Reasons I mine at Deepbit:

1. I'm lazy.

2. Contrary to the rest of my life, I picked what was the simplest solution at the time.

3. Their site had more features than any other pool when I signed up (still there because of point 1).

4. Mining teams, go BU.


I'm sure many of you would have some choice words for me, but it ultimately comes down to point 1 (that's why it's point 1). Deepbit was the simplest pool to use when I first started mining, and I can't be bothered to create a new account somewhere else / modify my shell scripts.

I will add though, if Deepbit were to gain 51% share (which it wont), I'd move out of it for the good of the currency (not that my 1.8GH/s would do much to Deepbits overall influence).

Ouch.

I'm not under that delusion, I was just trying to offer an incentive to help it get some exposure.

People can't use it or become interested if they aren't exposed to it.

Actions may speak louder than words, but are in vein if no-one knows of the actions.

I appreciate the feedback, but damn, could you perhaps be more supportive?

It should come as no surprise to any bitcoin user that there is alot of stigma out there about bitcoin and the people that use it. I recently ran into some of this first hand.

I participate in a multitude of different forums, and today decided to try and get some users interested in bitcoin. I created a new thread and advertised that I would send anyone who adopted the currency (just downloading the client) a free 0.01 BTC. I provided all proper links to documentation, and quotations to explain what bitcoin is. My post was met with dismissal and accusations of advertising a scam. A moderator even posted that "This is little to no different than a chain letter or pyramid scheme. Those get permanent bans. Are you SURE that you want to advertise it?". His non-obligatory posted warning was generous, and I commend him for doing so (tho I couldn't make use of it because I left to check the temperatures of my rig after posting the thread).

I have been a member of said forum for over 4 years, and I was given a permanent ban. It took 6 volleys back and forth between the moderator and I in private messages to have the ban reduced.

My point, look at the stigma bitcoin has, "This is little to no different than a chain letter or pyramid scheme". The name has been poisoned, this will have to improve before it can possibly meet mainstream adoption.

Was no-one else curious about how he would have access to 2 TH?

256 GPUs.... I think you've lost sight of another factor... There is a reason I only have 2 6990s in my rig, cost.

I'm 18 (almost 19), I heard about Bitcoin back in May - June, just before it exploded. I was interested but didn't have the hardware. In late June - July I built my desktop, I built it with BF3 (yet I don't have Windoze) and Bitcoin in mind. Now I have a box with 2 6990's, 16GB of system RAM etc... Fortunately I also have "free" electricity here at my res. I'm a first year Computer science & network engineering student.

My first 0.01 BTC I ever made was from 4 days of pooled mining with a pair of dual-core Intel Xenons. Almost none of the new comers to Bitcoin will be able to claim they earned BTC from CPU mining.

Edit: 1700Mhash/s across the 2 6990s.

I've done some of the math, others can do the rest.

A 6790 OC'd to 940MHz should pull roughly 220 MHash/s (800 stream processors).

A 5790 (which I believe is a 5770 with a wider bus) OC'd to 1000MHz should pull 260 MHash/s (800 stream processors).

Actually each 6990 under load draws 300W, the 450W statistic on the AMD's website is total system load (including processor etc), not for each card. For a 3 * 6990 rig you would need a 1200W continuous output PSU.

I'm almost certain it's not your available bandwidth. I monitored my network connections while mining and it doesn't appear to use much data at all. I'd be guessing it's a software problem on your end, what that is, I don't know.

In your case the above is the right choice, tho, inthe time it would take to be whitelisted you'll graduate.

Sounds like you need to finish downloading the blockchain. You can wait for the P2P network (normal way) to download it, or pickup a nightly chain, then move the files into the bitcoin application data directory.

I don't really understand how the Digital millennium Copyright Act could be applied here. I think it's just used generically by ©orps because they know people will respond fast. My reasoning for this is what happened to Cryptome. This article surmises what happened but my actual source for this was Cryptome themselves.

It could be a driver issue, bit I'm curious to see how this works out for you.

Setting up a mining rig to use Ubuntu isn't that complicated. If you want to mine with an OS that uses the Linux kernal and don't want to deal with a-lot of package installation try Linuxcoin.

Too bad for you I don't run the bitcoin client with root permissions...

I didn't think the Windows version of the catalyst driver supported more than 4 GPUs, does it now?

As for viewing temps etc in Windows: GPU Caps viewer.

It's not a dedicated rig, but it does the job well.

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/5752/gutsg.jpg

Using a hash of a password as a password is great if someone is trying generic brute-forcing tactics. Where it fails (as mentioned) is against a dictionary specifically built to use the hashed values of common words etc.. If you want to use a hash as a password (which you shouldn't as you limit yourself to Hex characters), you'd be better off using the hash of a file.

For example, lets say I have a file I keep just for this purpose (keep a backup obviously), I can take a hash of this file and use it as a password without fear of someone compiling a dictionary with that in it.

Try the following using the openssl library (works on Mac OS X).


This should return you md5 hash of the file you selected.

Additionally, md5 password hashs can be broken fairly easily. With my 2 6990s I can pull 18Ghash/s in Whitepixel (that's 18 Billion password attempts per second).

I know, I was providing an alternate method to use all of his GPUs, even if a single instance of CG miner cannot detect all of them. He should be able to see if the 460 is detected by running poclbm.py with no additional parameters. If it was still failing to see all of them and he was using Linux I'd try setting export DISPLAY=:0

Not to be a dick, but it's only really worth mining with the ATI cards. Additionally, you should be able to point a different instance of CG miner (or any other miner) at a specific GPU.

cd to the directory where those files are located, then copy / delete them.


Where USER_NAME is the name of your home directory. Be careful with that code I gave you, it will copy only your wallet.dat to your Desktop, then proceed to recursively remove .bitcoin and all of its contents.

EDIT: Additionally, you can use the GUI method for this. Click: Places > Home, then press ctrl + h to view hidden files and directories. Find your way to .bitcoin, then delete / copy the desired files as you normally would.