only you have the key to access it.

I probably sound like a salesman at this point, lol. But pretty much if you have 25 meg of ram to spare on the machine with your wallet, it's one of - if not the - best backup solutions out there. The only functional backup & sync service out there that I know to not skimp on the security at all. Not one Bit. (hurr, pun)


Did I also mention it has native Linux support with packages for multiple distros?

Provided you can convince people to actually accept BTC, this'll be a great way for Bitcoins to move into more markets, and spread publicity.

Is there a way to report posts here?

I'm speculative of Bitcoin right now, simply due to all the speculators! The speculators and bashers will cause the real consumer to back away, and what will remain is folks like those at "Silk Road".

We need Bitcoin to get some positive media coverage - but it's going to be hard in a world with governments controlling it.

I've had this problem twice now, and I'm stuck with redownloading the entire block chain again.

Basically, sometimes when I start Bitcoin's official application up, it will begin to start, and then the process will end. I countered this last time by moving my blkindex.dat, but that requires me to retrieve the entire block chain.

Is there any way to prevent or fix this? It is a really big annoyance.

Joined a few days ago. Figured I'd let my presence be known here as well, and give the thread a little bump.

Another 330 MH/s to add to the growing number.

Although I'm not entirely educated in the workings of Bitcoin yet, I'd like to throw out there the possibility of each new version of the official Bitcoin client containing most of the block history, up to the point of release. Or would that be rather large?

Either way, I think we can all agree that something should happen to remove the inconvenience that comes with a currency like this.

I stand corrected in that case. Thankyou for educating me.

I'd just like to add in here:

If you're going to be running multiple cards (which I assume you are), you're going to want to get a motherboard with a chipset that has enough bandwidth to support all of them fully. If you have two PCIe slots running at x8, and the rest running at x1, then that's really no good. I suggest sticking with the x38, x48, x58 intel chipsets for this reason. Something that can hold x16 on both lanes, and more.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Coin_destruction


This movement is a useless waste of resources and thought process. If y'all are really intent on doing something with that massive amount of computing power, do something for Folding@Home, or some other BOINC process.

This thread should die here and now.

It's kind of harsh to see this. I'm just kind of glad I bought a card for gaming, that is also decent for mining. Thus, I haven't spent anything but power on mining so far. When I fall behind even, I guess I'll give it a quits and just trade in BTC.

Thanks for the calculator. Hopefully this will deter some people from being stupid.

Post your address; I wouldn't mind sending you a small tip.

Thanks! I had another response to this that said -f 60, and it seems to work alright.

Would there be any advantages/disadvantages to switching the framerate up to 200?

Hey all.

Being now addicted to Bitcoin mining, I want to mine as efficiently as possible. But I have a dilemma: I use my computer most of the day.

So I'm wondering if there's a miner that would detect if my GPU's usage by another program exceeds 10% and pause the mining, so that I may constantly run it in the background automatically, but not have it lag down my gaming, video watching, etc.

It's a bit of a hassle to remember to enable GUIminer whenever I'm not ingame, and to disable it when I use MPC.