Greetings,

Been off the bitcoin scene for almost a year, came back to a nice surprise

Anyway, looking to make a small purchase and i'm on limited funds, so looking to buy 1BTC over paypal (EU/USD).
(Last purchase I made was through bitmarket.eu, bit it seems its 'down for maintenance'?)

I know Paypal isn't the safest thing for a seller, but i'm on tight schedule, also less painful than other methods in EU...
Feel free to contact me for more info if needed, as i don't have a trade history in here...

Thanks!

Edited: my bad, don't forget "agression" != "aggression"

Hash rate still seems a bit lower than phoenix 1.7.5 on an OC'd 6850


Is there any possibility to select the pool from command line?
Either passing the full url, or a configuration key name would be great.

Just a thought, but maybe they could be marked as hidden and then renamed to something like hash(rand()) ?

You could at least add the whole details. The fee is for cashing out Unconfirmed BTC, and when there is the possibility that a recent block is invalid, i can only consider that fee fair (otherwise the pool would have to pay for the missing BTC).

Why not just wait until everything is confirmed?



Also, i am taking the chance to thank Inaba for all the features that make EMC great.

I am donating a tiny % of my measly 240Mh/s, and hope everyone considers donating something as well.
Every bit helps, i guess...

I could imagine something like this working, but it would have to be:

 - Trusted (code, idea, prommoter)
 - Open (source, info, community)
 - Wide (participation)
 - Cheap (no fees or close to none)


Guive me all of the above and i'm game;
I believe a lot of people would participate under those conditions.

A newbie-promoted, mostly obscure lottery? Nahh - i'd rather keep my 0.1BTC, thanks

Yes, and hopefully a nice, long one!

This is just silly:
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4069/020212sharediff.png

Some nasty ones last few days 

30/01 - 07:57:54
31/01 - 14:18:05 and 07:45:49
01/02 - 16:12:00

It can only get better for some time... right? 

Not unless you can convince me it's not a scam 

Greetings,

I wouldn't mind being whitelisted, if that seems appropriate.
It's only been a couple days since I've registered, but a whole lot more lurking and there are simply a lot more interesting topics to discuss outside the newbie area.

Thanks again, and happy mining!

Thanks everyone for the comments.



Doesn't BTC Guild use a 5% rate?
Anyway, as i simply fail to don understand how anything above 100% could be right... i won't use those.

Again, this is not a 100% dedicated rig and the objective is not purely making a profit, but rather pay the bills, gather some coins and *maybe* justify getting a new card sometime.

Thanks again

Definitively do NOT use nvidia cards, as they are *really* slow for mining.

Have you even wondered why mostly everyone uses an ATI card?

Have a look at the mining hardware comparison on the wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

I've been mining away at a very slow hash rate: ~220Mh/s;
currently doing it mostly for the fun, by my calculations it mostly just covers electricity costs.

Also, my rig has been on 16/24h on weekdays plus 24/24h.


After trying a few pools, i do like EMC a lot (nice features), however i wonder if with this low hash rate, a pool with much higher speeds would be more appropriate, even with some fees (less variance)

Also, i am guessing that DGM is probably not the best for 16/24h operation?


Suggestions welcome

Exactly what my thoughts...

Paying $400 for a GPU is a much smaller investment than an FPGA, if you can easily sell it for $300 later...
...even with painful electricity prices.

I wish i didn't have to almost double the electricity price on these calcs every time

Out of curiosity, how well do these FPGA boards hold their value?

What are your predictions for BTC prices over the next months, and why?

I can imagine that prices could keep falling for weeks, specially if the new hardware (7800 series) is as decent as it seems to be.
After a few months maybe, if enough interest/business/media is atracted, and with the 25BTC reward deadline on the horizon, things can boom again...


Thoughts?

The "reference" clock is 925MHz, and there is at least a 1Ghz board out there too (XFX)

Still a huge OC, i wonder how many Watts that thing is pulling (400 to 500 stock?)


By the way...

Quad 7970 Crossfire @ ~1500Mhz 
http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1570

Read the sticky post - Newbie restrictions - can't miss it.

And no, i'm not linking it...

Not the RPC one, the actual wallet encryption, from the menu on the GUI.
Restarting my PC and opening bitcoin, still no password prompt (it does say it's encrypted and locked though...  )


Import/Export could allow me to move/copy a wallet into a different client app. Essentially, the information is important, the file format should not be.

I will investigate about the security issues though, thanks.

Probably like most of everyone else, my starting point included downloading the official bitcoin client, creating a new wallet.

However, i immediately noticed two things:

 1) i choose a password (a lil security? yeah sure) but when i close and re-open the app, no prompt is given and the wallet is opened...
  ... so, i guess my pass got stored somewhere 

 2) No wallet export/import. Seriously, this should be a MUST.
    Yeah, i know the risks, i'll encrypt the data myself (GPG, whatever)


Ok, other wallet software exists, but each has it's own format as well... 


My question is, what exactly is the essential data a wallet must contain, and why?
I've read https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet but information is scarce


Any linkage is appreciated

Could not agree more with this policy.

Heck, even 12 or 24h wouldn't hurt... Some people really should learn to read before posting.

(Btw, i've been reading the forums for a few days, just registered today)