Pool owner, I have literally had both an embolism and aneurysm over the past couple of hours due to the auto-payout function being disabled. I write this from my hospital bed: half comatose, awaiting surgery. I have exhausted my room's supply of brown paper bags in which to hyperventilate and I am considering taking out some sort of life insurance policy, lest I fall afoul of the crushing anxiety that has beset me due to my stuck Dogecoin. I may even go so far as to call up the global timezone committee and lobby to abolish all different timezones so that we aren't in a situation where you are most likely asleep and not at the beck and call of hundreds of doge fans who struggle to fashion a sentence together.

In all seriousness, I was awake at 4am this morning and watched the pool header change before my eyes with your updates - you're obviously a dedicated pool owner working hard on the maintenance and we thank you muchly for your efforts. I will push my pool donation to 1% in your honour; keep at it.

Number three has the best wording style that most appropriately encapsulates the wow - it's nice and circular without being obtrusive. Overall good effort on the coin, but if you have some spare time, please have another crack at drawing doge. Aim for better proportions around the side of the face to make him look more dog-like and less stretched. There's a ridge on his top left just behind his right eye that seems very out of place, and he needs to be I'd say 5-10% thinner.

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EDIT: Thanks for the 0.5 Doge, anon!

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When you mine an altcoin you need to make sure there is enough volume in the exchange for you to sell the coin. It's all well and good if you can mine 10000 coins in one month, but if people aren't willing to buy it at that price then your returns go way way down. Altcoins are a whole other world

Another thing - don't crossfire your mining cards, this reduces the hashing rate. Run them side by side.

Hope this helps.

Here's your problem, sir. You're running your PSU at 85.4% total load, no wonder it burnt out! PSUs are fine with this for a few hours at a time if you're gaming or doing something intensive, but not for mining for any good stretch of time. I'd recommend at least a 1000W PSU if you're going to be mining with three cards.

No worries mate, all the best! The one-at-a-time trick works well for me. And you'll learn by doing; that's what I found with my mining experience. You should be right having some basic computer-building experience under your belt.

Again, just make sure your PSU can handle mining - research the peak power draw on any cards you're going to buy and leave ample room for extra wattage.

I think what you're asking is: if I just stick in a second card what will the computer do with it? Well, it will idle in the background without crossfire and any software that needs two cards will use the second one too. Otherwise for normal use it'll sit there, waiting. Games wont touch the second card unless it's Xfired; miners and folding@home software will. Your mining software will pick it up and use the card if you tell it to.

When both cards are seated into the mobo and plugged into the PSU, your comp should recognize both cards. Now the trouble starts: you'll need to download a graphics driver to let the cards talk effectively with the computer. I don't know what the current 'miner accepted' driver is, but I have a feeling it's Catalyst Control Center version 13.1. You'll also need to download the OpenCl APP SDK version 2.6. If you're lucky, it'll all work the first time. Otherwise you'll be tinkering with software for a while trying to figure out.

See, when I built my miner I had to put in card #1 and leave the other one out while I installed all the software. Then I put card 2 in and let that auto-install, then I did the mining software tinkering. If I had two cards in without a driver the machine would crash when I tried to install it.  That's the magic of 'will it work, God I hope so' computer tech

Do you have a friend that can help you with this sort of thing? It'll help enormously and save you from having to live your life on the forums.

When you're mining at high intensity (which you want to be doing for optimum hashes) the computer really doesn't like you doing anything else. I think miners like cgminer were originally designed to have a scaled intensity between 0 and 20 so you could dial it back if you wanted to do other stuff at the same time. But the difference in power between intensities at the higher end means that if you want the best performance you can't really use the computer for anything else. So for a dedicated miner you essentially set it up and let it run. A better CPU and RAM wouldn't help you multitask between mining and normal use, alas.

I use my home computer as a miner - when I need to do something important, I turn off the mining software and use it normally. So I'd recommend, if you have the cash, to build a stand-alone computer to mine beside your other comp (which can also be a miner too if you set it up right). Otherwise you can do what I do and mix it up with a single PC.

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$2000 is plenty - You don't need top of the line cases or high-speed RAM or terrabytes of HDD storage so that saves some money. Just another consideration - sticking more than 2 graphics cards inside a computer is difficult due to heat and space considerations. It's possible if you use risers and rest a card against the case; this is why some people make miners in crates --> http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-hardware/.

Else, just buy 2 graphics cards and leave it at that. Depends on how confident you are with computer parts, I suppose.

But for $2000....you could almost look into building 2 computers with 2 cards each...and if you were keen, add a 3rd card later on using a riser. Your choice.

A couple of considerations for you, fine sir.

If you're going to build your own miner, you'll need a solid power supply unit. Don't skimp out for a cheapy; you need a good, sturdy PSU. If you're going to go down the path of 2x 7950s, I recommend a bare minimum of 750Watts. I use an Earthwatts Antec 750W PSU; others might recommend more Watts. Secondly, know that crossfire doesn't help your mining - it actually lowers your hash rate.

So you need to tell us your budget. 2x 7950s will set you back ~$450 US I'm guessing and then you'll need to pay for the computer parts, PSU, assemble it yourself etc. Fine-tuned, you'll get ~1200kH/s speeds

You can mine any coin on the market with this; some coins like Primecoin use your CPU to mine instead of the graphics cards but most of the coins you'll want to mine are scrypt GPU based.

Any other questions?

I've been watching this project for ages, can't wait to finally help the folding cause.

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I'm in for 1/4BTC. Keep up the great work!

This is great to see! Wish you all the best of success

To clear up one of your points: ASIC = a chipset designed to perform a calculation. People here refer to ASICs as things designed to mine bitcoin and do literally nothing else. Problem is that when technology advances to such a stage when 3 TH/s is the slowest thing on the market, you won't get much return for your money spent.

If you want to mine, choose an altcoin and convert the profits to BTC. Here's a place to start http://www.coinchoose.com/

This is determined by the 'difficulty' of the coin, which fluctuates depending on the rate at which people mine it. The value of the coin is somewhat correlated with difficulty - coins that are harder to mine have a better value, which is why coins that pay out lots of rewards are worth the least upon starting. This is a basic principle and there lots of other factors that influence the coin's worth too, like the release, community reception etc. Have a gander at http://www.coinchoose.com/ and note the patterns between the number of blocks, coin reward, difficult, and BTC worth

I'd be wary of giving my email, crypto and who knows what else to a single company. But I like the idea of integrated bitcoin into email. Anybody know if another company is already doing this?

Perhaps try another pool and see if the same discrepancy occurs

I'm impressed that you took the chance; PayPal at least gives you a bit of confidence that might can get your money back if things go pear-shaped. Good luck for your future mining!

Nothing quite says 'listen up' like a big sign around a product proclaiming they're worth $1000 each!

Hey there,

Head into 'Account' at the top of the page and select 'account balances'. Then it should bring up a table with all the currencies - find the currency you want to deposit and on the right hand side of the table you should see an 'X actions' tab. Click on Deposit/Autosell and it'll bring up a dialogue box. Generate a new address and then send your coins to that address. As a precaution, I always send a small amount first to make sure it goes in properly. It may take a small while for the account to register a transaction so don't freak out if it immediately doesn't show up in the 'pending transactions' box.

That should do it!