The only update is that I have 23mBTC or so tied up with this little scheme. Not much, I know, but it was half my wallet at the time.

It'd be nice to get that back, but evidently that's not happening.

I'd be happy with 1% of that 1%, so $400k or so.

Never going to get it, of course

It's not every day you get to be in at the early stages of a brand new, worldwide game-changer. And Bitcoin will change the game; that's why I love it so!

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(How many posts does it take to cross over from Junior to Full Member, by the way?)

You realize that none of the links on your site work, right? I can't see your About, Miners or Contact; nor can I search by address.

I did just buy 1GH from you, though, so here goes nothing

Yes! I've joined in the solo mining fight, with one BE. Still having fun with pushpool, but I think I'm more or less set up.

Waiting for that day, sometime after I'm dead, when I get "Upstream: Accepted" in pushpool...

They're generated in the browser, and are just random numbers to show as a kind of visual aid.

When I had the idea for the site, I was watching an episode of some TV show where they had a computer "churning" through random combinations of something or other; seemed like a good inspiration

So I'm relatively new to Bitcoin, and I was quite confused as to what a miner actually does, what the difficulty relates to, and so on. I decided to put a quick site together to demonstrate what is meant by the "target", and how a block is regarded as "found" relative to the target.

I called it the obvious, Bitcoin Target: http://btctarget.com/

Check it out, let me know what you think, and particularly let me know if it breaks or falls over. Thanks!

No fees were provided:

https://blockchain.info/tx/7e6ca5636981f6a22fffe6f4670c28deac86514ce935ec342e749262a8f28ef9

Because it's a transaction with no fees, it's sat in a queue waiting for confirmation. I've had fee-free transactions sit for two days before making it into confirmation before. As long as it's in the chain, it'll happen eventually; don't worry.

Difficulty did go up by over 100M, to nearly 511M. That's a 30% rise, which is lower than has occurred in the immediate past.

I guess we should count ourselves lucky that the big miners waited until after the diff change, to plug in?

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Notes: Thanks a lot! This is amazing!

Well, if 1% of China buys one BTC each, that's more coins than are currently in circulation. They'd have to not have all the coins all at once, I presume.

I think the "thing" is "Do they pay out? Is there any proof of them paying out if you ask for a withdrawal?"

I've never tried to withdraw from ghash, for example (because I don't have enough btc mined yet), so it's good to know that there's at least a mechanism to check that they pay out.

Those first green flashes out of your USB ASIC are an amazing feeling, yeah.

I only started mining a couple of weeks ago, and already I've repurposed a Raspberry Pi into a MinePeon box, with my USB miner plugged in so it can crank out tiny fractions of a BTC 24 hours a day. Mining makes for an addictive pursuit, and you'll lose more of your time to it before you're done

I just sit and watch it flashing every now and then, for a couple of minutes. Of course, the flashes are getting more infrequent now: eventually, I'll go for a full minute without seeing activity. Then I might burn some more fiat on another miner or two, just to get the "flashing light rate" up again.

It is an intriguing idea. I only have a tiny amount of BTC, so I bought 80MH on Cex: in addition to the 330MH of my little Block Erupter, I'm positively rolling in satoshis.

It does seem, however, that you can roll your mining output into the purchase of more hashing power on Cex, so I might do that. 0.1GH, here I come...

15mBTC so far, from mining. Perhaps starting with a USB ASIC, in the middle of this difficulty spike was a bad idea...